Beiyang reactionaries

Duan Xun only pays attention to the assault troops, and only pays attention to whether his three-three system will work.Although it is very rusty at present, it already has such a taste.Duan Xun's officers also began to understand the three-three system, and they also added a lot to Duan Xun.Progress is relatively smooth.

The attention was focused on the assault of the troops, so he didn't take a closer look at the situation of the machine gunners of his own troops.As Li Jishen pointed it out, Duan Xun took a closer look.Duan Xun studied in a military academy since he was a child. While attending a military academy in Japan, he also served in the Japanese army.Therefore, although I didn't specifically learn how to play with heavy machine guns, I still understand how to use heavy machine guns simply.

Indeed, as Li Jishen said.

There are problems, there are big problems.The machine gunners of Duan Xun's troops did not fight at all.According to his own judgment, the muzzle of the gun was aimed at the target at will and fired directly.If you really fire like this, not to mention suppressing the opponent's firepower, if you don't operate properly, you might hit your own people directly.

"Xiaohou (Yu Xuezhong), come here."

"teacher."

"You have been a soldier in Yijun before. How about Yijun's machine gunners? They are also like them."

Duan Xun has always been in the military academy. Although he occasionally goes to the army, he basically just goes on a whim.Among Duan Xun's troops, Xuezhong has been in the army for a long time except for Jiang Hongyu who has been in the army.

After Yu Xuezhong turned his head to look at the machine guns they were using, he immediately said: "Teacher, you think highly of Yi Jun. Yi Jun is equipped with a lot of heavy machine guns. It is estimated that according to the proportion of weapons equipped, Yi Jun's heavy machine guns are no better than Beiyang's. The army is small. But the strength of the machine gunners is very poor. Not only the machine gunners, many officers who manage the machine gunners are also illiterate, not to mention that they have not studied in a military academy, and many of them are even illiterate. The bullets fly straight and smoothly, and when the bullets are exhausted, they will fall to the ground. Many of them don’t know what a gauge is and what a ballistic is. And once the machine gun fails, the officer’s order is to refuel the machine, completely I don't know how to maintain a heavy machine gun. So once the machine gun is taken apart, it's full of butter, and it's full of dust."

"Is no one in charge?"

"Teacher, in fact, machine guns in the army are just good-looking, and not many troops pay attention to machine guns. Not only Yijun, but I have also had some exchanges with other troops. The situation in their troops is the same. The management of machine guns is very backward. Not taken seriously. And not many soldiers want to be machine gunners."

"how is this possible?"

Duan Xun was very puzzled.

That was a heavy machine gun.

At this stage, what a powerful weapon a heavy machine gun is on the battlefield.If Duan Xun now has thirty or forty machine guns, which part of the Chinese army can resist it if he puts heavy machine guns on it when fighting.Duan Xun is not afraid of thousands of people coming.

After Duan Xun received twenty heavy machine guns from Xu Shuzheng, he cherished them like treasures.

How can some troops not pay attention to machine guns.

"Xiaohou (Yu Xuezhong) is right."

Jiang Hongyu, who directed the practice together with Xu Yongchang, came to Duan Xun's side after finishing a practice, just in time to hear Duan Xun and Yu Xuezhong's words.

"Brother Jing'an (Jiang Hongyu), tell me about it."

"Commander, you have never been in the army, so you don't know what's going on inside. Now when the troops are attacking, the distance between soldiers and soldiers is very small, and they don't know how to use the terrain. Like the commander, he made a three-three assault. Tactics cannot be found among the various units. Because of this, if the machine gun team stays to cover the assault unit as the commander chooses, it will accidentally injure its own people. Therefore, the machine gun teams of each unit, when attacking They all chose to move forward with the infantry."

"This is not strumming."

Duan Xun frowned deeply.

Duan Xun already understood Jiang Hongyu's meaning.That is the current Beiyang Army's offensive, which is actually a typical crowd tactics.Even the machine gunners charged with the infantry.

Isn't this funny?

For example, the Maxim heavy machine gun weighs more than [-] catties, and such a heavy machine gun requires five or six people to move it.It can be said that to feed a heavy machine gun now, five or six people are needed to follow the heavy machine gun.But these people carried heavy machine guns and charged with the infantry. This was not to embarrass these machine gunners.

This kind of attack, if Duan Xun is allowed to set up a defensive position, this kind of attack will be destroyed as much as possible.Because with the emergence of heavy machine guns, the performance of rifles is getting better and better. This kind of crowd attack is completely suicidal attack.

Could it be that the tactical level of the Beiyang Army, which has traversed the land of China for more than ten years after the founding of the Republic of China, is so inferior?

But if you think about it carefully, the first World War began a year later, and the tactics of those European armies were not very good.The heavy casualties in the face of heavy machine guns are all because they did not pay much attention to heavy machine guns.It was not until the heavy machine guns shined in World War I that countries all over the world began to pay attention to the role of heavy machine guns.

