Chapter 692 Zhou Weihan: American equipment is good
Zhou Weihan and Zhou Weihan were sitting in the back seat of the jeep. Under Zhou Weihan's guidance, the American soldier driving the car stepped on the accelerator and drove away outside Changzhi City.
Zhou Weihan had never considered the matter of letting the transport convoy enter the city. Changzhi City was a mixed bag, and there might be spies planted by the Japanese.
As soon as the jeep driven by the Americans left, the following convoy immediately received the signal and followed the jeep's forward route. The reconnaissance company was immediately divided into two, one group was closely guarding Zhou Weihan's safety, and the other group was preparing to hang behind the convoy.
Lieutenant Fan Hanjie, who stayed where he was, looked at the monk and looked at each other with sparks in his eyes. However, he saw the monk Shi Shiran get on his horse, lead Zhou Weihan's horse and then run away.
"Why are you still standing there, your eyes are just for venting your anger? Protect the safety of the main seat, quickly!" the adjutant shouted at Fan Hanjie's guards.
When he first got on the bus, Zhou Weihan chatted with the U.S. Army second lieutenant from time to time, but in the end, he got upset after just a few words.
Fortunately, they were escorted by Fan Hanjie's guards. When they passed the defense area of the 27th Army along the way, soldiers from all over the place let them go. The convoy quickly arrived at the junction of the defense areas of both sides. Ding Wei and Xu Dali, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately led the people.
Welcomed him.
At first, Zhou Weihan planned to transport the weapons and equipment back to Pingshun. Unexpectedly, the U.S. Army second lieutenant bluntly said that he could send them all the way to Pingshun.
"parking!"
When the jeep stopped, Zhou Weihan apologized to Fan Hanjie: "I originally wanted to take Brother Fan for a ride, but instead I wanted to fill my stomach with cold wind. I really hurt Brother Fan!"
Fan Hanjie tightened his military coat, rubbed his nose that was reddened by the cold wind, and jumped out of the car: "Let's go quickly, hurry up, hurry up!"
Zhou Weihan grinned when he saw this and said: "Brother Fan, we are destined to meet again!"
"The reconnaissance company will lead the way, the 281st regiment will accompany the escort, and the 279th regiment will withdraw later!" When Zhou Weihan gave the order, he glanced at Ding Wei. Ding Wei immediately understood Zhou Weihan's thoughts and nodded quietly.
When all the troops of the Tainan Military Region were stationed on the front line, the 27th Army worked with the Tainan Second Division to widen the road from Changzhi to Pingshun. However, this dirt road remained muddy whenever it rained or snowed.
, the soldiers of the 281st Regiment can still run up to the speed of a truck even if they only rely on iron foot plates.
Just as the convoy passed in front of Fan Hanjie in an orderly manner, the adjutant next to him pointed at several trucks in front of him: "Maintain, howitzer, isn't this the 105-caliber howitzer equipped by the Americans for the expeditionary force?"
Fan Hanjie looked in the direction pointed by the adjutant and saw an M2 105mm caliber howitzer being dragged behind four trucks.
"Damn it, the Central Army hasn't used it yet, but the Americans have equipped the Eighth Route Army first. What kind of ecstasy soup did Weihan pour into the Americans this week?" Fan Hanjie's face was uncertain, and he didn't know what he was planning.
"The main seat, right?"
"Forget it, there are at least a thousand people watching from the Tainan Division 1 troops across the way. Once a fight breaks out and harms the peace, the only ones who can benefit are the Japanese!" Fan Hanjie waved his hand to stop the adjutant's behavior.
In fact, the old man had already sent a secret telegram to the First War Zone, intending to intercept this batch of weapons and equipment in Luoyang, Zhongtiao Mountain, or Changzhi, and claimed that it could handle it on its own.
When Fan Hanjie received the telegram, he did have some thoughts, but after thinking about it, he felt that this batch of weapons and equipment could be intercepted by Luoyang and even Zhongtiao Mountain, but it must not be taken by Changzhi.
For a batch of weapons and equipment, it affected the stable relationship between the 27th Army and the Eighth Route Army in the Changzhi area. Everyone knew the stakes, and Fan Hanjie naturally would not do something small and lose big.
Fan Hanjie got on his horse and left without looking back. Even the jeep that Zhou Weihan had originally promised was forgotten. The soldiers of the 279th Regiment on the opposite side couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw this. No one dared to start a fight rashly.
In the first shot, no one can bear the charge of undermining the united front.
"Secretary, I just saw a truck dragging a few big guys there. Do you have a share in our division?" the guard on the side asked excitedly.
"Tch, what good thing are you thinking about? If these equipments are used scatteredly and cannot be of great use, the superiors must have made their own arrangements. It would be good if we can have some soup in one area. Please inform us that everyone will continue to strengthen their vigilance.
