Of course, Zhang Chi didn't know this yet. He was busy purge of Rabaul at this time!

This is mainly because the Japanese army has a tenacious fighting style... Although they knew that the situation was hopeless, that is, the ending of Rabaul's defeat and the destruction of the Japanese army could not be changed, they still insisted in every corner.

So in the tunnel, in the woods, and deep in the caves, there were gunfire and explosions everywhere.

Among them, the Japanese in the woods are particularly difficult to deal with... The ones in the tunnel and caves are at most, they will burn them with flamethrowers and it will be almost done. This thing is a magic weapon to deal with targets in the tunnel. Even if the tunnel turns around, it is useless. The flames will still run in. Even if the flames cannot burn the Japanese army hiding inside, they will drain the oxygen in the tunnel after burning for a period of time. Even if the Japanese army inside does not die, they will be unconscious. After waiting for a while, they will just go in and pick up people.

Those hiding in the woods were not that easy to deal with. The Japanese army still hid in the trees and fired cold guns as usual, and from time to time they would give the soldiers exposed to their guns, making the soldiers unable to defend themselves.

If these woods are flat, it would be fine. The tanks drove up and flattened the woods, but those places were more mountains where tanks could not move... This was a headache.

However, this problem was quickly resolved because the American warships soon brought piles of "Bazukka" bazooka to the New Division.

The "Bazukka" bazooka is an old equipment for Zhang Chi, a modern person, but this thing was a new type of equipment that just came out during this period.

The original intention of inventing it was of course to make up for the fact that the infantry did not have suitable anti-tank equipment... The anti-tank gun was too heavy and too large, and it was easily discovered and destroyed by the enemy. It was also restricted by terrain and logistics, and had poor mobility; anti-tank guns were generally insufficient in power and were powerless for tanks with slightly thicker armor, and they were more likely to deal with armored vehicles. Of course, it would be more than enough to deal with Japanese tanks.

However, the Allied battlefield is not just in the Pacific Ocean. In fact, there are not many cases where the US military needs to face Japanese tanks on the Pacific Ocean battlefield... This is because many islands in the Pacific are not suitable for tank combat, and tanks maneuvering between islands also requires the cost of transport of ships.

The Allies also needed to face Germany, which had a large number of tanks and was famous for its "blitzkrieg", on another battlefield, so the "Bazukka" bazooka was invented.

Its first application was in November 1942. On the battlefield in North Africa, the first US troops who received the bazooka went to the battlefield with this weapon without any training.

Although they did not hit the target because of their inexperience, the results were very surprising... The ambushed German tank thought they were blocked by the enemy's 105mm howitzer and then fired a white flag to surrender.

The name "Bazouka" is because this bazooka is very similar to a thick wind instrument in the United States.

Zhang Chi asked about the number of "Bazouka" such as Pitt who landed with the rocket launcher. Pitt's answer was that there were a total of 1,000.

This surprised Zhang Chi for a long time and couldn't speak. He thought that this American was really a big deal and threw a thousand bazooka at the New Division casually... Later, he realized that these bazooka were nothing to the United States, because the production of Bazooka was very simple and fast, and the first batch of trial production was produced in 30 days.

The reason why the Americans were lucky to come to Rabaul at this time was that they originally planned to use it for the New Division to fight Japanese tanks... During previous reconnaissance, American pilots found that there were Japanese tanks on Rabaul, and anti-tank guns were difficult to transport them to the ashore during landing wars, so they urgently transferred a batch of "Bazuka" to come.

But unexpectedly, the Rabaul battle ended before "Bazouka" arrived on the battlefield.

Even so, "Bazukka" still played a big role in Rabaul... This thing is so convenient. You can just fly it on your shoulder and then fire a cannonball out, which is especially effective for Japanese snipers hiding in the jungle.

The Japanese snipers who were usually dealt with in the trees were mostly bombarded with cannons or tanks. If they were in places where cannons and tanks were difficult to maneuver, such as deep in the jungle, they could only fight for their lives and attack with snipers.

But there is no problem now, because the soldiers can easily carry the "cannon" on their shoulders. Once they find that there are Japanese snipers hiding from a tree or there may be snipers, then they can just pick up the "Bazouka" and bang the tree. Anyway, Americans have some shells, so they don't need to save them.

This allowed the soldiers to clear the remaining Japanese troops of Rabaul smoothly. While greatly reducing casualties, they also practiced the use of "Bazuka".

The fellow villager even took a photo of "Bazuka" and sighed: "Damn it! This thing the American invented is good, and he will never be afraid of the Japanese's grenade launcher again!"

What the fellow villagers said is right... Although the Japanese grenade launcher looks small, due to the large number of equipment and the high quality of Japanese grenade launcher shooters, they often can hit grenades to our position based on their feelings, so the soldiers are very afraid of it.

With the equipment and strength of the Expeditionary Force, the Japanese grenade launcher should be described as "fear". In China, there is basically no effective way to suppress the Japanese grenade launcher... The Expeditionary Force can also use powerful firepower such as artillery, mortars, machine guns, etc. to suppress the Japanese grenade launcher. If the domestic troops lack guns and bullets, they will basically have to be bombed in front of the grenade launcher.

On the other hand, the Japanese army was very good at close combat, so they fired grenade launchers a little further away, threw grenades later, and then charged again, and there was basically no position they could not capture.

In the end, he had no choice but to fight. He thought that the best weapon to suppress the grenade canister was the grenade canister, so he imitated the Type 27 grenade canister in the form of the Japanese grenade canister.

However, due to the quality and workmanship of the Type 27 grenade launcher, the range is not as good as that of the Japanese grenade launcher, especially the grenade launcher shooter, which is not as good as the Japanese... This is determined by the shortage of domestic materials. It is rare for the **** grenade launcher shooter to have the opportunity to practice live ammunition, so of course, it is impossible to fight with only one's feelings like the Japanese army.

So in the end, **** suffered repeated losses in front of the Japanese army.

But now, the bazooka with a range of more than 600 meters is in hand, while the range of the Japanese grenade launcher is only more than 200 meters, which means that the bazooka shooter can suppress the Japanese grenade launcher and bombard the Japanese grenade launcher on the second line of defense!
Chapter completed!