Zhao Dong said, "The light machine gun is to attack, so naturally it can’t be compiled together with the heavy machine gun, and it’s not suitable to put it in the company’s troop establishment. It’s best to attach it to the infantry shed so as to attack the infantry with fire support to the maximum extent. However, considering that the number of light machine guns is still relatively small, it is still insufficient to directly attach them to the shed, so let’s arrange this machine gun in the platoon first, and then equip it in each row, and then increase the number of equipment appropriately."

"Now, we have only a hundred stands at hand, even if it is a row, it is not enough. In this way, the ninth standard, the eleventh standard belongs to his tenth standard and the twelfth standard, and then the remaining twenty stands are allocated to two towns in Jinzhou!"
A battalion in Beiyang Army consists of four teams, each team has three rows and each row has three sheds. According to the calculation that each platoon is equipped with a light machine gun, then each infantry battalion needs about 12 light machine guns. A town has 12 infantry battalions, so regardless of his trench, logistics cavalry guards, gendarmerie and other troops, it needs 144 light machine guns less.
Now it’s not enough to buy back this hundred pretty roots. After all, Zhao Dong Cloud has not only the twelve infantry battalions at hand, but also two towns behind him are waiting to be equipped with light machine guns. The first 70 are equipped with the third town, and the second two are left with more than 20 pretty ones, which will be allocated to the first town and the second town in Fengtian respectively for about 10 pretty ones to serve as the early training machine gunners.
Zhao Dongyun’s purchase of this batch of Madsen light machine guns is not the original, but Denmark’s modified 792 caliber. After all, the caliber of China’s contemporary standard bombs is 792 mm. Zhao Dongyun naturally bought the original 65 mm in Denmark, but it has to be 792 mm like the Germans.
At the same time as this batch of military purchases, Fuyuan Machinery Factory introduced the patent of Madsen Company for imitation production contract, and the contemporary Fuyuan Machinery Factory has grown up. This imitation of a patented light machine gun is not as troublesome as before. It is estimated that Zhao Dongyun will be able to make a light machine gun production line by slightly modifying and purchasing some machinery and equipment.
Now, that’s all you have. That’s a lot. No!
Even if these 100 light machine guns are just attached to the troops, it is difficult for them to form combat effectiveness for a short time. At present, Tongzhou War still has to rely on the old methods!
The construction of the sixth town in Wang Shizhen, the front line of Tongzhou, lasted for half a month, and the trench defense line spread for more than ten kilometers, extending southward and combining with the Nanyuan defense line
On the other hand, the trenches were dug in the third town of Zhao Dong Yunshou, which was opposite to the defense line. On the one hand, these trenches were used to prevent the sixth town from fighting back, and on the other hand, these trenches were not only used for defensive warfare, but also for attack.
The winding trench, just like the tunnel, allows the soldiers to effectively avoid the enemy artillery and heavy machine guns, so that the soldiers can move from the rear to the front line. After moving to the front line trench, the soldiers will continue to dig trenches in a hidden way and try to get closer.
In a newly dug trench, Han Duotian didn’t care about his officer’s dignity at all, but squatted in the mud with a pencil in his hand and drew on a simple map.
At this time, suddenly, I came to count the roaring and joined the army for many years. As soon as I heard it, Han Duotian knew that it was the enemy’s shelling shells that fell closer, and a crater was blown out in the ground behind the trench. The shells set off dust and fell behind and directly poured over Han Duotian.
There is still rumbling in my ears. Han Duotian got up from the ground, shook his head and shook off a lot of dust. Then he spat twice and shouted, "Mom still let people live. This day has never stopped!"
Han Duotian took his hand with him last night. The platoon smeared workers dug a trench overnight, but it was discovered by the enemy on the opposite side at dawn, so the enemy fired guns here to suppress it. Although the artillery fire was not dense, only a shell might fall every ten minutes, but it could not hold up. The Beiyang army on the other side did this all day, causing casualties, but the morale of the soldiers was greatly affected
"Those artillery grandfathers behind mom are also eating dry food, and they have been playing opposite for a long time without even fighting back!"
The two sides fought against each other, and naturally, you hit me and I hit you, but today they were beaten by an artillery team on the opposite side, and then the artillery team behind them didn’t make any movement, which naturally made Han Duotian, the front line, extremely dissatisfied.
Sure enough, after the enemy launched another small-scale shelling, the front-line infantry units still failed to get the support of the rear artillery. A few rounds of 10 mm mortars at the battalion headquarters were regarded as a counterattack …
And Han Duotian didn’t know that it was a hill behind the front. Several artillery officers were holding binoculars and drawing and writing in their hands.
Wu Peifu, who was wearing the rank of assistant leader, watched the explosion in the distance, then put on a telescope and immediately said to several officers behind him, "What’s the matter? Are the parameters enough to find out their artillery positions!"
However, at this time, no one immediately answered him that the officers continued to write and draw, and then it was not long before a young deputy military academy was beaming. "Find out that if my calculations are correct, they should be here!"
After that, he also drew a circle with a map. Wu Peifu looked at the map and said, "I can’t find their artillery position. It turned out to be hiding behind this!"
Then he looked at his officers. "What do you think?"
Several of them also said, "Judging from their ballistics, they should have fired mountain guns close to each other, and they should have arrived and deployed in these two days. If the position is not miscalculated, we should be able to take out their artillery position by relying on our range!"
Wu Peifu nodded. "Well, it’s good. Since the opposite side is bold enough to attack, then we don’t have to mention it. Let’s fight for a while according to the current yuan and then look at the situation!"
Wu Peifu ordered a low level of officers to act independently, but from behind the crowd, there were more than a dozen artillery pieces. This is the equipment of the first artillery barracks in the third town, but the effective range of field guns is much farther than that of mountain guns with the same caliber, and these long-barrel field guns, that is, the only long-range guns that the third town can obtain at present.
Wu Peifu didn’t have a mountain, but continued to observe the distant front. He hoped to see the fireworks rising with his own eyes after the shelling!
Wu Peifu has been in the army for many years. Since he joined the army in the third town, he has climbed step by step, from the most basic gunner to the platoon leader, and he has been appreciated by Liu Tinggui and recommended to Zhao Dongyun. Then he has to enter the artillery school in the third town to study artillery. After graduating last year, he became an artillery officer in the third town.
However, as soon as Zhao Dong Yunda expanded its army last year, it established the first town and the second town of Fengtian, which also represented the need to establish two new artillery standards. The artillery officers were naturally promoted, and Wu Peifu also took this opportunity to raise the third standard and the first battalion of the artillery team, thus entering the ranks of middle-level officers.
This time, whether the capital has defeated or not, but the opportunity for this battle is quite rare. Almost one officer of the artillery in the three towns of Fengtian came from the artillery standard of the third town of the Army, and most of these people were Wu Peifu and their predecessors. However, most of them were forced to stay in Jinzhou with the first town and the second town of Fengtian, and his junior was given the opportunity to play.
This kind of opportunity is very important for a middle-level officer like him who just started. Without the meritorious military service, he can’t compete with those seniors for promotion opportunities!
Today, he is going to have a beautiful artillery battle to make the boss really pay attention to himself!
Soon someone around me whispered, "The band brothers are ready!"
After listening, Wu Peifu took out his watch and compared it with when he was preparing and after he went to training. "Well done!"
Then he officially ordered "hit three shots first!"
As he ordered the formal arrival of artillery officers in the rear artillery positions, one by one, they commanded the gunners to fire one after another. For a while, this small artillery position rumbled loudly, and then one by one, the naked eye could see the shells flying into the sky and leaving in the distance.
In the front trench, Han Duotian heard the enemy shells coming again after a roar, but then he found that something was wrong and immediately smiled, "These shells are finally working!" "
But soon he just found out that it was wrong, because he didn’t find the explosion smoke from the enemy position opposite, and then he said, "Where did this shell fly?"
However, before he finished speaking, he heard a rumbling noise from a distance, which was obvious. Just now, shells flew over their heads and hit the enemy’s rear, so what target was Han Duotian.
However, by this time, the artillery had risen and shot a balloon. A soldier looked at it with a telescope and shouted, "Hit it!"
Anyway, there was an explosion, and the shell must have landed, but this can’t be regarded as knocking out the enemy artillery position!
It’s several kilometers away, and there is a small highland blocking the view. They can see the smoke and dust after the explosion, but they can’t see whether the enemy artillery positions have been destroyed 2.
In order to be conservative, Wu Peifu once again ordered "three more shots!"
If you really hit these dozens of shells, it’s a follow-up replenishment. If you hit the wrong place, it’s considered that hundreds of silver shells worth thousands of taels were thrown into the water before and after the shooting.
However, Wu Peifu was not sure whether his anti-shelling was successful or not, but Han Duotian, the front line, was able to personally feel that the enemy’s artillery threat had disappeared.
Since the Wu Peifu Field Artillery Battalion carried out the anti-shelling war, no enemy shells have fallen from the position of Han Duotian.
At this time, Han Duotian could vaguely guess that it was estimated that the enemy artillery position was knocked out or threatened, which led to an emergency relocation. However, whether it was that, it was a great good thing for Han Duotian.
"When you are old and continue to dig your mother and get shot, you are lazy. Now there is no gun, and the lazy commander has raised you for nothing!" Han Duotian is swearing again, and the commanders continue to dig trenches.
Later, until a few hours in the evening, the position of Han Duotian was not shelled, which dug out a lot of distance, and then something happened to dig a short section later, and at this time, this trench of Han Duotian has become a prominent part.
It was just dawn the next day, and hundreds of his comrades-in-arms were ushered in this newly excavated trench in Han Duotian. There were not only many people, but also two 60mm mortars and two heavy machine guns.
Chapter one hundred and ninety-three Tongzhou War (2)
When he led the team, Han Duotian’s senior company, Xi He, knew that he was coming. He said to Han Duotian, "Lao Han has made quite good progress here these two days. Now we can knock off several enemy positions and machine gun strongholds on the opposite side by relying on a protruding part!"
