Zhao Jiayu base.

Directly behind a secret training ground.

The 1st and 2nd Battalions were marching in formation, holding a rifle that was very different from the Mauser's rifle - the same wooden butt, but the gun was much shorter than the Mauser's, and it didn't have the huge tail hitch, and the magazine was much longer.

"This is the new rifle provided by Boss Chen?"

Kong Jie said as he took a new gun.

Li Yunlong and others have seen this new gun for a long time, only Kong Jie is still unclear.

Although he was out of command of the front-line troops, he was very concerned about military equipment, after all, during this time, the benefits brought by new weapons Master Kong had a deep understanding.

Compare it to the time when he was the head of the Independent Regiment.

The current independent regiment casually pulled out a team of more than 40 people from several main battalions, and the two sides fought head-on field, so that he could not raise his head in the original regiment, and he probably didn't even have a chance to fight with bayonets.

The difference in firepower is too great.

More than 40 people, according to the configuration of the main battalion of the independent regiment today, have one large-caliber heavy machine gun, four general-purpose machine guns, ten submachine guns, one 60 mortar, one recoilless gun, and are equipped with eight large mules to carry equipment and ammunition.

And all this is brought about by advanced weapons and sufficient ammunition.

"Yes."

Zhao Gang, who came with him, introduced:

"It's a semi-automatic rifle with an empty 3.75 kilogram empty rifle and a ten-round fixed magazine."

"Semi-automatic?"

Kong Jie didn't react at once.

Zhao Gang explained:

"Through the air duct above the barrel, a part of the gas is guided to push the backseat of the bolt to complete the shell throwing, reentry and loading, and then pull the trigger to fire, and the maximum rate of fire can reach forty rounds per minute."

"What about range and accuracy?"

Kong Jie continued to ask.

On the battlefield, the rate of fire is indeed very important, which can be seen from the performance of Yamamoto's special forces in Yang Village, and dozens of people with submachine guns suppressed the people of his two battalions who have no temper.

But accuracy and range can also be equally important, which is why the independent regiment is still heavily equipped with Mauser rifles after it has submachine guns.

The range of two hundred meters of the submachine gun is still somewhat insufficient.

And the shorter the barrel of a rifle, the worse the accuracy and the shorter the range, which will also have a great impact on the fight for bayonets - although the Separate Regiment has really not fought bayonets for a long time, and even other units have not done it for a long time.

"The effective range is four hundred meters."

Zhao Gang continued:

"As for the accuracy, it is very good, after testing, skilled fighters who are good at shooting can hit two or three hundred meters of targets, Cao Mantang, Wang Chengzhu and other excellent shooters can even reach five hundred meters away, and cluster use can suppress targets eight hundred meters away."

Hearing this, Kong Jie's brows furrowed slightly.

The firing range of 400 meters is sufficient, and he discovered a long time ago that now the independent regiment has abundant fire support, and with light and heavy machine gun mortars forming a dense fire network, the rifle only needs to deal with the enemy at a distance of about 400 meters. The remaining point, which can be fully replenished by an accurate shooter armed with a sniper rifle.

However, compared with the Mauser style used by the troops, the improvement of accuracy is not particularly prominent, and now the bullets of the independent regiment are openly used, and there is target training almost every day, especially after Wang Xikui served as a shooting instructor and explored a set of shooting training methods, a large number of shooting masters emerged.

Seeing Kong Jie's brows, Zhao Gang smiled and continued:

"This gun isn't using Mauser bullets."

Due to the reduction of the charge, the range of the bullet has also been reduced a lot, so the long-range accuracy has decreased seriously.

"Not a Mauser bullet?"

Kong Jie was stunned, he had always thought that the bullet had not changed, and quickly opened the magazine of the rifle in his hand, he looked at the bullet in the fixed magazine, and Master Kong's brows furrowed deeply again.

The Separate Regiment has always been bullet-specific.

Rifles, machine gun bullets are universal, submachine guns and pistol bullets are universal, which greatly reduces the complexity of logistics supply, and now equipped with semi-automatic rifles, the rate of fire is accelerated, and the rate of fire and accuracy are not significantly improved, but there is one more bullet, which increases logistics, and it is difficult to say whether it is a good thing or a bad thing.

"The new rifle uses an intermediate-power round."

Zhao Gang continued to smile and said:

"7.62×39 intermediate power bullets, the total weight is a little more than sixteen grams."

