The meeting continued, and Ma Angelica, who was sitting in the audience, asked Shen Xing next to him: "Who do you think is reasonable?" ”

"I think it all makes sense." Granny Shen said ambiguously, "In the twenties and thirties of the twentieth century, many Chinese armies were equipped with broadswords, all of which were standard equipment, and there must be a reason for this. However, there were also those equipped with red tassel guns, and the Red Army and Red Guards were equipped with pikes and darts on a large scale. I used to read the revolutionary memoirs, and it was written that the non-main forces of the Red Army had more than a dozen guns in one company, and the rest were broadswords and spears. Speaking of which, it seems that there are still a little more armed spears. ”

"I think what Yang Bo said makes sense, the big knife is more suitable for fighting alone, and the spear can be combined with the bayonet to form a combat team." Ma Angelica clearly expressed his support for Yang Bo's opinion, "The spear just needs to stab forward, if the big knife doesn't dance well, maybe you will cut your own people." Think about it, if someone is dancing with a knife, do you dare to approach him? Not to mention fighting with him. ”

Looking at Shen Xing thoughtfully, Ma Angelica continued: "Again, the cost of a spear is also incomparable to a big knife, how many spear heads can be hit with the iron of a big knife?" ”

Shen Xingshi was basically convinced, and he asked rhetorically, "Then why didn't you stand up just now?" ”

Ma Angelica shrugged, "The broadsword is not useless, at least it is stronger than a spear in a melee." Without actual combat testing, who can be sure which opinion is right? Besides, if I dismantle a big stage in public, he won't hate me to death? ”

The whispering of the two men did not attract the attention of the others, and everyone listened intently to the head of the armored unit about the training of the tank battalion.

During this time, Luo Yuan has been working as a tank driving instructor. There is a driving manual as a teaching material, and the new tankers learn quickly, not only the driver, but also other tank crew members, commanders, gunners, and loaders have to learn tank driving techniques, which is also to lay the foundation for the expansion of the army in the future.

In this time and space, there are no weapons that can match these two iron guys in land warfare, and in terms of killing soft targets, they are not as effective as armored vehicles, so they are really useless heroes. It seems that it can only be used to blast open the gates of the city during the siege of the city in the future, and it can also be used as a mobile shore cannon on the beach. Perhaps when the power of the Liberation Army expands to the north of the Yellow River, the endless North China Plain will be the battlefield where tanks can gallop at will.

Compared to the army, which is large in numbers and powerful, the navy is too weak. At present, the navy still has only one landing gunboat, and a few speedboats, and with such strength, it is completely insufficient to confront the British fleet, even if the opponent is all wooden sailing ships.

There were still a few large ships on several wharves in Shenzhen in the original time and space, and only one maritime surveillance ship was suitable for being a warship. It is a pity that everyone can only look at the ship and sigh, because it is completely different from a landing craft of more than 2,000 tons and a landing craft of more than 500 tons, and it is impossible to get it running with only three or four former seafarers.

The Marine Corps currently has only one company, mainly responsible for guarding the naval docks, three platoon platoons have only more than 30 rifles, and the machine gun platoon has only one Dzeggalev light machine gun and one 60 mortar, which is simply weak compared to the main force of the army. The current strategy of the Liberation Army is to focus on defense and consolidate the existing territory, and the Marine Corps, which is a sharp offensive blade, has not yet reached the time of great development. When the Liberation Army has consolidated its foundation and expanded outward, the spring of the Marine Corps will come.

The scale of the newly established Air Force, the third largest branch of the Liberation Army, can no longer be described as weak. It is probably the smallest air force in the entire world (by the standards of the original plane), as it only has two people in total.

