Of course, there is a reason why those army leaders are so stubborn. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Since the establishment of the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese army has highlighted two basic skills in the army, one is the accurate shooting of weapons, and the other is the so-called hand-to-hand combat with bayonets, and these two are the embodiment of the spirit of the katana.

The rifles of the Japanese army had high accuracy, long range, long barrels, and longer bayonets, and even sacrificed such performance as stability and power to highlight these properties. Among the rifles in the world, the Japanese rifle hits the farthest, shoots the most accurately, and is the most suitable for stabbing, but it is the least powerful and the stability is average.

Before World War II, after the First Sino-Japanese War, the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, the Russo-Japanese War, and the Battle of Qingdao against the German army in World War I, the Japanese army won a complete victory in dealing with this series of opponents who were much weaker than themselves.

Anyone who wins consecutive victories will often be proud, and the Japanese army believes that there is no problem with this set of theories at all, and it is completely in line with the needs of actual combat.

In fact, this theory was correct before the First World War, but it was shattered by numerous battles in the later stages of the First World War. The Japanese were so arrogant and arrogant only because they did not fully intervene in the First World War, so they did not understand it.

After the end of World War I, the Japanese army won successive victories in the Chinese battlefield after 918. In the face of the Nationalist Army, which was half a century behind itself, the Japanese army did not suffer many casualties, but it gained control of the four northeastern provinces, northern North China, and the Shanghai region (several times larger than the Japanese mainland), so the army was even more arrogant, believing that the Japanese Imperial Army was invincible and the most elite.

Therefore, during World War II, the Japanese army top brass was very disgusted by the ultra-high consumption of submachine gun bullets, so they were not keen on this individual weapon. Moreover, because the national strength of the Japanese army was still weak compared to the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union. Reflected in the logistical supply, it is impossible to cope with the large replenishment of submachine gun ammunition.

At the end of the Battle of Songhu, hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in Shanghai had run out of ammunition for rifles and machine guns, and Japan could not provide sufficient replenishment in a short time, so they had to urgently seconded the Japanese troops in North China. The Japanese army is still unable to effectively cope with the existing demand for rifle cartridges and machine gun cartridges, so what submachine gun cartridges are they talking about? According to the experience of other countries, once a submachine gun is equipped, the ammunition consumption is definitely not less than that of a light machine gun. In this case, I am afraid that the logistics supply system of the Japanese army will be collapsed.

However, the supply problem is always secondary, and if the Japanese army wants to engage in submachine guns, there will always be a way to solve the existing problems after so many years. The key is still the concept of the top level, whose thinking is still stuck in the concept of "if you can kill the enemy with one bullet, why fire a bunch of bullets to consume resources".

The various infantry weapons of the Japanese Army at that time not only had a long range, but also could be equipped with bayonets, even light machine guns and submachine guns.

The submachine gun was equipped with a bayonet and was the only one in the world, and the only other Stearns submachine gun was later loaded with bayonets, but it was not used in a large number of actual battles.

The Japanese military top brass even believed that the submachine gun was a small light machine gun that could be used by a single person, and could fire a single shot accurately at a distance, and then fire fully automatically at close range.

Obviously, this positioning is inexplicable and wrong.

Because the positioning of the submachine gun should be: a melee weapon that exerts power within 100 to 200 meters, requiring a high rate of fire, fierce firepower, and a large reload.

And the positioning of the top of the Japanese army was actually the positioning of automatic rifles later.

If an automatic rifle can shoot accurately from a distance, it must require a long barrel and use rifle bullets. In this way, the first whole gun is very heavy, the ammunition is also heavy, and it is difficult to carry it alone, and the second, because it needs to shoot at a long distance, the bullet is powerful and the charge is large, resulting in obvious muzzle beating and large recoil during continuous shooting. In other words, the firepower at close range is greatly reduced.

