Wang Yingkai's statement was actually not enough to reflect the situation at that time.

If this is a real battle, then the thousand-man attack of the Southern Army, and it is still lined up in a dense formation to launch a dense charge, and the most important thing is that they will not retreat, then these attacking soldiers will be cut by bullets one by one like mature wheat poles.

Wang Yingkai is also a veteran general in Beiyang, so he naturally won't talk nonsense!

This exercise was full of controversy from the very beginning, when the inquisition ruled that more than half of the attacking third battalion of the southern army had suffered casualties, and the rest of the army collapsed and fled, the generals on the southern side immediately shouted that the referee was unfair, you must know that they had thousands of people to attack a position with only three or four hundred people, and if this could not be defeated, how could it be that more than half of the casualties could be suffered in less than half an hour!

As a result, a big controversy immediately broke out in the exercise court, and finally this controversy came to Yuan Shikai's side.

"Machine gun team? Oh, and the machine gun team that was tried last month is now an army? Is it really that powerful? Yuan Shikai was also a little unconvinced. Although the vanguard of the Wuwei Right Army was reorganized by him from the old army in Shandong, and its overall combat effectiveness was not as good as that of the Wuwei Right Army, he also spent a lot of effort to reorganize it, and its combat effectiveness was also among the top three in the country, and he did not believe that the attack of thousands of people would be killed and wounded more than half of them within half an hour.

Although Duan Qirui also had doubts about the power of the machine gun in his heart, he supported Zhao Dongyun's idea, and Wang Yingkai also kept saying that the power of the machine gun was really that great, so he was also adamant: The power of the machine gun team was really enough to kill more than half of the third battalion of the Southern Army in half an hour!

In the end, Yuan Shikai waved his hand, and immediately said: "Since this is the case, then everyone will come together and see what is going on with the machine gun team under Zhao Dongyun!" ”

If you haven't seen it, you can't imagine the terrifying scene when eight heavy machine guns cross the blockade and strafe together!

When Zhao Dongyun received an order that the exercise was suspended, and a large number of Beiyang bigwigs such as Yuan Shikai, Feng Guozhang, and Duan Qirui wanted to come over to watch the live-fire exercise of his machine gun team, he was stunned.

At the beginning, he wanted to rely on the machine gun team to be more brilliant, but he originally thought that he would just be able to make himself look better in the results of the exercise, but he didn't expect Yuan Shikai and others to watch the live ammunition exercise of his machine gun team in person.

Holding back the excitement in his heart, Zhao Dongyun said to Lin Yongquan and the others: "You have all heard it, Lord Duxian and all the officials are coming, and I don't need to say more about the importance of it, I just want to say one word, opportunities don't come often, I hope you will cherish it!" ”

Yuan Shikai and a group of Beiyang bigwigs want to come to see the machine gun team's live-fire exercise, this is not only an opportunity for Zhao Dongyun, but also an opportunity for Lin Yongquan and others.

In order to prepare for this live-fire exercise, Zhao Dongyun specially transferred a large number of live ammunition from behind, and at the same time asked his soldiers to make a large number of wooden stakes and other things, and then placed these wooden stakes on the open slope of the front of the No. 4 and No. 5 positions as targets.

After the preparations, Yuan Shikai and the others also arrived on time!

Looking at Yuan Shikai in court clothes, Zhao Dongyun's heart was filled with excitement that had not appeared for a long time, this excitement did not mean that he saw Yuan Shikai, a historical celebrity, but that he saw that the opportunity to reach the top was in front of him!

And now, what Zhao Dongyun has to do is to seize this opportunity!

More than ten years ago, Li Hongzhang also saw the shooting of the Makqin machine gun and was impressed by the power of the Makqin machine gun, thus creating the history of China's manufacturing of the Makqin machine gun, but today's test launch is a completely different concept from the one in history.

In the past, the test firing for Li Hongzhang was only to highlight the rate of fire of this new weapon, but today, what Zhao Dongyun wants to show Yuan Shikai and others is not only the reliability and rate of fire of the new heavy machine gun, but more importantly, it is necessary to show the tactical advantages of the heavy machine gun.

After all, everyone knows that heavy machine guns are rapid-fire, but whether they can really be used on the battlefield, and how to apply them is a question.

Zhao Dongyun saw Yuan Shikai and others coming, and immediately took the initiative to greet him and said, "The department has seen Lord Duxian!" ”

Yuan Shikai glanced at Zhao Dongyun with a kind expression, and then said with a smile: "You are Dongyun, you're welcome!" He stretched out his hand to help.

Then he looked Zhao Dongyun up and down and nodded: "Yes, the young man is very energetic and has my Beiyang demeanor!" ”

Although Zhao Dongyun is only a new battalion officer, he is actually a middle-level backbone in the entire Beiyang system, coupled with his study abroad experience and excellent training theory in the camp teaching, in the upcoming Beiyang expansion, he will inevitably continue to rise, and Yuan Shikai will not put on a stinky face of I am the boss for people like Zhao Dongyun!

