Chapter 33: A Minute of Madness

"Instructor Huang!" When Huang Leiming passed by, Zhang Chi stopped him.

"I've seen the Brit shoot ...... They can play fast! Zhang Chi lied, he hadn't actually seen any Brits shoot.

"Hmm!" Huang Leiming nodded.

"That's rapid-fire play!" Huang Leiming replied, after all, this is Myanmar during the war, and it is commonplace to see the British shooting, so Huang Leiming didn't realize that Zhang Chi was lying.

"Rapid-fire play?" Zhang Chi put on a posture that he was willing to hear about it.

Huang Leiming was already very busy, and he was not willing to continue to entangle with Zhang Chi. But he knew that the platoon commander in front of him, who was not amazing, was Zhang Chi, who had recently led dozens of people to repel thousands of Japanese troops and captured this batch of equipment.

So although he was a little impatient in his heart, he nodded patiently and replied, "Yes, rapid-fire play." The action of this rapid-fire play is a little different, pull the trigger not the index finger but the middle finger, and then the index finger unlocks the bolt, and the thumb locks the bolt, just like this......"

Huang Leiming said as he picked up the gun and demonstrated it.

"Oh!" Looking at Zhang Chi, he quickly understood that it was actually to take charge of the thumb, index finger, and middle finger for one job, especially to pull the trigger with the middle finger...... In this way, there is no need to pull the trigger with the index finger like the normal action, and then detach the trigger to unlock and lock the bolt, so the action is naturally much faster.

"Instructor!" Zhang Chi asked with some confusion: "Then why...... Why don't you teach us this? ”

"Hey!" Huang Leiming lowered his head and replied a little helplessly: "What's the use of fighting fast?" Hitting fast is also fast to consume bullets, thirty rounds a minute, and one base amount of ammunition is a matter of three or four minutes! ”

"Oh!" Zhang Chi couldn't help but nodded, but then he looked at Huang Leiming in a daze.

"What's the matter? What's wrong? Huang Leiming was a little puzzled.

"Instructor!" Zhang Chi replied: "If this is in China, you may be right, but now we are in Burma, and we are still shooting British guns with British bullets......

"Hmm!" Hearing this, Huang Leiming quickly understood.

The British's rapid-fire style of play is indeed not suitable for the squadron, because domestic ammunition is very valuable, and they can't afford to play this "crazy minute" style of play...... Just kidding, so there is ammunition that is only supplied through one China-Burma highway, and if you play this "crazy minute", ten China-Myanmar roads will not be enough to transport.

However, different situations have to be treated differently, and now the expeditionary force only uses Enfield rifles in a unit, and the ammunition of the British is piled up in warehouses and has not been taken away...... That is, there is no shortage of Enfield rifle cartridges at all now, so what is there to save ammunition for?!

"Hey, look at me!" Huang Leiming patted his head a little embarrassed and said: "I'm used to it, I just think about how to save ammunition, and I don't think about it!" Three platoon commanders, you're right......"

Without hesitation, he shouted at the soldiers who were training, "All of them!" Let's practice rapid-fire action ......"

In fact, the reason why Zhang Chi wanted to mention this rapid-fire play to Huang Leiming was after some consideration.

It is foreseeable that the engineer regiment will fight the Japanese on the battlefield in the near future, and the opponent may also be the 56th Division, known as the "king of jungle warfare".

Although Zhang Chi had fought against the 56th Division at Wajieqiao before, and won a completely disproportionate victory with less, it was more of a trick and luck, and he really had to fight a tough battle with the Japanese army...... The quality of the engineer regiment was certainly far from that of the Japanese army.

In any case, the Japanese army has been trained and honed on the battlefield for a long time, and this cannot be compared with the engineering regiment that can almost be said to be crammed after only a few days of training on the battlefield.

That is to say, whether in terms of tactics, marksmanship, stabbing and other qualities, the engineer regiment is in a clear weakness.

So why did the engineer regiment defeat the Japanese army?

It's a surprising style of play.

Rapid-fire with Enfield rifles is one of them...... Our marksmanship is not as good as yours, and our tactical actions are not as good as yours, so we are not better than these, we are better than firepower, grabbing the gun and fighting indiscriminately, using the high rate of fire of the Enfield rifle to shoot a rain of bullets in the past, and I will beat you stunned first.

This practice lasted all night, and it was not until dawn the next day that the soldiers stopped to rest.

The reason why it is necessary to train at night and rest during the day is because the Japanese army has completely mastered air supremacy, and if it shoots and fires tanks during the day, even in the jungle, it will be discovered by Japanese reconnaissance planes and attract their bombing.

On the other hand, doing so is actually practicing the ability to fight at night, and it can also be inferred that when the engineer regiment goes to the battlefield to play a role, it is likely to be at night.

During the training, the soldiers all felt that they were about to be exhausted, and many fell asleep as soon as they fell to the ground at the command to "rest in place".

But some people can't sleep the more tired they are, and Zhang Chi is one of them...... It's not that he doesn't want to sleep, but the nerves and muscles in his whole body have not yet relaxed, and even with his eyes closed, he is still thinking about various training movements and various battle scenes in his mind.

"Platoon commander!" Xiao Zhejiang ran to Zhang Chi's side, handed Zhang Chi a steamed bun and a kettle, and said, "Have you heard?" Last night the main force of the 56th Division of the devils had arrived, and they blocked the road north of the airfield and occupied the east bank of the Sedang River! ”

"Hmm!" Hearing this, Zhang Chi couldn't help frowning.

"So......" The fellow villager who was still nibbling on steamed buns just now stopped what he was doing, and said indistinctly: "Are we surrounded?" ”

"What about the west?" The rascal asked, "What about the British?" ”

"The Brit has already run away!" Xiao Zhejiang showed a disdainful expression on his face: "It is said that after learning that the armored regiment was surrounded last night, the main force of the British army ran away in a swarm, and they didn't even say a word to us. ”

The soldiers couldn't help but be stunned, and after a long while, someone scolded hatefully: "Fucking British! ”

"Why didn't we retreat sooner?" Someone else asked, "Why do you want to stay here and wait for the devils to surround us......

Oh, yes! Why?

As early as when the reinforcements could not reach Tonggu, as early as when the British army retreated on the Western Front, and as early as when the 56th Division of the Japanese army appeared, the expeditionary force of Tonggu should have retreated, because as long as people with a little military common sense know that staying in Tonggu any longer is just a meaningless sacrifice, and at this time, it is natural that the earlier the retreat, the smaller the losses that may be suffered.