Of course, Zhang Chi didn't know this, and he was busy purging Rabaul at this time!

This is mainly due to the tenacious combat style of the Japanese army...... Although they knew that the general situation was gone, that is, the loss of Rabaul and the destruction of the Japanese army could not be changed, they still persevered in every corner.

So in the tunnels, in the woods, in the depths of the caves, there were gunshots and explosions everywhere.

This is especially the devil in the woods...... In the tunnel and in the cave, at most, it is almost the same as using a flamethrower to burn it in, this thing is an artifact to deal with the target in the tunnel, even if the tunnel turns in it, it is useless, the flames will run in, even if the flame can't burn the Japanese army hiding inside, after continuing to burn for a while, the oxygen in the tunnel will be drained, and the Japanese army inside will have to be unconscious even if they don't die, just go in and pick up people after a while.

Hiding in the woods was not so easy to deal with, and the Japanese still hid in the trees and released cold guns as usual, and from time to time they gave the soldiers exposed to their guns a little, so that the soldiers could not be guarded.

If these woods are flat, it is better to say that the tanks can drive up and bulldoze the woods, but those places are more mountainous areas where tanks cannot maneuver...... It's a big headache.

However, this problem was quickly resolved, as the Yankee warships soon brought piles of "Bazooka" bazookas to the new division.

The "Bazooka" bazooka is an old-fashioned equipment for Zhang Chi, a modern person, but this thing is a new type of equipment that has just come out at this time.

The original intention of inventing it, of course, was to compensate for the lack of suitable anti-tank equipment for the infantry...... The anti-tank guns were too heavy and too large to be easily discovered and destroyed by the enemy, and they were also limited by terrain and logistics, and their mobility was very poor; Anti-tank guns are generally not powerful enough to deal with tanks with slightly thicker armor, and more often against armored vehicles, of course, if they are more than enough against Japanese tanks.

However, the Allied battlefield was not only in the Pacific Ocean, in fact, there were not many cases in which the US military needed to face Japanese tanks in the Pacific theater...... This is due to the fact that many islands in the Pacific Ocean are not suitable for tank warfare, and the transportation costs of tanks to maneuver between islands also require the cost of transporting ships.

The Allies also needed to face Germany in another theater with a large number of tanks and a "blitzkrieg", so the Bazooka rocket launcher was invented.

Its first application was in November 1942, when the first U.S. troops to receive bazookas took to the battlefield with the weapon with little to no training in North Africa.

Although they did not hit the target due to their lack of experience, the result was quite surprising...... THE AMBUSHED GERMAN TANKS THOUGHT THEY WERE BEING STOPPED BY THE ENEMY'S 105MM HOWITZERS, AND THEN THEY RAISED THE WHITE FLAG AND SURRENDERED.

The name "Bazooka" is due to the fact that the bazooka is very similar to a thick wind instrument in the United States.

Zhang Chi asked Pete about the number of these "bazookas" that landed with the bazooka, and Pete replied that there were a thousand in total.

This made Zhang Chi so surprised that he couldn't speak for a long time, and secretly said that this Yankee was really generous, and casually threw a thousand bazookas to the new first division...... Later, I learned that these bazookas were nothing to the United States, because the Bazooka was very simple and fast to produce, and the first trial production produced 5,000 units in 30 days.

The reason why the Yankees wanted to transport such a "bazooka" to Rabaul at this time was originally intended to be used by the new 1st Division to fight Japanese tanks...... In the previous reconnaissance, the American pilots discovered that there were Japanese tanks in Rabaul, and it was difficult to transport anti-tank guns and other things ashore during the landing war, so they urgently transferred a batch of "Bazooka" to the shore.

It's just that what I didn't expect was that the battle of Rabaul ended before the "Bazooka" arrived at the battlefield.

Even so, Bazooka played a big role in Rabaul...... It's so convenient to put it on your shoulder and fire a cannon shot, which is especially effective for Japanese snipers hiding in the jungle.

In the past, the Japanese snipers who hid in the trees were mostly bombarded with artillery or tanks, and if they were in places where it was difficult for artillery and tanks to maneuver, such as in the depths of the jungle, they would have to fight for their lives and snipe with snipers.

But now there is no such problem, because the soldiers can easily carry the "cannon" on their shoulders, once they find that there are Japanese snipers hiding on a tree or there may be snipers, then they can pick up the "bazooka" and bombard the tree, anyway, the shells are something that the Yankees have, and there is no need to save it for them.

This allowed the soldiers to clear the remnants of the Japanese army in Rabaul smoothly, and while reducing casualties to a large extent, they also practiced the use of "Bazooka" by the way.

The townsfolk even patted "Bazooka" and sighed: "it! This thing invented by the Yankees is good, and I will never be afraid of the grenadier of the little devil in the future! ”

That's right...... Although the Japanese grenadier looks small, because of its large number of equipment and the high quality of the Japanese grenadier shooters, they can often hit the grenade to our position by feeling, so the soldiers are very afraid of it.

With the equipment and strength of the expeditionary force, the Japanese grenadiers should be described as "jealous", and in China, there is basically no effective way to suppress the Japanese grenadiers...... The expeditionary force can also use powerful firepower such as artillery, mortars, machine guns, etc. to suppress the Japanese grenadiers, while the domestic troops who lack guns and ammunition can basically only be bombed in front of the grenadiers.

On the other hand, the Japanese army was very good at close combat, so they threw grenades at a little farther away, threw grenades at close range, and then charged again, and there was basically no position that they could not attack.

In the end, there was no way to fight ****, and I thought that the best weapon to suppress the grenadier was the grenadier, so I imitated the 27-type grenadier according to the appearance of the devil's grenadier.

It's just that the range of the Type 27 grenadier is not as good as that of the Japanese grenadier because of the quality and workmanship, especially the grenadier shooter does not have the same quality as the Japanese army...... This is determined by the shortage of domestic materials, and it is rare for **** grenadier shooters to have the opportunity to practice with live ammunition, so of course they can't fight by feeling like the Japanese army.

So in the end, **** suffered repeated losses in front of the Japanese army.

But now, the bazooka with a range of more than 600 meters is in hand, while the range of the Japanese grenadier is only more than 200 meters, which means that the bazooka shooter can press the Japanese grenadier shooter in the second line of defense!

(To be continued.) )