While Ceylon's Colombo Harbour is bustling, Mogadishu is a tranquil paradise where the untouched waves gently crash against the shore, creating silvery-white tidal flats. But this is only the appearance, the city that was 'bought' from the Sultan of Zanzibar more than 30 years ago is now a deadly fortress that cannot be impenetrated. After it was determined that the yellow race would land here, countless soldiers, guns, planes, tanks, and cement and steel were mobilized from Italy and Eritrea, and the clever commander of the Southern Front, General Rudolfo Graziani, did not place these things directly on the beach, but hid them in secret.

-- Admiral Gracinia did not know the power of the aircraft carriers, but he was afraid that the eight 410mm main guns of the battleship Nagato would destroy all the beachhead fortifications, so he moved the battlefield to a place on the beach where the battleship's guns could not reach, where the slaughterhouse of the yellow race was.

On the third day of the seventh month of the 25th year of Shenwu, on the pig ship of the Marine Corps in the Indian Ocean (a container troop carrier, after the container was found to be retired in the European war and used by the animal husbandry company to transport piglets, such a transport vehicle was jokingly called the pig boat by the Marine Corps soldiers), the unrestrained Marine Corps soldiers were giggling, bragging, and farting, in addition to playing cards and betting cigarettes, there were also many soldiers under the command of the squad leader to throw empty orange water glass bottles to the back of the boat, and when the bottle was two hundred yards away, the squad leader gave an order, and the Shenwu Type 23 semi-automatic rifle was ' Bang bang bang fire one after another, and the glass bottles floating in the sea water were instantly torn apart by the dense gunfire.

Looking at this extremely interesting scene, Major General Lu Wan, commander of the 1st Marine Division, was a little eager to try. But what is even more angry than the eagerness to try is the resentment of the Great China Detective Institute. It is said that this rifle was finalized in the 20th year of Shenwu, but due to insufficient military spending, it has not been issued to the troops for reequipment. Fortunately, under the strong requirements of the General Headquarters, more than 50,000 guns were trial-produced, otherwise the soldiers would have to use the old-fashioned Type 96 Mauser this time. Because of this, the Marine Corps and the two divisions of the Japanese army seized every time to familiarize the soldiers with this semi-automatic firearm.

"Sir......" Adjutant brought Lu Wan a Shenwu Type 23 rifle. There were also a few loaded bullets.

"This gun ......" Major General Lu Wan looked at a smile when he received the gun, at first he heard that this gun only had a range of 400 meters and was very dissatisfied, but later the soldiers tried it and said that this is a rare good gun, with fierce firepower, fast rate of fire, and high accuracy, and he suppressed most of the evil thoughts, and in the beachhead and jungle, firepower is much more important than range.

After weighing it lightly, he examined the one-meter-long rifle from top to bottom, looking at the large gap in the interface of the parts. Lu Wan couldn't find the feeling of German goods at all. Without much dislike, he quickly pulled the bolt, pressed ten 7.0mmx36mm short bullets on the magazine into the magazine, and then pulled the machine, and with a slight click, the bullet was already loaded.

Lu Wan picked up his rifle, and the adjutant immediately threw an empty glass bottle down the side of the boat, but before he could shoot, a gunshot rang out elsewhere. The bottle was shattered in an instant. The adjutant was about to scold his mother, but was stopped by Lu Wan, and after the incident was repeated, two soldiers ran out of a piglet boat hundreds of meters away to salute. After the ceremony, more than a dozen bottles were thrown out one after another.

'Bang......' Lu Wan immediately fired a shot, and the recoil of the gun was significantly less than that of the Type 96 Mauser. But this shot was fired but missed, and when he wanted to pull the bolt, he suddenly remembered that this shot did not need to pull the bolt before the bullet was finished. So he continued to aim and fired one after another, and the successive bullets not only shattered the bottle. There was also a splash of a few feet of seawater.

"It's a good gun, indeed." After hitting the pile of bottles with three magazines, Lu Wan had to make such a decision. "It's a pity that more than 300 meters of bullet power is not enough." He lamented.

