When it comes to multi-functional military secondary weapons, you may immediately think of the Swiss Army Knife, which is called a universal knife. named. The basic tools of the Swiss Army Knife are often: ballpoint pens, toothpicks, scissors, flat knives, can openers, screwdrivers, tweezers, etc.
However, today's protagonist is not it. What I want to talk about today is a Chinese engineering shovel that you have never paid attention to. It is an "artifact" with 18 functions invented by the People's Liberation Army. The first thing you need to understand is "the functions of the Swiss Army Knife. It has all the functions that the Swiss Army Knife does not have, and our engineer shovel also has it!"

When working in the field, the engineer shovel can be said to be omnipotent, digging soil, cutting trees, and shoveling sand are all done by it. Since it is named "shovel", it naturally functions as a shovel. Turn the front end of the shovel to bend it at 90 degrees, and it can be used as a shovel. Needless to say, it is more durable than the shovels used by rural people. Long. The right side of the shovel is serrated and is used for functions such as sawing wood.
The earliest use of these functions of the engineer shovel was during the Anti-Japanese War, it was used in guerrilla warfare and tunnel warfare. The later Republic used military strategies such as preparing for war and famine, digging deep holes and accumulating grain all over the country, and carried out a large number of underground bunker construction projects. A very common long wooden handle shovel.