After finishing basic queue training and obstacle exercises, Long Qian's training finally entered the live-fire stage. Previously, Long Qian asked the captives to build a shooting range next to Dongzhai, which was a gentle slope in the north-south direction, high in the north and low in the south, and built an earthen dam more than two feet thick at the highest point to tamp it, and asked the ordnance team to make a wooden target, on which was pasted a white paper with a bust of a person.

The members of Team 8 were fine, but the soldiers from Team 3 and Team 6 were curious about the chest target with a circle, and immediately understood the beauty of this target, and the bullet marks left during live firing would more accurately test the shooter's score.

This is probably the source of Captain Dragon's wonderful marksmanship.

There are at least 100 people in the whole team - basically veterans of the eighth team, and they are holding back their strength to learn marksmanship from Long Qian. It turned out that there was basically no such opportunity, because Sun Dewang did not conduct live-ammunition training, and the main reason was, of course, the shortage of guns and ammunition.

Now the situation has changed, and the bullets captured in the first battle of Maoyang Town have made it possible for Long Qian to start live-fire training. Long Qian generously took out a "large dose" of thirty rounds per capita to train the soldiers, and he first selected a dozen relatively good gunners in his team, most of these people were from recommendations, and the soldiers knew best who could shoot accurately. Long Qian organized these dozen people into a coaching staff, and planned to use them to help him complete the training.

As Long Qian expected, among these dozen people, less than half of the company commanders and platoon commanders, most of them were squad leaders and soldiers, they were quite a little coercive about their skills, and there was general resistance to Long Qian's request for them to teach the rest of the soldiers, Long Qian was not angry, but organized this group of people to conduct a competition, lying and standing each shot five shots, this is not difficult, but must be completed within the specified time. The time given by Long Qian is very short, the time for five bullets to complete the shooting is no more than ten seconds, this time is estimated, and it is a pity that the entire cottage only has a foreign watch.

As a result of the competition, Long Qian shot the fastest, but finished second overall.

In fact, there is no shortage of sharpshooters in the cottage, such as Xu Gongzhi of the third team, who shoots stationary targets in a lying and standing position and is basically a hundred shots, which is better than Long Qian's results. However, he planted a heel on the sports target invented by Long Qian, and Long Qian made people bend over and run irregularly behind the earthen dam with the target, which stumped Xu Gongzhi, although he was a hunter, but still lost to Long Qian in this increasingly difficult competition. Long Qian's five bullets all hit the bull's-eye, but Xu Gongzhi missed one shot. At this moment, Xu Gongzhi was convinced, although the total score was one shot higher than Long Qian, Xu Gongzhi admitted that his shooting level was not as good as that of the commander.

When you are fighting, you are afraid that you will not be able to find a still target for you to shoot, and everyone knows this, so the significance of shooting sports targets is even greater.

"I don't care how you developed your shooting skills, but I've noticed that each of you has technical flaws." When everyone in this shooting coaching team came on the field, Long Qian carefully observed their shooting movements, "So, don't be like a craftsman, and regard your little skills as the cost of your own food." We are soldiers now, not alone, and we will not fight alone. Shooting is a one-man sport, but there are also coordination problems. The idea of self-cherishing is really unacceptable. Long Qian patiently explained the collective truth, and self-cherishing skills is the main reason for the loss of various stunts.

Long Qian taught his shooting skills, "The essentials of shooting are not complicated, one is to be extremely familiar with your own firearms and know the essentials of aiming. The principle of three points and one line is actually very simple; the second is to learn to breathe, learn to be calm, especially the stability of the moment of shooting; The third is to shoot quickly, which will help you survive the battle, because killing the enemy is the safest guarantee for you to survive......" He first carefully trained the dozen or so "elites" with outstanding marksmanship, and then let them serve as instructors to train the whole army.

Things like ruler distance need to be talked about slowly, and all kinds of rifles of different specifications, including calibers, also need to be slowly understood, but the body, the shooting habits of the shooter need to be correctly developed from the beginning, "In a word, you have to practice the gun as a part of your body, just like your arm, the hand moves with your heart, and where the eyes look, the arm points to where, rather than deliberately aiming." ”

Only a few sharpshooters such as Xu Gongzhi and Cheng Erhu understood these words, "As for accurately shooting sports targets, first, we must get used to calculating the amount of advance; The second is to learn to anticipate. What is Prognosis? It is to estimate what action you want to shoot at the target next__" Long Qian tried his best to teach some experience to this "teaching team" in popular language, "That kind of selfish psychology is the most important, our Mengshan Army is a whole, you have to survive in this army, the best way is to make your comrades more powerful, if your comrades-in-arms are poor, your life is not safe, there is a saying that you ponder, you are not afraid of god-like opponents, you are afraid of pig-like teammates__" This sentence made everyone laugh.

