The bullets of the M1 Garand rifle are the same as those of the Springfield rifle. The stubborn army is also equipped with many Springfield rifles. The bullets are imported in tens of millions of rounds every year. They only need a small part from the stubborn army.
It is enough for the Eighth Route Army, a force of 1,000 people.
"I heard that you have something called a grenade?" Wang Xuexin asked again.
"Yes!" Sun Erwei replied: "Each infantry squad will have a gunner carrying a grenade launcher to provide fire support to others when necessary!"
"This thing cannot be missing!" Wang Xuexin said: "It is best to have two in each class and ten rounds of grenades per person!"
This thing doesn't take up much space anyway, and it's very convenient to use.
"It seems you have a special liking for grenades!" Sun Erwei said, taking out a pen from his pocket and adding Wang Xuexin's request.
"Yes!" Wang Xuexin explained: "This thing is very suitable for fighting in mountainous areas. It is indispensable for suppressing Japanese grenades!"
Sun Erwei asked strangely: "But we have a 60mm mortar, don't we? Its range is much farther than the Japanese grenade!"
This is true. The M2 60mm mortar equipped by Yingjiang has a range of 1.8 kilometers, which is several times the range of the Japanese grenade. This is one of the reasons why the grenade was eliminated by the mortar in the later period.
But Wang Xuexin shook his head and replied: "Mountain warfare is different, Sun Erwei. It is a place with no roads and no cars, and even motorcycles can't get in. It depends entirely on manpower. If an army wants to fight in such a mountainous area for several days
How many mortar shells can be carried for even a few weeks of fighting? How many rifle grenades can be carried?"
The key point of Wang Xuexin's words is that the requirement for artillery shells in mountain warfare is often quantity rather than power.
Although a rifle grenade is less powerful, its light weight means it can carry more, thus providing more fire support to the troops.
Although a mortar shell is powerful, it can only carry a limited number of shells. Even the M2 mortar is considered a small caliber, but it still weighs 40 kilograms.
Is it really appropriate to carry such a cannon across mountains and ridges for insertion?
Therefore, although Wang Xuexin was extremely reluctant to give up, he still gritted his teeth and cut the three mortars in Yingjiang's establishment into two. The reason for having two mortars was to form cross fire when necessary.
All three M1919 machine guns and M2 heavy machine guns were cut down... This was a firepower that only Yingjiang's logistics capabilities could support, otherwise a company of bullets would be gone with just a few clicks from them.
What's more, this unit also uses semi-automatic rifles and squad light machine guns. If these machine guns are still available, they will be unable to fight in mountain warfare.
There are only two rocket launchers left.
In this way, the light firepower platoon only had two mortars and two rocket launchers, plus a few riflemen carrying ammunition to cover the artillery. The whole platoon had 20 people, which was reduced by 23 people, and the whole company had 170 people.
Sun Erwei was a little dissatisfied when he saw this. He frowned and said, "Wang, will our firepower be enough to suppress the enemy?"
This is Yingjiang's fire phobia. They are always worried that their fire power is insufficient, so they ask for more fire power...
So much so that there are machine guns everywhere in the army, with fire platoons at the company level and fire companies at the battalion level... If a war breaks out, bullets and artillery shells will be output like water.
However, its shortcomings are also obvious: Yingjiang's army relies heavily on logistics and has extremely poor mobility. This is also the main reason why Yingjiang has been defeated time and time again on battlefields with complex terrain.
"Sun Erwei!" Wang Xuexin only replied: "You must know that this is fighting in a mountainous area. Unless you can build roads wherever you can hit them, how much transport capacity is needed to support the ammunition of so many machine guns? If there is no
Ammunition, what’s the point of the existence of those machine guns?”
Sun Erwei thought it made sense. He nodded slightly and wrote down what Wang Xuexin said.
Wang Xuexin also made a list himself, because he was worried that something would be missed. If he wanted to come out all at once later, it would be inconvenient for Sun Erwei to transport it.
After thinking about it several times, Wang Xuexin added: "In addition, we need a strong crossbow, one for each row."
"Crossbow?" Sun Erwei couldn't help but be stunned. In this kind of modern warfare, crossbows are actually needed? He even suspected that he heard wrongly.
"Yes!" Wang Xuexin explained: "This is very important. Mountain warfare sometimes requires rock climbing. If you have a crossbow, you can save a lot of things. For example, sometimes you need to assassinate enemy sentries without making gunfire, and you can also shoot flying claws onto the cliff to hook them.
Stay on the cliff, or shoot towards the trees on the other side of the river and use the pulley to quickly pass!"
Sun Erwei said "Oh" and nodded again in agreement. When he was writing down the notes in his notebook, he had an eye-opening feeling, secretly thinking that the war could still be fought like this.
But it sounds very reasonable. For example, when troops cross a river, they usually build a pontoon bridge or swim with arms. However, the former is too slow and can easily be discovered by the enemy, so it will develop into a tug-of-war. The latter will cause damage to equipment and a series of
Trouble, if you are discovered by the enemy in the river, it will be a massacre.
But if you just use a rope to shoot to the other side and then use a pulley to quickly pass... the enemy won't even have time to react.
At this time, Sun Erwei seemed to remember something and asked: "Wang, are the thousand sets of rock climbing equipment you mentioned before prepared for this army?"
"Ah? This..." Wang Xuexin was a little embarrassed: "That's right! But I didn't plan to equip it like this at the beginning. Now since you need to observe and learn from experience, so..."
Sun Erwei rolled his eyes. He felt that he had been cheated. Could this guy have originally planned to buy equipment from us to form such a team, but now he got it for free?
But come to think of it, there is nothing Sun Erwei can do against Wang Xuexin!
It’s impossible to terminate cooperation now, right?
If we terminate the cooperation now, I'm afraid this guy will really have to deal with me. How will he explain it to his superiors?
Forget it! It’s the state that pays for it anyway, as long as you can complete the task!
Thinking of Sun Erwei, he just pretended he didn't know and asked, "Is there anything else I need to add?"
Wang Xuexin looked at it and felt that it would be almost enough if it was paired with a multifunctional engineering shovel from the Eighth Route Army. However, there was no need to ask Yingjiang for this thing. Yingjiang should ask for it from the Eighth Route Army... So of course he had to wait for Sun Erwei to speak.
Thinking about it, Wang Xuexin put the list aside and said, "Now, Sun Erwei, let's discuss rifle grenades!"
"Rifle grenade?" Sun Erwei was a little confused: "This is your request, isn't it? Is there any problem?"