Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 342 Good steel is used on the blade
The engineering shovel Wang Xuexin mentioned is actually the third-generation Q3 engineering shovel used by Hyundai Huaxia.

The first generation of engineering shovels is the traditional wooden handle type. It has a single function and is inconvenient to carry. It will cause various troubles in battle, and many soldiers are reluctant to carry it.

The second generation can fold the handle once, which is more convenient to carry but still has fewer functions.

The third-generation engineering shovel can be folded twice, and the volume after folding is only the size of the surface of the shovel, and there are as many as eighteen functions.

The more typical one is that it can be used as a flying claw when it is in a half-folded state, and the other is that it can be used as a powerful hand-to-hand weapon...

This is not forced.

In fact, in trenches and indoors, sapper shovels are even more lethal than bayonets in hand-to-hand combat.

The devil's 1.27 cover has a total length of 1.7 meters, and it is nearly [-] meters after adding the bayonet.

With such a long spear in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy in trenches or indoors, the result is that the bayonet cannot play its due role at all.

Therefore, there is basically only one choice in a small space, and that is to abandon the long spear and directly use the military stab.

But if the opponent is holding a short-handled engineer shovel...then holding a military thorn is almost waiting for death.

Therefore, many World War II movies have scenes of hand-to-hand combat with an engineer shovel.

This is not an artistic exaggeration, but it is a hand-to-hand weapon favored by veterans in certain situations.

Wang Xuexin first contacted Zhang Wanhe.

He was a little worried that Zhang Wanhe had used the scrap steel drilled from the train axle to produce other things or buried it for later use.

After getting through the phone, Wang Xuexin was relieved.

Zhang Wanhe replied: "How can I bury such good steel? I am planning to use them to produce several machine tools, and I have brought them all to Dahuai Village. If others want them, I mean I will not give them anything. But You little Northeast want... I can't bear it!"

"Thank you, director!" Wang Xuexin replied.

Zhang Wanhe said so in his mouth, but his heart was full of heartache.

So much so that when he put down the phone, he muttered: "This little Northeast is really fucking extravagant. The entire engineer shovel needs the best steel. For his digging some soil, I have to lose two machine tools!"

However, on the one hand, Xiaodongbei is very special to the arsenal, and on the other hand, the reconnaissance company that the independent regiment is forming at this time has the support of the headquarters, so even if Zhang Wanhe is very reluctant to part with it, the arsenal is still very busy. You have to bite the bullet and respond.

Wang Xuexin quickly sent someone to send the drawings to Dahuai Village.

Dahuai Village is more than [-] kilometers away from Honggou Village. In order to get the engineering shovel as soon as possible, Wang Xuexin sent a tricycle to deliver the drawings.

The three rounds here are really practical for the mountainous terrain of the Eighth Route Army. The distance of more than [-] kilometers and many of them are mountain roads, and it takes more than an hour.

Zhang Wanhe didn't think much about getting the blueprint, and threw it to Su Xin after changing hands.

Isn't it just a sapper shovel?
What's so beautiful?
Even a blacksmith in the village can do it. Let the arsenal do it. It's nothing more than wanting to use better steel to make it more durable.

But after Su Xin looked at the blueprint, he immediately found Zhang Wanhe and asked, "Director, the blueprint for the engineering shovel was drawn by Xiao Dongbei?"

"How do you know?" Zhang Wanhe was a little surprised, could he tell the owner of the blueprint with a good understanding?

Su Xin spread the drawings in front of Zhang Wanhe and said, "Director, please take a look!"

Zhang Wanhe swept his eyes and immediately knew the reason.

Damn, he can actually make a sapper shovel like this!

One side of the shovel body is a blade, the other side is a sawtooth, and the handle can be folded... What is Xiaodongbei trying to do?
After watching for a while, Zhang Wanhe asked, "Is it difficult to produce this thing?"

Su Xin nodded: "A preliminary estimate is that the man-hours consumed will be more than ten times that of other engineer shovels! In addition to the use of high-quality steel, the final cost may be dozens of times that of ordinary engineer shovels!"

For Su Xin, it’s still a matter of time. For the Eighth Route Army, high-quality steel is rare, and it’s almost impossible to measure it with money.

Zhang Wanhe frowned, gritted his teeth and said, "Let's do it, Xiaodongbei only needs more than 100, and we can still afford these things!"

"Yes!" Su Xin responded and went to make arrangements.

Zhang Wanhe thought about it, and decided that he should report to the chief.

Zhang Wanhe went to see the chief with the intention of being scolded.

Because the chief has always been diligent and thrifty, he has always emphasized that "good steel should be used on the blade", but now Zhang Wanhe wants to use good steel for digging...how can he have a good face?

Zhang Wanhe could almost imagine the chief's stern words telling him to dispel this idea.

Unexpectedly, the chief's eyes lit up when he saw the blueprint: "This thing is very good, it is very suitable for guerrilla warfare, especially our army's guerrilla warfare in mountainous areas at this stage!"

As he spoke, the chief handed the drawings to the chief of staff.

The chief of staff looked at it and nodded in agreement: "It combines a knife, a saw and an engineering shovel into one, and it is indeed suitable for our army's guerrilla operations!"

Zhang Wanhe reminded: "But the chief, the chief of staff, because of the blade on one side and the sawtooth on the other side, this thing has high requirements for steel and the cost is not low..."

"Old Zhang!" The chief interrupted Zhang Wanhe: "Good steel should be used on the blade! Isn't it used on the blade?"

"This..." Zhang Wanhe was a little confused.

It's just an engineer shovel, but it's actually used on a blade!

Then I heard the chief explain: "With it, the weight of the equipment of the guerrillas can be reduced to speed up their marching and enhance their climbing ability. In addition, it is also helpful for their ability to survive in the jungle. This is the first way to attack the enemy. The first element is not good steel used on the blade, what is the blade?"

Zhang Wanhe let out an "oh", thinking to himself that such an inconspicuous thing still has such a way.

Then Zhang Wanhe said awkwardly: "But chief, we don't have much steel, and we can't produce that much to equip the guerrillas!"

The chief thought for a while, and then suggested: "If the train axle steel is insufficient, let's lower the quality requirements and use rail steel. This thing is mainly used by the guerrillas, and let the guerrillas use the rails they picked up!"

There is indeed no problem with the position of the Chief.

Because the troops fighting guerrillas in the mountains need or even urgently need this kind of engineering shovel.

The regular army has relatively simple requirements for engineering shovels, and most of the time they use an engineering shovel to build fortifications.

So it is a matter of course to give priority to equipping guerrillas.

Facts have also proved that the chief is correct. This kind of engineering shovel was immediately welcomed by the guerrillas after it was put into the guerrillas.

The guerrilla reacted like this: "As long as we have a sapper shovel like this, we don't even need to bring a pot in an emergency... just pour food and water into the sapper shovel, put it on the fire and cook!"

(End of this chapter)