Qin Lang spent nearly a week making some modifications to the shells he designed: reducing the weight of the projectile, increasing the propellant, expanding the diameter of the projectile, improving the tail, and adopting a new trigger fuse...... The weight of the improved 60-millimeter shell was reduced from 1.5 kilograms to 1.2 kilograms, and the maximum range was 1,200 yards - although it still did not meet his expectations, but the small problem had to be put aside for the time being. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

He then simply enlarged the shape of the 60-millimeter shell and designed an 81-millimeter shell weighing 3.1 kilograms and having a maximum range of 2,300 yards.

Qin Lang spent some more time conducting final tests on mortars and shells, mainly related to safety and reliability, and then he ordered the factory to immediately begin production of prototypes and shells for Abyssinia. Production ended when O'Connor returned to San Diego with his chosen Chinese recruits.

Thirty-six sixty-millimeter mortars and eighteen eighty-one-millimeter mortars, as well as three thousand six hundred sixty-millimeter shells and one thousand eighteen hundred eighty-one millimeter shells, which Duncan would be responsible for sending to Abyssinia along with Menelik II's purchase of pistols, rifles, ammunition and amphetamines......

"Wait." Duncan made a pause gesture that Qin Lang taught him, "Why me?" ”

Qin Lang first glanced at the others, Rachel, Elizabeth, O'Connor, and Yi Shui, and then shrugged at him. "Who do you think can replace you, Duncan?"

The answer is simple, there is, and there is only one: "No." "Duncan is well aware that no one here will go to Abyssinia in his place—neither possible nor willing." It doesn't look like I have any choice. He said helplessly.

"It's a test of the trust that the board and the company have in you, Mr. Sandy." Qin Lang said to him in a political commissar-like tone, with a solemn and solemn expression, and even almost turned "sir" into "comrade".

Unfortunately, this trick didn't work for U.S. citizen Duncan Sandy. "Trust? Test? He rolled his eyes as much as he could, "Qin, in fact, you chose me only because all I could do was run errands, didn't you?" Apparently ......"

Rachel knocked heavily on the table, interrupting Duncan, and said to him in a caustic tone, "I'm glad you're fully aware of what you're capable of, Duncan." Yes, we all know that you can't do anything well except run errands. ”

"Rachel!"

Her words made Duncan look a little unhappy, and in fact, Qin Lang also noticed that there was some annoyance in his gaze. He chuckled to himself. It's a very interesting thing.

Duncan was a seven-percent member of the company's board of directors, something he always remembered, but Rachel always forgot about it; She will always unconsciously make their relationship less harmonious. For Qin Lang, this is a good thing: Rachel can only get a chance to get the chairmanship if he allies with Duncan and O'Connor at the same time, but if their relationship goes bad, she can't do it.

Of course, their relationship can't get too bad, otherwise the management of the company will go wrong. So when he had to, he had to step up and de-escalate the situation.

"Don't care about Rachel's words, Duncan. You know she's always like that. Qin Lang said to Duncan. Too young, too innocent, not mature enough. ”

Perhaps realizing that he had said the wrong thing, Rachel didn't retort, but he didn't apologize or show any apologies. Of course, she is by no means immature enough as Qin Lang said, she can always handle things well in front of outsiders - it's just that Duncan is not an outsider.

Of course, most people tend to be a bit unscrupulous when talking to friends and acquaintances, and therefore often turn their relationship with them into a bad one. Thankfully, though, since they are friends and acquaintances, they can generally tolerate such mistakes.

"I know little Rachel's temper, Qin, don't comfort me." Duncan smiled, "Okay, when am I leaving?" ”

"Tomorrow."

"It's a tight schedule." But apart from this, he didn't complain about anything. The deadline for delivery was approaching, and he knew there was no time for him to waste.

However, March was not only the time of delivery, it was also the time when the Italians went to war with the Abyssinians, and Qin Lang had to remind him. "Stay safe, Duncan." "Don't let the Italian army capture or kill you," he said. If something happens to you, the company won't recognize your identity. Neither will the federal government. ”

"I know." Duncan nodded, "Is there anything else to look out for?" ”

"Ask our Honorable Emperor if he needs a mercenary army to fight for him."

"Understood, Qin."

So the next day, Duncan boarded a cargo ship loaded with weapons, ammunition, and stimulants, and went to Abyssinia with them and Qin Lang's new business. At the same time, under the command of O'Connor and many instructors, the 3,800 recruits of the Umbrella Company began their formal training...... Hellish training.

Unfortunately, the outline of recruit training is still formulated by Qin Lang.

