"It's probably a 'spray bomb'!" Yoshio Shinozuka nodded and said, "The whistling and the wake are consistent, but our 'spray bomb' is launched from a guide rail, and the Eighth Route Army seems to have changed it to a shoulder launch.
And it can be carried and maneuvered!”
Okamura Neji's face was uncertain, and his heart was angry and anxious, with a touch of sadness.
He had been worried that the "spray bomb" would cause some trouble if it fell into the hands of the enemy. He did not expect that the trouble would come so quickly and be so serious. What's more, the Eighth Route Army actually developed equipment that even the empire did not have...
The imperial army has always had an absolute advantage in weapons and equipment in China. Now that some equipment was suddenly overtaken by the enemy, Okamura Neji was instantly unbalanced.
After thinking about it, Okamura Neiji ordered: "Contact the firearms manufacturer immediately and ask them to send an evaluation report. I need to know whether such a change is feasible and whether it is possible to complete it in a short time!"
"Yes!" Yoshio Shinozuka responded, turned around and went to contact the firearms manufacturer.
In fact, Okamura Neji wanted to know much more than that. He also wanted to know who modified this equipment!
Could it be a captured researcher?
Unlikely.
They are all researchers who have worked at a firearms manufacturing plant for several years. They have not been able to change it for so many years. How can they change it after being captured for a month?
Besides, they have no need to change it at all.
If the enemy is interested in "spraying bombs" and the researchers want to survive, they can just do whatever it takes to save their lives.
Therefore, Okamura Neiji judged that this was probably because the Eighth Route Army had a weapons expert, and it was this weapons expert who improved it based on the needs of the Eighth Route Army based on the "spray-in" technology.
Soon, two pieces of information obtained made Okamura Neiji even more certain of this point.
First, there is another piece of information sent from Kazuichi Shigekawa on the front line:
"We found that the enemy has another unknown equipment. It should be something similar to a landmine. It is rectangular in shape and is inserted into the ground facing us. When it explodes, it will fire a large number of steel balls in a fan-shaped direction to kill our infantry!
"
These are the information Shigekawa Kazuichi collected from the surviving soldiers who had seen these equipment and survived by luck.
This is not what the captured researchers could have imagined, and it has nothing to do with the "spray bomb".
Then, Okamura Neiji received another evaluation report from the firearms manufacturer.
"We believe that this change is feasible, but it is very difficult to complete within a month and is meaningless to our army. Its armor-piercing thickness may be only a dozen millimeters and has no accuracy..."
Seeing this, Neji Okamura couldn't help but cursed: "You fools, the enemy has already modified it and used it on the battlefield, but you still think it is difficult and meaningless! The researchers of the empire are not even as good as the Eighth Route Army
?”
In fact, this cannot be completely blamed on the firearms manufacturer. There are several details that Okamura Neiji is not aware of:
First, the armor of the Empire's potential enemies' tanks is often tens of millimeters larger. This cannot be penetrated by the armor-piercing ability of more than ten millimeters with "spray-injection bullets", so this is indeed meaningless to the Empire.
It's just that...the armor of the Empire's tanks is very thin, so it makes sense for the Eighth Route Army.
Therefore, the empire cannot replicate the strategic needs of anti-tank.
Second, the empire used the traditional solvent forming method to produce solid gunpowder columns. This production method not only produced a dangerously small output, but also had difficulty solving the problem of uneven gunpowder. The result was that the "spray into the bomb" had no accuracy at all.
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So technically the Empire can't copy it, even though they look like the same thing.
Shinozuka Yoshio directly forwarded Okamura Neji's words to the weapons manufacturing plant.
This immediately caused a sensation in the weapons manufacturing plant, especially Major Kenichi Akiyama, who was in charge of the "spray-in bomb" project.
When Kenichi Akiyama received the call, he replied in disbelief:
"What? The enemy has already used it on the battlefield? This is impossible!"
"Even we can't achieve it within a month. It still has many unimaginable difficulties!"
"If this is true, then... please be sure to capture one, it is very important to the empire!"
"Don't worry about the sweeps, there's nothing more important than this!"
"Yes, I will rush to China immediately!"
After hanging up the phone, Akiyama Kenichi hurriedly packed his luggage and took a few assistants with him before setting off.
The imperial military also realized the importance of this and immediately arranged a special flight to send Kenichi Akiyama to Taiyuan.
The order Okamura Neiji received was to seize several new pieces of equipment from the enemy at all costs.
Okamura Neji nodded slightly when he received the order. He also wanted to see this thing that could destroy the Imperial tanks.
While the empire was busy and busy, the headquarters immediately burst into joy after receiving the news that the Independent Regiment had successfully repelled the Japanese chariot troops.
"It's not easy!" the leader said with emotion: "We are finally on the plain, and we are able to fight against the enemy's tank troops!"
"Still with such a high casualty ratio!" The chief of staff was so excited that the hand holding the telegram was trembling: "Our army has a total of 112 casualties, most of which were caused by the enemy's crazy bombing and strafing.
More than 300 enemy people were killed, eleven enemy tanks, two armored vehicles, and three armored transport vehicles were destroyed, and a lot of ammunition was seized!"
The "armored transport vehicle" mentioned by the chief of staff is the Japanese Type 98 ammunition transport vehicle, which is modified from the chassis of the Type 94 ultra-light tank... Armored troops consume a lot of ammunition in frontline operations, so it is impossible to follow a few vehicles
An unprotected car supplying supplies at the rear will soon become the enemy's main target.
So armored transport vehicles are necessary.
However, this time it was to transport ammunition to the independent regiment.
The leader nodded repeatedly as he listened: "The point is not how many equipment we have captured and how many enemies we have killed, but that we can turn from being passive to being proactive! The production of rocket launchers is simple and has high output and low cost. It is much more cost-effective than making guns and cannons."
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The chief's words hit the point.
The biggest shortcoming of the Eighth Route Army compared with the Japanese was that it was severely lacking in heavy equipment, so its firepower was always suppressed by the enemy.
Producing machine guns, bullets, artillery in a step-by-step manner will not be fuel-efficient. To equip them in batches is just nonsense.
But now they have developed a rocket launcher in a different way.
Although it cannot replace other heavy equipment, it can make up for the Eighth Route Army's shortcomings in heavy equipment to a considerable extent, thereby closing the huge gap in equipment between the enemy and ourselves.
At this time, a staff officer handed over a telegram, reporting: "Chief, the enemy is gathering troops in the direction of Yucun!"
The chief of staff laughed and said: "I'm so worried about being beaten!"
The leader hesitated for a moment and then said: "Chief of Staff, it may not be that the Japanese have been frightened, but that they are eyeing our new equipment and turning their target to the independent regiment!"
After being reminded by the chief, the chief of staff felt that this was reasonable.
If the Japanese just wanted to solve Yucun's urgent needs, there would be no need for such unnecessary measures.