Chapter 55 Equipment

  As soon as he thought of the almost invincible assassination techniques of Little Japan, Gaoquan felt a severe headache. In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the Eighth Route Army could rely on the remaining combat backbone from the Long March and some soldiers with a certain martial arts foundation to contend with the Japanese, but once the troops began to expand, the combat quality quickly declined. When facing the well-equipped and powerful Japanese army with strong close-range assassination techniques, it would be a disaster! The decline in the number of Eighth Route Army troops during the difficult period from 1941 to 1942 was all related to this!

  The Imperial Japanese Army's Type 38 rifle not only had a long length, but also came with a bayonet that was as long as 0.53 meters! This made it even longer than the Nationalist Party's best Zhongzheng rifle with its bayonet attached, by a whole 0.1 meters! On the battlefield, this became a fatal distance, and the small defect cost countless soldiers their lives! (The steel used for the bayonets was also extremely difficult to produce, and the Nationalist government's steel mills were unable to meet the demands of the front lines, not to mention guaranteeing the quality of the steel!)

  The regular troops of the Kuomintang are still like this, let alone the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, which lack guns, ammunition, and even bayonets! They cannot overpower the enemy with firepower, nor can they gain an advantage in close combat. The consequences will be very severe!

  Gao Daquan had high hopes for the Northwest Army's Big Sword Team, but when he learned from the Northwest Army's top swordsmen that they were often suppressed by the enemy's firepower at a distance of 50 to 100 meters and could not charge forward, resulting in heavy casualties. Even if they managed to rush to the enemy's front line, they would be hindered by the high requirements for footwork agility and strength, leading to severe losses in close combat!

  Looking at the dusty and passionate training ground, those soldiers with pale faces and relatively weak physical fitness. "Tell them to engage in close combat with the Japanese? Isn't that just sending them to their deaths?"

  Although at an earlier time, Gao Quan had organized a special team in each camp, fully equipped with Mauser C96 pistols, Bergmann MP18 submachine guns and Thompson M1928A1 submachine guns. Everyone carried a large knife on their back and eight hand grenades. However, this was still too few! Moreover, these three powerful weapons were of different calibers, 9MM and two other types! Once the battle started, these bullets would be consumed quickly, and it would drive the logistics department crazy to find more ammunition!

  Especially the Thompson made in Shanxi, powerful and strong firepower, but with Yan Xishan's stingy attitude, once the battle starts, the bullets are consumed, this batch of hard-won Thompsons is no different from scrap metal! The repair shop's reloaded rounds, pointed bullets, heavy bullets, rifle and light and heavy machine gun consumption are not enough, where is there spare energy to provide ammunition for Thompson?

  Although the ordinary troops of the Japanese army, after leaving the firepower and rocket launcher cover, with their weak machine gun firepower, it is really hard to say that they have strong combat effectiveness. However, those old soldiers' rifles in their hands are almost 100% accurate, which may just drill a small hole in your body when you charge! Not to mention the slow-firing but highly accurate Type 92 heavy machine gun, and at a distance of three or four hundred meters, those skilled rocket launcher operators can form a deadly blockade line with an accuracy rate of 95%.

  For the three treasures of the Japanese army, artillery fire, 92-style machine guns, and grenade launchers, the strong alliance was something that Gao Quanwan couldn't deal with in a short period of time. The more than 50 remaining 50mm seamless steel pipes could only be left for future imitation of the 89-style grenade launcher.

  So the high squad must solve the problem of close combat in a short period of time! Whether it's leaving the last bullet in the rifle and then shooting at close range with the upper red shell; or a charging gun, a shotgun, a big knife formed by an assault team; are just temporary choices. It's not something that can be popularized as a deadly killer trick! As for the famous Tianlei cannon in the Liberation War, its strong explosive consumption ability, or a range of one to two hundred meters, and extremely poor shooting accuracy, are not weapons that the high squad can now afford to ask for.

  I loathe those meetings with the high-ranking officials, leaving the Eighth Route Army headquarters with a confused mind and a pair of study materials in hand. It's inevitable to go to the front line within a month. However, the high-ranking official still hasn't found the secret to winning in close combat, despite the soldiers' knife skills being so sharp, the assault team's gunfire being so dense, and the large-caliber cannons' power being so great.

