In order to figure out the answer, just keep reading a bit
past where the word "overhaul" actually occurs. Basically what is going on here is that
the soldiers are changing their bayonets to take off the saws (serrated edges) that some
of them have on their blunt sides. They are doing this because they believe that the
enemy will kill them (and probably in a particularly nasty way) if they catch them with
the bayonets that have saws on them.
The idea here is that
the bayonets with saws are seen as a nasty weapon. Because of this, the enemy has been
killing people caught with those bayonets instead of taking them captive. Soldiers
don't want this to happen to them and so they "overhaul" their
bayonets.
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