Shi Dashou and more than 50 former New Army prisoners who volunteered to join the Mengshan Army were not disorganized and divided into various companies, but formed a separate company, numbered the Fifth Company of the Mengshan Army. This decision pleased the captives, nay, the recruits of the Mengshan Army, but disappointed the other four old companies. Because the number of people in each company was seriously short, and in fact even two complete platoons were barely enough, the company commanders originally hoped to enrich their company with prisoners, but Long Qian made the decision to establish a new company.

The commander of the fifth company was Lu Shan. Shi Dashou was appointed deputy company commander and first platoon commander. Previously, the Mengshan Army did not have a deputy company commander, and Shi Dashou was the first person to serve as a deputy company commander. The rest of the platoon commanders and squad leaders were all held by the new army. Long Qian had been observing this captive unit, and the platoon leaders appointed were all obedient and had high prestige among the soldiers, so the new company showed joy when the establishment and appointment were announced, and they were satisfied with this arrangement.

Long Qian said to Lu Shan, you have performed well during the period of demotion, which is the main reason why I appointed you to take charge of the new company. This company is special, and you know where it is special. Now I'm going to see if your fifth company can catch up and surpass the other four companies in military training.

Lu Shan solemnly said, I will definitely do a good job in training, and I will not fall behind and embarrass you.

Long Qian reminded Lu Shan that the members of this company are different from other companies, and they should pay attention to this characteristic, and if you don't disassemble them for anything, you have to think carefully about what I mean. We must give full play to their original strengths, but we must not accommodate their faults. The training of the new army is advanced in China, but it does not mean that it is better than our training methods. The second is to pay attention to unity with the squad leader of the fifth company.

Lu Shan agreed one by one.

Long Qian reminded him that Shi Dashou is a new army officer who resolutely joins us, and I am ready to erect this benchmark, so I appointed him as the deputy company commander. If you don't do a good job, I'm going to take you down, and you remember that for me.

Long Qian and Shi Dashou also had a long talk, hoping that he would assist Lu Shan in bringing the Fifth Company well, and he would lead the main company with the strongest combat effectiveness of the Mengshan Army. Long Qian talked about Lu Shan's advantages and disadvantages, and made no secret of his appreciation for this old subordinate, Long Qian told Shi Dashou that he would pay special attention to the training and life of the Fifth Company, and that the current guns were not enough, and there would be more than half of the unarmed soldiers, which didn't matter. When the next battle is over, the number of men in the fifth company will increase, and the guns will be complete.

Shi Dashou thanked Long Qian for his trust, and said that he would obey the command of Company Commander Lu and help Company Commander Lu lead the fifth company.

Everything's coming up roses.

There was originally a blacksmith shop in Mengshanzhai, whose mission was mainly to repair some damaged knives and guns. In the era of cold weapons, it was an indispensable institution for every larger cottage.

Wu Lie is a skilled blacksmith, and Long Qian has seen the stirrups made by Wu Lie, which are simply works of art. Of course, the stirrups were for Sun Da. This time the ordnance group was established, Long Qian appointed Wu Lie as the leader of the ordnance team, and its members included Wu Lie's original two apprentices, and Long Qian selected three skilled soldiers from the army and handed them over to Wu Lie, which was regarded as the ordnance group to support the stall.

In fact, there are still people who are suitable to enter the military armament group, and they are all in Liang Huada's prisoner camp. Long Qian was reluctant to persecute them, but according to Long Qian's observations, this group of New Army captives increasingly showed the tendency he hoped for, that is, to return to the Mengshan army. In Long Qian's current affairs class, he found more and more captives, which was a signal. Long Qian knew that the overall quality of Liang Huada's people was higher, but the strong melon was not sweet, and only when they were really willing to join this group could they really use the abilities they had trained to gain. Now, more than 50 captives have become the fresh blood of the Mengshan Army, and soon after the establishment of the Fifth Company, Long Qian drew three soldiers from the former Liang Huada Baggage Brigade from the Fifth Company and arranged them into Wu Lie's ordnance group. There was no other reason than because they had the skill to repair ordnance.

Shooting training is still ongoing, but the disassembly, cleaning and maintenance of firearms have been added. Without understanding the structure and principles of a rifle, it is difficult to become a good shooter. In this regard, the people of the new army are obviously more sophisticated than those of Mengshanzhai. At present, the whole army has a variety of firearms, half of which are imported firearms, such as the German-made 1888 Committee type, the Russian Mosin Nagant type, and the Japanese Murata type and the domestic imitation of German-made rifles. The caliber is also very messy, 6.5mm, 7.92mm, 7.62mm, which makes it difficult to manage ammunition. Previously, Long Qian tried to make unified arrangements according to the source and caliber of the guns, such as Ye Yanbing's first company and Wang Mingyuan's second company, all of which were German 7.92mm caliber, Feng Lun's third company was Japanese, and Feng Guozhu's fourth company used Russian-made 7.62mm caliber guns. The fifth company is more chaotic, the guns are not good, and there is no way to do it.

Now it is not realistic to unify the caliber of guns. So Long Qian paid attention to the ordnance group.

Wu Lie was very happy that Long Qian valued his blacksmith shop, and all the tools and steel seized from Maoyang Town were transported back to the cottage, among which there were many things that Wu Lie had been thinking about, and Wu Lie promised Long Qian that with these things, he would ensure that two or three hundred good steel knives would be made for the village.

