Red Alert 1895

Chapter 14 – Artillery Regiment

“Captain Chen Liyan, now that the artillery regiment is ready, I’ll take you to take up the post!” Wang Guorui said to a young officer who was about twenty-five or sixteen years old.

This regiment leader, Chen Liyan, was one of the generals of the green battalion dug by Hu Wei. He came here with the mentality of giving it a try, but as soon as he came here, he was immediately attracted by the soldiers from Wang Guorui. Because Wang Guorui’s soldiers here are all strong soldiers, and they all seem to be well-trained. And Chen Liyan was originally just a general manager, and he was still very young. He hadn’t been worn away by those years, and he still hoped to make a career. The people recommended by Hu Wei also changed Wang Guorui’s impression of the Green Camp.

Hu Wei is still very familiar with the green battalion generals managed by his father Hu Chuan, and can remember which ones are young, which ones are energetic, which ones are smart, and which ones are self-motivated. And Hu Wei knew this, and Hu Wei had some ideas in his heart that he wanted to maintain this army and then serve as the foundation of the Manchu power, so he took the initiative to invite those people to come and serve together. So Hu Wei is still loyal at the moment, at least he wants the country to develop, and he sees the hope of a strong army in the Red Police Force, which is why he is doing his best to work for Wang Guorui.

The people recommended by Hu Wei are all people who have a good relationship with him, and they all have a patriotic heart. Although they may not be able to distinguish what is the court and what is the country for the time being, it doesn’t matter, they will be able to distinguish clearly in the future. And Wang Guorui’s impression of the green camp has also changed a lot, and it’s not that there are no patriotic people in the green camp. Perhaps because they are in the green camp, they have not seen much of the world, and the upper echelon of the green camp is corrupt, so they have to go with the flow. And after they were recommended to come here, they found that the atmosphere here was different from that of Green Camp, and they all changed their minds.

After all, the army is a big melting pot. If you are in an extremely bad army, even if you are a good soldier, you can be influenced to become a good soldier. If you get to a good army, then you can be influenced by all to make you a good soldier. This is the legendary military soul, which can affect many people and every soldier in the army. And Wang Guorui’s army has red police soldiers as grassroots officers, which can guarantee that it has been infused with military spirit and will not be easily changed. On the contrary, he can change many people, even those new officers.

As for Chen Liyan, Wang Guorui decided to appoint him as the artillery regiment commander after investigating. Because he is still very patriotic and willing to fight to defend Taiwan. So Wang Guorui handed over the artillery regiment, the most important fire support, to him, because he could still be trusted for the time being. In addition, Wang Guorui’s troops have their own Red Police clone soldiers, so they are not afraid that these officers may take the troops away.

“Chen Liyan, we are here now, take a look at your soldiers!” Wang Guorui said.

Chen Liyan saw that there were only about 300 soldiers, and then asked in surprise: “Master Wang, didn’t you tell me that there is an artillery regiment? I know a lot about the establishment of foreigners. A regiment should have at least 2,000 soldiers.” People? But why are there only more than 300 people, and cannons?”

Wang Guorui immediately said: “These 300 people are the seeds of the artillery regiment, and it will be up to you in the future. Don’t underestimate these 300 people. Among them, there are the most elites. You Don’t believe it.”

What Wang Guorui said was the truth. Although the artillery regiment currently only has more than 300 people, there are a hundred of them who are cloned soldiers of the Red Alert system, and they are all people who can use artillery. Because artillery is a technical arm, this technical arm is not only difficult to train, but also expensive to train. Therefore, Wang Guorui can only increase the proportion of red police soldiers in the artillery regiment as much as possible, so that the artillery regiment can form an army as soon as possible. If there is no artillery, Wang Guoruike really has no confidence in being able to resist the Japanese army. After all, Wang Guorui was not the kind of revolutionary martyr who was able to fight the Japanese devils with his blood. Since Wang Guorui had the golden finger of the Red Police Base, he naturally had to use enough firepower to defeat the Japanese army.

Wang Guorui knew very well that without artillery, the resistance against Japan would be very risky, but the Japanese army had relatively sufficient artillery. According to the statistics of later generations, the Japanese National Army has about 300 artillery pieces, and this number is still increasing. What makes people feel paradoxical is that during the Sino-Japanese War, the Qing army had more than 500 more advanced cannons, but they still lost in the end. Numerous experts and professors in later generations analyzed that the essence of the Sino-Japanese War was actually that the Manchu and Qing courts used swords to kill people and used Japanese swords to eliminate Li Hongzhang’s power. And Li Hongzhang also knew this, so he ordered his Huai army troops to work without any effort. Later, these idiots actually started fighting and dropped their weapons and fled, allowing the Japanese to capture the weapons of the Chinese army to fight. Generally speaking, during the Sino-Japanese War, China’s weapons were actually slightly better than those of the Japanese army.

