Rise from the sword

Chapter 499 New Guns, Supplies, and Crazy Bushido.

Zhao Jiayu's base.

In a confidential training ground directly behind.

The first battalion and the second battalion are gathering in line. They are holding a rifle that is completely different from the Mauser rifle - it is also a wooden butt, but the gun is much shorter than the Mauser as a whole, and it does not have that huge gun The tail pull bolt and the magazine have also grown a lot.

"This is the new rifle provided by Boss Chen?"

Kong Jie took a new gun and said.

Li Yunlong and others have seen this new gun a long time ago, only Kong Jie is not clear about it.

Although he was separated from the command of the first-line troops, he was very concerned about military equipment. After all, during this period of time, Commander Kong Da had a deep understanding of the benefits brought by the new weapons.

Compared with when he was the head of the independent regiment.

In the current independent regiment, a team of more than 40 people was randomly drawn from several main battalions, and the two sides fought in the field. He could fight to the point where he couldn't hold his head up when he was a regiment, and he might not even have a chance to fight with a bayonet.

The difference in firepower is too great.

There are more than 40 people. According to the current configuration of the main battalion of the independent regiment, there are one large-caliber heavy machine gun, four general-purpose machine guns, ten submachine guns, one 60mm mortar, one recoilless gun, and eight large mules to carry them. Equipment and ammunition.

And all of this is brought about by advanced weapons and sufficient ammunition.

"Correct."

Zhao Gang, who came together, introduced:
"This is a semi-automatic rifle that weighs 3.75 kilograms empty and uses a ten-round fixed magazine."

"Semi-automatic?"

Kong Jie didn't react for a while.

Zhao Gang explained:
"Through the air duct above the barrel, a part of the gas is guided to push the rear seat of the bolt to complete the ejection, recoil and loading, and then pull the trigger to fire. The maximum rate of fire can reach [-] rounds per minute."

"How's the range and accuracy?"

Kong Jie continued to ask.

On the battlefield, the rate of fire is indeed very important. This point can be seen from the performance of the Yamamoto Special Forces in Yangcun. Dozens of people armed with submachine guns suppressed his two battalions without temper.

But accuracy and range can be equally important, which is why the Independent Regiment is still equipped with a large number of Mauser rifles after they have submachine guns.

The 200-meter range of the submachine gun is still not enough.

Moreover, the shorter the barrel of a rifle, the worse the accuracy and the shorter the shooting range, which will have a great impact on bayonet fighting-although the independent regiment has not fought bayonets for a long time, and even other troops have not fought bayonets for a long time. Done.

"The effective range is 400 meters."

Zhao Gang continued to introduce:
"As for the accuracy, it is very good. After testing, skilled fighters who are good at shooting can hit two 300-meter targets with their machine sights. Excellent shooters such as Cao Mantang and Wang Chengzhu can even reach 500 meters away. Group use can suppress targets 800 meters away."

Hearing this, Kong Jie frowned slightly.

A range of 400 meters is enough. He discovered a long time ago that the independent regiment now has abundant fire support. With light and heavy machine guns and mortars forming a dense firepower network, the rifle only needs to deal with enemies at a distance of about 400 meters.For the rest, a precise shooter with a sniper rifle can fully supplement it.

However, compared with the Mauser style used by the troops, the improvement in accuracy is not particularly prominent. Now the independent regiment has opened up the use of bullets and has target shooting training almost every day, especially after Wang Xikui worked as a shooting instructor and worked out a set of shooting training methods. A large number of shooting masters.

Seeing Kong Jie's brows, Zhao Gang smiled and continued:

"This gun does not use Mauser bullets."

Due to the reduced charge of the intermediate power bullet, the range of the bullet is also reduced a lot, so the long-range accuracy drops seriously.

"Not a Mauser bullet?"

Kong Jie was taken aback for a moment. He always thought that the bullets had not changed, so he quickly opened the magazine of the rifle in his hand. He looked at the bullets in the fixed magazine, and Commander Kong frowned deeply again.

The Independent Regiment has always been a universal bullet.

Bullets for rifles and machine guns are common, submachine guns and pistols are common, which greatly reduces the complexity of logistical supplies. Now equipped with semi-automatic rifles, the rate of fire is faster, and the rate of fire and accuracy are not significantly improved, but there is one more bullet, which increases logistics. , it is hard to say whether it is a good thing or a bad thing.

"The new rifle uses an intermediate power cartridge."

