Piao Tianwen    Chapter 297                                                      

Not many people knew about the scene that happened in Japan. It was just that after a certain department in Tangzhou received a report from an intelligence officer code-named "Sea Witch", he listed the Navy Minister Saigo Congdao, who was from the army, as the focus. At the same time, they also issued instructions to another agent lurking in Japan with the code-name "Sea Monster". After that, about a year later, the Japanese Navy Nakasa and the captain of the "Rangsu" ship Hirahachiro Togo died suddenly in his apartment in Tokyo. It is said that he died of a stroke! But the problem is that Togo was only in his early forties at this time and was strong, so why did he suddenly get this disease?

No one can answer this question, and the navy was unwilling to let his officer be dismantled by the forensic doctor, so Togo's death ended up in the end. Except for Yamamoto Honbuki, who had brought shells for General Oyama Iwa, one of the founders of the Japanese Army, who had brought shells with him in the "Saying War", few people remembered this honest captain. Even Yamamoto Honbuki, who had been promoted to colonel at that time, had no regrets that he had no obedient subordinates.

No one knew that this was just the beginning. In the decades after Hirahachiro Togo, some people in the Japanese navy and army died strangely. From the earliest sent to the United States to study the navy and learn from Mahan, the founder of the Haiquan theory, "inadvertently" drowned; Rear Admiral Yuyuki Ito fell off his horse, to the younger generation of naval and army lieutenant-level officers, such as Kenji Dohihara, Seishiro Sakagaki, Kanirawa, Okamura Yamamura, Suichiro Teruchi, Hideki Hatajo, Hideki Tojo, Ikeko Matsui, Tanisuo, Izuru Yamamoto Iroku, etc., dozens of people died. Most of these people were the elites of the Japanese navy and army for a while, most of them were bold and risky. Although their deaths did not affect the overall situation of the Japanese navy and army, they had a great impact in some aspects, but outsiders did not know these influences except for someone.

"Training Department Minister?"

After two months of "basic study", Ronglu, Yuan Shikai, Ding Ruchang, and Liu Yongfu finally received the order to enter the Red Corps base to pick up their subordinates. At the same time, after discussion, the four of them each obtained their positions in the future "China-US Joint Command".

Ronglu, as a subordinate who was highly valued by the Empress Dowager Cixi in this operation, naturally served as the position of "Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Joint Command" and was responsible for actually commanding the operations of the Qing Dynasty Expeditionary Force. Ronglu was very satisfied with this.

Ding Ruchang will be responsible for a unit alone and temporarily serve as the "chief of a certain division". Although he is still a commander of the bare hands, there is nothing to say.

Liu Yongfu and Guo Jinzhang refused his request to serve as the "forward" and took office as deputy chief of staff of the command. It is said that the reason is that he has experience in combat with the French army and should stay in the command center to pick up the vacancy for Ronglu and other commanders.

As for the last one, Yuan Shikai, who had reached a secret agreement with Guo Jinzhang, was unfortunately appointed as the "Minister of Training" and was also very coquettishly awarded the temporary rank of "College".

"Let me manage the training?"

Yuan Shikai was extremely dissatisfied with this. Didn’t he let himself be the leader of these hundreds of thousands of troops? But the deputy commander-in-chief who actually commanded the war was taken away by Ronglu, and he was not even a chief of staff. How could he lead this army?

"Yes, I just let you manage the training."

Two cars were walking along the short-term highway between Seattle and Everett, "slowly" at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour. Because he discovered Yuan Shikai's "emotion", Guo Jinzhang drove Ronglu to the front passenger seat and "talk" with him behind him. In this regard, Ronglu, who already knew the "status" of the passenger seat in the car, was a little unhappy, still accepted it silently.

"I'm training? I don't even know how the modern army fights. How do you ask me to train?" Yuan Shikai was not in the mood to worry about Ronglu's feelings at this time. He was not yet versatile, especially since he still had the feeling of being fooled, so he was even less in the mood to care about the future immediate boss.

