Chapter 162: Military Uniforms and Dog Tags

For the equipment supplied to the special combat team, Yu Xiaotian is also not stingy, and he is also eclectic, such as flying tiger claws for climbing, ropes, as long as they can use them, they will arrange people to build them specially, and everyone can also choose to issue them bows and crossbows, light hand crossbows, blow arrows, or even throwing knives, darts, cross darts or hidden arrows according to their preferences and their own skills.

As long as they want, Yu Xiaotian will not hesitate to find a way to get it for them, and it must be the best to meet their needs and allow them to work more easily.

Such a special combat team, in addition to being used as scouts, is also responsible for doing dirty work for the sea wolves, including attacking the natives who are hostile to them, some hostile elements on land, clearing them at designated points, attacking enemy camps, and so on.

And such a special combat team is a trump card that Yu Xiaotian has now, and for more than a year, he has done a lot of dirty work for Yu Xiaotian.

Last year, when the sea wolf intervened in the fishing market on land, which caused a backlash from many fishing tyrants or some gentry with vested interests, this special combat team divided into small groups and went to the land to help eliminate many guys who opposed the sea wolf, and quickly suppressed their backlash.

Under such high-intensity training, these people are all ruthless, and for them, they don't even need to blink their eyes to kill someone, and sometimes they can even kill all the enemies without mercy, and there will be no guilt.

The formation of such a special combat team, in this era, can be regarded as a very forward-looking consciousness, who wants to go against the sea wolf, then they have to weigh their own weight, a careless, they may die in vain, even can't find a place to complain, with the government's ability to solve the case, it is impossible to catch the handle of the sea wolf, even the most arrogant Jinyi Wei at the moment, the sea wolf's special combat team, only the part of being abused.

As for the night of the official army or the rangers and scouts, although they are considered the elite of the official army and scouts, their skills and equipment level are not half a star away from the sea wolf's special combat team.

This special combat team has now become an iron fist of Yu Xiaotian, as long as he points it, this iron fist will immediately swing wherever it goes, and will knock anyone and collective who dares to oppose the sea wolf into powder.

However, this special combat team is very low-key in peacetime, they do not live with other army companies, and generally only live in a camp in the mountains of Nanri Island, or in a camp deep in the mountains and forests around Tamsui City, and very few people know about their existence, let alone see them.

Only during the exercise, they will show up, cooperate with the former combat battalion to carry out reconnaissance and capture activities such as prisoners, the army can only be transferred by Meng Fei, and Meng Fei is also personally responsible for training in peacetime, but when transferring and using them, it must be approved by Liu Laoliu of the torture hall, or directly due to Xiaotian's personal transfer.

The overall composition of the Shanghai Wolf Army is now quite perfect in this era, and although the sparrow is small, it has all kinds of organs, and its combat capability can basically dominate this world.

As for clothing, the military uniforms of the special combat team are completely different from the uniforms of ordinary army soldiers, and their clothing is designed separately, basically similar to the military uniforms of later generations, using high-quality white Songjiang cloth or Indian white cloth with good Shanglang, first using various green, yellow, brown pigments, using tie-dyeing to dye them into colorful colors, and then making clothes.

In this way, it has become the first generation of original camouflage uniforms, although the effect is not comparable to the military camouflage uniforms of later generations, but it can also play a good role, and it belongs to the realistic version of the cottage camouflage uniforms of the earthen standard.

These garments are thickened on the knees, buttocks, elbows and cuffs to increase their durability, saving them from being worn out in a few days, at least they can wear them for a little longer.

There is also the officer's uniform and the soldier's clothing, there is also a difference in the fabric, the summer officer's uniform is a kind of fine linen made in Guangdong, this linen cloth is finely textured, well ventilated, and it also appears slightly straighter, can be ironed, not a diamond style, but a placket style, open with buttonholes, but also embellished with whale bone buttons, close to the style of military uniforms in later generations, easy and comfortable to wear, and also good-looking.

In winter, the officers' clothing had to be kept warm, so they used wool made from the British wool that they had just purchased from the Dutch, and this fabric was brought by the British to the Indian merchant house to try to sell, but it was always in a state of direct sales.

This kind of woolen fabric, good warmth, soft and straight, very comfortable to wear, and crisp, is a sea wolf council hall merchant ship to Batavia trade, accidentally found the goods, brought some samples back, was seen by Yu Xiaotian.

