Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Four Battalions
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In mid-October 1927, Beijing, Jingshan.
But the kung fu at hand was hard enough, and several competitions and gun competitions overwhelmed other troops. So even if the others hate this group of guys, they are helpless. Even Zhang Zuolin was full of praise for Tu Qianjun's training method after watching the battle between the fourth battalion and others several times!
But when Zhang Zuolin tried to promote it in the whole army, he was resisted, many veterans thought that this was Zhang Zuolin's seizure of power in disguise, or some veterans thought that they had fought a battle for half their lives, and they even wanted to learn how to train from a bearded hairy child?! I really can't pull my face! So, seeing that things were perfunctory a few times, Zhang Zuolin also extinguished this thought. He didn't know that there were many Japanese heads and tails among them.
After the Kwantung Army was killed by Tu Qianjun in Kanno, it was not without a little action, but it was restrained by the relationship between Zhang Zuolin and Tu Qianjun. But the movement of the fourth battalion is too great! This attracted the attention of the Kwantung Army, and at this time, Tanaka, who had been ordered to disembowelment because of the Kanno Incident, suddenly reported the information that the Great Forced had given him before his death, which aroused the vigilance of the Kwantung Army.
When it was learned that Zhang Zuolin planned to promote Tu Qianjun's training method in Quan'an**, the Kwantung Army was keenly aware that this would pose a great threat to Japan's Manchurian and Mongolian strategy, so countless Manchurian commissioners used most of their connections to forcibly suppress this matter.
Although Zhang Zuolin was aware of this matter in his heart, he felt that maybe it was a move made by the Japanese who were afraid of losing their influence in An**, so he didn't pay too much attention to it. At this time, he actually had some doubts about whether he was sure that An ** could be trained into a strong army through such a training method, and more importantly, Zhang Zuolin was very worried that the trained strong army would cause an incident like Guo Songling.
Tu Qianjun was relieved, this Tu San Cannon was now by his side as the guard he had been doing before. Even if Zhang Zuolin planned to arrange for him to get a Sixth Legion Tu San Artillery, he just pouted and refused. Zhang Zuolin is very pleased with this, at least this shows that Tu Sanpao has not had any ambitions so far. Ambitious people will not refuse the temptation to take the helm of a legion on their own.
Even Tu Sanpao told Zhang Zuolin that he would let his son come back to be Zhang Xueliang's adjutant after two years, which made Zhang Zuolin even more emotional! Both father and son are faithful men!
So for a while, I looked at Tu Qianjun's father and son, how pleasing to the eye, and even imitated the Japanese Taisho 3-year heavy machine gun from the arsenal of the three eastern provinces, and equipped Tu Qianjun's battalion with eighteen ()!
This heavy machine gun is not good! The original caliber was 6.5 mm, and later changed to 7.9 mm, which is an air-repellent machine gun, and the barrel is a part, which is more convenient to assemble and disassemble, and because the caliber is larger, the lethality is stronger! The Arsenal of the Three Eastern Provinces called it the "13-year-old heavy machine gun".
This four-company battalion is only equipped with eighteen heavy machine guns! There are two in each company!! You must know that at this time, a brigade of the Japanese army was ten heavy machine guns! A brigade is a subordinate of a reinforced battalion! How can this not make other people blush?!
But Zhang Zuolin let out his words: If you can defeat the fourth battalion in the competition of guns and guns, Lao Tzu will also give you a gun! Not to mention guns, cannons! As a result, the disgraced brother troops who were beaten by the fourth battalion of Tu Qianjun also stopped firing. This is not one or two times in the past two months against Tu Qianjun, and they have been beaten almost every time, and they are really faceless!
So much so that a few days ago, when Zhang Zuolin delivered the newly made Liao 16-year-old new 150mm mortar to the four battalions and eight guns, no one squeaked except for a gasp, and of course there were many people who were discussing.
Coupled with the ten Liao 15-year 80mm mortars allocated when the fourth battalion was established, one battalion of Tu Qianjun actually had eighteen artillery pieces! Of the five hundred and sixty-four men in his four battalions, one hundred and eighty-four were dedicated to the eighteen cannons.
They were served by three artillery platoons, an infantry platoon, a communications squad, a repair squad, and a cooking squad.
The artillery platoon is the main force of the battle, each platoon has 6 guns, each gun has 8 gunners, mainly during the attack, these 8 people have to carry the cannon and shells to follow the infantry forward. Usually the movement is mainly by mules, each cannon has 3 mules, so there are 3 postmen. There were 11-12 people per gun, and about fifty people per platoon.
This lineup is not not strong! Even the officers and soldiers of the four battalions under Tu Qianjun secretly muttered to themselves, even if our firepower lineup meets the Kwantung Army, they will have the strength to fight!