The Iron-Blooded Army of Beacon Fire

Chapter 309 Beggars don’t think the rice is sour
He Wei was not surprised that the Assault Corps was ordered to test the weapons aided by the Soviet Union. As a time traveler, he certainly knew that the Soviet Union had already begun assisting China at this time.

Moreover, Guopuo had already been in contact with Lao Maozi before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. After the July 7th Incident, the two countries even signed a "Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Treaty". Guoprei signed this treaty to prepare for war with Japan. The Soviet Union wanted China to contain Japan and reduce its pressure in the Far East.

It has been half a year since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. During these six months of high-intensity fighting, the Chinese army lost a large number of personnel and equipment. The Soviet Union also provided timely rain and provided a large amount of weapons and equipment to China in compliance with the requirements of the treaty, making up for the huge amount of the Chinese army. weapons and equipment gaps.

It can be said that the assistance from the Soviet Russians was of great help to the current situation of the Anti-Japanese War.

However, He Wei was not very interested in the weapons provided by Lao Maozi. After all, the equipment allocated to the Army Commando Corps by the Ministry of Military Affairs were all the latest equipment produced by the Czech Republic, France, Germany and other countries, and he himself was engaged in Developed many advanced weapons.

Compared with Europe's cutting-edge weapons, Soviet Russia's equipment really has no advantages.

Among the equipment categories allocated to the assault corps in the document, the ones that interested He Wei were actually the six Soviet M1932 45mm tank defense guns and the four Soviet M1909 76.2mm mountain cannons. After all, they were serious artillery pieces. , as for those Soviet-style light weapons of unknown quantity and model, he really has little interest.

Of course, when someone is sent an errand from above, he will naturally do it, and he will do it anyway.

In contrast, He Wei paid more attention to the matter of urging the commando corps to speed up training.

Although this order to receive Soviet-style equipment and supervise troop training was jointly signed and issued by the Military Commission and the Ministry of Military Affairs, He Wei estimated that the Military Commission should be in the lead.

At present, the Central Military Commission is the highest military command organization in the country. Although the Ministry of Military Affairs is still nominally subordinate to the Executive Yuan, it is actually under the direct command of the Central Military Commission. The training, sorting, review and military school of the Army field force Education, etc., are generally the responsibility of the Military Training Department under the Central Military Commission.

Therefore, He Wei estimated that it was probably the Military Commission sending people to urge the commando corps to step up training and conduct the final review.

This matter involved the Military Commission, and He Wei had to pay attention to it. The Army Commando Corps was originally a force that the Military Commission focused on building. If it could not form an army as soon as possible or failed to submit satisfactory answers to the Military Commission during the review, then no matter He Wei, Or the Army Commando Corps, I'm afraid they won't be able to get anything good.

Looking at the documents and orders submitted by Wang Yuanling, He Wei wondered whether he should speed up the training progress of the troops.

"Captain, how do you think we should handle the matter of receiving the equipment tomorrow?"

At this time, He Wei heard Wang Yuanling's reminder in his ears, and his thoughts were drawn back to the receiving equipment and equipment testing in front of him.

He Wei thought for a while and said: "I see that the equipment received includes artillery. In this case, you ask the section chief in charge of the equipment of the staff department and Company Commander Chen Xinsheng to go with him. Company Commander Chen studied artillery in the military academy and was previously in the Secret Service. The commander of the battalion is the artillery company. Let the two of them lead people to pick up the equipment. Be careful on the way and don't make any mistakes. "

"Yes! I'll send someone to do it right now."

The equipment allocated by the Military Commission to the Army Assault Corps was transported to Hankou Station on the next day. Under Wang Yuanling's personal supervision, this batch of Su weapons and equipment was also transported back to the camp of the Army Assault Corps intact, and He Wei finally I saw the quality of these Soviet-style weapons that needed to be tested by the commando team.

After learning that the equipment had been brought back, He Wei immediately walked excitedly to the equipment warehouse of the Assault Corps. When He Wei passed by, he saw six low tank defense guns and four tanks neatly arranged in front of the equipment warehouse. A strange small mountain cannon outside the door.

The appearance of the six tank defense guns looked similar to the German-made 37mm tank defense guns that He Wei had seen before. They all had two wheels, a foot-opening gun mount, and a tilted shield. .

But there are also differences. The caliber of these six tank defense guns seems to be larger than the 37mm tank defense guns made in Germany, and the two gun wheels are rubber spoked tire wheels instead of wooden wheels.

The appearance of the four mountain cannons is quite strange. The barrels are relatively short and low in appearance. The cannon's shield is wavy. It is also a model that He Wei has never seen before.

In addition, near these ten artillery pieces, there are also artillery carriages and ammunition auxiliary vehicles with decades of history piled up, as well as a large number of black and green ammunition boxes. He Wei estimated that these boxes contained Soviet-style ammunition that was shipped together. Small arms and ammunition.