"What do you call that...... That's right, intermediate power bullets. The chief of staff who ran over ****** said. It is said that the Americans and Germans are doing it, and they don't want us to not only make it out, but also equip it first, and those people in the back are really bold. ”

Semi-automatic rifles, submachine guns, general-purpose machine guns, heavy machine guns, sniper rifles, ...... a lot of firearms have been developed, but Lu Wan is still not used to the range of the rifle has dropped by half, he returned the gun to the adjutant and asked: "What if it is a target that exceeds 400 meters?" ”

"More than four hundred meters?" smiled, "If you exceed 400 meters, then you can shoot with fire, so many guns can always hit." Now the formation of the squad firepower has changed, the snipers have gone down to the squad, and with them, it is not a problem to target more than eight hundred meters. Rich, let's. That gun and one scope will exceed your and mine's salary for half a year. ”

After the reform of the military system, the salaries of officers and noncommissioned officers of various armies have more than doubled, and wartime allowances have also increased several times. In addition, the General Staff changed its previous style and liked to promote the children of rich clans, Lu Bang, a middle-level officer whose father was a representative of the Provincial Inspectorate of Doubts, was given priority to be promoted, and soon succeeded Li Erhu as the commander of the 2nd Marine Division, and now he is the commander of the 1st Division.

"What's the matter?" Major General Lu Wan, who has a lot of money, has never cared about the salary of the army, "The weapons have always become more and more sophisticated, if we don't upgrade, the foreigners will also upgrade, it is better for us to lead the foreigners to run." After he finished talking about his understanding of weapons, he asked, "What is the morale of the troops?" We've never gone so far to fight a landing battle. ”

"It's fine! It was the gendarmes who caught a few gambling money last night. "After the political commissar was abolished, the monks who replaced him were not in place.

"Did you throw it to the bottom of the sea?" Hearing that someone was gambling money, Lu Wan was very displeased. Throwing the bottom of the sea is a severe punishment.

"Thrown, fainted a few." I knew that Lu Wan would ask, so he shook his head again, "The current soldiers are better than before, but how do you look at it......

As far as China is concerned, the impact of military reform is extremely far-reaching. Politically, the army is no longer called the Renaissance Army (a name that makes it easy to imagine it as the private army of the Renaissance Society), but instead the Great China Army, abbreviated as the Chinese Army (Chinese-Army in English; The abbreviation CA), which includes the Greater China Army (CA), the Greater China Navy (CAN), the Greater China Air Force (CAAF), and the Greater China Marine Corps (CAMC).

Except for the Air Force, which is recruited nationwide, the other three armed forces are all local military formations. The Marine Corps is no exception. Its troop sources are basically from the coastal provinces. Different from the previous recruitment of destitute peasants, after the military reform, the entire reserve system became based on clans and Trinity ancestral halls. In other words. As long as you are not a member of the two forms of social organization, the clan network and the Trinity followers, then it doesn't matter how capable you are. Nor can he be a member of the army - after deciding to eliminate the bureaucratic core of the national administrative structure, Yang Rui is determined to cultivate the native clan organization and the Trinity Sect organization, and when these two organizations cover the land of China, the existence of the bureaucratic administrative structure is no longer necessary.

However, in such a social system, the contradictions between the major clans and the Trinitarian Religion inevitably produce internal friction, and in the eyes of the unification faction (i.e., the young technocrats and their followers who believe that the world will be in chaos without government management, and that local development will be a waste of resources, and who preach the great power of the Soviet-style national system), such a system is undoubtedly self-defeating. The government should establish a development and reform committee, bring all social resources under the scope of state management, and comprehensively control the country's industrial and economic development, so that the country can exert its most powerful force, and these people can become the actual controllers and decision-makers of the entire national economy, and at the same time power rent-seekers.

Both the Kuomintang and the Socialist Party had such a voice, but in fact domestic social resources were quickly absorbed and organized into clans and Trinity; In the revolutionary experience of the Renaissance Society, the real revolutionaries are only those who are isolated from the established organization of society, and who are unable to integrate into mainstream society for various reasons. So the revolution became their best place.

