In the middle of a meadow overgrown with half-human weeds, in a makeshift camp, soldiers with guns on their backs walked among tents, but more soldiers seemed to be very relaxed, and under the showers made of wooden beams and tin buckets, dozens of soldiers were giggling and taking a shower, a typical rear battalion should look like - relaxed and comfortable, without the slightest sense of tension. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

On the field cooking wagons, the cooks were busy, and the canned whales, weighing up to two kilograms, were poured directly into the pot and burned with the greens to make a fragrant delicacy, although in the Northeast there has been a small amount of private consumption of meat, seafood, and canned fruits, in order to export canned food to the American and European markets in exchange for valuable foreign exchange.

In the case of half of the exports, the military has always been the most important consumer of canned food in the Northeast, compared to the civilian canned food consumption is somewhat pitiful, even the protein-supplementing food provided to immigrants often chooses cheaper dried fish rather than canned food. As for the military, convenient and inexpensive canned fish has long been the first choice of military personnel.

In order to meet the needs of the army, the canning factory even specially developed a large canned food for the army, after a few cans of meat are poured into the pot, with the boiling of the soup in the pot, the thick broth aroma will be permeated with the camp sky.

While the cooks on the cooking cart were preparing lunch, in the grass hundreds of meters away, groups of cavalry were lying on horseback, driving their horses closer to the barracks, and the speed of the horses was getting faster and faster. Finally, when the war horse galloped, the sound of the horse's hooves became the only sound in heaven and earth.

"Squad Leader Hu. When will I be able to eat......"

When the soldiers in the camp cared about lunch. The sudden sound of horses' hooves broke the leisurely pace of the camp. The sound of the horse's hooves was strangely neat. It was as if the horses were striding forward, and the sound of the horses' hooves was getting faster and closer, rumbling like thunder, rolling across the ground, knocking down and down on people's fragile nerves.

"Enemy cavalry sneak attack!"

With the sound of horses' hooves coming as if they were one, a shout suddenly came from the seemingly leisurely military camp before. Then the shouts of terror immediately echoed throughout the barracks, and immediately the officers and men of the barracks began to run, either picking up their rifles or running towards the woods at the edge of the barracks, where they rebuilt their defenses.

However, it was obviously too late, and the cavalry team composed of hundreds of horses had already rushed into the camp, waving their sabers and began to slash mercilessly, and the blades swept by, and one by one the "enemy soldiers" were cut to the ground.

But that's when people noticed. The only thing that was cut down by the cavalry was the straw men, this group of cavalry. There was not even an attack on the distant barracks, but on an empty camp with no other enemies than the thousands of straw men.

What's going on?

But the cavalry on horseback continued to fight earnestly as if they hadn't noticed, even if they watched the straw man's arm cut off, there was nothing unusual.

When they found that more and more of the enemy were "running" towards the woods, the cavalrymen immediately drew their short guns with wooden shells between their waists and hips, and fired at the "grass targets" one by one, and for a while, the air was filled with rapid and rapid gunfire. The bullet hit the grass targets with precision, and unlike the previous ones, which had target paper glued to them - it was just a drill!

"That's!"

From the binoculars, with those who were shooting cavalry with "riverside pistols", Shang Dequan couldn't help but complain.

"You tell me Shao Guoyuan that they are playing the Cossack cavalry, and the Cossacks do not have a "riverside made" ......"

While complaining like this, complaining about the lack of attention to the details of the exercise, the "battle" over there became more intense, the soldiers in the woods had rebuilt the defensive line, more than a dozen Shenyang-made heavy machine guns had been aimed at the battlefield, and the rapid gunfire suddenly overwhelmed the sound of the pistols, becoming the only sound that dominated the battlefield, and when the foot-long tongue of fire spewed out at the muzzle, the target positions in front were hit, and hundreds of hydrogen balloons representing cavalry in the grass were smashed one after another.

However, because it was a hastily constructed defensive line, the machine gunners only used 50-round magazines instead of 100-round drums, so that the initial firepower seemed a little short, but the sudden appearance of machine guns did save the tide of the battle to a certain extent, at least at this moment, a large number of "cavalry" were eliminated.

