Chapter 342 502 Division is preparing
"Report to the division, a batch of King-style rifles allocated by the military department has just arrived at the station, ...... It is the goods brought by the train carrying the ghost woman back immediately, and the baggage regiment is counting, and I heard that it is the old equipment replaced by the 104th Division, with more than 3,200 branches, and 200,000 rounds of corresponding supporting ammunition. ”
"Oh...... It would be a great honor for us to be able to pick up the old equipment of the Red Rock Valley Division (104th Division)! Hearing Lieutenant Hu Dachuan's report, Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju suddenly became interested, dropped the document he was reading in his hand, stood up, grabbed the command knife and buckled it on the belt and waved his hand; Let's go up to the station and have a look. ”
Come to the station
The officers and soldiers stood up and saluted, and Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju saluted back with a serious expression, and then walked to the open wooden box to check.
The wooden boxes are piled up into a hill, and the open wooden boxes are neatly placed with 6 Colt Type 1858 breech rifles, commonly known as the "King" type rifles, whose technical performance is about the same as that of the Mauser Type 1888 bolt-action rifle 28 years after the original historical time and space, and is a top weapon in today's era.
Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju picked up a rifle and looked at it lovingly, pulled the bolt and loaded it to shoot the empty gun, nodded after hearing the crisp impact sound, and said appreciatively; "Yes, it is really a gun replaced by the ace troops, and the technical performance is very good."
When he said this, he turned his head and commanded the officer of the baggage regiment; "This batch of guns is preferentially equipped with the Guards Company and the 2nd Regiment, pass on my orders; It is necessary to hold a solemn ceremony of awarding guns, since the Second Regiment has accepted the guns of the Hongyan Valley Division, we must also inherit the glorious tradition of the ace troops who dare to fight and fight without fear of sacrifice, inherit the indomitable will to fight, and further carry it forward. ”
"Yes, Master Shizuo, we will arrange it right away."
"Well, how many guns are there?"
"Lord Reporter, the exact number of these guns is 3,312, and we found that some of the attachments attached to the guns were missing, including bayonets and passages, and we are making a list to report."
"Uh...... This is not in a hurry, the division headquarters will first communicate with the 104th Division, it is estimated that they should all be losses in battle, and they can be discussed in private, and this kind of thing should not be reported. Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju thought about it for a moment and continued to command; Immediately after the gun awarding ceremony, the combat squad was organized to maintain the firearms, and the missing accessories could be used in strings with each other, which was not a big problem. The number of key bayonets missing must be counted, this is a thing that must be equipped. ”
"Yes, Master Shiza."
Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju nodded, stepped aside to open the bullet box, grabbed a handful of yellow-orange-orange pointed bullets with his hand, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.
Looking at the British Mini rifle, it can also play 700 yards ~ 800 yards, but the shooting accuracy is far worse than that of the King type, and it will only be accurate if the distance is close to 350 yards to less than 400 yards.
This is because the British Minnes rifle uses lead bullets, which must be pressed with a strip after loading, which will inevitably cause the deformation of the softer lead bullets, and the accuracy of hitting them will naturally be poor.
This is very different from the aerodynamic pointed bullet, one is Feng Jing and the other is Ma Liang, which is not the same thing at all.
Moreover, the King's rifle pulls the bolt to shoot a bullet, which has a much faster rate of fire and is capable of providing more powerful infantry platoon fire in a minute.
Therefore, the Minny rifle and the King rifle are the products of two eras, and Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju is very pleased to be able to equip such an excellent rifle.
This shows that Shangfeng attaches great importance to it and no longer uses the 502nd Division as cannon fodder.
But it is undeniable that the Mini rifle is indeed capable of causing serious damage to soldiers at 700~800 yards, and the long range is one of its major advantages, but the accuracy cannot be demanding, and it is a bit of a God forbid.
Compared with the old smoothbore guns widely used by the US Army (North), the performance of the Mini rifle can be said to have changed by leaps and bounds, allowing the Northern Army to have weapons that can compete with the coalition forces.
The range of those old smoothbore guns equipped by the US military is only two or three hundred yards, and if they exceed 80 yards, they don't know where the bullets are going, and the shooting hit rate at a distance of 200 yards is quite gratifying, just like hitting a big luck.
After changing to a Mini rifle, the old man in the north was much more courageous, and the most obvious example of this is the fact that he repeatedly launched active attacks in several battles in Ohio with his superiority in strength.
These old people in the north still owe a beating!
Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju was in a very good mood now, chatting and laughing on the train platform, and his attitude towards the white soldiers was quite gentle and approachable.
The 3,312 "13-shot rifles" replaced by the guard company and the second regiment can be equipped with cannon fodder troops, and the weapon problem is basically solved.
When you go to the battlefield, you don't have enough weapons, and the white cannon fodder in the back can charge empty-handed, as long as you pick up the guns of the casualties in front, it's not a big problem.
One of the drawbacks of the 13-shot rifle is that it is very cumbersome to reload and easy to jam, which is quite dangerous on the battlefield.
Basically, the participation of 13-shot rifles in battle is a "wave of waves".
As long as it enters the firing range, then with the advantage of firepower, "Kakaka" will be bombarded, no matter how strong-willed the army will not be able to stop it, and it will collapse.
The military discipline of the Tang Kingdom is strict, and in the tactics of platoon guns, any soldier who does not obey the order and shoots indiscriminately is a crime to be severely punished.
