It took two days for Wei Bozhi and Ma Angelica to inspect all the key defense areas. Battalion and company commanders at all levels have raised the issue of insufficient inspection and expenditure, and some people have also used their brains to find their own ways to solve it. The first battalion stationed in the Kowloon area, under the organization of the battalion commander Zhang Pan, set up a pure cold weapon unit. Because considering that Kowloon could become the main battlefield of the next battle, the equipment of the first battalion was the best of all the troops except the training battalion. Two-thirds of the infantry received rifles, the machine gun platoon under the infantry company was also fully loaded, and the battalion artillery company had a total of six Type 67 82mm mortars and two Type 55 120mm mortars, which was the only one among the three infantry battalions.

The remaining one-third of the infantry, Zhang Pan also issued them with a powerful weapon-a broadsword. Zhang Pan organized each company of soldiers with martial arts skills into a separate platoon as the main force of hand-to-hand combat-the broadsword team, so this unit that terrified the Japanese invaders after 80 years was born in advance. In order to grab the more than 100 big knives he needed, Zhang Pan spent a lot of effort, there were a batch of them in the arsenal of the county seat, but it was not only an iron guy, but it was also rusty, and Zhang Pan threw it directly to the security brigade; found some mountain knives and baleng knives in the original time and space, but they were all sold by fake Tibetans on the street, and he couldn't look down on them; In the end, more than 200 broadswords were found in the warehouses of several Yangjiang Eighteen Sons, and a number of Japanese knives, command knives, Mo knives and other knives were found at the same time, which greatly enriched the arsenal of the Liberation Army. These broadswords are all authentic tool steel products, the style is the common thick-backed wide blade without a blade, and the one-foot-long handle can be held with both hands, which was originally a collector's item for knife lovers, but now it has become a tool that soldiers are ready to use to kill.

More than 100 strong men, naked, followed the battalion commander to practice swordsmanship. Professor Zhang Pan's knife technique is the original time and space in 1925, the folk martial artists Ma Fengtu and Ma Yingtu adapted the two-handed knife technique into the "Eight Swords". This set of knife techniques is used as a teaching material for the Northwest Army's ring head big knife, in order to replace the original old knife set with more performance. It was first tried out in General Zhang Zizhong's teaching regiment, and later actively spread to the whole army. In the Great Wall War of Resistance and the Lugou Bridge War of Resistance, the 29th Army's broadsword team showed superb sword skills. This set of knife techniques is mainly chopping, "the advantage of the knife, the advantage is in the cutting", in addition to teasing, stabbing, intercepting, blocking, collapsing, chopping, wiping, belting, wrapping and other knife techniques. This set of knife techniques is characterized by: brave and fast, imposing, strong and powerful, like a tiger. "Its usage, only to the body method as the key, long jump beyond the distance, eyes fast hand", and require the advance and retreat flash and vertical jump and toss to be changed with a knife, body and weapon coordination. More than a hundred snow-bright broadswords shone with cold light, the red silk on the handle ring flew up and down, and the soldier's mouth shouted killing loudly in the sky, looking murderous.

Ma Angelica, who stood on the edge of the playground and watched for a while, commented: "The momentum and spirit are very good, it's like that, but I don't know if it can work on the battlefield?" ”

"I think the Broadsword team should be used in positional blocking and pursuit warfare, and if it is used to attack, it can only increase casualties." Wei Bozhi also expressed his opinion. "But we're all talking on paper now, and we can only know the effect after actual combat testing."

At this time, the drill on the field came to an end, and the soldiers who were tired and panting like cattle flocked to the bucket, where they were offered a cool and thirst-quenching mung bean soup. Zhang Pan explained a few words to several platoon commanders, and then walked towards Ma and Wei. Zhang Pan was known for his physical fitness among the survivors, and this month's restorative training made him physically stronger than before the outbreak of the "cataclysm". Xinli's pot lid, the angular muscles seem to contain infinite power, and the big knife in his right hand is upside down, making him look full of gangsterism. There were still seven or eight meters away, and Ma Angelica stretched out his hand, "Show me the guy!" ”