Long Qian also didn't want all of his soldiers to become sharpshooters, but due to the long-term difficulty in obtaining ammunition, it was necessary to greatly improve the shooting level of his soldiers.

This is also the reason why Long Qian did not hesitate to take out half of the ammunition in his inventory for live-fire training. This decision was opposed by Song Jinguo, the chief steward of the Mengshan Army, and more than half of the officers, but Long Qian insisted on doing so. He firmly believed that soldiers who had not been shot with live ammunition could not achieve the same results just by holding a gun there to practice aiming.

"As for the stability of shooting, there is no other way, just to train your arm strength. You can hang a stone from the muzzle of the gun to practice, or you can practice holding the gun in one hand, in groups of two, calculating the time each of you will hold on, shooting to get rid of some understanding, and more importantly, a large dose of training. The Toyo soldiers did a good job in this regard, and their shooting level was generally very high. Evaluate who has the better chance of winning against an infantry squad with an average of 10 shots? Long Qian made a demonstration, he held a rifle with a ten-pound stone hanging from the muzzle in one hand, and lasted for a full meal, "With arm strength, you have the premise of accurate shooting." ”

There is no dispute about this, when a partner suffers casualties in a row, the morale of the army is very likely to collapse, and many people in the Mengshan Army have similar experiences. Therefore, everyone studied carefully some of the methods that Long Qian came up with to improve his shooting skills.

In order to improve the soldiers' adaptation to live ammunition, in the second stage of shooting training, Long Qian asked half of them to crawl behind the mound of dirt and bear the feeling of bullets shooting head-on into the mound in front of them. This somewhat dangerous training will frighten a small number of soldiers, but after experiencing it, the soldier's adaptability will be multiplied when entering actual combat.

When the breath of summer descended on Mengshan, Long Qian's large-scale military training entered the most advanced stage, that is, the attack and defense of companies, platoons, and squads. At this stage, there was a sudden increase in theoretical teaching. The staff group must participate, and many targeted training requires the staff group to make a training plan and follow up the whole process.

At the end of the training, Long Qian will focus on the whole army to comment and point out the shortcomings and mistakes in the process.

"The ways of warfare are ever-changing, and the core is always the same to annihilate the most enemies at the least cost. The specific methods are no more than the two major categories of offense and defense, defense is for the sake of attack, and a simple combat method with defense as the ultimate goal will not win, just like the attack on Mengshan by Cao Kun two months ago. When the defense fails, it is faced with retreat, and if the retreat is not properly organized, it will turn into flight, and the result will be failure. Long Qian preached in the training course for officers above the squad leader, "Therefore, offensive is the only means to win the war, and the purpose of defense is to gain time for the offensive, mobilize the enemy, and assemble troops as a last resort. However, the importance of defense cannot be overlooked, and the two aspects complement each other. If at that time, Sun Da and the leaders detected the strength and offensive route of the official army, and defended the cottage with one piece, such as three infantry teams, and resisted with the help of the terrain, and the main force went out of the mountain as soon as possible and copied the back road of the official army, just like we fought Maoyang Town, and made a big havoc in his old nest in the Heavenly Palace, cutting off his grain route, Cao Kun would have returned to the division to rescue, then we not only defended the cottage, but also found the fighter plane, and grasped the initiative, the result would have been completely different. ”

Except for the group of people brought back to the cottage by Zhou Yi, all of them participated in the lively battle process in the later stage of the eighth team.

"However, no matter how good the idea is, it must be implemented in the future with strong soldiers, for example, the main force sneaks outside the mountain, and you can't do it without strong discipline and marching speed. When you walk three miles, you are so tired that you are out of breath, and you can't hold a weapon with a little dry food on your back, and you can't fight such a battle. ”

A knowing smile appeared on everyone's faces.