After asking the price, Yu Xiaotian felt that the price was not too high, so he ordered the council to buy this kind of woolen wool from the Dutch in large quantities, and later established a relationship with the British Merchant House and purchased a large number of such woolen fabrics.

Originally, the British had a headache about the backlog of these woolen fabrics, but they didn't expect to meet a big buyer, so they traded at a lower price, and finally made Seawolf purchase a large number of such woolen fabrics.

Although it was not enough to equip the soldiers, it was at least enough to make some clothes for the officers, so he was not stingy, so he ordered someone to make a batch of such clothes for the officers, which were much finer than the military uniforms of ordinary soldiers in terms of cutting and production, so as to highlight the identity and status of the officers.

Moreover, there are certain differences in the color of the military uniforms of the Navy and the Army, the Navy uses the summer clothing as white, that is, the primary color of the cloth, and the dyeing procedure is omitted, while the army's summer military uniform is changed to an earthy yellow in the soil dye, replacing the previous indigo or black.

Because in the summer, the dark-colored clothing used in the past will absorb a lot of heat, making people feel very hot, after changing to a lighter color, at least it will feel better, although the earthy yellow looks like a color, but in the field, it is somewhat protective color, which is more suitable for the army.

And the navy is active on ships in the summer, which is not very dirty in the first place, and it is acceptable to use white, and it looks much more energetic.

As for winter clothing, the navy uses a lighter indigo, and the army uses a darker indigo, which is currently a relatively easy dye for them to obtain, without too much trouble, and the cost will be relatively lower.

However, in terms of military uniform change, Yu Xiaotian is just starting now, and he has not yet been able to prepare all the new clothes, so I am afraid that the specific change of clothes will be postponed for a few months.

With the implementation of the new military rank and uniform, it is naturally also involved in the issue of rank marking, otherwise the military rank is also in vain, in peacetime and on the battlefield, the soldier and the officer still can't tell who has a higher rank, so the rank mark must be issued.

This point is naturally difficult to live in Xiaotian, and directly copied the military rank epaulettes and armbands of later generations, a lieutenant with a bar, plus stars, a bar and a star are ensign, a bar and two stars are lieutenants, a bar with three stars is a captain, a bar with four stars is a captain, and the school officer is two bars, and so on, as for the general, there is no one at present, and it is estimated that it will not appear for a long time, so I will not consider it for the time being.

And the epaulettes of non-commissioned officers and soldiers, also follow the epaulettes of later generations of military ranks to distinguish it, but in terms of material, he can't get the right material, he can only wrap the flannel cloth with canvas, rust on the red line or white line, to distinguish, on the epaulettes of officers above the lieutenant officer, add a bronze star, the copper star is also a five-pointed star, directly stamped out with copper sheets, and the stamping mold is not complicated, cast with pig iron to make a rough mold, hand-polished, and the copper sheet is relatively soft, stamping is not effortless, and it can be stamped out a lot soon.

At present, their old military uniforms have not left a place for epaulettes, so they can only be made first, waiting to be distributed with military uniforms, since they want to change their clothes, they will change together, some people in the province have changed, some people have not changed, and some people will express dissatisfaction.

It turned out that Yu Xiaotian also wanted to issue a dog tag to his officers and soldiers, with their names, enlistment time and service team, but he didn't have the right material for the dog tag for the time being, neither aluminum nor stainless steel, zinc and tin were too soft, and the iron sheet was too easy to rust, and if you used copper sheets, it would be too wasteful, after all, this thing could be used for money, and he didn't have the luxury to squander the stored copper material at hand.

So in the end, he could only give up, simply the soldiers all use bamboo chips to make dog tags, and the officers use whale bones to make dog tags, which is also an identity mark, in a special period, when checking the soldiers, they rely on this dog tag to prove their identity, and the officers and soldiers currently on land use the waist tag, and the ordinary soldiers only have the number threshold, which is relatively simpler and easier to do.

Now, as the time for the official army to launch a possible attack on Nanri Island is getting closer and closer, the sea wolf has officially begun to enter the combat preparations.

All the workshops under the control of various ordnance weapons began to enter full-speed production as early as July, especially guns and cannons, and even produced in large quantities in two shifts to produce all kinds of weapons needed by the sea wolf, and temporarily stopped the production of firearms for foreign sales, and concentrated on meeting the needs of the sea wolf itself.

No one has ever thought that they have too many cannons, so for the army, the more artillery production the better, including the army, for a long time, the army has been dissatisfied with the lack of artillery equipped to them.