Beiyang reactionaries

Duan Xun has thought about many methods, but he has not found the most suitable method.

Heavy machine gun.

In fact, it's not just the Beiyang Army, but many armies around the world don't pay much attention to it.Regarding the tactics of heavy machine guns, the whole world does not have a complete theoretical system.Including the Japanese army, heavy machine guns cannot be said to be very important.

Under such circumstances, Duan Xun could only find a way by himself.

What others can do, you can do yourself.

Practice it out.

Duan Xun wants to organize some educated officers by himself, and let them learn to use heavy machine guns during training.Then summed up the experience and slowly figured out the tactics of heavy machine guns on the battlefield.

"can."

Jiang Hongyu nodded.

Now the heavy machine gun and artillery in Duan Xun's hands have become a decoration.Because there are no qualified machine gunners and qualified artillery.Artillery has more to learn than machine guns.

Machine guns should be a lot easier.

So Duan Xun also established a machine gun brigade first, and then he was familiar with machine guns.

"Let Tang Shengzhi be the captain of the machine gun brigade, and let him think about how to use heavy machine guns."

"Okay. But what about ammunition? The ammunition consumption of heavy machine guns is astonishing. When Li Hefei (Li Hongzhang) visited Europe before, he said that heavy machine guns were too wasteful of ammunition, so he didn't buy them. I want to find out a good tactic , that requires constant practice.”

Jiang Hongyu hesitated.

Although I agree with Duan Xun's approach, where did those ammunition come from?Heavy machine guns consume a lot of ammunition, which cannot be compared with ordinary rifles.Duan Xun thought for a while and said, "Buy. Grit your teeth and buy."

"and also."

Duan Xun broke for a moment, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Since all the troops don't pay much attention to heavy machine guns, then I will accept it. Brother Jing'an, immediately contact the troops around us. It doesn't matter which army it is, as long as there are The army is willing to sell heavy machine guns and ammunition, we want them all, I can't ask for too much."

"De Gong (Duan Xun), you really want to expand the machine gun brigade. In fact, our regiment has twenty heavy machine guns, which is definitely the most in the Chinese army."

Jiang Hongyu frowned.

After all, Duan Xun's troops currently only consist of one regiment, with twenty heavy machine guns, which is really more than enough.At present, even a brigade of the Chinese army cannot be equipped with twenty heavy machine guns.

Now the Chinese army, heavy machine guns are not mainstream.

The same is true for the direct descendants of the Beiyang Army.Their more tactic is that the artillery bombards first, and then the infantry charges.Because the artillery skills are not good, they are afraid of accidentally hurting their own people.So as long as the infantry rushes forward, the artillery will not continue to fire.Afraid that the shells will hit their own people.

This is the coordinated operation of the infantry and artillery of the Beiyang Army.

very backward.

Heavy machine gun?

It really doesn't do much.Jiang Hongyu didn't understand why Duan Xun was so obsessed with heavy machine guns.Duan Xun smiled. Although Jiang Hongyu was an excellent candidate for staff, he was also limited by the times.

When Jiang Hong met the military academy, he didn't have any tactics on how many heavy machine guns.Although I went to many troops later, I didn't find any troops that used heavy machine guns.

Duan Xun immediately took the paper from the side, and then took the pen to start drawing.

"Brother Jing'an (Jiang Hongyu), let me do a defense first. The layout of the defensive front requires crossfire. You see, if I put three to five heavy machine guns in this place, this place, then he can The area covered will be these, these. In addition to the frontal defense and the defense in depth, if this place is a little higher, then deploy some heavy machine guns here. In this way, there will be no dead spots for firepower in this area. As long as the ammunition is sufficient, With such crossfire, the position is rock solid."

The layout of the defensive front is actually the basic content of military school learning.But before World War I, the tactics of tunnel operations, barbed wire, and heavy machine guns did not appear.As for the layout of defensive positions, what the military academy currently teaches is also very simple.

Not to mention now, even decades later, many troops are very naive in the deployment of the national army's defensive front.

The frontal defense is very wide, and the troops are lined up.

