Chapter 319: The Japanese Army's Attempt
Special operations are not only trained by one or two special forces, but everything will be fine, it is a brand-new combat concept, and it is also a brand-new and three-dimensional complete combat system. Without a full set of concepts and systems, even if you train a few special forces, it won't help.
And this kind of system, except that you are capturing high-ranking officers, the average combatant does not know where the real key to the system is. At most, they can only provide selection criteria, some training standards, and some aspects of combat expertise that they have mastered.
It is basically a pipe dream to train and train a real special forces force by capturing some ordinary combat personnel. It is precisely because he clearly knows that the special forces are really special that Yang Zhen is most worried about Guo Bingxun, but he does not think about people.
It's just that Yang Zhen, who is overconfident, and Guo Bingxun, who is a little worried, didn't expect that some of Guo Bingxun's worries are not absolutely groundless. After this battle, the Kwantung Army, which suffered heavy losses from this force, did not capture a single living member in this battle.
However, based on this battle and the experience of previous encounters with this force, it was the first large-scale special operation carried out by the Anti-Japanese Alliance. It can be regarded as shameful and courageous, and also began to form a similar army. Although the training system of the Anti-United Nations Training Force is not clear, the Japanese army also relied on its own experience to find a set of training methods.
At the same time, in terms of weaponry, according to the emerging situation, a certain amount of research has also been carried out, trying to create light weapons that can compete with the United Nations. However, the Japanese army, which stubbornly clung to the concept of fully loaded ammunition and paid attention to the concept of long-range and high-precision shooting, equipped the unit it formed with equipment of the Japanese army after failing to imitate the Type 40 automatic rifle that used 65 and 77 bullets.
Although it was also equipped with some southern-style submachine guns, and supplemented with some of their newly developed pistols and captured anti-Union Soviet-style pistols, they replaced the Japanese-made southern-style pistols with unreliable performance. However, most of them were equipped with Japanese weapons, and at most they replaced their rifles, which were basically about the same height as soldiers, with mounted rifles.
Moreover, not only did the armament remain the same as that of the infantry, but only minor changes were made to the training methods of this unit in the ordinary reconnaissance units. The emphasis was placed on make-up reconnaissance, and as for other aspects, there was no fundamental improvement over ordinary reconnaissance units.
Although the Kwantung Army formed the same troops, it also adopted some similarly targeted training. However, the Kwantung Army, which did not master the special operations system and only drew officers and men from ordinary units from various search wings during the selection, did not conduct special selection and training.
It's not that the Japanese army, in infantry firepower, didn't want to be unable to suppress the opponent in front of them. When this unit was formed, there was no shortage of tossing and turning in the suppression and selection of weapons and equipment, and a large number of new weapons were developed. But for many reasons, the final weapon was still an ordinary infantry weapon.
The concept of the Japanese base camp is really a little too conservative, although many anti-United Nations Type 40 rifles and two fully automatic rifles equipped with reconnaissance brigades directly under the anti-United Nations were captured on the battlefield. Although they also admit that these small arms have an amazing rate of fire and an ideal accuracy.
But for these weapons, the use of short rifle cartridges with an effective range of only 400 meters is very dismissive. It was believed that its effective range was too short to carry out long-distance sniping, which was not in line with the combat habits of the Japanese army. Although the high rate of fire increases the firepower of individual combat, and because of the shortened ammunition length, it can provide the amount of ammunition carried. But this one disadvantage cancels out all the advantages.
Although the Japanese army also tried to imitate some of these weapons, they still stubbornly used the Japanese army's standard 65 and 77 caliber full-charge bullets. It turned out that these two weapons, which were originally excellent, could not be used at all after being replaced with these two bullets, which they had in their impression that should have been more powerful.
Even with three bursts, it does not guarantee the most basic accuracy. Often the accuracy of the first bullet is okay, but the subsequent bullets do not know where to fly. Moreover, after changing to the Japanese army's standard ammunition, the huge recoil generated by the continuous firing was also unbearable for the short Japanese soldiers. This kind of accuracy was unacceptable to the Japanese army, which had always paid attention to shooting accuracy.
But if even the ammunition is replaced, it is difficult for the Japanese, who have always been careful to pay, to accept. In such a situation, an army that is not even willing to be equipped with a large number of submachine guns will mass-produce such a high-speed rifle, a full-automatic rifle with a high rate of fire, a short range, and cannot use Japanese standard ammunition?
As Yang Zhen said, even if a small amount is produced for special forces, they are reluctant. Moreover, for the Japanese army, although the 40 rifle has a certain ability to fight stabs, the lethality of the three-edged bayonet equipped with it is also higher than that of the sword-type 30 bayonet equipped by the Japanese army. If you are stabbed on the battlefield, you are basically incurable.
But the disadvantage is that the barrel of the gun is too short, and it is a loss when fighting a bayonet. It was also difficult to meet the Japanese army's requirements for white-knuckle warfare. Even compared with the Japanese army's standard cavalry gun, it is too much worse. Its high rate of fire and the consumption of ammunition in battle, in the eyes of the senior generals of the Japanese army, are also difficult for Japan's national strength to bear.
