The two foreigners were sent away by a small book. When the snowflakes began to float on the Lorraine Plateau, the weapons and equipment of each unit were finally transported to the army and migrant workers. On September 15, 2006, the Expeditionary Force officially accepted all the defense lines of the French army east of San Dizier. Before that, the 1st Armored Division split into small units along the line. Even if it was just a small formation, this fierce force beyond this era still caught everyone's eye.

In the first war zone east of San Dizier, Duan Qirui, commander of the 11th Army, grabbed the horse whip, but sat on a military off-road vehicle for warriors. Previously, he insisted on loading his horse and the groom with his troops into containers and transporting them across the ocean to Marseille. However, he did not expect that the Red Sea was too hot and there were many bumps on the sea. The horse died before he arrived at the port of Marseille. Then he arrived at the front line of San Diziere. The commander of the French colonial army stationed here gave him a horse. He did not want to wait until the equipment arrived, the horse was useless.

The snow has just fallen this year. In the bushes where leaves fall, a broken road is crossing through a broken road. Although the French army had light rails, a small number of one-and-a-half trucks and three-ton trucks purchased from China still crushed the road. Autumn is always rainy. When the 11th Army took over the defense line, it took advantage of the autumn rain to repair the road. Chinese-character road signs were specially set up for the forks everywhere. However, as the snow was as wet as the road surface was crushed, the artificially compacted road surface began to be uneven again.

"This road needs to be overhauled!" As the car body swayed, Xu Shuzheng, chief of staff who was holding the handle tightly, said with great difficulty: "We need to use that large-scale road roller machinery to repair it, otherwise it will be completely destroyed by next spring."

"Well." Lieutenant General Duan Qirui enjoyed the shaking of this off-road vehicle. What he thought about now was not the road, but the new chariot battalion, good guy. More than 60 chariots, sixteen self-propelled cannons, and corresponding trucks and off-road vehicles came overnight. The General Office probably wanted to make a big attack on his own defense line this time. "Youzheng, why did you think the General Office choose to make a breakthrough here? It was so hidden and the news was so blocked. If we didn't attack tomorrow, we didn't know."

"According to what the General Office of the State Council said in the telegram of the General Office, this is just an experimental attack. They are probably afraid that they will not be able to fight well with foreign jokes." Although Xu Shuzheng was very wise, he could not guess the true intention of the General Office of the State Council of the State Council this time. He could only think about the national prestige and military prestige. After all, now the people of the whole country and even the whole world are watching the performance of the Chinese. Although Lin Wenqian is famous, if the war is not fought well, the impact will still be very bad.

Xu Shuzheng's answer only made Duan Qirui say "Yeah" without any pain. He was not considering national prestige or military prestige, but felt that if those armored chariots could really break the enemy's trenches, the 33rd Division of Cao Kun, who was stationed in this section, could follow up and chase the chariot battalion and bite a piece of meat from the German army. Well, if 33 could capture Mount Baledik, the capstone of the Saint Dizier that was in front would be like taking a pill.

The commander and the chief of staff each arrived at the 33rd Division headquarters with their worries. Cao Kun, who had received a call notice, was waiting outside the command center with several people. When they saw the commander Duan Qirui get off the car, they were stopped by Xu Shuzheng's words, "The front line cannot salute." This made Cao Kun very embarrassed. Fortunately, Wu Peifu, a brigade commander next to him, rescued the siege. He smiled and said to Duan Qirui: "The commander of the army has arrived in person, and the commander and all the soldiers of the division are grateful to the five-pointed team. This is why..."

"It's okay." Duan Qirui had no time to care about Cao Kun's unintentional mistakes. He came to see Cao Kun's 33rd Division at this moment. He looked at Cao Kun and said, "Where is the new chariot battalion? Is the offensive plan determined?"

"Report to the military commander," he could not salute, Cao Kun could only stand at attention, he shouted: "The new armored battalion is in a bush forest behind our division's defense line. The combat plan has also been determined. Our division just followed up quickly after opening the breach. Commander Li of the 1st Division wanted to occupy Mount Baledik and occupy this place. Then the rear route of Sanditzille in front of him was cut off and he could go down just in time."

"Okay!" The horse whip excitedly twitched Duan Qirui's palm, and his whole body was filled with joy. San Dizzier on the river Marne was the turn of the central and eastern German defense lines, and it was also a fatal protrusion. Mount Baledik was twenty-four kilometers behind it. If Mount Baledik could break west from Linian Barua, which was weak on the eastern defense line, it would be very likely to occupy Mount Baledik. If that were the case, San Dizzier was like a fat pried out, waiting to enter the mouth of the 11th Army.

