【167】The Wind Blows the Red Flag and the Earth Turns (23)

At the end of the performance, Yao Fan took the stage and held a microphone to order the whole army: "All commanders and fighters of the People's Liberation Army, we must improve the training level with the fullest training enthusiasm, be strict with ourselves, show the best state in the next all-army competition, and strive to achieve good results!" ”

In Yao Fan's view, the Qing army is really vulnerable, so the best way to train troops is undoubtedly a big competition.

In order to prepare for the big competition, Yao Fan arranged for the latest batch of study models and backbone elements from all over the army to set up a Type 82 8O mm caliber recoilless gun battalion, with 27 Type 82 8o mm recoilless guns. The battalion commander was transferred from Peng Jiachang, deputy commander of the 1st Artillery Battalion.

In Yao Fan's planning, this recoilless artillery battalion was responsible for the garrison of Qingdao City and the surrounding coast, and in Yao Fan's view, as long as there was such a mobile and flexible direct-fire artillery team with the infantry garrison, it would not be afraid of any Deng-6 operation in this year.

Compared with mortars, although recoilless guns can also be fired in a curved manner, it is impossible for anyone to use them in real combat. Generally speaking, a direct target of about 3oo meters is his only target, and the direct visual attack through the guò scope makes the recoilless gun a weapon that can be used by almost fools. Especially in an era like the Qing Dynasty when there was no need to consider the retaliation of the opponent's artillery and heavy machine guns, recoilless guns could even die at one point and continuously torture the enemy.

Despite this, Yao Fan still stipulated that for enemy ships equipped with artillery, a recoilless gun squad of eight people must change positions after firing two shots. After all, at a distance of 3oo to 5oo meters, the naval guns hit extremely high.

In Yao Fan's mind, this recoilless artillery battalion was used as his coastal defense and city defense artillery for mobile use, and for the time being, he did not consider extravagant things like forts.

Due to Yao Fan's previous heavy military victories and the leakage of the White Horse Society's base, the White Horse Society decided to defect all its elite to Yao Fan, so the cavalry unit that Li Hainiu had been longing for was also established.

Yao Fan couldn't believe that the seventy-six members of the White Horse Club could immediately change from horse bandits to qualified soldiers, so he transferred thirty of the seventy-six to the infantry for recruit training. The remaining forty-six people were mixed with sand, and the soldiers who surrendered to Cheng among the Qing cavalry captured in Pingdu were from a bitter background, and in the repeated complaints and three checks, they fiercely and thoroughly selected 200 people, plus a group of soldiers with better riding skills selected by Li Hainiu from the five regiments, formed a battalion of cavalry, which was temporarily the same as the infantry, except that each person was equipped with two horses, instead of two people with one horse like the Huai army, Yao Fan already had more than 2,200 war horses after annihilating Wang Zhengqi's Zhenzi battalion, There is no shortage of this right now.

Although the Zhenzi battalion of Wang Zhengqi, which Yao Fan eliminated before, was nominally under the jurisdiction of Li Hongzhang's governor and belonged to the Huai army system, it actually belonged to Ding Baozhen's pro-army training, so those 25o cavalry battalions were one person and one horse, but the cavalry battalion of the Huai army, which was really Li Hongzhang's descendant, had a structure of more than 500 people, using equipment of two people and one horse, and was also equipped with a front-loading double-barreled foreign gun.

Yao Fan's requirements for his cavalry were to be able to reconnoiter in squads during the march, harass in companies or platoons during wartime, and outflank the enemy's retreat route and carry out dismounted ambushes during pursuit. Yao Fan didn't expect to rely on these cavalry to attack, in that case, it was estimated that the battle casualties would be greater than the infantry.

In addition, Yao Fan used all militia reserves to form a considerable scale of transport regiments, the transport regiment of 500 people has 1,000 horses, 300 mules and 200 donkeys, pulling a new type of four-** car supervised by the shopkeeper Wang Shouye, all using axles and rubber tires purchased by Yao Fan from modern times. Yao Fan had already seen the situation of the wooden wheel idling after falling into the mud, so he specially entrusted Yao Peng to purchase, with rubber tires, the road adaptability of the large team has improved a lot. And the technique of repairing tires was quickly mastered by the transport group.

Since the revolutionary committee of the Shandong Commune was almost entirely military, Yao Fan did not want to separate the military and the government for the time being, so each military meeting was almost equivalent to the meeting of the revolutionary committee of the commune.

In the Yaxi Cross Courtyard of Jimo County, which was freshly painted with white ash and removed all the superfluous plaques and decorations, it was meeting time.

Yao Fan is stressing to the whole army to pay close attention to Guo Xingfu's teaching method, and he said: "The essence of my teaching method is that officers and soldiers teach each other, concentrate the wisdom of the masses, and grasp ideas in teaching and training, rather than verbally propagating ideas. It is necessary to fully arouse the enthusiasm of the fighters and promote democracy in teaching, not to let everyone memorize by rote. ”

"In our education on three investigations and grievances, some comrades said that they were deeply touched, and it is true that they also expressed themselves very well in the ideological and political classes, and what they said was very good, but whether they could reflect it in the training was the key!"

