The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 331: The Result of the Raid

As soon as Wei Jinghai finished speaking, the people below began to whisper excitedly to each other.

Liu Nineteen slammed the table and said, "If you ask me, the Marshal is like a god from heaven who has come down to earth. He has so many fantastic ideas."

"This scout's method is really good. I used to think that my broadsword team was pretty good, but compared to these scouts who were selected, personally instructed, and trained under the Marshal's supervision, the broadsword team is much worse."

"For example, a few days ago, our assault column raided the British camp. Five scouts under my command not only sneaked into the British position quietly, but also killed a platoon of British soldiers wearing turbans and big beards with only short knives and daggers. Not only that, they also killed more than a dozen British sentries along the way."

"It allowed me to lead more than 800 broadsword troops and charge straight into a village where the British were stationed. I killed more than 2,000 British soldiers in turbans and scared them to death. There was no organized resistance at all. They threw down their weapons and fled in all directions."

Liu Nineteen said with pride, "Brothers, eight hundred against two thousand. It only took more than twenty minutes for us to chase those bearded soldiers all over the village."

"In the end, except for the more than 1,500 people who were chopped by me, the rest were driven out of the village by me. They ran to the wild fields and hid in the green tents that had not been harvested yet."

"In that battle, we captured more than 1,900 British rifles, which the Marshal liked, plus two heavy machine guns."

Since the last time, Teng Yuzao ignored Yikuang's request to deal with Liu Shijiu, and even drove Yikuang away in public. Until now, Yikuang is still hiding in the Gansu Army camp and dares not come out.

From then on, Liu Shijiu behaved very differently in front of Teng Yuzao. He no longer called Teng Yuzao by his courtesy name, but like everyone else, he always addressed Teng Yuzao as "General".

Hu Dianjia also said with some regret, "Brother Liu is telling the truth. The Marshal is undoubtedly a god!"

"The sharpshooters in my place, who were trained by the Marshal himself, would just stick grass leaves on their bodies and lie down in the wild in broad daylight. If you don't look carefully, you won't be able to find anyone at all, not to mention at night. They would lie down near the foreign devils' positions for most of the night, and if any foreign devils showed up, they would be shot one by one, and they would be guaranteed to not escape."

"The shooting accuracy of those trained sharpshooters is really amazing. I admire the Marshal from the bottom of my heart."

Cao Futian said with emotion, "Although these people were good at shooting originally, they were not as good as they are now. After the Marshal's instruction, now at night, even if they are 60 or 70 feet away, they can shoot the foreigner smoking to death with one shot."

"That's not all. When the foreign devils fired flares and artillery fire, they just lay motionless in the field, waiting for the foreign devils to get tired, and then they could continue to shoot and kill the foreign devils. Don't you think the Marshal is a god?"

Cao Futian also said with admiration, "I also learned a lot today. In the ambush of the independent column during the day, the machine gunners and officers of the Japanese were almost killed by the sharpshooters under my command before the battle was halfway through. The remaining Japanese were like headless flies, rushing around randomly. It would be strange if we couldn't win this battle!"

The opinion of Liu Shijiu, Hu Dianjia, Cao Futian and others attracted the approval of many people.

After the competition, the scouts and snipers who were selected were called sharpshooters by Teng Yuzhao according to Chinese custom because there was no such name as sniper yet. They were indeed trained by Teng Yuzhao himself.

However, due to time constraints, Teng Yuzao is unable to provide in-depth and systematic guidance and training to these people. He can only simply impart relevant skills. To what extent they can master the skills depends on their own efforts.

In sniper training, since one of the selection criteria is good marksmanship, these people have experience in shooting, although it may not be standardized.

All Teng Yuzhao could do for them was to teach them some shooting and camouflage techniques.

For example, the correct gun holding posture, even breathing when aiming, and having support conditions, try to find support to reduce shaking.

Before firing, you should not only keep aiming but also try to exhale slowly when you are sure to fire. Do not pull the trigger deliberately. The correct way is to slowly press back with even force with your fingers and wait for the gun to go off, which is often said to aim intentionally and fire unintentionally.

To sum up, you need to hold the gun firmly, aim steadily, and fire lightly. As for scouts, this requires extraordinary military, physical, and psychological qualities.

The actions of scouts must be faster and more flexible, and higher requirements are placed on the individual's physical fitness, agility and comprehensive combat awareness. It can be said that scouts are the "special forces" among conventional troops.

The scouts selected in the competition all had outstanding skills in shooting, fighting, and throwing grenades. Teng Yuzao only gave them simple guidance on reconnaissance tactics and concealment and lurking. As for the many training subjects that were required of scouts in the previous life, Teng Yuzao simply had no time to train them.

In other words, the so-called scouts and sharpshooters selected for the vanguard assault are just a greatly reduced number of scouts and snipers, and are far from the real scouts and snipers.

Teng Yuzao disagreed with the opinions of Liu Shijiu, Hu Dianjia and Cao Futian.

Liu Shijiu, who likes to fight in the battlefield himself, simply attaches importance to scouts, while Hu Dianjia and Cao Futian seem to pay more attention to snipers. Teng Yuzhao firmly opposes these two approaches that are based solely on personal preferences.

Scouts and snipers, who Teng Yuzhao now calls sharpshooters, each have their own specialties and different focuses, and they should be developed equally.

However, there are still many things to talk about today, and Teng Yuzao doesn’t want to “teach” them now.

Teng Yuzhao already had an idea in his mind. Once he had time, he would give regular lessons to these senior officers, and he wanted them to develop a habit of doing so until he had instilled all his own ideas in them.

Although Teng Yuzhao did not agree that the officers were somewhat loose and casual at the military meeting, he did not care much about it.

In the vanguard army, Teng Yuzhao has always been implementing the idea of ​​employing students from the Beiyang Military Academy and the Wuwei Front Army's Camp School as officers at all levels.

However, due to various reasons, Teng Yuzao had to appoint some people who did not belong to these two categories as officers, and some of them even served as senior officers.

Among them, the most representative people are Liu Shijiu and Cao Futian.

Because of the presence of these generals who are not from military academies, they are used to being unrestrained. Even if they want to correct themselves, their true nature will be revealed inadvertently. The atmosphere of the vanguard army's military meetings has always been relaxed.

Teng Yuzhao estimates that this atmosphere will continue for a long time and will gradually change over time.

Moreover, Teng Yuzao believed that holding military meetings in such a relaxed atmosphere was not without benefits, and would produce an effect similar to brainstorming, so he did not intend to start regulating them now.

Teng Yuzhao paused in his thoughts and signaled Wei Jinghai to continue with his words.

Wei Jinghai coughed lightly and continued, "Not only has the training yielded great results, but after more than half a month of harassment operations, the results we have achieved are also amazing."

"According to the statistics from our General Staff Office based on the reports from various departments, in the past half month, through more than 200 battles of varying sizes, as well as the achievements made by the cold guns of the foreign devils, conservatively estimated, the results of the battle are also very huge."

"It is estimated that at least 10,000 foreign devils will be eliminated, and the number of injured will definitely be around 10,000, while our own casualties are only a little over 4,000."

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