Chapter 168 Bullets are crazy, only the bayonet is reliable (2)
There is of course a reason why those top army officials are so stubborn.
Since the establishment of the army in the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese army has highlighted two basic skills in the army, one is precise shooting of weapons, and the other is the so-called hand-to-hand combat with a bayonet seeing red, and these two are regarded as the embodiment of the spirit of the samurai sword.
The Japanese rifles have high accuracy, long range, long gun body, and longer bayonet. They even sacrifice performance such as stability and power to highlight these properties. Among the rifles in the world, the Japanese rifles can shoot the furthest, have the most accurate shooting, and are the most suitable.
It's a stabbing attack, but it has the least power and average stability.
Before World War II, the Japanese army experienced the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, the Eight-Power Allied Forces' invasion of China, the Russo-Japanese War, and the Qingdao Battle against the Germans in World War I. The Japanese army achieved complete victories against a series of opponents that were much weaker than itself.
Anyone who wins consecutive victories will often become proud. The Japanese army believes that their theory has no problem at all and is fully in line with actual combat needs.
In fact, this theory was correct before World War I, but many battles in the later stages of World War I had shattered this theory. The Japanese were so arrogant because they did not fully participate in World War I, so they did not understand
That's all.
After the end of World War I, the Japanese army won successive victories in the Chinese battlefield after September 18th. Facing the national army that was half a century behind its own, the Japanese army suffered few casualties, but gained control of the four northeastern provinces, northern North China, and the Shanghai area (large
(several times larger than the Japanese mainland), so the Army was even more arrogant and believed that the Japanese Imperial Army was invincible and the most elite.
Therefore, during World War II, the top brass of the Japanese Army were very disgusted with the ultra-high consumption of submachine gun bullets, so they were not keen on this type of individual weapon. Moreover, the national strength of the Japanese army was still weak compared to that of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union.
In terms of logistical supplies, they simply cannot cope with the large supply of submachine gun bullets.
In the late stages of the Songhu Battle, the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in Shanghai had exhausted their ammunition for rifles and machine guns, and Japan was unable to provide sufficient supplies in a short period of time, so they had to urgently second to the Japanese troops in North China. The Japanese troops even had existing rifle bullets and machine guns.
If the demand for bullets cannot be effectively met, how can we talk about submachine gun bullets? According to the experience of other countries, once a submachine gun is equipped, the ammunition consumption will never be less than that of a light machine gun. In this case, I am afraid that the Japanese army's logistics supply system will be destroyed.
Already.
However, the supply problem is always secondary. If the Japanese army wants to develop submachine guns, there are always ways to solve the existing problems after so many years. The key is still the conceptual issue of high-level officials. Their thinking is still stuck on "if they can kill with one bullet,
From the perspective of the enemy, why bother firing a bunch of bullets to consume resources?"
The various infantry weapons of the Japanese Army at that time not only had long ranges, but could all be equipped with bayonets, even light machine guns and submachine guns.
It is the only one in the world that equips a submachine gun with a bayonet. The only other British submachine gun, the Sten, was later equipped with a bayonet, but it was not used in large numbers in actual combat.
Senior Japanese military officials even believed that a submachine gun was a small light machine gun that could be used by a single person. It could fire a single precise shot at a distance and then fire fully automatically at close range.
Obviously, this positioning is inexplicable and wrong.
Because the positioning of a submachine gun should be: a melee weapon that exerts its power within 100 to 200 meters, requiring a high rate of fire, fierce firepower, and a large amount of ammunition.
The positioning of the high-level Japanese army was actually the positioning of automatic rifles later.
If an automatic rifle can accurately fire a single shot at a distance, it must require a longer barrel and use rifle bullets. In this way, firstly, the entire gun is very heavy, and the ammunition is also heavy, making it difficult for a single soldier to carry it. Secondly, because of the need
When shooting from a long distance, the bullets are powerful and have a large amount of powder, which causes the muzzle to jump significantly and the recoil to be strong during continuous shooting. In other words, the firepower at close range is greatly weakened.