According to this syllabus, the first stage of recruit training was purely physical training, which lasted thirty-one days, seven days a week, and eighteen hours a day. That is, the only thing the recruit can do, except for the six hours spent eating and sleeping, is what he asks them to do: running, swimming, push-ups, sit-ups, long jump, weight-bearing cross-country marching......

In fact, these training programs have always existed, and Harry Thomas and other black mercenaries have conducted such training, but the problem is that Qin Lang has once again raised the standard of qualification.

The new standards, such as carrying 30 kilograms and completing a 70-kilometer mountain march in 20 hours, are almost up to the standard of special forces - of course, still a little short, about 4,000 meters. However, given the gap in trainees, this shortening of the distance is not easy for recruits.

Even the instructors, except for the old mercenaries of the company, did not feel relaxed in the slightest. The veterans who had just joined the company swore that they had never undergone such insane physical training while serving in the military, so in effect, they were one of the trainees themselves.

This was very unpleasant for some of them, and the loss to the blacks was quite annoying for some of them, and every day some people protested to O'Connor, and he became depressed.

After a difficult week, O'Connor decided to have a serious discussion with Qin Lang about this issue.

But after listening to his statement, Qin Lang had only one answer: "No." Sean, no matter how many people protest, the standard of training will never be lowered. "He was resolute.

"Qin, many people, including me, don't understand the point of your insistence on high-intensity physical training for recruits." "And you cancel the queue training, and we all think it's a mistake." ”

"Mercenaries don't need to train in a queue, and the firing squad-style combat model is completely outdated." Qin Lang replied, while quickly writing something on the paper - he was doing this when O'Connor came in, "A qualified modern mercenary only needs to have five elements: physical fitness, intelligence, combat skills, and obedience, and they must also have judgment and tactical awareness. ”

"I admit that the tactics of the Napoleonic era have become completely obsolete due to the popularity of the magazine rifle, the increased range of the cannon, and the use of machine guns, but the army ......," O'Connor tried to argue, but soon found that there was no need to argue at all.

Mercenaries are not armies at all.

Since it is not an army, of course, there is no need to train according to the model of the army. After a while, he thought that he was confused by Qin Lang's methods. Qin Lang asked the mercenaries to train recruits in a serious manner, so much so that everyone thought that he wanted to train a regular army, but in fact, all he needed was some more fierce mercenaries.

Aside from the difficulty, there was nothing wrong with his arrangement.

O'Connor sighed. "But you only train them physically...... And, of course, obedience. "It's pretty much the last one he's going to accuse, and it's still lacking in attacking power.

"God, Sean, it's only been a week since the training!" Qin Lang stopped moving, turned his head to look at O'Connor, and shouted exaggeratedly, "The training time I arranged is as long as three months, so you can't bear it for a while?" ”

"If a dozen guys complain to you every day, your patience won't be very good." He said awkwardly, and clumsily tried to steer the conversation in another direction. "What are you writing about?"

"The troop establishment of mercenaries."

"Troop formation?"

The mercenaries of the Umbrella company have not been clearly established. For a small armed force of only 700 men, the establishment also lacked practical significance. However, now that the number of mercenaries in the company has increased to 5,000 people, if there is still no clear formation, there will be problems with the command.

It's a pity that except for Qin Lang, no one has thought of this problem, so it is still him who makes the compilation table. However, for Qin Lang, the solution to the problem of establishment is actually quite simple - he completely copied the establishment table of the US Army in World War II...... More specifically, the one announced in July 1943 with 871 [note] per infantry battalion.

He took the piece of paper that had been written on it to O'Connor.

"So," he looked at for a moment, then looked up, "have you ever worked at the War Department, Qin?" ”

"Nope." Qin Lang replied strangely, "You know I don't have that kind of experience. ”

"You're a monster."

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Note: The Infantry Division Formation Chart published in July 1943 had 12 men per infantry squad with 10 rifles, 1 Browning automatic rifle (BAR) and 1 sniper rifle. The infantry company has a strength of 193 personnel and consists of three infantry platoons with three squads and an arms platoon, with two .30 light machine guns, three 60 mortars, three rocket launchers and one .50 heavy machine gun. The infantry battalion has an establishment of 871 personnel, consisting of a battalion headquarters company, an weapons company and three infantry companies. The battalion headquarters company has an anti-tank platoon with three 57 anti-tank guns, and the weapons company has six 81 mortars, eight .30 heavy machine guns, seven rocket launchers, and three .50 heavy machine guns -- of course, there will be no anti-tank guns, rocket launchers, and .50 machine guns in this book. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the WWW.CMFU.COM, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )