After the 1st Marine Division landed on the island, the engineering unit immediately began to build port facilities, barracks, warehouses, and field airfields, laying a good foundation for the subsequent operations of the troops. Kauai's port conditions are mediocre, but it can be used as a forward operating base, with which the fleet's two aircraft carriers can rotate back home to recuperate, and the Air Force's fighter jets and bombers help relieve the pressure on naval aviation.

Liu Changguo, a machine gunner of the 6th Company of the 1st Marine Regiment, was carefully maintaining his MG42 machine gun, he first disassembled the machine gun, and then wiped it with a linen cloth, the barrel, bolt, etc. needed to be carefully maintained one by one, and then the parts had to be oiled. The more advanced the weapon, the more high-quality soldiers must maintain and maintain it, so that the role of advanced weaponry can be brought into play in battle. We should not underestimate every revolution in military technology, for every such development marks a steady improvement in the quality of the military's grassroots units.

He is here to maintain the machine gun, and his weapons will give him a corresponding reward in war, Liu Changguo is a veteran and knows the importance of maintaining weapons. Beside him, his deputy shooter is also maintaining the weapon in his hand, and he has a semi-automatic rifle in his hand, but Liu Changguo is becoming more and more confused about the officials of the Equipment Department, why did he give this semi-automatic rifle a strange name - M1 Garand? Invented by foreigners?

Despite the strange name, the soldiers still considered it an excellent weapon, a rifle that fires 7.62 mm ammunition, is fed by a magazine, has a capacity of 10 rounds, weighs 3.75 kg empty, and has an effective range of 700 meters. This lightweight rifle is highly reliable, accurate in shooting, easy to disassemble and maintain, and most importantly, powerful in firepower. According to the drawings and manufacturing technology provided by the superiors, and in accordance with the requirements of the military, the military industry department has made improvements to make it weigh nearly one kilogram lighter than the Garand in the original time and space, and changed the structure of the magazine to feed ammunition, becoming one of the main weapons in the hands of Chinese soldiers, and the Marine Corps and the Army have adopted this semi-automatic rifle. In addition, there are short-barreled carbines equipped with logistics personnel, cavalry, artillery and other troops, and the number is also huge.

The company commander walked over with an assault rifle on his back and sat next to Liu Changguo. Liu Changguo helped him light a cigarette, this company commander is a good officer, calm, calm, leading by example, and sympathetic to his subordinates, with such a commander, the soldiers could not ask for more.

However, his ugly submachine gun is really eye-catching, this submachine gun named PPSH has a 35-round magazine, and its ugly appearance makes Liu Changguo bother to complain about its strange name. He had never used this weapon, but according to the company commander, the performance of this submachine gun was quite excellent, and it was simple to maintain, powerful in firepower, and high in reliability, although the range was unbearable for direct fire, but the role of the submachine gun was not intended for long-distance combat.

When the Chinese army provided the drawings of such weapons to the military factories, they were opposed by the engineers of the military factories, who considered it an insult to their aesthetics and technical level to make such a firearm. Traditional industrial education and the secret cooperation of Walter resulted in a rigorous attitude and a pursuit of excellence among workers and engineers, who had an unusual enthusiasm for machinery, and this submachine gun was precisely contrary to their principles.

So they modified this submachine gun, adding a lot of sophisticated design, which also caused this submachine gun to improve reliability and accuracy, and also caused its cost to rise. Lu Liang, who decided to adopt this weapon, agreed to their modification after reading the engineers' samples and experimental reports.

Although the cost has risen, some of the costs are tolerable compared to the advantages of the retrofit. After all, China's industrial strength is much stronger than that of the Soviet Union in the original time and space, and it has the capital to mass-produce this kind of weapon at a higher cost than the original version. So the PPSH submachine gun, together with the MG42, Garand, and Mauser sniper rifles, formed the standard equipment of grassroots soldiers. It can also be equipped with 71 rounds of drums, and when logistics and transportation allow, soldiers prefer to carry drums with sustained fire to unleash ammunition on the battlefield.

"Company commander, have you had a meeting at the battalion headquarters?" Liu Changguo asked while maintaining his firearms, squinting his eyes and tilting his head to prevent the soot from falling on the carefully maintained baby machine gun.

"Well, take a break today and board the ship tomorrow morning at three o'clock." Machine gunner Liu Changguo is one of the elite veterans under his command, and he is more willing to communicate with these veterans than the young, newly graduated platoon commanders.

"So fast! Oahu? ”

"Yes, the battle on Kauai Island did not consume too much, and the 1st Marine Division was almost undamaged, and it was decided to launch a larger-scale offensive and defensive battle on Oahu Island immediately, which is likely to be a vicious battle!"

