The mountainous areas of northern Korea are all covered with the frozen scenery of the northern country, and in the snow-covered valleys, a heroic and passionate song echoes in the snow. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"The heroes of the Huang family, the royal Han, the Asian people should plant the Asian fields. Youth! Youth! Don't kill each other in the same species, sit and teach Europe and the United States to whip first. ”

Wu Peifu, who was wearing a dogskin coat, sang this military song along with the soldiers, which is the military song of the new army stationed in Korea, although there is no trace of the rhyme of the Chinese dynasty, but the words are simple and catchy, and the Western-style tune is extremely exciting, and every time it is sung, it will always be very exciting.

At this time, after this blizzard, in order to boost the morale of the soldiers who were already exhausted after a long march, Wu Peifu once again led everyone to sing this military song.

"A man who stands up to the sky, is not afraid of death, does not want money, his husband will never be pitied, and he will bravely kill the enemy and be loyal to his soul. The flood is surging and the sky is surging with one hand, and the party does not live up to the stone pen and iron inkstone, and the sages of the later philosophers. ”

In the midst of heroic and passionate singing, the officers and men of the 10th Company, which were carrying legal rifles, were sweating like rain in the snow, and winter was the best time to conduct training in the cold zone, and the march of the 10th Company was carried out in accordance with the requirements of the headquarters of the New Army, accompanied by more than 20 officers of the General Staff of the New Army.

In order to ensure the smooth march, the company carried a large number of living materials and combat equipment, which were loaded by 14 sleds, each sled weighed 100 kilograms, and at least twelve sled dogs were required to pull, and the snow march had extremely high physical requirements for the soldiers, and after five days of snow marching, almost everyone's physical strength had reached the point of overdraft.

"In addition to the lack of poor warmth due to non-slip copper nails, hard-soled military boots may also break after a long march in cold areas. Full 212 pairs of military boots. There were 11 pairs that broke slightly on the third day......"

Take advantage of the rest. Sun Guoliang, as a staff officer of the headquarters, recorded in his notebook some problems encountered when marching in the cold area, many details of the problem, although the staff of the snow marching difficulties underestimated, not enough preparations, but he found that compared with the ordinary woolen coat, this kind of coat with dog skin has excellent thermal performance, and the dog skin hood on the coat and the role of the dog skin hat. Far more than he imagined, the collared hat with a tie in a snowstorm could completely protect the heads of officers and soldiers. In his opinion, the biggest problem is that the winter jacket is too thin, and of course there is the problem of military boots, although the breakage of military boots is an occasional phenomenon, but it should be avoided.

"It is worth noting that in addition to the problem of keeping warm due to the hard soles, the whale skin military boots issued by the lecture hall used by the officers can also maintain elasticity without breaking at minus 30 degrees, so it is recommended that the winter military boots should be made of whale skin. New soles should also be studied, and leather and copper spikes were not suitable for long marches. It's not good for keeping warm......"

When he tucked his notes into the leather map bag on his waist, he sat on the sleigh and took off his boots again to replace them with a pair of dry socks, which was also a discovery obtained through this marching training, after a long march the sweat of the feet made the socks soaked with sweat, the sweat on the socks may not be very noticeable in normal times, but in the cold zone this sweat can cause the toes to freeze to death, just like the three soldiers lying on the sleigh, their toes have been amputated. Dry socks are more conducive to keeping feet warm, but there is no possibility of drying socks in the wild in the cold winter, like others, after scrubbing the socks with the snow on the ground, Sun Guoliang will stuff the socks into the waist of the military pants, and warm and dry the socks with the help of body temperature.

Staff officer, why is the troops now conducting training in cold resistance? Is it that the troops are preparing to enter the Kanto region? ”

Wu Peifu, who walked to Sun Guoliang's side with a box of hot rice, asked tentatively again, when he was in the police department in the past, he had never heard of cold-resistant training, and the "inspection" nature of this cold-resistant training made him vaguely feel that this matter was not so simple.

"What do you think?"

Sun Guoliang, who was eating canned whale meat and rice, asked with a smile.

"I think it's a bit like that, I heard that there is a lot of beard in the Kanto region, and I read a newspaper a while ago that the railway company is going to the northeast to build a railway, and I estimate that when the time comes, the troops are very likely to enter the northeast to protect the road construction site."

Protect road construction sites!

Wu Peifu's words made Sun Guoliang's eyes light up, and he even forgot to pick up the rotten rice in the box, which was like porridge and had no taste at all, and just asked seemingly casually.

"Do you think the troops can go and protect the construction site?"

"Why not, since the North Korean railway company can go to Kanto to build the railway, if the road construction site is disturbed by beards, it naturally needs to be protected, and the police department has only a few mobile brigades, so naturally there are no people, I think the final task will still fall on us."

Wu Peifu, who was born in the police department, naturally knows the strength of the police department, and the mobile brigade of the police department is used to deter the North Koreans, while in comparison, the new army has 15,000 people, so naturally there is no one more suitable for this task than the new army.