Dropouts (Patriotic Society), bandits (Northeast beard), criminals (remnants of the Boxers, Tokyo wanted students), bankrupts (Liaodong wooden handles and bankrupt peasants who had no wood to cut during the Russo-Japanese War), and marriage escapees (Yin Ruizhi, etc.) are the first batch of good raw materials for revolutionary organizations, and these isolated elements can also find the warmth of home and reincarnate as human beings in revolutionary organizations. Because of this, in the recast military machine. Isolated elements such as these are exposed to firearms, and it is even more impossible to become soldiers. Moreover, at this time, veterans are not guaranteed employment, and once these isolated elements are discharged, they will become a hidden danger to public security.

Except that the new military system is so structured. The Chinese military system is also constitutionally determined to be a conscription system (the conscription law clearly stipulates that conscription is limited to taxpayers (IRS tax bills) and propertied persons (bank credit certificates), and proletarians are not allowed to serve as soldiers unless recommended by the church. nor shall they join the reserves, and the impersonator shall be guilty of a felony; Meantime. The Reserve Law also stipulates that reserve soldiers and veterans may keep a number of firearms at home after completing the relevant formalities -- this is equivalent to a small half of the whole people owning guns, and for a time the domestic gun shops were prosperous), and in peacetime soldiers had almost no military pay, only enough food and clothing, and various allowances in wartime.

Nowadays, the recruits of the army are either honest people from small families or clan soldiers recommended by the clan. Most of the former were recommended by the church, while the latter were recommended by the big clans. Recommendation is not the same as enlistment, this is only the first necessary condition for joining the army, and the actual enlistment also requires rigorous testing. In fact, the physical fitness and intelligence (education level) of the recruits are much better than those of the veterans, and the obedience to discipline and understanding of tactics are definitely stronger than those of the veterans, but it makes people feel that they lack some murderous spirit, so the chief of staff ****** feels unpleasant.

The chief of staff is like this, but Lu Wan prefers the current soldiers. The children of small families are obedient, and the children of large families are a little invincible, but they are always stronger than the bandits in the past. Military discipline is also much better, especially theft, armed fighting, rape and other incidents have been greatly reduced - dogs can't change ****! No matter how much you educate, you can't make the bandits, criminals and the common people innocent, and let them see that the chicken in the pants of the yellow flower girl is not hard. No matter how strict the military discipline is, if the law does not blame the public, if you steal, you steal, and if you rape, you will rape, can you still drag them all out and shoot them? If this were the case, the officer would definitely be shot in the middle of the war.

There are many recruits who are timid, and there are many timidities, but with his own experience, Lu Wan fully believes that they are no worse than the veterans, they just don't have the idea. At the turn of the moment, Lu Wan came to the cabin where the soldiers gathered, and the soldiers were gathered in a heap, and stories were being told inside.

“…… The chief of the wooden bones is bound to the chief, but the whole body is charcoal black, only the whites of the eyes remain, if it is really at night, it is like a stealth technique, and there is no one to be found. Say a day. A large fleet came to the shore of the wooden bones, and I saw that the fleet sailed over the clouds and covered the sea. The sailors on the ship had never seen a yellow-skinned man. The chief of Mu Gu Dushu immediately sent someone to inquire, but they could not understand each other's words. So he had to come to the waterfront to watch it himself.

The chief saw a yellow-skinned man coming down from the boat, smiling all over his face, as if greeting him, but his smartest general did not know what the yellow-skinned man was talking about. The exchange was fruitless, and as soon as the yellow-skinned man waved his hand, more than a dozen people came up behind him, each holding some utensils in his hand, signaling to give them to the chief. The chief saw that the vessels were smooth and delicate, but he did not know what they were. Then the minister behind him spoke. 'My king, this is **** porcelain, it seems that these people are **** people. His Majesty heard that the skin of the **** person was yellow ......', and the chief was overjoyed when he heard it, so he immediately accepted something.

But the matter was not over, the chief of the wooden bones was notoriously greedy for money, and after he received the porcelain, the more beautiful he looked, and he thought that there must be many treasures in the fleet, and he thought about how he could take possession of it. Then one of the counselors said. "Invite those **** people, and then get them all drunk, and finally kill them, won't those treasures on the ship be your own?" As soon as the chief heard the great joy, he immediately sent someone to gather wine and feast the **** fleet......"

