"Boom" In the open space of the temporary camp area of the Second Regiment, an explosion sounded, and the wooden target on the ground bombing point was instantly torn apart by the shock wave of the explosion, and sawdust and debris flew everywhere, near the explosion point, a faint black smoke rose with the explosion of the shells, and in the open space and the forest, the aftermath of the explosion did not stop for a long time, startling away a large group of forest birds.
"It's a good fight" Five hundred meters away, Zhang Wei put down his binoculars and shouted loudly.
The officers and soldiers who were onlookers also shouted that they were fighting well, and the new weapons were being tried on the field, which attracted many officers and men to stop and watch.
"Regiment commander, this cannon is much easier to use than a grenadier, it hits far, it hits accurately, it's a baby."
Qiu Wei pointed to the two dark guns on the ground and said.
The initiator of this round of explosions was quietly placed on the ground, two small mortars, with a faint white smoke at the muzzle, a square base, a triangular gun mount, fine sights, leather carrying tools and shell backs in a new and neat cluster.
The new equipment promised by Commander Du has just been transported to the camp area of the second regiment to replenish the second regiment, and after the unloading of the truck pulling the equipment, Zhang Wei can't wait to organize people to test the new equipment, and the artillery is the newly produced 31 60 mm mortar recently produced by the 50 Arsenal, and the 31 60 mortar is directly copied from the French Brown 60 cannon, and most of the materials for the whole gun come from US aid materials, the earliest research and development plan for this gun started in the 27th year of the Republic of China, and this year the problem of raw materials was solved, and 6,000 raw materials were obtained from the United States, which has just been mass-produced.
The largest number of mortars existing in the national army is the 82 mortars of the 20th year of the people, which are basically at the division and regimental level firepower, and are organized in the divisional artillery battalion and regimental mortar company, and the second regiment is used by Zhang Wei as a regimental gun and battalion artillery, and the regimental artillery company and battalion artillery platoon are all equipped, and under the condition that the production capacity of the flat-fire artillery is almost zero, the national army intends to develop and manufacture the 60 artillery in batches, precisely in order to strengthen the firepower at the company and platoon level and narrow the firepower gap with the Japanese army.
This batch of new artillery had just been manufactured, which coincided with the expeditionary armament war, so a batch was shipped to strengthen the firepower of the Fifth Army, and Commander Du selected the Second Supplementary Regiment as the advance team, and this small batch of artillery was all installed in the Second Supplementary Regiment, and the number was not much, just 30 guns.
During the test firing, only one round of shooting hit the target, and the officers of the second regiment of the supplementary regiment who saw the performance of the 60 cannon happily surrounded the artillery and pointed, and Zhang Wei was also very happy to get this sharp weapon, and he was no stranger to this thing, this gun imitated the French Blund 1935 type 60 mortar, and the US army's Type 2 mortar imitated the same model of the Blund gun, this kind of 60 gun of the same series belonged to the famous weapon of World War II, and it could be seen in the major battlefields of World War II.
The 63-type 60-millimeter mortar, developed and produced by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) after the founding of the People's Republic of China, is a copy of the 31-type mortar, and until the 21 st century, there are still many 63-type mortars in the militia's warehouses, and the history of equipment in the Chinese army has also lasted for decades, and it has been well received by officers and soldiers.
In the previous life, in film and television dramas such as the Brothers and Brothers, the 60 cannon also often appeared, which was an excellent firepower supplement to the national army, and now the second regiment is supplemented, each infantry company is set up with a small artillery squad, equipped with four 27-type 50 mm grenadiers, this artillery squad is prepared, Zhang Wei originally wanted to use it to enhance the firepower of the company's artillery, the most suitable weapon is the 60 cannon, but there was no 60 mortar at that time, Zhang Wei could only use the grenadier to the top, called the company's artillery squad, in fact, it is just the company's grenadier squad, and the grenadier is powerful, It was inferior to the 60 mortar in range and accuracy.
Now that there is a new 60 cannon, Zhang Wei is just about to use the 60 cannon to knock out the grenadiers in the company's artillery squad.
Zhang Wei: "The 60 mortar is the best firepower of the company's artillery, thirty mortars, you three infantry battalion commanders, one of you will lead nine back, and I will stay at the regiment headquarters for the remaining three."
It was assigned to the regimental special service platoon, the infantry company of each battalion, and the artillery squad of each company was equipped with three 60 guns, and the original grenadiers were removed and received in the regimental armory. ” Mu Chao fiddled with the performance meter and the usage guide that came with the cannon, and shouted.
"This cannon can hit 1,300 meters, and there are sights, and the grenadier can hold up 300 meters if it dies, and it all depends on experience, and the 60 gun is equipped with the infantry company, and it is not at all afraid to meet a squadron of devils."