"Words and deeds, if any of these two points are missing, then the training level will improve slowly. Words and transmissions require cadres to be able to move from simple to complex, from division to integration, and to compare right and wrong, so that the explanation can ensure that the soldiers understand and remember. Teaching by example requires cadres to rush to the front line of training and use their own hard training to drive the soldiers to follow the hard training.

"We don't need those verbal revolutionaries in our army, they are all fancy and opportunists! What we want to promote are those comrades who can do solid work and have real skills. ”

"Being able to endure hardships and produce results in training shows that such comrades are red-minded and hard-working, and they are the backbone that we must vigorously cultivate."

After speaking, Yao Fan asked everyone to talk about the training work in the recent period.

Li Jun immediately said: "Chairman Yao said: 'Where does people's correct thinking come from? Did it fall from the sky? No. Is it inherent in your own mind? No. People's correct thinking can only come from social practice, and can only come from the three practices of social production, class struggle, and scientific practice. ’”

"Therefore, I think that to pay close attention to the training method advocated by Chairman Yao is to pay close attention to correct thinking, and from the training, we will naturally be able to distinguish good comrades who are willing to endure hardships and can delve into research, because these comrades have shown correct thinking in the training."

As soon as Li Jun's words came out, everyone applauded and agreed.

Li Hainiu said: "Then I'll talk about it too."

First, the subject of using terrain and moving under enemy fire is being carried out very well, and the soldiers have learned to use ridges, earthen bags, sills, trees, grassy slopes, and mud puddles for covert shooting in advance.

Second, in the subject of explosives and bomb throwing, a number of experts in blasting and bomb throwing have emerged in the whole army.

Third, the impact subject, the fighters now have a deep understanding of the three-three system, and can achieve fierce fighting, rushing, and fierce pursuit under the cooperation of the three people.

Fourth, in the combat subjects in the trenches, the soldiers have been able to learn the skills of jumping up and down the trench with a gun in one hand and the other hand.

Fifth, in the counter-charge subject, the soldiers can effectively cooperate, evacuate into an anti-artillery formation, carry out coordinated shooting and grenade strikes against the enemy on the position, and learn to strike at the enemy's charge in depth and depth.

Sixth, the subject of bayonet warfare and military combat ........................"

After listening to Li Hainiu's report, the cadres of various units also summed up the results of their respective units' military training.

Yao Fan finally nodded and said: "Then it is decided, the large-scale military training is temporarily closed until now, and the whole army will start a big competition during the Spring Festival, and then we will rest for a week, and we will officially start the full deployment of the 1876 battle plan." ”

After that, the big contest went very smoothly, and the various units competed in various subjects such as shooting, bomb throwing, blasting, assault, digging trenches, and armed night marching, and all the winning collectives and individuals were awarded certificates.

The joy of the Spring Festival is spreading in the base areas, and the food of the troops is excellent, and there are fish and meat every day, and although the amount of meat and vegetables is not much, such a day is like heaven for these working people.

At this time, Meris's merchant ships brought good news, and Germany agreed to reach a secret treaty with Yao Fan.

By the way, Merris brought a person to Yao Fan from Shanghai.

After the uprising of the Shandong Commune in 1876, the colonies of Shanghai finally knew that this rebel army was fighting under the banner of **, and Marx, who was far away in London, finally learned through the German newspaper Xinmin Evening News run by Guò Meili that there was actually a ** armed force in the world at this moment, fighting under his banner in the far east.

Marx received a £1,000 manuscript fee from Yao Fan, and now he heard about the ideological background of the Shandong Commune uprising#scene, so the ghost sent the gods, Lao Ma actually decided to come to China for a visit, for a scholar, especially a sociology scholar, when they hear that there are people in the world who regard their doctrine as a guideline and are being implemented, curiosity will always overshadow a qiē.

After returning to London from the mountains of Carlsbad, the Czech Republic, he felt ten years younger, just as Engels said "very good", so the old horse took a British merchant ship, spent an unprecedented 49 pounds, took the first class to Hong Kong, and then changed ships to Shanghai, and immediately asked to go to Qingdao after meeting the American in the "Xinmin Evening News" newspaper.

Meris felt that Lao Ma was a person valued by Yao Fan, so he brought him to Qingdao by the way.

When Yao Fan rushed to Qingdao from Jimo when he heard the news, and when he saw Lao Ma's iconic beard in Qingdao County, he almost burst into tears: "I saw Marx!" ** God of the Person! Marx, the great teacher of the proletariat of the whole world! ”

Yao Fan was as ecstatic as a child, and couldn't help but step forward to hug Marx.

Karl Marx obviously didn't expect this rebel leader to be so young and enthusiastic, but Westerners are no strangers to hugging, and the old horse, who is about the same height as Yao Fan, even kissed Yao Fan on the cheek.

"Mr. Marx, I am so honored to meet you in China!"

"I'm also glad to be able to meet a ** person in China, thousands of miles away, just like Mr. Merris said, your German is very good."

"I hope you will stay in China a little longer, so that I, as your admirer and student, can fulfill the friendship of the landlord."

"I also hope to be able to walk around more and learn as much as possible about this Chinese revolution." Lao Ma was very cautious, he was not sure that Yao Fan was moving the proletarian revolution, and since Shanghai, he has been wondering all the way, "Why should a rich man who sounds like a lot of money want to make a proletarian revolution?" ”rg

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