For this positioning, the 100-type submachine gun is equipped with a tripod and a gauge that can aim up to 1500 meters away, in fact, the effective distance of the submachine gun is 200 or even 100 meters; In addition to tripods, the Japanese army's guidelines for close combat required the use of bayonets in white-knuckle combat to save ammunition. The Hyak-style submachine gun was mounted on a bayonet mount like other Japanese infantry machine guns of the same period.

These inexplicable designs were not uncommon in Japan at the time. In 1909, when Japan revised the "Infantry Drill Code", it was clear that "the way to decide the final victory or defeat of the battle is the bayonet assault".

Ridiculous positioning, inexplicable design, but the Japanese army still has the absolute upper hand in front of the most elite troops of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.

First of all, in terms of equipment, the Type 30 bayonet blade mainly equipped by the Japanese army is 50 centimeters long, and the length of the Type 38 rifle is 1.65 meters long, which even exceeds the average height of the Japanese army of 1.56, and it is also the longest bayonet combination in the entire World War II period.

American GIs with submachine guns ridiculed this as a medieval spear capable of firing bullets, but it was this medieval spear that could fire bullets that made its mark on the Chinese battlefield.

The reason is very simple, the Type 30 bayonet is not only long, but also the bayonet is well-made, the selection of high-quality steel, the parts are finely processed, strong and durable, although limited by the lack of resources of the island country, all the use of low-carbon steel is easy to rust, but as long as it is regularly maintained, it can be used for a long time. From the land of China a few decades later, the little hooligans often used 30-type bayonets to kill all sides when they were fighting, which can be imagined.

On the other hand, what about the Kuomintang and the Communist Party? That's a lot worse. First of all, the bayonet made by Hanyang is equipped with it, first it is a short bayonet of the European style that everyone hates, and the blade is only 30 centimeters in total, and then because of the threat of the Japanese, the long bayonet was developed, the length is basically the same as that of the Japanese, and the short is only a few centimeters shorter, which can barely be considered to be able to compete, but the steel quality is much worse, and it is easy to break and damage and deform.

This is not a bayonet of the blind Nationalist government, Liu Lang remembers such a story recorded in military history. Lieutenant General Wang, the famous madman of the Red Army, who is the prototype of Li Yunlong in the anti-Japanese drama, once fought with the national army with an extremely dangerous bayonet during the anti-encirclement and suppression. At that time, General Wang led his subordinates to fight with the national army for more than one hour, and was extremely tired. Suddenly, a national army raised a bayonet and stabbed at the king, but the king was caught off guard and was stabbed in the abdomen, and generally he would not survive.

Unexpectedly, the quality of this national soldier's bayonet was extremely poor, and this knife stabbed on the thick cotton jacket, and actually bent the bayonet. General Wang, who was not injured, went up and cut down the soldiers of the national army with a knife. After checking the wound, the skin was not broken, only a bruise.

Such a bayonet, compared with the cold and shining Type 30 bayonet of the Japanese invaders, the consequences are naturally worrying.

Besides, the Mauser 1924 rifle that was officially imitated by the main equipment of the National Army before the Anti-Japanese War was not a long rifle like the 38 type.

After careful analysis before the Second World War, the German company Mauser decided that the length of the modern rifle was no longer necessary to maintain the same length as before the First World War. Because during World War I, rifles were still one of the pillars of long-range firepower, but after World War II, real long-range targets should be eliminated by machine guns, infantry guns, and mortars.

It is enough for the rifle to function only at a distance of 400 to 600 meters.

Since this is the case, the barrel of the rifle can be shortened (the compound line is shorter, and the firing range is closer), then the official rifle length of the Mauser 1924 rifle imitation is greatly reduced, only 1.1 meter, while the Hanyang-made and 38-style are both more than 1.25 to 1.28 meters, and the length is more than 15 centimeters.

Of course, this shortened 15 cm is good for riflemen, short rifles are easier to carry, lighter and easier to use in confined spaces.

However, for the spur, the difference of 15 centimeters is very considerable.