By the time the group entered the exercise ground on foot, all the troops participating in the exercise had already lined up.

The morale of the two garrison companies is naturally not high, after all, no matter how hard the training is, there is still a difference between it and actual combat.

And the Wehrmacht company under Lyon, everyone was also unconvinced. Bruce, in particular, felt that he was being crushed by the SS with their weapons, which did not reflect their fighting standards.

But at this time, the bigwigs of the Wehrmacht will care what Bruce thinks. For them, it is important to see what is the secret of the increase in the combat effectiveness of the SS.

In front of them, a standard SS infantry company was already standing in a line on the exercise ground.

They had just experienced a fierce drill and had no appearance at all, their faces were blackened by gunsmoke, their bodies were covered with mud, and a few unlucky people had colored on their heads, so they simply bandaged them with gauze, and the bright red blood had already stained the gauze with red spots. This was done in hand-to-hand combat with the Wehrmacht's elite company before, and Bruce's gang was very dark because they refused to admit defeat.

But the lottery is the lottery, and their queue is neat and impeccable!

The SS was different from the average Waffen-SS, they were full-time combat troops!

Whether it is the selection of personnel, the level of training, or even the discipline, it is completely comparable to the Defence Force.

Because in a sense, this was the Führer's "private army", Reinhardt had always paid great attention to the construction of the SS, and personally emphasized discipline to prevent the vicious incident of the SS wanton killing prisoners in history.

Of course, the SS garrison, which prepared second-rate weapons, also demanded strict discipline. After all, they will go to garrison the occupied areas in the future, and it is not okay to die like in history.

On the other hand, the Wehrmacht team doesn't matter how neatly lined up you are. What they wanted to know, what they wanted to see, was the weapons and establishment of the SS, so that they could use it well to improve the combat effectiveness of the Wehrmacht.

So, Reinhardt signaled the head of the SS Weapons Experimental Regiment, SS Major General Rashid, to make an introduction. Because he was a participant in the development of the new establishment, he knew this best.

Major General Rashid first sent a squad out of the ranks, introduced and showed the weapons on their bodies to the IDF commanders.

The first is the G43 semi-automatic rifle, a weapon that the Wehrmacht also knows. Because in the previous Polish campaign, I saw some SS troops try it, and the effect was very good, and this time a batch was also used for exercises, but the regiment commander told them that this is different from the early trial train products in the Polish campaign, which is an improved model of the early G43.

According to the requirements of the Führer, in order to reduce production costs and man-hours, Mauser's engineers used a large number of stamping parts, which has reduced the cost of the entire semi-automatic rifle by one-third, and the man-hours by nearly half!

Advances in production bode well for the semi-automatic rifle, which is fed with a 10-round detachable magazine, soon to be mass-equipped with the Wehrmacht.

At the same time, Rashid asked the machine gunner to show up with the squad leader with the submachine gun on his back.

The squad leader's submachine gun is the MP submachine gun familiar to the generals, but it has also been revised.

Due to the fact that during the Polish campaign, some officers and soldiers felt that the rate of fire of the MP submachine gun was not enough. Moreover, the submachine gun is a 9x19 Balabylum bullet, and it is of little significance to ask for too much even ** degree, so the gun designers will find a way to increase the rate of fire, choose to increase the amount of projection, and give up the over-emphasized even ** degree.

At the same time, the submachine gun, designated MP40, also made extensive use of stamped parts.

The machine gun of the Heavy differed somewhat from the Wehrmacht's model.

But if modern people see it, they will definitely recognize that this is the most ferocious machine gun MG42 of World War II!

This is also a weapon with a large number of stamped parts, but it was prematurely produced due to various factors. Because it is now an experimental gun, it is temporarily named MG40 Experimental Type. But as long as there is a demand, the major arsenals can immediately start production at the first time.

When the generals saw these three weapons, which did everything possible to reduce costs and increase the speed of production, their hearts were like mirrors. Because they knew that the end of the Polish campaign was not the beginning of peace, but the brewing of an even greater war. As long as the declaration of war by Britain and France against Germany is not revoked for one day, the war will not end for another day!

However, some people noticed the difference in this infantry squad, and before Rashid could introduce him, General Liszt couldn't wait to ask questions.

"This regiment commander, how come there are two people in your squad who don't carry rifles? If I'm not mistaken, the only gun they were carrying was a Mauser factory combat pistol. I've used this before, it's too big and it's very inconvenient to use. ”

Rashid smiled and pointed at the two soldiers who were not carrying rifles: "They? ”

He didn't sell it, and quickly explained to the generals headed by Liszt: "Everyone knows that our squad battles revolve around machine guns. But in real combat we found that when the machine gun is suppressing the target, it is very difficult for one person to control it. In fact, robots need to be assisted by a secondary shooter and an ammo hand. ”

Rashid paused, looked around, and continued, "Whether it's to help with reloading or changing the spare barrel, it's very difficult for the ammunitionman's rifle to be effective. Coupled with the fact that our new machine guns have a faster rate of fire, in order to maintain sustained combat capability, we have increased the number of bullets that ammunition men can carry on their backs and replaced the rifle with the Mauser Combat Pistol. And the Walther P38 pistol of the secondary shooter was not powerful enough, so we also replaced it with a combat pistol. ”

As he spoke, Rashid took off the wooden gun box that the ammunition man was carrying, took out the Mauser M1932 pistol from it, and skillfully connected the gun case to the grip to make the gun longer. Then he inserted a 20-round long magazine and continued:

"Look! Now, it's a small submachine gun, and when you attach the case, you have a stock, and the 20-round magazine gives it enough ammunition to spill. The most important thing is that its ammunition is also balabrum, which is the mainstream pistol cartridge of our army. ”

"One more thing," Rashid said after seeing Reinhardt's head, killing two birds with one stone.

Because of the outbreak of war, the major arsenals in China have a backlog of Asian orders. Since this Mauser combat pistol is very popular in Asia, we have been producing it in large quantities. Now, the pistols that have been produced in large quantities are piled up in Mauser's warehouse, and there are roughly 100,000 of them, all in stock! Moreover, our Czech Škoda plant also has a large number of such pistols piled up in the corners of the warehouse. ”

"Counting the captures from Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, we were probably able to find almost 300,000 combat pistols. Even if you remove those that are not 9 mm caliber and cannot be fired continuously, it is conservatively estimated that there are still about 200,000 pieces. And because of the hot orders in Asia, Spain also mass-produced this weapon. As long as we want to pack a large number of columns, we can even place an order from Spain to replenish it. I don't think Frange will refuse. ”

"Now, all of a sudden, we have 200,000 to 300,000 powerful combat pistols. Best of all, it's in stock! Some have even been paid, but are overstocked in warehouses due to the war and cannot be transported. We don't even have to spend money, just digging them up from the dusty corners of the warehouse, and suddenly we get hundreds of thousands of 'small submachine guns'! ”

The generals thought about it and quickly understood what it was like to have such a weapon after storming the enemy's trenches and wantonly spilling ammunition.

On the defensive, this in turn allows the infantry to form a new line of defense at close range. The original two MP submachine guns have been supplemented by two combat rifle pistols, which will make the defense line formed by this rain of bullets even more impregnable. And because it is smaller than a submachine gun, it can even be distributed to armored corps, pilots as self-defense weapons, and can also be used to make up for the lack of pistols and distribute them to low-level officers. Although it is a little heavier and a little bigger, no one will be dissatisfied with taking more of such a powerful weapon.