Zhao Gang continued to smile and said:

"The 7.62×39 medium-power bomb weighs a little over [-] grams."

"Middle power bomb? Only [-] grams?"

Hearing this, Kong Jie frowned instantly.

Intermediate power bullet is a new term that has never been heard before, but it can be understood from the name and data that this bullet must be more powerful than a pistol submachine gun bullet and a little smaller than a Mauser bullet, but the length of 39 is enough for a rifle bullet. up.

And it is only 40.00 grams, which is ten grams less than the Mauser rifle bullet, which is almost 40.00% less, which means that with the same carrying weight, soldiers equipped with new semi-automatic rifles can carry [-]% more ammunition than troops equipped with Mauser rifles .

This is so critical.

"And this gun has another advantage."

Zhao Gang continued:

"Mainly precision castings, stamping and welding parts, and very few cutting parts, which are very suitable for our manufacturing. With the industrial capabilities of Zhao Jiayu and the headquarters arsenal, and the spare parts provided by Boss Chen, they can be quickly mass-produced."

"As for bullets, it's too troublesome to reopen a production line, but it's not necessary. The bullets given by Boss Chen are enough. Anyway, the technical difficulty is low. It's no problem to build another production line in the future when conditions improve."

Cutting has high requirements for workers, and today's Zhao Jiayu is seriously lacking in this aspect, but the stamping, precision casting and other processing capabilities are quite good.In particular, stamping, welding and other processes are the focus of development.

"Good gun."

Kong Jie gave a final admiration.

Once the entire army is equipped with this kind of gun, coupled with sufficient bullets, the firepower will instantly increase to a higher level.

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On the other hand, Li Yunlong didn't have much interest in the new rifle. Of course, the main reason was that he had tried this gun hundreds of times. He was discussing the details of interspersed infiltration operations with Zhang Dabiao.

"How many people do you plan to send out for this two battalion operation? How many supplies do you carry?"

Li Yunlong asked.

Now that the independent regiment has a large shop, there are many things that Li Yunlong can no longer do in detail, so he only sets the general direction for combat, and Zhang Dabiao, as the chief of staff and the commander of the first battalion, is responsible for perfecting the specific details.

"Head, this interlude is not easy."

Zhang Dabiao said solemnly:
"The old devil Yamamoto's defense line is very tight, and the route for penetration is very narrow."

"It is difficult to guarantee concealment when there are too many troops. Once we are discovered too early, we may not be able to cut off the supply line of the devils, so I compressed the establishment of the first and second battalions. Each battalion only dispatched 1000 or [-] people, plus [-] A big mule to carry the ammunition."

Li Yunlong nodded.

He had expected Zhang Dabiao's decision a long time ago. The interspersed emphasis was on concealment, and after being discovered, he could continue to march at a high speed and reach the predetermined position before the enemy reacted.

There are too many people and the scale is too large, that is not interspersed, that is a frontal attack.

"Is two hundred big mules enough?"

Li Yunlong asked.

A big mule can carry 150 kilograms of cargo, and two hundred mules equals thirty tons of ammunition, which is equivalent to one Sakata.

Of course, there is actually more to it.

Just like the Sakata business back then, there were more than three tons of deposits for weapons and ammunition plus dozens of big mules.

But heavy battalion equipment also needs to be carried by big mules, such as large-caliber heavy machine guns, and 82 and 120 mortars, and a 120 mortar shell weighs 16.6 kilograms, and 82 mortars also weigh 4.5 kilograms, with a load of more than 30 tons Not much really.

"Excluding the weapons, the real ammunition carried by the big mule is only 28 tons. Even if you add the ammunition carried by the soldiers themselves, it is not enough."

"This time, the two battalions have to face the attack of at least 36 devils for [-] hours."

Zhang Dabiao said:
"But if there are more, the marching team will be too long, and the surrounding terrain cannot provide concealment. Even if there are tank troops attacking as cover, it may be difficult to guarantee the success of the mission."

"However, I personally lead the team, and all the elite veterans of our regiment participated in the battle, so it's no problem to hold it."

Zhang Dabiao's tone was very confident. The Independence Regiment hadn't fought a tough battle for a long time, especially after Zhao Jiayu, they used firepower to bully the devils, but it didn't mean that the Independence Regiment would end up fighting hard and bloody battles.

"In the past few days, strengthen your training."

"Let the soldiers get familiar with the new gun as soon as possible."