"You don't need to do specific training. What you need to do is command the instructors we sent to train officers from the Qing Dynasty, and then these officers will train other soldiers." Guo Jinzhang ignored the anxiety and suspicion in Yuan Shikai's eyes and replied slowly.

"It's just that?"

"Not only." Guo Jinzhang shook his head, "You also need to pay attention to the thoughts of those officers... Well, it's what you think mentally. If it is not conducive to the army's combat or affects the morale of the army, you should also enlighten or comfort them as soon as possible..."

"If there is anyone who affects the morale of the army, it's just like being killed. Why do you have to be like this mother-in-law?" Ronglu kept listening to the conversation between the two. After hearing Guo Jinzhang's words, he couldn't help but turn around and ask.

"There is only one head, and it will be gone if it is cut. What's more, it's normal to be unable to think about it across thousands of miles across the ocean and fight for the foreign devils. If we just cut people down because of this, it would be too unreasonable." Guo Jinzhang smiled, "Besides, our military orders are not so harsh."

"If you march and fight, you should naturally implement strict laws." Ronglu frowned.

"That's not your deputy commander. Modern military forces have special military law offices in charge of military law... You can send people who violate military discipline to the Military Law Office, but as long as you send them over, it is their business, and you can't interfere too much." Guo Jinzhang said to him.

"How can this be true?" Ronglu said dissatisfied, "It is difficult for the commander in the army to march in the military?"

"That's it." Yuan Shikai also echoed repeatedly, "It's better not to be the training minister."

"Since you are here, you have to follow our arrangements. Don't forget that this is your own army of the Qing Dynasty. If you don't take over, in the end, it's either us or foreign devils to be responsible for their overall training... It's fine, we will definitely not be able to deal with it. After all, those soldiers are our brothers and brothers. We can't watch them take their lives to the battlefield to gain experience; but foreign devils are probably not as kind as us, and they won't care how many people will die on the battlefield. Moreover, those American officials are far inferior to us in terms of military quality, and many people can even ride on horseback..." Guo Jinzhang said this and looked at Yuan Shikai with a smile, "Don't you think you're a qualified soldier who can shoot, right?"

"Isn't it?" Ronglu asked in the rearview mirror.

"Of course not." Guo Jinzhang sighed. In the past two months, he mainly introduced the colonial history of some European countries, the political situation of various countries, and the world-wide political and military structure to the four people, mainly to Ronglu and Yuan Shikai... The purpose is to broaden their horizons so that these guys would only focus their eyes on the acre of three-point land in Beijing. After all, in later generations, until Chiang Kai-shek, and even in the early stages of the Republic, the Chinese national leaders were not very good at external perspectives, and they even did not understand the depth of European and American countries at all. This was even more so in the late Qing Dynasty. He had to change this situation as much as possible. However, the main energy was on these things. Although Ronglu and Yuan Shikai and others also had eye-opening sighs, the four people also lacked a lot of time to understand the modern army.

"If you can join the army if you just know how to shoot, then the United States can take out at least 10 million troops when necessary... But this is obviously impossible. They only have 30 million people in total." Guo Jinzhang sighed, "A soldier in a modern army must not only master the skills of using guns, but also must

Have abundant physical fitness, superb tactics, keen observation, accurate judgment, etc. In addition to these, they must also have the ability to execute the military orders without warning, and cooperate with each other..."

"This doesn't seem to be much surprising," Rong Lu said.

"Of course not. Unfortunately, if you want an ordinary person to reach this level, you can't do it without a few years of rigorous training." Guo Jinzhang smiled at him through the rearview mirror, "And the Qing army has always been very good in terms of military discipline, so the responsibility of the training minister is extremely important. Without tough means and precise observation, it is impossible to do well in this position."

"My means are okay, but... I have any accurate observation skills?" Yuan Shikai said depressedly.

"If you can discover Japan's ambitions for North Korea, it already shows your ability in this regard." Guo Jinzhang smiled.

"That was just accidental." Yuan Shikai argued.