There is no depth, no crossfire, so that as long as one point is broken through, the entire defensive front will be broken through.Whether it is the defensive deployment of a point or the defensive deployment of the entire campaign, the national army will still be the same after 30 or 10,000 years.From a small-scale defensive position of a company or a battalion, to a defensive line of [-]+ or ​​hundreds of thousands of troops, there is no echelon, and the choice is a long snake formation.

The current Beiyang Army is actually the same.

The deployment of their defensive positions, in Duan Xun's view, has many problems.Once you encounter some troops flanking you, it is easy to open the gap, and then the entire formation will collapse.

The defensive positions that Duan Xun laid out on paper have begun to show depth, crossfire, etc., which are completely different from the current defensive positions.

"Conversely, I want to attack. Then find some good positions, like this position. After placing the heavy machine gun, use the firepower of the heavy machine gun to suppress the firepower of the opponent in this area, which will bring great benefits to our assault. time."

"Besides, when confronting each other head-to-head, dig out an arc-shaped defensive position. As long as the heavy machine guns are skillfully arranged and then closely coordinated, then the open battlefield will completely become a place with dense firepower. Or I can arrange some in this place. Barbed wire, with heavy machine guns behind, how do you think they can break through my defensive positions."

"In terms of firepower, the rifles we currently use will never be comparable to heavy machine guns. Therefore, once the heavy machine guns are used well, the offensive and defensive capabilities will be greatly increased. If I have thirty or fifty machine guns in my hand, my regiment If I defend a mountain, even the first, second, and third divisions of the army will not be able to break through my defense."

Jiang Hongyu carefully looked at these temporary drawings by Duan Xun.

Duan Xun was trained in a military academy since he was a child. Drawing is the most basic homework, and he does it very beautifully.Jiang Hongyu can see clearly just by looking at it.I didn't expect Duan Xun to have so much research on heavy machine guns.

Of course, Jiang Hongyu paid more attention to Duan Xun's arrangement of defensive positions.

This is the first time Jiang Hongyu has seen it in so many years.Therefore, Jiang Hongyu watched carefully, considering the possibility of such a defensive position.Jiang Hongyu was more and more surprised these days.

This defensive position completely broke the current style of play of the Beiyang Army.

Duan Xun didn't care about Jiang Hongyu's current thoughts, and continued: "We must start as soon as possible. Now that all troops despise heavy machine guns and don't use them very much, then this is the best opportunity. Wait until everyone finds that heavy machine guns are still very useful." When it is time, it will be much more difficult to deceive them. Let us get more out now, so that our troops will have enough firepower. By then we will be the most elite troops."

"it is good."

Jiang Hongyu looked away from Duan Xunhua's defensive position and nodded.

Although until now, Jiang Hongyu didn't dare to fully believe in the role of heavy machine guns, he was still persuaded by Duan Xun.It is difficult to say that it is difficult to get heavy machine guns from other troops, but it is relatively simple to say that it is simple.

As long as you have money, nothing is impossible.

Especially when the troops don't pay much attention to heavy machine guns.Even the heavy machine guns of some troops are rusted in the warehouse, and they can't wait to sell them to others.Selling this kind of thing to the Southern Revolutionary Party is a big problem, and it may be investigated by the above.But if it is sold to the same Beiyang army, there will be no such problem.

"That's right. Needless to say, the ammunition consumed by the heavy machine gun, even if it is not a heavy machine gun, if we continue to train at this level, the demand for bullets, and the firearms are prone to failure, all of which need money."

"Yes. Our military expenditure is still sufficient at present. We should use it all. Don't worry about money. If you don't have money in the future, you will find a way later. With the army in hand, you may not be able to get money."

"Okay. I'll contact some troops immediately to see if I can get a batch of machine guns."

"I will leave this matter to you."

12 Machine Gun Brigade 3

"This is the crossfire point."

One advantage of military school students is that they have a solid theoretical foundation and a strong ability to accept.At present, for Zhang Shichen and his officers, it is still very difficult to learn Duan Xun's squad platoon tactics.

They are more in accordance with gourd painting.

Of course, some people are indeed geniuses, or they are born to fight.Just like Duan Xun's most important Wan Xuancai is very smart, and he understands the squad-level tactics explained by Duan Xun very quickly.