Chapter 495: Rising Clouds
Although the times he was in were different, Jian Mingyue felt uncomfortable everywhere, but after all, he was an old fritter on the battlefield, and after adapting to it for a while, he showed a lot of military talent beyond ordinary people. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info especially in this era of weapons are relatively backward, hand-to-hand combat is still one of the important combat methods, and his strong strength is more and more important. So, Lieutenant General Frank soon promoted his rank again to the rank of captain.
With the rank of captain, you can lead a company. And a company can be considered an independent combat unit. Ordinary training is decided by the company commander himself. At this time, Jian Mingyue was finally able to introduce some advanced training methods into the army in later generations, such as long-distance training, standing in a military posture, emergency assembly at night, hanging bricks at the muzzle of the rifle, etc., little by little experiments, those that are suitable will continue to be used, and those that are not suitable will be canceled.
After a few months like this, Jian Mingyue's company has taken on a new look, and just a simple queue can give people a feeling of being one hundred people and majestic and mighty. This made Lieutenant General Frank and other commanders very satisfied, and asked him to write a report on the training method and hand it in, so that other troops could also learn from it. As a result, not long after the report was handed in, Jian Mingyue was promoted one level again and became a major.
Jian Mingyue has only joined the army for more than half a year, and she has risen all the way to become a major, but no one is unconvinced. Because Jian Mingyue was not only known for his strong force, but also the new training method he wrote was printed into a book and distributed to the whole army for study. In the author's column of the book, he is signed by the name of Victor Howlett. Is it strange that such a famous character rises a little faster? On the contrary, it would be strange if he couldn't rise, and it would make people wonder if someone was suppressing him?
The rank was promoted to major, and the position was battalion commander, and Jian Mingyue, who had tasted the sweetness, continued to toss. He selected a few lethal moves of the military body boxing of later generations and taught them to the soldiers of the whole battalion. In particular, there are a few tricks that use daggers, and the use of bayonets is even more ferocious.
But what he didn't expect was that this time he was not promoted because of this, but was reprimanded. Because the soldiers of this battalion went to the bar to drink while they were resting, and got into a fight with the soldiers of other battalions. Because of learning the kung fu taught by Jian Mingyue, six or seven people knocked over more than 20 people on the other side, and one of them was killed. Now the matter is big, Jian Mingyue was called to the military headquarters and was scolded with a head and face. It was only after the scolding that Lieutenant General Frank ordered him to be temporarily suspended from his post and reappointed as the chief instructor of the whole army, and to teach all the soldiers those tricks of killing the enemy.
Jian Mingyue came out of the military department with a disgraced face and immediately took office. However, his military rank is still too low, he is just a major, and he is in charge of the training of the whole army, and it is inevitable that some people will not accept it. And the rumors that Jian Mingyue fought more than a dozen at a time were just rumors after all, and there were not many people who really saw it with their own eyes, so when Jian Mingyue went to other troops to supervise training, he was provoked by a group of ruffians.
What Jian Mingyue was most afraid of was this kind of provocation, and she immediately beat down more than a dozen ruffians, and was extremely humiliated. This infuriated the soldiers of the entire company, and they couldn't help but rush to it. As a result, a farce was staged in which Jian Mingyue chased a series of fights alone, which made the officer who secretly instructed him lose face, but he could only curse twice in his stomach.
There were about one hundred and fifty people in a company, and so many people were scattered by Jian Mingyue alone, which made Jian Mingyue's reputation even louder. When Jian Mingyue went to other troops to supervise the training, no one dared to provoke him, allowing him to smoothly implement the training plan.
After another half a year or so, the brawl broke out again. However, this time it was a fight between the soldiers and the people outside, and the cause of the incident was not to be said, but only the result, exactly one squad of twelve soldiers defeated ten times the opponent, and more than 120 people were beaten away.
The follow-up of this incident is of no importance to Jian Mingyue, the important thing is that his training results have been recognized by all officers, and he was finally promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel again, and re-became the commander of the army with real power, that is, the regiment commander.
A few days after he became the head of the regiment, an event occurred that shocked the whole of America, a guy named John Brown launched an uprising against slavery. Although it failed in the end, it also greatly stimulated the forces of the north and the south. Sensing the signs of war, the military planned an exercise.
As the head of a regiment, Jian Mingyue was already qualified to participate in important military meetings. As a result, listening to the exercise plans of those generals, I could only grin bitterly. They also call it a drill? Although it can't be called a performance, it's just a big military exercise, and there are no opponents, what kind of exercise is it?
Lieutenant General Frank has always admired Jian Mingyue, and often glances at him during meetings. I found that he listened to the exercise plan with disdain, so I asked him to express his opinion by name. Jian Mingyue didn't want to say it, but Frank, who knew that he always had some ghost ideas, was forced to say something. Since he had to say it, then he was not polite, and approved the exercise plan as worthless, and then proposed his own method of exercise.
