It is not difficult to design a new type of army. Yuan Shikai did not hinder much, but approved the change of the new type of army. There was not much change. The main thing was to change the pure gray into dark blue in winter and khaki in summer, and then subdivide the officers’ etiquette and routine.
At the same time, this new type of army based on the improvement of Beiyang Standing Army should be worn by a few officers of Beiyang New Army, such as Zhao Dongyun.
After wearing the new army, a group of officers in the field look more like modern officers than those in the gray army. Of course, it is also like talking about what they are wearing. It is enough to turn off people’s appetite at the sight of dragging that braid behind their heads.
Aesthetic standards are mostly the same. Zhao Dongyun thinks that it is ugly to drag the braid behind his head. Naturally, his officers also think that the braid is seriously incompatible with the new army. In the past two years, the officers in the Beiyang New Army have hung up a’ bald wind’.
In 1991, there were not many officers who shaved their heads. There were not many around Zhao Dong Cloud, but at the end of 1993, one third of the senior officers in the third town on the scene shaved their heads …
With the rise of the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty, the new army cut braids more and more. Although the imperial court has not officially allowed it, it has already turned a blind eye. After all, so many international students who return home every year have kicked off their hair. How can the imperial court manage it?
Besides, people’s courts don’t want to stop cutting braids. Almost all of them are Han ministers who shouted’ Ancestors’ ceremony is not to be abolished’. More than 200 years ago, if their ancestors had called it that way, they would have let the Manchu people behead them. Now everyone has risen up against their ancestors and let those who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty’ the water is too cold’ know that they will definitely jump out of the traitor’s grave. You can’t even be a traitor!
The world is changing too fast. I don’t know when a traitor will no longer be a traitor. I don’t know when someone else’s ancestors will become their own ancestors. This blond Marx can become a great portrait of Stalin, the father of China. You can’t accuse others of braiding, shaving their heads or accusing others of being traitors or heroes.
The world is changing so fast that Zhao Dongyun has already adapted to it. He is not too surprised by a group of men who are not monks, bald heads and long braids.
On the contrary, he enjoys being complimented by everyone today. I have to say that he enjoys the title of’ controlling adults’, and he enjoys the feeling of having great strength.
Just when a town is in control, just after stepping into the small circle of Beiyang bosses and becoming a member of Beiyang bosses, you can already enjoy this situation. What if you continue to take another step? What if you become the second person in Beiyang like Duan Qirui? If I become the first person in Beiyang like Yuan Shikai, I will feel like waiting at that time!
It’s as if it’s like a poppy filled with soul-stirring colors and a deadly fragrance that makes Zhao Dongyun intoxicated!
Chapter one hundred and twenty Tragedy Zhang Lin
Li’s father organized Zhao Dongyun’s leading role. The dinner was held very smoothly. There were no bloody revolutionaries to assassinate Zhao Dongyun, a patriotic female student who maintained the control of the third town of Beiyang, a decadent and decadent dynasty. I came to say, I love you, you rebel, and I will marry you. Even Li Wan, who likes to mumble on weekdays, was very quiet and did not run into the front hall.
This dinner was a compliment. Most people congratulated Zhao Dongyun on taking control of the third town. At the same time, Chen Guangyuan, Wang Zhanyuan and other officials in the third town were promoted, and the officers were also congratulated by everyone. The atmosphere couldn’t be better.
But one of the people in this group is smiling, but it is not natural to laugh.
He is Zhang Lin, who attended this congratulatory dinner, but arrived in Jinzhou the day before, but his carriage broke down when he came out of Jinzhou City for a dinner in his daughter’s hometown in the evening. Finally, he had to wear a bloated official robe to change horses. You know, what he wore was not a new military salute, but an old mandarin jacket, a sedan chair and a carriage, but riding a horse was a little inconvenient
Even more tragic is that he was lost. After a series of chaos with several pro-Wei daughters, he finally found the door of Lee’s manor only to find that everyone had arrived. Even Zhao Dongyun had already appeared. He had to be led by Li Fu people to sneak into the living room from a side door.
