Not to mention the rest, the tactic of cross-firing with a machine gun alone is enough to make Zhao Dongyun rank among the tactics masters in Beiyang today, not to mention the specific application of grenades, machine gun suppression and covering infantry charges, and so on.

These things may be ordinary in the eyes of later generations, but in this era they represent the most advanced and even cross-era tactics of contemporary times, the most obvious is the machine gun, Zhao Dongyun moved the machine gun tactics during World War I and even World War II to today, so that the lethality of the machine gun has increased at least several times.

And what Chen Guangyuan admires even more is not only these, but what he admires even more is that Zhao Dongyun is not just talking about it, but he is indeed here, founded the fourth battalion machine gun team for Beiyang, single-handedly trained the third mixed association, and let the third mixed association conduct training in new tactics.

These things are not something that ordinary people can do.

However, Chen Guangyuan didn't know it now, but Zhao Dongyun, who made him admire, was still frowning, he was still satisfied with the attacking side of the infantry drill just now, but he was a little dissatisfied with the tactical application of the defender.

A one-on-one comparison of forces, and two machine guns to help in the battle, would have been taken by the attacker, and if this was just the result agreed before the exercise, there was nothing to say, then it would be a dereliction of duty for the defender not to deploy anti-artillery positions, barbed wire, or other obstacles before the battle.

Although the deployment of the machine guns is quite reasonable, but the machine gun fortress is convex, because it is not a fixed fortress of cement, it is very easy to be hit by enemy artillery, even if there are not even a few infantry to cover the machine guns, the attacking side launched a roundabout attack, and when the first to strike at the machine gun position, a machine gun position was reimbursed for a few grenades.

These made Zhao Dongyun feel quite dissatisfied, you must know that for a long time in the future, the Third Mixed Association in Liaodong will not be able to play any offense, but adopt a defensive posture, if the defensive ability is not strong enough, why block the westward advance of the Russian army? Why play armed neutrality in the Russo-Japanese War?

And during the Russo-Japanese War and World War I, it was a world of defensive warfare, and it was easier to defend than to attack.

Zhao Dongyun also thought that in the future, when the Russians or the Japanese themselves launched an attack on their own machine gun defense line, they would slaughter tens of thousands of people a day.

Zhao Dongyun wrote down one question after another in his heart, but he won't say anything loudly now, in a public occasion like today, he has to save some face for his subordinates, and solving those problems one after another in the future is the way of the superior, the kind of superior who scolds his subordinates when he sees a small problem and embarrasses his subordinates is usually the protagonist in film and television dramas.

So you will see Zhao Dongyun with a smile on his face: "Yes, although there are still some problems with the drill, but the overall situation is still quite good, it can be seen that all the gentlemen have put a lot of thought into it!" ”

Then he turned his head to look at Liu Tinggui and said: "Your artillery battalion played well today, although the gunners still seem rusty and the cannon is slower, but in terms of infantry and artillery coordination, you are still doing a good job!" ”

Liu Tinggui was a little worried at the beginning that Zhao Dongyun would be dissatisfied with the slow rate of fire of his artillery battalion, but now he was finally relieved to hear that Zhao Dongyun didn't talk about it, and said: "Thanks to the fact that your Excellency has recruited a large number of excellent artillery officers, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to put up the rack of the artillery battalion so quickly!" ”

Zhao Dongyun nodded after hearing this, what he said was not bad, and infantry and cavalry training Zhao Dongyun did not invest too much energy, but he has been paying attention to the training of this artillery from beginning to end, and even in order to solve the scarcity of artillery talents, he dug the foot of the wall everywhere, and finally recruited several professional high-quality artillery officers, including Lu Jin of the first artillery department of the non-commissioned officers and students in Japan, Gong Guangming of the second artillery department of the non-commissioned officers and students in Japan, and several old Beiyang artillery officers in the period of the Wuwei Right Army.

As far as the officers are concerned, the third battalion of the newly established artillery unit is different from the infantry and cavalry battalions of the third mixed association, and the officers in it are not all Beiyang descendants, but some officers from the old Huai army and some non-commissioned officers from Japan.

Since most of these officers were personally recruited by Zhao Dongyun, and most of them were artillery officers from professional classes, they were also stronger than other units in terms of professionalism.

Zhao Dongyun wanted to receive them as usual for a lecture, headed by Lu Jin, who was currently the assistant of the third battalion of the artillery team, who first went to the surveying and mapping school as a teacher after returning to China, and was later recruited by Zhao Dongyun to become an important officer in the initial period of the Third Artillery Battalion, and also the second non-commissioned officer in Japan personally recruited by Zhao Dongyun.

This person is one year younger than Zhao Dongyun, and he was also a student of the Beiyang Military Academy in his early years, although he did not have the experience of serving in the Beiyang Army in his early years, but he can be regarded as a Beiyang background, and his Beiyang Academy background is also an important factor for him to be recruited by Zhao Dongyun.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the non-commissioned officers and students who stayed in Japan were basically sent by the provinces respectively, and they generally returned to their original provinces to serve after returning to China, so it was more difficult for Zhao Dongyun to recruit non-commissioned officers and students from other provinces, unless the students could not get a position in the original province or were not satisfied with finding another way out, just like Hua Zhenji of the first phase of the non-commissioned officer students, he was unable to obtain a real shortage in the original province, and he only joined Zhao Dongyun when he was in Beijing.