"That's it. So when the machine gunners attack, they have to attack with the infantry. They spend more time running than shooting. When retreating, they have to retreat with the infantry. Tell me, carrying such a heavy Who would want to be a machine gunner? For troops, heavy machine guns are basically useless in combat except for defense.”

"And it's not just this problem. The current heavy machine guns are prone to failure and consume too much ammunition. So although heavy machine guns are equipped with various troops, they don't pay much attention to them. Even though many troops are equipped with heavy machine guns , but those heavy machine guns are all in the warehouse, and the troops don’t use them at all.”

Jiang Hongyu explained to Duan Xun.

Hearing that, Duan Xun really wanted to scold, scold these bastards.Such a good thing as a heavy machine gun is so wasteful.

"Chief of Staff, this is not acceptable."

Duan Xun thought for a while and said: "Heavy machine guns will definitely become an important part of the army in the future, and we must not be careless. Whether it is offense or defense, heavy machine guns are indispensable. It is very important to train qualified machine gunners."

Machine gunners don't just need to be able to carry guns, they just need to be able to shoot.

You must learn to accurately suppress the enemy's firepower without accidentally injuring your own people.Since the machine gunner is like this, Duan Xun suddenly changed his face and said: "Chief of Staff, doesn't our artillery also have this problem?"

The first thing Duan Xun thought of was artillery.

Machine gunners are so bad, artillery is even more particular.

"The artillery problem is even bigger. Our artillery units aim and shoot with the naked eye. After a round of shooting, they estimate the height of the muzzle by feeling. Because our artillery has no mathematical knowledge, they can't calculate ballistics, and they can't calculate guns. Therefore, when fighting, our artillery units need a wide field of vision, otherwise they cannot be used at all. And once the distance between the two armies is not far, the artillery is immediately useless. Because these artillery units are not sure not to hit their own people. "

Duan Xun sighed.

A wry smile, really a wry smile.

Jiang Hongyu had served in the army before, and the troops Jiang Hongyu had been to were all direct descendants of the Beiyang Army.That is the most powerful army in China at present.But even if they use cannons like this, one can imagine the current backwardness of the Chinese army.

Duan Xun served as a soldier in the Japanese army, and the Japanese army already has certain attainments in the use of cannons.

but.

"Of course there are more problems. Because at present, cannons and shells are very precious. Therefore, when the army practices, the artillery rarely participates in training, so the level is even worse. Before the battlefield, they had no actual experience in firing artillery, that is, they just knew how to fire artillery.”

Never fired a gun?

Artillery has never fired a cannon, how can it go to the battlefield.

Duan Xun thought for a while, then said: "It's still a question of education. Most of our soldiers are illiterate, and they don't even understand the most basic things. This is the biggest problem. The army must be literate. An uneducated army is a stupid army." troops."

12 Machine Gun Brigade 2

The situation of artillery and machine gunners really opened Duan Xun's eyes.Duan Xun really didn't expect these things, and didn't expect that there would be so many problems.Duan Xun has always been in school, and basically has no contact with the army in China, and he really doesn't know the situation of the Chinese army.

Really surprised today.

Isn't this bullshit?

In his previous life, he saw the equipment of the Beiyang Army on the Internet, and the performance of the Beiyang Army crushing the Southern Revolutionary Army, which made Duan Xun think that the strength of the Beiyang Army was very strong.The Beiyang Army is introduced on the Internet. The equipment of the Beiyang Army is said to be better than that of the national army during the later Anti-Japanese War.But I didn't expect that these are actually nonsense and falsehood.It is not that the Beiyang Army is strong, but that the combat effectiveness of the Southern Revolutionary Army is too poor.

The Beiyang army has been equipped with artillery and heavy machine guns for more than ten years.

But even now they still don't know how to use artillery and machine guns correctly. The so-called infantry tactics of the Beiyang Army also look good.Even according to Jiang Hongyu and Yu Xuezhong's intentions, many troops even threw heavy machine guns into the warehouse.

too ridiculous.

Heavy machine guns are big killers.It turned out that during the northern expedition of the Northern Expedition more than ten years later, the Beiyang Army was defeated all the way, not because the strength of the Beiyang Army had dropped a lot, but he was still standing still.Rather, the strength of the Southern Army increased.

However, such a Beiyang army has been able to sweep across the country, and one can imagine how poor the strength of the southern revolutionary army is.But it is also true that many of the Southern Revolutionary Army were from the new army. In a few years, they had only practiced formations and had never fought a battle.It's strange to have fighting power.

"Brother Jing'an (Jiang Hongyu), let's form a separate machine gun brigade. We will also recruit some of our officers to study how to use heavy machine guns."