On July 14, 1920, the so-called "Zhiwan War" broke out, in which the Anhui warlords led by Duan Qirui and the warlords directly under Wu Peifu fought a war in the Beijing-Tianjin region in order to seize the right to rule the Beijing government.
According to unconfirmed accounts, wild history that may come from the people seems to be inconsistent with the historical version, and the two sides used a huge force of more than 200,000 horses and horses in this battle, but in the end, more than 200 casualties were killed, and dozens of people were really killed.
The reason is that the Chinese soldiers who have just returned to the gun on their backs, the braids on the back of their heads have been cut for a short time, or they are familiar with the cold weapons such as the previous red tassel guns and large blades, and for the hot weapons with deafening sounds when shooting, they are neither very adaptable nor like to use, after all, the emergence of new things has a process to be suitable.
Although there were already many foreign instructors in the ranks of warlords such as the Anhui and direct families at that time, including their own instructors who had received strict military training in the West and the East, Chinese soldiers had also received training in foreign exercises, and even the English passwords were familiar with them, but they were too embarrassed to aim and shoot.
The soldiers' front-loading medicine guns were changed to modern breech guns, military uniforms seemed to be similar to German and other Western soldiers, and the formation was also a platoon of divisions, brigades, and battalions, but they did not aim seriously, desperately firing guns, but they were still the same, and the progress of marksmanship was very limited.
On June 14, 1917, Zhang Xun restored, led 5,000 "braid soldiers" into Beijing, and sent a telegram to the Qing Dynasty's relics and elders from all over the country to enter Beijing, praising the great cause of restoration. In this regard, Li Yuanhong was very nervous, and Duan Qirui took the oath of the factory and sent a telegram to the whole country to beg thieves, saying that he wanted to recreate the republic.
The rebel army gathered Cao Kun's 3rd Division, Feng Yuxiang's 16th Mixed Brigade, Li Changtai's 8th Division, etc., which can be described as the strength of the Beiyang Army, tens of thousands of horses against Zhang Xun's 5,000 "braided soldiers", the target of the attack was Zhang Xun's mansion, located next to the canal in the imperial city.
Starting at 5 a.m., the firing continued until noon, then gradually weakened, intermittently until 3 p.m., when the soldiers of the brigade crowded in the alley, lined up layer by layer, and fired no less than a million rounds of ammunition in the direction of Zhang Xun's mansion with "racing electric guns" and Hanyangzao.
In fact, the distance between the two places is about 100 meters, and there is a palace wall nearly 10 meters high and less than 2 meters thick in the middle, and in the end, not a single bullet hit the city wall, but the victim is an innocent passerby 1000 meters away.
However, as warlord melee became more and more frequent, Chinese soldiers began to get serious, and finally, the marksmanship has improved significantly, after all, unlike the early days of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the net is the opponent of some large blades + red guns.
When the two sides faced each other, they used Hanyang-made rifles + Krupp artillery to put and bombard, so that the winner was the prince, the loser was Kou, and the soldiers had sweet and bitter heads, and naturally paid attention to marksmanship, including strategy and tactics.