The teaching brigade conducted training step by step according to the training plan formulated by Zhang Wei, and Zhang Wei supervised the training.

The same thing is repeated every day, and time flies slowly.

The materials of the teaching brigade are regularly distributed on a monthly basis, mainly to allocate military salaries and food, and at the same time to replenish a small batch of equipment and ammunition.

With the arrival of food and military salaries, as well as the equipment of the engineers, because the teaching brigade has added an engineer platoon, it specially applied to the division for a batch of engineer equipment, which was brought back by He Kun's baggage platoon.

On this day, Zhang Wei and He Jinhai, the platoon commander of the engineer platoon, went to see what had been distributed, and the baggage platoon had just been pulled back.

He Kun gave Zhang Wei and He Jinhai a glance at the list of allotments.

The sapper equipment allocated this time consisted of 30 supplementary sapper shovels and pickaxes, 100 rolls of hexagonal barbed wire, 300 rolls of ordinary barbed wire, 25 boxes of explosives, and 300 sandbags.

Zhang Wei looked at the list and felt very dissatisfied, shook his head at the list, and expressed his dissatisfaction.

The engineering equipment that Zhang Wei applied for was all fortification, and there was not a single offensive equipment for the engineers.

"Jin Hai, the things sent down this time are very ordinary, you see, they are all digging and repairing fortifications, except for explosives, there is no attack equipment at all."

Zhang Wei handed the list to He Jinhai, the platoon commander of the engineer platoon, but He Jinhai did not react, looking normal.

"Captain, our engineers are basically like this, when our engineer department was studying in school, what we learned was basically how to dig soil, how to pull barbed wire, and blasting, but it was not the main subject."

Zhang Wei graduated from the infantry department, and did not study engineers, and his inherent impression of engineers came more from the capable engineers who built bridges in the water, opened roads in the mountains, played explosives every day, and carried infantry equipment on their backs.

Zhang Wei's goal is also to build his engineer platoon into an elite combat engineer platoon.

"In addition to soil engineering, you should also learn explosives and mine-laying in your engineering department, you can't be like our infantry, be a soil mouse." Zhang Wei quipped.

He Jinhai explained.

"Captain, we really learn mainly about earthwork, bridge engineering also learns, and there are few people who learn to lay mines and play explosives, and the least learned is to lay mines, you see our engineers, divisional engineers don't know how to lay mines at all."

The so-called earthwork, as the name suggests, is to construct basic civil fortifications, field fortifications, and bridgework is to erect bridges, such as pontoon bridges and temporary bridges.

The current sappers of the national army are doing these jobs, digging earth and building bridges, doing the most basic civil fortifications, sometimes engaging in blasting, and that's it.

Even the ability to lay mines is possessed only by the engineering units directly under the Ministry of Military Affairs, and ordinary troops are not allocated with mines at all.

The engineering units of many infantry divisions are not much different in equipment and infantry, but their combat capabilities are weaker than those of infantry.

He Jinhai, as an engineering student who has studied in a military academy for three years, will definitely not understand Zhang Wei's intentions after studying under this system.

The engineer platoon had four squads, Zhang Wei equipped them with very luxurious weapons, and the squad leaders and deputy squad leaders of each squad were all equipped with Mauser Twenty Rings, and Zhang Wei gave them all the flower machines that had been captured before.

Five flower machines were seized from the Japanese plainclothes army, and three were collected from other places, and each engineer squad was equipped with two flower machines, which were assigned to the sergeants of each squad, and there were twenty rounds of bullets and shell guns, so there was no need to worry about the supply of ammunition.

Each squad was equipped with two 20-round guns, two machine guns, a Czech light machine gun and six 79 rifles.

"Jin Hai, do you know why I gave you such a strong firepower for your engineer platoon?"

He Jinhai didn't answer, and he didn't know that the engineering units of the national army were basically doing some work of digging and building bridges, and many times they would be called as second-line infantry units, and their equipment level was not as good as that of infantry.

Zhang Wei gave him such good equipment for the engineer platoon, He Jinhai really didn't understand.

Zhang Wei looked at He Jinhai and He Platoon Commander who was confused, and combined with his education, He Jinhai's understanding of engineers is probably still at the general level of the current national army.

He was an excellent engineer officer of the national army, but he was not the combat engineer officer Zhang Wei wanted.

"Captain, my subordinates don't know." He Jinhai is straightforward and fast-talking.

"Okay, let's talk about it, to put it simply, I want you to be a combat engineer."

"To put it bluntly, it is the elite infantry who has mastered the skills of the engineer, first of all, the combat skills of the infantry must be excellent, even stronger than the ordinary infantry company, and it is precisely because your platoon is a veteran that it was changed to a combat engineer platoon."

"Your task is not only normal civil engineering and bridge work, but also mine clearance and explosives. When the infantry can't bite the position, you can rely on the equipment of the sappers and the tactics of the sappers to tear holes in the Japanese defense line. ”

"I will equip you with such strong firepower, so that at this time, from the sapper shovel to twenty rings, steel wire and explosives, are your weapons, you are not only sappers, but also an assault force in your hands."

Combat sappers must first be elite infantrymen, and then they must master the professional skills of sappers.

Moreover, the combat sappers are more focused on "sappers equipped with close combat", taking the German combat sappers as an example, the guns equipped are the same configuration of the infantry, machine guns and rifles.

In addition to completing normal sapper operations, once needed, the German combat sappers will assault on the front line and assault with melee firepower, and this melee firepower is obviously not output by pulling the bolt 98K and MP40.

It relied on a large number of grenades and explosives, as well as specialized equipment such as blasting canisters for sappers.

Zhang Wei's purpose was the same as that of teaching the combat engineer platoon of the brigade to strengthen the melee firepower of the guns, requiring them to use the engineering equipment and engineer knowledge as a sharp weapon to destroy the enemy on the basis of better quality.

Where the infantry can't get down, pull them up, and they rely on stronger geotechnical abilities than ordinary infantry to stick up, and use all kinds of equipment and melee firepower of the sappers to break down the enemy army and break through the enemy's defense line.

Hearing Zhang Wei's word-by-word explanation, He Jinhai gradually had a new understanding, after all, he came from the engineering department, and there are some things in common between the infantry department and the engineering department.

"The subordinates probably understand, but in this way, wouldn't the subordinates have to learn infantry subjects and infantry tactics?" He Jinhai asked.

Zhang Wei nodded, thinking that He Jinhai's reaction was still very fast, and he generally understood Zhang Wei's needs, and now he thought of learning infantry tactics.

As the commander of a combat engineer unit, certain basic infantry tactics must be mastered.

But in Zhang Wei's view, He Jinhai is a platoon commander, and he doesn't need to be so profound.

"Don't worry, it's good to have a certain mastery, if you don't know, you can ask the squadron leaders of the infantry squadron, several of them are from the infantry section."