"Sir—"

The veterans standing guard at the door announced loudly, and the various voices in the barracks yard stopped, and more than two hundred recruits looked at this and that curiously, not knowing what to do, and finally under the low supervision of more than a dozen veterans, they stood up straight to greet them, and An Yi led Hu Zi and Yin Jinan to stride towards the door.

After listening to An Yi's report, Liu Xiao returned a salute: "Who is the car outside the door?" ”

"Mr. Ou Yaoting, he not only gave us a batch of professional equipment for engineers, but also lent us a car for a few days, and the transportation of recruits and tools in the past two days depends on this car."

An Yi knew that Liu Xiao, Xu Tingyao and others went to the regiments below every day to inspect the work, and it was estimated that they had just come back.

Liu Xiao glanced at the full yard and nodded with satisfaction: "You bought two big pigs and came back to slaughter, did you also invite a few outside masters to cook for you?" ”

An Yi said with a smile: "It's all made by the recruits themselves, I asked after killing the pigs, when those recruits were in their hometown, they went to help whenever they encountered red and white happy events, so the dishes were well cooked." Commanders, please have a meal with the brothers of the Third Company, we are still waiting for the commanders to speak. ”

"If you don't invite us to eat, you guys, the whole camp is wafting with the smell of meat, which makes the brothers in other parts have a lot of opinions, haha!"

Hu Shusen saw the yellow, orange, orange and shiny plates of meat on the table and liked it very much.

"Sir, please!"

An Yi accompanied Liu Xiao and the others to take a step back, and whispered a few words to Yin Jinan beside him, Yin Jinan quickly left to find two soldiers, lifted the two desks in the office and spread a fairly clean blue cotton cloth under the big banyan tree, and after a while, it was decent.

Liu Xiao, Hu Shusen, Jiang Dingwen and their respective adjutants and the battalion commander Kuang Shimin sat down one after another, and instructed An Yi to call Hu Zi and Yin Jinan to sit at the same table, and they could still sit down even if they were squeezed. An Yi knew that the chiefs had a lot of things to ask, so he didn't feel the need to be too respectful and humble.

"Command your brethren to move, and be unrestrained." Liu Xiao is a real person.

"Yes!"

An Yi turned around and ran between the tables and conveyed loudly: "The master has an order, and the brothers move!" ”

As soon as the words fell, more than 20 tables of different shapes, sitting and squatting brothers suddenly started chopsticks and danced, some honest recruits were still asking "where to move", seeing that no one answered just to eat meat quickly, puzzled for a moment and couldn't figure it out, suddenly found that half of the meat in the vegetable pot was missing, and then he understood, hurriedly picked up chopsticks and rice bowls to join the ranks of grabbing food, his heart was both anxious and emotional, and the first lesson in the barracks left a lifelong unforgettable memory.

The chiefs had a complete set of dishes at this table, and the portions were sufficient, and several chiefs did not speak and ate three bowls of rice in a row, and there was not much meat left, so they took out their handkerchiefs and wiped off their mouths of oil with satisfaction, and praised their good craftsmanship.

Hu Shusen pointed to the vegetable pot on the table and said: "It's done well, although it is not as delicate as the big restaurant, but it is full of flavor, especially this sauce round hooves, back to the pot meat and garlic white meat, which is very Sichuan and Hunan characteristics." So be it...... Adjutant Chen, tomorrow you transfer the two recruits who made these dishes to the canteen of the division headquarters, haha! ”

An Yi complained bitterly in his heart but didn't dare to speak, put down his job and laughed with a sneering face, which made Hu Shusen and Liu Xiao laugh.

Liu Xiao asked kindly, "What good things did Mr. Ou Yaoting give you?" ”

An Yi gestured slightly to Hu Zi, who quickly brought a dark and delicate cross pickaxe and a delicate yellow canvas belt, An Yi stood up and left the table more than a meter, took the cross pick and began to explain in detail:

"This kind of cross pickaxe is one of the standard equipment of the German [***] team of engineers, made of stainless steel, a pickaxe can penetrate six millimeters of iron plate, light and heavy, the center of gravity is reasonable, and it is twice the result with half the effort."

