Beiyang reactionaries

What I have learned is already in a good shape.

But they are still not as good as those students from the military academy.

Because everyone's background is different.Even if these military school students only graduated from the Army Middle School, they have learned military knowledge for several years.If Zhang Shichen and the others are only passive learners, then Li Jishen, Xu Yongchang, and Yu Xuezhong can understand, and even draw pictures and do some deduction.They can draw many of Duan Xun's tactical reforms on paper.

"Depth, with this depth, after breaking through the first line of defense, there is still no problem with the defensive position."

Li Jishen drew a picture, and then said something.

"Yes."

Xu Yongchang also nodded.Then he said to Li Jishen and Yu Xuezhong: "You have all fought wars. How did you arrange your defensive positions? Anyway, I never learned this kind of defensive positions in school."

Xu Yongchang has always been in the military academy.

So he learned everything in military school.However, since I came to Western Henan, I studied with Duan Xun. What Duan Xun said, from the squad-level assault tactics at the beginning, to some tactical principles later, to the current layout of the defensive positions, are all similar to my own. It's completely different from what you learn in school.

completely different.

Let him have a subversive feeling.

So much so that Xu Yongchang wondered if he was only studying in a military academy, so he didn't know anything about the army fighting.Is it because of this that military school graduates have to practice in the army for several months before they can become platoon leaders.

He could only leave this question to Li Jishen and Yu Xuezhong.

Of these two men, Li Jishen fought in the year of [-], and Yu Xuezhong served as a soldier in the Yi Army for several years.Li Jishen and Yu Xuezhong glanced at each other, Yu Xuezhong said first: "No."

He came to the front, took a branch to draw on the ground, and said: "Our Yi Army has also participated in some military exercises. As for fighting, we have also fought some bandits in the Chahar area. So regarding the defensive position, There is not much research. But as far as I know, the Yi Army fought in the Tongguan area in the year of [-]. Their defense did not have these things.”

"It seems to be to find a high point, and then simply dig a trench. I heard that digging trenches is more perfunctory, and it is completely different from the trenches the teacher said. As for the depth and this kind of cross cover, I have never heard of it. At that time, the equipment of the Yi army was not bad. They had cannons and machine guns, and all the troops used in the army were made by Mauser and Hanyang. But after taking Tongguan, they were taken back several times by the Shaanxi militia led by Zhang Wei. If the defensive position According to the teacher's arrangement, those Shaanxi militiamen have no good weapons, so how could they retake Tongguan several times."

Li Jishen and Xu Yongchang are both Duan Xun's instructors in the military academy, so they are called Teacher Duan Xun.After Yu Xuezhong began to teach the brigade as an officer, he also began to call Teacher Duan Xun.

Yu Xuezhong's idea is very simple.

What a good teacher-student relationship.Although the current teacher-student relationship is much weaker than in ancient times.If you put it in ancient times, the saying that you will be a teacher for a day and a father for life is not a fun thing to say.

The relationship between teachers and students is to share weal and woe, that kind of relationship is even comparable to a family.

Now this kind of relationship is not as good as it was in ancient times.But even so, if there is such a relationship, it is much closer than other relationships.Yu Xuezhong is called Teacher Duan Xun, not only because Duan Xun's lectures are really good, but also to open the eyes of Yu Xuezhong, an officer who has studied in the Yijun Camp School, but also to get closer to Duan Xun.

So now Yu Xuezhong treats Duan Xun as his teacher in private.

"Yes."

Li Jishen also nodded, and said: "In the year of [-], I was a staff officer under Commander Yao Yuping. At that time, many of the army's combat plans and training plans were made by me. Because there were many military students under Commander Yao Yuping at that time, but not many. Although the entire army claims to be the elite of the Guangdong Northern Expedition Army, it is actually a mob, and the training plan is completely the most basic plan. At that time, not only our army was like this, but other southern troops were like this. At that time, the Southern Revolutionary Army had Many student soldiers have high morale, but unfortunately they have no military quality. They all go to the front line with a gun, and they don't know how to shoot. Under such circumstances, it is even more impossible to talk about army tactics. And After the Beiyang Army fought, they suffered heavy losses, and batch after batch of student troops fell on the front line."

Sigh.

Li Jishen suddenly thought of what happened in the year of Xinhai.

At that time, I was also full of enthusiasm, and went south to join the troops of Yao Yuping, commander-in-chief of the Guangdong Northern Expedition.At that time, my blood was really boiling, and I was desperate to overthrow Manqing.But now thinking about the combat effectiveness of those troops is really poor.

tactics?

What is tactics.

At that time, the southern army was swarming for the Northern Expedition. Which army could sit down and practice tactics in a down-to-earth manner to improve the combat effectiveness of the army.Therefore, in the year of [-], hundreds of thousands of troops suddenly appeared in the south, but their combat effectiveness was very poor.

"Then what about the new southern army?"