  In the vast and profound mind, however, were the charging Eighth Route Army, holding gleaming bayonets and carrying azure-colored rifles. At the moment when two crowds of different colors were about to collide, the single-shot cannons only swept down a circle of enemies in front, while the little Japanese behind still held their super-long Type 38 Arisaka rifles, with pieces of medicinal flags, still charging forward. Sharp and bloodthirsty eyes, with a hint of disdain on their faces.

  The Japanese soldiers, trained and skilled, clashed with the Eighth Route Army in a fierce battle. The sound of clashing bayonets, the dull thud of rifle butts striking flesh, the anguished cries of the dying, and the triumphant roars of the victors filled the air. Red eyes gleamed amidst the smoke-filled battlefield littered with corpses and shattered remnants. Lonely figures wandered aimlessly, their ears ringing with mournful wails and anguished cries.

  A nightmare-like feeling suddenly woke Gao Quan, quietly wiping away the cold sweat on his head. On the mountain ridge under the gentle breeze, it was cool and refreshing, but Gao Quan's whole body had already been soaked with sweat!

  Wearing a military belt, carrying a huge shotgun on his back, he walked down the mountain with a bit of shyness, looking at the pile of concerned eyes of the Eighth Route Army leaders below, and his face inadvertently flushed with a hint of embarrassment, like a young girl caught thinking about love.

  It was still that spacious conference room, dozens of large and small commanders above the Eighth Route Army gathered together to discuss Gao Quan's deep worries about the Japanese army's bayonet fighting ability.

  Young General Lin looked around at this young all-around talent, his misty eyes seemed to be shrouded in a thick fog that couldn't be seen through! Deep down, everyone was also secretly wondering about the strong grasp of details possessed by this young all-around talent, and the experiences of the 116th Brigade had made everyone deeply aware of the cleverness of Gaoquan's brain.

  The independent and self-reliant mountain guerrilla warfare, is a well-known and even highly skilled movement among the masses. However, they found that the "High All-around" tactic, which relies on ambush as its foundation, and short and swift assault - namely, to engage in close combat with the enemy within 50 meters and neutralize the Japanese army's firepower advantage, seems so brilliant.

  The gap that was generated by the bayonet fighting with the Japanese army, however, was not familiar to the enemy after a burst of gunfire, and then charging and hand-to-hand combat with the White Army. Although the Japanese army's bayonet fighting ability was very strong, this was also a paper-based strength, and no one knew how big the gap was without witnessing it with their own eyes. These oversights were only noticed by everyone after countless long marches and battles, and after huge sacrifices!

  In a dull and brief meeting, someone proposed, on the basis of experience with the "Big Sword" squad, large-caliber guns, and flamethrower assault teams, to modify shotguns similar to hunting rifles using heavy machine gun bullets. After all, the Red Army had made many single-shot guns at first, and now it seemed not too difficult to use them as shotguns!

  Suddenly, like a wolf, the dark blue eyes stared at Chen Traveling, making his heart feel hairy. Although he had also saved the still very revolutionary old Jiang's life at that time, although he usually loved to joke and tease everyone...

  The transformation target selected by Gaoquan is the shell of the 20mm high-altitude cannon that performed well in the January 28th War and Fu Zuoyi's Hundred Regiments Campaign, as well as the Swiss Solothurn S-18/1000 20mm anti-tank rifle. Moreover, Gaoquan had also collected a large number of these things when he was in Xi'an, especially the German FLAK 38 type 20mm cannon shells equipped by the Nationalist Central Army, totaling over 20,000 rounds.

  Although for the sake of making a double-barreled shotgun, Gao Quan sent 6 brand new 75mm mountain guns and 6 82mm mountain guns to the Party Central Committee, which were used to establish an artillery instructor team for the Anti-Japanese Military-Political School.

  The anti-war movement seems to have started somewhat differently!

  Grandma's wireless network card hasn't been opened for 7 days, and it can't be turned on at first, can't get online!!