As a superior, whether it is Duan Qirui or Yuan Shikai to treat the talents they need, that attitude is quite good!

Zhao Dongyun naturally had to cooperate and put on an excited look,

After a long time, he said with a resuming expression: "Lord Duxian, please move and watch the exercise!" ”

After that, he brought Yuan Shikai and the others to the No. 4 Heights, where there was already a wooden platform for temporary fighting, and standing on it could better observe the subsequent machine gun live firing.

After waiting for everyone to go up, Zhao Dongyun stood beside Yuan Shikai and the others and began to explain this live-fire exercise: "In order to defend the No. 4 and No. 5 heights, in addition to deploying a team of infantry in each of these two places, I also deployed four Makqin machine guns in each of these two places, including two new and two old!" ”

"The defense was mainly based on the heavy machine gun point as the core, and the heavy machine gun fire formed the interception line, and the infantry carried out the secondary defense around the heavy machine gun. At the same time, in order to give better play to the firepower of the machine gun, oblique firing is specially adopted, that is, the machine gun does not fire from the front, but implements diagonal firing. At the same time, in order to avoid the intensive attack of heavy machine guns to attract enemy fire, our army has built a solid machine gun fortress in addition to using the fixed shield of machine guns, which can effectively reduce the fire threat faced by machine guns. Zhao Dongyun continued:

"In order to better simulate the actual combat situation, our army has arranged a large number of wooden dummies in the direction of the attacker!" Zhao Dongyun pointed out the direction with his hand as he spoke, and Yuan Shikai and others on the side also picked up the telescope and looked in the direction Zhao Dongyun pointed.

Sure enough, there were a large number of wooden stake dummies about two or three hundred meters away in the distance, and these wooden stakes were even spread out in the current standard straggler formation. Since the rifle rate of fire has become faster and more accurate, the line formations that existed during the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War have been abandoned by various countries, and the skirmish formation has emerged, that is, each soldier spreads out a certain distance and relies on obstacles to cover the attack.

However, although the strength density of the skirmish formation has been greatly reduced compared to the era of the line formation, the force density is still too large for new weapons such as heavy machine guns.

Yuan Shikai and the others continued to look at the defense line on the No. 4 and No. 5 heights with binoculars, the rejecting horses in front of the defense line were normal, and the trenches in the rear looked strange, but they were not beyond the comprehension of ordinary people, except that the machine gun fortresses in the trenches looked different.

At the beginning, although they had listened to Zhao Dongyun's explanation, they still couldn't imagine how it was possible to block the charge of thousands of people with just a few machine guns!

However, when the machine guns began to fire, they were all stunned!

In order to create a better effect of the exercise, Zhao Dongyun ordered all the heavy machine guns to fire together, and when the eight machine guns sprayed dense tongues of fire at the same time, the simulated targets such as the wooden stakes that were originally placed there were instantly torn to pieces.

A general of the vanguard of the Wuwei Right Army, that is, an officer of the Southern Army, was speechless with his mouth half-open when he saw such a scene!

In the previous exercise, when he heard that his thousands of people went to attack the two small hills and failed, but were judged to have more than half of the casualties in less than half an hour, he couldn't believe it, and stubbornly thought that this was a misjudgment by the exercise referee, and asked for a re-ruling of the exercise results, so he made trouble all the way to Yuan Shikai's side.

However, now that he saw the torn wooden stakes on the road of the charge, he could imagine that if his own attacking troops had also been attacked by live ammunition this morning, under such a fierce firepower, more than half of the casualties would probably be small, and it was estimated that if they were beaten like this, the entire army would collapse!

Yuan Shikai's eyes widened when he saw this scene, he naturally knew that the machine gun was quite powerful, but he didn't expect that under the cross-fire of the machine gun, the effect would be so great! He even began to imagine how many lives the enemy would have to pay to break through his own defenses if his Beiyang Army was equipped with a large number of heavy machine guns.

At this moment, he understood why the powers of the world attached so much importance to heavy machine guns, and now whether it was Britain, Germany, France, Russia, these traditional powers, or Japan, an emerging country, none of them began to install machine guns on a large scale, Yuan Shikai did not pay much attention to this before, but today he saw this live-fire exercise led by Zhao Dongyun, which made him really understand the power of machine guns.

Yuan Shikai was able to climb to the position of today's governor of Zhili, and was able to be designated by Li Hongzhang as the successor of Beiyang, so he naturally had his advantages. Therefore, as soon as he realized the importance of machine guns, he almost immediately made up his mind to equip them with machine guns on a large scale.

At this time, the sound of machine guns had gradually stopped, Yuan Shikai retracted his gaze from afar, and then turned his head to look at Zhao Dongyun: "Dongyun!" ”――

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