After the request for assistance was conveyed to the regimental headquarters of the 276th Regiment in the rear, it was quickly approved, and all the wounded were evacuated, and at the same time, the heavy machine gun company of the first battalion of the 276th Regiment, as well as some ammunition and sandbags and other materials were sent up.

In addition to a heavy machine-gun company, there was also a batch of sandbags and empty sandbags filled with dirt, a large number of dry rations, and a batch of bullets and grenades, and the three battalions in the position divided the goods transported equally, and the ammunition was distributed to the soldiers, and a heavy machine-gun company was also assigned a heavy machine-gun platoon by a battalion, which was just able to be deployed in the trenches.

After the discussion between Zhang Wei and the two battalion commanders, it was finally decided to further strengthen the fortifications, use the sandbags sent to strengthen the fortifications, and at the same time build a certain number of anti-artillery holes, so the position was busy again. And in the trenches, further anti-artillery fortifications were built, widened and deepened.

The soldiers of each battalion take the company as a unit, take turns to work, everyone can have the opportunity to rest and eat dry food, the work efficiency of the preparation battalion in the three battalions is the highest, and the sandbag fortifications are piled up after a while, and the anti-artillery holes are also almost excavated, and the first and second battalions of the other 276 regiment are a lot worse, filling sandbags is good to say, but it is physical work, and it is more grinding when digging anti-artillery holes, or because there are many recruits in the army, and their individual work tools are not as many as the soldiers in the preparation battalion.

In order to assist the friendly army, Zhang Wei transferred some officers and soldiers of a company to help the friendly army, which was regarded as pulling up their construction progress, and after the preparation battalion was completed as a whole, the soldiers resumed their state of rest. In the center of the preparation battalion position, a reinforced heavy machine gun platoon was building fortifications on the position, and Qiu Wei led a few people to help.

"Battalion commander, here." Qiu Wei greeted, kicked a sandbag with his foot, and pressed it with his hand, Zhang Wei walked to Qiu Wei's side and helped him carry the heavy sandbag over, when doing the fortification, the incomplete sandbag is a substandard product, shrapnel and bullets hit over, maybe it can't be carried, it is directly pierced by shrapnel, and then kill and injure the soldiers in the trench, and the construction of heavy machine gun positions should be more careful than ordinary positions.

"Two guns?"

"Yes, a platoon, the platoon commander leads people to work." Qiu Wei pointed to the side, only to see a second lieutenant carrying a shell gun was leading people to build fortifications, in the trench there were two heavy machine guns that had not yet been assembled, the body of the heavy machine gun and the gun carriage were separated, the gun carriage was placed in the trench, the gun body was against the outer wall of the trench, and the muzzle and water inlet were blocked with protective covers.

An emerald green tarpaulin was padded underneath the gun, and ammunition boxes, cooling buckets, and toolboxes were placed around the heavy machine gun mount. There were also a few soldiers looking after the spare water tanks, all of which were small gasoline drums.

"Hello sir!" The platoon commander of the heavy machine gun platoon put down his work and turned around.

"Well, you've got your two guns pretty much done."

"Yes, two machine-gun emplacements have been dug up."

"Did you dig up the reserve position?"

As soon as Zhang Wei's voice fell, the second lieutenant platoon commander hesitated for a moment, and then replied in a low voice: "Report to the chief, this commander Qiu has helped us build a reserve position. ”

Qiu Wei nodded, Zhang Wei thought: It is estimated that this platoon did not take the preparatory fortifications to heart, Qiu Wei made up the loopholes, and looked at the basically completed heavy machine gun position, which was well constructed, the sandbags were very solidly loaded, and the machine guns were still placed under the trenches and were not pulled up.

Soldiers of several machine gun platoons were assembling machine guns, and several people worked together to mount the body of the heavy machine gun on the gun carriage, open the ammunition intake, gun mask and water port. The heavy machine gun body of the Valan and the machine gun mount with no signs of wear and tear show that these two guns are new colors that have not been used for long.

The body of the heavy machine gun was engraved with a string of foreign yards, except for the two Arabic numerals "79", the rest of the letters Zhang Wei could not read.

"This gun is still a foreign product, and it is in good condition, Qiu Wei, it is much stronger than those old Maozi heavy machine guns in our battalion."

Qiu Wei couldn't understand it: "The gun is a good gun, and the old Maozi guns in the battalion are rough and solid, but the color and workmanship are not good, and the words on the heavy machine gun are not in English, so I can't understand them." ”

"Sir, this gun is Belgian-made, and it's all newly replenished." The platoon commander of the heavy machine gun platoon answered.

"I see."

The heavy machine guns of the 276th Regiment were all newly replenished, and after the start of the war, the troops suffered serious losses, and although the state government was able to manufacture its own infantry weapons and equipment, the major arsenals, such as the Jinling Arsenal, the Gongxian Arsenal and the Guangdong Arsenal, were all being transferred, and the production capacity was insufficient.

Take rifles as an example, the production of advanced Zhongzheng rifles is not large, and the rifle with the largest output is still made in the new Hanyang after the transformation, and the Zhongzheng gun can only be supplied to some elite troops, and the vast majority of troops can only hold the "Han-style" rifle on the battlefield (but the modified Hanyang-made rifle is still good, and it is still a very suitable gun on the battlefield).

If you want to make up for the deficit as much as possible, you can only seek external sources of weapons, and the external sources of weapons will depend on transactions with the nature of assistance, such as Soviet weapons, and the other part will depend on external purchases, and the weapons purchased before the war are mainly imported from Germany, and after the war, Germany will no longer export weapons to China for various reasons.

At this time, the small countries in Europe are happy to be profitable, and the Czech Republic has exported a lot of weapons, and the quality and performance are basically passable, but the price, hum, anyway, one is willing to fight and one is willing to suffer.

In short, the principle of outsourcing by the government is one sentence: I will buy if I can sell it, and I will take it if I can use it.

Finland, Switzerland's light machine guns, Belgium, the Czech Republic rifles, and guns and ammunition made in various countries, it can be said that they have achieved a real international brand, fortunately, the caliber of imported rifle machine guns is quite uniform, basically all of them are rifle machine guns with seven or nine caliber pointed bullets, in line with the mainstream caliber of equipment of the Chinese army, and the logistics supply can still be adhered to.

The two Belgian heavy machine guns in front of Zhang Wei are the result of emergency procurement from Europe, and they are ordinary water-cooled Maxine heavy machine guns in shape, which are almost the same as the domestic Type 24, but the workmanship is relatively excellent.

From the mouth of this platoon commander, we learned that the 46th Division is equipped with domestically produced Type 24 heavy machine guns, German-made Maxine heavy machine guns, and imported Belgian heavy machine guns, with different models, shapes, and calibers, which are also a microcosm of the current Chinese army's weaponry.

In the face of aggression, this is the sadness of a weak country.