By the end of the two-and-a-half-hour break, it was completely clear and there was a light rain in the sky, but that didn't stop everyone's enthusiasm for the battle that was coming.

So, after a full rest and refreshed spirits, the roundabout troops set off again, unabashedly and went straight to the rear of the Ohio Russian regiment.

At this point, any means of concealment are superfluous, and it is only necessary to reach the rear of the Ohio regiment as quickly as possible, and immediately launch an attack is the best way, only in this way can the opponent be taken by surprise and the opponent will not have time to build fortifications. And once there are no fortifications, the troops that are still using front-loading guns cannot be the match for the troops equipped with modern rapid-fire weapons in any case.

Although halfway through the trip, the rain began to become heavier, from light rain to moderate rain, and the time is already November, the weather is getting cooler, and the rain is also very icy, if you are drenched in this kind of rain for a long time, you will be prone to cold.

But everyone uses motor vehicles as infantry tools, and these vehicles can keep out the rain, even the simplest paratrooper assault vehicles, which can also be equipped with awnings, so the rain will not have much effect on the soldiers, so that they will not be exposed to the rain in advance.

In addition, because it was already daytime, the line of sight was much better than at night, and the time was still short, and the road surface had not completely turned into muddy because of the rain, so not only did the morale of the officers and men of the unit not decline because of the rain, but the speed of the entire convoy did not drop, and it took less than five hours for everyone to run a distance of nearly 200 kilometers, and they arrived at the rear of the Ohio Russian regiment at once, and they could already see the enemy camp with binoculars.

When they saw the shadow of the enemy, everyone was almost excited because of the depression of the rain and the fatigue of the long journey, because they knew very well that the next time was their hunting time.

It is indeed hunting, because in the eyes of the officers and soldiers of these Dream Divisions, their weapons are the most advanced in the world, and the training is also the hardest, except for their colleagues, no other army in the world can match them, so any enemy who touches them is just prey, all they need to worry about is how to hunt more efficiently.

In this way, with an optimistic mood, everyone began to be busy making the final pre-war preparations, that is, checking weapons and equipment, boosting morale, and so on.

After half an hour, the reconnaissance troops in front had already radioed the information of the enemy in front of them.

According to the report of the reconnaissance unit, the Union army blocking the front of the roundabout force numbered as many as 5,000 men, almost a division of troops. (The establishment of the federal army is about 6,200 men in one division.) ）

Because of the rain, the Federation troops in that camp did not notice anything unusual in the rear, that is, they were not actually found.

Of course, although the rain could cover the smoke and dust when the convoy was moving, it could not block the sound made when the convoy moved, so as early as twenty-five minutes ago, they sent a small team of cavalry to reconnoitre, but these reconnaissance cavalry were unlucky and happened to run into Chinese scouts.

As a result, these American scout cavalry were quickly wiped out by these Chinese scouts using assault vehicles, and except for three who were captured as prisoners, the rest were all killed, most of them were killed by sniper rifles, and the rest were basically killed by assault rifles.

It was precisely because of the capture of three prisoners that they quickly figured out the intelligence of the camp ahead, and then they learned that the camp of 5,000 people was just a temporary arsenal of the OhRussian regiment of the federal army!

A regiment-level battle cluster is fighting outside, how can it still carry an arsenal? This is where we start at the beginning.

In this era, the medical care system of the armies of the Western powers was not so perfect, so once there was an injury, if it was a minor injury, it was generally necessary to continue to fight with the wounded, and if it was a little heavier, most of them were sent to the logistics office in the rear to do a simple bandage.

Moreover, it is unlikely that these wounded will be lying in bed all day to recuperate, they actually have to work, but they are doing things that do not require much detriment, they are doing small things such as distributing ammunition and maintaining guns and artillery.

At this time, the Western army, the weapons are still mainly guns, guns/cannons/launches/medicine are basically still in the era of black/fire/medicine, as for the fixed ammunition, although it has appeared, but because of the cost, at least the Union Army during the Civil War did not have large-scale fixed ammunition, but still used Springfield rifles.

At this time, the Springfield rifle was a front-loading smoothbore gun, and the ammunition used was also divided into ammunition, so the gunpowder and the bullet were loaded separately, and the loading process was quite troublesome, and the rate of fire could not be increased by non-trained troops.