The material collection team found a two-seater seaplane in Dameisha a long time ago, the model is C72KK, the length is 7.5 meters, the whole body aluminum alloy skin, the width of the aircraft is 12 meters, the height of the aircraft is 3.4 meters, the maximum take-off weight is 520 kg, the maximum fuel load is 30 kg, the maximum level flight speed is 118 km / h, the cruising speed is 80 km / h, the maximum climb rate is 109.6 m / min, the practical ceiling is 1500 meters, the maximum load range is 220 km, and the transfer range is 330 km. It is used by an entertainment company to engage in water amusement projects, and sometimes it can also be used for aerial photography. After Li Shanglong discovered this "big toy", he didn't care whether it was useful or not, let people get it back first. Although there are many survivors who are interested in flying, none of them dare to try to manipulate this "big toy". There are many people who can drive cars and speedboats, and they learn quickly, so even if it's the first time to drive, there's nothing to worry about. And the danger of airplanes can deter everyone. So this "big toy" can only stay in the depths of the warehouse in obscurity, and gradually forgotten.

The merger of the two security zones allowed it to see the light of day. In the process of cleaning up supplies, it was rediscovered, and there happened to be people who could fly piston planes in the Humen security area, and there were as many as two, so its spring came.

Both of the two experienced pilots had more than fifty hours of flying experience. One is the rich second-generation Li Ce, who is known as a girl (woman) killer, with hundreds of millions of family assets so that he can use airplanes and yachts as toys, and he also holds a helicopter pilot's license, that is, there is nowhere to buy a jet plane, otherwise he may also get one. With the advent of the "cataclysm", hundreds of millions of family properties have also become a thing of the past, and he is no different except for a small white face and hanging silk; The other is a 35-year-old Chinese-American named Wang Li, a small manager of a California trading company, whose business is general foreign trade and small arms smuggling, and he will never return to China on a business trip. Because his boss also has Class 3 (regulated small arms - e.g. machine guns, silencers, automatic rifles, short-barreled assault rifles, RPGs...... Weapons dealerships, and some opportunities to play with the light weapons of the mean boss, so the marksmanship is not bad among the non-military survivors, and flying airplanes is just his hobby. After the plane was pulled out of the warehouse, Wang Li led several mechanics to spend five days cleaning, dismantling, washing, and relubricating the plane, so that the plane could be refreshed.

On the sixth day, the weather was sunny and the Shenzhen Bay was calm, which was a good day for a test flight. The plane was sent to the dock by a large flatbed truck, and the pedestrians along the way stopped to look at this strange-shaped "big kite", but they did not show much surprise, there are too many magical things in the Shorthair Army, which has made everyone numb.

Once at the beach, the crane carefully lifted the plane to the surface of the sea and docked next to a specially built trestle. Surrounded by survivors watching the test flight, surrounded by the Marines on the periphery, the bird-like boats filled the soldiers with curiosity, and the far outside stood indigenous children and idlers, whose actions would attract onlookers.

Wang Li began to do the final checks before the test flight. On the question of who should act as the test pilot, he and Li Ce had a fierce battle. The honor of being the first to fly a heavier-than-air and self-powered aircraft into the sky in the new time and space is irreplaceable. It's like everyone remembers Armstrong, but few people know about Aldrin as a person. The other idle survivors also divided into two factions, supporting the two of them. Those who support Li Ce are his female "fans", who want to see Gao Fushuai in the sky; And Wang Li's supporters are technicians who are involved in the maintenance of the aircraft, and the fact that this plane can be re-launched is mainly due to Wang Li, how can he give the "first time" to others. There was no way, it was Wei Bozhi who came out and diluted the mud, guessed the coin to decide the candidate, and finally Wang Li won.

At this time, Du Lali walked to the plane with the microphone, while his old partner Xie Sen carried the camera to him, Du anchor smiled, looked at the camera, and said in a slightly magnetic standard Mandarin: "Ladies and gentlemen, it is 1:27 p.m. on July 2, 1858, and we will witness the arrival of a great moment, when mankind will for the first time break free from gravity through the power of machinery and fly freely in the sky. With that, he put the microphone in front of Wang Li, who was still working with his head. What do you have to say, as a man who is about to accomplish this feat? ”

Wang Li turned to face the camera and said solemnly: "This is a small step for me personally, but it is a big step for mankind." With that, he lifted his legs and stepped into the cockpit, put on the flight helmet he had found from the military store, checked his seat belt, and made the final preparations before the flight. And his plagiarism of famous quotes was unanimously despised by both journalists.