Liu Xiao took it and looked at it carefully, and liked it very much: "It's very good, how many pickaxes like this do you have at the moment?" ”

"There are only 20 handfuls, and they are specially ordered through the German 'Lu Lin' foreign company." An Yi replied without hesitation.

"It's a pity that there are a little less, if only all three companies could be equipped with this kind of German goods." Liu Xiao looked very regretful, handed the pickaxe to Jiang Dingwen, pointed to the yellow canvas bag in his beard and asked curiously: "What kind of treasure is in this beautiful bag with an oval bottom?" ”

An Yi took the bag, opened the two buckles, and took out the sapper shovel inside:

"This is the latest type of sapper shovel, foldable, easy to carry, the German army has just begun to equip one after another, commanders, please take a look...... After opening, you can use this card tightly, please see here, these six holes can be installed and removed from the current common six kinds of nuts, playing the role of a wrench; This groove opening allows for nails; This side is quite sharp, and the other side is thick enough to be used as a hammer; It is easy to cut down trees or open roads from the forest; Let's look at this part again...... The whole shovel uses a lot of alloys, the manufacturing process is quite complicated, the price of a shovel is more than a bicycle fifty percent, Mr. Ou Yaoting gave us one hundred and twenty this time is very interesting. It is with this advanced and efficient tool that subordinates dare to make military orders, and if the commanders allow it, a few subordinates will demonstrate it on the spot. ”

"Good!"

Liu Xiao's eyes lit up, full of interest.

An Yi retreated four meters away, glanced at the branch of the banyan tree that had long been in the way two meters above, and cut it with a shovel, only seven or eight strokes to cut off the calf-thick and several meters long branch to the ground, An Yi took advantage of the hot iron, bent down and began to shovel the mud, and in less than two minutes, he was asked to dig a fifty centimeter square soil pit, which surprised Liu Xiao and the others and the brothers in the distance.

After An Yi finished dry, he found a rag to wipe the shovel clean, stepped forward and handed it to Liu Xiao with both hands, Liu Xiao took it and looked at it carefully, this touch and knock on the mouth and kept applauding, and several other chiefs also stretched their necks and approached their heads as if they were looking at treasures.

Jiang Dingwen didn't wait for Liu Xiao to finish reading, and grabbed his hand: "It's really fucking amazing...... The edge edge is far sharper than the sword, there are many functions, the shovel shape is thick, the design is too exquisite, the shape, size and weight are very satisfying, especially this folding function is ingenious, it is easy to carry and not cumbersome, if all our infantry are each assigned one, the combat effectiveness can be improved a lot, I am now confident in An Yi's military order, haha! ”

Liu Xiao was in a good mood and motioned for An Yi and the three to sit down: "I saw your work just now, and we are looking forward to this competition even more, but almost all of your subordinates are recruits, and you have to work harder, and no matter how good the tools are, you also need people to use them, so I came today not only to see these recruits, but also to hear your training plans and other plans, let's talk about it." ”

"Yes!"

An Yi instructed Yin Jinan to bring the plan he had made in the afternoon, and turned to Liu Xiao to tell him his plan: "I would like to ask the division to give me 20 days of field training time, and the location has been preliminarily selected, just before I graduated, I led the second district team of the engineer brigade to be stationed at Zhuxikou in Lincun, where there are mountains and rivers, bamboo and wood, and it is also very convenient to buy hemp rope, steel buckles and other supplies." The small plateau to the north of Lin Village is also very suitable for military training, and there is a small market and a clinic in the village, and the logistics supply is very convenient. ”

Liu Xiao readily agreed, and other officials also agreed.

At this time, Yin Jinan brought the training plan and competition proposal, Liu Xiao handed the training plan to Hu Shusen, and he carefully read the proposal. As it was getting dark, the careful beard took a light bulb and hung it on the top of the tree trunk with a bamboo pole.