Li Yunlong pondered for a moment and said:

"Strengthen the troops to fight without sufficient artillery support. Fortunately, in this battle, it is not a big problem to have aircraft support during the day, but you can only rely on yourself at night."

Leader Li Datuan has always dared to fight and fight hard, but behind all this is hard training time after time and adequate preparation for every detail.

"Yes."

Zhang Dabiao nodded.

Speaking of airplanes, Li Yunlong tapped his fingers on the table and said suddenly:

"Tomorrow, let's go to Huang Quan and ask. The little devil can use an airplane to drop supplies, and we can try it too."

"After Yamamoto suffered from the loss of the plane during the day, he will definitely launch a general attack at night. With the little property you bring, the loss will definitely not be small. These are veterans."

"That's not right."

Zhang Dabiao thought for a while and said:
"Little devil is a transport plane, with a special warehouse for transporting cargo. We are an attack plane, and we can only hang weapons on the wings and belly racks."

"Isn't it enough to hang the supplies on the wings?"

Li Yunlong glanced at Zhang Dabiao:
"Do we have a parachute? It's really not possible. It won't be long before we drop it at low altitude and low speed. You can use a deceleration net or something below, and you can transport several tons of ammunition in one trip."

"This···"

Zhang Dabiao's eyes lit up:

"Okay, let's ask that kid Huang Quan tomorrow."

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at the same time.

Ping An County.

In a closed camp.

Yamamoto is making similar preparations.

"You are the locusts, the most loyal warriors in the empire."

Holding a samurai sword in his hand, wearing a plaster flag on his head, and wearing the newly issued major general uniform, Yamamoto's tone is rarely fanatic.

In front of him, there were five hundred devils who also wore plaster flags on their heads, with crazy and ferocious faces. At this moment, these devils were holding a pack of ten kilograms of explosives in their hands.

"In this war, the locusts need you, and the empire needs you."

Yamamoto suddenly raised the explosive pack in his hand and shouted slogans:

"Long live the locust, long live the Empire of Japan, see you in Kudanzaka."

"Long live the locust."

"Long live the Great Japanese Empire."

"See you at Kudanzaka."

The other [-] devils also raised their dynamite packs in unison, shouted fanatical slogans, and their eyes were also extremely fanatical. With that look, as long as Yamamoto gave an order, they might collectively pull the detonating rope in their hands and rush forward to die with the enemy.

Seeing this scene, a kind of captain Shinji Kozawa had a calm face, they were used to it, but the new artillery regiment captain Kazuma Kino could not help but shudder.

He has seen the madness of the Imperial Bushido before, but those are the guys who have been trained and brainwashed for a long time by the Type A Division, and they are not as serious as the current group of people.

He wholeheartedly wants to be loyal to the locust and the empire, without any thoughts of precious life in his mind, and can hold the explosive pack with a wrong face and perish with the enemy.

And the group of people in front of them are recruits, recruits who have only been in Ping'an County for a few months.

"It's a terrible guy who is so good at playing with people's hearts."

Kazukuma Shirono glanced at Kazuki Yamamoto, and took a step back silently.

All recruits who come to Ping'an County will be taken by Kazuki Yamamoto to a closed base for training for more than a month.

There, soldiers will also undergo repeated high-intensity military training, and death during training is very common.

In addition to training, it is to understand the spirit of bushido.

The loudspeakers in the barracks will repeat day and night that it is the glory of a samurai to be an empire, to be loyal to the emperor, and to die for a holy war.He will organize a samurai meeting every day, and let senior officers even give speeches in person. Of course, what he said is the same thing-to be loyal to the empire, to be loyal to the locust, to be trapped in a holy war, and to see him in Kuduanzaka after death. This is a great honor. .

There was no pause.

Most of the people who can come out in the end are this kind of lunatics.

As the chief commander of the empire, Kazukuma Kino is not opposed to the use of brainwashing methods to stimulate the morale of soldiers at the grassroots level, so that they will not fear death and fight bravely.

But what Yamamoto is doing right now is sending shivers down his spine.

However, the chills on his back are meaningless. Ping'an County is still operating according to Yamamoto's will, and everything that happened here was also recorded by the staff, and then sent back to the First Army Command, and then transferred to the North China Front Army Command. To the imperial base camp.

Among them, there is naturally this set of training methods invented by Kazuki Yamamoto.

　Barely rushing out one chapter, if there are no two chapters tomorrow, it will be the day after tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)