Zhang Wei informed He Jinhai of all the tactical purposes of forming the engineer platoon, and He Jinhai's sensitivity was still very high, and he had a pretty good understanding of Zhang Wei's requirements and tactical purposes.

His thinking has also changed from a simple engineer platoon commander to an infantry platoon commander who has mastered the knowledge of engineers.

Of course, the difference between the two is not that big.

The two had a heated discussion on the construction of the engineer platoon, and before talking about tactics and training, equipment is a question that has to be raised.

Hexagonal barbed wire and ordinary barbed wire, sandbags, all kinds of workmanship tools, barbed wire is used to dig positions, build blockade lines, sandbags are used for fortifications, these things belong to defensive equipment, skilled infantry are playing.

The only weapons of attack and lethality are the explosives that have been fired, which are used for blasting, and all of them are bulk explosives.

Combat sappers, it is not enough to have these, and they must not be attacked with barbed wire and bulk explosives.

"Captain, since our platoon is a "combat" engineer platoon, then we must have the ability to attack, and now the equipment in our hands is not good at all, and you require us to have the ability to attack under demining and heavy fire, and we do not have demining tools, and we lack strong firepower. ”

He Jinhai, who had smoothed out his thinking, changed his thinking very quickly.

Of course, Zhang Wei knew that the current equipment was not enough, so he had to find out what equipment he wanted to get and what equipment he wanted to supplement, and the combat engineer platoon should have powerful explosive attack firepower.

In terms of defense, Zhang Wei asked for the ability to clear mines and blast mines, and he did not plan to lay mines on the offensive.

He Jinhai said that the engineering units not directly under the Ministry of Military Affairs do not have the ability to lay mines, and the troops' supplementary equipment will never replenish mines; He Jinhai himself only has a certain theoretical knowledge of mine-laying operations, but has never done practical operations, and Zhang Wei himself also has a dispensable attitude toward mine-laying operations.

The Japanese army's subordinate engineers all have the ability to lay mines, and the engineers are fully equipped, so the anti-mine-laying capability is a must.

During the retreat stage of the Battle of Songhu, Zhang Wei and his team suffered the loss of the Japanese army's mine-laying, and the Japanese army planted a lot of mines along the way, and many retreating Nationalist troops were attacked.

In short, in addition to the use of strong firepower and melee fire assaults, it is also necessary to have the ability to guard against Japanese sappers laying mines.

"Captain, we can't carry out offensive minesweeping, if the Japanese army lays mines, we usually use minesweepers, but we have too few sappers, so we definitely can't use minesweepers."

After thinking about it, He Jinhai said that the engineer platoon was already small in number, and the efficiency of using minesweepers to sweep the mines planted by the Japanese sappers was too low.

"Well, what you said is reasonable, it seems that there is some equipment, we have to figure it out ourselves." Zhang Wei had a sad face, and after discussion, Zhang Wei and He Jinhai found that the gap in the hardware equipment was really difficult to solve, there was no anti-minelaying equipment, it was easy to use more close range, and there was no strong firepower blasting equipment.

These things are reported to the top? It was impossible to come, because there was no top, and there was only a few pieces of equipment for the sappers.

"Captain, powerful explosive equipment, we can tie bulk explosives together, it's much better than a single one." He Jinhai finally said to Zhang Wei that he wanted to tie the explosives together to increase the power, but in fact, the effect was not great, but the power was increased, and the way of carrying and using it did not change.

However, it reminded Zhang Wei that superimposing explosives can increase the power, and the power has increased, what needs to be changed is the way of carrying and fighting, and simple explosives, just increasing the power can not increase the combat effect.

The melee explosives carried by the sappers should be powerful, and the other should be easy to carry and use for attacking.

However, the combat engineer himself has to undertake combat missions, and in the midst of a hail of bullets, he does not have the time and energy to design, make, and modify explosives.

It's simple to use, it's huge, and it has to be equipment that you can make, plus the Japanese minelayers you may face......

After thinking about it, He Jinhai didn't come up with it, the only engineering equipment he used was, the military education of the national army could not keep pace with the times, and He Jinhai couldn't think of anything else except for using explosives to make more powerful explosives. Zhang Wei thought about it for a long time.

In the end, thanks to the memory of his previous life, there is exactly what he needs now in the active equipment of various countries, if Zhang Wei is still a native of the Republic of China in his mind, he may not be able to think of this.

It can be fried and easy to carry, both sapper operations and minesweepers, and the most important thing is that it can be transformed by itself, and the blasting canister is of course the best choice!

In later World War II movies and TV series, the blaster has a very high appearance rate, and it is usually used by American GIs, which just meets its own requirements.

This thing was first available in World War I, using explosives and detonators, fuses, and outer sheaths, it is very convenient to transform, prepare a cylinder, steel pipe, stuff explosives into it, and then install a lead, fuse, or detonator, this thing is basically transformed.

Now it is produced and manufactured in various countries, and most of the film and television works are American GIs using it, for example, at the beginning of Saving Private Ryan, there are shots of the landing US military blasting canisters blasting German fortifications and bunkers.

The Japanese army, the sworn enemy of the national army, also had special blasting canisters in their hands, and they had been used many times on the battlefield.

When Zhang Wei said the three words blaster, He Jinhai looked confused, and he didn't know what Zhang Wei was talking about.

It is not surprising that the national army's education in engineer blasting is still limited to simply relying on explosives blasting, and there is a lack of follow-up research on new military technology.

"Blasters? Captain, how do you change this thing? Zhang Wei was excited, explained the principle to He Jinhai, took out a notebook, and drew the general structure of the blaster.

"Look, blasting canisters, blasting canisters, you definitely need canisters, this thing is to put explosives in the canister, plus detonators and fuses, and attack the Japanese fortifications by exploding."

"This thing is easy to use, it is not difficult to build, and it can also be used for mine clearance."

"You mean, hit a minefield, tie these canisters together, and blow up the mines?" He Jinhai asked, Zhang Wei thought that he was worthy of being a sapper professional, he was thorough at one point, and he reacted quickly.

"Of course, demining is used, but it's not tied, you think, these things are long cylinders, connect them one by one, arrange them in the minefield, and as soon as they detonate, that safe passage will come out."

After Zhang Wei finished explaining the use of ideas, He Jinhai, who had never touched a blaster, said excitedly: "Captain, this is a good thing, it can be fought and defended, and it can be thrown out as a big explosive!"