Chapter 167 Bullets are crazy, only the bayonet is reliable (1)
Of course, the most important thing is not the strong lethality. Because the Type 56 triangular military bayonet is in the shape of a stick and has strong support, it is just suitable for China's current backward metal smelting technology. It is not as prone to breakage as the Hanyang-made bayonet or even the formal bayonet equipped in the future.
Deformation.
It can be said that the Type 56 Triangular Army Spur is the best choice for independent regiments in terms of manufacturing and lethality against Japanese invaders.
"Dear Liu, this kind of military spur is powerful enough. However, it is no longer World War I. Since the advent of the submachine gun, how many troops will choose to fight hand-to-hand?" Grunov asked doubtfully.
As a German, Grunov has a profound memory of the First World War.
As a well-known cold weapon, the bayonet has always been active on the equipment stage in various countries around the world. It can be said that from the birth of the rifled gun that can be fired quickly, the bayonet has appeared on the battlefield as the most powerful auxiliary weapon in hand-to-hand combat.
superior.
However, when the European powers began to widely equip submachine guns in the late World War I, bayonets had already withdrawn from the mainstream. One magazine of bullets could kill five to six enemies at close range. Who would be stupid enough to rush forward and fight hand-to-hand?
"Doctor, there is a famous saying that you must have never heard of. Bullets are a crazy thing, only bayonets are reliable." Liu Lang shook his head and said with a smile.
Yes, since the beginning of World War II, the battlefields have been fierce and the European powers have basically never had hand-to-hand combat, but there is only one battlefield that is an exception.
That is the Chinese battlefield. Neither China nor Japan has effective weapons at close range, such as submachine guns, and neither side has a large number of equipped troops.
"Are all your Chinese speeches so profound?" Grunov smiled bitterly and shook his head.
Deep down in the heart of the Germanic people, he does not want this formidable military assassin to be released, especially because he has the illusion that his motherland, led by the ambitious prime minister, may one day follow suit.
The man in front of him was a colonel who would definitely become a general in the future. The blood of the German nation would be shed by this terrifying army, Grunov had no doubt about this.
"Your country's biggest enemy, Japan's strong industrial manufacturing capabilities will not be weaker than ours, and they will be equipped with a large number of melee weapons." Grunov tried to persuade Liu Lang.
Grunov did not mention China at all, and the reason is very simple. China's military industry is extremely backward. Looking at the country, only Yan Laoxi's Taiyuan Arsenal can manufacture hundreds of submachine guns every month, and no other arsenal can.
If you want to buy it, since rifles, machine guns, artillery, and even tanks and aircraft are the main equipment, they are far more important than submachine guns. Obviously, if you only have foreign exchange to buy these things, it is impossible to buy submachine guns.
But Grunov did not know that millions of Japanese troops were not equipped with submachine guns on a large scale from the beginning until their defeat.
Japan obviously has this research and development capability, as well as this equipment capability, but their standard submachine gun, the 100-type submachine gun, started to be equipped in 1940, and by 1943, it only equipped more than 10,000 units.
As the Japanese army suffered successive defeats in the Pacific battlefield, more than 10,000 were equipped. By the end of the battlefield, the entire Japanese army was equipped with only 30,000. During the same period, the US military was equipped with at least 1.5 million Thompson submachine guns, and several more.
One hundred thousand M3 submachine guns.
In the face of crazy bullets, the Japanese army's proud use of bayonets became a big joke.
"Thank you for reminding me, Doctor, but I still leave it to you to manufacture the Type 56 Military Spur." Liu Lang shook his head stubbornly, making his persistence clear.
"Well, the structure of this military spur is very simple. I will make a sample and give it to you soon." Seeing that he could not convince Liu Lang, Grunov had to reply with a wry smile. "However, I can ask why it is called
Five and six postures? Instead of three and two postures?" Before leaving the house, Grunov asked Liu Lang a question that troubled him.
"Because, 5630, doctor." Liu Lang showed his white teeth. Of course he couldn't say that this was a weapon designed and finalized in 1956, more than 20 years later.
Fortunately, the multiplication tables I memorized in elementary school worked.
"Four, eight and thirty-two is the most accurate, right?" Grunov is indeed a doctor of science and engineering, and is very sensitive to numbers.
"Because it doesn't sound good to die, just like you Europeans don't like the number thirteen." Liu Lang's reaction was quick.
"Oh, okay! Colonel, you win." Grunov shrugged and left Liu Lang's office with the wooden spur.
Liu Lang looked at Grunov's disappearing figure outside the door, a cold light flashing in his eyes.
Just as he just read the famous saying of the famous Russian general Suvorov: Bullets are crazy things, only bayonets are the most reliable.
Because Grunov did not know that the bayonet, a small weapon that could even be ignored under the huge threat of guns and artillery, was stained with the blood of countless Chinese soldiers, including women, children and the elderly, on the battlefield between China and Japan.
Not to mention that the Germans don’t know, even the top leaders of China and Japan don’t know that in the next ten years of fighting between China and Japan, there will be thousands of hand-to-hand combats. That is the highest number among the two countries.
Hand-to-hand combat on all battlefields of World War II.
What is also surprising to foreign experts is that many times hand-to-hand combat does not break out when one side is short of ammunition. Even the winning side is bleeding like a river.
With Western thinking, it may be difficult to understand the thoughts of the Japanese who like to show off their force and the Chinese who show that they are not willing to fight to the death.
It can be said that the bayonet is a small gadget that is dispensable on the European battlefield, but it is an extremely important weapon on the Chinese battlefield. Its role is not only for killing people.
The Type 56 Triangular Army Spur will become an unforgettable nightmare for the arrogant Japanese invaders who encounter it.
Liu Lang firmly believed.
But Grunov was not wrong about one thing. Japan's industrial manufacturing industry is far beyond that of China. Why is it not equipped with close-range firearms such as submachine guns to avoid brutal battles such as hand-to-hand combat?
That's because he didn't know that it was entirely a matter of the extremely backward military concepts of the top brass of the Japanese Army.
That's right, the top brass of the Japanese army who defeated China's millions of troops were actually just a group of generals whose ideas were still stuck in the First World War.
If they were not stupid enough, China, which is far from united as a monolith, might not be able to last eight years. This is what many foreign military experts came to after analyzing the military strength and national power comparison between China and Japan decades later, and it was not recognized by China and Japan.
Acceptable conclusion.
But no matter what, in terms of not being equipped with submachine guns, after the war, even the most stubborn Japanese had to admit that their elite army generals had their heads full of shit.
It failed to completely defeat the weak China and was beaten by American soldiers.