Long Qian stopped Wu Lie's enthusiasm and said that in the future, you will no longer need to build steel knives, spears and old-fashioned armor, when will this be? What kind of things can stop foreign guns and cannons? You've seen it all, a flowering cannonball shoots over, and a dozen people are gone. Wu Lie was embarrassed and said, we can't do foreign guns and foreign cannons. Long Qian said that of course you can't do it now, but you can definitely in the future. Now what you have to do is these few things, and as you speak, you take out a few pieces of paper from your bosom, on which you draw a pattern with charcoal and mark the dimensions. To Wu Lie's surprise, each pattern is three drawings in different directions, and he understood it at a glance, and admired it very much, and said, captain, you are really capable, and the master said that the capable person is omnipotent, probably talking about people like you. Long Qian taught him that these three pictures are called three views, frontal, left-looking and top-down, and when the three pictures are combined, this thing cannot be hidden. Long to right, high and flat, wide equal to teach Wu Lie once, Wu Lie immediately learned.

Long Qian said that this is science, and in the future, you must learn to draw pictures first, so that not only you understand, but others also understand.

Wu Lie looked at the pattern, it was very simple, one was a three-edged bayonet, and the other was a round shovel, so he said that this is easy to do, I can make it. Long Qian said that the bayonet is to be matched with the rifle, called the military spur, because there are many kinds of rifles on the mountain, so the military spur you create cannot be one size, and it must be guaranteed to be mounted on the barrel. And this shovel, you should not underestimate him, he is not only a tool for digging trenches, but also a sharp weapon for hand-to-hand combat. The key is that the steel mouth should be good, and now the conditions are like this, and I don't hope that you will train steel, just those materials, you can give me fifty shovels, and the rest will be military thorns.

The three-edged groove stumped Wu Lie, and discussed with Long Qian, Long Qian said that the most special thing about this military stab is the three-edged blood groove, you must know that the current military bayonet has a disadvantage, that is, it is easy to get the bayonet stuck in the opponent's body during white-knuckle fighting, and the opponent's bones will not bend the bayonet, which is very fatal in battle. And what I want you to do is not like that. The triangular groove would bleed profusely, and the bayonet would be drawn out without any problems. This kind of three-sided military thorn also has the advantage that it is very fatal to the enemy's wounds, and any kind of hero who is stabbed will be abolished.

Wu Lie shivered, imagining the scene of a bayonet with a deep blood groove piercing himself. Long Qian, who was like an elder brother to his brothers, talked about killing people like a butcher.

The bayonets captured from the officers and soldiers are easier to make, but the dragon boss has already made it clear why this kind of bayonet is not as good as this three-edged stab. While Wu Lie was lighting a fire and preparing to build a small round spade, he was struggling to figure out how to get the three blood grooves that Long Qian wanted.

The hemp paper brought back from Maoyang Town also came in handy, and this time Long Qian found Sun Juan. At present, the medical team belonging to the logistics group of Song Jinguo is currently not available for many injuries and patients. The seven women who were reborn because of Long Qian's respect burst out with great enthusiasm, and recently under the leadership of Sun Juan, they used the stolen cloth to make military uniforms, of course, referring to the military uniform style of Yuan Shikai's new army.

Wu Lie's small shovel was finally made, but the three-edged army thorn could not be made anyway. The three "traitors of the new army" who joined the ordnance group admired Long Qian's three-edged army stabbing diagram, but they also lacked the necessary conditions to make it.

Jin Ruigong, who was the leader, was originally a shed (squad leader) of Liang Huada's baggage team, and thought that the bayonet designed by Long Qian was very powerful, but it must have good steel and a special foundry to do it, and a small iron furnace on the mountain really couldn't be knocked out.

"If you can't get it, put it down! It does not matter. Long Qian patted Jin Ruigong on the shoulder, "Yes, Lao Wu said that you are all good!" Believe that we will not be trapped in the mountains forever. When we go out of the mountain, the conditions will gradually improve. ”

Wu Lie didn't have no achievements at all, and the other task that Long Qian gave him was completed. Although the shovel designed by Long Qian is different from the common shovel at the moment, the principle is similar, Wu Lie first carefully made two handfuls, and called Long Qian to inspect the goods.

"That's good," Long Qian's left thumb slowly slid over the edge of the shovel, trying to fire the steel. The conditions on the mountain, coupled with the fact that Wu Lie's craftsmanship comes from the master, he is completely aware of the metal heat treatment and does not know why. Of course, this shovel can't be compared with the things produced on the assembly line in industrialized countries, but the style is good, even the wooden handle is completely copied from Long Qian's drawings, leaving a bulge at the end of the end, so that it will be more convenient to use, "Old Wu, how many can you beat this thing a day?" ”

"Even if you add more people," Wu Lie looked up at the three newcomers, "two at most." Unless you add another set of guys. ”

"Okay, you're going to do your best to build this thing for this time, and you can do as much as you can. The bayonet, let's put it down for now. ”

Jin Ruigong admired the small round shovel designed by Long Qian very much, the total length is only one foot six inches, and it can be carried behind the march without being cumbersome at all. It is definitely a sharp weapon for infantry, not only can it be used to dig individual bunkers, but it is also a good weapon for hand-to-hand combat. Jin Ruigong thought about it, and couldn't help but wave a small round spade and gesture.

"Okay, the room is too small, be careful of hurting people." Long Qian smiled and stopped Jin Ruigong.

"Commander, is this your design?"

"Of course."

"This thing can also be folded back, which is more convenient." Jin Ruigong stroked the smooth handle that was beaten.

"Right. That's going to require a smart device to be installed here. The conditions on the mountain are too poor to do it, so I didn't mention it to Lao Wu. Yes, this is what weapons are designed for, close to actual combat, and what is needed on the battlefield, you will design and manufacture it. Long Qian smiled and said to the people in the ordnance group, "Don't be discouraged, if we are poor now, it doesn't mean that we will be poor in the future." If you remember my words, in the future, not only will the ordnance group be expanded, but there will also be its own military factory, making guns and cannons, and whatever weapons others have, we will all build them, and we will be better than theirs. ”