Among the people in the room at the meeting, lieutenant colonel was the lowest rank. A mere lieutenant colonel has demoted so many people with a higher rank than him, is this guy's EQ negative? Fortunately, Frank knew that he had provoked it, so he could only help Jian Mingyue wipe his buttocks, and proposed to try it the way Jian Mingyue did.
After all, the officers present are all veterans, and they can still hear that Jian Mingyue's exercise method is more effective, although they are very dissatisfied with Jian Mingyue, but a few people also agreed. But it can't be cheaper Jian Mingyue, didn't he say that the defenders could have fewer troops during the exercise? Then your regiment will play the defender and see how you can withstand the attack of a division.
After announcing this decision in public, Jian Mingyue was not surprised. And it is not too difficult for him to hold the position with a regiment and block a division. After all, the tactics of this era are too backward, and the Sharps rifle is also a new type of firearm, at least it can be loaded from the back, and it can be done on its stomach, unlike the front-loading gun that must be standing. Just the difference in the position of loading the bullets will change the tactics a lot, and the US military has not yet realized this at this time. With this, Jian Mingyue is sure to win.
A month later, the exercises officially began. Jian Mingyue led a regiment to garrison on a small hill, and the strength of a division was to take this hill. It's just that when the attacking division gradually approached the small hill, it was surprised to find that more than a dozen trenches more than half a person deep had been dug out of the originally gentle hillside, and Jian Mingyue's subordinates were all hiding in the ditch, at most only showing their heads.
Trench tactics have historically appeared during the First World War, fifty or sixty years before that. The weapons of World War I were already rifles with rotating pull-back bolts with magazines, and the density of fire was far from being comparable to that of Sharps rifles. In order to maintain the density of fire with the Sharps rifle, it is still necessary to use the formation of the line of shots. For this reason, Jian Mingyue also deliberately changed the density of the trenches, and the three rows of trenches in the front and back were very close to each other, which could be regarded as three-stage shooting.
The trenches are too dense, and it is easy to amplify the lethality of the artillery, but there is no way, the current rifle can only be used like this, and it is better to have trenches than nothing.
Although the attacking U.S. forces had never seen this kind of tactic, they knew that this battle would not be easy to fight when they saw that the other side only showed their heads, but they had to line up straight and move forward. But they had to attack. In order to kill and injure the opponent as much as possible, they were very flexible and flexible, first bombarding Jian Mingyue's position with artillery fire, and then launching an attack when the bombardment was almost over.
However, the trench is not only bulletproof, but also good defense against artillery fire, as long as you lie in the trench, the artillery fire with little explosive power in this era is not much of a threat. When the attacker advanced to the firing range, Jian Mingyue's regiment immediately opened fire, making the attacker feel that the Victor regiment had not suffered any losses in the artillery fire just now. This greatly annoyed the attackers, shouting that the referee was unfair, and that it was impossible for the Victor Regiment to have so many men after the artillery bombardment.
The generals who were watching the battle were also very interested in Jian Mingyue's trenches, and temporarily suspended the exercise, and a large group of officers ran to Jian Mingyue's position to visit. After seeing the scene, everyone unanimously agreed that the referee judged very fairly, and the Victor Regiment did not kill a few people.
The exercise continued, and the attackers could only desperately try to rush to the position and fight hand-to-hand with the Victor regiment, only in this way could the advantage of the trenches be neutralized. But before they rushed to their positions, they could only suffer heavy casualties. As a result, several charges did not rush forward, but on the contrary, the troops of one division lost most of them.
The attacker, who was forced to be in a hurry, could only make a desperate bet and gather all the remaining forces to make a last-ditch fight, and even the division commander followed the team to press up. Unexpectedly, the attack was blocked again, and it was delayed to break through. And when their morale dropped, Logan led a team of dozens of soldiers who were particularly capable of fighting around from the flank, and took him by surprise in front of the attacking division commander and captured him.
The division commander was captured, and the attacking side lost command. Jian Mingyue took advantage of their confusion and led all his forces to launch a counter-charge. Even the frustrated attackers had long since lost their morale, and they were defeated by Jian Mingyue's sudden counterattack. After the exercise was over, a division of the attacking side was almost completely wiped out, but Jian Mingyue's regiment still had about half of its strength left.
This exercise opened the eyes of the US military top brass, and they were more sure of Jian Mingyue's capabilities. As usual, Frank asked him to write a report, which was then printed and distributed throughout the army for all officers to study. Later, Jian Mingyue was promoted again and became a colonel and division commander.
In addition, Logan, who performed well in the exercise this time, was also promoted and finally became a company commander. The two brothers both became idols in the hearts of American soldiers, known as the "tiger and wolf brothers", and their fame spread far and wide.