The reader was ordered to wait in Taierzhuang and train the team, which was three days.

In the past three days, the Wang Tianpei Division of the 10th Army commanded by General Li Zongren successfully captured the Liguoyi in Lunan, the He Yao Group Division of the 40th Army commanded by General Bai Chongxi easily captured Yixian, and the Chen Diaoyuan Division of the 37th Army commanded by General He Yingqin took Fei County after a fierce battle, soaring.

Just yesterday, An Yi received news that the 35th Army in Wuhan had moved to eastern Hubei in a mighty way, and the Fourth Army and the 11th Army under Zhang Fakui were divided into land and water routes and advanced to Jiujiang.

Commander-in-Chief Chiang also urgently ordered the three divisions of Liu Zhi's First Army, which had returned to Jiangbei, to speed up their march and station them in strategic locations around Nanjing, so as to strictly guard against the attack of the Wuhan army.

In the afternoon, after the regular military meeting, An Yi put on his beloved rifle and rode his horse to Xiaolizhuang, five kilometers northeast of Taierzhuang, this place is where he is proud of the special forces station, located in the depths of the reeds, the east side of the station is a narrow lake, at this time the rainy season is about to pass, the weather is getting hotter, the trees are growing vigorously and luxuriantly, and the eyes are full of green reeds and shrubs, the air is fresh and the fragrance of flowers is refreshing.

Under the leadership of their respective captains, the eight detachments of the special forces are conducting intense training, and the armed swimming on the lake and the tactical coordination in the dense forests are in full swing.

An Yi turned over and dismounted, watched the armed swimming training for a while, Ding Zhicheng's adjutant Zong Xingzhen stood on the small sampan and followed dozens of brothers in the water to shout loudly, and when he saw that the speed in the water could not meet the requirements, this guy waved a long penny and knocked it down, hitting the brothers in the water and screaming, and paddling forward vigorously before stopping.

An Yi stood aside and watched interestingly, turned his head to Ding Zhicheng beside him and asked, "Isn't this guy Xingzhen unable to swim?" How does it look like a veteran. ”

"Don't say it, this guy still can't swim, he can't float or sink when he jumps into the water, he just can't swim like a duck with broken wings. The day before yesterday, when we quietly crossed the Grand Canal, this guy was so angry that he walked under the water with a big rock, and he was not slower than the other brothers, which frightened me a lot. ”

Ding Zhicheng replied happily, his face was full of admiration, and it could be seen that he admired Zongxing, who was born in the Taoist sect, really admired his martial arts.

Zong Xingzhen was originally the captain of the guard squad given to An Yi by Lao Dao, An Yi appreciated his organizational skills, profound knowledge and steady and flexible style, so he put him in the guard battalion and studied with Ding Zhicheng, and was promoted by Ding Zhicheng to his own adjutant.

An Yi listened to it with pleasure, laughed, and looked at it for a while before walking with Ding Zhicheng to the small hill in the northwest direction, the twenty-four brothers of the sniper detachment supervised by the battalion deputy Li Fuqiang supervised the training were distributed in this small hill with a radius of hundreds of meters, because the sniper detachment was equipped with a complete range of new camouflage training uniforms and special camouflage uniforms for snipers, An Yi looked left and right, and did not find a member of the team for a long time, so he had no choice but to climb the hill in front of him, take out his binoculars and search carefully, and after counting to the ninth, he could not find the remaining targets.

Ding Zhicheng put down the binoculars and whispered to Li Fuqiang beside him: "It's really different if you put on the new equipment, if you are not familiar with the tactics of the brothers, I am afraid that even I have been deceived." ”

Li Fuqiang smiled modestly: "This is all the credit of the boss, if you didn't bring back this batch of new clothes from Lao Nanchang this time, I didn't know that there was such a clever disguise in this world, the brothers felt unaccustomed to wearing it for the first time, and some even laughed that wearing new clothes was like a toad, ugly to death."

Only An Jin was full of confidence in the clothes designed by his brother, and he was the first to put on a camouflage suit and enter the forest, and no one could find his shadow after a few ups and downs, so he stunned the brothers at that time, and then he knew the wonderful use of this clothes, and now they all like it very much, cherish it!

