During the study period, Sangou received a letter from Niu Xiucai, in which he said that their supplementary brigade was finally no longer called a supplementary brigade, and was promoted to a division.

A few months ago, it was called the "New 11th Division", and later it was changed to the "Temporary 51st Division", and now it is called the 51st Division, which has an official number, and it can be regarded as a regular army, and it has been training in Hanzhong recently.

Originally, Wang Yaozu, the commander of the first brigade, was promoted to division commander, and one engineer battalion, one artillery battalion, and one transport battalion were added to the unit, and the infantry was still three regiments.

The original 1st, 2nd, and 3rd regiments were changed to 301, 302, and 306 regiments, and Sangou was originally the 2nd regiment, but now it is the 51st Regiment of the 306th Division, I don't know why? This kind of change, the three dogs and their bottom must be unknown.

The regiment commander has also become Qiu Weida, the original commander of the 7th Company of the 2nd Regiment, Hu Hao, is now promoted to the deputy commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 306th Regiment, and now the number of the three dogs is the 3rd Battalion, 7th Company and 4th Platoon of the 306th Regiment of the 51st Division.

The original 4th platoon deputy platoon commander Niu Gu, now promoted to the main platoon leader, the original 4th platoon only has one squad, and now there are 3 squads, all of them are Guangfeng people, all of them are these original porter brothers, relatives recruited back to their hometowns.

The first squad leader is made by Tie Nong, the second squad leader is a dogleg, and the third squad leader is Xiucai; All three of them and Niu Gu have participated in the unit's in-house sergeant training course.

Niu Gu is a second lieutenant, the three squad leaders are sergeants, and the other brothers are all sergeants and corporals, at least all of them are senior soldiers, such as horned fleas.

The letter said that if Sangou graduates, he will return to the original army to be a second lieutenant trainee officer for half a year, and Niu Gu will ask Sangou to do it in his own platoon, a second lieutenant trainee officer and deputy platoon commander, so the deputy platoon commander has not asked his superiors for this shortage.

Others don't want to come, this is the nest of Guangfeng people, they usually speak dialects, and outsiders can't understand when they go in, so the deputy platoon commander will be there for the time being.

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The weapons class went to the infantry artillery, and I basically learned almost everything, and the instructor Zuo also returned to the artillery department, and there were a lot of things over there.

As for the coordinated tactics of infantry artillery, Lao Hei will talk about it, because the troops lack artillery, that is, at most, talk about the coordinated operation of infantry and mountain artillery infantry artillery.

It is more about the cooperation with mortars and grenadiers, which is more flexible, first of all, to protect the safety of the guns and gunners, and the rifle machine guns to cover them.

When the artillerymen have dumbed down the enemy's fire, their machine guns will immediately have to suppress the enemy's fire, and the infantry will immediately start charging at a distance of 200 meters from the shells (200 meters is a safe distance for artillery fire).

This is a standard infantry drill course, and it is also an ideal way to fight, but there is no such textbook attack and defense on the battlefield, and many situations change, requiring rapid reaction and response.

If there are no mortars and grenadiers, which is quite normal for the Chinese army, without these artillery, would it not be possible to attack? No, the order has come down, and we still have to attack.

Then use the guns and grenades you carry with you, you can only suppress the fire with the machine gun, and if you can't suppress or shoot at each other, then the infantry will not be able to move head-on.

The infantry marched in groups of three, alternately covering and alternately, advancing in a roundabout and creeping manner, and when they reached an area of thirty or forty meters, they began to throw grenades, form a barrage, put on bayonets, and charge.

After occupying the enemy's first line of positions, immediately prevent the enemy from counterattacking, strengthen the positions, cover the follow-up troops to attack the second line of defense, move the machine gun positions forward, and suppress the enemy's second and third line of firepower.

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Lao Hei took everyone to practice back and forth in front of the fortifications he dug, and every time he added a little mutation, let everyone deal with it.

The same is true for the defenders, what should they do if they are hit by enemy fire at their own point of fire? What to do if you are suppressed by the enemy's machine guns? What to do if the enemy moves more than thirty meters to the front of the position? What to do when the enemy starts charging? What if the first line of ground is occupied? Even the retreat, there are rules to follow.

Under normal circumstances, if the fireman's equipment is stronger than that of the attacking enemy, he can send troops to flank the attack, or suppress the fire, carry out a counter-charge, or lead the enemy into the first line of positions for ambush.

If the firepower personnel and equipment are inferior to those of the enemy, they cannot fight hard, otherwise the loss of troops will be very serious, and it is necessary to have flexible tactics, generally using more grenades to strike at the enemy 30 or 40 meters in front of the position, and sending more personnel to fight with the enemy with bayonets.

Because when fighting bayonets, the enemy's heavy firepower cannot play an advantage, and it cannot be fought, and the strength of the two sides in local time and local space is equal, and even the defender has the advantage, after all, he is very familiar with the fortifications he dug.

If the enemy's firepower is very large and the contrast is very large, then the defender has only one way, the tunnel tactics to withstand the enemy's heavy firepower, and then use melee stabs, night attacks and other methods to avoid the enemy's heavy firepower.

According to the provisions of military law, the chief officer is to be shot, so he can only hold on to it and resign himself to fate, either all of them will die in battle, or stay up until reinforcements arrive, or stay up until the retreat order arrives.

On the battlefield, the military order cannot be disobeyed, and he would rather die in battle than be killed by the overseer as a deserter, and if he dies like that, he will not even have a pension, and his family will be humiliated.

As for the retreat, it is not a swarm of escaping, it is a rout, once the troop structure is disrupted, it will not be able to form combat effectiveness, and the strength of a single soldier can basically be ignored.

At that time, people were not as good as livestock, and the livestock still ran fast, and the defeated soldiers were tired, injured, and carrying equipment, etc., and they ran slowly, even if they ran fast, they could not outrun the bullets of the pursuing soldiers.

Therefore, when retreating, it must be alternately covered, and the covering force must entangle the enemy's pursuing force and prevent the enemy from pursuing the large force.

The covering troops calculated the time, calculated the main forces, calculated their own combat strength, and it was best to stay up until night, so that their retreat would have the concealment of the night, and they could get rid of the enemy's pursuit and entanglement a little.

In addition, the main force also has to agree with the covering force when and where to meet the division, and after the time, go to the next location, if the enemy overtakes the pursuit, it is necessary to arrange several cover lines.

Small units are more flexible, they can intersperse attacks or retreats in a roundabout way, and when they reach the battalion level, the retreat must be arranged in advance, alternately covering the advance and retreat.

If the scout (reconnaissance) detects that the enemy army is too long and the pursuing force is insufficient, he can even come to an ambush on the pursuers, or come back with a horse pistol, kill the arrogance of the enemy, so that he does not dare to chase too quickly.

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The three dogs learned command in the military academy have learned that the top is at the regimental level, and then they have to wait until they have actual combat experience on the front line and are almost promoted to regimental level cadres before they will be selected to study at the Army University to learn multi-branch command above the division level.

This is a popular saying in the army at that time: "Yellow Jacket (Whampoa Military Academy), Green Robe (Army University)", if you want to soar, you must take this road.

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