And the Huai army’s idiots that Wang Guorui hated the most had such poor combat effectiveness. In the original history, when Taiwan was resisting the Japanese army, Taiwan’s soldiers and civilians used local cannons and broadswords to attack the Japanese army, but the Japanese army killed and wounded was twice as much as that of the Japanese army during the Sino-Japanese War. If Taiwan’s military and civilians had half the weapons and equipment strength of the Qing army in the Sino-Japanese War of 1899-1895, they might be able to drive away the Japanese army completely, and Taiwan would not be occupied. It can be seen from this that the Manchu Qing army is so useless, and the regular army is not as powerful as the ordinary temporary volunteer army. Of course, this may have been caused by the corruption and cowardice of the high-level officials in the Qing Dynasty, so this caused the regular army to be less powerful than the volunteer army.

Moreover, the Japanese army seized the weapons of the Manchu Qing army to attack the Manchu Qing army in turn. This made Wang Guorui really speechless. This situation is exactly the opposite for decades later. When Wang Guorui saw this situation before time travel, he couldn’t laugh or cry in his heart.

The defeat in the Sino-Japanese War was actually more of a political reason than a military one. But it is useless to say these now, because Wang Guorui is about to face the Japanese army that captured hundreds of cannons from the Manchu Qing army. In addition, they also had hundreds of cannons. In theory, the Japanese army can form ten Nine artillery regiments. Although it is actually less, after all, it is impossible for these artillery to be concentrated at the wing level. But this is enough to illustrate the strength of the Japanese artillery.

Napoleon said that cannons are the **** of war. If there are no cannons, the army will suffer a lot. In the subsequent Anti-Japanese War, the Chinese army suffered a lot from insufficient firepower in many cases. Wang Guorui will not continue to make this lesson, so he must form his own artillery as soon as possible. Although Wang Guorui’s artillery cannot reach the same level as the Japanese army in a short time, at least he must have it. It is impossible for the Japanese army to transfer all the hundreds of cannons, but the first Japanese army they sent to take over Taiwan also had at least one artillery wing, which should not be underestimated.

Wang Guorui must train an artillery regiment as soon as possible, so as to withstand the first batch of Japanese attacks, and then gain time for the second batch of soldiers to train. Wang Guorui never thought that he could completely defeat the Japanese army with more than 10,000 troops. If there were no more than 100,000 troops, Wang Guorui would not be able to completely dispel Japan’s idea of occupying Taiwan. Only when the Japanese army was completely hurt, they believed that the occupation of Taiwan was not worth the loss, and they paid much more than what they received, so that they would stop fighting against Taiwan. After all, wars also pay attention to costs and benefits. This is no different from doing business. If the estimated benefits are much higher than the input costs, then naturally no one will fight this war.

“Chen Liyan, let me tell you, you must train a group of qualified artillerymen within three months, at least the size of an artillery regiment,” Wang Guorui said.

And Chen Liyan immediately said: “My lord, you’d better dismiss me, I can’t do it! Artillery is so easy to train, three months, it’s impossible!”

Although Chen Liyan was born in the green battalion, he also knew that it was not easy to train artillery. After all, what an artilleryman needs to learn is not only to shoot out the shells, but also to learn to aim. The aiming is the indirect aiming of the parabola, not the kind of straight-line aiming, so it takes a long time. Even artillerymen have to learn mathematics. If mathematics is not good enough, I am afraid that if you want to learn how to use cannons, you will need to spend a lot of shells.

Wang Guorui continued: “What if I give you unlimited shells to shoot?”

“What? Unlimited!” Chen Liyan exclaimed.

Chen Liyan really found that he had met a local tyrant, who was able to provide him with unlimited shells. This is not a local tyrant, but what. The reason why artillery can be trained for a long time is because soldiers have to learn mathematical calculations, otherwise they will not be able to shoot at all. However, Wang Guorui is so bold that he does not restrict the use of shells for training, which is simply unbelievable. If an unlimited number of cannon shells can be used, then a qualified artillery can be piled up with countless shells. However, the prerequisite is that there is really such a strong economic strength, otherwise this method will not work.

“Yes, unlimited. I can provide you with unlimited shells. You can use countless shells. Can you train qualified artillery?” Wang Guorui asked.

“Yes!” Chen Liyan said with certainty.