Anti-Japanese War: I have unlimited assistance

Chapter 461 Everyone is a sharpshooter!
"Haha, Lao Zhao, Da Biao, we're getting rich..."

Inside the headquarters of the new regiment, Li Yunlong's face was filled with a happy smile.

"Yes!"

"Get rich!"

Zhao Gang nodded heavily.

"Boss Lin is really the captain of our transport team."

"M4 medium tanks, 152mm grenades, and now Type semi-automatic rifles and light machine guns. We are completely indifferent to the Japanese's weapons."

Zhang Dabiao laughed.

The term "transport captain" here is a compliment.

Some of the Japanese weapons were quite good, such as the Type 75 infantry gun, which was light, easy to carry, and not much less powerful than the mountain gun. It could be used as a mortar for indirect fire, or as a field gun for aimed direct fire, and it was also highly accurate.

This thing is very suitable for the Eighth Route Army's guerrilla warfare.

However, the New 1st Regiment has changed its guerrilla habits and is making great strides towards large-scale combat in all directions.

This kind of artillery with short range, low rate of fire, weak power and difficult to replenish ammunition is now not valued by anyone in the New 82st Regiment. There are more than 60 300mm mortars and 8mm mortars in the regiment. The average ammunition reserve for each gun is 960 basic units, or rounds, and the quality is good. Why do they need this kind of rubbish gun?

When it came to the price of killing Jingguan Changlong, Li Yunlong chose 48 105mm howitzers.

The headquarters and the new regiment each have half, and everyone can expand into a 105 howitzer regiment.

The price for killing Guan Yuzang was 48 M24 light tanks.

As the price for killing the lieutenant colonel of the 14th Division, Li Yunlong asked for all 96 M4 medium tanks.

In addition to the 15 tanks of the Japanese tank brigade, the 3 M4 medium tanks and 5 M24 light tanks lost by the New st Regiment on the battlefield,

This time, Boss Lin has to pay Lao Li for 105 M4 medium tanks and 62 M24 light tanks.

167 tanks are enough to form a tank division.

这一仗还击落3架日机，可获得13门75毫米山炮，加上干掉的野炮联队和各步兵联队麾下的山炮中队获得的44门山炮，一共可获得57门75毫米博福斯山炮。

The advantage of this Bofors mountain gun is that at full speed, each gun can reach a firing rate of 10 rounds per minute.

An artillery battalion is equipped with 36 of these mountain cannons and can fire 360 ​​rounds of artillery shells at the target area in one minute.

In addition, there is the price for the equipment of the main force of 28,000 people, half of which is for the New 1st Regiment and half for the headquarters. The equipment received this time are all semi-automatic rifles and light machine guns.

Each squad is equipped with a Type 56 light machine gun, a bazooka, two PPSh submachine guns, and two Colt pistols. The remaining soldiers are equipped with Type 56 semi-automatic rifles, and snipers are equipped with four-fold crosshair optical sights.

Thinking of this, the corners of Captain Li's mouth curled higher and higher.

The fact that the Eighth Route Army was equipped with howitzers and tank units could certainly not be concealed from the intelligence departments of various forces. I wonder if Chiang Kai-shek and Yan Xi Jinping were drooling with envy when they went to bed?

"Lao Zhao, Da Biao, it's time to expand our new regiment."

Li Yunlong looked at the two of them and said.

Zhao Gang asked, "How do you plan to expand? How many people?" Li Yunlong took out the expansion plan he had prepared long ago: "The infantry battalion will be expanded from the original 1500 to 2500 people, and a mountain artillery company and a machine gun company will be added."

At present, the infantry battalion of the new regiment has undergone two rounds of expansion, which was expanded in accordance with the purpose of suppressing the Japanese infantry battalion.

李云龙继续说道：“鬼子的精锐步兵大队编制为1100人左右，下辖4个步兵中队，1个重机枪中队（12挺九二式重机枪），1个炮兵小队（2门步兵炮）和1个运输中队。”

"Currently, our new regiment's infantry battalion has a strength of 1500 men, consisting of five infantry companies, one machine gun company (cannon company), one artillery company, and one logistics support company."