The atmosphere was a little silent, but the company commander was very relieved to his subordinates, no matter what kind of battle, as long as there were these veterans, he was confident that he would survive with the boys. He patted Liu Changguo on the shoulder, got up and left, after all, he still had to gather a few platoon commanders to discuss, and the logistics materials also needed to be supplemented, and after letting a platoon commander take people to the battalion headquarters to receive supplies, the sky gradually darkened, and under the sunset, you could still see the dense warships and transport ships on the sea, floating up and down with the waves -- what a picture of war!

Wuhan, the capital of China, has become one of the largest cities in the world, and has become a world famous city along with Shanghai and Guangzhou. Here you can see more skyscrapers than in New York, more factories than in Chicago, and more city parks than in Moscow.

Early in the morning, Ma Dongcheng crawled out of the bed, walked to the refrigerator and took out bread and milk, the delicate wheat bread and fresh milk made Ma Dongcheng have a great appetite, and after quickly washing up, he went to the dining table, turned on the radio, and started a happy breakfast in the beautiful female voice of the announcer.

The news of the victory in the war swept away Ma Dongcheng's early morning fatigue, and the Chinese navy and army captured the most important U.S. stronghold in the Pacific Ocean, Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands, and soon captured the entire Hawaiian Islands!

"Great!" Ma Dongcheng jumped up, and at the age of 21, after graduating from university, he moved out of his parents' house, rented a small house of 50 square meters in the city, and then was admitted to the Chinese government's Bureau of Materials and Statistics and became a civil servant with a stable job - this is more in line with Ma Dongcheng's character, quiet, does not like fighting, and has no great ambitions, so he is very satisfied with his work, and even thinks that it is good to work like this for the rest of his life.

According to a friend, Ma Dongcheng seems too old and has no passion. However, the fiery emotions of young people have not dissipated, but they have not yet found a channel to vent, Ma Dongcheng has a fiery heart, and now he has put all his enthusiasm into the patriotic movement.

Just yesterday, he took part in a parade of tens of thousands of people to celebrate the opening of the double line of the Central Railway in western China. He reckoned that he would take part in a parade after work today - the capture of Kauai - wouldn't such a victory be worth celebrating? And there is another reason for his hope, that is, he hopes to meet someone like yesterday, so that he can defend his ideals and worship objects with his fists!

During the march yesterday, Ma Dongcheng and his friends spotted several strange people holding anti-war banners in their hands, shouting anti-war slogans, and even calling on everyone to stand up against Lu Liang's dictatorship. At that time, Ma Dongcheng felt that a rush of blood rushed to his temple, and without thinking, he swung his fist. A few friends next to him also made the same move, and brought hundreds of hot-blooded young people nearby. If the police hadn't arrived in time, those hateful people would have been killed, but Ma Dongcheng seemed to see the police secretly kicking those people several times when they were fighting, which was really happy!

He didn't know that after the police interrogated the men, they found that they were just traitors hired by foreign intelligence agencies to work for money. It's just that they don't know the contact details of foreign agents, and the court tried them for the heaviest charges of treason, and all of them were sentenced to 50 years in prison, with no possibility of commutation.

Ma Dongcheng was very strange why someone would do that, he couldn't imagine that someone would sell his country for money, nor would he think that countries would do anything to defeat their opponents. In fact, the actions of the Chinese intelligence agencies abroad have made the enemy country even more annoyed, but those traitors cannot be forgiven.

Arriving at the duty station on his bicycle, his job was simple: to compile the information collected from the front line about the use of weapons, such as what the soldiers were dissatisfied with the use of rifles, what suggestions they had about the use of armored vehicles, what needs were for the placement of water cups in the cockpit of tanks, etc. Most of them are boring feedback that doesn't work, but some are important enough for the military industry to make improvements based on the soldiers' suggestions.

This is the department that Lu Liang asked to set up, and also asked the front-line officers to summarize the suggestions of the soldiers, in the period of the big change, he first selected the weapons that the army was about to be equipped with according to his own understanding and what the steel base could provide, and then the audit department composed of genetic people, screened and reviewed according to the industrial production situation and the needs of the army, and finally handed it over to the soldiers for inspection.

This process is inevitably influenced by Lu Liang's personal preferences, such as the PPSH submachine gun, which Lu Liang chose because of its simplicity and ease of production, which is essential for large-scale warfare, but the soldiers do not necessarily think so. For example, the Corsair carrier-based fighter, of course, was the best carrier-based fighter of the Second World War, but can the technology be satisfied? Can military factories mass-produce them? Does it meet the requirements of the aircraft carrier at this stage? These need to be checked. (To be continued.) )