If these are minor troubles, at most, let him complain a few words, then the troubles faced by his guerrilla "ma bu" or horse stance just look these days are not just complaining.
First of all, Zhang Lin knew that Zhao Dongyun was going to practice with those little bandits first, and then he was going to destroy Du Lisan and Feng Delin with himself. However, Zhao Dong Yunjinzhou was much bigger than he thought.
Yuan Shikai told the imperial court Zhao Dongyun that it was not nonsense to eliminate the bandits in Jinzhou, but something did happen. Zhao Dongyun sent two detachments in succession, which took more than a month to wipe out the bandits in the north and west of Jinzhou. He also cleaned up a few small bandits in the east of Jinzhou, which made Zhao Dongyun gain more than 100,000 yuan in money. At the same time, he also collected Lu Shuang guns and added nearly 400 bandits to Jinzhou scouts camp.
Such a large-scale move naturally affected the bandits’ living environment around Jinzhou, forcing a large number of bandits around Jinzhou to move, most of them moving eastward. These bandits are bandits who grab wherever they go.
When they roared past Xinmin House, burning, killing and looting not only put Zhang Lin under great political pressure, but also demanded that he destroy bandits and crush the ground, and at the same time, Zhang Lin suffered great losses because Xinmin House was his own territory.
He collects high protection locally, and in the end, he protects the local rich people, which will naturally cause dissatisfaction, which can be said to have greatly affected his popularity in the green forest
Not only that, in the past month, the contradiction between him and Du Lisan and Feng Delin has intensified. In the past month, three caravans under his protection have been attacked by Du Lisan’s hands. If this kind of behavior is described in later gangster films, A gang attacked B gang and took care of the club.
The root cause is that Du Lisan and Zhang Lin are too close to each other, which has become an important obstacle to further expansion.
If Du Lisan wants to expand its influence to the north, it must first destroy Zhang Lin, and if Zhang Lin wants to expand the scope of protection to the south, he must first move the mountain of Du Lisan.
Du Lisan frequently provoked Jinzhou to flee, and a large number of bandits made Zhang Lin have a very hard time in the last month!
This time he came to Jinzhou to congratulate Zhao Dongyun. It was secondary. He wanted to say that Zhao Dongyun had attacked Du Lisan before, or if he did this again, Zhang Lin would not stay up first.
However, the more times Zhang Lin came to Jinzhou’s daughter’s hometown, the more he contacted the officers of the third town of Zhao Dong Equality, the more he felt the toughness of this new Beiyang army, and the more clearly Zhao Dongyun’s position in Beiyang was.
He knows very well that if he hadn’t boasted that there were few 200,000 silver properties in Du Lisan’s lair, people wouldn’t have taken a reason for himself, let alone anything else, and even so, he had never been met by Zhao Dongyun in private. Today, he has only seen Zhao Dongyun twice.
He spoke only a few times. When Zhao Dongyun first saw him, he looked at him and said, "You are Zhang Guandai. You have heard a lot about you and you are still very young. Do a good job and don’t be responsible for the general’s painstaking efforts!"
If a month ago, he was confident enough to talk to Zhao Dongyun, then now he can’t even talk about seeing Zhao Dongyun!
Near the end of the dinner, he walked beside Zhao Dongping and talked in a low voice.
Although he attended a dinner party last night, he naturally didn’t drink too much on such a political occasion. He got up early and showed no signs of hangover. He just walked into the conference room after breakfast.
There are already many people waiting inside, most of whom are familiar faces. Wang Zhanyuan is the first time to attend this kind of meeting. This can’t blame him. The office style in many new armies in Beiyang is naturally deeply influenced by the heads of various ministries. Although he occasionally joined the army in the first town of Wang Zhanyuan and the Beijing Banner Standing Army, he was not as serious as he is today. Looking at those thick folders in the hands of Lin Yong and Chen Guangyuan, Wang Zhanyuan regretted rushing and didn’t know much about mortars.