Zhang Wei said with a smile: "That's right, the mortar is accurate, there are sights, the range is long, the shooter's training is fast, much stronger than the grenadier, equipped to the infantry company, theoretically the attack range of the company's supporting fire can reach one kilometer, which is more than five times the original, the absolute weapon This batch of 60 guns you received first, go and see those hand-held machine guns." ” The trucks brought by the military headquarters were not only the Trinity 60mm mortars, but also a batch of American-made hand-held machine guns, which are commonly known as submachine guns in China, and these submachine guns, like the 60 guns, were also allocated to the Fifth Army to strengthen their firepower, and Commander Du allocated all of them to the Second Supplementary Regiment to strengthen the melee firepower of the advance troops.
Boxes of submachine guns, submachine gun shells and mortars, mortar shells were piled together.
He Kun, the commander of the heavy company, led people to open several dark green boxes, and the shell of the box was inkjet with the English word A, and at the same time, there was a seal on the box, and the seal was written in Chinese: "Four or five hand-held machine guns" After opening the box, there were black submachine guns lying inside, and Xue Rong, the leader of the spy platoon, couldn't wait to take out one, a log handguard, a plug-in magazine below, a solid butt, a muzzle anti-jump device, a rough mechanical sight, a violent aesthetic atmosphere came to his face, and Xue Rong, the leader of the spy platoon, didn't want to put it down after he got the gun.
"Commander, this gun is good, it's better than a flower machine."
Zhang Wei also walked over and took out one from the box, the heavy submachine gun, the touch of real iron and solid wood, and the cold body of the gun, made Zhang Wei suddenly have a desire to fight, perhaps, this is the charm of the weapon.
Zhang Wei: "Thomson 1928A1 submachine gun, caliber 11.43 mm, American gangsters favorite to use, there is a nickname called Chicago typewriter, Yan Laoxi imitated, the caliber is better than the flower machine, the fight is also refreshing, ordinary people take two shots, don't want to live, is a sinking point, the caliber of the bullet is not easy to replenish in China, but the British should have 11.43 mm bullets in their hands, and they can take care of the British when they enter Burma. ” Xue Rong on the side disassembled the magazine and inserted it repeatedly, and couldn't put it down.
This batch of Thomson submachine guns are Thomson 1928A1 type, characterized by the muzzle anti-jump device, in the Thomson submachine gun family, this model is the most expensive, one has more than two hundred dollars, which is five times that of the later Type 1 Thomson, this model of Thomson submachine gun has long been equipped with the United States Marine Corps, the predecessor of 1928A1, the 1928 type with the United States Marine Corps in 1927 participated in the jungle war in Nicarguara, and achieved very good combat results, and according to actual combat experience, The Model 1928A1 was improved, which was a submachine gun close to actual combat.
The Anglo-Burmese troops inspected by Zhang Wei in Burma were also equipped with submachine guns of this type.
"This is a good thing, the veterans of our spy platoon must be useful, you can give us more platoons."
"He Kun, is the list out, how many submachine guns are there from the military department," Zhang Wei asked.
He Kun: "I'm done, there are two hundred and twenty submachine guns." ” Zhang Wei thought about it, two hundred, divided into the entire regiment, is basically enough, to ensure that each squad leader and squad deputy manpower is not a big problem, the whole regiment has nine infantry companies, a company of nine infantry squads, a squad leader and squad deputy one, that is, two, one infantry company is eighteen, nine companies a total of one hundred and sixty-two, the remaining more than fifty, Zhang Wei plans to equip the special service platoon and the engineer company, first let all the riflemen of the special service platoon replace with submachine guns, about thirty or so.
Among the more than 50 articles, the special service platoon was deducted and replaced, and the rest was thrown to the engineer company, replacing the flower machine gun that the engineer company is now equipped with, and completing the change of equipment of the whole regiment, which is just right.
Zhang Wei immediately issued an order to change the submachine gun.
"The submachine guns will be divided for a while, the squad leader and deputy squad leader of the infantry squad of the whole regiment will have one hand, and the rest will be thrown to your Xue Rong's spy platoon, your platoon is all veterans, and you usually protect the regimental headquarters, the rifles are of little use, replace the lieutenants in the platoon with submachine guns, and then give the surplus to He Jinhai's engineer company, today, the refitting of the 60 guns and submachine guns will be completed, and tomorrow we will start organizing the brothers to carry out new equipment training."
Submachine guns, 60 artillery, Chongqing to the Fifth Army urgently strengthened the firepower of the equipment equipped with the second regiment, after this batch of weapons installed, the firepower level of the second regiment will be raised to a higher level, compared with the Japanese army, the company-platoon level of firepower supplementary second regiment completely dominated, a supplementary second regiment of infantry companies equipped with three 60 guns, eighteen Thomson submachine guns, and a large number of infantry squad with grenadiers and grenades, the overall firepower is very fierce, while the Japanese squadron and squad, only grenadiers and bolts.
In addition to the lack of flat-firing guns, the rest of the battalion level also overpowered the Japanese army, and the firepower level of the second regiment after the new equipment was installed, and the firepower of the grassroots infantry units had reached the standard of Zhang Wei's former national army American armor division, and the process of "beautifying the army" had initially entered the process. ：。
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