During this time, we are all grasping every minute and every second to explore new tactics, and it is estimated that after a while, we will have summed up several sets of more practical and efficient training methods, at least in terms of close-range sniping, it will become much easier. ”

An Yi looked at the jungle camouflage training uniforms on Ding Zhicheng and Li Fuqiang, and said with regret:

"It's a pity that we don't have advanced zippers and better printing and dyeing technology, so we can only make do with it now. Due to the current lack of mass production, the cost of each training uniform is more than four times higher than that of ordinary gray cloth military uniforms, and the effect is not optimal.

Nowadays, our hemp textile factory is using cotton and linen blending to try out several new fabrics that are stronger and more wear-resistant, and the printing and dyeing branch is gradually accumulating production experience and training skilled workers, and the situation is expected to be better by the end of the year. When mass production is carried out, the cost should be reduced, and all of us will be distributed with this kind of training uniform, and it will be better in terms of practicality and aesthetics. ”

"Boss, such a good military uniform, why don't you recommend it to Shangfeng? If all the armies of our Northern Expeditionary Army were to be issued with such clothing, not only would it be of great benefit to the war, but our factory would also be able to make a windfall! Ding Zhicheng asked with a smile.

"How can it be so fast? Didn't we just try it out? ”

An Yi patiently explained: "The allocation of military uniforms is a major event, and it must be approved by all departments of the General Headquarters before it can be carried out, such as the rank and collar badges that our officers took the lead in distributing, except for the officers above the captain level of each division of our First Army, all other armies do not have it, and only the general level and above can obtain it, which can be imagined The difficulty."

Again, the whole army has to spend a lot of military expenses to change its uniforms, and your complete set of clothes from head to toe adds up to 18 yuan, and it is only said that the 105,000 officers and soldiers equipped with my First Army are about 200,000 yuan, and the winter clothes are even more expensive, and four sets of clothes for one person are close to 100 yuan, which means that the officers and men of our First Army have to spend millions on military expenses in terms of clothing alone, so I think it is impossible to do it before the end of the Northern Expedition, not to mention whether the color, style, and function of this military uniform can be recognized by the bosses of the various armies. ”

Li Fuqiang nodded, and said with feeling: "That's the case, it's strange to say, the training clothes on our body are very thick and comfortable, for example, the sleeves and trouser legs can be tightened with four buttons, which is very conducive to quick action, loose and wear-resistant, and you don't have to worry about cracking your crotch no matter how big you take." Especially in the shoulders, elbows, buttocks and knees, there is also a thicker layer of densely sewn, and the three sets of ordinary military uniforms are not as durable and comfortable as our one, but why can't the bosses of the military department think of what the military uniforms should do? ”

An Yi laughed: "There has to be a process for this, don't you also like it after using it?" It's also emotional, everyone still remembers the allusion of 'Hufu riding and shooting', right? Our ancestors knew how to improve military uniforms to meet the needs of war two thousand years ago, we can not lag behind, and after a period of time to put forward suggestions for improvement, our old Nanchang military uniform factory will do better.

Don't worry, I am confident that the military uniforms we produce will be promoted to the whole army, and after the military sees the benefits, it is estimated that they will do business with us, including the series of infantry and engineer professional equipment that we are now developing, which will become a hot commodity at that time, and I am full of expectations for this. ”

Li Fuqiang and Ding Zhicheng nodded in unison, Li Fuqiang sighed slightly: "It's a pity, if only we could have the kind of sniper rifle that the boss talked about last time, although the sniper rifles used today are good, but the effective range is within four hundred meters, and the distance beyond four hundred meters is not certain, if it is not equipped with a German scope, the hit rate within three hundred meters is worrying." ”

An Yi looked around and said in a low voice: "I was just about to tell you something, I have already sent a telegram to Lao Nanchang, asking Lao Dao to quietly instruct the mustache to modify the Browning Type 1918 machine gun produced by the Yankees."

As far as I know, the Yankees originally wanted to use this gun as a hand-held machine gun, but after it was made, the weight was too heavy to weigh 15 pounds, and the recoil was too large, so it could only be used as a light machine gun.

If we can subtract some of the weight and slightly improve the shape to make it more suitable for the figure of our officers and men, make the maximum use of the semi-automatic advantages and good firing range of this gun, improve it above the magazine to facilitate the installation of a German-style scope, and change the 20-round magazine to 10 or 5 rounds. Also, at the end of the year, the 7.62 bullet production line of our gun and ammunition factory will be put into operation, which can specially produce special bullets for sniping. ”

Li Fuqiang and Ding Zhicheng looked at An Yi in surprise, and after a while, Ding Zhicheng said: "If it is done, it is estimated that Lao Li will laugh out loud in his dreams."