In order to achieve this positioning, the Baishi submachine gun is equipped with a tripod and a rear sight that can be aimed up to 1,500 meters away. In fact, the effective range of the submachine gun is within 200 or even 100 meters; in addition to the tripod, the Japanese army's close combat doctrine requires the use of bayonets for hand-to-hand combat.
To save ammunition, the Type 100 submachine gun was equipped with a bayonet mount like other Japanese infantry machine guns of the same period.
These inexplicable designs were not uncommon in Japan at the time. When Japan revised the "Infantry Drill Code" in 1909, it was clearly stated that "the method that determines the final outcome of the battle is the bayonet assault."
Ridiculous positioning and inexplicable design, but the Japanese army still had the absolute upper hand in front of the most elite troops of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
First of all, in terms of equipment, the Type 30 bayonet blade mainly equipped by the Japanese army is 50 centimeters long. Together with the length of the Type 38 rifle, the total length is 1.65 meters. This length even exceeds the average height of the Japanese army of 1.56, and is also the longest during the entire World War II.
Bayonet combination.
American soldiers holding submachine guns ridiculed this as a medieval spear that could fire bullets. However, it was this medieval spear that could fire bullets that showed its majesty on the Chinese battlefield.
The reason is very simple. The Type 30 bayonet is not only long, but also well-made. It uses high-quality steel, and the components are finely processed and strong and durable. Although it is limited by the island country's lack of resources, all low-carbon steel is used and is easy to rust, but as long as it is maintained regularly, it can be used.
It took a long time. It can be imagined from the fact that in the land of China a few decades later, hooligans often used Type 30 bayonets to kill everyone when fighting.
But what about the Kuomintang and the Communist Party? That's much worse. Let's talk about the bayonet made in Hanyang. First it was a short European-style bayonet that everyone hated, with a total blade length of only 30 centimeters. Later, because of the consideration of the Japanese
In response to the threat, a long bayonet was developed. The length is basically the same as that of the Japanese, and the short one is only a few centimeters shorter. It can barely compete with it, but the steel quality is much worse, and it is easy to break, damage and deform.
This is not a blind attack on the Nationalist government. Liu Lang remembers such a story recorded in military history. Lieutenant General Wang, the famous lunatic hero of the Red Army, who is also the prototype of Li Yunlong in the anti-Japanese drama, once fought with the National Army during the counter-encirclement and suppression campaign.
I had an extremely dangerous bayonet fight. At that time, General Wang and his men fought hand-to-hand with the national army for more than an hour, and he was extremely exhausted. Suddenly, a national soldier raised his bayonet and stabbed Wang in a sneak attack. Wang was caught off guard and was stabbed in the abdomen.
It seems like he can't survive.
Unexpectedly, the quality of the bayonet of this national soldier was extremely poor. The bayonet actually bent when the knife was stabbed into the thick cotton-padded jacket. General Wang, who was not injured, went up and chopped down the national soldier with a knife. After checking the wound, it was found that the skin was all broken.
It's not broken, just a bruise.
Compared with the gleaming Type 30 bayonet of the Japanese invaders, the consequences of such a bayonet are naturally worrying.
Besides, the Chinese and Chinese imitation Mauser 1924 rifles that were the main equipment of the Chinese army before the Anti-Japanese War were not long rifles like the Type 38.
After careful analysis before World War II, the German Mauser Company believed that there was no need to maintain the length of modern rifles as before World War I. Because during World War I, rifles were still one of the pillars of long-distance shooting, but after World War II, the length of truly long-distance shooting became
Targets should be destroyed by machine guns, infantry guns, and mortars.
The rifle only needs to be effective at a distance of 400 meters to 600 meters.
Since this is the case, the barrel of the rifle can be shortened (the rifle is shorter and the range is closer), so the official rifle length among the imitations of the Mauser 1924 rifle is greatly reduced, only 1.1 meters, while the length of the Hanyang-made and Type 38 rifles is
From 1.25 meters to over 1.28 meters long, it grows more than 15 centimeters.
Of course, this shortening of 15 centimeters is very good for riflemen. Short rifles are easier to carry and lighter, and are also conducive to use in narrow spaces.
However, for Pinthorn, the 15cm difference is very considerable.