In the early morning, when the sky was just getting light, a loud military bugle sounded in the Encarnacion military camp. When he heard the wake-up call, Pang Zhenyun, commander of the 1st Mixed Brigade, put on his military uniform, shoes and hats like an ordinary soldier, and then went to the camp.
Walk to the training ground.
The vast training ground is already filled with soldiers. Groups of soldiers are divided into companies and platoons according to different military divisions. Under the leadership of their respective commanders, they are conducting daily tactical training.
The military songs were loud and the military discipline was strong. Looking at the soldiers practicing on the training ground, Pang Zhenyun felt a sense of pride and confidence in his heart.
Eight years ago, when he led nearly a hundred young men to Annan and defected to the Nanyang Army, he never imagined that he would have the opportunity to lead such an army to fight abroad.
The First Mixed Brigade has two large-scale regiments and several auxiliary units, with a total number of 9,000 people. It is equipped with 15 Jianye Six-year-old heavy machine guns, 12 75mm field guns, and more than 7,000 Jianye Six-year-old rifles.
In terms of the amount of breech-loading rifle equipment, the amount of weapons and equipment of one brigade of the First Mixed Brigade now exceeds the total number of breech-loading rifles owned by the entire Annan court.
The First Mixed Brigade is the old main force of the Han Army. Although in the intervening years due to troop expansion and other reasons, more than two-thirds of the basic troops of the First Mixed Brigade were transferred, it has once again added more than 100 junior officers from the Army Officer School.
After graduating from command majors, the grassroots organizational structure and overall combat effectiveness of the First Mixed Brigade have been restored to a great extent. Perhaps because of the recruitment of a large number of recruits and military school graduates, the comprehensive combat effectiveness of the First Mixed Brigade is still not as good as
Compared with the previous peak period, but with military school graduates who have received formal military education taking over the tactical command of the grassroots combat units of the 1st Mixed Brigade, coupled with the command and correction of some veteran officers with rich combat experience, I believe it will not take long.
After experiencing real battlefield baptism, most of them will grow into qualified grassroots military commanders.
The ammunition materials used in the Jianye Six-Type Rifle and the 75mm field guns equipped by divisions and brigade-level troops of the regular army are all new smokeless gunpowders.
Among them, the Jianye Six-year-old rifle uses B-type single-base smokeless powder as the propellant, while the propellant used by the 75mm field gun is double-base smokeless powder ballistite.
Type B single-based smokeless gunpowder and double-based smokeless gunpowder ballistite are among the most advanced rifles and artillery ammunition in the world. Under Li Mingyuan’s guidance and intervention in advance, the local government of Han Dynasty completed the Type B single-base gunpowder one year ahead of France.
The research and development of the formulas of base smokeless gunpowder and double-base smokeless gunpowder ballistite was completed in early 1885, and the trial production of rifles and artillery using the two gunpowders as propellants was completed.
At the end of January 1885, the Hanguo Iron and Steel Group and major military industrial enterprises began the production of Jianye's six-year-old rifles and new artillery. After four years of production and operation, by the first half of 1889, the Jianye six-year-old rifles
The total production capacity of Jianye has gradually dropped steadily from an annual output of 72,000 to 53,000. The annual output of Jianye's six-year-old heavy machine guns has dropped from 410 to 300.
The production capacity of various types of artillery has dropped from 800 to 650 per year.
The annual output of various rifles and artillery shells has remained stable at approximately 75 million rounds and 370,000 rounds respectively.
There is room for further improvement in Han's military production capacity. However, considering the cost issues in peacetime ammunition production and maintenance, major local military companies did not expand their military production capacity without limit under Li Mingyuan's instructions.
Comparing the current military industrial production capacity, military weapons and equipment, and individual combat effectiveness of the Han State and the Republic of Brazil, Pang Zhenyun and most of the participating commanders agreed that the Republic of Brazil had almost no chance of winning.
However, the Republic of Brazil is not the Han State. Their senior officials and generals do not place intelligence collection on enemy countries in a strategic position like the Han State. As a result, they have no real understanding of the strength of the Han State's military industry and army.
Pass.
Of course, the Han State attaches great importance to external intelligence, and also attaches more importance to the confidentiality of internal intelligence. Even if the top brass of the Republic of Brazil vigorously develop all aspects of intelligence investigation work on the Han State, it will be difficult to obtain the performance, quantity, and performance of the crucial new military weapons.
Military deployment, speeches and other related information.
The advantages of newly industrialized countries over backward and conservative countries are all-round. Based on the objective strength comparison between Han Dynasty and the Republic of Brazil, even if there are one or more strategic visionaries in the Republic of Brazil, they will not be able to overcome the huge and decadent system of the Republic of Brazil.
, and make fundamental improvement measures.
The number of Jianye Six-year-old rifles currently produced by the Han Dynasty exceeds 200,000. Excluding 180,000 for regular army and navy forces, the remaining 20,000 rifles are in inventory. If some frontline troops of the Republic of Brazil perform relatively well,
combat capabilities, then the Han Dynasty will take corresponding countermeasures. On the one hand, it will mobilize reserves to enter the Paraguay battlefield. On the other hand, it will temporarily increase military production capacity and arm more troops with inventory and recently produced guns and artillery.