In addition, he, like all the Beiyang bigwigs, rejects those revolutionary parties, and would rather use honest and mediocre people than people who are full of geniuses, so there are not many non-commissioned officers and students who can be recruited by Zhao Dongyun.

In addition to Lu Jin and Hua Zhenji, that is, Gong Guangming of the second phase, this person was not personally recruited by Zhao Dongyun, but took Duan Qirui's way, and was originally going to serve in the second standard of the artillery team of the second town, but Duan Qirui had no choice but to send him to Zhao Dongyun after losing the battle for the second town.

Although this person is not Zhao Dongyun's descendant, he is barely the same faction, and this person is from the second phase of the artillery department of the non-commissioned officer in Japan, not to mention whether he can fight or not, but it should be okay for artillery training, otherwise he would not be recommended by Duan Qirui.

So after he came, Zhao Dongyun asked him to serve as the officer of the front team of the artillery battalion.

For these young middle- and lower-level officers, Zhao Dongyun walked up cordially and spoke one after another, returned the military salute, and said a word or two of encouragement from time to time, while Liu Tinggui only followed him to make introductions, after all, there were hundreds of junior officers in the Third Mixed Association, and Zhao Dongyun couldn't remember so many people.

"This is Wu Peifu, the platoon commander of the left team!" When Liu Tinggui introduced a sturdy man who stood straight, he attracted Zhao Dongyun's attention.

Zhao Dongyun looked at Wu Peifu and showed a rare smile: "You are the Wu Xiucai that Lu Jin said, well, do a good job and do a great career!" ”

Wu Peifu showed excitement when he heard this, at this time he was just a lowest-level officer, he had just been promoted from Zhengmu to platoon commander not long ago, and now he saw that Zhao Dongyun, the boss of the Third Mixed Association, actually remembered his name, and suddenly he was so excited that he almost couldn't speak, so that Liu Tinggui on the side glared at him fiercely before he replied normally: "Follow the teachings of the adults, Peifu will definitely not let the adults down!" ”

Zhao Dongyun nodded slightly, but his footsteps had already moved away to see the other officers, if Wu Peifu followed him, then he would hear Zhao Dongyun also shouting the name of another officer, and that person's face was as excited as Wu Peifu.

To be honest, Zhao Dongyun can remember who Wu Peifu is, the reason why he was able to call out the names of many low-level officers, including Wu Peifu, was because Liu Tinggui was prompting on the side!

Although Wu Peifu said that he was also a big warlord in later generations, which of the officers and officers in the Beiyang system today was not a warlord in later generations? Yuan Shikai, Duan Qirui, these bigwigs don't need to be said, Cao Kun, Wang Zhanyuan, Lu Yongxiang and so on are almost all warlords, if Zhao Dongyun still has any curiosity about these historical warlords when he first arrived in this era, then two years later, Zhao Dongyun has directly ignored it.

The current situation is that later generations of historical celebrities are looking up to Zhao Dongyun, not Zhao Dongyun who ran up to ask for autographs when he saw some historical celebrities.

Zhao Dongyun doesn't care about historical fame when recruiting talents, he pays more attention to actual talent, in fact, most of his current subordinates are unknown, but the actual talent is not weaker than those historical generals.

For this Wu Peifu and Gong Guangming, the former is a famous general in history, and the latter can't even find his information in Baidu, but Wu Peifu of the former only learned half of it in the Kaiping Military Academy, and he is still a half-bucket of water that has not graduated, he did not go to Tianjin to be a policeman as in history, but was thrown into the first town of the Beiyang New Army last year, and then transferred to the third battalion of the artillery team under Zhao Dongyun this year.

To tell the truth, Wu Peifu, who has not attended the surveying and mapping school and has a career as a spy, has limited ability, and his importance in Zhao Dongyun's heart is far less than that of Gong Guangming, a professional artillery officer from the second phase of the Lu Shi artillery department.

Historical celebrities need the environment to create, when history changes, those historical generals who did not get enough opportunities may spend their lives in obscurity, and some unknown small characters are enough to grow into new historical generals after getting opportunities and getting enough exercise.

Of course, gold will shine wherever it goes, and all Zhao Dongyun has to do is give them a chance!

Historically, Wu Peifu was born in surveying and mapping, and used the profession of surveying and mapping to enter the artillery, and in his early years, he was an expert in playing artillery, so Zhao Dongyun didn't mind helping him and letting him continue to train in the artillery unit.

And Zhao Dongyun himself thinks it doesn't matter, if you want to talk about famous historical generals, there are a lot of them in Beiyang, and there is not much difference between who is less and who is more.

Moreover, creating a famous general is much more interesting than recovering a famous general!