As soon as Cao Kun said this, Duan Qirui, who had been reading the map for more than two months, instantly understood the key. He shouted: "The suicide squad on your side should protect the chariots and never let them suffer losses. Also, the light and heavy machine guns of the entire division are collected and handed over to the suicide squad for use..."

"Military Commander, the Chariot Battalion itself brought a suicide squad." Cao Kun also made the arrangements as Duan Qirui said before, but when he saw the assault infantry coming with the chariot, he gave up this idea.

"Didn't it mean that there were only one chariot battalion and some self-propelled cannons? Where did they get the suicide squad?" Duan Qirui asked, "Can the troops they just find are even more elite than the elites of our three towns in Beiyang?"

The predecessor of the 33rd Division was the third town of the Beiyang New Army. This was a team led by Duan Qirui himself. He dared not say anything about artillery soldiers, but if he talked about infantry, he dared to say that it was no worse than the 1st Division of the Fuxing Army. Especially the elite selected from the entire division, it would be even less difficult. The chariot battalion was caught by a handful of people to be an suicide squad, which would be better to be selected from the 33rd Division. With such resentment, Duan Qirui's division did not enter and went straight to the chariot battalion in the bush forest. He could not understand the chariots and self-propelled cannons. As soon as he arrived, he suggested to Li Mengpei, the commander of the 1st Division of the Armored Division, to form an suicide squad with the chariots, and to ensure that his people absolutely protect the safety of the chariots.

Duan Qirui is an old man in the army and has come from a Beiyang coup. The general government’s unified caliber of the officers of each department is: be absolutelyware of the Beiyang system in management and must not be despised in terms of words and actions. Therefore, if other commanders come, Li Mengpei can briefly introduce the organization of the car, cannon and tide to make the other party retreat when they see the difficulties. However, he dare not say that the armored division is a combination of three types of troops, cannon and tide. On one hand, he cannot tell the truth, and on the other hand, he cannot be despised. While scratching his head, the battalion commander of the Mobu battalion went out to take a rifle in his hand. He said, “Captain Duan may not know. The equipment of the infantry on the vehicle is equipped with this kind of semi-automatic rifle. I am afraid that the brothers of the 33rd Division will not be used to it.”

The rifle brought in outside was very short, probably only one meter long like a carbine, but this gun is a little fatter than the 1896 7mm Mauser rifle used by the Fuxing Army. The stocks of the two are basically similar, but the guardrail on the gun is thicker. What is strange is that the magazine that should have been hidden inside the gun body is filled with too many bullets. Moreover, its guardrail is stamped with steel plates, but it does not extend to the muzzle like a common rifle. Instead, part of the guardrail is extended to the barrel.

When Duan Qirui picked up the gun, he felt that the gun seemed to be heavier than the standard 7mm Mauser. Looking at the bolt, he found that it was very different from the ordinary Mauser rifle. Seeing Duan Qirui's surprise, the battalion commander said: "Report to the commander. The prerequisite for protecting a chariot is that firepower must be dense. Our unit was the first battalion equipped with Shenwu Four-Type Semi-Automatic Rifles. The gun uses nine rounds of magazines, with a firing rate of between thirty and fifty rounds per minute, which is equivalent to three to four ordinary rifles. Although the firing rate is fast, veterans who are used to bolt-action rifles will find it difficult to adapt to the firing rate of this rifle in the early stage, so the task of protecting the chariot tomorrow can only be completed by our unit."

"Thirty to fifty rounds per minute..." The officers of the 33rd Division, including Duan Qirui, were surprised. If this rate of fire was really a force that would be three or four soldiers. After all, protecting a chariot is not about bayonets. You really have to wait for the enemy to get close to you to fight for bayonets. What else can the chariot protect?

A tank can be built, but a bullet is not good in China. The design of the gun is based on the performance of the bullet, but the design of a bullet is difficult to mature in four or five years. Therefore, the revived military is still the German 7mm57mm rifle bullet. Around this bullet, in order to simplify logistics, rifles, machine guns, and even the current semi-automatic rifles use this kind of rifle bullet. Even 6.5mm sniper rifles want to change, but the demand for sniper special bullets is small, and snipers also oppose changing the gun just to change the caliber, so it is in the end.

The demand for semi-automatic rifles is that the brigade needs more powerful firepower, which cannot be built only by the number of machine guns, but requires an increase in the rate of fire of each soldier. Therefore, the development of semi-automatic rifles based on 7mm57mm rifle bullets and submachine guns based on 9mm pistol bullets began very early; as for the picture of a kind of fully automatic rifle called '47' provided by Yang Rui (from the close-up of the famous movie King of War) in later generations, the redevelopment of semi-power bullets was finally put into the long-term plan.

