The Taisho 11 light machine gun is commonly known as the "crooked handle" machine gun in China because its butt is bent to the right to facilitate aiming against the cheek.

The crooked handle caliber 65 (universal 38 rifle cartridge), weighs 102kg, has a total length of 1100, a muzzle velocity of 736 m/s, an actual rate of fire of 120 rounds per min, and an effective firing range of 600 meters.

The crooked handle is very special, using a total of 6 magazines of 5 rounds per magazine, packed in a 30 rounds per magazine, which is very busy and dangerous for the secondary shooter, and if you shoot while moving, it is even more troublesome to change the ammunition.

As mentioned in the previous chapter, the ZB-26 Czech light machine gun had a muzzle velocity of 830 m/s, a rate of fire of 500 rounds per minute, a gauge range of 1500 meters, and an effective firing range of 1000 meters.

If you are not afraid of not knowing the goods, you are afraid of comparing the goods; In contrast, the crooked handle is weaker than the ZB-26 Czech machine gun in muzzle velocity, rate of fire, range, and reload.

If the ZB-26 Czech light machine and the Taisho 11 crooked handle are fired at the same time, the crooked handle will be suppressed by the Czech and will not be able to raise its head.

In terms of the rate of fire, the Czech style is three or four times that of the crooked handle, and it is really suppressed by the fire, and the crooked handle shoots out one bullet, and the Czech style has already fired three or four bullets.

The effective range of the crooked handle is only 600 meters, and the Czech style is 1000 meters.

In terms of accuracy, the accuracy of bullets with fast muzzle velocity and long range is definitely higher than that of bullets with slow muzzle velocity and short range.

Many times it is not possible to form an equivalent PK, and being suppressed by fire is light, and the consequences are heavy, and the Czech type is directly dumbfounded, whether the machine gun shooter is killed, or even the machine gun will be broken.

Such an unequal attack, many times, will make the enemy helpless to despair, in fact, in light weapons, ** in the anti-Japanese battlefield, basically not lost to the Japanese army, a lot of equipment is even stronger than Japan.

So why do you always lose battles? This is a good explanation, the first aircraft and heavy weapons are completely backward, even if some light weapons are superior to the Japanese army, but there are not many such good weapons, and there are not many equipped troops.

Although air supremacy and heavy weapons determine the balance of a battle, it is still people who decide the outcome in the end, but on the contrary, the best soldiers are soldiers who are completely behind the Japanese army, whether it is the quality of individual soldiers or the tactics of group cooperation.

Therefore, the result of the two sides in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, it was a doomed thing to lose all the way, but it was just the difference between tragic defeat and retreat.

In the middle and late stages of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in the lessons of blood, and in the humiliation of losing rivers and mountains, the war situation improved by changing strategies and tactics, and the war situation did not fall like a mountain, but at least it could stand on its feet.

Therefore, in some small battles, when the Japanese army was not equipped with heavy artillery and fighter aircraft, the advantages of light weapons were brought into play, so that the Japanese army in the later period picked up the Czech style on the battlefield, and did not need to bend its neck, but switched to the Czech style.

The Japanese army suffered from the Czechs in actual combat, and soon imitated the Czechs to create their own 77-caliber Type 96 and Type 99 light machine guns, which were basically the same as the Czechs, but the performance was a little different, but it was much better than the crooked handles.

However, the Czech model also has several minor shortcomings, such as the capacity of the 20-round magazine, which is still too small for a light machine gun, and the fire of the machine gun, which is the pillar of fire, must be interrupted, and the interval should be as small as possible.

However, due to the frequent replacement of magazines, the number of interruptions in fire was excessive; Experienced enemy veterans often take advantage of the opportunity to charge and knock out machine guns.

In response to this, experienced machine gun shooters often change magazines abruptly when there are still three or four rounds left, so that the enemy cannot estimate the time to change magazines.

There is also the ZB-26 light machine gun, which uses a magazine above the gun body to affect the shooter's line of sight, and its aiming device is a way of aiming that deviates from the gun body.

Although it does not affect the accuracy of shooting, it does affect the shooter's line of sight. For the machine gunner, a good line of sight is very important.

In terms of the proportion of equipment to the army, generally speaking, a division of the Kuomintang army, a division is generally equipped with 274 ZB-26 light machine guns, with an average of more than 60 in each regiment and about 6 in each company.

Each platoon was divided into 2 units, but it was not possible to achieve 1 per squad, so it had to be called a machine gun squad according to the machine gun squad, and the machine gun group and the rifle group were divided into the squad, and the other squads without machine guns were called rifle squads.

The elite troops are similar to the German armament divisions, such as Deng Bingchun and Du Bingwen's 87th and 88th divisions, each squad has a light machine gun, divided into machine gun group and rifle group, and a company has three platoons and nine squads, with a total of 9 light machine guns.

However, there are only a handful of such troops in the **, and there are only a few German armor divisions in the country; Only a platoon or even a company of the local miscellaneous army had a ZB-26 light machine gun.

By the time of the all-out war of resistance, some B divisions were barely equipped with squad machine guns of the Czech type, with one machine gun per squad, divided into a forward shooter and a secondary shooter, and some were also equipped with ammunition soldiers to become machine gun crews.

The Czech machine gun is similar to the modern automatic rifle, it is easy to operate, basically as long as you can use a rifle, but it is different if you can fight well.

An inexperienced shooter will shoot a long burst of strafing as soon as he goes up, and the barrel will overheat if he can't hit a few magazines, and the bullets fired after the barrel is overheated will lose stability and fly around without accuracy.

Although the barrel of a Czech light machine gun can be quickly replaced, it is dangerous to change the barrel frequently on the battlefield, and the army does not have that many spare barrels.

Therefore, the machine gunner generally arranges for experienced veterans to operate the old man, and most of the time, the enemy is fired in a single burst or a short burst (2-3 rounds), so that the barrel does not overheat.

And because of the high accuracy of the Czech machine gun, the bullets hit accurately, the killing effect is good and the bullets are saved; This kind of three-shot burst fire, once it hits the opponent, in an ideal state, it is three bullets at once, and the enemy is not dead or disabled.

There are also machine guns that are best used together, not just to form crossfire, because the Czech reload is small, only 20 rounds, generally 6 bursts, 7 times have to change the magazine, so there must be more than 2 Czech light machine guns alternately.

When one of the magazines or barrels is changed, the other shoots to suppress the enemy and prevent the enemy from rushing up, so that mutual protection can suppress the enemy with fire for a long time.

The other is to prevent the enemy's mortars and grenadiers, so you can't stupidly stay in one place, otherwise you will soon end up with the enemy's shells.

It is necessary to constantly change the firing position, set up several firing points in advance, and the shooter constantly changes the firing position during the battle to prevent countermeasures.

This is no longer the teaching category of firearms instructors, but these simple machine gun tactics are also known to ordinary instructors.

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