Zhang Pan didn't tremble, walked two steps quickly, and held the knife in front of Ma Angelica. Ma Angelica reached out and grabbed the handle of the knife, trying to take the big knife in front of him to look at it carefully, but who knew that the miscalculation was wrong, the weight of the big knife exceeded his imagination, and he almost fell off his hand and fell to the ground. Fortunately, he was quick and grabbed the back of the knife with his left hand, so he didn't make a fool of himself in front of everyone. Holding the knife in front of his eyes, he felt a cold air rushing towards him, and Ma Angelica involuntarily sneezed. Looking carefully, there was a circle of patterns like auspicious clouds on Xueliang's knife body, and he checked it with his hand, and he asked Zhang Pan: "I'm afraid it weighs thirty or forty pounds, right?" ”

"The net weight is sixteen kilograms, the blade is eighty-eight centimeters long, the widest is twelve centimeters, and the back of the knife is one centimeter thick." In the past few days, Zhang Pan has been in love with this knife, and all the data is like a treasure. "I've tried to cut a centimeter thick steel bar with a single sword, and it's no problem to break the British's rifle." He pointed to a gap in the blade that he couldn't find without looking closely, "Basically, it didn't hurt the blade." ”

Ma Angelica handed the knife back and asked, "What about the sugarcane knife you used to have?" Why don't you use it? ”

Zhang Pan held a knife in his right hand and danced two knife flowers at will, and the iron guy of more than thirty catties seemed to weigh only three catties in his hand. "That's too light, it's okay to cut mutants, and the white-knuckle fight is almost over. Mutants are soft targets no matter how they say it, all they can rely on is their bodies, and it's easy to chop their hands and feet and chop off their heads with a single knife. However, it is not good to use it to cut the British, not only light but also short, and the chop leaves at most one mark on the rifle, so this one is long and heavy. As he spoke, he looked up at the sun and pointed to a large tree not far away. Two leaders, let's go there and talk! ”

The three of them walked to the shade of the tree, where several indigenous orderlies had already set up their marching horses, and brought chilled mung bean soup, and drank a sip of natural refreshment. Looking at a few orderly soldiers who were standing far away after being busy, Zhang Pan sighed casually: "It would be nice if there were a few female orderlies!" It's also pleasing to the eye just by looking at it! Thinking that not long ago they were struggling to survive in the apocalypse, but now they are living a life of "serving", and the opportunities of life must be wonderful, the three of them shook their heads and laughed together.

After laughing, Wei Bozhi asked, "Battalion Commander Zhang, when will your broadsword team be able to form combat effectiveness?" ”

Zhang Pan scratched his head, which was only a short stubble, "As the saying goes, 'moon sticks, year knives, and lifetime guns', which means that it takes at least a year to practice knife skills." Of course, these boys have all practiced a little kung fu, and they are a bit basic. However, they are all southern boxing techniques, Wing Chun and Cai Li Fo are all good at small kung fu. My set of knife techniques is a typical Northern School of kung fu, which pays attention to opening and closing, and it is estimated that it will take a few months for those boys to get used to. ”

"Isn't that the next battle still not necessary for the Broadsword Team?" Faced with the pressure of an army of nearly 20,000, one more strength gives one more chance of victory, and Comrade Political Commissar is also counting on the extension of the model of one battalion to other troops, so he is particularly concerned about the training process of the troops.

"Even if you go to the battlefield now, it's fine." Zhang Pan also guessed Wei Bozhi's thoughts, and hurriedly made a package ticket. "After all, we are still mainly using hot weapons, and the Broadsword Team is just a supplement. My plan is that when the two sides are wrenched in a white-knuckle battle, and when they can't shoot, they will be sent as a surprise soldier to catch the British by surprise. If you want to fight alone, as long as you have the level of street fighting, it is enough to be ruthless enough to survive......" As he spoke, Zhang Pan's eyes flashed back to the past eventful years, and it was not until Ma Angelica coughed twice that he came to his senses, and then said: "In addition, after the enemy's attack is defeated, you can send a broadsword team to pursue and expand the results, which is the so-called 'covering and killing for a while'." At this time, as long as you can cut people, you don't need to pay attention to any knife skills, just catch up and cut down with a knife on your back. ”

After listening to Zhang Pan's words, Ma Angelica looked at Wei Bozhi and said with a smile: "These tactics of yours, the political commissar also mentioned them to me just now, you won't communicate in private, right?" ”

Zhang Pan laughed and said without modesty: "This is called the same thing that heroes see!" ”

Wei Bozhi's views were actually drawn from existing war examples and combined with his own military common sense. Zhang Pan should have read the same information, so it is not surprising that "the hero sees the same".

