Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 54 Dagu Town

The Japanese attach great importance to the hierarchy, and this is not just a simple position, but what they value more is the military rank.

That's why after Yamamoto Ikki fled to Ping'an County, the captain of Ping'an County handed over his command so obediently.

Of course, it was not until 1955 that the Eighth Route Army discovered that all countries had military ranks, and it was inconvenient for them not to have military ranks.

So finally a military rank was created, but it was abolished after just ten years of use. It was not until 1988, twenty-three years later, that it was restored.

After the restoration, the importance of military rank was reflected.

For example, Yuan Lang, the squadron leader of the Old A Special Forces in the earliest special forces TV series I saw, Soldiers Assault, was a medium-level special forces officer with only dozens of special forces members under his command.

You should know that the rank of Zhongxiao is the basic rank for a regimental commander in ordinary troops!
But now the Eighth Route Army has no ranks, so Kong Jie can't do that. He can only use this method to ensure that Wang Gensheng has both the time and energy to train the special cavalry company without having a too low position.

However, what Wang Gensheng did not expect was that Kong Jie's support was not just to help manage the Third Battalion. On the third day, Kong Jie gave Wang Gensheng a surprise.

Kong Jie and his soldiers brought nine Type 96 light machine guns. Kong Jie looked at Wang Gensheng's surprised eyes and said with a smile:
"Training alone won't improve combat effectiveness much. Elite troops need elite weapons! Thanks to you, our New Second Regiment wiped out a Japanese squadron when we first arrived, and you later destroyed quite a few Japanese bunkers. So I scraped together nine of their light machine guns and tried to allocate one to each squad."

Wang Gensheng was deeply moved by Kong Jie's behavior. You know, Wang Gensheng was actually very troubled by the firepower problem of the special cavalry company.

You should know that there were no light machine guns in the weapons and equipment of the Japanese cavalry company. The reason for this was naturally to weaken their combat effectiveness. After all, in the eyes of the Japanese, the Japanese were originally there to stabilize local security and assist them in collecting food, so they did not need any strong firepower at all.

Therefore, the cavalry company of the new second regiment had no other weapons except cavalry swords and cavalry rifles.

After Kong Jie understood Wang Gensheng's idea and knew that Wang Gensheng actually wanted to build the cavalry company into the direction of the Japanese special forces, he also understood Wang Gensheng's difficulties.

After all, the reason why the Yamamoto Special Forces in Yangcun were able to achieve such a brilliant record was not only because these Japanese soldiers were well-trained, but more importantly, each of them had a submachine gun.

But unfortunately, on the battlefield of Huazhuang, submachine guns are more precious than light machine guns.

The entire New Second Regiment didn't even have a single submachine gun. Not to mention the entire New Second Regiment, even the entire Eighth Route Army didn't have many submachine guns.

Except for Yamamoto's special forces, submachine guns were basically not equipped in the ordinary Japanese troops.

Although the Japanese also produced submachine guns, for example, the Type 100 submachine gun was the main submachine gun model of the Japanese.

However, this submachine gun became a decoration because of its extremely fast ammunition consumption.

Only 30,000 were produced, but only 10,000 were sent to the front lines.

The rate at which frontline troops possessed it was even rarer than that of the Type 96 sniper rifle, which is why it was so difficult for the Eighth Route Army to seize it.

Of course, what is more important is that the performance of the Type 100 submachine gun, which uses the Japanese's unique 8mm pistol bullet, is so great that even the Japanese themselves are worried.

The reason it was so painful was mainly because the 8mm Nambu pistol round fired by the Japanese Type 100 submachine gun was not very powerful. Its kinetic energy was only 280 joules, slightly more than the 220 joules of the later famous Type 64 small-smashing cannon pistol. The power of the Type 64 small-smashing cannon was obvious to all. There was once a criminal who was shot four times and continued to run as if nothing had happened.

Therefore, the Type 100 submachine gun actually has another nickname, which is the Type 100 small cannon.

After all, it is naturally very difficult to hit someone with this amount of kinetic energy. You should know that the kinetic energy of a 9mm pistol bullet can reach more than 400 joules, and the kinetic energy of the 11.4mm pistol bullet used by the Yamamoto Special Forces can reach more than 500 joules, and because of its large caliber, its stopping effect is stronger.

Therefore, it is precisely because of the poor power performance that the Yamamoto Special Forces chose to use Mi's submachine gun instead of the nearby one.

The truth is that Yamamoto Ikki was extremely disappointed with the performance of his own Type 100 submachine gun. Of course, Yamamoto Ikki had no way to influence the Japanese to produce a submachine gun suitable for the special forces for him, so after choosing and choosing, Yamamoto Ikki chose the submachine gun that used .45 bullets produced by Mitsu.

The caliber is large, the stopping power is strong, and there will be no double-hitting situation, so this type of bullet is naturally very suitable for submachine guns in close-range melee combat.

This is also the reason why Yamamoto Ikki chose to use the Mikoto large-caliber submachine gun.

Although the Type 96 light machine gun weighs nearly ten kilograms, it cannot compare with submachine guns weighing less than five kilograms in terms of portability or accuracy when shooting while standing.

But it still has one advantage over submachine guns, that is, its range is far superior to that of submachine guns.

Wang Gensheng was very touched by Kong Jie's support. After all, the New Second Regiment was not as good as the old regiments like the New First Regiment and the Independent Regiment, and its foundation was really weak.

Although 500 people were drawn from the 772nd Regiment and the 771st Regiment to form the foundation of the new 2nd Regiment.

However, in addition to each person having an outdated old-fashioned barrel, there were only five light machine guns, with an average of only one per company.

As for heavy machine guns, there was not a single one. Although a lot of them were captured when fighting the Japanese later, there were only twenty light machine guns in total. As for heavy machine guns, there was not a single one.

Kong Jie directly provided support with nine light machine guns, which was equivalent to half of the light machine guns of the entire New Second Regiment.

Wang Gensheng was naturally very moved by Kong Jie's strong support. He immediately thought about fighting the Japanese and getting some equipment to strengthen the New Second Regiment. But unfortunately, the New Second Regiment had basically fought all the battles within a radius of 100 miles.

Those bunkers had been knocked down, and Liujia Town, the only place where the Japanese troops were stationed, had also been destroyed.

As for the rest, they are either too far to reach or too powerful to be defeated.

After all, the current New Second Regiment is not like the future Independent Regiment that dares to directly attack a county town where a large battalion of troops is stationed.

Not to mention a battalion at a time, under the cover of the city wall, Wang Gensheng had no intention of attacking Dagu Town, where even a squadron of Japanese soldiers was stationed.

That’s right, this Dagu Town is the one that caused the falling out between Li Yunlong and Chu Yunfei. Of course, Dagu Town is now also on the territory of Li Yunlong’s Independent Regiment. Even if Wang Gensheng had that idea, he would be embarrassed to fight.

(End of this chapter)