Okamura Neji looked at Akiyama Kenichi in front of him with a serious expression, which made Akiyama Kenichi's heart tremble. He didn't know what mistake he had made.
After a while, Okamura Neji threw a stack of information at his desk and said, "Akiyama-kun, take a look at this!"
"Yes!" Kenichi Akiyama responded, took the information from the desk and flipped through it, then his eyes widened in disbelief, and he said with difficulty: "What, this is...another 'injector' produced by the Eighth Route Army
bomb'?"
It turned out that what was written in the information was exactly the rocket launcher of the Eighth Route Army, but it was just a single-barreled rocket launcher that Li Yunlong sold to Chu Yunfei.
The imperial army has intelligence agents lurking within the Eighth Route Army, Jin Army and even the Chongqing Front Army.
Some of these intelligence officers are from the imperial army, such as the Continental Strike Team, and some are selected from the puppet army and trained to infiltrate the enemy's interior. Others are captured in battles and persuaded to surrender.
Enter again.
The Eighth Route Army's organization is relatively tight, and the level of confidentiality of new artillery is higher, so the imperial army cannot directly obtain information.
However, after the Jin Army made a deal with the Eighth Route Army to obtain the rocket launcher, the Imperial Army quickly obtained detailed information on this new artillery from the Jin Army.
Sitting at his desk, Okamura Neiji silently lit up a cigarette and said in a cold voice: "Keep watching, Akiyama-kun, there are also the tactics and actual combat performance of the Eighth Route Army's 'spray bomb'!"
Akiyama Kenichi hurriedly turned down a few pages, and then saw what Okamura Neji called "actual performance".
As he watched, Kenichi Akiyama broke into a cold sweat.
He knew why Okamura Neji looked at him with such murderous eyes.
Previously, Okamura Neiji asked him whether the Imperial Army could imitate the "spray-in" bomb used by the Eighth Route Army. Kenichi Akiyama answered like this:
"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, I don't think our army has any need in this regard at least for now."
"First of all, the Chinese army basically has no tanks, and even if there are tanks, they are not worth mentioning. This makes the 'spray bomb' targetless."
"Secondly, the accuracy of 'spray-in' bombs' is insufficient and must be fired at close range. When fighting against infantry, our army can completely use grenade launchers to achieve this!"
One thing Akiyama Kenichi didn't mention is that the "spray-in" bomb used by the Eighth Route Army can only penetrate more than ten millimeters of armor when used against tanks. Even if it is replaced with smokeless gunpowder, it can barely penetrate more than twenty millimeters.
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This armor-piercing ability may be useful for the Eighth Route Army to fight against Imperial tanks... The weakest point of the Imperial tanks' armor is only 6 mm.
But if the imperial army uses it to deal with potential enemies, this armor-piercing ability cannot even penetrate the rear armor, so it is of no use at all.
However, these have nothing to do with Okamura Neji's war on the Chinese battlefield, so Akiyama Kenichi didn't say much.
Okamura Neiji felt that what Akiyama Kenichi said was reasonable. There was no need for anti-tank, and the anti-infantry was not as good as grenade. The imperial army's use of "spray-in bombs" was unnecessary.
The Eighth Route Army used "spray-injection bombs", firstly, it could fight against the tanks of the imperial army, and secondly, its anti-infantry equipment was extremely rudimentary and lacked firepower, so "spray-injection bombs" could make full use of it.
This should be analyzed differently according to different situations. You cannot blindly pursue what the enemy has and the imperial army must have.
However, after the Eighth Route Army used "spray bombs" on artillery, the situation was completely different...
Okamura Neji exhaled a long breath of smoke, and said word by word behind the smoke: "Akiyama-kun, this kind of weapon that you think has no future and is not worth equiping, caught our army by surprise in the last battle.
.Although the empire has reconnaissance planes in the air, on the ground
There were tanks and a large number of artillery, but there was nothing they could do against the artillery of the Eighth Route Army. An assault brigade including twelve tanks and an artillery brigade suffered heavy casualties under the artillery of the Eighth Route Army. Akiyama
Can you give me an explanation?"
"Yes!" Akiyama Kenichi lowered his head and replied: "I'm very sorry, it was my mistake!"
Okamura Neiji suddenly became angry. He stood up with a loud sound and shouted: "Is this just a mistake? Your mistake cost me more than 500 outstanding imperial soldiers and 12 tanks."
And six artillery pieces, not counting the negative impact caused by the failure of the battle!"
"Yes!" Kenichi Akiyama replied with a trembling voice: "I'm very sorry!"
This is actually not Kenichi Akiyama's fault, but the thinking of the Imperial Army General Staff Headquarters. They have never paid attention to the development of "spray-injected bombs". They also believe that "spray-injected bombs" have no future. Kenichi Akiyama is only an executor of scientific research directions.
But Akiyama Kenichi could only bow his head and remain silent.
Then Okamura Neiji changed his tone and asked: "Akiyama-kun, I want to know if we have the ability to produce this kind of 'spray-injection bomb'?"
"Yes!" Kenichi Akiyama responded, then hurriedly browsed through the information, and answered with certainty: "Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, we can produce this kind of 'spray bomb', which is even more advanced than the enemy's, but...
The shell production may not be high!”
"Isn't our output still inferior to that of the Eighth Route Army?" Okamura Neji was furious again.
Akiyama Ken thought for a while and gave an explanation: "Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, the Eighth Route Army was produced without any other alternative equipment. They could only use 'spray-in bombs', but we have various types of artillery.
There are even many artillery guns whose range and accuracy are much higher than those of 'spray-injected ammunition', so..."
Okamura Neji frowned and weakly waved his hand to stop Akiyama Kenichi from continuing.
He found that he was persuaded by Akiyama Kenichi again.
The situation at this time is indeed as Akiyama Kenichi said, there seems to be no need for the Imperial Army to develop "spray-injection bombs".
Want to cover a certain area with firepower?
All kinds of long-range artillery can do this, and they are more accurate than "spray bombs".
So why were the Imperial Army helpless in the face of the Eighth Route Army's "spray bombs"?
Neji Okamura discovered that the problem was not actually with the equipment.
To be precise, the problem does lie in the equipment, but it is the combination of equipment and tactics.
"Spray-in bomb" is actually a piece of equipment suitable for guerrilla warfare, so it is more suitable for Eighth Route Army operations. It is suitable for hit-and-run with "spray-in bomb". Even if the accuracy of "spray-in bomb" is not high, it does not matter.
As long as one of the cannonballs hits the target, you will earn money.
The imperial army is on the offensive side, fighting regular warfare and encirclement and suppression warfare. It is impossible for them to use "spray bombs" to fight guerrillas like the Eighth Route Army...
Therefore, this cannot be replicated by the Imperial Army.
Thinking of this, Okamura Neji could only sigh and said: "You can go!"
As if he was receiving a general amnesty, Akiyama Kenichi bowed several times and apologized before leaving in a hurry.