Kono Shinta was stunned for a moment, and then swallowed hard.
If it were in the past, he would never have believed that the Eighth Route Army could develop this new type of rifle.
But now, after knowing that the Eighth Route Army has a series of research and development results such as "missiles" and "air-to-air missiles", it is hard for Kono not to believe it... If he has the ability to develop missiles and put them into actual combat before Hans, then
Can we still doubt that they do not have the strength to develop a rifle?
Okamura Neji's thinking perspective is different from Kono Shinta's. He considers more factors:
The equipment of the Eighth Route Army comes from three directions, one is Eagle Sauce, the other is Mao Xiong, and the other is independent research and development.
It is unlikely that Yingjiang, they themselves do not have a suitable submachine gun... At this time, Yingjiang mainly used Thompson submachine guns, but this submachine gun was very expensive, and only 1 million were invested in the entire World War II.
Yingjiang therefore developed another much cheaper submachine gun, the M3 type, commonly known as the grease gun.
This submachine gun is said to have been in service in 1943. In fact, it was actually equipped with troops in early 1944, and the number was very limited. It was used in large quantities on the battlefield to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea.
At this time, Okamura Neji didn't know this information. He thought that Thomson was the only one with Takamura.
According to intelligence from the battlefield, the "submachine guns" used by the Eighth Route Army were obviously not Eagle Sauce submachine guns.
It's possible for a furry bear.
Because Mao Xiong was frightened by Hans, he explosively developed weapons and equipment and rushed them into the battlefield.
However, it is precisely because of this... If Mao Xiong had this submachine gun, could they not use it themselves but give it to the Eighth Route Army first?
Obviously impossible!
Therefore, Okamura Neji was very sure that 80% of this equipment was developed by the Eighth Route Army military industry expert named Xiaodongbei.
Okamura Neiji regretted a little. He should have sent more mainland advance teams and even deployed airborne troops to attack Liyuan Airport.
If this were done, the more than 100 people would not have been defeated by the Eighth Route Army at Liyuan Airport.
Then, Okamura Neji received another piece of information that puzzled him.
The communications soldier reported: "Your Majesty General, our army responded that that is not a submachine gun, because it has a much longer range than a submachine gun!"
"How far?" Okamura Neji asked.
"Not sure!" The signal soldier replied: "About three hundred meters!"
Okamura Neji was even more unsettled now.
Although Okamura Neiji is an intelligence officer, he also has a lot of knowledge about firearms.
He knew that most submachine guns had a range of more than 100 meters, but the Eighth Route Army... could actually develop a submachine gun with a range of more than 300 meters?
This is something that even the empire cannot develop!
Could it be said that the Eighth Route Army is already more advanced than the empire?
Okamura Neji didn't know what to think about this problem.
Because in his mind...not exactly his mind, but the empire had a theory at this time, that is, China's Confucian culture was a backward culture, and it was this culture that prevented China from entering industrial civilization.
Therefore, the empire had to leave Asia and join Europe; it had to learn from European civilization and reject, despise, and break away from Chinese civilization.
However, the fact before us now is... China can still develop many super-era equipment.
This factually and fundamentally negates the empire's "theory of Chinese civilization being backward".
The problems derived from this denial are most likely the empire's strategic direction and cognitive errors. This is the most terrifying thing.
Although the process by which Okamura Neji came to this conclusion was wrong.
Because these R&D and science and technologies were brought by Wang Xuexin from modern times and systems.
But the mistake Neji Okamura realized was correct.
In fact, it is not just the Japanese, but also many Chinese people in this era think so, and they are also elite and patriotic elites.
For example, some people believe that Chinese characters are too complex and are not conducive to industrialization, so they want to abolish Chinese characters and alphabetize them.
There are also many patriotic scholars who equate Chinese culture with feudal ideology and believe that in order for China to develop, it must be uprooted.
…
In fact, the thing is very simple. The reason why China is lagging behind is not because its culture is not advanced enough.
In fact, Chinese culture is the oldest, most advanced, and most complete culture remaining in the world.
The reason why China fell behind in modern times was simply because it closed its doors to the outside world and worked behind closed doors.
Just imagine, if the people all over the country are engaged in agricultural production and there is almost no industry, facing the loess all day long, how can they invent and develop machines or parts out of thin air?
Therefore, if you want to develop, the first thing you need to do is industrialization. After countless people become familiar with these machines and production models, there will be an upgrade from quantitative change to qualitative change, and new inventions and creations will continue to emerge.
Okamura Neiji didn't understand this, but the theories he believed in were being overturned by reality bit by bit, so that he didn't know whether it was right or wrong to continue this way.
But the war is still developing.
When Shinta Kono saw that Okamura Neji was silent, he asked anxiously: "General, what should our army do now? Send out the aviation force?"
Okamura Neiji shook his head and replied: "It won't be useful! The Eighth Route Army got the steel factory airport and solved the problem of insufficient range of fighter planes. Once they don't have the problem of range and are better than our army's fighter planes in other aspects, then
…Why should we fight them?”
"So, is this the end of it?" Shinta Kono couldn't believe it: "Now is the critical moment. If we make concessions in the direction of the Eighth Route Army, our army's attack in the direction of the stubborn army is very likely to..."
"How many more 'human bombs' do we have?" Neji Okamura interrupted Shinta Kono.
"There are thirty-five more!" Shinta Kono replied.
Kono Shinta has always been in charge of the 'Human Hida', so he knows it very well.
"Use it to restrain the Eighth Route Army!" Okamura Neiji said: "Don't let them continue to advance. In this way...at least the status quo can be maintained, right?"
When Okamura Neji said this, he felt helpless.
From some point on, he was satisfied with maintaining the status quo.
It should be said that Okamura Neji's analysis and approach are reasonable.
The main reason is that the range of "human-operated missiles" is as far as more than 200 kilometers.
If the Eighth Route Army wanted to prevent the Japanese from launching "man-made missiles", it would have to push its defense line forward more than two hundred kilometers.
It is simply impossible to do this with the current strength of the Eighth Route Army.
Therefore, "human-operated missiles" can threaten the airport.
It's just that launching during the day can easily be intercepted.
The Japanese can repeat their old tricks, just like they did the sneak attack on Liyuan Airport, calculating the time to launch at night, and then arriving at the destination at dawn... This gives the Eighth Route Army no chance to intercept.
Therefore, theoretically, the Eighth Route Army cannot occupy the steel factory airport for a long time.