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The last stop of the inspection was the defense area of the 3rd Battalion. The garrison of the third battalion was relatively scattered, except for the ninth company stationed at Luohu Bridge, the eighth company stationed at Dameisha, and the seventh company, plus the artillery company and the battalion headquarters stationed in Longgang.

After this period of intensified construction, the Luohu Bridge has begun to lay the bridge deck and the follow-up finishing work. However, it has not yet been officially opened to traffic, and local people who are not engaged in construction are not allowed to pass.

Although they can only watch from afar, most of the people are still amazed by these short-haired two devils who can repair a stone bridge in such a short time. In an era when it was entirely manual, it would have taken years to build such a stone bridge. And the arched steel frame on the bridge is even more surprising to the natives, since ancient times have never seen the bridge built with iron frames, this is also too luxurious! However, this bridge is made of iron and stone, so it shouldn't be broken for hundreds of years, right?

Others are also very interested in the kind of ash that is muddy when it is added to water, but when it dries, it becomes as hard as a stone. Some of them are people who are building and preparing to build houses, and such a magical building material, wouldn't it be a hundred times stronger than lime to get some back to build walls, and even glutinous rice juice can't compare. Some of them are buyers and sellers, who see business opportunities in it. Such a magical building material can completely replace the old similar goods, how big this market is, people with a little vision and mind can figure it out. As a result, all kinds of people and horses are ready to move. Some asked familiar workers to get a glimpse of the mystery, but in the end they found nothing; Some took the opportunity to get close to the modern people in charge of the construction, and wanted to inquire about the source of goods, although cement is not a high-tech thing, but the survivors cannot make it themselves, so cement is still a first-class control material, so the traders who want to buy ash have been politely refused; Some secretly get a little bit and want to go back to figure out the composition by themselves, but unfortunately even modern people can't figure out the specific composition and proportion of cement, let alone the Qing Dynasty people who have no chemical knowledge, these "chemical research pioneers" are all in vain; There were also a few people who took the risk and tried to collude with the indigenous workers inside and outside, and without exception, these people were arrested and put into labor camps. This also made the management committee sigh that the building materials stolen by the common people on the construction site are really the same throughout the ages. Therefore, the Ninth Company was ordered to send a platoon to strengthen the vigilance of the construction site, and at the same time prohibit the aborigines who did not participate in the construction from approaching the construction site.

The place where the Eighth Company was stationed was Dameisha, the swimming mecca of Shenzhen in later generations, but it is still a small fishing village. With a total length of about 1.8 kilometers and a total area of 180,000 square meters, the beach has no semicolon in the whole of Xin'an. It is bordered by mountains and seas, with Daya Bay in the east, Yantian Port in the west, Longgang Pingshan in the north, Hong Kong across the sea in the south, and Dapeng Peninsula in the southeast, which is 20 kilometers away from the base. The average annual temperature is 22C, the climate is mild, the vegetation is good, the mountains and rivers are green, the environment is beautiful, like a fairyland on earth, no worse than the Maldives. The arrival of the army once caused panic among the fishermen, but seeing that the soldiers were all local children, and the officers spoke kindly, they also gave money to buy things, and there was no stealing of chickens and dogs in the green camp, and the two sides were at peace in a few days, but if you want to reach the realm of military and civilian fish and water, it is not possible to complete it overnight.

There was originally a military camp here, which was the station of a post of the Green Battalion Dapeng Association, but this number had disappeared during the British and French attack on Guangzhou. The barracks had become dilapidated, and some beams, doors, windows, bricks and tiles had disappeared. After the Eighth Company came, they directly demolished these ruins and rebuilt them. The barracks are rebuilt blue brick and large tile houses, along the perimeter of the barracks is a circle of trenches one meter deep, and then outside is a circle of barbed wire and a trench three meters deep and three meters wide, plus the open blockhouse and the guard tower, constitute a set of strict defense system. Because it is some distance from the sea, it is not within the range of the Royal Navy's naval guns.

Wei Bozhi stood on a sentry tower, looked at the blue sky and white clouds in the distance with a telescope, and the silver-white desert, and said to Ma Angelica: "The environment here is better than the original time and space, I really want to go down and swim twice." ”

"It's a pity that there are no beautiful girls in bikinis to feast their eyes." Ma Angelica said regretfully.

"When there is a peaceful and stable external environment in the future, we will develop this place into a beach for our own people, and then we will not talk about bikinis, even if it is T-pants and C-pants." Shen Xingshi, who accompanied the inspection, said longingly, and then the three men all showed a trivial smile on their faces.