"According to it is luck, luck... is also a kind of strength." Guo Jinzhang smiled.

"Mr. Rong, you say something to the general. This... I really don't want to be the training minister." Yuan Shikai hugged Ronglu and pleaded.

"this……"

"The Minister of Training is a very important position. Currently, Beijing has only sent you four people here. Lord Rong will definitely not be able to take office. If Yuan Shikai, you don't want to do it, then only Ding Ruchang or Liu Yongfu will be selected. Ding Ruchang has worked in the Beiyang Navy for several years. You all know what the situation is. As for Liu Yongfu... I admire him very much. After all, it is definitely extraordinary to be able to lead a force to create a world in a foreign country. It is more than enough to be the Minister of Training..." Before Ronglu could speak, Guo Jinzhang smiled and said.

"Weiting, you should take on this burden for the time being. After a while, I will see if there is a chance to transfer you to other positions. What do you think?" Ding Ruchang was not suitable. That guy was not good at dealing with interpersonal conflicts at all. Liu Yongfu was even worse. He was a thief. Before coming to the United States this time, he was cut off all his troops by the court and asked him to be responsible for training. Who knows who would train? After thinking about it, it was only Yuan Shikai suitable... Ronglu had no choice but to help Guo Jinzhang persuade Yuan Shikai.

"This..." Ronglu had "turned over". Yuan Shikai naturally had nothing to say, so he could only sigh and agreed to Guo Jinzhang's arrangement. Seeing that he was not very arrogant, Guo Jinzhang was too lazy to pay attention. Yuan Shikai still didn't understand the importance of the instructor, but when he discovered the beauty, he probably wouldn't give in even if others wanted to steal his position.

...

"Tadada...Tadada..."

Everett was not far away, and the car was fast at a speed. In less than an hour, Guo Jinzhang and others had already arrived at the base of the Red Corps. After getting off the car, and under the leadership of the army officers, several people soon arrived at the shooting range.

"What is this for?"

Liu Yongfu got off the car and stared at the machine gun that was frantically spraying fire tongues. After a while, he took a deep breath and asked the officer accompanying him. Because he saw that the machine gunners were actually holding "precious" machine guns to sweep at several piles of soil... This made the leader of the Black Flag Army, who had been living a hard life, feel distressed. He almost called these guys "prodigal sons".

"This is training the soldiers' psychological endurance." The officer who led the way was the young officer who took them off the dock. According to the introduction, it turned out that he was Guo Jinzhang's adjutant, named Li Dongbao.

"Psychological tolerance?" Ding Ruchang looked over in confusion, "What does it mean?"

"Squad Leader Zhao, come here." Li Dongbao did not answer directly, looked at Guo Jinzhang, and after seeing the other party nodded, he called out to the soldier who was standing behind the machine gunners. Then, Ding Ruchang and others saw that the soldier stood at the sight, turned around, ran over in an extremely standard posture, and then stood attentive again, saluting:

"Report to the commander, the second squad of the third platoon of the fifth company of the 7th Battalion of the Third Division is conducting shooting training, and the squad leader Zhao Hengxing!"

"Rampant?" Ronglu and others couldn't help laughing when they heard this name. A small squad leader was still "rampant"?

"Squad leader Zhao Hengxing is the combat hero of our Red Corps. In the Battle of Ortamaho River, he commanded a machine artillery squad to block the frontal attack of thousands of enemies. In that battle, there were only 3,000 American soldiers who died at their hands... and the entire machine artillery squad led by him was only ten!" Guo Jinzhang introduced slowly.

“…”

"Squad Leader Zhao, let me tell you, what are you doing?" Guo Jinzhang ignored Rong Lu and others who were held back and asked Zhao Hengxing again.

"Report to the commander, we are conducting shooting training and help the Qing officers' training group complete psychological endurance training." Zhao Hengxing answered immediately.

"Where are them?" Guo Jinzhang asked again.

"Behind the mound." Zhao Hengxing replied.

