"Reload and shoot all the dollars!"

"Good shot! The second artillery is good! Three guns are good! Four guns are good! Five guns are good! Six guns are good! ”

"Three rapid fires in a row!"

Boom boom burst into a burst of artillery fire, the 37th Artillery Company of the New Army, which occupied the commanding heights, was firing at the crowded place outside the city, and the gunners squatting behind the artillery shields re-exerted their usual training results, and the three salvos of six guns were fired quickly and fiercely, the shells exploded in the crowd with whistling, and the scattered shrapnel cut the human body sharply. Soon, the gray-white smoke coming out of the barrels, mixed with a pungent smell, spread over the position along the direction of the wind.

To say that the status of this Schneider 37 fast gun in today's 34 mixed association is really embarrassing, called rapid-fire gun", but this product is an old-fashioned racked artillery, and the rate of fire is really not flattering, at best, it is about the same as the 57 mountain cannon equipped by the Southern New Army on a large scale, and the caliber is not as good as others. Used as an accompanying artillery for the infantry, this cargo is too heavy and portable, and it is not as portable as the 60 mortars that Anqing is secretly making; As an artillery long-range support artillery, the caliber of this cargo is too small and the ammunition type is still single. With the arrival of the first Rhine 75 howitzer artillery battalion delivered by Krupp in August, the new army in Anhui Province has long since exchanged its guns for artillery. The rate of fire of the new 75 gun reached 15 rounds per minute, which was staggering, and the firing range was even more perverted to more than 10,000 meters. It's easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it's hard to go from luxury to thrift! So taking advantage of the fact that all the eliminated 37 guns and 57 guns still have a considerable surplus in their body barrels, Hu Rui decisively pulled these old guys to exert their residual heat, all of which were used to train gunners. The whole country, that is, the Anhui New Army, has the courage to do this, and it hurts to change the wealthy Beiyang. The country is weak, Hanyang began to imitate Hubei 57 10 years ago, 10 years after the end of the output, not to mention the quality can not catch up with the original German factory, many flowering bombs blow up only two halves, can not hurt people at all. No matter how small the sparrow is, it is not a piece of meat, and this cannon has to be bought at a high price from foreigners!

"Report! Students Wang Wenli and Li Qingxiang have met the chief instructor! ”

Hu Rui put down the six-fold telescope of Zeiss of German origin in his hand, turned around and saw the person who came and returned the salute.

"Chief Instructor, please punish you!" Two young men wearing patrol battalion uniforms lowered their eyes, straightened their waists, and said with gloomy expressions.

"Ahem, what's the situation with the patrol battalion now? How much ammunition is left? Hu Ge cleared his throat and glanced at the two people in front of him who asked the question. Damn black powder is really troublesome! The combustion is incomplete, and every shot is a puff of smoke, which affects the observation and correction parameters, not to mention that people will be smoked enough. There were two young men standing in front of him, one with a bandage on his head, and one half sleeve covered with blood, and the uniforms on his bodies had not been changed for many days, as dirty as they had been picked up from the garbage heap, and the German riding boots under his feet were also covered with mud. The dark and haggard two looked at each other puzzled, obviously not expecting Hu Rui to suddenly ask such a question. After a pause, he saluted and replied: "Report to the chief instructor, the two patrol battalions led by the two students have a total of 740 people, 16 officers and soldiers are killed, 54 are wounded, and 670 people remain!" Ammunition can be divided into 10 rounds per rifle. "These numbers were counted overnight yesterday, and last night the herald sent by the New Army sent the news that Hu Rui, the chief instructor of the 34th Mixed Association and the chief instructor of the training battalion, personally led a group of people to volunteer. These two are students who came out of the first phase of the teaching camp, and they have just graduated not long ago, and they know what the instructor is like. Although the two patrol battalions were not satisfied, there were more than 700 people, and the troops of the small first standard were actually blocked in the county town by the party and bandits who had few guns, and they could not move, and they could die if they thought about it. They all know the rules of the new army, no matter whether they win or lose in every battle, they must report all the situation to 1510, and if they win, they must know where their advantages are, and when they lose, they must know where their mistakes are, so that they can learn from war in war. "Don't hold back, what do you all think about this?" Hu Rui asked angrily with the binoculars in his hand, and he couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart. It was only a long time before there were 70 casualties, and there were more people in Wuhu and Anqing who wanted to join the new army to eat food, and Hu Rui personally sat on the scene every time he was recruited. It can be said that almost all of them were personally selected by Hu Rui, and how strict the political examination and culture are, the whole of Anhui is civilized. In Hu Ruixin, these soldiers must be trained according to the standards of non-commissioned officers, and after the expansion of the army in the future, the grassroots squads and platoons of the army will all rely on them to take the lead. Can he not be heartbroken when there are more than 70 people in front of the party, bandits, and rioters at once?

"Chief instructor, what you didn't say, we're sorry for you! It's not that we underestimate the enemy, and we haven't found those gangsters and bandits mixed in with the homeless people, so we won't be able to make trouble at all! If we could have taken extra precautions, those brothers would not have died! From the very beginning, we were all underestimated, and we didn't think about it at all, only the homeless! The two of them didn't think about it, and they almost blurted it out. That's it?! And that's not all! You are the patrol battalion, you are the army! It's not a patrol officer, it's not a welfare home! More than 700 people in the two battalions didn't know about coordinated defense, and they were confused when they encountered a group incident?! Is this soldier in the belly of a dog?! Hu Rui snarled.

Frankly speaking, what bothered him more than the casualty figures was the ability of the academy to deal with the situation. Even if such a large wave of displaced people is not screened, it will not be possible to separate men, women and children, and the party and bandits will mix in the crowd and wait for the trouble to start before shooting. In the end, it is still inexperienced, and there is no blood. The first phase of the training camp was a crash course, although there were instructors from Germany and the syllabus drawn up by Hu Rui himself, but the time was still too rushed. The content of the military academy in the later generations of 4~5 years was selected and all completed within half a year, and the quality can be imagined, as for the soldiers below, they are all peasants and workers who have just put down their hoes, and they do not have a strong sense of collective identity with the new army, and they lack the fierceness of the bayonet. It can be said that this small riot has exposed many problems of the new army, and with the current combat strength of the new army, not to mention the confrontation against Japan and Russia, even in the face of Beiyang, there is not much chance of victory. No matter how haode equipment is, there must be the right people to control it.

"Weapons are an important factor in war, but they are not the decisive factor, and the decisive factor in war is people." Hu Ruimo read this incisive conclusion of a certain military master in later generations, and was deeply touched.