Chapter 222: Troop Reorganization
Zhang Jiang led everyone to the side of several two-wheeled trailers, and then introduced them.
"Here are a couple of field trailers that we designed. Our technical department has optimized and reasonable design, adopted a bold attempt of modularization, componentization and systematization, so that these field trailers can be combined at will. Several models of frames and wheels can be matched arbitrarily, and you can even try four-wheeled, two-wheeled or even one-wheeled walking according to the size of the material and the different terrain of the road.
It is very easy to assemble and disassemble, and ordinary fighters can learn it after a simple familiarization. Each trailer can also be towed by horse-drawn carriages, cars, and even later lifted by helicopters and airships of the Air Force.
There are also several military carriages, which we did not show off, but they are also serialized, modular, and systematic development ideas, and they are also equipped with leaf springs, which can be modified into personnel transport vehicles if necessary.
The frame of these trailers is made of angle steel, and the rest of the trailer is made of wood. The wheels are solid rubber tires, all from several warehouses of the Russian army, fortunately we have wrapped all kinds of tires in the warehouses of the Russian army, otherwise we will only have a big difficulty in the walking system of various artillery in the future. β
Gao Jianguo and Li Ming both walked up, personally experienced various trailers, and carefully observed the various carrying equipment on these horses. Each device was an eye-opener for them.
Li Ming saw a batch of warhorses carrying a water-cooled heavy machine gun with carrying equipment, so he asked curiously: "Lao Zhang, is this heavy machine gun also the equipment accepted today?" β
Zhang Jiang sighed and said, "This heavy machine gun still has to wait, but it's also fast." Several hurdles have been overcome, various tests are being done, and when you have collected a few jΓΉ, you can accept it.
But don't expect too much from it, although this water-cooled heavy machine gun is an imitation of the American M1917 Browning heavy machine gun, because we can't produce bullets on a large scale, so we have to use stock bullets from AK47 rifles. In addition, the barrel is from civilian use, so the performance is worse.
The rate of fire, range and other key numbers are very different from the original gun model. However, after our optimized design, the weight of the gun body has been reduced a lot, and a large number of stamping production processes have been adopted, which makes the machine gun components simpler, cheaper and easier to maintain.
It's just that the barrel life can only reach a few thousand rounds, so we had to reduce the rate of fire of the machine gun, the actual rate of fire is less than 400 rounds per minute, and the effective firing range is more than 800 meters. However, the barrel can be changed quickly, and it only takes a few seconds for a co-shooter to pull out the barrel with gloves and replace it with a new one to continue shooting.
To put it bluntly, this machine gun is a transitional equipment to meet the current needs of the troops, and when the company solves the problems of materials and processes in the future, we will come up with a better machine gun and send it to the hands of the soldiers. Basic industry has a long way to go, and without a perfect industrial process, everything has to be dealt with by local methods. β
Li Ming smiled: "Enough, you think it's World War II, this machine gun is an artifact in this era." In the future, our troops will rely on this heavy machine gun, what Tartar horses, what Mongolian iron horses, in front of it will be scum. β
Zhang Jiang laughed when he heard this, and now he has also changed his mind. It has abandoned the set of military factories in modern society, and proceeded from reality. In line with the purpose of being simple and reliable, and suiting the current development needs of the troops, the troops should be able to use reliable and reliable equipment as much as possible.
"By the way, several types of ammunition for the 40mm grenade launcher have also been developed, including incendiary bombs, tear gas bombs and dart bombs, and several prototypes that we have made will be tested in various aspects in the next few days."
Next, the Military Commission conducted a live-fire inspection, and the soldiers of the teaching team conducted live-ammunition shooting. For a while, the entire shooting range suddenly roared, because the technical department of the arsenal has done a lot of work, so the acceptance work is very successful, and both sides are very satisfied.
After returning home, the Central Military Commission also held a meeting to study the new round of reorganization plan and the equipment deployment plan, and made a large number of revisions to the previous configuration of the troops' equipment.
First of all, there were two teaching regiments, each with three training battalions, an artillery battalion, and a battalion directly under the regiment, armed with 12 75-mm mountain guns and 6 82-mm mortars. In addition, the battalion is equipped with a machine gun company, equipped with 3 water-cooled heavy machine guns, 3 60mm mortars.
The configuration of the infantry squad remained the same, it was still ten people, nine Type 1628 rifles, and one 40mm grenade launcher. However, when the troops are faced with a complex combat environment, they can be equipped with 2-5 short-to-medium Type 1629 double-barreled shotguns, or 2-3 additional 40mm short-barreled grenade launchers.
This equipment does not account for the strength of the troops in peacetime, thus making the combat methods of the troops more flexible. The infantry company also added three snipers armed with Type 1628B sniper rifles, improving the ability of the company-level troops to hunt and kill important targets.