"I don't have much contact, but I have heard some. The tactics are actually lackluster. Thinking about it now, in fact, whether it is the Beiyang Army or the Southern Revolutionary Army, their tactics are similar. If there is something different, it is that The Beiyang Army has better weapons, better training, and better execution capabilities. That’s all.”

After thinking about it deeply, Li Ji expressed his opinion.

"During the year of [-], our troops fought many battles along the Jinpu line. I didn't feel much at the time, but now I have a lot of thoughts. At that time, we were able to win the battle because our troops had higher morale. They were even more daring to fight, so they hit the Qing army several times. Later, we also fought against the Beiyang army, and we were beaten out at that time. At that time, I felt that the Beiyang army was very strong. But looking back now, the Beiyang army is stronger than us. The soldiers’ marksmanship is better than ours, and the overall propulsion ability is better than ours. In fact, the two sides fought a pot of rice. The Beiyang Army did not have a very good tactical level, and we were in chaos. Everyone is just fighting face to face. Our army The firepower was scattered and there was no coordination. In this regard, the Beiyang Army is much better. Under the organization of their grassroots officers, the coordination ability between the various units is obviously higher than ours."

"To tell you the truth. During my stay in Western Henan, it was the first time I had considered the issue of army tactics so clearly. At that time, we were only thinking about the Northern Expedition and overthrowing the Manchu Qing court. How could we consider so many factors. Just find someone who is easy to defend." Where it is difficult to attack, just put a bunch of people."

Yu Xuezhong nodded.

Xu Yongchang listened to the narration of these two soldiers who had fought in the war before he realized that the situation in the army was no different from what he had learned in the military academy.

"That is to say, the things that the teacher said during this time are all thought up by the teacher himself."

Xu Yongchang suddenly asked in surprise.

Zhang Shichen and the others don't understand the current tactics of the Chinese army, so they learn what Duan Xun teaches.I thought this was the current style of play of the Chinese army.But Xu Yongchang is currently the best military student in China, and he knows a lot about the current military tactics in the world.

So suddenly exclaimed.

Li Jishen nodded seriously, and said: "At the beginning, I just felt that the teacher had some different tactical ideas. But after the teacher's lectures for this period of time, I realized that the teacher has his own ideas about running the army and fighting wars. This troop is estimated to be the first troop that the teacher built according to this idea."

"I'm glad."

Yu Xuezhong smiled next to him and said: "Don't look at me, I just listened to the teacher and didn't have many lessons, but I really benefited a lot from what I learned during this period of time. Now I am taking my troops back to Yijun , must be the most powerful force in the Yi Army."

When Duan Xun gave lectures, he only talked about theory.

However, Yu Xuezhong and his colleagues found that what Duan Xun said was really useful after continuous field training during this period.The combat effectiveness of the troops is rising in a straight line, so Yu Xuezhong's admiration for Duan Xun can be said to be like the water of the Yangtze River.

"Maybe under the leadership of the teacher, we can train the most elite troops in the country."

"Yes."

Duan Xun used his own strength to conquer people like Li Jishen, Yu Xuezhong, and Xu Yongchang.

13 evaluation

"Brother Jing'an, the literacy campaign has been doing well during this time. From now on, those who cannot read will not be allowed to be promoted. Anyone who wants to be an officer must be literate."

Time is fast.

It has been almost two months since Duan Xun came to the west of Henan and came to Luoning.During this period of time, Duan Xun did nothing. He neither contacted the local forces in western Henan nor suppressed bandits. Instead, he was quiet in western Henan.So much so that even Zhensong Army Liu Zhenhua forgot that there was such a troop in western Henan.During this period of time, apart from sending people to understand the geography of western Henan, Duan Xun spent the rest of his time training soldiers.Duan Xun himself is also training and studying at the same time.

Combining the previous life and this life, this is also the first time for Duan Xun to lead troops.

Duan Xun knows a lot about many theoretical things.But theory must be combined with reality, because no matter how advanced some theories are, they may not meet the current stage.Therefore, Duan Xun tested the correctness of these theories during military training.In particular, Duan Xun's many tactical reforms can be said to be subversive in the current era.Therefore, during these two months, Duan Xun lived very well.

Of course, after this period of training, Duan Xun also discovered many problems.

One of the biggest problems is that there are too few cultural personnel in the army.

This era is really an era of illiteracy everywhere.Not to mention those ordinary soldiers, but many officers in Duan Xun's army are illiterate.It's the kind of real illiterate who doesn't know a single big character, who can't even write his own name.

If we talk about China in the 21st century, it is very difficult to find an illiterate who cannot read large characters.So in the current China, it is really difficult to find someone who has read the book.

At present, Duan Xun has more than 1000 people under his command, but when Duan Xun first entered western Henan, there were less than 30 literate people in the entire army.If Duan Xun hadn't brought over a dozen students from Baoding Military Academy, there would have been even fewer literate students.