At this point in the story, there was an allegro sound of 'pop'. A voice stretched his throat and said, "I want to know if the chief succeeds and whether the **** fleet is fooled." Listen to the next breakdown! Come on, ah! I heard that the book was going to give me cigarettes. Five roots per person, five roots per person..."

"Salute!" When a cadre of soldiers was paying for cigarettes, a few soldiers who didn't want to give cigarettes turned around and saw Lu Wan, these soldiers shook and immediately shouted a salute. As soon as they shouted, the other soldiers who were pulling out their cigarettes with their backs also turned around dumbly, and the cigarettes fell to the ground for a while.

"Hehe, the bookstalls are all on the boat." Lu Wan had a rigid face and walked among the soldiers, only to see a pale storyteller, a private with bright eyes and a bright eye. "Name? Numbering? ”

"Report to the chief, the surname is Qian Nengfu, and the number is Renzi 0035879." Private reflexively stood upright, his face was full of panic, and the cigarette he had just grabbed in his hand was also thrown onto a burden.

"Aha, the surname is Qian, the name can be rich, what a good name." Lu Wan said sarcastically, this person's name looks like it comes from a small family. He picked up a cigarette and lit it, Meimei took a puff and said, "What the hell are you doing with so many cigarettes?" Make it clear, if you don't make it clear about the military law disposition, send you to the sea! ”

"Report to the chief......, I, I just want to change positions with someone." Qian Nengfu's face turned red, and he hesitated a few times before he made up his mind to be honest.

"Changing positions? What position?! Lu Wan became stern, "It's best to go to home, do you want to go?!" ”

"The chief misunderstood." Qian Nengfu's red face turned pale again, sending him home was much more terrible than sending him to the sea, he was so frightened that he wanted to cry, "I want to change the position of the first wave of beach grabbing, and my family sent a letter saying that my father couldn't be elected as a representative in the county, and he was pressed by someone else's family, so he sent money to me to find a way to get a medal in the army, or don't go back." ”

"Oh, is that so?" Hearing this reason, Lu Wan breathed a sigh of relief - his father was not able to be elected as the representative of the Provincial Inspectorate because of a lot of money, but because he was an active general. It is said that he won this battle again, and his family was ready to let his father run for the representative of the Beijing Inspectorate and become one of the hundreds of people who held the authority of the country.

"Report sir, that's right." It was not Qian Nengfu who answered, it was a captain in his forties, and it seemed that he was a company commander.

"Who the fuck said you could change positions?" Sympathizing with the same disease, Lu Wan was angry with Qian Nengfu, but he spread his anger on the captain.

"Report to the sir, it's from the first regiment, saying that we need to prepare some stretchers, and we are the last in the fourth regiment, so we ......," the captain said. In fact, this order was given by Lu Wan himself, and like Lu Mengxiong, he also felt that the battle in Mogadishu was not easy to fight, and the first wave of attacks must have suffered heavy casualties, but he didn't expect to add some stretcher soldiers and make this incident.

"This time I want to send cigarettes, will I ask for money next time?" Lu Wan glared at the reprimand, staring at the captain with hairs on his back. After glaring at the company commander, he looked at Qian Nengfu again, "And you, is the medal so easy to get?" Is the medal for your campaign? The medal is an honor for a soldier and a sign of bravery, not an archway for politicians. Adjutant ......"

"Yes!" The adjutant standing behind Lu Wan replied in a loud voice.

"Didn't he want to take the medal, send him to a regiment and let him see what the medal looked like." Lu Wan ordered.

"Yes, sir." The adjutant replied.

"And you, write a 10,000-word review!" When the captain thought that the matter was over, Lu Wan did not forget to give him the worst punishment before leaving. According to the experience of the army, the company commander must have a part in the matter of delivering cigarettes.

“******！” When Lu Wan went away, he immediately gave Qian Nengfu a kick when there was no one in the captain, these recruits are really not as good as veterans, they are too sincere, they have no heart at all, they will answer whatever they ask, and everything is missing.

