Along the improvised road around the mountain, Ma Angelica and Wei Bozhi inspected the fortifications at the foot of the mountain. In addition to the two large pillboxes that have been completed, the entire defense system is still under intense construction. Garrisoned at the fortress was the 5th Company of the 2nd Infantry Battalion, which was originally stationed in Luohu as a defensive force to monitor the Qing army in Huizhou. After the establishment of the third battalion, the defense of the east side of Xin'an was handed over to the third battalion, the ninth company was stationed in Luohu, and the main force of the battalion went out to Longgang. This resulted in the formation of a battalion of infantry to defend the south and monitor Hong Kong; The second battalion defended the west and northwest sides, monitoring Dongguan and Lingdingyang; The 3rd Battalion defended to the east and northeast and monitored the situation in Huizhou and Daya Bay.

Xiao Duliang, the commander of the fifth company, was originally a platoon commander under Li Xiangqian, and after the two sides were combined, he became a captain from a second lieutenant, two of the four platoon commanders were also squad leaders under him, and the instructor and deputy company commander were from the original Shenzhen side. This arrangement also adheres to the spirit of the management committee that the armed forces should be closely integrated and should not distinguish between them.

Because the fortress was still in the construction stage, Xiao Duliang took three infantry platoons to conduct shooting training on the original right battery in Chiwan. Ten soldiers lined up on the platform, rifles in hand to practice aiming at targets on the beach. Those targets were not the usual ring or half-body targets, but some models wearing British uniforms, which was also to give the soldiers an intuitive idea of their enemies. Several officers crouched beside the soldier and explained the essentials of aiming to the other soldiers around him. It is indeed a headache to make these former peasants, who do not know a few big characters, understand the three points into a line and know how to read the ruler, and the result of playing the piano to the cow makes several officers eager to take a belt and whip people.

Seeing the group of people inspecting, Xiao Duliang shouted, "All stand upright!" The soldiers lying on the ground jumped up reflexively, raising their heads, raising their chests, tucking their abdomen, and lifting their buttocks. The second batch of recruits was obviously a little overwhelmed, cleverly learning to be like a veteran, and the sluggish would just stand stupidly. Although Xiao Duliang had just taken over the company, the performance of the recruits still made him feel very shameless, but now there is no way to improve it.

Company Commander Xiao quickly ran to Ma Angelica and Wei Bozhi, and saluted: "Report to the commander, political commissar, the fifth infantry company is conducting shooting training, please instruct!" ”

Ma Angelica looked around and saw awe in the faces and eyes of the recruits, which made him confident in establishing authority in the army, so he returned the salute: "Keep training!" ”

Xiao Duliang handed over the work to the deputy company commander, while he and the instructor accompanied the two leaders to observe the performance of these recruits. After looking at it for a while, Ma Angelica asked, "Company Commander Xiao, how is the level of this batch of recruits?" ”

Xiao Duliang showed a wry smile on his face, "The first batch of soldiers recruited is better, at least they know how to obey orders." The second group of recruits is still unclear about the right and left, let alone the more complicated orders. Xiao Duliang had also participated in the military training of freshmen at the university, and once thought that young men and women at the age of eighteen or nineteen were the most difficult to train, but now he realized that compared with the peasants of the nineteenth century, they were just a drop in the bucket.

At this time, there was a commotion in the training crowd, and several people turned their heads to see that a platoon commander was about to beat up a recruit who was "not open-minded." Seeing that everyone was looking at him, his hand was raised and did not fall for a long time, and finally he just scolded: "The pig knows that it is on the groove after beating it three times, you are more stupid than a pig!" Seeing this scene, everyone couldn't cry or laugh. The Liberation Army continued the tradition of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) that officers were not allowed to beat or scold soldiers. Xiao Duliang also took the opportunity to raise his doubts to Ma Angelica, "These recruits' comprehension ability is too low, and teaching something new can kill people in a hurry." Commander, isn't it too early for recruits to start shooting training now? ”

"I also know it's a little early, but unfortunately the British don't have much time left for us." Ma Angelica also knows that this kind of training method is to promote the seedlings, but in extraordinary times, it can only be used in extraordinary times. "The platoon training can be put aside for a while, but they must be taught to aim and shoot before the British call, as well as the training to throw grenades and fight bayonets." The last sentence made Xiao Duliang and the instructor have a strange look on their faces.

The group walked down the horse path of the fort, turned the corner, and saw a group of recruits training bayonets in the open space below the fort. Unlike the usual straw men in the movie who trained bayonets, the target of these recruits was a living creature, a fat pig of more than 300 pounds tied with four hooves and hung on a wooden post, howling in his mouth, desperately doing a dying struggle. Ten soldiers with Type 53 rifles opened with bayonets stood outside the queue, stupidly looking at the big fat pig still struggling for his life.