They continuously poured into the front-line battlefield until the enemy was crushed, leaving no hope for the Brazilian Republic's army to stand up.
Pang Zhenyun was promoted to the commander of the 1st Mixed Brigade. As one of the senior officers, he was fortunate to see nine combat plans in the direction of Encarnacion. Based on possible emergencies in the Republic of Brazil and Paraguay, the General Staff Headquarters made a decision
Various countermeasures, including the extremely low-probability event that the frontline army of the Republic of Brazil uncharacteristically displayed its might and defeated the 1st Mixed Brigade, all appeared in the operational plan of the General Staff Headquarters.
The staff officers at the General Staff Headquarters are busy tinkering with various combat plans during peacetime. A simple battle can have several or dozens of different plans in their hands. Although Pang Zhenyun believes that as the command center of the army,
It is necessary for the staff headquarters to predict the impact of various possible or unexpected events on the course of the campaign, but certain events that are almost impossible to occur do not need to be included in the combat plan.
Recalling some of the jokes among his colleagues about the staff headquarters, Pang Zhenyun naturally smiled on his face.
It took Pang Zhenyun more than eight years to rise from a junior officer to a brigade commander in charge of a 9,000-man army. If the First Mixed Brigade performed well during the Paraguay War, it would be possible for him to replace the epaulettes on his uniform with a small one.
Douzi's rank of Major General.
After inspecting the soldiers' training as usual, Pang Zhenyun was about to turn around and return to the temporary headquarters of the 1st Mixed Brigade when he saw Shen Dehui, the combat staff officer of the brigade, walking towards him.
"Brigadier, good news!"
Major staff officer Shen Dehui (born in 1863, a graduate of the German Military Academy) found Pang Zhenyun, walked quickly to his side, and said happily: "The headquarters has assigned us an additional 105 mm howitzer regiment, with 36 artillery pieces in the regiment, all of which use double-sided guns.
The smokeless gunpowder ballistite is used as the propellant. This thing is a good thing. With it, our brigade's heavy fire attack capability has been improved by more than a little!"
"After a long wait, we finally got some good news. Let's go and see what these big guys look like. They can make the General Staff Headquarters so precious that they have been hiding them and are reluctant to send them to us!"
Having received support from a 105mm artillery regiment, Pang Zhenyun was in a good mood and said with satisfaction.
"Haha, don't worry, brigade commander. There is more than one good news. The General Staff Headquarters learned that the Republic of Brazil has sent 20,000 additional troops to Paraguay. Worried about the increase in enemies on the combat route of the 1st Mixed Brigade, it sent two more guards to us.
Regiment, a total of 3,000 reinforcements, led by Lieutenant Colonel Hu Kunshan, commander of the 4th Security Brigade, to assist our brigade in combat."
"One more person, one more helper, and with the help of 3,000 garrison troops, our combat operations will be carried out more smoothly."
There was no change in Pang Zhenyun's face. He smiled faintly and said: "Let's go, Zhang Wenlian, the leader of the first regiment, and Zhou Shanchu, the leader of the second regiment, are here. Let's go together to welcome the new colleagues."......
"Brother Zhenyun, goodbye Annan. You and I haven't seen each other for several years."
Seeing the people coming out of the camp to greet them, Hu Kunshan, commander of the 4th Guard Brigade, cupped his hands and smiled.
"Haha, military affairs are so busy that Pang couldn't spare time to get together with Brother Hu to reminisce about old times. I feel very regretful."
Pang Zhenyun laughed and welcomed Hu Kunshan and his party into the camp, and said: "I think back then, you, me, Zhu Bingqing, and Li Tang had a passion to resist the shame of the barbarians, and each led a hundred people to defect to the Nanyang Army. Now I and the four others
We all returned to our homeland with the army, and each served in a different army. In just eight years, thousands of miles of Annan have been reduced to French and barbarian colonies, and we have also become imperial officers. When I think about it in my spare time, it feels like it is a lifetime ago."
"Meeting Brother Zhenyun again, Mr. Hu indeed has the same state of mind."
While observing the weapons, equipment and training of the officers and soldiers of the 1st Mixed Brigade, Hu Kunshan said with envy: "Eight years ago, we only wanted to kill three or five barbarians to avenge our shame. Even if we died in a foreign country, we would not be able to do anything.
Regret, but today, seeing the majesty of Brother Zhenyun's military force, brother, I have no regrets at all."
"If only the brothers who sacrificed their lives were known to the underground! Seeing the scene in our country today, we should rest in peace."
Pang Zhenyun sighed, and then said: "Brother Hu actually does not need to envy the weapons and equipment of the First Mixed Brigade. After the Paraguay War is over, Brother Hu and the brothers of the Fourth Guard Brigade have made a war and will be rewarded based on their merits in the future.
Maybe we can win the opportunity to be reorganized into a regular army."
"Haha, let me borrow Brother Zhenyun's good words."