Chief of Staff Wang Yuanling, Chief of the Staff Division in charge of equipment, and Chen Xinsheng were leading more than a hundred officers and soldiers to sort out the newly arrived equipment parked in front of the equipment warehouse.

"What's the condition of the equipment?"

He Wei asked Wang Yuanling.

Wang Yuanling took out a pamphlet from his arms and handed it to He Wei.

"Captain, we have completed the delivery with the person who transported the equipment. This batch of equipment includes guns, cannons, and a lot of ammunition. The specific details are all in this booklet."

He Wei took the booklet and saw on it: "Six M1932 45mm tank defense guns, four M1909 76.2mm mountain guns, one hundred Mosin-Nagant rifles, and twenty Dirk Charev light machine guns OK, six Maxim heavy machine guns, 76.2 rounds of mm tank defense artillery shells, rounds of mm mountain artillery shells, and rounds of Russian-made mm gun shells.”

Looking at the amount of equipment on the brochure, He Wei thought that the quantity of this batch of equipment was really not small. The heavy machine guns were enough to equip a machine gun company, and the light machine guns and rifles were enough to equip two infantry companies. However, the models of these equipment were obviously all The transliteration, Dirkcharev, Maxim, at first glance is the product of replacing the foreign pronunciation of the equipment with Chinese characters.
The only thing He Wei could figure out was the Mosin-Nagant rifle. After all, this thing can be regarded as a classic bolt-action rifle and is very famous. Next, He Wei found a few soldiers to open the boxes containing light weapons, and then he found out the true identities of the so-called Dirkcharev light machine guns and Maxim heavy machine guns.

This so-called Dirkcharev machine gun is the famous Deggarev DP light machine gun.

This gun is a light machine gun designed by Soviet Major General Deggarev. It was designed and finalized in 1926. It was officially installed in the Soviet army in 1928. It was the main team support weapon of the Soviet army in World War II. Its biggest feature is the large plate-like ammunition tray that can hold 47 rounds of bullets. Because the upper half of the bullet plate will rotate when shooting, it is called a "turntable machine gun," and is also called a record player machine gun and a large plate machine gun. Chicken machine gun.

During the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, this kind of weapon shone brilliantly in the Chinese army and became an enemy-killing weapon in the hands of the volunteers.

The Maxim heavy machine gun is the Soviet version of the Maxim water-cooled heavy machine gun. The overall structure is no different from the imitation and derivative versions of the Maxim heavy machine gun in various countries around the world. The biggest feature is the steel armor on the machine gun. The shield and wheel can be regarded as a famous gun of a generation.

Before He Wei traveled through time, this kind of gun was still used in conflicts and wars in some local areas. What impressed He Wei the most was when a certain Klan army removed weapons from the warehouse in the modern war of the 21st century. The Maxim heavy machine gun is reused and equipped with a modern sight to fight drones.
In short, these Soviet-style light weapons that the Army Commando Corps needs to test are also classics, but they have no advantages compared with the various existing light machine guns of the Army Commando Corps in terms of performance. He Wei also has little interest in them and fiddled with them a few times. He threw it away and walked towards Chen Xinsheng who was trying out the Soviet tank defensive cannon.

He Wei was very excited about the additional artillery pieces. Needless to say, the six 45mm tank defense guns were originally requested by He Wei and must be equipment for the future assault corps. Theoretically speaking, those four small mountain cannons cannot be regarded as equipment of the assault corps. They are weapons ordered by the Military Commission and issued by the Ministry of Military Affairs to the assault corps for testing.

But now that this precious mountain cannon has entered He He's shoulder pocket, there is no reason to send it out again. If these four mountain cannons are equipped in the assault corps, the artillery firepower of the assault corps will be considerable.

Four Soviet-style 76mm mountain guns, six Soviet-style 45mm tank defense guns, plus six Type 94 75mm mountain guns captured from the Japanese army. If these guns are used to form an artillery battalion, The artillery firepower of the Assault Corps is among the best in the national army, even if it cannot be said to be arrogant.

Compared with a field regiment of the Japanese army, it was not at all intimidating, it was even a bit stronger!

He Wei walked over and asked Chen Xinsheng excitedly: "How do these old men's cannons look like?"

Seeing He Wei coming, Chen Xinsheng showed a half-crying, half-laughing expression, pointed at the breech of the Soviet tank defense gun and said: "Captain, these tank defense guns and mountain guns are pretty good, they are good things. , when I was studying in the artillery department of the military academy, I read an article about this kind of gun in the translated school magazine published in the school. This tank defense gun produced by the Soviet Union is an imitation of the German 1930mm tank defense gun. Lao Maozi First, I copied the mm model of the German th War defensive gun. I remember the model was the M. Later, I made an enlarged version of the model and expanded the caliber to mm. This is what we have in front of us.”