The officer standing on the side ordered: "All forward!" Advance! ”

The soldiers cowered and moved forward, and when they moved in front of the fat pig, the officer commanded: "Forward-stab!" ”

The soldiers looked at the officer, then at each other, hesitating and not daring to move. The officer shouted again: "Forward-stab!" Hurry up and stab! ”

After three sounds, the soldiers still did not complete the stabbing action, and the officer rushed behind the soldiers and shouted in their ears: "Look at this pig, imagine that it is those devils who are shoveling, they are going to burn down your house, take your money, kill your parents, drink all your wine, what should you do?" ”

There was no answer, no bayonet stabbed out, the soldiers all looked at him stupidly, and no one came to ask, "Which one of the Xujia shovels drank up our wine?" So much so that this classic joke was not finished. Words had no effect, the officer directly used body movements, he grabbed the butt of a soldier's gun, and pushed forward, the three-edged bayonet easily broke through the skin, fat, muscle, and internal organs of the fat pig's abdomen, and the pig's howl also became high-pitched, and the struggle became more violent.

The officer then pulled the butt of his rifle, and as the bayonet left the wound, a bloody arrow burst out. The passive "hedgehog" soldier bore the brunt of the attack, and before he could react, he was doused with a face. Several soldiers around him were also affected by the pond fish, and some blood was splashed on their bodies.

The soldier who instantly turned into a "bloody man" threw away his gun, and the man squatted on the ground and vomited. The officer glared at the bewildered soldiers and shouted, "Hurry up! Who doesn't stab has no food to eat today. "The threat of starvation was far greater than the murder and arson of the ghosts who had never seen it, and the remaining soldiers immediately made nine holes in the fat pig, and the poor fat pig became bleeding like a pillar and swallowed for a breath.

The officer picked up the rifle from the ground, patted the dust off it, and pulled the soldier from the ground, who had vomited, "If you dare to throw your weapon on the battlefield next time, I will shoot you directly." Do you understand? The poor worm of Guan Gong nodded busily, and the officer sent him down to wash his face, and then shouted: "Prepare for the sixth shift!" ”

"That recruit probably won't be able to eat meat for a few days." Ma Angelica, who was standing not far away and watching the whole scene, sighed, and then asked Xiao Duliang: "Who came up with this method?" ”

Xiao Duliang looked at the instructor, who smiled embarrassedly. "That's what I read from a book on the Internet. Most of these recruits had never seen blood, and they couldn't feel the atmosphere of seeing red bayonets when they were only straw men, and we couldn't learn from the Japanese, so we had to learn and sell them now. After seeing blood in this way, these recruits will get used to the smell of blood. ”

"This method seems to be working well, and it shows that everyone is actively using their brains, which is very good!" Wei Bozhi praised, "It seems that there is no way to promote it, and we don't have so many pigs to train bayonets for recruits!" ”

"The pig's blood is also wasted, so many pig red can add a meal to everyone!" Ma Angelica quipped, pointing to the blood that flowed down the pig's body to the ground.

"Each recruit only needs to do it once, and it is enough to feel the blood of the bayonet, so as not to faint when you go to the battlefield." Xiao Duliang explained, "This pig is enough for us to practice assassination for everyone." ”

"There's nothing wrong with that." Ma Angelica affirmed Xiao Duliang's words, "When I was a soldier, the People's Liberation Army had canceled bayonet training. The modern war of the 21st century! It's all high-tech, and the old antiques like bayonets are no longer needed. However, the nineteenth century was also a period of transition from a mixed combination of hot and cold weapons to a full thermal combat mode, and the bayonet charge was still the mainstream, so we could not relax our training in hand-to-hand combat because we had a large number of automatic weapons. ”

"With the average height of those recruits of 1.5 meters, isn't it too much of a loss to fight hand-to-hand with the British? Isn't it because there aren't enough guns and bullets that our superiors let us train in hand-to-hand combat? Xiao Duliang was not confident in the physical fitness of the southerners, and Tongjin suspected that his superiors' decision to strengthen hand-to-hand combat training was "uneasy and kind."

"Hand-to-hand combat is more about courage and skill than height. Otherwise, why was the Chinese army fighting bayonets not the opponent of the Japanese in the Anti-Japanese War? Wei Bozhi opened his mouth to correct Xiao Duliang's erroneous viewpoint, and then exhorted the instructor: "Political work cadres should strengthen the political and ideological education work of the troops, and let the soldiers understand that they are not fighting for others, but for themselves, to defend their hometowns and relatives, so as to arouse their courage." Zeng Guofan organized a regimental training with the slogan of 'defending Sangzi', so the early Hunan army was more effective than the Eight Banners Green Battalion. ”

"Does this count as a spiritual atomic bomb?" Xiao Duliang is also Wei Bozhi's "old subordinate", and he has no scruples when he jokes.

"Weaponism is wrong, and spiritualism is also wrong. It is foolish to think that you can defeat the enemy with courage alone, and Japan in World War II is a good example of the opposite. While answering Xiao Duliang, Wei Bozhi also pointed out the core of political work to the instructor. Ignoring the enemy strategically and valuing the enemy tactically is a profound insight handed down from a great leader, and it is of great practical significance. ”

"We have more advanced weapons than the British, and as long as we maintain the courage not to lose to the British, it will be easy to defeat the British." Ma Angelica added.

"The teachings of the two chiefs must be kept in mind, in order to improve the morale of the troops, do you think you will give us a few more guns?" Xiao Duliang patted his ass, and then made a "non-share" request.