The gun designers who have watched those pictures believe that in order to meet the above performance requirements, not only bullet-launched drugs must be redeveloped, but even barrel materials must be redeveloped. The most serious thing is that China lacks nickel and chromium, but large-scale wars must be based on its own resources. Therefore, not only the guns, not the selection of semi-power bombs, not the development of new launch drugs, but also the same as automatic rifle barrel materials, without fifteen years of research, twenty years of research is unlikely to achieve results.

In fact, the original meaning of this is: sir, semi-automatic rifles are enough. If you use fully automatic rifles, wouldn’t the entire army be equipped with machine gun barrels? How much does it cost? There are many Chinese people, and 10 million semi-automatic ones are enough for other countries to suffer. If you really get 10 million machine guns, who are you going to attack?

Of course, no word that is based on the rational thinking of the country's national conditions can not fall into the ears of Yang Rui, who is increasingly powerful. Therefore, the research on semi-powerful bullets and fully automatic rifles has been established; and the research on semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns was finally the first solution to semi-automatic rifles. The Intelligence Agency has obtained Russian M1912 semi-automatic rifles sample guns and a full set of design drawings and photos. This semi-automatic rifle designed by the famous Russian gunman Federov, was the only rifle that passed all the tests organized by the Russian Light Weapons Commission on 1911 for the tests organized by the Russian Light Weapons Commission on fourteen semi-automatic rifles at home and abroad.

Since it is already the best semi-automatic rifle, and Russia is also an enemy, borrowing from its design and changing its 7.6mm caliber to 7mm caliber is the best choice for the General Rear Equipment Bureau. Soon, the copycat version of the m1912 semi-automatic rifle was finalized and produced in the early fourth year of Shenwu. The gun was officially named Shenwu Four-type semi-automatic rifle. The gun inherited the original gun's short recoil automatic principle, the slid iron sway locking mechanism, the rotating hammer type, the magazine increased from five to nine rounds, and fired 7mm57mm Mauser pointed rifle bullets, with a firing rate of thirty to fifty rounds per minute. In the early days, it felt very uncomfortable to use the Motor Infantry soldiers, because they would always subconsciously pull the bolt every time they fired.

The guns are really better than their own. Duan Qirui and others could only take back their previous proposals and instead mentioned artillery. He said: "Team Commander Li, if the attack can be pushed back one day, all the artillery of the 11th Army can be transferred here, especially the 150mm heavy artillery regiment. I can assure you that the mobilization will never leak any news!"

"No need for Commander Duan. Our army is a surprise attack this time, and there is no need to prepare for artillery fire." Li Mengpei had to smile again, "The 33rd Division should follow up after our army opened the gap in the trench, but this follow-up should be very fast and more careful. In order to be fast, our army has even equipped the infantry this time. If there is a car, the attack will be fast and retreat quickly. If the German counterattack is timely and the Baldic Mountain cannot be captured for a long time, then our army will retreat according to the opportunity.

The one who can truly support the operation here is that after dawn tomorrow, the 31 and 32 divisions can feint attack Sanditzya, so that the enemy will find it difficult to know our army's true intentions. They will think that our army's breakthrough is to detour to the rear of Sanditzya and surround Sanditzya, rather than occupying Mount Baledik."

"But German aircraft will definitely conduct reconnaissance on the battlefield..." Duan Qirui studied at the Berlin Military Academy in Germany in his early years. He was both happy and nervous to be able to use the German army as his opponent and students beat the teacher, but he wanted to make a difference in his heart, but this armored assault was just a strange experiment.

"Captain Duan doesn't have to worry. Our air force will compete with German aircraft for the battlefield air supremacy." Li Mengpei said, "They not only drive out German aircraft, but also partially support ground combat. To be honest, we can fight Mount Baledik this time, and retreat if we can't. This chariot unit is like the cavalry of ancient times, galloping across the board, and never fighting for the gains and losses of a city or a land. Therefore, the 33rd Division must be prepared to retreat on the way to follow up, leave a retreat everywhere, and not too far ahead."

Duan Qirui had the idea of ​​winning the battle and occupying Saint Dizier, but when he heard Li Mengpei say that "the chariot troops are like the cavalry of ancient times, galloping everywhere and never fighting for the gains and losses of a city or a place," he stopped this thought and left sadly. (To be continued...)
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