However, despite this, Shang Dequan's brows were still furrowed as he watched the exercise from afar, because from his line of sight, it could be clearly seen that although the sniping of the machine guns had an effect, it was far from the expected effect - at least half of the balloons were not hit, which meant that half of the cavalry still had a chance to break through the machine gun defense.

“4.3.2.1…… Breakthrough! ”

Shang Dequan, who silently read the countdown, finally made a judgment - the cavalry regiment broke through the hastily organized defense line of the infantry regiment, and even the machine guns of the infantry regiment failed to stop them.

If there is a barbed wire, it should be possible to prevent the defense line from being breached, nodding, Shang Dequan instructed the officer on the side.

"Take care to add a clause to the combat doctrine that a complete barbed wire fence must be constructed in front of the line of defense, as long as conditions permit......"

After making this summary, Shang Dequan asked again.

"What do you think, let's hear it!"

"Sir, I think on the battlefield, it will be difficult for the cavalry regiment to break through the machine-gun line!"

The staff officer on the side complained with some dissatisfaction.

"Compared with war horses, balloons are too small, that is, larger than human heads, but how tall and big the military horses are, the target is more obvious, if it is on the battlefield, it is ......"

Yes, it was, the balloon was so small, it was only slightly larger than a horse's head, and it was undoubtedly more likely to intercept the cavalry if the machine gunners were to hit the horses.

"Three-quarters!"

Shang Dequan, who was counting the balloons, suddenly interjected.

"More than half of the balloons were not hit, and even if they were replaced by war horses, it would be disastrous for the infantry if only a quarter of the cavalry broke through the defense. So. It is necessary to block the attack of enemy cavalry with barbed wire. And now is not the time to make excuses, you go and investigate why the twelve machine guns can't stop the attack of the 762 cavalry, this is the most critical reason, understand? In addition, previous exercises have also shown that the effectiveness of machine-gun positions against skirmish lines is not ideal. Find out why! ”

As the Minister of Military Command, Shang Dequan will never accept any so-called reason, the reason why the Military Command Department organized this exercise is because with the large-scale equipment of machine guns, machine gun tactics have seriously lagged behind, despite this, the army still regards machine guns as a secret weapon, as a killer weapon to "defeat the Cossack cavalry", after all, for the Northeast Army, hundreds of thousands of Cossack cavalry. It's a nightmare at all, any soldier in the face of a cavalry charge. It's all about fear, and it's not even something that training can compensate for. The timely appearance of machine guns gave the infantry the weapons to block the cavalry, but the results were somewhat unsatisfactory.

However, in Shang Dequan's view, this reason may be in the tactics of using machine guns, after all, according to its rate of fire and range, cavalry is not the opponent of machine guns at all. The infantry, which also advanced in a skirmish line, was no match for the machine guns, and they should all be beaten without a defense, but the problem was that the results of each exercise showed that both had a chance to break through the line unless the number of machine guns was further increased.

And this exercise is also proving this, blindly increasing the number of machine guns is not a way, only tactically figured out. As an army that has never had tradition, the greatest strength of the Northeast Army is that it is good at learning and summing up, and it is precisely in the process of continuous study and summing up that the Northeast Army will change little by little.

"Yes, sir......"

At this moment, a staff officer muttered to the side.

"What's going on, twelve machine guns don't do as well as two......"

Although the staff officer's voice was not loud, it still reached Shang Dequan's ears, and he immediately asked.

"Two is not as good as twelve? What's going on? How did they use the machine guns? ”

As the Minister of Military Orders, Shang Dequan is naturally well aware of the pressure facing the Northeast now, and naturally will not let go of any way to improve his combat effectiveness, and when he hears that someone knows that the machine gun performs better in other places, he naturally misses this information.

The hot air of summer was ignited in the explosion, and bombs weighing 100 kilograms fell from the sky, rising a cloud of moxibustion smoke on the ground, and the cloud of dust completely engulfed the battlefield. Suddenly, a violent explosion only shook the people a few kilometers away, and all of them trembled, and even their ears rang slightly.