"Intermediate power bombs? Only sixteen grams? ”

Hearing this, Kong Jie's brows opened instantly.

Intermediate power bullet, a new term that has never been heard of, but it can be understood from the name and data that this bullet must be more powerful than a pistol submachine gun bullet and a little smaller than a Mauser bullet, but the length of thirty-nine is enough as a rifle bullet.

And it was only 16 grams, which was 10 grams less than the Mauser rifle bullet, almost 40 percent less, which meant that a soldier armed with a new semi-automatic rifle could carry 40 percent more ammunition than a unit armed with a Mauser rifle.

It's too critical.

"And there's another benefit to the gun."

Zhao Gang continued:

"Mainly precision castings, stamping and welding parts, cutting parts are very few, very suitable for our manufacturing, with the industrial capacity of Zhao Jiayu and the headquarters arsenal, plus the spare parts given by Boss Chen, it can be quickly manufactured in large quantities."

"As for the bullets, it's too troublesome to reopen a production line, but it's not needed, the bullets given by Boss Chen are enough, anyway, this technical difficulty is low, and it will be no problem to build a production line when the conditions are good in the future."

Cutting processing has high requirements for workers, and today's Zhao Jiayu is seriously deficient in this aspect, but the processing capacity of stamping and precision casting is quite good. In particular, stamping, welding and other processes are the focus of development.

"Good gun."

Kong Jie finally exclaimed.

Once the whole army is equipped with this kind of gun, coupled with sufficient ammunition, the firepower will instantly increase to a notch.

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On the other hand, Li Yunlong was not very interested in the new rifle, of course, the main thing was that he had tested this gun hundreds of times, and he was discussing with Zhang Dabiao at this time the details of the penetration operation.

"How many people do you plan to dispatch in this two-battalion operation? How much do you carry? ”

Li Yunlong asked.

The independent regiment is now bigger, and Li Yunlong can no longer do everything in detail, so in the operation, he only formulates the general direction, and Zhang Dabiao, as the chief of staff, and the commander of the first battalion, is responsible for perfecting the specific details.

"Commander, it's not easy to intersperse this time."

Zhang Dabiao's tone was solemn:

"Yamamoto's old devil's defense line is very tight, and the route that can be interspersed is very narrow."

"It is difficult to ensure concealment when there are many troops, and once we are discovered too early, we may not be able to cut off the supply line of the devils, so I reduced the establishment of the first and second battalions, and each battalion only dispatched 1,200 people, plus 200 big mules to carry ammunition."

Li Yunlong nodded.

Zhang Dabiao's decision was expected by him, interspersed with concealment, and the ability to continue the forced high-speed march at speed after being discovered, and arrive at the predetermined position before the enemy reacted.

There are too many people, the scale is too large, that's not interspersed, that's a frontal attack.

"Is 200 mules enough?"

Li Yunlong asked.

One big mule can carry one hundred and fifty kilograms of cargo, and two hundred heads are thirty tons of ammunition, and one Sakata.

Of course, there is actually a lot more decoration.

Just like the Sakata business at the beginning, there were more than three tons of weapons and ammunition deposits plus dozens of big mules.

However, the battalion's heavy equipment also needs to be carried by large mules, such as large-caliber heavy machine guns, as well as 82 and 120 mortars, and a 120 mortar shell weighs 16.6 kilograms, and the 82 mortar also has 4.5 kilograms, and there is really not much weight of more than 30 tons.

"Excluding weapons, the ammunition that the big mules really carry is only twenty-eight tons, and even if you add the soldiers themselves, it is seriously insufficient."

"This time, the two battalions will have to hold out for thirty-six hours in the face of an attack of at least 13,000 devils."

张大彪 says:

"But if there are more, the march will be too long, the surrounding terrain will not provide concealment, and even if there are tank troops to launch an attack as cover, I am afraid it will be difficult to guarantee the success of the mission."

"However, I personally led the team, and the people who participated in the battle were all elite veterans of our regiment, so it was no problem to hold on."

Zhang Dabiao's tone was very confident, the independent regiment had not fought a tough battle for a long time, especially after Zhao Jiayu, they all bullied devils with firepower, but it did not mean that the independent regiment was a big deal with hard battles and bloody battles.

"These days, let's step up your training."

"Let the fighters get acquainted with the new gun as soon as possible."

