Chapter 58: Equipment

"Fire, fire." Tang Cheng, who was lying in the trench, hissed and shouted, his slightly green face already had some resolute color, and all the soldiers under his command pulled the trigger together, and the wooden gun target within 100 meters outside the trench was knocked down by the dense rain of bullets almost at the same time. This is one of the many trainings of the garrison regiment, and the other two can't even manage Tang Cheng, he just needs to manage his own wing. Ge Kunshan went to the provincial capital more and more frequently, and although he was disappointed every time, he was always able to get weapons and ammunition back from the provincial capital, and the garrison now stockpiled enough ammunition for the 500 soldiers to fight for a week.

"Huzi, you are practicing for your company commander, I have something to do with him." The 100-meter moving target shooting only lasted for three rounds, and Liu Goat, who was riding a horse, came over. The cousin, who was concentrating on training, had no choice but to hand over the command to his platoon leader, and then jumped on the big green horse and galloped with Liu Goat to the military camp in the county town.

"You can't even imagine what Ge Kunshan got back this time, Guan Bao will scare you for a while." It was close to the middle of April, through the news that Ge Kunshan had come back from the provincial capital, Liu Goat analyzed that the war was about to start, so Ge Kunshan went to the provincial capital again in the past few days, if it wasn't for Liu Goat mentioning Ge Kunshan at this time, Tang Cheng didn't know that Ge Kunshan had returned to Mengcheng. "Look, how's that? It's rare, this is a good thing that County Magistrate Ge took a lot of effort to get back from the provincial capital. The moment he lifted the tarpaulin, Liu Goat flattered Ge Kunshan, who was standing next to the truck, fiercely.

"It's a mortar, it's a good thing." The moment Liu Goat lifted the tarpaulin, Tang Cheng saw the mortar in the middle of the wooden box at a glance. When he was in Shanghai and Nanjing, Tang Cheng did not suffer from the bombardment of Japanese mortars, and compared with light and simple grenadiers, Tang Cheng preferred more powerful mortars. The grenadier captured from the Beishan bandits had already been played by Tang Cheng very well, and now that he has a mortar, he may be able to consider changing his toy to play with.

"It's not just mortars, you also underestimate our county magistrate Ge, there are good things in that box." At the suggestion of Liu Goat, Jiujin who jumped into the truck compartment pried open a wooden box, and the contents of the wooden box made Tang Cheng even more happy. "Are you satisfied? Don't blame me for draining all your bullets. Tang Cheng rolled his eyes at Liu Goat, and the box that was pried open by nine catties was full of bullets, and Tang Cheng recognized the caliber of this bullet, all of which were caliber bullets that could be used by a machine machine gun.

Tang Cheng was reluctant to throw away the flower mechanism brought out from Nanjing City, even if Liu Goat had exhausted the last half of the magazine, Tang Cheng still kept the flower mechanism and magazine that had become an empty gun, and wiped and maintained it on time as usual. "A light mortar and 20 shells, a flower machine gun, 2,400 rounds of ammunition, and some rifle bullets can have about 12,000 rounds." Tang Cheng looked down at the list handed over by Ge Kunshan, and when he saw the last one, Tang Cheng couldn't help laughing.

The last item on the list that Ge Kunshan brought was impressively recorded that there were 3 boxes of grenades, since the last fierce battle with the bandits in Beishan, the regimental soldiers who were lucky enough to follow and survived began to practice their bomb throwing skills as hard as Jiujin. Although the number of these 3 boxes of grenades is not very large, it is better than nothing, the reason why Tang Cheng laughed was only because he suddenly thought of nine catties, if there were still 3 boxes of grenades in the nine catties Zhilu Road truck, I am afraid that they would all be taken away, who made him the captain of the bomb throwing team of the garrison regiment now.

"County Magistrate Ge, you are really a send-off, this batch of ammunition is too timely, the garrison regiment is now the time to increase training, and this batch of ammunition is just right to be used." Compared with Liu Goat's almost naked flattery, Tang Cheng's compliments were more subtle, and they also made Fei Kunshan smile again and again, praising Liu Goat for having a good successor. Liu Goat was naturally very satisfied with Tang Cheng's performance, and when he first met Tang Cheng in Shanghai, he already knew that Tang Cheng was not a fuel-efficient guy, and he was quite pleased to see Tang Cheng regain his vitality and cunning at that time.

"Don't meddle in the affairs of those two companies, I know that someone in those two companies has gone to look for you in the past few days, just remember that you are the company commander of the 1st company, and you don't have to worry about other things." After sending Ge Kunshan away, Liu Goat, who turned around, whispered to Tang Cheng. Among the three companies of the garrison regiment, only the 1st company commanded by Tang Cheng was the most worried about Liu Goat, and the other two companies were one of Ge Kunshan's cronies as the company commander, and the other was Li Linge's person as the company commander.