The theme of today’s meeting was determined a few days ago, that is, to determine the equipment and other aspects of mortar preparation
Mortars are still under the management of artillery, but the specific battles are assigned to infantry. This is a new weapon just like the original machine guns, and the corresponding tactics should be formulated one by one. This is no longer a problem that can be solved by just a supervision office, let alone artillery targets or infantry targets.
In order to completely solve the problems of mortar preparation and equipment tactics, Zhao Dongyun called several major infantry officers, including the Education Department, the Supervision Department and the Artillery Standard, and even Meng Enyuan, a cavalry officer, joined in, so he collected all the people to solve this problem at one time.
Many have been seated on both sides of this long square table has been sitting for more than a dozen officers. Most people here are already familiar with Zhao Dongyun’s office style, and they don’t like waves. When talking nonsense, Lin Yong, who is beside Zhao Dongyun’s nod, gets up first and says,
"Since our army tried to install mortars in September, the mortar team belonging to the artillery team has participated in the 13-time actual combat however war, and more than 900 pieces of artillery shells have been fired. According to estimates, the direct results achieved by mortars have killed the enemy by less than 200 people, occupying more than 30% of the total results of the northward detachment.
Because Fuzao 10mm mortar is light and easy to carry, three parts are dismantled at marching time and carried by horses. In wartime, soldiers can also carry their own parts and approach the front line for assembly. After shooting, they can be dismantled, transferred and reassembled immediately. The requirements for shooting positions are low, and the shooting speed can easily reach 12 rounds per minute. Moreover, because shooting with large curves does not need to be aimed directly at the enemy, it can even attack the enemy behind the bunker.
The price of adding this gun is much lower than that of the unified gun. Although the shells are reduced and the black powder is used, the howitzer shells with different calibers are powerful, but from the perspective of comprehensive performance and tactical potential, it is a new weapon worthy of being imported and equipped by our army on a large scale. "
Lin Yong gave a general introduction to the mortar again. The officers in the third town were already familiar with the weapon. However, it was extremely surprising for Wang Zhanyuan who heard the mortar for the first time and never saw the real thing.
How is that possible? How can a ten-millimeter gun let soldiers walk on their backs? So it’s not just a few dozen kilograms, even if it’s combined, I’m afraid it’s less than 200 kilograms. If the weight has surprised Wang Zhanyuan, the firing rate has surprised him even more. Twelve rounds per minute?
You know, Beiyang Army is now equipped with a large number of equipment, and the firing rate of guns is only about three rounds per minute. Even if it is the most advanced and has just returned to China, the firing rate of new guns equipped by Krupp Factory in Germany in the second town will not exceed ten rounds per minute, and it is still a method. The firing rate of sustained explosive fighting is actually lower.
At present, the artillery technology can easily get a gun with a firing rate of 12 rounds per minute, but the price is expensive, but Lin Yong said that the mortar price is cheap.
These things sound contradictory, but on such an important occasion today, Wang Zhanyuan also knows that Lin Yong won’t talk nonsense. He immediately turned over the folder in his hand. When he looked at it in detail, he didn’t directly sneer or object to irony like a teenager. Those who can be novel words appeared, but in real life, Wang Zhanyuan’s first reaction was to understand this mortar.
"Our army should be equipped with mortars. Everyone has reached a consensus, but what is the problem now? How to match? How much equipment? " After a brief introduction, Lin Yong threw out a question, which was the beginning of the meeting.
Immediately, the whole infantry team looks north with holes, which is immediately followed by the words, "Mortars are designed to cooperate with the infantry team to discuss whether the short range or high mobility are surface mortars. They should be assigned to infantry units, and I still said the previous sentence, no matter how many mortars are equipped, they should be directly assigned to all infantry battalions!"
Unexpectedly, this just came out and was opposed by Wei Anpo, who is the only mortar officer in the officialdom of the existing mortar team. His speech naturally attracted a lot of attention. "Mortars are just like the development of machine guns in our army. Our army is a new thing, and there are not even a few qualified gunners. Even if we buy hundreds of mortars and distribute them to each battalion, there are definitely not enough gunners."
