Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 158 Military Uniforms

After tossing and tossing, the food is surprisingly good. The "chiefs" don't have the concept of coarse grains. They eat three meals a day, which is enough brown rice, one salted fish for each person, and a lot of vegetables. At the beginning, a few boys rolled their eyes every meal.Ancient people seldom consumed enough protein and fat, so they had a particularly large demand for carbohydrates. When farmers were busy with farming, there were many people who ate two catties of noodles at a meal.These soldiers who are training with a lot of exercise every day are no exception.Ma Qianju soon discovered that the monthly ration of 20 kilograms would not last until the end of the month.But there is no way, unless the supply of meat and fat can be increased - both of which are lacking in the traversers themselves.

The drill has to continue, first walking in unison, then walking forward, and then running again.After the footwork training is completely over, learn to march in line with the rhythm of drums and flutes.According to the PLA training manual, after the training, each soldier walked at a pace of 110-120 steps per minute and ran at a rate of 180-190 steps per minute, which was the fastest in the world at that time.

The improvement of food and physical exercise made these people who were originally sallow and thin began to become strong and powerful.In fact, when it comes to endurance and gravity, they are much stronger than those who have worked hard for a long time, but that is a kind of morbid physical adaptation, not as healthy and strong as they are now with adequate diet and exercise.

The physique of the soldiers has improved, and their mental outlook has also been greatly improved through the queue training. The long-term posture of tucking in the abdomen, raising the head, and raising the chest, walking with strides, and speaking clearly have given them a confident and capable look. .Ordinary laborers who have not enlisted in the army are now envious of these soldiers.The women of the commune also often linger on the sidelines of the training ground.

"If you have a good-looking military uniform, you will be even more proud." Ma Qianju found out that the army does not have a logistics department, and as the chief of the general staff, he simply became the logistics minister after he was in charge of army training.

The collection of military uniform designs immediately set off a frenzy of excitement among all the traversers.In this boring environment, this is somewhat entertaining.Soon Ma Qianju collected more than 100 drawings of various kinds, ranging from the 65-style military uniform with Chinese characteristics, to Ferrett's grenadier wearing a bishop's hat, and Napoleon's bearskin high hat. The Guards, the British Lobster Soldiers, the Soviet Red Army with Budyonny caps, and finally the German Wehrmacht... all the bad things about military uniforms are collected.

After summarizing, Ma Qianzhu sadly found that everyone had no creativity, and they were all replicas of military uniforms of various famous troops in history.To sum up, there are three major schools: one is the Chinese traditional school, represented by the 65 military uniform, and also mixed with the 55 school and the 87 school; the other is the line-up shooting school, which is modeled on the European army uniforms of the 19th century, emphasizing gorgeousness and dazzling; the third is World War II The faction basically copied the uniforms of Germany, the Soviet Union, and the U.S. Army, and there were also eclectic ones that mixed together into four different styles.In addition, there are some niche hobbies, such as the small round caps of the National Revolutionary Army, and even the Showa-style military uniforms of the old Japanese army.

"God, did the bandits get in too?" Ma Qianzhu gasped.

Since this matter has attracted the attention of the vast number of traversers, Ma Qianju is naturally inconvenient to make a claim. One of the great benefits of democracy is that no one can be held accountable, so he convened a so-called hearing. Committee and 10 representatives of the masses to review all the plans.

In order to avoid the influence of personal aesthetic taste on the choice, Ma Qianju stipulated two basic principles. The production of military uniforms cannot exceed the current productivity of the traversers, and the military uniforms must adapt to the local environment.

As a result, clothing such as bearskin hats and boots were immediately eliminated, and the number of candidates for military uniforms was immediately reduced by half.Then there is the issue of productivity.The industry department pointed out that according to their investigation, Lingao's indigenous dyeing and weaving industry can only dye three colors: gray, blue and black, and Lingao does not produce wool. The military uniform is obviously impractical.

The remaining candidates are actually modern military uniforms. The 65-style military uniform won the bid because it is simple to make and saves fabric.In order to appease the opinions of the majority of unsuccessful candidates, the new military uniform has also made some formal changes to cater to the public.

The new military uniform is called the first year style, also known as the 28 style.It is the same as the 65th military uniform, basically based on the Chinese tunic suit, using cotton fabric, including four pockets for officers, and the difference between the two pockets for soldiers is also inherited. The hat is changed to an octagonal cap, which is smaller than those of the Red Army The octagonal hat is slightly larger, closer to the American style, and looks more fashionable.

The collar badge and cap badge are temporarily left blank. Considering that the future military system will inevitably have military ranks, the first-year military uniform is pre-made with shoulder straps and an armband on the left arm.Officers and soldiers all use the cloth leg wraps imitating the German infantry in World War II. There is no need to wrap the cloth strips back and forth like rice dumplings-just put them on and tighten them, and they are easy to put on and take off.There are two types of military shoes, straw sandals for training, and black cloth shoes for going out and inspecting.

In order to facilitate mass production, military uniforms are not divided into land and sea styles, but are only distinguished by color: the army wears gray, and the navy wears blue.Of course, this blue is not navy blue or sky blue, but a blackened indigo.Fortunately, the navy is not demanding at the moment, as long as it can be distinguished from the army.

Considering the hot weather in Hainan, a summer suit was specially designed in the military uniform. In fact, it is a short-sleeved military uniform made of linen. Some people suggested that the summer suit can be equipped with knee-length shorts, but the ugly and wretched appearance of the British colonial army It was rejected immediately.

In addition to military uniforms, military-style pants, undershirts, military blankets, and military uniforms are also designed.The army blanket is not made of wool, but a little cotton is waffled between two layers of cotton cloth, and then nailed with grid lines.In Hainan, where the annual temperature is not lower than 20 degrees Celsius, it is enough.