"But if they say this, it may not be good for the garrison." For Liu Goat's advice, Tang Cheng was a little embarrassed. Liu Goat knew what Tang Cheng meant, but he really didn't want to get involved in the fight between Ge Kunshan and Li Linge now, although both of them were trying to win him over, but Liu Goat just wanted to maintain a neutral attitude. Only by maintaining neutrality can the Mengcheng garrison have the need to exist, no matter which side Liu Shanggo throws himself to, the Mengcheng garrison will be branded, which will bring unexpected troubles and crises to the garrison.

"Take one step at a time, the road is all walked out by people, how they go is their business, you just need to take care of yourself and the 1st company." Liu Goat didn't go deeper into the topic, but Tang Cheng had already understood the meaning of Liu Goat's words. "You kid fiddled with the grenadiers, and the mortar will be handed over to your 1st company to keep, the number of shells is not very large, so save some use during training." Liu Goat handed over the mortar to Tang Cheng as a last resort, and the entire garrison regiment was counted as one and included himself, only Tang Cheng had operated a grenadier, and no one could really play with the mortar away from Tang Cheng.

Mortars are rare in Tang Cheng, but he also knows that his level of handling grenadiers is far from enough to handle mortars, so Tang Cheng, who got mortars, did not conduct live-fire training for reporters, but first pondered the difference between mortars and grenadiers. Fortunately, when Tang Cheng was fighting in Shanghai, he saw the gunners of the miscellaneous company bombarding the Japanese army with mortars, although it had been several months, Tang Cheng vaguely remembered that he had to shoot the shells out of the mortars in this way.

The only thing that mortars and medium-grenadiers have in common is that they are both curved firepower, except that the range and power of the mortar are much greater than that of the grenadier. "This thing is much better than that grenadier" Jiujin gestured with his hand to the barrel of the mortar that was comparable to the thickness of a small bowl, after listening to Tang Cheng say the range of the mortar, Jiujin began to pay attention to this thing, and asked Tang Cheng to teach him to fiddle with the mortar.

"Can a mortar be the same as a grenadier? I think you'd better play with that grenadier first, how good the grenadier is, it's light and dexterous, one person can fire when you hold it, and when you run out of grenades, you can also make the little devil's grenade fire. Tang Cheng deliberately snatched back the mortar that was holding nine catties in his arms, "This thing can't be done by one person, if you have to move the gun body and the base by yourself, maybe you need a special person to carry the shell." Uncle Liu is just doing this for our garrison to fill the façade, if you really use this guy to fight, it will be too laborious. ”

I have long been familiar with Tang Cheng's temperament, how could Jiujin be fooled, relying on his physical strength to snatch the mortar in Tang Cheng's hand back again, of course Tang Cheng would not really be angry with Jiujin, just smiled slightly and refused to follow him to the training ground outside the city. The training ground that Liu Goat found for the garrison regiment was just a field outside the city near the city gate, and the originally fairly flat field had been dug into a straight trench battlefield by the energetic garrison soldiers, and it was sometimes difficult for Liu Goat to find out where his command post was from these virtual and real trenches.

"Our kid company commander is not small, he just got 2,000 rounds of ammunition back yesterday, and today he moved back a mortar, maybe he can get some rare objects back tomorrow." The appearance of mortars in the first company made the routs of the first company interested, although none of them had ever fiddled with this thing, but it did not prevent them from knowing the power of this thing.

"Good things are brought, and everyone should also train with peace of mind, no matter what, it's always right to practice well." Tang Cheng gathered his squad and platoon leaders together according to Liu Goat's instructions, and explained to them the training plan formulated by Liu Goat. "The regiment commander means that we want our company to go to Wangzhuang recently, although we have already suppressed the bandits in Beishan, but there are still many bandits and bandits around Mengcheng, and there is a group of bandits called the Spear Club in Wangzhuang, and the regiment commander means that we will go to the Spear Club to suppress this spear club." Seeing that the squad leaders under him didn't seem to be very interested, Tang Cheng smiled and put away the spread map.

"The garrison regiment never buys and sells at a loss, and the regiment commander has already made arrangements that in the future, the soldiers of the garrison regiment who participate in the suppression of bandits can privately share fifty percent of the money and goods they will get from the bandits' den." Tang Cheng's words made those squad and platoon leaders come to the spirit, and the bandits could be exterminated with money, which they did not expect. Although I don't know how much fifty percent of Lu Dao is, it's better than lifting your head and selling your life but getting nothing.

Xu saw the suspicion on the faces of these squad leaders, and Tang Cheng's smiling face slowly cooled, "The loot can only be distributed to everyone fifty percent, and the remaining fifty percent are for the Chamber of Commerce to buy supplies, and thirty percent is to be handed over to the county government, is it possible that you still want to give all the loot to the private division?" This is the first time that Tang Cheng has put on a face to his squad and platoon leaders, but no one dares to come out and disagree with Tang Cheng at this time, and the two shell guns on Tang Cheng's body are not decorations.