At this point, he looked at Zhao Dongyun. "Adult mortars, like artillery, have high requirements for gunner commanders. It is impossible to pull the trigger like a heavy machine gunner, and it is impossible to throw it out like a Grenade. Mortar team commanders must be senior artillery officers, and gunners must undergo long-term training before they can reach the corresponding level. Otherwise, the shooting accuracy and the most important mobility will be guaranteed by law. I suggest that mortars can be under the unified command of our artillery units!"
After he finished speaking, Liu Tinggui, the third standard belt of the artillery team, showed a satisfied look!
Today’s discussion on mortar preparation is so. It is better to say that infantry and artillery compete for mortar ownership command.
Chapter one hundred and three Factions
Every new weapon will bring corresponding problems, just as heavy machine guns were only equipped with grenades last year. Mortars also brought about changes in troop preparation tactics and even caused artillery and infantry to compete for mortar ownership.
No matter how light the mortar is, it belongs to the artillery family, which is also the reason why the artillery unit took over and carried out actual combat tests during the mortar trial installation. From the first artillery corps, the officers have regarded the mortar as the exclusive weapon of the artillery.
The infantry officers didn’t care much about it, but in the war against bandits, they found that mortars couldn’t be powerful and fired quickly, and they found that mortars could be carried by soldiers and moved directly to the front line. They agreed that this kind of short-range, high-mobility infantry support weapon must be divided into infantry units and directly commanded by infantry officers to cooperate with infantry operations.
This led to a dispute between artillery and infantry!
In addition to the fight for the ownership of mortars, there are also many problems such as the preparation of mortar equipment and tactics
After Kong Tiaobei and Wei Anpo finished speaking, the cavalry side also came to join the third bid of the cavalry team, the first battalion pipe belt. Hua Zhenji got up immediately after receiving the eyes from his own company Meng Enyuan. "You all know that mortar mobility is convenient. Usually, it is carried by horses and assembled quickly, because our first-class cavalry colleagues think it is necessary to set up a cavalry mortar team to strengthen our cavalry combat capability!"
As soon as this remark fell behind Kong Tiaobei, he immediately retorted, "Humer and his team are responsible for investigating harassment and attacks, and protecting themselves when the situation with machine guns is inappropriate. But what are you doing with mortars? Are you still planning to conquer the enemy fortress positions?"
Mortars are different from heavy machine guns. Heavy machine guns are typical defensive weapons, while mortars are obvious offensive weapons. Cavalry should be equipped with machine guns. Others can’t object, but it is a big problem to equip mortar infantry and artillery.
Wei Anpo also said, "When fighting a tough battle, the artillery support is in charge of our artillery team, and the cavalry team can do without mortars!"
Meng Enyuan Hua Zhenji expected that it would not be so easy for these cavalry to equip themselves with mortars, but he didn’t expect that it would be met with double opposition from the infantry artillery team as soon as it was provoked. Meng Enyuan cultivated well, and there was nothing to look back after seeing Chen Guangyuan and Liu Tinggui opposite. However, Hua Zhenji was driven red by two rebuttals connected.
This feeling seems to have brought him back to the time when he first returned to China. After returning to China, he was not hired by Zhejiang Province to train the new army like his classmates, so he had to stay in Beijing to find ways to apply for a job. He vaguely remembered that several people had given him a look and embarrassed him.
Later, I met Zhao Dongyun. He didn’t care that he was a mainlander, but he was bold. But he became the management belt of the first battalion of the riding team in a year, and he was also the third town in Beiyang. Speaking of this future, many students in the first phase of Lu Shi were among the best.
With this experience, he naturally regards Zhao Dongyun as his benefactor, and he has always been Zhao Dongyun’s office!
Zhao Dongyun’s first hand, Hua Zhenji’s third town is not bad. Even Meng Enyuan has to buy him some noodles. It’s been a long time since he was left out like today.