readx; The way the army fights has been changing from ancient times to the present, from the various formations in the ancient cold weapon era, to the queue to shoot in the musket era, to the dense formation charge in the Mauser rifle era, and then to the skirmish line, it can be said that the way of fighting has been changing. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The infantry combat mode of the Chinese Army in the past few decades has also been constantly changing, and this change occurs on the premise that the surname of weapons is constantly improving.

In the Chinese Army, especially the mechanized infantry has recently begun to popularize semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns, if the infantry core combat mode of the Chinese Army during World War I and the early thirties is still dominated by squad machine guns, then in 1941, this situation has changed, although the squad light machine gun is still important, but the semi-automatic rifle and submachine gun in batch service, so that the fire intensity of the front-line infantry has greatly increased, In this case, the infantry on the lower line will be able to take on more and more flexible combat missions.

In the new establishment specially formulated by the Chinese Army for mechanized infantry divisions, the mechanized infantry squadron is equipped with one submachine gun, three semi-automatic rifles, one light machine gun, five ordinary rifles, and two guns with grenade launchers, with a total of 12 people. Although the number of infantry squads of 14 was reduced by two, the firepower was greatly increased, and the three semi-automatic rifles could lead each of the three combat groups in battle.

At present, the only thing that can surpass the Chinese Army in the firepower of the infantry squad is the US military that is fully equipped with M1 semi-automatic rifles, and this situation will not last long, because China has entered a wartime state, and the production of various weapons has increased rapidly, and the 1937 semi-automatic rifles that have been produced in the past have begun to gradually enter full service with the troops, and the priority to get rationed is naturally the mechanized infantry, so that the mechanized infantry of the Chinese Army has gradually entered the era of comprehensive replacement of semi-automatic rifles.

Of course, it has only just begun to be fully reequipped, and among China's many mechanized troops, only the army's number one ace, the Ninth Division, has been fully reequipped, and the other mechanized units will have to wait for a while.

In the Chinese Army, the Eighth Armored Division can only be regarded as a second-line armored force, which can be seen from the tanks they are equipped with, not equipped with the latest T15 tanks in the Chinese Army, and even the T12 tanks are only equipped with one battalion, and the others are T9 tanks and a large number of T8 series light tanks. The mechanized infantry regiment to which it belongs will be like a complete replacement of semi-automatic rifles, and it is estimated that it will have to wait until next year.

However, even with the mechanized troops of the second line, the firepower of the mechanized infantry regiment belonging to the 8th Armored Division far exceeds that of ordinary Chinese infantry units, not to mention the Russian troops opposite.

Under the cover of artillery suppression by an entire tank company, several 1938 infantry fighting vehicles repeated several times to transport the infantry of an infantry platoon to the front line of battle.

In the ruins of a building on the side of the street, a sergeant squad leader said on a simple sketch on the ground with his hand wearing winter combat gloves: "The fire point of the three-story building on the opposite side is too hidden, and there are Type 36 rocket launchers, just now they have suppressed our two tanks and cannot support us, and now our task is to knock them out!" ”

The sergeant squad leader looked at a sergeant on the side and said: "Fang Xiong, you take two people to go up the stairs on the right, the machine gun team will cover you, and you also bring one person with the big head, and when you aim for the opportunity, shoot grenades inside to attract their firepower, and the rest will follow me!" ”

"Everybody's clear!" The sergeant squad leader looked around, some of the young soldiers present showed nervous expressions, some showed excited expressions, while the two non-commissioned officers who had been in the army for many years looked indifferent.

Those who showed nervous or excited expressions were all rookies who had been in the army for less than two years, that is, conscripts, while the few non-commissioned officers with indifferent faces were all volunteers, veterans who had served for many years.

The current composition of the Chinese Army is mainly divided into three parts, the first is professional officers, these professional officers are all graduated from military academies, and they regard joining the army as a road of honor and power, and the second is a large number of non-commissioned officers, these non-commissioned officers are basically volunteers in peacetime, and they are selected from the conscripts who are willing to continue to serve, and basically their military qualifications are more than three years, most of them are in five years, and these people regard joining the army as a profession to support their families.

The above two are the so-called professional soldiers, and it is their duty to fight wars.

And the rest is an ordinary soldier, that is, the largest number of third-class soldiers, second-class soldiers, first-class soldiers, these people are compulsory soldiers, and the salary in the army is not too high, and most of them are rural children, who want to eat and drink well in the army, and can be given priority to be arranged in major factories after retirement.

But even if they are compulsory soldiers, but in fact they are also volunteers, China's policy of excellent military in the past few decades has made the social status of soldiers very high, even the treatment of ordinary soldiers is relatively good compared to ordinary people, the simplest thing is to eat, the army's food is not comparable to that in rural areas, even the food level of ordinary citizens in the city is not as good as a big soldier in the army. And if you can enter the army in transportation or maintenance and other technical types of troops, you can learn first-hand skills, the most ordinary car soldier comes out, and the single-handed driving skills can also allow him to find a good job as a driver.