Later, as the war progressed, the federal army lost more and won less, lost a large number of elite regular army units, and had to implement a conscription system, and a large number of so-called mobilized soldiers were recruited.

However, at the beginning, because the Alliance Army also lost a lot, the two sides could basically maintain an equal position, but when the Chinese began to fall, especially when the Alliance Army purchased a large number of Hua 1 rifles from the Chinese, that is, the so-called imitation Sharps rifle, compared with the Federal Army, the Union Army obviously had an overwhelming advantage in firepower and rate of fire.

In addition to the power and range, the Sharps rifle has made significant progress over the ordinary Springfield rifle, and the biggest advantage is that the rate of fire is high and easy to master.

Because the Springfield rifle is still a front-loading gun, using split ammunition, soldiers must go through a series of complex steps to load ammunition and shoot, this process is quite troublesome, it is good to say during training, but once on the battlefield, recruits often do the wrong steps because of nervousness, such as loading the wrong thing, loading too much or even not loading ammunition from time to time, and even someone often loads more than a dozen bullets into the barrel at one time, which almost explodes.

This situation is inevitable, although it can be avoided as much as possible by strengthening training, but what the federal army is lacking right now is time.

That's right, the federal army has a large population, and there is also a large industry, and it can quickly pull up a large army by relying on the population base and equip them with weapons, but these are basically inexperienced mobilizers, and with the development of the war, the federal government has no time for these recruits to complete three months of basic training.

From this point of view, the federal government at this time, in terms of treating the army, was not much better than the Red Soviet Union during World War II in another time and space, and it was unscrupulous for the sake of victory, and it did not care about the life or death of the soldiers at the bottom.

But from another point of view, the federal government can't help it, because the situation is changing too quickly, and they don't have time to train recruits step by step, because they have to plug the gap, otherwise, if they lose a lot of land and then transfer these trained recruits to the past, they will miss the fighter, and the effect may not be much better, and they will even lose a lot of their war potential.

Therefore, in order to add a little power to its temporary conscripts, the federal government has come up with a series of countermeasures in response to the current situation and its own situation.

For example, in order to cope with the artillery superiority of the Union Army, in addition to increasing the production of twelve-pounder guns, the Federation Army also designed a new rear-loading three-pounder gun and began to equip troops in large quantities.

As the name suggests, this is a rear-loading gun, which means that the shells do not need to be put in from the front, but are loaded from the rear, and the use of fixed-mounted cloth shell shells not only increases the firing speed a lot, but also can be easily used in the trenches.

In order to cope with the emerging trench tactics and increase mobility, this rear-loading three-pounder gun is very lightweight, not only can the gun body be carried by one person, but when used, it can also be used without a gun carriage, with a simple bracket can form a firing unit.

However, generally speaking, when you don't use a sports car, when you use a stand, most of them are used in the trenches, and if it is an offensive battle, in order to save the body and increase stability, it is still necessary to place it on a two-wheeled sports car.

In other words, the new rear-loading three-pounder gun not only increased the rate of fire, but also greatly improved its concealment, so that it was not necessary to use it on a sports car in an open area, as before, but could crawl in a trench and fire the gun on the ground.

To make an analogy, the difference between this rear-loading gun and the front-loading gun is similar to the difference between the front-loading gun and the rear-loading gun, both of which increase the rate of fire and increase the concealment.

Because of these characteristics, the new rear-loading three-pounder gun was defined as a company-level support gun, that is, a company would be armed with two of these three-pounder guns, and one gun would usually be operated by three to six people.

At first glance, this thing is a bit like the gun used by the Chinese Manchu army, because when this gun is not used in a sports car, it is usually carried by two people and fired with a stand, of course, the power and performance are much stronger than the original Manchu gun.

However, this rear-loading three-pounder gun has not been completely solved because the door gas closure has not been completely solved, so there is a situation of air leakage, so the firing distance is relatively short. For example, when launching a fixed solid bomb, the launch distance can reach 350 meters, and if a fixed grenade is fired, the launch distance is only 100 meters.

Although the distance is a bit short, it is powerful, and it is indeed effective in supporting the infantry at the grassroots level.

