By the time a group of people entered the exercise ground on foot, all the troops participating in the exercise had already lined up.
Naturally, the morale of the two garrison companies was not high. After all, no matter how hard they trained, there was still a difference between them and actual combat. It would be uncomfortable for anyone to be beaten by others during an exercise.
As for Lyon's Wehrmacht company, everyone looked dissatisfied. Especially Bruce, who felt that he was crushed by the SS with weapons, which did not reflect their combat level.
But at this time, the big bosses of the Wehrmacht would not care what Bruce and the others think. For them, the best thing to do is to quickly find out what is the secret to increasing the combat effectiveness of the SS.
In front of me, a standard new infantry company of the SS was already lined up and standing on the training ground.
They had just gone through a fierce exercise and had no appearance at all. Their faces were blackened by gunpowder smoke and their bodies were covered with mud. Some of the unlucky ones even had paint on their heads, so they simply bandaged them with gauze. The bright red blood had already soaked the gauze.
It was stained with red spots. This was caused by hand-to-hand combat with an elite company of the National Defense Forces before. Because Bruce and his gang refused to admit defeat, they resorted to very dark tactics.
However, their formation was impeccably organized!
The SS is different from the general armed SS, they are full-time combat troops!
Regardless of personnel selection, training level, or even discipline, they are completely comparable to the National Defense Forces.
Because in a sense, this can be regarded as the "private army" of the Führer, Reinhardt has always been extremely concerned about the construction of the SS, and personally emphasized discipline to put an end to the historical evil of the SS killing prisoners wantonly.
** happened.
Of course, the garrison SS who prepare second-rate weapons also have strict requirements for discipline. After all, they will be stationed in occupied areas in the future, and they will not be willing to commit suicide as they did in history.
On the other hand, the Wehrmacht people don't care how neatly you line up. What they want to know, what they want to see, are the weapons and organization of the SS, so that they can use it to improve the combat effectiveness of the Wehrmacht.
So, Reinhard motioned to the head of the SS weapons experimental group, SS Major General Rashid, to make an introduction. Because he was a participant in the formulation of the new organization, he knew this best.
Major General Rashid first asked a squad to go out and introduce and display their weapons one by one to the commanders of the National Defense Forces.
The first is the G43 semi-automatic rifle. The Wehrmacht also knows this weapon. Because in the previous Polish campaign, some SS troops had tried it, and the effect was very good. This time they also made a batch for exercises, but the regiment leader told them that this
Different from the early trial installation products during the Polish campaign, this is an improved model of the early G43.
According to the requirements of the head of state, in order to reduce production costs and working hours, Mauser engineers used a large number of stamping parts, which has reduced the cost of the entire semi-automatic rifle by one-third and reduced the working hours by nearly half!
The progress in production indicates that this semi-automatic rifle with a ten-round detachable magazine will soon be equipped with the National Defense Forces on a large scale.
At the same time, Rashid asked the machine gunner and the squad leader carrying a submachine gun to show off.
The squad leader's submachine gun is the MP submachine gun that the generals are familiar with, but it has also been modified.
Since in the Polish campaign, some officers and soldiers felt that the MP submachine gun's rate of fire was not enough. Moreover, the submachine gun fired 9x19 Parabellum bullets. It was meaningless to overly require the accuracy of continuous fire, so firearms designers will find ways to improve it.
In order to increase the rate of fire, we chose to increase the amount of projection, and gave up the over-emphasis on continuous fire speed.
At the same time, this submachine gun named MP40 also uses a large number of stamping parts.
The machine gunner's machine gun is somewhat different from the Wehrmacht model.
But if modern people see it, they will definitely recognize it as the most powerful machine gun in World War II, the mg42!
This is also a weapon that uses a large number of stamped parts, but it was produced prematurely due to various factors. Because it is now an experimental gun, it is temporarily named mg40 experimental type. But as soon as there is a demand, major arsenals can immediately produce it
Turn on the horsepower and produce quickly.
After the generals saw these three weapons, which tried their best to reduce costs and increase production speed, they all felt as if they were in the dark. Because they knew that the end of the Polish campaign was not the beginning of peace, but a bigger war was brewing. As long as Britain and France
If the declaration of war against Germany is not revoked for one day, the war will not end for one day!
However, someone noticed something different about this infantry squad. Before Rashid could introduce it, General List couldn't wait to ask questions.
"Commander, why are there two people in your class who are not carrying rifles? If I read correctly, the firearms they are only carrying should be Mauser factory combat pistols. I have used this before, and it is too big.
, it’s very inconvenient to use.”
Rashid smiled and pointed at the two soldiers who were not carrying rifles: "Them?"
He did not sell out, and quickly explained to the generals headed by List: "Everyone knows that our squad battles revolve around machine guns. But in actual combat, we found that when the machine gun is suppressing the target, one person controls it.
It is very difficult. In fact, the robot hand needs to be assisted by the sub-shooter and ammunition hand."
Rashid paused, looked around and then continued: "Whether it is to help change ammunition or replace the spare barrel, it will be difficult for the ammunition hand's rifle to function at this time. In addition, our new machine gun has a higher rate of fire.
Quickly, in order to maintain continuous combat capabilities, we increased the number of bullets carried by the ammunition hand, and replaced the rifle with a Mauser combat pistol. As the deputy shooter's Walther P38 pistol was not powerful enough, we also replaced it with a combat pistol.
"
As he spoke, Rashid took off the wooden gun box on his ammunition hand, took out the Mauser m1932 pistol, and skillfully connected the gun box and the grip to make the gun body longer. Then he inserted another
The 20-round long magazine continued:
"Look! Now, this is a small submachine gun. After attaching the gun case, it has a stock, and the 20-round magazine gives it enough ammunition for splashing. The most important thing is that its ammunition
It’s also Balaberum, which is the mainstream pistol bullet in our army.”
"There's one more thing," Rashid said after seeing Reinhardt nod, saying that this decision had the best of both worlds.
'"Because of the outbreak of the war, major domestic arsenals have a large backlog of Asian orders. Since this Mauser combat pistol is very popular in Asia, we have been producing it in large quantities. Now, those pistols that have been produced in large quantities are in Mauser
There are roughly an estimated 100,000 pistols piled in Se's warehouse, all in stock! Moreover, our Skoda factory in the Czech Republic also has a large number of such pistols piled in the corner of the warehouse."
"Including those seized from Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland, we can probably find nearly 300,000 combat pistols. Even if we exclude those that are not 9 mm caliber and cannot be fired continuously, we conservatively estimate that there are still about 200,000. And because of Asia
Orders there are booming, and Spain is also mass-producing this kind of weapon. As long as we want to install it in large quantities, we can even place an order from Spain to supplement it. I think Frange will not refuse."
"Now, we can suddenly field 200,000 to 300,000 powerful combat pistols. The most important thing is that they are in stock! Some have even been paid for, but they are backlogged in the warehouse and cannot be shipped because of the war. We don't even have to
Spend money to unearth them from dusty corners of warehouses, and you suddenly get hundreds of thousands of 'small submachine guns'!"
The generals thought about it carefully and quickly understood what it would be like when this weapon rushed into the enemy's trenches and poured ammunition wantonly.
When defending, this allows the infantry to organize a new line of defense at close range. The original two MP submachine guns are supplemented by two combat rifles, which will make this line of defense composed of bullet rain more indestructible. And because the volume is smaller than that of submachine guns,
Even smaller, it can even be issued to armored soldiers and pilots as a self-defense weapon, or it can be used to make up for the shortage of pistols and issued to lower-level officers. Although it is a bit heavier and larger, no one will use such a powerful weapon.
