Chapter 33 Equipment
"No problem!" Sun Erwei responded without thinking.
The bullets of the m1 Garland rifle are common to the bullets 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. It only takes a small part of the stubborn army to use it, which is a thousand-man unit of the Eighth Route Army.
"I heard you have something called grenade?" Wang Xuexin asked again.
"Yes!" Sun Erwei replied: "Every infantry squad will have a gunman carrying a grenade launcher to provide fire support to others if necessary!"
"This thing cannot be missing!" Wang Xuexin said: "It is better to have two pieces per class and ten grenades per person!"
This thing does not take up anyway, and it is very convenient to use.
"It seems that you have a special liking for grenades!" Sun Erwei said, and then pulled out his pen from his pocket to add Wang Xuexin's request.
"Yes!" Wang Xuexin explained: "This thing is very suitable for combat in mountainous areas, and it is essential to suppress the Japanese grenade launcher!"
Sun Erwei asked a little strangely: "But we have a 60mm mortar, right? Its range is much further than that of the Japanese grenade launcher!"
This is true. The range of the m2 60mm mortar equipped by Eagle Sauce is 1.8 kilometers, several times the range of the Japanese grenade launcher. This is also one of the reasons why the grenade launcher was eliminated by mortars in the later period.
But Wang Xuexin shook his head and replied: "Mountain combat is different, Sun Erwei. That is a place without roads or cars, and even motorcycles cannot enter. It depends entirely on manpower. If an army wants to fight a battle in such a mountainous area for a few days or even weeks, how many mortar shells can it carry? How many grenades can it carry?"
The point of Wang Xuexin's words is that mountain warfare often requires quantity rather than power.
Although a grenade is small in power, its light weight means it can carry more, so it can provide more fire support to the troops.
Although a mortar shell is powerful, it can only carry a limited number of them. Even the m2 mortar is considered a small caliber, but it still weighs 40 kilograms.
Is it really appropriate to carry such cannons across mountains and rivers to implement interlude?
Therefore, although Wang Xuexin was extremely reluctant, he still gritted his teeth and cut the three mortars in the Eagle Sauce woven into two. The reason why two were needed was to form cross firepower when necessary.
The three M1919 machine guns and the M2 heavy machine guns were cut off... This is firepower that only Ying Jiang's logistics capabilities can support, otherwise a single bullet would be "did" by them and they would be gone in a few "did" moves.
What's more, this unit also uses semi-automatic rifles and squad light machine guns. If these machine guns are still kept, they will never be able to fight mountain wars.
Only two of the bazooka were left.
In this way, the light firepower platoon was left with only two mortars and two rocket launchers, plus a few riflemen carrying ammunition to cover artillery. The platoon was 20 people, and the 23 people were streamlined and 170 people in the entire company were 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 in this way?"
This is the fire phobia of Hawkshop. They are always worried that they have insufficient firepower, so they ask for more firepower...
So much so that machine guns are everywhere in the army, and there is a fire platoon at the first level of the company, and there is a fire platoon at the first level of the battalion... If the war starts, the bullets will be exported out like running water.
However, its shortcomings are also obvious: the Eagle Sauce army is extremely dependent on logistics maneuvers, which is the main reason why Eagle Sauce loses again and again on a battlefield with complex terrain.
"Sun Erwei!" Wang Xuexin only replied: "You must know that this is fighting in the mountains. Unless you can fight, you will be able to build the road wherever you can. Otherwise... how much capacity is needed to support so many machine guns? If there is no ammunition, what is the significance of the existence of those machine guns?"
Sun Erwei felt it made sense, so he nodded slightly and wrote down what Wang Xuexin said.
Wang Xuexin himself also made a list because he was worried that something would be missed. If he thought about it, it would be inconvenient for Sun Erwei to transport it.
After thinking about it several times, Wang Xuexin added: "In addition, a powerful crossbow is needed, and each row is equipped with one."
"Bound?" Sun Erwei was stunned. He actually needed a crossbow in such a modern war? He suspected that he had heard it wrong.
"Yes!" Wang Xuexin explained: "This is very important. Mountain warfare sometimes requires rock climbing. If there is a crossbow, it can save a lot of trouble. For example, sometimes you need to assassinate enemy sentries without gunfire, and you can also shoot flying claws on the cliff and hook the cliffs, or shoot trees across the river to quickly pass with pulleys!"
Sun Erwei nodded in agreement again with "Oh" and he felt a big eye-opener when he wrote on the notebook, and he thought to himself that this could be fought in war.
However, it sounds very reasonable. For example, troops usually use floating bridges or armed swimming across the river. However, the former is too slow and easily discovered by the enemy, which will develop into a tug-of-war, while the latter will cause damage to equipment and a series of troubles. If the enemy discovers it in the river, it will be a massacre.
But if you just shoot a rope to the other side and then quickly pass with a pulley... the enemy doesn't even have time to react.
At this time, Sun Erwei seemed to remember something and asked: "Wang, is 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 this way 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 planned to buy equipment from us to form such a team, but now he is here to go with the flow and get it for free?
But no matter how much I think about it, Sun Erwei can’t do anything to Wang Xuexin!
It is impossible to stop cooperation now, right?
If the cooperation is suspended now, this guy is afraid he will really fight with him. How can he explain to his superiors?
Forget it! Anyway, the country pays the money, as long as you can complete the task yourself!
Thinking of Sun Erwei, he thought it was unknown and asked: "Is there anything that needs to be added?"
Wang Xuexin looked at it and felt that it would be almost done with a multi-functional engineer shovel of the Eighth Route Army. However, there is no need to ask Ying Jiang for this thing. It should be Ying Jiang for the Eighth Route Army... So of course, you have to wait for Sun Erwei to speak.
Thinking of this, Wang Xuexin put the list aside and said, "Now, Sun Erwei, let's discuss the grenade!"
"Grenade?" Sun Erwei was a little puzzled: "This is your request, right? Is there any problem?"
Chapter completed!