Although there is a high demand from the junior officers below for the development and distribution of automatic rifles to rival the infantry in terms of firepower. Even a large number of officers demanded that the standard rifle of the Anti-United Nations be directly copied. But for the top brass of the Japanese army, the 40 automatic rifle, which has a short range, costs bullets, and suffers from bayonets, is generally a kind of garbage in addition to its high rate of fire.
Despite the strong appeal below, the Japanese base camp also obtained the G 41 semi-automatic rifle and drawings from Germany by submarine transportation. According to these drawings, an attempt was made to make certain improvements to the 38 and 99 rifles without a large number of adjustments and the use of Japanese standard ammunition.
However, for the purpose of saving bullets, the Japanese military top brass was still reluctant to put this improved rifle into front-line combat units. In addition, the improved rifle is not very good in performance, and it simply cannot meet the needs. In particular, the Type 38 rifle standard 65 rifle bullets used could not withstand the automatic firing method at all, and once fired continuously, it was easy to appear on the body of the Taisho 11th type machine gun.
The firing pin and body strength of the Type 38 rifle are also difficult to withstand the test brought by the high rate of fire. After a few days, the firing pin was beaten bald, or simply broken. The damage caused to the body of the gun is also quite large. With the ammunition of the Eleven-Year Light Machine Gun, it is possible.
But for the Japanese army, rifles cannot use rifle cartridges, only machine gun cartridges, is that still called a rifle? In addition, even if special light machine gun cartridges are used, if the bullet is not oiled when firing, it will often jam. Even more often than the Taisho 11 light machine gun, the frequency of jamming.
However, if an oil pot is installed on the rifle like the Taisho 11th type light machine gun, the structure is too complicated, not to mention, it is not the same thing. There is also a precedent in the world for machine guns to be filled with oil pots, and this is not a special case for the Japanese army. But the rifle also has an oil can, which makes people laugh off their big teeth. Who has ever seen a rifle with an oil can specially oiled for bullets?
If you use the Type 99 rifle modification, although there are not so many problems. But the guns were obviously overweight, the accuracy of continuous fire was not ideal, and the recoil was unbearable. The loss of the barrel structure is no better than the use of the Type 38 rifle. The most important thing is that this modification does not go there less than the cost of creating a new rifle.
The Japanese who want to take shortcuts only want to get twice the result with half the effort, but ignore the impact of the different structure of the gun body on the transformation. Moreover, this semi-automatic rifle of the German army was itself an emergency product to deal with the urgent needs of the battlefield, and it was not popular with its own people in the German army.
The Japanese army took great pains to obtain the so-called most advanced weapons and equipment from the Germans. Trying to learn from the experience of the Germans, he made this rifle by improving a semi-automatic rifle on his own standard rifle. As with the evaluation of their prototype guns among the German army, they were quite low. Even in the Japanese, because of the difference in the structure of the gun body, the use was insufficient, and it did not pass the experiment.
Originally, he wanted to take a shortcut, but he was unwilling to imitate a Japanese army that he had always looked down on the opponent's weapons, and directly copied the original goods and felt that he had lost face, and spent a lot of money, but he got a bunch of scrap products. In the end, 1,000 German-made automatic rifles were imported and thrown to the troops stationed in Central China by the Chinese Dispatch Army, which had relatively easy access to 79 bullets.
Later, the Japanese army captured some of the Garand semi-automatic rifles used by the US military in the Pacific Theater, and after simply changing the caliber to the Japanese army's standard 77 caliber bullets, they imitated some of these semi-automatic rifles that fired fully charged bullets. As for the American-made M Type 1 carbine, although the rate of fire is higher, it is also lighter. But it was considered inferior to the anti-union automatic rifle, and not only the high-ranking figures scoffed, but also the troops below did not like it.
It's just that this semi-automatic rifle can only have an average rate of fire compared to the anti-union. Although it was more popular with the front-line officers and soldiers of the Japanese army, it was still considered by some people in the Japanese military with real power to be overwhelmed by the high level of the Japanese army, and the Japanese national strength could not bear it and did not produce it in large quantities.
In the end, because of the low production process, the performance of the seized American-made original equipment was much lower. After changing to 77 caliber ammunition, although the quality of the imitation is even lower, it can still be called a weapon with good performance. At least in terms of fire density, it is much higher than that of manual rifles.
If it is really put into production, and equipped to front-line combat units. At least some of them can barely compete with the Type 40 rifles equipped by the Anti-United Nations, and can completely compete with the Garand semi-automatic rifles equipped by the US military. In the absence of a significant increase in the number of light machine guns, only a portion of the production was distributed to the Chinese Army. Reinforced as an infantry squad and assigned to various strongholds to resist the incessant harassment of the Communists.
After repeated unsuccessful experiments, the Japanese army finally found a force that barely suited them. But because there are some energetic people at the top of their own level, they cling to the old ideas. It is still stubborn that the accuracy of automatic weapons is poor, and the cost of ammunition is unbearable for Japan's national strength. It is better to equip a rifle with a hundred rounds than to equip a rifle with a hundred rounds and a hundred shots.
In the face of almost all opponents equipped with light weapons, they are more than their own status quo. Emphasis has always been placed on tactical adjustments to face the enemy with superior firepower. Many marshal-level figures in the base camp, represented by the former chief of staff, have been emphasizing the spirit of bushido to fight the so-called will and spirit of the opponent. Instead of finding a way to solve the problem from the root.