Listening to Chen Xinsheng's introduction, He Wei learned that his guess was correct. The Laomaozi gun, which looks like a German-made 37mm tank defense gun, is a copycat version of the German 37mm tank defense gun. .

In order to develop his own tank defense cannon, Lao Maozi first imported a 1930mm tank defense cannon from Germany, copied the M37 37mm tank defense cannon, and then increased the barrel caliber from 45mm to 1930mm. 37 mm, retaining the M1932 45 mm combat anti-tank gun mount and shaping it into the M mm anti-tank gun, becoming the first generation anti-tank gun independently developed by the Soviet Union.

This 45mm tank defense gun had many shortcomings when it was first born, and its designers and engineers became prisoners as a result. Later, in order to avoid their crimes and save their lives, these designers improved the artillery while serving their sentences in prison. Finally, this type of Soviet artillery, which is essentially an enlarged version of the German 37 tank defense gun, was perfected.

After continuous improvement, this artillery adopts a two-wheeled open-leg gun mount, a semi-automatic vertical wedge breech, a liquid spring-type parking and retreat system, and is replaced with Soviet-style GAZ car tires. The artillery barrel adopts 16 right-hand rotations. Rifling, barrel length 1970 mm, gun body length 2072.5 mm, gun body weight 108 kg, firing line height 706 mm, high and low shooting range -8°~25°, directional shooting range 60°, array and row length are both 4110 mm, width 1370 mm, height 1250 mm. The row weight is 669 kg and the row weight is 425 kg.

Its maximum range is 4500 meters. When using armor-piercing projectiles, it can penetrate 500 mm steel plates within 50 meters. Generally speaking, it is a tank defense gun with excellent performance and can easily deal with the current mainstream tanks and armored vehicles of the Japanese army.

However, looking at Chen Xinsheng's dumbfounded expression, He Wei was also full of doubts. It is said that he, the artillery leader of the future assault corps, should be happy to have such a tank defense gun with good combat performance. Why does he show off from time to time? With a sad face, He Wei was a little confused for a moment.

He Wei asked Chen Xinsheng in confusion: "What's your expression like? I can tell you that I will give these six tank defense guns and the four mountain cannons to you in the future. You are not happy and you are still showing off?" What’s this expression for?”

"Captain, this old man is not honest. The guns given to us are all used. I have checked these six tank defense guns and the four mountain guns. They are not new guns. They are all used. There are traces of wear and tear on the breech block of the battle defense gun, and the sight also shows signs of use. The same goes for the four mountain guns. The breech block and sights have also been used. The artillery auxiliary car has no brakes, and there are no brakes on the auxiliary artillery car when going up or downhill. Way to brake."

"And the four damn mountain cannons don't have firing lists. The observation equipment of the artillery is 6,030 mils, which is inconsistent with our army's current observation equipment."

He Wei also understood after hearing Chen Xinsheng's complaint. It seemed that when this old man provided a large amount of aid to China, he was also very shrewd in thinking about replacing old goods. Therefore, he did not give China new artillery, but used The active artillery in the army or the old goods sealed in the warehouse were provided to China.

Although He Wei was a little helpless about this, he couldn't say anything.

There is a saying that goes well, beggars should not be dissatisfied with their rice.

It would be great if I could give you a lot of equipment assistance at this time. If you are still picky and picky, it is really unreasonable to insist on new products.

So, He Wei patted Chen Xinsheng on the shoulder and said: "If you can overcome some difficulties, just overcome them. It would be good if we can have cannons. When we were at Huangpu Military Academy, didn't the instructors often mention the spirit of overcoming difficulties? Now it is It's time for us to show our spirit of overcoming difficulties. You should work harder on these artillery problems and try to make corresponding improvements. If you have any problems that you really can't solve, come to me. After we form an army, I plan to set up an artillery battalion in the corps. Once these cannons are ready, we’ll form a battalion and give them to you to lead!”

"Besides, the superiors gave us this batch of equipment just for testing. It would be a credit to you if you get these cannons ready."

Hearing that He Wei was going to hand over all the barreled artillery of the Assault Corps to his command, the slight haze on Chen Xinsheng's face caused by the flaws of the Soviet artillery was instantly wiped away. He rolled up his sleeves and patted his chest and said: "Captain , Don’t worry, just to command a battalion of artillery operations, I, surnamed Chen, will risk my life. I will make sure these old men’s artillery is ready and kill the little devils. We are not just for the position of battalion commander or promotion and wealth. Give me the command of all the artillery, and let me lead the entire regiment’s artillery to attack the Japanese, even if I continue to be the company commander, I’ll accept it!”

(End of this chapter)