Li Yunlong pondered for a moment and said:

"Strengthen the battle of the troops without sufficient artillery support, fortunately, in this battle, there can be aircraft support during the day, which is not a big problem, but at night you can only rely on yourself."

Grand Master Li has always dared to fight and fight, but behind all this is hard training and adequate preparation in every detail.

"Yes."

Zhang Dabiao nodded.

Speaking of the plane, Li Yunlong tapped his fingers on the table and suddenly said:

"Let's go to Huang Quan tomorrow and ask, the little devil can use the plane to drop supplies, and we can also give it a try."

"After Yamamoto suffered the loss of the plane during the day, he will definitely launch a general attack at night, relying on the little belongings you bring, the loss will definitely not be small, these are all veterans."

"It's not going to work."

Zhang Dabiao thought for a while and said:

"Little devil, that's a transport plane, there is a cargo compartment for transporting goods, we are an attack plane, and we can only hang weapons on the pylons on the wings and belly of the aircraft."

"Wouldn't it be nice to hang supplies on the wings?"

Li Yunlong glanced at Zhang Dabiao:

"Do we have a parachute, it's really not good, it's not long before you drop it at low altitude and low speed, you can get a deceleration net or something below, you can transport several tons of ammunition in one trip."

"This..."

Zhang Dabiao's eyes lit up:

"Okay, let's go ask Huang Quan's kid tomorrow."

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At the same time.

Ping'an County.

Inside a closed camp.

Yamamoto is making similar preparations.

"You are locusts, the most loyal warriors of the Empire."

With a katana in his hand, a plaster flag on his head, and a newly issued major general's uniform, Yamamoto's tone was rarely fanatical.

In front of him were five hundred devils who were also wearing plaster flags with crazy and hideous faces, and at this moment, these devils were holding a bag of explosives of ten kilograms in their hands.

"In this war, the locusts need you, and the empire needs you."

Yamamoto suddenly also raised the explosives bag in his hand and chanted the slogan:

"Long live the locusts, long live the Great Japanese Empire, Kudansakami."

"Long live the locusts."

"Long live the Great Japanese Empire."

"Kudanzaka."

The other five hundred devils also raised the explosives bag in unison, shouted fanatical slogans, and their eyes were also extremely fanatical, that look, as long as Yamamoto gave an order, I was afraid that they could collectively pull the detonating rope in their hands and rush up and die with the enemy.

Seeing this scene, a kind of captain Kosa Shinji's face was calm, and they were used to it, but the new artillery wing captain Kazuma Shirono couldn't help but shudder.

He had seen the madness of Imperial Bushido, but those were all guys who had been trained for a long time and had been brainwashed for a long time, and they were not as serious as the current group of people.

Single-mindedly thinking about being loyal to the locust and the empire, without any thoughts of rare lives in his mind, he can carry the explosives bag with an undeserved face and die with the enemy.

And the group of people in front of them are recruits, recruits who have only been in Ping'an County for a few months.

"What a horrible guy who is so good at playing with people's hearts."

Kazuma Shirono glanced at Kazuki Yamamoto and silently took a step back.

All recruits who come to Ping'an County will be taken by Yamamoto Kazuki to a closed base for more than a month of training.

Where, soldiers will also repeatedly carry out high-intensity military training, and death during training is a common thing.

In addition to training, it is to comprehend the spirit of bushido.

Day and night, the barracks trumpet repeatedly proclaimed that it was the glory of the samurai to be loyal to the emperor and to dedicate oneself to the holy war. The samurai conference would be organized every day, and high-ranking officers would even give speeches in person, of course, it was still the same thing - loyalty to the empire, loyalty to the locusts, and death for the holy war, and it was a great honor to be able to meet in Kudanzaka after death.

There is no pause.

Most of the people who can come out in the end are such crazy people.

As the great commander of the empire, Kazuma Shirono is not opposed to the use of brainwashing to stimulate the morale of grassroots soldiers, so that they are not afraid of death and have the courage to fight.

But what Yamamoto is doing right now makes him feel a chill down his spine.

However, the chill on his spine was meaningless, and Ping'an County was still operating according to Yamamoto's will, and everything that happened here was also truthfully recorded by the staff officers, and then sent back to the headquarters of the First Army, and then transferred to the headquarters of the North China Front, and finally to the imperial base camp.

In this, there is naturally this set of training methods invented by Yamamoto Kazuki.