"What's more, clearing out bandits can also enhance the combat effectiveness of the new army, so that the tactics learned by the commanders of each battalion and company in the military academy can be applied to the battlefield,"

Listening to Wu Peifu's explanation, Sun Guoliang's expression became serious, and he put forward his own opinions from time to time, and by chance his eyes when he looked at Wu Peifu also changed a little, he didn't expect this Wu Xiucai to have such a vision.

Borrowed the road to enter the northeast to train troops to suppress bandits.

When a report was submitted to the General Staff, it immediately caused an uproar in the General Staff, for the staff of the grass, now everything is just the beginning, in the past they were more concerned about the run-in of the battalion and company, and planned to hold a battalion-level confrontation exercise, through continuous exercises and training, and finally the independent battalions will be reorganized into regiments, and eventually form the main force of a division, this work should be completed this year according to the plan, and at the end of the year, with the graduation of the second batch of trainees of the lecture hall, some of them will be supplemented into the first division, Some officers of the First Division were then transferred as the backbone to cooperate with the new officers to form the Second Division.

Then, through this step-by-step method, a new army of six to eight divisions will be organized in the next three years, so that the new army stationed in the DPRK will become a new army worthy of the name. However, this process is interlinked, and there is no room for any differences, and every officer and soldier of the 1st Division has a role, and they are the seeds of the entire new army stationed in Korea.

"Absolutely not, casualties, at least casualties are unacceptable, after all, this is a march to war......"

"It's just a bunch of bandits!"

"Bandits? In all dynasties, are there few officers and soldiers planted on bandits? If the bandits were really so easy to suppress, how could this Fengtian general sit idly by and watch the bandits run rampant? ”

"Don't say anything about General Mukden, we went to Mukden two months ago for a staff trip, in my opinion, in the case of a field battle, one of our battalions can defeat at least six times the Qing army......"

As the proposer of the plan, Sun Guoliang naturally insisted on his own opinion, and when he mentioned the combat effectiveness of the new army, he was full of self-confidence, which was obtained through a staff trip, and it was through that staff trip that he was extremely contemptuous of the Qing army.

"Give me a division, and a bayonet charge can take down all the Qing troops in Fengtian!"

Sun Guoliang, who was extremely contemptuous of the Qing army, would not allow others to talk about the Qing army.

"The bandits are still walking around when they see that kind of Qing army, not to mention us, I think we can give it a try, at least we should try it with a battalion, this place in North Korea is too small, and the bandits in the mountains are not even enough for the police department to fill in the gaps, not to mention us, my idea is that we can use the northeast as a training ground, instead of blindly conducting exercises, after all, exercises can never replace actual combat!"

"But there will be casualties in actual combat, don't forget, even when the police department cleared up the North Korean mountain bandits last year, more than a dozen people were killed and injured......"

"But the mountain bandits have killed and injured nearly 2,000 people!"

While the staff officers, who had even their lips tied together, were debating whether they should fight against bandits, Wu Dingyuan, as chief of staff, remained silent, more precisely, he was looking at the information provided by the intelligence department about the bandits in the Kwantung region.

The number of bandits in the Fengtian area is far more than he imagined, most of them are Shandong people who have broken into the eastern part of the country, they have become bandits for various reasons, and some of them are also people and bandits, riding horses with guns or knives to become bandits, bolting horses to their homes, carrying farm tools and becoming common people, this kind of bandits want to be eliminated, how easy it is to say.

Again......

"Ziting, I have a question,"

After closing the information in his hand, Wu Dingyuan looked at Sun Guoliang and asked rhetorically.

"According to intelligence, more than ninety percent of the bandits in the Kanto region are horse bandits, and horse bandits, as the name suggests, are bandits on horses, and most of us are infantry, how can this infantry eliminate horse bandits?"

The reason why General Fengtian had no intention of suppressing the bandits was precisely because those horse bandits would scatter in a hurry as soon as they encountered the officers and soldiers, so that the officers and men, mainly the infantry, could not pursue, and even the cavalry would face the situation of being left alone in pursuit.

"This ......"

Sun Guoliang, who originally insisted on seeing it, was dumb when he heard what the commander said, and the infantry's mobility was far from catching up with the bandits on horseback, and they couldn't catch up with others, so what to fight.

"Sir, can't we also form a cavalry unit? With the cavalry company as the mainstay, supplemented by the infantry battalion company, I still don't believe that those bandits can lie on the horse team 24 hours a day, and they can use infantry to attack the cottage and use the cavalry company to ......"

It was fine not to mention the cavalry company, but when the cavalry company was mentioned, his voice suddenly lost much confidence - the new army had only four cavalry companies in total, and the reason was very simple - there were no horses, to be precise, there were no qualified military horses. The four cavalry companies rode horses that had been bought back from Russia through bribery, and more importantly, the four cavalry companies had not yet developed combat effectiveness. Even so, it is still regarded as a treasure bump in the headquarters, and how can it be allowed to lose to the needless bandits when the training is not successful.

Military horses, military horses are the key!

If there are enough military horses, how can there be any military horses that meet the standards of the headquarters? (To be continued.) )