After listening to Li Yong's formation plan, these veteran soldiers were very excited, such a company is a very powerful force, as long as it is used reasonably, it will burst out with strong combat effectiveness, is our nineteen-year-old company commander really born to fight? is such a powerful person, who is just a private in the Kuomintang, do you think that their Kuomintang can be undefeated?

Next, Li Yong carried out the arrangement plan of weapons and equipment, and Sun Quanhou, the platoon commander of the baggage platoon, reported to Li Yong: In addition to 12 heavy machine guns and 12 small cannons, we also brought back 104 light machine guns, 628 submachine guns, 390 boxes of shells, 1,100 boxes of bullets, and more than 600 boxes of grenades, some of which are American-style melon grenades, in addition to weapons, there are clothes, military blankets, water bottles, steel helmets, shoes, clickcloth, and food. By the way, there are also a lot of tarpaulins covered on the weapons, I asked Ma Changsheng what he was doing with those tarpaulins? Ma Changsheng's kid told me, anyway, I don't know what to do if the company commander asked me to move, in a word, our company is really rich, except for no money, everything else.

Sun Quanhou's last sentence made everyone laugh. After listening to Sun Quanhou's report, Li Yong made specific arrangements for weapons and equipment:

Each infantry squad of the 1st infantry platoon is equipped with two Czech light machine guns, each light machine gun is equipped with 200 rounds of ammunition, and you can bring as many as possible depending on the situation in the future, ten American Tom submachine guns, each gun is equipped with 200 rounds, that is to say, a single soldier with ammunition should reach 200 rounds, Li Jiangguo, don't you always shout that you are short of bullets, this time you have enough, if you are not too heavy or carry a thousand rounds, no one will care about you.

Li Yong said this, the soldiers all laughed, Li Jiangguo scratched his head and said: "Oh, great, I used to feel good when I could have a dozen bullets in a war, and I fought at least once with four bullets, if I had 200 bullets, my courage would not be greater than that of a gourd, but a thousand rounds really can't be carried." Everyone was amused by Li Jiangguo again, and Li Yong went on to say that each soldier had four grenades, and the platoon commander and deputy platoon commander had a total of eight light machine guns and forty-two submachine guns.

Hearing this, these old soldiers stopped talking, good guys, the firepower of a platoon is so powerful, this is five platoons, how powerful is the firepower if they fire together? When did we become so rich. Li Yong had his own considerations for equipping an infantry squad with two light machine guns.

The Czech light machine gun is a classic infantry light weapon developed by the Czech State Arsenal in the twenties, the working principle is a long-stroke gas conductive type, single or burst fire can be selected, the caliber is 7.92 mm, the magazine is used to feed the ammunition, the ammunition capacity is 20 rounds, the Czech light machine gun has a simple structure, reliable action, is not easy to damage in the natural environment, simple maintenance, accurate shooting, the squadron has an old saying, called veterans are afraid of machine guns. This sentence is actually aimed at the Czech light machine gun, for the Czech light machine gun's accurate two or three long and short bursts, as long as it is aimed and shot, it is impossible to dodge. During the attack, the light machine gun can provide timely fire support with the rapid advance of the infantry. In actual combat, the machine gun can also be fired by the shooter while charging at the same time. In addition, the Czech light machine gun can use ordinary rifle cartridges, and the ammunition aspect is not a problem. The Czech light machine gun was a rare weapon for infantry offensive and defensive purposes.

Of course, the Czech type is not without its drawbacks, first of all, it has a small magazine capacity, only twenty rounds, and in the heat of battle, the magazine must be changed every six to eight bursts, which provides an opportunity for experienced fighters to deal with it, and then there is the need to change the barrel every two hundred rounds, although it is enough for an experienced fighter to change the barrel for ten seconds, but this is also one of its shortcomings.

We see in movies or TV that the soldiers are constantly firing with a Czech light machine gun, which is actually very false, think about how long it will take to shoot six to eight short shots? This is still an experienced shooter, if it is a new fighter or a fighter with a low level of skills and tactics, as long as the fingers are a little slower, the twenty rounds will be fired in a few seconds, and if the magazine is not replaced in time, it will be a dead end.

Although this light machine gun has one or another shortcoming, but at that time it was the best infantry squad light machine gun known in the world, and its performance on the battlefield of our country was much stronger than the crooked handle of the little devil, and the People's Liberation Army captured a large number of such machine guns during the war years, and it was this kind of light machine gun in the hands of our soldiers at the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China in 49 years, and it was also used in large numbers on the Korean battlefield later.

After the founding of New China, our army installed a 30-round large-capacity magazine for this weapon in view of its characteristics, which better solved the problem of small ammunition capacity, and it was not until five or six years after the successful development of our army's new generation of light machine guns for infantry squads that this light machine gun was gradually retired from active service.

The 2 reconnaissance platoon each had one submachine gun and four grenades, and the reconnaissance platoon was not equipped with machine guns.

Each squad of the 3 machine gun platoon is equipped with a Makqin heavy machine gun, with 2,000 rounds of ammunition, and in the future, it will depend on the situation as much as possible, and other weapons will not be equipped, and the soldiers will not be able to take other equipment, a heavy machine gun will be nearly sixty pounds, and when marching, it will be carried by four soldiers, and the other three people will carry bullets, which is the reason why the machine gun platoon has four squads and seven people in each squad.

