After that, the training life of the preparatory battalion entered a relatively calm stage, and the troops trained every day with a sufficient supply of meat, practiced hard, and ate enough.

Under Zhang Wei's supervision, the cooks followed the fighters every day to carry out basic rifle operation, shooting, and bomb throwing training.

For combat soldiers, this is really nothing, but for this group of pampered cooks, it is definitely terrifying training.

At the same time as the basic training, the production tasks of the preparation camp in charge of the cooking class were also in full swing.

In addition to training and cooking, the cooks set up pig pens and chicken pens in the camp to raise the animals they bought.

The leftovers that the battalion could not eat every day were fed to these animals, and the cooks also released pigs and sheep out of the slaughter for a specific period of time in order to fatten the animals.

Zhang Wei said that if basic training and livestock are not good, this group of cooking soldiers will have to fight bayonets and climb mud pits with combat soldiers!

In order not to climb the mud pit, these cooks worked hard during basic training, and even more so in raising pigs and chickens.

The production work was booming, and the cooks were also proficient in basic combat skills.

The training of the officers and men of the preparatory battalion was personally supervised by Zhang Wei, and the live-fire training has resumed in the past few days, but since there is no ammunition replenishment at present, the amount of shooting is not very large.

Recently, the preparation battalion discovered a huge problem during live-fire training, that is, the damage to firearms.

Qiu Wei and three other company commanders also reported to Zhang Wei that the recent live-fire training included rifle firing and light machine gun and heavy machine gun cover firing training.

A commonality was found in the companies, that is, the damage rate of the Su machinery was particularly high.

The current equipment of the preparatory battalion is mainly Chinese-formal, with a small number of Hanyang-made and Belgian-made rifles, and most of the machine guns are Soviet-style turntable light machine guns and Soviet-style M1910 heavy machine guns.

In the past few days of live-fire training, the rifle was basically damaged by the old Hanyang-made, and the light machine gun damaged three Soviet-style turntable machine guns and one Soviet-style heavy machine gun, and the damage rate of the Soviet-style machine gun was extremely high!

The company commanders and Zhang Wei reported the specific situation, as well as the operation experience of the soldiers below, constantly discussed and verified, and personally inspected the damaged weapons, and gradually summed up the shortcomings of the Su weapon.

The preparatory battalion is currently equipped with Soviet-style turntable light machine guns and M1910 heavy machine guns.

Of the three LMG guns that were damaged, two of the cartridges were not firmly connected to the gun body, which caused damage to the cartridges during the firing movement, and one of them blew up the chamber, but fortunately the shooter was not injured.

The advantage of these Soviet-style light machine guns is that they have a large ammunition capacity, but in the eyes of the machine gunners of the preparation battalion who are accustomed to using the Czech type, this advantage is not obvious.

The huge cartridge disc not only increases the ammunition capacity, but also increases the inconvenience of carrying and the quality of the gun body, and the connection is very weak.

These machine guns went through several major battles, and the wear and tear was already very bad, which eventually led to the detachment of the cartridge disc and the barrel.

There are also a lot of other problems, because the size of the bullet plate is too large, there is no suitable carrying tool, the deputy shooter of the light machine gun team can only carry the large bullet plate to follow the shooter forward, in short, extremely inconvenient.

The Czechs could carry a large number of spare magazines by relying on the leather magazine bags on the shooter and the co-shooter, which the Soviet-style turntable light machine gun simply could not do.

Taken together, the Soviet-style light machine gun has a large ammunition capacity and a low firing level, and these two advantages are offset by other disadvantages.

This thing is definitely easy to use for Maozi soldiers, the old Maozi people are tall and big, and it is no problem to carry them, but the preparation battalion is Chinese soldiers, and the quality of the Soviet machinery is large, and the problem of being too rough is highlighted.

The machine gunners of the preparatory battalion said one after another that they wanted to use the Czech type!

The ammunition capacity is a little less, and the aiming is a little more difficult than the Soviet-style machine gun, but the weight is light, and it takes a long time to use, and the operation experience is rich, and the machine gun shooters think that the Czech type is better to use, and they have made a request for a change!

The problem of heavy machine guns is even greater, and the batch of heavy machine guns in the preparation battalion was produced more than ten years ago, and they are second-hand, because they are old, and they were blown up during training.

After all kinds of situations occurred, the whole of the preparatory battalion had a very bad impression of the Soviet armament, and the light machine gunners demanded to change to a Czech-style light machine gun, and the heavy machine gunners asked to change to a Chinese-made Type 24 or a German-made Maxine heavy machine gun.

The machine gunners thought that the Soviet light machine gun was not as good as the Czech-made one.

For a time, there were calls for the replacement of national equipment and equipment.

Zhang Wei listened to various opinions, and coupled with his own shooting experience, he really felt that Su Machinery was not very suitable.

Czech, 24 heavy machine guns These weapons have a long history of use in **, and they are experienced in use, and the Czech type was once synonymous with light machine guns.

In this environment, the shooters are generally more willing to use traditional weapons, and the Soviet weapons do have drawbacks, and it is understandable that the soldiers reject the Soviet weapons.

Zhang Wei still remembered that the evaluation of the turntable light machine gun by the people's army on the Korean battlefield was similar to the reaction of the machine gunners of the preparation battalion, but the quality was too large and the carrying remained unchanged.

The People's Army's overall evaluation of the Soviet armament was also not high, and the 1910 heavy machine gun of the same model as the preparatory battalion was said to be too cumbersome.

The Mosin rifle was nicknamed the kick gun by the soldiers, and it is said that it was the nickname that made it difficult to operate due to the pit father's bolt and the need to kick it to shoot normally.

The only one that can be called a good evaluation is the **sha submachine gun.

The squadron's evaluation of Su Machinery seems to have a feeling of five big and three thick, large mass, and roughness, and it may be that for the body type of the Chinese, Su Machinery does have various insuitables.

The use of Soviet weapons, whether for the current ** or the people's army on the Korean battlefield is a helpless move, in the case of the amount can not be guaranteed, whether it is suitable or not is placed in a secondary position.

The 200th Division is basically in this situation now, with rifles mainly being officially in the national armament, and light and heavy machine guns mixed with Soviet armaments.

At present, the preparatory battalion has not replenished ammunition and equipment, and when the time comes, Zhang Wei plans to apply not to replenish the Soviet armament, but to replenish the national armament and equipment.

In addition to the defects of the Soviet armament itself and the inadaptability of the soldiers of the preparation battalion, there is another drawback, that is, the ammunition caliber of the Soviet armament.

The rifle of the preparatory battalion is a Zhongzheng, commonly known as the Qijiu Zhongzheng rifle, because its caliber is 7.92x57 caliber bullets, while the machine gun of the Soviet Union is 7.62x54r rounds.

At the moment of emergency in battle, if the rifle machine gun ammunition is universal, it can be adjusted to each other, and if it is a national armament, the neutral gun, the Czech and the 24 heavy machine guns can completely help each other when necessary.

At present, the preparation battalion is a state-made Zhongzheng, and the combination of light and heavy machine guns of the Soviet armament will not work, and they can only fight separately, and at most the light machine guns and heavy machine guns will be exchanged.

In wartime, this is also a hidden danger, and the reaction of the lower-level soldiers is undoubtedly the most useful and direct, Zhang Wei made up his mind that the next time he replenishes, he must replace all of them with national weapons or foreign firearms of 79 caliber.