"Whether in terms of manpower or firepower, our New 1st Regiment's infantry battalion can suppress the Japs' elite battalion."

"But this is not enough. Our infantry battalion's opponent should be the Japanese infantry regiment."

Of course, this is the regular organization of the Japanese infantry battalion. Some Japanese battalions can reach 1500 people after wartime reinforcement, but under normal circumstances, the number of Japanese infantry battalions is between 800 and 1500 people.

Zhang Dabiao's eyes lit up: "A small Japanese infantry battalion can defeat a national army division. Why can't our regiment's infantry battalion defeat a Japanese infantry regiment?"

Zhao Gang frowned slightly and said, "But the Japanese infantry regiment is quite strong, with a strength of up to 3800 men, divided into three infantry battalions of approximately 3 men each. Each battalion is composed of four infantry companies, one machine gun company, and one artillery squad. Light machine guns and grenade launchers are equipped to the squads, which are our squads. In addition, there are rapid-fire artillery companies and mountain artillery companies directly under the regiment."

"It is usually equipped with more than 2000 rifles, 24 Type 72 heavy machine guns, 4 crooked handle or curved handle light machine guns, 37 6mm rapid-fire guns, 90 Type infantry guns, and about grenade launchers."

"Besides that, in terms of individual combat capability, the quality of our entire regiment's individual soldiers is not as good as that of the Japanese soldiers."

Zhao Gang is not trying to embolden the Japanese and destroy his own prestige.

He was raising questions to see if Li Yunlong would consider them and then solve them.

The truth becomes clearer the more it is debated.

Li Yunlong nodded. "In terms of manpower and number of machine guns, our 2500-man infantry battalion is indeed slightly inferior to the Japanese's elite regiment. But why was our infantry battalion able to defeat the Japanese infantry battalion? Isn't it because of our superior firepower?"

"Your firepower... isn't that strong, is it?" Zhao Gang said. "You're equipped with, at most, twelve 12mm cannons, twenty-four MG20 general-purpose machine guns, and eight mountain cannons. Your mortar company is equipped with, at most, twelve 24mm mortars, and each infantry company's artillery platoon is equipped with twelve 42mm mortars. After all, your infantry battalion has over a thousand fewer men than the Japanese."

This firepower is already very impressive, but it can only be said to be slightly better than the Japanese elite infantry regiment. It is still difficult to form absolute suppression.

According to Li Yunlong's idea, the infantry battalion of the new regiment was to absolutely suppress the Japanese infantry regiment.

Li Yunlong's eyes were full of wisdom and strategy: "How about I improve my individual soldier qualities?"

Zhao Gang said, "It's not that easy to improve individual soldier skills. The reason the Japanese's Type A Division's individual combat effectiveness is so strong is because they train from a young age. Our opponents are a group of professional soldiers. Their marksmanship, physical fitness, and fighting abilities are very strong."

Li Yunlong smiled slightly. "As for physical fitness, our soldiers have gradually improved thanks to good food and scientific training. Not to mention their combat abilities, who would engage in hand-to-hand combat? As for improving marksmanship, marksmanship is developed through the use of bullets, so there's no shortcut. However, we can allow every soldier to use an optical sight."

Zhang Dabiao's eyes widened immediately. "Captain, are you saying that we should make all our soldiers snipers?"

Using an optical sight can allow you to aim at the target more accurately, magnify the target image, make distant targets more clearly visible, and greatly improve shooting accuracy.

At present, each squad of the New 1st Regiment has a sniper equipped with a four-fold optical sight, and their marksmanship has improved by leaps and bounds after training.

Zhao Gang couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling.

Li Yunlong chuckled, "With the accuracy and rate of fire of the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle and a four-times optical scope, our soldiers can easily defeat the Japanese veterans."

(End of this chapter)