Wang Li saw in the rearview mirror that the mechanic who was inspecting the tail of the plane made an OK gesture at him, he put down the goggles on his helmet, put his right hand into a fist and stretched out the cockpit, and gave a thumbs up in response. Then press the button, the engine roars, the propeller begins to spin rapidly, two mechanics strike the famous "go you" pose on the trestle, and the plane begins to slowly glide forward.

Wang Li first observed the wind speed flag hanging on the wings of the plane to get a rough wind speed and direction, then taxied to the downwind end at a low speed, and pushed the throttle to the maximum with his left hand. The plane glided across the water like a waterfowl and slowly accelerated, heading off into the distance as everyone watched. When the speed reached 50 kilometers per hour, Wang Li began to try to pull the rod, and the plane jumped slightly, and the pontoon was out of the water, but it did not fly five meters and fell again, causing the audience who were just about to cheer a sigh. After four or five repeated flights, the plane finally took off, and the higher it flew, the audience began to cheer loudly and threw their hats into the air.

The plane climbed to an altitude of 100 meters, then began to circle in the bay, and when it flew over the heads of the survivors, Wang Li waved his hand downward. Although the successful test flight made the onlookers very excited, the modern people who have been accustomed to seeing all kinds of planes and have also flown in planes do not think that it is very remarkable, but the surrounding natives are deeply shocked. For the indigenous children, the airplane was just a large kite, and whenever the plane passed over their heads, the large group of children always shouted and chased after them; And in the eyes of adults such as soldiers and idlers, this is definitely the power of ghosts and gods. A middle-aged man with some insight sighed: "Isn't this the legendary wooden bird made by Luban?" Legend has it that it can fly for three days and three nights without landing. ”

The plane did not fly for three days and three nights, and after twenty minutes, it landed again on the surface of the water, and then slowly slid to the edge of the trestle. When Wang Li stepped out of the cockpit, Du Lali greeted him again, "Wang Li, how do you feel about the success of the test flight?" ”

Because of the strenuous exercise caused some wheezing, Wang Li took off his helmet and breathed a sigh of relief before saying, "It would be nice if there were beautiful women to offer flowers." ”

The returnee king's small expectations were disappointed, and the beauties all hugged Li Ce to the plane, and in the cheers of the beauties, he drove the plane straight into the sky. After getting used to the operation, he began to perform various fancy moves, flying upside down, rolling, quickly climbing to the ceiling, and then diving, showing off all kinds of coquettish abilities, and at the same time causing female fans to scream again and again.

Once both pilots were familiar with the aircraft's capabilities, the large toy was hoisted back onto a flatbed truck, where it was transported back to the warehouse for additional weapon modifications. However, since that day, the legend that the short-haired army has a wooden bird that can lead people to the sky, and it has spread in the county.

The surface of the plane was recoated with a coat of yellow paint, and it was given the code name "Bumblebee". In the absence of other aircraft as opponents of the same era, it could not be used as a fighter, and its tragic load capacity also made it incompetent for the work of a bomber, so it was characterized as an armed reconnaissance aircraft.

Although the legendary shooting coordinator had a simple structure, Wang Tian did not dare to modify it. Any increase in the weight of the engine's shaft will affect its balance, and recalibrating the static and dynamic balance of the engine is a very troublesome matter, Wang Li did not dare to try it easily, so he had to give up the plan of installing a machine gun in the front. The seats in the aft compartment were changed to rear-facing and a universal gun carriage was installed, and a Type 57 general-purpose machine gun with 200 rounds of ammunition was used to protect itself.

After the successful test flight of the aircraft, the army and navy fought over its ownership, and finally the lawsuit was brought to the management committee. In order to appear impartial, the management committee had to set up the third largest branch of the Liberation Army-Air Force, Wang Li should have become the commander of the major and the alternate pilot, and Li Ce was the captain and chief pilot, because the latter's technology was better, so the former became the alternate, and in addition, he had to play the role of a cameo machine gunner, and the two of them were all members of the Air Force of the Liberation Army.