Chapter 55: Hunter Legion (Revision)
The convoy kicked up a huge amount of dust outside the city of Nancy.
The leader was a truck with a canvas canopy, which contained a twenty-round magazine for Mauser pistols for the "experimental troops", and Tang Yunyang, with the ten men he had just recruited.
In the monotonous roar of the truck, Tang Quyang looked at the smoke and dust rolling up behind the car, and his body shook gently with the shaking of the car. Looking at the trucks behind them, thinking about what was being dragged behind them, I secretly shook my head at myself.
He couldn't have imagined that he would come up with such a strange thing.
These weapons, in the course of the First World War, were somewhat strange, but they did not go beyond the technological achievements of the time. Their appearance is just a different combination of Tang Yunyang's military and technological achievements at this time.
They were towed by trucks and covered in canvas. These vehicles were secretly developed by Tang Yunyang after returning from General Xia Fei to equip the equipment of the experimental troops.
A 75-mm cannon sits under the protection of 15-mm homogeneous armor plates on a modified tractor chassis, just like the aforementioned miniature model. This 75 mm gun was one of the finest pieces of French artillery in World War I.
So much so that the French high command thought that with this kind of artillery could win the war, so before the war this kind of artillery was sealed as a secret weapon, and when the war began, many gunners would not actually use it.
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On both sides of the gun, there are folding seating stations for the gunners, and there are also ammunition boxes for 50 shells. In the hull, protected by box-shaped microstrip inclined armor plates, there was plenty of room to maneuver such a gun.
This is a battalion-level fire support weapon prepared by Tang Yunyang for the experimental troops, and it is quite fast in terms of the speed of switching between the two modes of marching and shelling, and in the future, each battalion will be equipped with a platoon of fire support vehicles.
The concept of the fire support vehicle is derived from the guns mounted on armored vehicles used by the U.S. military in World War II, but the U.S. military uses 105 mm howitzers and does not have rotatable gun mounts.
The other is the standard infantry fighting vehicle chassis used for infantry rear attacks, which also consists of the traveling part of a modified agricultural tractor in the shape of a small diamond, allowing them to easily cross enemy trenches.
Of course, Tang Yunyang has not yet been "kind" enough to completely come up with the design of a modern infantry fighting vehicle.
The armor plates of this infantry fighting vehicle have a certain inclination, and the armor on the sides of the body resembles a pair of "angle brackets". The same cold-rolled homogeneous 15 mm armor plates, open roof design. The standard infantry fighting vehicle is equipped with two machine guns at the nose and can be equipped with a mortar or flamethrower.
This design is nothing more than plagiarizing the design of the armored vehicles of the German army in World War II.
There is also equipment for infantry training, which includes training uniforms made of canvas and thin planks, helmets, and masks.
To put it bluntly, it's a bit like a modern paintball gun game.
The weapon will be loaded with trainer bullets, that is, plastic-fueled warheads with reduced charges, and although it will be more painful to hit the body, this training method is closer to actual combat, so that the troops can master the use of firearms and shooting skills in close combat as soon as possible.
"For the time being, if you train alone, these two vehicles and these equipment will be able to meet the needs, and the other supporting vehicles are still ......."
Other vehicles are still being built and tested, and the most important thing is that Tang Yunyang did not tell anyone that he intends to introduce the concept of car families, which is something for the Chinese army in the future.
Therefore, in Tang Yunyang's training plan for Captain Miller, there are no other new weapons on the scene for the time being, and those will not be taken out until the climate has formed in his own factory, so as to slow down the imitation competition of his manufacturers.
The "Hunters" were the most famous regiment of the defenders of Nancy, and when the German Fifth Army of the German Crown Prince Wilhelm attacked Nancy, they were the first troops to defend the city.
Although those battles ended with the retreat of the German Fifth Army, the Hunters lost more than half of them at the same time.
Even so, the Nancy Hunters' Regiment, both officers and soldiers, all from the city and countryside of Nancy, was still the backbone of the defenders of the city, and now this regiment was now fully replenished by new recruits composed of the children of the city of Nancy.
This time, Emile. Colonel De Leon, in Foster. Ensign De Leon's request, at the request of Captain Miller. Including the results of the sand table war game with Tang Yunyang, he used his influence to present this army.
In his opinion, this will be the best future for this force.
Soldiers in blue-gray French uniforms, according to their company platoons, formed a phalanx under their flags, with their commander standing at the side of the brave standard-bearer in front.
The French soldiers had now put down the French rifles they had used, and each one wore a Mauser pistol pistol with a twenty-round magazine on his chest, each carrying 200 rounds of pistol ammunition. Among the satchels on both sides of the body, one side is a shotgun bullet and the other side is a gas mask.
In fact, with these equipment on their backs, the soldiers have no bottom in their hearts.
Because there were no heavy machine guns in the entire regiment, except for the use of one light machine gun per platoon. Moreover, the standard weapons of the French army were also replaced with melee weapons of Germany and the United States.
"An army without heavy machine guns, if used to attack, is nothing more than a target for the defense side! Don't...... Could it be that Colonel Emir is going to abandon our hunter regiment like this? ”
The soldiers couldn't believe that all this was true! A valiant army of Nancy was transformed into this.
This would have been unthinkable in previous armies, so though the soldiers of the Hunter Battalion straightened up to greet their new boss and what the soldier called "Damn Advisor".
When Tang Yunyang's convoy entered the camp, Tang Yunyang had already smelled the rather unfriendly smell of gunpowder.
The men who greeted him with Captain Miller, except for Foster. Captain De Lion, because of the common interests looked slightly better. The rest of the people all looked cold.
Or, in their eyes, Tang Yunyang is not a soldier. Although he was followed by ten armed Chinese, not a single officer saluted him, not even the Captain Miller.
Tang Yunyang looked at all this coldly.
The French officers shook hands with malice, and nodded coldly. has already exposed their true thoughts in their hearts, including the captain Miller who had watched the sandtable wargame.
"Mr. Tang, these officers are all officers in the hunter battalion, and they will conduct experimental training under your guidance in the future......"
Tang Yunyang didn't show any superfluous performance because of these coldness, he nodded to Captain Miller.
"So, find someone to unload the truck and order them to put the equipment in storage. Also, I'd like to ask Ensign Foster to take me to see our training grounds......"
Captain Miller bowed slightly, assuming what he thought was the most elegant courtesy.
"As you wish, my advisor ......!"