"Yes, sir!" Qian Nengfu didn't feel pain at this time, and his mind was full of Lu Wan's sentence 'send it to a group'.

"Your mother!" Seeing that the recruit was still dazed, the captain tugged at his red and hot ears again, "You can't hear what Lao Tzu said." Yes!! ”

"Understood, sir." Qian Nengfu suddenly felt that his ears hurt very much. He struggled, but he couldn't break free from the company commander's palm.

"You fuck," Thinking that the recruit was about to go to a mess, the captain who wanted to give him a few slaps was not good at getting any injuries, so he immediately let Qian Nengfu go. "Boy, you hurt Lao Tzu to write an inspection, and Lao Tzu hates to write a review the most! Do you know why Lao Tzu always can't rise, but he can't write a review! Don't think that you can't clean up after you go to a mess, you can do this by yourself. ”

Even the recruits know that there are two kinds of officers in the army: one is the old officer, and the other is the young officer who has recently graduated from the non-commissioned officer school. The former enlisted in the army when the country was founded, with old qualifications and a big temper, and many of them did not change their old military habits, often asking their subordinates to be filial, and did not dare to ask for money, but there were a lot of prostitutes; The latter, who are too young, and although their style is extremely decent, they generally do not regard soldiers as human beings, and they train day and night under them.

Hearing that the company commander asked for bribes again, Qian Nengfu had to say: "Report to the chief, I will honor you for the money sent by my family!" ”

"You kid, yes!" The captain's displeasure finally subsided, and he smiled and stroked Qian Nengfu's crumpled clothes. For a low-ranking officer like him, who can't be promoted and can't be promoted, and can only live on a pension in a few years, everything else is fake, only money is real. As for meritorious service and meritorious service - if you see more blood, you are naturally afraid of death, and besides, the fortune teller has also said that he does not have that life, and if he really has that life, he will not be promoted to a captain after more than 20 years in the army just by his seniority.

"Remember to loosen your backpack when you grab the beach." The captain looked at Qian Nengfu, who was full of joy and wanted to make meritorious contributions, and gave his last piece of advice, "In the past, when we fought Taiwan, some soldiers fell into the water and drowned because they could not untie their burdens. ”

"Yes, sir!" Qian Nengfu looked at him and saluted him.

"You kid!" The captain looked at him again, "Get out." Don't forget to pay homage before you go! ”

*

On the seventh day of the seventh month of the 25th year of Shenwu, in the waters of Mogadishu, the air battle was fierce. Admiral Nobumasa, the commander of the Combined Fleet, who was standing on the bridge of the flagship Nagato, scolded while looking at the military planes of the two sides that were fighting fiercely in the air: "Why are there so many planes in the Italian army? Red deer of the Army, red deer of the Intelligence Bureau! How they scouted! ”

The army's red deer is scolding the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters, and the red deer of the Intelligence Bureau is not scolding the third department of the Navy's Military Command Department, but scolding the West Factory. His curse made Okamura blush, but Admiral Zhu Tiansen was unimpressed, and he saw through his telescope that Italian planes painted tan with an inverted 'state' on each wing (which was actually a black circle with three fascist rods arranged in parallel) were shot down frequently. During the battle, the Italian Air Force still followed the three-plane formation during the European War, while its own side was a two-plane formation under the supervision of the Prime Minister, even if a few Italian pilots could shoot down their own fighters, it was rare, and the difference between the two sides could not be reversed by individual skills.

He put down his binoculars and said: "Your Excellency, the Italian army has obviously concentrated all the planes in the country, and the intelligence shows that the country's air force has more than 500 aircraft, excluding bombers and transport planes, I think the rest are all here." ”

"Hey!" Zhu Tiansen didn't think about it, but the last time Nobuzheng only cried out in pain, and at this time, more than half of the more than 100 of his own planes in the battle were Japanese planes. After understanding that carrier-based aircraft were the combat strength of the navy, Nobu Sueji cherished the only Japanese naval aviation, but he suffered a lot of losses in this battle. "Hurry up and send a submarine to save people!" He anxiously said to the chief of staff, Nobutake Kondo. (To be continued.) )