We have shot this kind of gun, although the scale of more than 1,000 meters is a bit exaggerated, but it is quite accurate within 600 meters, and it is very solid and durable, plus the scope shoots targets within 800 meters with a single shot, with the level of Lao Li and Deng Bin, there is no problem, and if you can't hit the head, you can hit the chest. ”

"Boss, I can't wait, I really want to have such a good gun right away!" Li Fuqiang swallowed his saliva and looked at An Yi with bright eyes.

An Yi smiled slightly: "If you don't wait, you have to wait, it's difficult to do it in three or five months." Don't look at the small changes such as simply removing the bracket, shrinking the handguard, changing the shape of the buttstock, etc., which can require hundreds of non-stop experiments, otherwise you won't even be able to find the center of gravity of the gun, where is the accurate surname?

Originally, I pinned my hopes on Shen Jianping and Tao Xun's brothers, thinking that they would wait for three or five years before they could start developing their own firearms, but I didn't expect to suddenly get the genius of the mustache, and I was very confident after trying a few shuttles of his restructured flower machine guns, if this kid can remake Browning 1918, Lao Tzu will immediately reward him with 50,000 oceans, help him marry five or six wives to serve him, so that he can continue to work hard without worry, on the basis of referring to the advanced firearms of European and American countries, Strive to make a rifle that is most suitable for our army. ”

Ding Zhicheng and the two nodded excitedly, An Yi saw that An Jin and the team leader Deng Bin had finished training, and walked side by side while talking in a low voice, so he asked Li Fuqiang in a low voice about An Jin's performance:

"How's my brother? A little progressive, right? ”

"What about progress? This guy is a sniper by nature, less than a month after entering the detachment, he compared my unqualified apprentices, I asked Deng Bin to take him specially, and let him follow Dou Fang's reconnaissance detachment for another month to have a good experience, this kid is quite comprehensive, with a year and a half of actual combat, he should be able to take charge of himself. Li Fuqiang looked at An Jin who came from afar with satisfaction.

An Yi nodded with satisfaction and shouted loudly: "Xiao Jin, come here!" ”

"Brother? I'll be in ...... right away."

An Jin ran to An Yi excitedly, suddenly remembered the military regulations, and hurriedly saluted.

An Yi looked his little brother up and down for a long time: "Hey, you seem to have grown up." ”

"I ate well, slept soundly, and I was a fist taller than before, and it was a lot heavier. Brother, why are you free to come over today? It's been a long time since I've competed with you, I couldn't beat you last time, but after two months of training and actual combat, I think I can beat you. An Jin grinned brightly.

Now An Yi's interest came: "Really? Let's try it out here. ”

Li Fuqiang hurriedly said: "I'll get the shooting target and give you two twenty seconds to prepare." ”

An Yi and An Jin looked at each other and smiled, each untied the rifle on his back, Li Fuqiang walked to the bottom of the low slope, took the Czech light machine gun from the hand of an assault brother, returned to the slope and whispered a few words to An Yi and the brothers, and raised the gun to the reeds on the lake 100 meters away.

An Yi and An Jin pulled the bolt of the gun at the same time and raised the gun to shoot, and the "pop" gunfire rang out six times, and the duck feathers in the air 100 meters away flew one after another, and six unlucky water ducks fell to the surface of the water one after another, attracting bursts of applause from the surrounding brothers.

"Two to four, boss, you lost!" Li Fuqiang said with a smile.

An Yi looked at the proud An Jin for a while, stepped forward to pat him on the shoulder, and said happily: "You guy, you are specifically targeting the target I am aiming at, you will be tempted, not bad!" Okay, keep working hard, remember grandpa's words, the edge of the sword is sharpened from ......"

"The fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold! Brother, I always remember my grandfather's words. ”

An Jin smiled, and when he saw that An Yi was leaving, he hurriedly stepped forward: "Brother, last time you said that if I won you, you would give me a Colt pistol." ”

An Yi helplessly loosened his belt, untied the gun holster, and stuffed it into An Jin's hand. A large number of brothers such as Ding Zhicheng and Li Fuqiang around them all laughed when they saw An Yi being deflated.

(To be continued)