I have seen the style of automatic rifles of later generations.
Kong Jie has actually always had a dream of automatic rifles.
At present, we want to achieve the goal of having thousands of soldiers in the independent regiment each armed with an automatic rifle.
With the current industrial level of the independent regiment, coupled with the presence of powerful enemies, it is basically a fantasy.
The main reason is that it is also impractical. Even if there is a fully automatic rifle, it will never be like a machine gun, where bullets are free of charge.
Otherwise, why are fully automatic weapons like submachine guns rarely used in the Eighth Route Army?
Without him, ammunition is too scarce, so I wouldn’t dare to use that style of play.
The Eighth Route Army even advocated killing an enemy with one bullet because of the helplessness and sadness caused by the scarcity of ammunition.
The M1 Garand rifle mentioned in the order Kong Jie placed from John brought Commander Kong one step closer to his dream of an automatic rifle.
The American M1 Garand rifle, as a semi-automatic rifle, is actually not uncommon on the Sino-Japanese battlefield.
The national army has a large number of orders from the US military government.
The M1 Garand rifle is commonly known as Big Eight in China because it commonly has an eight-round magazine. The gun weighs 4.73 kilograms.
In terms of weight, it is much heavier than the 3.95kg 38-type rifle and the 3.16kg Hanyang-made rifle. This is a drawback. If you hold it in your hand for a long time, your arms will probably get sore.
However, as a semi-automatic rifle, its effective range is 500 meters, and it uses 7.62x63mm rifle ammunition. The specific parameters and performance advantages of the gun are not mentioned.
At least in terms of range, accuracy, power, ammunition capacity, etc., it can crush the Japs in all directions. It only has an effective range of 400 meters, a 5-round ammunition capacity, a bolt-action manual rifle, and a Type 38 rifle that uses 6.5x50mm rifle ammunition. The extra weight disadvantage can be ignored.
The Japanese's 38-year-old Gai can be said to be a younger brother in front of the M1 Garand rifle.
No one has a far range, and no one has as much power.
The rate of fire of a bolt-action rifle is far inferior to that of a semi-automatic rifle.
If you are still pulling the bolt after firing a shot, people will kill you several times.
"Of course there are shortcomings. One is that it is a bit too heavy, and the other is that the eight bullets of the M1 Garand rifle can only be ejected automatically after all the eight bullets are empty. This means that as long as there is a bullet in your magazine, you cannot continue to refill it.
Bullet."
"But we soldiers are reluctant to waste even half a bullet, let alone a bullet."
"Of course, for us, the advantages definitely outweigh the disadvantages. At least with this rifle, we can defeat the little devils in terms of equipment."
Detachment Headquarters.
Kong Jie held a Garand rifle in his hand and demonstrated it while facing the soldiers.
It turns out that John also knows the great appeal of semi-automatic rifles like the Garand rifle to the Chinese army with backward equipment.
Therefore, in the last batch of arms, John sent fifty or sixty Garand rifles.
After these dozens of Garand rifles were distributed, the soldiers were indeed amazed.
Especially those soldiers who have only touched bolt-action manual rifles have never thought that a rifle can continue to fire by continuously pulling the trigger.
For this reason, many soldiers who were not assigned Garand rifles came to Kong Jie one by one with aggrieved feelings, hoping to be assigned a few such semi-automatic rifles.
This is why Kong Jie proposed to buy a Garand rifle when he met John this time.
Wang Leihu, the commander of the second regiment, said with emotion: "Commander, if our main combat force can be equipped with such a semi-automatic rifle, then fighting the little devils will be like playing?"
Chen Quan on the side struck:
"What a dream, this kind of firearm is also a treasure in the national army camp. We just bought some from the Americans. We want to equip the troops in large quantities. How is that possible?"
Monk Wei, who stood silently behind Kong Jie, smiled brightly.
No matter how many guns he has, the security company is indispensable for good things.
Who let me be the group leader’s pillow... the person next to me!
Kong Jie said with a smile: "It is not practical to equip the whole regiment. The bullet caliber used by this M1 Garand rifle is not the same as the commonly used Chinese and Hanyang-made ones. If it is really equipped in large quantities, we probably have to get a special caliber. The bullet production line came out."
"This time I went to see John, and I placed another batch of orders to buy these Garand rifles, but the quantity shouldn't be too much, about 1,000!"
As soon as Kong Jie finished speaking, the eyes of the cadres present at the meeting became intense, and even their breathing became a little short.
"Captain, it's our second regiment's turn this time, right? You can't be the commander of the first regiment and just take care of the first regiment, right?" Wang Leihu shouted aggrieved.
Chen Quan glanced at Wang Leihu and said: "Commander, I don't have a big appetite. Our third regiment has recently built an elite combat company. As long as we can equip this company with one man, it will be fine."
"Old Shen, what you have in mind is quite beautiful!" Wang Leihu said.
Shen Quan was too lazy to talk to Wang Leihu and just looked at Kong Jie eagerly.
Wang Leihu said: "Captain, if you say so, our second regiment will get at least two to three hundred points."
