"So, we have to practice our own stabbing skills. The officers and soldiers of our independent regiment must defeat the Japanese aggressors in their most proud techniques and tactics, shatter their so-called pride of the imperial army, and make them treat themselves as if they were waiting for our stabbings.
The slaughtered lambs are shivering, but we will not hold back. No matter they are afraid or trapped beasts, we will insert the thorns in our hands into their hearts. The bleeding thorns are our only answer to the beasts." Liu Lang paused for a moment.
Look around.
Splitting his tongue and yelling: "Can you do it?"
"And can I trust you?"
"Can, can, can~~~"
Everyone present, whether they were officers, veterans or new recruits, waved their arms and shouted loudly.
The huge sound of hundreds of people shouting loudly resounded through the sky and caused waves of echoes in the surrounding mountains.
Even the veterans who were still improving the tunnel fortifications on the mountain peaks several miles away couldn't help but look over here to see what kind of madness these new recruits were, they were shouting at the top of their lungs!
Our Party's method still works! Liu Lang couldn't help but use the fixed formula of the political commissars at all levels in the army in his previous life to boost morale. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart. When it comes to ideological and political education, looking around the world, there is really no one except our Party.
within reach.
Of course, except for the complete and utter obscurantist policies of a certain fat man in a bitter cold land.
History has proven that the powerful Mongols only maintained their rule in the Central Plains for 90 years with that method, and were then driven back to Mobei. If it hadn't been so cold there, they would have been almost wiped out by the powerful Ming army.
When the surrounding landslides and tsunami-like shouts of arms gradually subsided, Liu Lang looked at Cai Dadao and said: "Do you understand now? What determines victory is never weapons, but people, iron will and indomitable determination.
Since your swordsmanship is so outstanding, I allow you to bring your sword with you during the war, but you have to cut off the heads of at least three Japanese invaders for me, can you do it?"
"Sir, Cai Dadao promises to complete the mission." Cai Dadao looked solemn and solemnly gave Liu Lang a military salute.
Perhaps it was not until this moment that Cai Dadao completely shed his banditry and truly integrated himself into the role of a soldier.
Soldiers, the sharp sword of the country, should never show off their force in front of their friends, but should only show their edge in front of the enemy.
"Sir, please trust us." The surrounding officers and soldiers also saluted Liu Lang with a military salute.
This is obviously an extremely successful improvement in ideological awareness.
In the next two weeks, no matter whether they were new recruits or veterans, they not only practiced the art of stabbing, but also practiced in other subjects as if they were risking their lives, and their training results also improved by leaps and bounds.
Liu Lang felt that it was necessary for him to find a subordinate similar to the political commissar of the Red Army who specialized in ideological work. Ideological work was really important.
Time passed day by day in the hot recruit training, and entered the hot August.
The three factories that Liu Lang proposed to build when he first established the independent regiment base have begun to take shape.
The blast furnace of the steelmaking plant has been officially put into operation. If the raw materials are sufficient, it can produce one ton of low-carbon steel per day, 30 tons per month, and 360 tons per year. This is already an extremely remarkable achievement. You must know that the entire Republic of China,
Combined, the large and small steel mills can only produce a mere 30,000 tons a year.
Liu Lang doesn't need to build tanks and armored vehicles now. Of course, more importantly, he can't build them even if he wants to. Even if he could build them by taking 10,000 steps back, Liu Lang wouldn't have enough oil supply. China has been poor since the beginning of the industrial era.
Oil country, even if it is eighty-five years later.
Thirty tons of steel production per month is barely enough for an independent regiment that only manufactures light weapons and builds fortresses.
Qinglong Machinery Factory is said to be a machinery factory, but it has basically become a small military factory. In addition to fully producing 7.92MM bullets suitable for Hanyang, it also hired several people who were heavily paid from the Chengdu Chongqing Military Factory based on Liu Lang's suggestion.
Under the leadership of veteran technicians, melon-shaped grenades were developed.
Speaking of grenades, almost every Chinese will have an image of soldiers holding up long-handled grenades and throwing them at the enemy from a distance. There are even soldiers using long-handled grenades as weapons to smash the enemy's brains.
Undoubtedly, wooden long-handled grenades have become the standard equipment of the Chinese army since the day they were born. Whether it was the Republic of China or the future Republic, and even in the self-defense counterattack in the southern jungle a few years later, long-handled grenades were also a must-have.
I don’t know how much patent fees the Germans, the inventors of the long-handled grenade, want from China. It must be an astronomical figure!
Wooden long-handled grenades can be manufactured and widely used. Of course, not only can they be picked up and used as hammers to hit people at the most critical moment, they can be thrown far and accurately. They can be clustered or tied together and used as a large bomb to deal with armored vehicles.
It's a big thing like a tank, and it can also prevent it from rolling down, so as not to throw it out and roll back again and blow yourself up into pieces.
It can be said that long-handled grenades have many benefits and are indeed the favorite of Chinese soldiers.
But so many benefits have actually exposed a shortcoming of the Chinese army, which is the lack of front-line fire suppression. The grenades are completely used as mortars. Trained soldiers can generally throw grenades fifty or sixty meters away.
The soldiers of the Republic even had a record of throwing grenades 100 meters away, which is almost the same distance as the Japanese grenade in the Taisho decade.
The shortcomings of long-handled grenades are also fatal. They are not only large in size but also weigh one kilogram. A soldier can hang six or eight grenades, which is the limit. This is also very disadvantageous for soldiers who need front-line fire suppression. So when World War II started,
At present, not only the wealthy American soldiers are all equipped with melon-type grenades, but even the Japanese Army Ministry, which has always been impatient and eager to adjust its machine guns to single-shot fire, has equipped its soldiers with grenades and abandoned long-handled grenades.
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Of course, these are incomparable to the National Government. After finally learning how to imitate the German M24 grenade, will they still have extra time to develop melon-style grenades? As for the fatal shortcoming of not being able to carry more, it is not a problem.
The soldiers of the national army who go to the battlefield can carry four grenades, which is a treatment that can only be obtained by the rich and oily Central Army.
For example, Li Jiayu's 47th Army relied on a pair of iron legs to travel thousands of miles to Sichuan to fight against the Japanese. The most powerful equipment on the body was the two long-handled grenades hanging under the neck. They were the Sichuan Army's most powerful individual heavy weapons.
The most annoying thing is that the wooden handle of the German long-handled grenade is hollow, with a fuse and firing device inside. However, the National Army does not know that the copycat engineer simply added the fuse and firing device to the projectile body for the sake of convenience.
In the front, the wooden handle is simply made solid.