"My ......"

Although he was well-informed, when the airship dropped a thousand-kilogram bomb, Shang Dequan was still taken aback, and looked at the small hill-high pillar of smoke, and said in surprise.

"Good guy, with this thing, what line of defense is there, we can't break through!"

Indeed, for army units, a thousand-kilogram bomb is undoubtedly devastating, one bomb can even destroy the defense line of a company, if it is dozens of airships, and so many bombs are dropped at the same time, then there is no need to fight......

"Sir, as long as the accuracy problem is solved, it is not impossible!"

The reminder of the staff officer made Shang Dequan smile and pointed to the shooting range in the distance.

"The problem of accuracy, you can find a way to solve it yourself, the Military Command Department will meet all your conditions, this time I didn't come to see how you dropped bombs, I wanted to know, how you used machine guns, and whether this target area was placed according to the order."

"Yes, sir, there are 1,500 balloons in total, and our plan is to use two airships to shoot on the left and right wings......"

As he spoke, two airships had already appeared above the target.

"Huh?"

Looking at the position of the airship in the air, Shang De couldn't help but be stunned, and then looked at the position it maintained with the straggler line, his brows immediately jumped, and he seemed to understand a little, but he still had some doubts.

However, in his telescope, he could clearly see that with the jubilation of the machine guns on the airship, the balloons were being "eliminated" one by one, and the damage formed by the four machine guns far exceeded the effect of more than a dozen machine guns.

What's going on?

Holding the telescope, it can be clearly seen from the telescope that between the two airships, the balloons are decreasing little by little, and after almost two minutes, 80% of the balloons have been "eliminated". So he took out the notepad in his pocket and drew a simple sketch on the notepad with a pen, on which he made a standard skirmisher line and a machine gun, and then drew the range of fire with a dotted line.

"Sure enough!"

It is clear from the graphics that the machine gun had a limited frontal firing range and a narrow coverage, which naturally led to a large number of bullets missing, but if it was changed to a longitudinal fire from the flanks, the result was immediately changed.

"Shoot vertically!"

That's right, it's longitudinal shooting, the flash of inspiration Shang Dequan immediately understood the truth, and his face suddenly showed an unconcealable joy, all along, the biggest problem that plagued the use of machine guns has finally been solved, and more importantly, after getting a glimpse of the principle of longitudinal shooting, it means that the army can further improve the use of machine guns.

"Longitudinal firing can bring out the maximum power of the machine gun, because at this time the longitudinal axis of the machine gun fire strike zone and the depth of the target coincide. In this way, the entire fire strike zone can fall on the target area, and since the fire strike zone has a certain depth, one shot can cover the largest possible target area......"

In the office of the Military Command Department, several staff officers, while comparing the advantages of longitudinal shooting on the sand table, also planned a staggered and overlapping firepower network with red lines according to the deployment of machine guns and their firing ranges, and on the 10-meter-long sand table, the staggered red lines formed a death zone in front of the position.

"The heavy machine guns are arranged in groups, which is enough to form a large "death zone" on the battlefield ......"

While a young staff officer jotted this down in his notebook, another tried to combine machine-gun fire with rifle fire to further refine the "death zone."

“…… Infantry positions should also be carefully planned so that they can skillfully rely on each other and cooperate with each other......"

Under the perfection of dozens of staff officers, a new principle of machine gun position deployment and the corresponding teaching materials have been studied, although it still needs to be further improved, but it is undeniable that when the Western countries are still arguing about machine guns, in the Northeast, in addition to the large-scale configuration of machine guns, the corresponding tactical research is also ahead of the Western countries, which may be the biggest advantage of the backward countries, will not reject new technology, new technology, and are willing to adopt new technology, Gain some advantages,

Amid the chirping of cicadas outside the window, in this room where the "Machine Gun Tactics Research Room" was hung, those young staff officers used their ingenuity to perfect every plan they could think of, and verified them one by one on the exercise ground......

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