"Offense and defense are both a science, and the science of war is a science. What is science, science is the correct craft, most of us are peasant children before going up the mountain, and some are craftsmen, such as our brother Wu Lie, who has experience in striking iron. Everyone knows that there are often such things, the same farmer, the land is similar, but the harvest is much worse. For what? Because the people who farm the land are different, the degree of diligence is different, and the craftsmanship is also different, so it has caused different results. The same gun, in Xu Gongzhi's hand, he couldn't hit one shot out of ten shots in Gu Xiaolin's hand, what was it for? Because he did not master the essentials of shooting. Now everyone knows the Tao of Lu, as long as you master the essentials of shooting and practice diligently, you can become a sharpshooter. So, what about leading troops to war? Is it a science? My answer is that it is a science, and it is a profound science. What I'm going to teach you today is the attack of the infantry squad. ”

After making a long opening remarks, Long Qian began to get to the point, "Infantry is the most important branch of the modern army, and it is also the most successful branch of the army. At least for now, nothing can be fought without the infantry. The smallest establishment of infantry is the squad, and the establishment of infantry squads by the armies of various countries is not the same, mainly because of the differences caused by the armament, and now those military powers in the West have begun to equip machine guns, which has caused changes in the establishment of infantry squads. We are rifles of one color, and the number of men is 12 people, and we can't make one for each person. ”

"What is a machine gun?" Someone asked.

"It is a weapon that can fire bullets continuously, does not need to pull the bolt to load, and can achieve a speed of 400 to 600 rounds per minute. You already know that an hour is 120 minutes, it takes about 3~4 minutes to smoke a bag of cigarettes, and what is the concept of shooting 400 or even 1,000 bullets in a minute? It's just splashing water. If the Zhangjiazhai official army had been equipped with a machine gun, with our current offensive methods, there would be no doubt that they would have been sent to death! ”

"Oh my god." There was a commotion below, and it was chilling to imagine facing that kind of big killer.

"The large number of flowering cannons equipped with the army has also changed the way of warfare, and everyone has learned the power of Western-made cannons. There will be even more terrible weapons to come, and unless we lay down our weapons and go home to farming or something else, we must face these weapons and tactical advances bravely. If you don't adapt and don't learn, you are waiting for death. That's why I've been asking you to train and learn. ”

"Now I'm talking about the formation of infantry squads. The infantry squad can be divided into a little more detailed, I envision a squad divided into four groups, each group of three people, the squad leader and the deputy squad leader, oh, we will set up a deputy squad leader in the next step, and select those soldiers with high combat skills and prestige. The squad leader and the deputy squad leader are of course the two team leaders, and two team leaders must also be determined, and the group will act in small groups during the attack, and the group will deal with the enemy collectively in hand-to-hand combat. The group is also the basic unit when retreating or blocking. In this case, the class leader's orders can be given to the team leader, and as a result, the control of the whole class is strengthened. Grouping is not a simple control purpose, but to achieve an effective division of labor in battle of an infantry squad, and each group will take on a different mission in the offensive. Generally, there are fire support groups, blasting groups, etc., and the fire teams are used to suppress the enemy's fire with rifles, machine guns and other weapons to cover the charge of comrades. Under the current circumstances, it is necessary to choose soldiers with accurate marksmanship as members of the fire team, accurately kill the enemy's commanders, machine gunners and other threatening targets, and shake the enemy's defensive determination and strength. Further along, gunpowder is also the invention of our ancestors, foreign devils learned to improve it, developed a power far more than black powder ** and dexterous ignition device, explosives, ignition device and packaging together into bombs and shells. The packaging is a bullet casing, which kills and injures an enemy with a large number of fragments from the explosion. The task of the demolition team is to carry out a series of blasts on the enemy's positions under the cover of the fire team in order to open the passage for the attack__"

"Captain, we don't have machine guns. And we don't have any cannons."

"There will be later. We didn't have as many bullets as we do now, and we know best where these things come from. We must not only steal from the enemy, but also learn to make ourselves. The machine guns or other weapons that are made are better than the foreign devils, believe it or not? ”

The backbone of the lecture laughed. Long Qian continued to create miracles and surprises for everyone, and the vast majority of people present believed that what Long Qian said would come true. This is an era of ignorance, but it is also an era of innocence, an era of easy idols.

"Now I'm going to talk about the basics of an infantry squad when attacking." Long Qian took out his drawing and hung it on the wooden board, "Please feel free to ask questions." First, the way different terrain is deployed__"

Long Qian's lectures have always used existing examples to help explain his theory, and the squad leaders listened with relish. At the end of the lecture, Long Qian chose a squad to go to the training ground in the village to practice on the spot, demonstrated the individual soldiers on the spot with skillful combat movements, and then pointed out on the spot the matters that should be paid attention to in the offensive battle of the squad.