As a result of the generous treatment, China's recruitment of soldiers has always been in a state of surplus, and a large number of children from rural areas and low-income urban families sign up to join the army every year.

Even after a full-scale mobilization in China and a large-scale military expansion, the number of soldiers is still very sufficient. This is largely due to China's numerical superiority.

In 1941, China's population of more than 500 million was the largest in the world, and this large population was enough to provide China's armed forces with tens of millions of soldiers, and even if the size of the army reached more than 10 million, China still would not have a serious shortage of labor like other countries.

Fang Xiong was wearing a thick winter combat uniform, but it did not affect his flexible movements at all, when the light machine gun of the squad began to suppress and strafe a window facing the third floor, he ran across the street quickly, and just arrived at the opposite downstairs, he didn't have time to catch his breath just looked behind him, and saw that the two comrades also rushed over smoothly and immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Immediately, the three of them took a detour along the corner of the wall and ascended a wooden staircase.

"Wait until I throw a grenade, rush in with me, be careful!" Fang Xiong commanded in a low voice.

The face of the private behind him under the steel helmet still looked extremely nervous, but he still nodded: "I know!" ”

Fang Xiong took off a grenade from his waist, and then threw it directly into the door, that is, he threw the grenade in his hand into the building, and a dull explosion sounded from the house, accompanied by continuous groans, and the Russian army in the room came with loud shouts, but Fang Xiong didn't understand Russian, but he didn't know what the people inside were talking about.

Just after the grenade exploded inside, Fang Xiong immediately rushed in, and then the 1937-style semi-automatic rifle in his hand was already firing continuously, and the two comrades-in-arms who rushed in together behind him also aimed and shot at each other.

Although the 1937 semi-automatic rifle is only semi-automatic, the speed of continuous firing in the hands of a skilled rifleman is very fast, Fang Xiong rushed in and fired continuously, at this time the smoke and dust raised by the grenade in the house has not completely fallen, and the light is not very good, so the room is a little dim, Fang Xiong can only shoot continuously according to the figure he vaguely saw, after a dense burst of gunfire, four Russian soldiers lay down in the room, and then after getting used to the light, Fang Xiong saw a wounded Russian soldier in the corner, this Russian soldier was struggling to raise the rifle in his hand to aim at Fang Xiong, Fang Xiong was horrified when he saw it, and hurriedly shot at him, but with a trigger, he couldn't hear the gunshot, and Fang Xiong knew that there was no bullet in the rifle magazine in his hand.

The 1937 semi-automatic rifle, using the plug-in magazine to feed the ammunition, the magazine can be loaded with eight bullets, this rifle from the surname can be compared with the United States M1 and the Soviet Russia's SKV40 does not occupy any advantage, are the same era of products, each other is not better than there, the difference is not there, but the 1937 semi-automatic rifle can win among the many alternative semi-automatic and win the favor of the army, The biggest reason is not because it has more than the surname of the M1 or SKV40, but because its process is relatively simple, this rifle with stamping parts on a large scale is very suitable for mass production, and the price is cheaper than other candidate semi-automatic rifles, the latest 1937 type C rifle that left the factory in October 1941, the military procurement unit price is 180 yuan. The M1 semi-automatic rifle of the same era in the United States cost almost 130 US dollars, which is 260 Chinese dollars according to the rough exchange rate, which is a full 80 yuan more expensive than the Chinese 1937 model, that is, about 50% more expensive.

It was precisely because of the relatively low price of the 1937 rifle that it was decided to let the military reload it on a large scale, and it was planned to use this rifle as a standard rifle for infantry. You must know that the hand-pulled bolt-action rifle is not cheap in these years, a 1916 rifle in 1940 when the factory price reached 80 yuan, officially because the price gap between the two narrowed, so that the military decided to discontinue the production of the 1916 rifle, and the 1937 semi-automatic rifle as the only infantry standard equipment.

Of course, it will take time to fully replace the equipment, and the suspension of production in 1916 does not mean that all of them will be directly retired from active service, and the total output in the past few decades has reached more than 8 million, not only as the main rifle of the field army, but also widely equipped with local garrison troops. In the foreseeable future, this huge number of 1916 rifles will not be completely withdrawn from the military's active service in a short period of time, even if the first-line troops are not equipped, but some second-line troops such as local garrison units will still be equipped with this rifle for a short time.

The bullets in the magazine of the 1937 rifle were not short, but due to the fierce battle just now, Fang Xiong fired extremely fast, although he successfully knocked down several enemies, he also ran out of bullets from the rifle in his hand.

There was no time to change the magazine, Fang Xiong immediately squatted down and then took out a pistol from the outside of his thigh and aimed at the Russian soldier in the corner.