Han Duotian and Xi Hezhi are also considered as long-standing friendship. When Jinzhou was fighting against bandits, Han Duotian was the deputy director and leader of Xi Hezhi. Relying on the meritorious military service in the war against bandits, Xi Hezhi successfully rose from platoon leader to the current battalion officer, and he didn’t forget to bring his old cadre Han Duotian to the head to recommend Han Duotian to attend the camp school. This allowed Han Duotian to cross that threshold and become an officer in Beiyang Army.
Although he is not an official with an orthodox training background, it is difficult to keep up with the promotion pace of his young officers without great military exploits, but in any case, he finally broke away from the small soldier class and became an officer in the Beiyang Army. This kind of thing is almost a great opportunity for a soldier with an ordinary rural background. Han Duotian has been very grateful to bring him Xi He in recent years!
When Han Duotian took back the swearing in the past and turned to a positive face, "Lord Xi is in danger here. Why did you come here in person?"
The actual age difference between the two is more than 30 people, and Xihe knows that it’s only mid-twenties, but the class in the army is strict, even if Xihe knows that it’s not Han Duotian’s benefactor, Han Duotian has to be respectful, but it’s always less sincere to speak like that.
Xi He knows that his face is still kind. "Why can’t you sit in front of someone?" As he walked over, he continued to walk inside with the cat around his waist
And behind him, several officers followed him. Soon, some of them arrived at a wider place in this trench. Xi Hezhi didn’t mention anything to others, but just sat down on the ammunition box.
The accompanying adjutant soon spread out a detailed military map, which also belongs to the surrounding trench area. The detailed area was temporarily surveyed after the war, but the coverage was wider.
"You see, there are not only enemy protrusions but also sandbags here. According to our judgment, it can be determined that these two places are two machine gun emplacements recently deployed by the enemy. These two emplacements can not only suppress this eastern front, but also have a very wide shooting range, which can even suppress the surrounding kilometers. These two days, our army has been greatly hindered by them eastward!" Xihe know continued
"In front of us, our mortars are not good because of the terrain and shooting boundary problems. Now it is good for Lao Han to dig this trench. Only then can we have a shooting place. You mortars should take advantage of this advantage and take out the enemy’s two machine gun shelters!"
When a deputy military academy is next to it, it is said, "My Lord, rest assured that the mortar of the Ministry is enough to accurately hit the enemy machine gun position!"
Xi Hezhi nodded. "Brother Li, I know your ability. I can trust you with this matter!"
Then he said to another young officer next to him, "In addition to knocking out the enemy’s heavy machine gun emplacement, I also decided to purchase a prominent machine gun emplacement in this protruding trench to suppress the enemy on the east side of the front to relieve the pressure on the second team and the third team in the east."
Then he said to Han Duotian, "Once we set up heavy machine gun shelters here, the enemy will definitely not be indifferent. Then Lao Han, you will have to work harder to protect all the heavy machine gun brothers!"
This protruding trench dug by Han Duotian is not only close to the enemy’s position, but also has a very wide firing range. It is estimated that the whole battalion opposite will have to be suppressed, and the officers in the sixth town opposite will also have tactical awareness. Once they find that heavy machine guns are deployed here, they will definitely fight back, not to mention conquering here, but also to suppress the heavy machine guns in the third town.
At this time, Han Duotian’s hand infantry needs to protect these heavy machine guns.
In contemporary defensive warfare, the tactical core has become heavy machine guns, and it has become an important link to protect heavy machine gun positions around conquering them.
Han Duotian immediately said, "If I want Lao Han not to die, I will ensure that the heavy machine gun does not break!"
Xi Hezhi nodded. "Well, then get ready to go!"
Nature is the first action mortar group Xihe know this time personally come to inspect at the same time, Korea’s first team team officer is also personally led the two mortars is the first team of 60mm mortars.
After the two mortar groups were placed in a wide place in the trenches, the mortar commander quickly measured the elements by the sight. After some calculations, the commander quickly reached the order. After the gunner set the elements, he did not pause but decisively ordered the gun!
First, two 60mm mortars fired two calibration bullets respectively, and then the commander ordered the standard three rounds of rapid fire. Moreover, six bullets were fired at a machine gun position respectively. With several low explosions, Xi He knew that the enemy could already be seen through a small hole in the trench through the telescope, and the two machine gun fortresses were covered with smoke one after another.
These six shells, plus the first four projectiles, were fired in less than a minute before and after ten shells were fired, which made the enemy on the opposite side stunned.
Xi Hezhi knows everything, but he can see a few looming in the smoke. But soon, a heavy machine gun position is ringing. Maxim’s machine gun is unique. Xi Hezhi knows everything. He has seen the other heavy machine gun turning the muzzle while burning. It is obvious that they have not found that the enemy is blindly fighting back.
Seeing this, Xi Hezhi snorted, "Hum, you are not qualified to play machine guns in front of our third town!"
Soon after, the mortar commander also found that he had just shot off an enemy heavy machine gun quickly, so he once again ordered one mortar to make a second three-shot rapid fire, and at the same time ordered another mortar to adjust and prepare to join the subsequent shelling.
As two mortars fired more than ten mortar shells one after another, the heavy machine guns on the opposite side finally stopped in a smoke.