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During the game of bargaining, Ding Wei gained the upper hand and obtained a 50mm cannon, and is rapidly replacing the equipment for his troops.

The first batch of newly produced mortars was pulled to the front line, along with the mortar shells.

Take advantage of the rest time to train mortar operators and understand the use of new combat weapons.

Combined with company-platoon tactics, it is used for charge fire support.

Weapons that can supplement the company and platoon support firepower and greatly enhance the squad's breakthrough capability.

When facing heavy machine guns, bunkers, and fortifications, there is an additional means of infantry counterattack.

It is not necessary to wait for support from anti-tank artillery and infantry artillery; the charging troops are also qualified to counterattack.

If an assault spearhead company has three or six guns, wouldn’t the firepower be enormous?

The 50mm mortar is indeed good, but the logistics capabilities need to be enhanced, the mountain road from Wucheng to Rehe needs to be continuously repaired, and supplies need to be transported by cars and horse-drawn carriages.

Zhang Dabiao and Gao Qing were both there, accompanying Ding Wei to inspect the mortar training.

The 50mm mortar has little power and is mainly used to enhance the squad's assault firepower and pose a threat to the Japanese invaders' heavy machine guns.

Zhang Dabiao disagreed, "After taking Chaoshi and Chifeng, our front was mostly plains, with tanks and armored forces providing cover, and three or five divisions were able to clear it."

With so many field guns and heavy guns, they naturally look down on the small guns in front of them.

This is how the column commander can be understood. After all, the situation he sees is division-level supporting firepower, which requires caliber, range, and power.

The 122mm howitzer is what the column artillery regiment pursues.

Compared to Soviet howitzers, mortars are just small water pipes.

But the company commanders and battalion commanders below can’t let go of the small water pipes, as they can be used as part of the charge with the troops and can be pulled to the front line.

The artillery is indeed powerful. Can it follow the company's actions?

If this thing had been available in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japan, a single company would have dared to ambush a Japanese infantry squadron and use the range to take out the enemy's heavy machine guns, thus easily defeating them.

Short-range supporting firepower, medium-range supporting firepower, and then long-range supporting firepower.

Individual soldiers need 50mm mortars more, after all, they are available on call.

Howitzers are good things, but the key is that Ding Wei doesn’t have many of them, only more than 70.

At that time, the two Soviet-equipped divisions were given 56 guns, and 12 more were sold afterwards. Ding Wei himself supplemented 18 guns with ambush rewards.

Excluding the damaged howitzers, there were only 76 in the army.

The Russians are stingy. The Far East Army is still using old-style artillery. It is impossible for them to sell more howitzers to Ding Wei.

The more of these the better, let’s start with 200.

Taking inventory of the artillery in hand, the number in service is 150 36mm heavy artillery, and the number of captured has always been small. The heavy artillery regiment of the devil is the treasure at the bottom of the box, and it will not be lost easily.

122 76mm howitzers.

75 76mm (including 128mm) field guns.

More than 75 200mm mountain cannons.

120 93mm mortars.

More than 81 500mm mortars.

Sometimes you don't know if you don't count. He secretly stuffed the captured guns on the battlefield into his troops, and as time went by, he had more than 500 artillery pieces.

81mm mortars are not included, only supporting firepower with a caliber of 75 mountain guns and above is counted.

Including mortars, he now has 1000 artillery pieces, but it is still not enough. He needs at least 2000 pieces to live up to the name of Ding Wei.

"Zhu Zi, don't worry about the small artillery. Let each column train talents. The field artillery and heavy artillery must be managed in a unified way to continuously improve the overall quality of the artillery."

"Study what you need to learn, study further what you need to learn, every shell is hard-earned, use it to the best of your ability."

Zhuzi no longer has his fat face, but has now become one with determination. He has multiple artillery regiments at his command, and has a long way to go.

For the next battle, the artillery regiment has a heavier task and requires gunners to have a higher level of combat capabilities.

As for tanks and planes, Ding Wei was not worried. He would keep some of the skills he learned from the Russians, and the rest needed to be improved according to the troops and local conditions.

This is what Chinese soldiers are best at, they are better than their predecessors and are good at summarizing and learning.

For example, the semi-automatic rifle in hand is controversial among the Russians. The army criticizes it for its poor performance and frequent jams.

When it came to Ding Wei's hand, the squad leader and others who were first assigned stayed up late to learn how to maintain firearms.

Train during the day and study at night, and learn to maintain your gun independently within a week.

It takes a month to figure out every part with your eyes closed.

Precisely because weapons are so scarce, comrades cherish them even more.

The faith in their hearts drives them to not fear hardship or sacrifice, and to maximize the effectiveness of the weapons in their hands.

Semi-automatic rifles are equipped to the most elite companies in the column and have very good combat effectiveness.

We can consider purchasing another batch of semi-automatic weapons from the Far Eastern Army and equipping them to mechanized combat brigades.

Ding Wei has four types of military weapons, including the Soviet-style water-jet rifle, the semi-automatic SVT40, the Japanese Type rifle, and the domestically produced Type rifle.

Soviet and Japanese weapons each accounted for half, and there were not many domestically produced rifles and cavalry.

You can consider purchasing more semi-automatic rifles to ensure the combat effectiveness of the mobile forces.

Cavalry divisions, mechanized combat brigades, assault companies, etc. can all be equipped with semi-automatic rifles first. The current shortage is more than 2, which is not a small number.

"First, send a telegram to Anov in my name. Our army needs to purchase 2 SVT semi-automatic rifles and 3000 PPSh submachine guns. The price is negotiable."

Whether it can be procured is another matter. Let’s first raise this matter with Anov so that the people in the military district can also have this expectation in mind.

If one day Ding Wei takes out several thousand rifles with the reward, he can also blame it on Brother Mao and have the right to reason with him.

The troops won a victory and gained an advantage in the Mengjiang area. The detachment stationed in the Mudanjiang area also received new combat missions.

Expand the base area, clear out the forests and snowfields, and contact comrades in the Anti-Japanese United Army to the north.

At that time, the volunteer army grew to more than 100,000 people, but unfortunately they could not withstand the Japanese artillery and planes. After suffering heavy losses, they had to evacuate to the north of Mudanjiang.

Under the protection of the Soviet big brother, we were able to gain some breathing space.

After the various armies gathered here, they were reorganized into the Far East 88th Brigade to maintain the spark of resistance in the border area.

Now Ding Wei's troops have taken root in the Northeast region. They have both the troops and the equipment. The Suirecha Military Region has become entangled with the Kwantung Army.

The current situation has initially provided an opportunity for a local counterattack.

We should contact various forces, unify them, and jointly hand over the butcher knife to the Kwantung Army.

In October 44, heavy snow began to rage. After the war in Tongliao ended, the troops had to rest and recuperate.

Maintain daily patrol training, actively develop offline forces, and continue to infiltrate the Kwantung Army.

Duan Peng's special forces and the troops of the Mudanjiang detachment entered the mountains and forests in large numbers, searching for the bandits, finding them and annihilating them.

Infiltration progress has been made in Xinjing, Fuxin, Fengtian and Harbin. The Japanese intelligence department has been constantly clearing out hidden personnel, but the result is that the system is still resilient.

These undercover agents came one after another, burrowing into the very foundation of the Kwantung Army.