The traveler has a lot of cotton cloth in stock, but there are only five sewing machines, and what is even more sad is that there are only three ladies who can use sewing machines.It is obviously unrealistic to ask them to make 1200 sets of military uniforms.After consideration, Ma Qianzhu decided to distribute the work to women in the commune for processing.Almost all of them know how to tailor—the clothes of the common people in ancient times were seldom turned to tailors, they were all made by women themselves, so this manual work is not difficult.It doesn't matter if you don't know how to cut modern styles. The logistics department has already made a large number of paper patterns and distributed them with the materials.Just follow the example to draw a gourd.Before sending out the materials, the planning committee asked someone to try out a set of clothes of all sizes and styles. First, to see the effect of the clothes on trial, and second, to calculate the approximate consumption of fabric and cotton thread for each piece of clothing and each pair of shoes, so as to avoid unnecessary waste. Get too much or too little.

Wu De quickly dispatched all the work and established acceptance criteria, and those who failed would be fined for fabric compensation.In addition to earning work points for this outbound processing, the remaining scraps of cloth were also owned by the processing households. This measure made the enthusiasm of the women in the commune unprecedentedly high, and even those who already had regular jobs rushed to do it overnight after get off work.Wu De intends to take this opportunity to discover some ingenious women, specially invite people to train and learn clothing making, and then open a clothing factory in the commune, and take the opportunity to take over all the sewing and cutting equipment. There are future schools and various institutions. Once there is a large influx of immigrants, the demand for clothing will be even greater.

Equipment is relatively simple.The only cobbler in the county, when he heard that the shorthairs were looking for cobblers to do a lot of work, he immediately went to defect with the old-school children and all the production tools.He was speechless with horror at the first task given to him: 1200 leather belts.The cobbler was completely overwhelmed by this strike and boldness, and the simple concept of "following the short-haired master will always have food" spontaneously came into being.

The armed belt is a German-style Y-belt made of cowhide. After observing Wei Aiwen’s replica Y-belt, the cobbler thinks it is easy to make. It is not a problem for his whole family to make 10 belts a day. The metal fasteners on the Y-belt are directly stamped out of wrought iron by the mechanical team, and they are not willing to use steel.However, Wei Aiwen still used the price of a pack of cigarettes to save some private work for himself - a small part was used in brass.

Lin Fu stood anxiously in front of the office door.The rugby star of this salt farm village has also enlisted in the army this time.Although Xi Yazhou did not assign quotas to the village committee, but only asked them to send a few people to demonstrate, after discussion, the village committee decided to allow these demonstration militiamen to enlist in the army to express Yanchang Village's desire to follow the "chiefs" in the revolution. Determination—I learned this word from Du Wen. As for what revolution is, few people know—there are no scholars in Yanchang Village, otherwise they would be scared to death by this word.

Lin Fu was not tall, about 165 or so, but he was quite good among the people at that time. Long-term rugby training made him tall and strong, so he naturally became a benchmark soldier.At this moment, his whole body is fully dressed according to the equipment pattern of the future new army, ready to be reviewed by all members of the planning committee and the military committee.

"Lin Fu, come in." The voice of Chief of Staff Ma came from inside the door.Lin Fu didn't know what the chief of staff meant, but he understood that the school field was his biggest.Quickly pushed the door open and walked in, couldn't help being startled.

I saw a large room inside, with long tables arranged in the shape of a horseshoe, and a dozen "chiefs" sat and stared at him in the middle, as if there were three trials in a play.

Lin Fu imitated Wei Aiwen's etiquette, saluted, and said loudly:

"Report! The Army Teaching Battalion is lined up one after another, and Lin Fu, the benchmark soldier, is ordered to report for duty!"

Wei Aiwen stood up and saluted: "Relax!"

"Yes!"

After a while of answering, I have a good look. The more than a week of training has not been in vain.Everyone has appreciative eyes.I saw this soldier in front of me, holding a Yuannian Mini rifle, wearing a Yuannian three-edged bayonet, wearing a Yuannian military uniform, a cowhide imitation German-style Y-belt, and two bullet boxes, one large and one small, on his waist.It looks very mighty.

"This is an imitation of the Japanese Taisho 11th year-style bullet box. The size has changed." Wei Aiwen explained, "It is made of cowhide, and it is divided into two sizes. The big one is for storing paper-wrapped ammunition. Each box has 60 rounds. Put the flash cap on." The flash cap is sensitive, so it should not be placed with the paper bag.The ammunition box is also designed with the possibility of holding metal fixed ammunition in the future, and the size is universal.

"This is a kettle." Wei Aiwen pointed to a cylindrical thing on Lin Fu's waist, "It's made of bamboo tube. It has a cork stopper. It can be easily tied around the waist with a net rope cover on the outside. Does it look like it?" Kind of like a German gas mask box?"

That being said, it does look a bit similar.Everyone nodded.Wei Aiwen seems very proud of this "German element".

There is a cloth grenade bag on the belt, which contains a bamboo shell grenade made by the chemical industry group-although the power is not nearly as powerful, but it has a good momentum and can bluff people.

Lin Fu was carrying a strange backpack, which looked more like a small flat box than a backpack.This is the newly developed standard back box, inspired by the panniers commonly used by the local people. It is made of fine rattan, and the inside is pasted with brushed tung oil cloth, and there is a cover on it, which can be waterproof.The shape is oval and comes with an ergonomic back frame.

This newly developed backpack conforms to their current industrial capabilities, and is much easier to use than traditional packages. It is a new product that combines modern technology concepts and contemporary productivity levels after time travel.

(End of this chapter)