"Captain!" Wang Xuexin came up again and said: "Look, if there is a Japanese tank coming up here, even if our grenade can be thrown fifty meters, it will be useless to blow up the tank, but it is different with a rocket launcher.
!”
Li Yunlong understood this.
Although grenades can also be thrown at tanks, they are not powerful enough and the detonation method is wrong.
Especially the detonation method...the grenade is a delayed fuse, and it cannot explode at the exact moment it hits the enemy tank.
So more often than not, the grenade hits the tank, bounces off, and then explodes next to it, which has no effect on the Japanese tank at all.
Of course, there are also grenades that can deal with tanks. Li Yunlong has seen them once or twice. They are called anti-tank grenades. They have a large charge and are very powerful. They use a bump fuse, which is the kind that explodes as soon as it touches the tank armor. But
It weighs four or five kilograms and can only be thrown a dozen meters.
What's more, the Eighth Route Army didn't even have such grenades, so it could only pile up cluster grenades and explosive packets with human lives.
The shoulder-mounted cannon made by Xiaodongbei is different. The fuse is installed on the front of the shell, which explodes when touched. So let alone, it may be really useful against Japanese tanks!
Thinking of this, Li Yunlong had a smile on his face, nodded and said, "It's quite interesting!"
In fact, Li Yunlong accepted the truth in his heart and refused to admit defeat.
Why is being able to fight tanks just "somewhat interesting"?
One of the reasons why the Eighth Route Army is unable to fight the Japs in plain areas is that it cannot compete with Japs tanks, armored vehicles and other equipment...
If it were just guns, artillery and the like, the Eighth Route Army could still charge hard with its stocks, but once it encountered tanks and armored vehicles, it would be helpless and couldn't attack them at all!
In fact, it was not only the Eighth Route Army that was unable to gnaw the enemy, but also the Chongqing army.
In a certain movie, several soldiers with grenades tied to their bodies lined up to charge at the Japanese tanks. It was said that the soldiers in front could block the bullets... This is pure nonsense. One rifle bullet can pierce two or three people lined up.
For the Japs, charging is just a matter of two or three bullets. Doing so would not kill them fast enough, giving Japs snipers or even ordinary infantry a perfect one-shot target. Not to mention that the Japs still have heavy machine guns.
, all the bullets were strung together in one shot.
At this time, Daniel came up with another rocket and said, "Captain, this is for infantry. It contains five hundred steel balls. Once it explodes, it will fly everywhere. How about we try it too?"
Wang Xuexin said "Hey" and glared at Daniel: "Comrade He Changliu, are you done yet? Are you here to teach your comrades how to shoot rocket launchers, or are you just here to enjoy yourself?"
Daniel hurriedly said "hehe" a few times and didn't dare to speak anymore.
Li Yunlong has a different feeling when he hears it. Good guy, there are five hundred steel balls in a shell, and it shoots everywhere in one shot. If you can hit a few rounds before charging...
Wang Xuexin saw that Li Yunlong's eyes were staring at the rocket launcher from disdain to anger, so he knew that this guy understood the power of the rocket launcher.
So when Wang Xuexin started to put on a show, he ordered Daniel to put away the rocket launcher while shaking his head and sighing: "Captain, I have been begging for this from the chief, but the chief never agreed! I thought, no matter what we do, it's the same
soldiers of the independent regiment,
You can't forget your roots wherever you go, and you have to get some benefits for the independent group no matter what, so you bite the bullet and work hard, and finally get it! If you don't like it, let's talk it over... I'll go talk to the chief right now
Go, there are people queuing up to get it!"
At this moment, Li Yunlong became anxious. He hurriedly stepped forward to stop him: "Hey, don't... don't, you are so boring!"
"Captain!" Wang Xuexin said, "How about we use this thing to exchange for a few 50 cannons?"
"You think I'm stupid!" Li Yunlong raised his head and replied: "How can a 50-year-old cannon be so useful?"
Wang Xuexin added: "How about we get a few more 'ghost cannons'?"
At this point, Li Yunlong became impatient: "I mean, Xiao Dongbei, are you trying to make fun of me or something? Just like this... what is it called?"
"Bazooka!"
"Yes, bazooka!" Li Yunlong nodded: "I want this bazooka. Have you ever seen the equipment that entered the independent regiment and can still be given out? Don't even think about it! Just stay here and take care of yourself.
Instructor, I will give you a reward for teaching all the soldiers. If you can’t teach them, I will never finish with you!”
"Yes!" Wang Xuexin stepped forward and replied: "I promise to complete the task!"
Just as Li Yunlong was about to turn around, he told Wang Xuexin as if he remembered something: "Also, go get me more rocket launchers. Didn't you make this thing? You must give me more so that Zhang Wan and the old fox can vomit more."
Click it out and stop digging around all day long!"
"Yes!" Wang Xuexin responded.
But in my heart I thought, it’s not that they don’t want to give it to me, it’s all built here.
Training work began quickly.
The first step is to select a rocket launcher shooter... Wang Xuexin originally wanted to configure the Bazooka rocket launcher according to the configuration of Yingjiang, but after thinking about it, he decided against it.
Yingjiang is a rich man. It not only has fast production speed but also has good logistics support. It can afford to equip an infantry battalion with 29 units.
If the Eighth Route Army followed this configuration, it would not be able to solve just the transportation problem of rockets, let alone whether the arsenal's production speed could keep up.
Therefore, Wang Xuexin could only compress them: three for each infantry company, so that each platoon could barely guarantee one.
These rocket launchers directly assigned to infantry companies are mainly aimed at Japanese infantry, that is, they are equipped with more steel ball warheads to provide fire support for the infantry, and only a small number of anti-tank grenades are equipped for emergencies.
In addition, the battalion headquarters is equipped with two units, which are also mainly used for anti-infantry to increase the firepower of the battalion headquarters.
An additional anti-tank fire platoon was added, with 30 people equipped with 6 rocket launchers.
This fire platoon mainly uses grenades and carries a small amount of anti-infantry steel ball rounds.
According to calculation, the three battalions need a total of 33 rocket launchers, plus the regimental headquarters' 5 launchers, and an additional regimental anti-tank firepower company equipped with 12 rocket launchers, totaling exactly 50 rocket launchers.
The number of rocket launchers is not an exaggeration. After all, it is not difficult to produce rocket launchers.
Although the Eighth Route Army cannot compare with Eagle Sauce, they can produce tens of thousands of them in a month. When they are shipped to the troops, they are all sorted out like garbage. The Eighth Route Army expands its production and trade and is able to produce in one month.
Several hundred pieces shouldn't be a problem.
If a rocket launcher requires two primary and secondary shooters, it would require 100 rocket launcher shooters, plus backup shooters and cover personnel, and about 200 people would need to receive direct training.
As soon as Wang Xuexin mentioned the number of people, the troops went into a frenzy and everyone rushed to sign up.