Makqin, born in Maine, USA in 1840, experienced ups and downs in his early years, once worked as an apprentice in a factory and a worker in a flour mill, he basically did not get involved in weapons and war in the first half of his life, but participated in the local security forces during the American Civil War, the turning point of fate appeared in 1882, Makqin formed the Maxim-Weston Company with the help of his friends, thus embarking on the road of genius invention, the advent of the Maxim machine gun marked the end of an era, The tactics that had been used since the Napoleonic era were largely useless.

Maxim was an American, but it was the Germans who fully realized the importance of machine guns, and in the Battle of the Somu River in World War I, the Germans fired frantically at the density of 14 British divisions attacking frontally at an average density of one Maxim per 100 meters, leaving 60,000 British dead in one day.

Do you say that this Englishman is a bit dead-eyed, with a tendon in his head, charging indiscriminately at the machine gun position, isn't that looking for death? Later, some information introduced that most of the British senior officers at that time were upper-class nobles, these people could eat, drink and have fun, and they would be caught blind when they started fighting, after the end of the two world wars, the mortality rate of young British men was high, and after the end of World War II in 1945, a teacher said to her ten-year-old students in class: Children, you are very unhappy to catch up with the war, only one tenth of your lieutenant generals can get married, you must be mentally prepared. Of course, her students were all girls, and most of the boys went to war and fell there.

As the teacher said, after World War II, only one in ten young women of British school age can find the other half, and the rest have to live their own lives, these people have no descendants and no family, and they can only pay silently in Britain after World War II, and they have undertaken most of the work of post-war reconstruction but the evening is bleak, which is also the pain that the British have been reluctant to mention after World War II.

Of course, the Maxim heavy machine gun also has its own shortcomings, that is, its dead weight is relatively large, and it is more problematic for infantry to carry on the march.

A bit too much off-topic, let's get back to this chapter.

Li Yong continued: "We must give full play to the power of heavy weapons in future battles, bullets must be carried more, as in the past, the battle that gets up and charges not long after the battle starts must not be done, and the time when the troops charge is also the time when it suffers the greatest casualties, do not charge if you are not sure, our soldiers are all treasures, we will not do such stupid things." ”

After listening to Li Yong's words, these veterans all fell into deep thought, these 20 or so veterans, including the instructor Wang Chengde, were all rolled out of blood and fire, they have all experienced the scene of Li Yong's big army charge, and also witnessed many good comrades-in-arms sacrificed under the enemy's firepower, if they have not sacrificed, what a great fortune it will be!! Every veteran soldier who has been in a hundred battles can lead a platoon, a company or even a battalion, thinking of this, the eyes of these veterans have changed when they look at Li Yong, and they may not know what will happen after following this young company commander, but it is certain that it will not be a bad thing.

Li Yong saw that these veterans were thinking about things and didn't say anything about it, so let them think about it more, the troops will develop in the future, and their thoughts and concepts will also change, and they must slowly instill in them a new kind of operational ideas and concepts, they are now the backbone of the troops, and they will be the grassroots commanders of the troops in the future, and they are also a person no matter how capable they are, and the expansion of the troops depends on them.

Each squad of the 4th artillery platoon is equipped with a 60 mortar, with 40 rounds of ammunition, and the shells should be brought as much as possible depending on the situation, the artillery platoon soldiers are not equipped with other weapons, our current mortar can only be carried by the soldiers on the march, it is not the same as the heavy machine gun, there is no way to lift, so it can only be disassembled, the barrel, the gun plate, the tripod is the same for each soldier, the barrel is more important to choose a good soldier, the remaining four soldiers in each artillery squad carry shells, ten rounds per person, the whole platoon has a total of six zero mortars four, one hundred and sixty shells.

Li Yong went on to explain: In modern warfare, artillery is called the god of war, why do you say that? It is because of its powerful long-range firepower, such as fighting now, if the enemy is a few hundred meters away, we have no way at all, with artillery can solve this problem, in the case of sufficient ammunition can be solved by artillery fire, can be solved by artillery fire without heavy machine guns, can be solved with heavy machine guns without light machine guns, can be solved with light machine guns without submachine guns, can be solved with submachine guns without bayonets, not to say that we dare not fight bayonets, bayonets are one of our key training subjects, But don't do it unless you have to. In a word, we should try to solve the opponent with firepower, and there is only one goal, that is, to win the battle and reduce our own casualties.

After listening to Li Yong's words, these veterans were shocked again, and Li Yong also tried to make every opportunity to update the concepts of these veterans, so that they could gradually adapt to their own modern warfare thinking.

The 38 people of the 5 replatoon are only equipped with submachine guns, and they can bring less bullets, not grenades, their main task is to carry food, and each person's food can not be less than 50 catties, and they also have to bring their own things, so it will be very hard, tell the soldiers of the replatoon not to have ideas, since ancient times, the soldiers and horses have not moved the grain and grass first, and whether a unit can win the battle or not is very critical, and our replatoon will develop in the future, and it cannot just rely on the shoulders of the soldiers.

Li Yong knew that three years later, our army would suffer losses on the Korean battlefield because of logistical problems, and that a certain aspect of modern warfare is logistics, and the strength of logistics can determine the success or failure of the entire campaign. Li Yong also told these veterans about the importance of logistical support. I didn't dare to talk about it anymore, I was afraid that these soldiers would not be able to digest it, and I was afraid that the instructors Wang Chengde and Li Jiangguo would endlessly ask where they knew these things.

The 6 Guards Communications Squad was equipped with the same as the reconnaissance platoon, one submachine gun and four grenades per person, a total of ten submachine guns, and the cooking squad and the sanitary squad had no combat duty and were not equipped with weapons.