This will cause the restlessness of the entire platoon of soldiers, and not being able to give the enemy a dense platoon of guns will lead to the defeat of the entire battle, so the punishment is very severe.
The 502nd Division also attached great importance to this point in training, and discipline was repeatedly emphasized.
The white cannon fodder at the back of the line picked up the guns of the casualties in front of them, and they were generally in a state of being fully loaded with bullets and ready to fire, and they could fight when they were picked up.
As long as he approached the firing range despite the casualties, Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju was confident that he would crush the northern old in waves and win the battle.
In the afternoon, Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju took time to inspect the training of the white cannon fodder of the baggage regiment, and he had already practiced well in the past few days, which made him feel quite satisfied.
The white cannon fodder of the baggage regiment used old-fashioned smoothbore guns for training, and those who did not have guns were replaced by long sticks, and the main thing was to walk in line, following the drums of war to advance, turn, and charge......
The training was very tedious and boring, repeated over and over again, so that these white soldiers learned unconditional obedience.
The instructors held the whips in their hands and shouted at them, and if they didn't do a good job, they would whip them directly, and if the whole team of soldiers did not do well, the whole team would be hungry and practiced, without any persuasion and education, and they would be directly and brutally punished.
The white cannon fodder who was forcibly dragged into the baggage group did not eat well, just some black bread or dough and pickle soup with a few leaves in sight, and they could only eat half full.
Then, exhausted from the torture of daily training, there was no strength to run away at all.
Throughout military training
These white cannon fodder soldiers don't have a chance to shoot, at most they are given two rounds of ammunition before going to battle, and they experience it twice, and then they will be thrown into the battlefield.
This is a stark contrast to the treatment of the white soldiers of the 502nd Division today, who are recognized for the rest of their lives, with a daily ration of 2.5 pounds of staple food and 0.5 pounds of vegetables, as well as a weekly ration of meat.
There are weekly vacations, and most of the looted property can be left by yourself, and you can also go to the military service department to find white girls to have fun, and when you carry out the task of clearing the township, you have a lot of opportunities to relax.
After being discharged from the army, they can be awarded meritorious service according to their meritorious service, and they are eligible to join the veterans' club, and basically enjoy the same treatment as Chinese soldiers, but slightly lower.
Now the suffering suffered by these white cannon fodder soldiers of the baggage regiment has been experienced by the white soldiers of the 502nd Division, they are the best who have come out of the sea of corpses and blood, and everyone has the blood of the old north on their hands.
Without a similar experience, it is difficult to gain the identification of white soldiers.
I watched it for a while
Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju was about to leave, when there was a commotion on the side of the training ground, his expression immediately became stern, and he turned his head to look over.
It turned out to be a prickly recruit who was whipped twice by a white instructor, and his temperament resisted fivitably, clenching his fists and staring at his bloodshot eyes as if he was about to eat people, but was soon smashed to the ground with the butts of his guns by several white veterans who swarmed in, and then tied up.
These white veterans had no mercy for cannon fodder of the same color, and were quite vicious, directly dragging this prickly recruit aside and tying him to a post, punishing him with at least 20 lashes and not being allowed to eat for three days.
Lieutenant Colonel Fan Pengju didn't say much, but just instructed him to rectify the situation according to military discipline and left.
He has always been strict in administering the army, and he will not tolerate anyone who violates military discipline, and he will speak with military discipline in everything.
In particular, the hodgepodge of white servant divisions, with the descendants of immigrants from Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain, could only try to weave together soldiers who spoke the same language as much as possible when the troops were organized, and there was nothing else they could do.
For example, English and Irish descendants tend to be grouped together in a company, which is convenient for command, but in fact they can't pee in a pot at all.
The English are Protestant, the Irish are Catholic, and although they both speak English but have different beliefs, the gap between them is greater than their agreement, and it is strange that the relationship can be good.
The same is true of the French-speaking region, where both the French and the Belgian speak French, but they hate each other deeply, and since the Middle Ages they have been fighting and fighting, hurting each other, and their grievances are not clear for a while.
Therefore, in the white servant division, the priests must be matched with several, Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox, otherwise there will be a fight during Mass, which is true.
Europeans have always had religion before nationality, for example, the British and the Dutch also believe in Protestantism, the relationship between the two countries has become closer and more trusting, and the royal families of the two countries have intermarried frequently.
England, on the contrary, is incompatible with Ireland, which is close to the late country, although it is also Anglo-Saxon white, but it is impossible to pee in a pot, and there is a natural sense of alienation.
Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece, which are located in Eastern Europe, are Orthodox Christians, so they are naturally close to Russia, but they are more distant from their neighbor Croatia.
Croatia is a traditional Catholic diocese, closer to Italy and Slovelia, and hostile to the Orthodox Church, with great religious divisions.
In 928 AD, when Archbishop Split was given the authority to administer the entire Croatian Church, he forbade religious ceremonies in Slavic, forbade the priesthood to be consecrated in Slavic, and had to use the Latin alphabet, the Croatian national alphabet, "Gragol", which led to a clear contradiction with the Orthodox Church.
These profound contradictions were inherited by the descendants of Europeans who crossed the ocean to North America, and it is difficult to explain them for a while.
But one thing is certain, although the soldiers of the servant division are all white skin color, they are by no means monolithic.
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