Generally speaking, each country has only one national anthem, which is the one that best represents the national characteristics and will of the country, and there are also countries with two national anthems, such as Denmark.

And the same is true of the Ming Dynasty, "Tianming Dide" and "Fuyao" appeared in different eras, and the styles are also very different, the former is a traditional music composed and lyrics, and it was determined in the sixth year of Chang; The latter is much more "modern", which was determined in the 28th year of Zhichang.

The meaning of the two is completely different, and "Fuyao" aims to show a seemingly thriving and prosperous China, rather than the praise and prayer of "Tianming Dide".

Although there are no restrictions on the use of the two explicitly announced by the imperial court, "Fuyao" has been used more in diplomatic occasions in recent years.

After the military anthem and the national anthem, the officers and men of the regiment ended their attention salute and turned their attention to the officers of the military department.

At the same time, more than 30 soldiers from the banner platoon of the regimental headquarters came out of the column and walked steadily under the leadership of the second lieutenant.

At this moment, Yang Zhen's heart is also very excited, he has been looking forward to the Marine Corps overhaul for many years has finally become a reality, it is foreseeable that from today, it will not take a few years to have a larger establishment of the Marine Corps.

"Flag." He spat out two words with a solemn face.

Several of the accompanying officers of the military department solemnly presented a thick flag tube with both hands, and the other two joined hands to hand over the flagpole.

The soldiers of the flag platoon quickly took it, then took a step back, and the second lieutenant who led the team shouted loudly: "Take the flag!" People are in the flag, and people are lost in the flag! ”

The officials successively awarded two military flags, the first being the large flag of the sub-assembly, and the second being the commonly used regimental flag.

The former has a very long historical origin, which evolved from the Chinese military.

Qi Jiguang described the Chinese army's sitting in the "New Book of Ji Xiao" as "this cannot be used for marching formations, and it is also important", which is about one zhang, made of black and green satin, and the flag is made of white silk; The flagpole is six feet high, decorated with tassel beads, extremely gorgeous, this flag is the big flag of the Chinese army, and it is not allowed to be appropriated at will.

Now it has been redesigned and reduced in size, making it more symmetrical and beautiful while retaining the elements of Bagua, Tai Chi and the stars.

Each flag is identical in appearance, with no text number, only a very small number sewn on the side of the flag to distinguish it.

The significance and status of the banner are extraordinary, and the award of the 1st and 2nd Marine Regiments can be said to be the first exceptional time, which only divisions or independent brigades can have until then.

In addition to the standard ceremonial flag just used to place it, there is another wartime flag.

In wartime, the flag tube is made of white copper, with a built-in spontaneous combustion safety device - a small white phosphorus incendiary bomb modified from an incendiary grenade is installed at each end of the flag tube, if the military flag needs to be burned in an emergency, only need to remove the safety pin, and then pull the fuse, and the two incendiary bombs will detonate in a few seconds.

As for the second flag, which is usually used as a regimental flag, its length and width ratio is four to three, the main color is vermilion, and the pattern is three dark green triangles in the lower part, one large and two small, and there are two indigo wavy lines.

The three triangles imply three mountains and five mountains, and the army flag is this vermilion three-mountain flag, and the two blue wavy lines are the Marine Corps flag.

It can be said that this is a very interesting point - the Daming Marine Corps is obviously subordinate to the navy, but the flag is changed on the basis of the army flag.

"In just one month, this unit has been well trained, and it is very good on the outside, but on the inside... has some real skills, and may defeat the enemy when he goes into battle, which depends on the back. ”

Yang Zhen is very satisfied with the current military appearance of the 1st Marine Regiment, but it seems that something is missing?

Yao Liangchuan understood this, in fact, he had already discussed this with Zhou Changfeng - how boring a simple flag ceremony is, it is better to have some ornamental display.

So Zhou Changfeng arched his hand, stretched out his hand and pointed to the diagonal front, and said with a smile: "We have prepared a small display, please take a look." ”

Show? What to show?

Yang Zhen, who was very interested, got into the car and came to the shooting range about a mile away.

Since there are 1,000 soldiers and non-commissioned officers in the whole regiment who are selected from various units, the quality of their individual soldiers is naturally qualified, and there are many talented people or capable people with unique skills.

After entering a trench, Yang Zhen picked up the binoculars and leaned against the sandbags piled up in front of him, "You kid, what are you playing dumb?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a thin soldier not far away with a Type 21 rifle entering the firing position, and then about 150 meters away, in the trench, someone threw a clay disc into the sky.

"Bang!"

Gunshots, crushes! Shattered pottery shards spilled down in midair.

Ten shots in a row, nine hits out of ten, can be described as a miraculous marksmanship.

Then, the soldier changed to a rifle equipped with a Type 22 triple scope, and fired rapidly at a humanoid target of 300 meters and 500 meters in a kneeling position.

It's the same ten shots, but from the binoculars, there is only one bullet hole on both of those two human targets?

If you don't take into account misses, then every five bullets fall at the same point?

Then there was a tall corporal, who took up a Type 33 light machine gun and knocked them down one by one with a deadly double-shot short shot at twenty humanoid targets scattered from 200 to 600 meters.

The "da-da" gunfire rang out very rhythmically, interrupted for a few seconds because he was changing magazines.

When the last target was knocked down, someone next to him shouted, "Fifty-one seconds!" ”

Twenty targets, two magazines for a total of fifty rounds, a total of fifty-one seconds?

At the same time, there is also a demonstration of mortar emergency fire without deployment, simulating the scene of firing directly without the placement of tripods and sights in a sudden encounter.

I saw two soldiers cooperating with each other, one holding the cannon and the other unscrewing the fuse, and after a few seconds of work, the shell whistled out and landed impartially in a circular area a few hundred meters away.

Although the training bomb did not explode, the dust and red smoke emitted were conspicuous enough.

Yang Zhen was particularly pleased with the wonderful performance of the 1st Marine Regiment in terms of the quality of individual soldiers, and announced on the spot that he would reward one or two.

"The previous ones were rewarded with a hundred yuan each. I'll read again, give you an extra batch of 10,000 yuan, and celebrate the New Year happily.

Zhou Changfeng and Yao Liangchuan hurriedly clasped their fists, "Thank you, Chief Yang!" ”

However, Yang Zhen did not forget the key, he stroked his beard and said: "Individual martial arts are important, but teamwork is indispensable, the core of combat power is whether it can be twisted into a rope, but we can't forget this!" ”

"Yes! Grades are in accordance with the teachings. Several of the officers present claimed to be.

Before the beginning of next year's spring, the 1st Marine Regiment will not have many training projects, and there is no urgency in large-scale actual combat training, such as infantry and artillery coordination, infantry and tank coordination, air-ground coordination, and ship-ground coordination.

Now that we have laid a good foundation and let the officers and men run in well, we will be able to conduct training more efficiently when the time comes.

(End of chapter)