"Really?" Wang Xuexin asked, "How can you see it?"
Wang Xuexin can actually understand Major Thomas. His tactical thinking is still at a relatively backward stage... Major Thomas participated in World War I, and World War II had not yet begun for him, so most of his thinking was still stuck in the trench warfare of World War I.
in the state.
At most, he was influenced by Hans' "Blitzkrieg" and abandoned passive defense and recognized that active offense would be more strategically advantageous.
This kind of historical limitation will make him unable to understand Wang Xuexin's modern tactics.
Sure enough, Wang Xuexin heard Thomas say: "First of all, I don't think you can suppress the enemy's firepower with rifles, grenades and snipers. If you attack under such circumstances, you will pay a lot of casualties..."
"Major, do you know your opponent?" Wang Xuexin interrupted Major Thomas.
"What?" Major Thomas was stunned for a moment: "You mean the Japanese?"
Wang Xuexin nodded and replied: "Most of the Japs use Taisho 11-year-old machine guns, which we often call crooked guns, or Type 96 light machine guns... But this is not the point. The point is that the Japs have few resources everywhere.
To start a war, they don’t have as much ammunition as you do, and their fighting idea is to use the fewest bullets to destroy the most enemies! Therefore, their marksmanship is more about accuracy, rather than firepower like you!”
Wang Xuexin turned his attention to Thomas and continued: "So, Major! Don't think of the enemy like yourself. This will make you misjudge the enemy you will face in the future, and it is a serious misjudgement. This may cause you to
You and your soldiers will never come back alive from the battlefield!"
Major Thomas's face turned red.
Wang Xuexin was right about this point. Major Thomas took the imaginary enemy as a matter of course and regarded it as a combat style with the same firepower as the hawk-sauce infantry, and then as soon as the battle started, a large number of artillery shells and bullets were piled forward regardless of the situation.
"Another very important point!" Wang Xuexin waved his hands around and added: "I think you also need to consider the combat environment. In such mountainous areas, it is common to have insufficient ammunition. I think you only need to shoot
Once in a battle, you will not easily use machine guns to suppress the enemy's firepower but will choose to use rifles!"
In fact, the reasons are not just these.
It is true that the machine gun can be used to suppress the enemy, but it is more suitable for places where the terrain is open and the shooting angle will not be blocked. Only in this way can the machine gun take advantage of the high rate of fire at one block and ten.
But if you are in a mountainous area full of rocks and trees...the machine gunner's random shooting will not only fail to hit the target, but also easily become the target of the enemy rifleman. At this time, the machine gun is far less useful than several rifles in different positions, especially semi-automatic rifles.
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"The question is, can you effectively suppress the enemy's firepower by doing this?" Thomas was still unwilling: "For example, your snipers are actually working in teams of two, why don't you let each of them have a sniper rifle? There is no ammunition.
Is there a problem?"
Sniper rifles use very little ammunition. More than a hundred bullets are enough to fight a battle, so there is really not much supply pressure.
However……
Wang Xuexin smiled, raised his head towards a Yingjiang soldier carrying a sniper rifle, and said, "How about we test it?"
"Test for what?" Thomas asked doubtfully.
Wang Xuexin waved to a soldier, took a Springfield sniper rifle from him and handed it to Thomas, saying: "You two have two sniper rifles, and we two have one sniper rifle. Let's see who is who."
Hit more targets!”
Thomas looked at Wang Xuexin with incredible eyes and said: "You are crazy, how can two sniper rifles lose to one sniper rifle?"
Wang Xuexin just smiled and said nothing.
At this time, Sun Erwei came up. He saw Wang Xuexin and Major Thomas arguing about something from a distance, so he ran up three steps at a time and asked nervously: "What happened?"
"Nothing, Sun Erwei!" Wang Xuexin replied: "You came just in time, we are planning to compete with Major Thomas!"
"Competition?" Sun Erwei originally thought that Wang Xuexin's "competition" was a polite term, but after hearing Wang Xuexin's explanation, he realized that it was just a competition of marksmanship.
Then Sun Erwei also thought this was very interesting, because he didn't believe that two sniper rifles would lose to one sniper rifle.
Sun Erwei, who was on Wang Xuexin's side, even persuaded Wang Xuexin: "Wang, do you really want to compete? You must know that the people they can send here are not easy to deal with!"
"I know, Sun Erwei!" Wang Xuexin replied: "Neither are we!"
"Okay!" Sun Erwei was a little helpless, and then confessed: "You have to choose a subordinate with accurate marksmanship!"
Wang Xuexin couldn't help but laugh. It seemed that Sun Erwei should speak for Major Thomas more.
But this seems normal, because this is just a competition in marksmanship and has nothing to do with the honor of the two countries. Sun Erwei hopes Wang Xuexin will win for personal reasons.
The soldiers here heard that they were going to test their marksmanship with the foreign Japanese. They were all eager to try. Seven or eight of them stood up and shouted:
"Batalion Commander, let me go!"
"Batalion Commander, let me come up and I will ensure that we defeat the foreign devils!"
…
In the end, Wang Xuexin asked a soldier named Chen Yuanxiang to cooperate with Mao Duzi.
Chen Yuanxiang is a famous sharpshooter in the mountain company, nicknamed the Hoe.
The reason is that when he came to the army, he brought nothing but a hoe... This hoe was his weapon. The village where he was located was looted by the Japanese. Chen Yuanxiang escaped by knocking a Japanese to death with a hoe alone.
come out.
When Hoe returned, his hometown had become a ruins strewn with corpses and bones.
From then on, Hoe became extremely calm, as if everything happening around him had nothing to do with him, and he only became active when facing the Japanese on the battlefield.
Wang Xuexin needs such a calm person, who is suitable for observation, analysis, and making the best judgment, because they think with their heads instead of speaking with their mouths.
Major Thomas came on the scene in person, along with a subordinate who was originally carrying a sniper rifle.
It can be seen that Major Thomas is very confident in this competition. He smiled and patted his subordinates on the shoulder and said: "Fight well, Tom, give them some color to see!"
"Yes, Major!" Tom saluted to the Major.
Several Yingjiang soldiers around cheered in unison to encourage the two of them.
The four players from both sides of the competition had a brief meeting in the field and then prepared their respective preparations.
The target is a random target set by Wang Xuexin at 300 meters...actually, it is a chest target, the kind that can be pulled upright with a rope.