After all, this thing is regarded as a basic support weapon to accompany the charge of an infantry company, and the rate of fire and ease of operation are the most important things compared to the firing distance, and the new rear-loading version of the three-pounder gun undoubtedly meets these requirements.

You must know that in addition to being lightweight, the biggest feature of this three-pounder gun is the use of fixed shells, which simplifies many firing steps and makes it easier for soldiers to master.

When a soldier uses it, he basically only needs to put the oil-soaked linen fixed shell into the barrel, and then at the rear gun door, use a pendant to pierce the linen shell shell wrapped with propellant behind the shell, install the fuse, and ignite it.

Although it is necessary to continue the gun chamber afterwards, because it is a rear-loading gun, when the rear gun latch is opened, the barrel is a hollow tube with unobstructed front and back, and the cleaning process is much simpler, which also plays a role in increasing the rate of fire, and can also do these actions in the case of lying down, and the concealment is enhanced.

In short, this three-pounder gun received a very good response after being tested, because it can be used in trench warfare to block the enemy's charge, and can also be used in offensive campaigns as a support weapon for infantry charges.

It was precisely because of the good performance in actual combat in the eastern theater that the federal army soon began to mass-produce this new type of rear-loading three-pounder gun, and then distributed it in large quantities to the basic troops to strengthen the firepower of the grassroots troops.

At the same time, they also germinated a new idea on the basis of this rear-loading three-pounder gun, that is, after the artillery has undergone the reform of reloading and fixed ammunition, the performance is so good, so can the gun be the same?

However, it is clear that artillery is not the same as a rifle, and the federal government's current rifle factory capacity is very limited, and now they are working at full speed to produce cheap leather Springfield rifles, and it is not impossible to switch to the production of new rifles, but it will definitely take a lot of time, after all, it will not be good for the current situation.

Therefore, the designers of the United States put forward a new plan, that is, on the basis of not changing the existing guns, increase the rate of fire a little, and at the same time improve the ease of use of the guns, and to do this, there is no doubt that there is only one way, that is, to completely replace the fixed paper shell bullets.

The largest weapon currently held by the Union Army is the Springfield rifle, which is a front-loading smoothbore gun, and it is not impossible to turn it into a rear-loading gun, but it is certainly time-consuming and labor-intensive.

However, it would be much better if it was just a change in ammunition that would have left out the process of loading gunpowder and then reloading bullets, and directly reloading fixed ammunition, at least it would not allow soldiers to reload multiple rounds of ammunition when they were nervous.

As a result, the US military factories began to engage in a plan for fixed ammunition, that is, to require the troops below to fully use fixed ammunition and no longer use sub-loaded ammunition.

However, because the propellant at this time was granulated black powder, if it was made into a paper shell in advance, it was easy to have problems during transportation, so the federal army adopted the strategy of strategic sub-assembly and transportation, and temporary assembly in wartime.

In other words, when transporting gunpowder in peacetime, the parts such as gunpowder and paper shells and warheads are still transported separately, and only when the time of war is there is a need for people to assemble these parts into ammunition. Since it is not complicated, as long as your hands are okay, you can do this work.

In order to increase the speed, the Union Army requires new troops to learn the steps of assembling ammunition, so that soldiers can act as workers in peacetime, assemble ammunition before the war, and then take these assembled ammunition to the battlefield.

And the Federation also has a rule that if there is an exchange of fire between the enemy and the enemy, then the wounded must retreat to the rear and act as a worker to assemble ammunition, unless your hands are blown off, otherwise you must assemble ammunition!

Obviously, the camp in front of Li Yongji is a temporary arsenal for assembling ammunition and repairing weapons, and the workers in it are all wounded with unhindered hands!

"A country worthy of being a capitalist will really squeeze surplus value, even the wounded." After hearing the news, Li Yongji shook his head, "Although I am also a little sympathetic, but who made us enemies, I can only be sorry." ”

After talking to himself, Li Yongji cleaned up his mood and picked up the walkie-talkie in the armored car: "I am Li Yuanzheng, now I order, the whole army immediately attacks according to the established plan!" I won't say anything superfluous, in short, what you need is to keep attacking, attacking, and attacking again, and advance as far as you can, and we must use all our strength to completely defeat the enemy in front of you as quickly as possible! ”R1152