"How is it?" Guo Jinzhang asked again.

"Not really." A trace of contempt flashed across Zhao Hengxing's face, "It's been several times. It's understandable that my pants were peeing for the first time, but I'm still lying there and I don't dare to move my head, and I don't dare to show my head during the pause of our shooting... If I go to the battlefield and meet us, it's a charge."

"How about the new machine gun?" Guo Jinzhang ignored it and pointed to the machine gun that the soldiers were operating. It was another type of machine gun that was completely different from the multi-barrel Green machine gun. As long as you have watched war movies in later generations, you will definitely recognize what the soldiers were operating. Because it was a Maxim heavy machine gun!

"Stronger than Green's cannon." There was a hint of joy in Zhao Hengxing's voice.

"Zhao...Squad Leader, are you talking about Green Machine Cannon?" Liu Yongfu felt a little uncomfortable. The squad leader, the soldier in front of him was just a squad leader, at most ten people were in charge of, and he had a role similar to the one in the Qing army. But Guo Jinzhang's introduction, this guy actually led his squad to kill thousands of American soldiers. But he led his Black Flag Army several times and never killed so many French devils. Even Feng Zicai, who won a great victory in Zhennan Pass, led tens of thousands of troops, but failed to achieve such results. In fact, in the entire Sino-French war, the French soldiers wiped out by the imperial army in total, totaling more than 2,000, and most of them were servant soldiers, real French men.

It's less than five hundred, and it may not even be even three hundred... Could it be that with his own ability and record, he could not even have a small squad leader in the Red Corps? Although he felt it was unlikely, Liu Yongfu had to honestly put down the pride that had always existed... So what if he defeated the French after several surprise attacks? The enemies he killed in his life were not as good as a soldier who fired several shots... What's this? But, although he felt uncomfortable, Liu Yongfu couldn't help but have a little doubt about Zhao Hengxing's words. What is the Green Cannon? It was in the Sino-French War, after the French army was defeated in Zhennan Pass, relying on the weapon to finally block the Qing army, he had seen the power of the Green Cannon with his own eyes...

"The Green Cannon has six barrels, and it is fired in circles, with great power. But Squad Leader Zhao, you actually said that the machine gun with only one muzzle is better than the Green Cannon? Is this... a little over?" Liu Yongfu was dissatisfied.

"Green cannons are of course good. In terms of firing rate alone, it is far more than the Maxim we used. However, compared with its advantages, its weakness is also very obvious. The machine gunners will find it difficult to control themselves due to excitement and red-eyed eyes on the battlefield, and will go crazy and turn the handle faster and faster, causing the machine gun to get stuck or explode... It's like in the Ortamaho River, we had three hundred Green cannons, and only a little more than two hundred left after the war, and the damage rate reached an astonishing third. If it weren't for the fact that we had enough machine cannons at that time, I'm afraid that Sherman would have rushed to our position with his life to turn the situation around. After all, it would be difficult for machine gun soldiers to exert any power in close combat." Zhao Hengxing replied.

"Then according to what Brother Zhao said, this horse is not so bad, so there is no such problem?" Yuan Shikai did not dare to be proud of Zhao Hengxing, and asked carefully after hearing this.

"Maxim is a heavy machine gun newly developed by our arsenal. It has a caliber of 11.43 mm and a gun weighs 27.2 kilograms. It adopts a short barrel recoil automatic method and a water-cooled gun barrel. It uses a canvas belt with a capacity of 333 rounds and a 6.4-meter-long canvas belt, and the belt can be connected. The theoretical rate of fire is 600 rounds per minute, and it can be fired in a single or continuous manner. It can also be adjusted to a slow rate of fire of 100 rounds per minute through the rate of fire regulator... This is the world's first automatic firearm!" Guo Jinzhang introduced.

"That's not as good as Green Cannon..." Ding Ruchang said.

"That's right..." Guo Jinzhang smiled and was about to refute, but a shrill scream suddenly came from behind the mound in the distance:

"ah--"

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Chapter completed!