The garrison brigade consists of 6 garrison battalions and 1 battalion directly under the brigade. The equipment configuration has not changed much, except that a machine gun platoon has been added to the battalion-level troops, equipped with 2 water-cooled heavy machine guns. The battalion directly under the brigade was strengthened by an artillery company and armed with six 60-mm mortars.
The mountain regiment is the latest unit to be expanded, with three mountain battalions and one battalion directly under the regiment. Heavy firepower was relatively small, only the battalion directly under the regiment was equipped with a machine gun company, armed with six 82-mm mortars and three water-cooled heavy machine guns. The mountain battalion was also armed with only one artillery platoon, armed with three 60-mm mortars.
However, the firepower configuration of the infantry squad has changed greatly, the fixed establishment of 40mm grenade launchers has been cancelled, and the firepower configuration of the squad is also flexibly selected between 1628A short rifles, 40mm grenade launchers, and Type 1629 double-barreled shotguns according to the different combat environments of the troops.
A two-man sniper squad was added at the platoon level, and a five-man sniper squad was added at the company level. Each sniper team is armed with a Type 1628C sniper rifle and a sniper deputy with a telescope to observe the trajectory, select targets, and keep the snipers safe.
Now these snipers are all trained in the newly formed sniper brigade of the teaching team, and snipers from other units will also come here in the future to receive sniper training for several months.
The combat mode of mountain regiments is different from that of regular field units, and most of them use squads and platoons as units to carry out operations in small detachment modes such as infiltration, search, and reconnaissance, or cooperate with large units to complete combat tasks in special environments in some combat campaigns. Therefore, the requirements for the individual combat ability of the soldiers of the mountain regiment are extremely high, and they must also have the ability to be familiar with the mountain and forest environment.
Although in this way, the training requirements of the mountain regiment will bring a certain amount of pressure. However, these indigenous warriors from the Northeast are all from Orion who have traveled through the deep mountains and forests all the year round, and they have a talent for mastering weapons and equipment beyond ordinary people, so it is not difficult for them to be proficient in several different weapons.
In addition, when recruiting new recruits, the Military Commission did not select all the local tribes and aborigines, but selected a battalion from the veterans of the teaching team and mixed them with the local natives of the other two mountain battalions, and the main and secondary shooters of the snipers were all from the veterans of the teaching team.
The veterans of the mountain unit have received the true biography of Song Tao, and this winter these recruits will also go to two long-distance training exercises with the special combat team in the mountains and forests several hundred kilometers north of Vladivostok.
The establishment of the Death Army Brigade was also increased from one brigade to three, forming a new Death Army Wing. The co-captain is still Fujita, and the vice-captain Kenji. The entire wing has a strength of 1,500 Japanese samurai.
Since its inception, the Death Breakers have experienced almost all the battles of the company. And in every battle, from the captain of Fujita to the ordinary samurai, they are all extremely brave. The casualty rate is also the highest among all units of the Military Commission, and they can also help the Military Commission deal with a lot of dirty work, so the role is very obvious. The samurai of the Death Army have been treated as the master of the company according to the samurai tradition, so they are extremely loyal.
It is difficult to change the armament of the Death Army's wing, or the use of the katana as the main melee weapon, and the original arsenal designed a saber for the Death Army that is more in line with the needs of the battlefield to replace the Katana equipped by the Death Army.
However, when the samurai of the Death Army learned the news, they all came to the compound of the Military Commission and knelt down, crying and begging one by one to let them keep the katana as their main equipment.
In addition to the katana, each samurai was armed with a Type 1628 long-barreled revolver. In the future, each samurai will be equipped with an additional Type 1629 short- and medium-barreled double-barreled shotgun in different combat environments, and squad-level combat units will also be equipped with several short-barreled 40mm grenade launchers.
The combat characteristics of the Death Army Brigade are assault and close combat, flexible configuration of equipment, coupled with anti-riot shields, steel ball grenades, tear gas canisters, and wearing strong armor and protective gear, the combat effectiveness will surely be raised to a higher level.
This year, the Central Military Commission has recruited more than 2,000 technical recruits, all of whom are from the first batch of immigrants, and they are the first batch of immigrants to be Liaoning activists who have achieved excellent results in winter training. After receiving three months of basic training for recruits, they will immediately enter various training classes to study automobile driving, communications, medical aid, artillery command, logistics baggage, ordnance repair, and military police, and strive to liberate the officers and men of the War Department from various technical posts by next spring.
In this way, the War Department will be able to increase the strength of one or more companies out of thin air, which will be of great help to the CMC's future operational arrangements. After all, it is better to be trapped in a gun position than to participate in the battle with a large army. In the spring of next year, all the officers and men of the War Department will take up command posts, and the Air Force Department and the Navy Department have already achieved this goal this year.
In addition, 500 new recruits have been recruited this year, and a battalion-level combat unit of engineers has been formed, and the training is expected to be completed next spring. R1152