As for the first group, since Kong Jie also serves as the group leader, Kong Jie will naturally not jump out to fight for himself.
However, the commander of the first battalion, Lei Dasheng, argued a few words, not to be outdone.
Who wouldn’t be greedy for such a good semi-automatic rifle?
As a result, Commander Kong opened his mouth:
"This batch of equipment must be used on steel blades. Compared with our base camp, the situation in Zhongtiao Mountain is more severe. Let's send it to the fourth regiment first!"
Chen Quan: "..."
Wang Leihu: "..."
Lei Dasheng: "..."
As soon as Wang Leihu opened his mouth, he said seriously: "What a ghost. This old Wang didn't say anything when he was in front of me. Every time he got benefits, it was indispensable for him. It's good now that no one is in front of him, but the benefits still go to him. One person was fished out."
Kong Jie was stunned for a moment, but he really didn't notice this, and then cursed with a smile:
"Look at what you are doing. You said you are also the commander of the regiment. When will you see me and ask the brigade commander for equipment?
When did you see the brigade commander support our independent regiment with equipment?"
Shen Quan and the other three were stunned for a moment, going over their memories.
This is really what happened. Kong Jie really didn’t say much and asked the brigade headquarters what kind of reinforcements he wanted.
In comparison, these group leaders also reached out to ask the old group leader Kong Jie for equipment, which is indeed a bit unreasonable.
Lei Dasheng muttered: "I am the battalion commander, and I want some equipment. Isn't this reasonable?"
"First Battalion Commander, what did you say?" Kong Jie suddenly asked.
Lei Dasheng straightened his body and replied loudly: "Report to the leader, I mean, who told the leader that you are capable!"
"This is like children from a good family background and children from a poor family background. If the family background is good, don't they have the conditions to reach out to their parents?"
"Yes, yes!"
Chen Quan and Wang Leihu reacted and quickly echoed.
Kong Jie: "..."
Then he said: "Wang Huaibao led the Fourth Regiment and Han Feng and others to establish a base in Zhongtiao Mountain. This was the most difficult at the beginning. This batch of equipment will support them. Don't think too much about it."
"However, the Garand rifle horses will not be out of stock in the future. I forgot to tell you that I also bought an entire Garand rifle production line from John. Although the output is not very large, if the materials are sufficient, We can still produce three to four hundred rifles a month."
Commander Kong’s understatement.
The cadres were all startled, and then they admired the regiment leader Kong Jie. It was like a surging river, continuous...
A few days later.
John, who had cooperated with Kong Jieda, used American merchant ships to take the Yellow River waterway, and according to his usual habit, he had already visited the docks along the way.
Using various types of transported foreign vegetables as a cover, they secretly transported the arms purchased from Kong Jie's arms order.
Delivered to Shanxi smoothly.
After entering the country, Xu Fenggong, who was deeply trusted by the Japanese army, came forward on his behalf and conducted some ostensibly normal business cooperation with John. Then the independent regiment sent troops to secretly transport the arms back to the base area.
More than 1,200 M1 Garand rifles were successfully obtained, plus boxes of corresponding 7.62 mm caliber bullets.
John was honest this time and did not give any discount on the arms order given by Kong Jie.
In addition to these Garand rifles, a batch of communication equipment that Kong Jie needed was also given.
In addition, there are seeds of tomatoes, radish, cabbage and other vegetables that Kong Jie asked John for.
Using the seeds of these foreign vegetables, Kong Jie plans to expand the planting of vegetables on some newly reclaimed wasteland in the root land.
This is to ensure that soldiers have an adequate supply of vegetables in their daily meals and will not lack vitamins and trace elements.
After the Garand rifles were delivered, Kong Jie kept 300 of them, and let the transportation team secretly pass through the transportation channels in the Zhongtiao Mountain area at night, plus some ammunition, food and other materials to reinforce Zhongtiao Mountain.
Send it to the fourth group.
Let’s talk about the defense of the Zhongtiao Mountain area by the Japanese 47th and 41st Divisions.
As time went by, after realizing that the Independence Regiment did not continue to send troops south, the precautions were relaxed a lot.
Later, in order to contain the strength of the Japanese army, Kong Jie reduced the pressure on Japan for the Fourth Regiment operating in the Zhongtiao Mountain area.
He sent teams south to harass the Japanese troops many times.
And tried to open up several secret transportation channels to Zhongtiao Mountain.
Therefore, the Independent Regiment’s base camp transports some supplies to the Fourth Regiment through these secret transportation channels at night.
……
For the Japanese army.
Not long ago, after the disastrous defeat in the battle to prevent the first detachment of the Eighth Route Army from going south to reinforce Zhongtiao Mountain.
They no longer know exactly how many Eighth Route Army troops are hidden in the Zhongtiao Mountain area.
In order to prevent Zhongtiao Mountain from being developed into the second Taihang base area by the Eighth Route Army.
The Japanese 47th Division originally stationed in Yuncheng and the 41st Division stationed in Linfen contacted the Japanese and puppet troops in the Zhongtiao Mountain area and launched major sweeps again and again in the Zhongtiao Mountain area...