Evacuate in an hour!" Ding Wei finally said.
When the convoy successfully entered a camp outside Pingshun City, Zhou Weihan, who got off the jeep, couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.
U.S. Army Second Lieutenant Rooney had previously handed Zhou Weihan a document with a material list and asked Zhou Weihan to sign it. Now after reaching Pingshun, he actually took out a stack of documents from his briefcase.
A list of supplies was pulled out from the middle, and the remaining documents were instructions for the use of this batch of weapons and equipment.
"General Zhou, the quantities on this list are real. The previous one was just to prevent surprise inspections by the National Government along the way. Now you can have someone check it!"
"A few of us will stay in Pingshun for a while. If you don't understand anything, you can come and ask for advice at any time!" Rooney said happily.
"Second Lieutenant Rooney, thank you for your hard work," Zhou Weihan said, and asked Xu Dali to personally check the quantity, and then asked the personnel of the Transportation Department of the First Theater Zone and these American soldiers to go to another camp for dinner.
The most conspicuous among this batch of weapons and equipment are of course four 105-caliber howitzers. This gun was the main artillery of the US military during World War II. The artillery provided to the Eighth Route Army was an M2-type gun mount. It was exactly the same as the one used by the expeditionary force and used mechanized towing.
It weighs about two tons and has a range of 11 kilometers. It can launch m1 high-explosive bombs, m67 anti-armor high-explosive bombs, m84 color smoke bombs, m84 smoke bombs, m60 smoke bombs, m60 biochemical bombs, m1 training bombs and m14 training bombs.
Waiting for the shells.
This gun has German origin, and its performance and power are similar to the two existing Krupp 105 howitzers in the artillery regiment of the Hebei-Luyu Military Region. In contrast, the 150-caliber howitzer and 105-caliber cannon captured from the Japanese army are different.
It looks bulky on the outside.
The artillery battalion of the Expeditionary Force is equipped with 12 artillery pieces of this type, four in each company, which is exactly the number of howitzer companies this time.
At this time, Zhou Weihan was also puzzled, because when the Eighth Route Army wanted what equipment, everyone in the Eighth Route Army agreed that the 105-caliber howitzer was a strategic weapon after all. Even if the Americans agreed, the Nationalist Government would not necessarily allow the Eighth Route Army to have such a heavy artillery.
So it was not written on the supplies list.
The 18 75mm American mountain guns were all disassembled and packed in boxes.
The gun is extremely light, with a total combat weight of about 600kg. It can be towed by livestock and carried during marches, with a range of nearly nine kilometers.
In addition, there are six 40mm anti-aircraft guns and six 107-caliber heavy mortars. This gun weighs only about 160 kilograms. It is generally used to fire chemical bombs, but it can also fire ordinary high-explosive bombs.
20 M2 heavy machine guns, 1,000 Garand semi-automatic rifles, 600 carbines and corresponding individual equipment, including helmets, military uniforms, bayonets, and military boots.
200 scr-536 walkie-talkies and 50 backpack-type scr-300 walkie-talkies.
Zhou Weihan suppressed his inner excitement and watched boxes of weapons and ammunition being put into the warehouse. Dong Jiang on the side held a walkie-talkie in his hand and said, "Commander, this is a walkie-talkie? What if our reconnaissance company can be equipped with this?"
It will be more convenient to move around in the future, can you equip our reconnaissance company with a few more?"
"You guys are quick to start. The semi-automatic rifles in this batch of equipment can be given priority to equip the reconnaissance company. However, there are only a few walkie-talkies in total. I can give you three high-power walkie-talkies plus six low-power ones. There are more.
Don't think about it!" Zhou Weihan glanced at Dong Jiang and said.
"Monk, you and Dong Jiang go pick out a Garand and a carbine. Let's go to the training ground and try the guns!" Zhou Weihan didn't want to wait here. Monk and Dong Jiang saw good equipment more than they saw.
My daughter-in-law is kissing me, so I can’t bear it anymore.
The three of them quickly arrived at the training ground. Although it was their first time to come into contact with a semi-automatic rifle, the two people who tried the gun were both good at playing with guns and got started quickly.
On the training ground, gunshots rang out one after another. After the target reporter made the final target report, the two exchanged guns and started testing the guns again.
"American equipment is good. How are the performance of these two semi-automatic rifles?" Zhou Weihan said with a smile.
"Comrade **, Americans' weapons are very comfortable to use. This Garand rifle has strong firepower and stable performance. If our Eighth Route Army had a Garand rifle, we would have driven away the little devils long ago!" Monk said firmly.
He held the Garand rifle in his arms and refused to let go.
Zhou Weihan could tell at a glance what the monk was paying attention to: "You dare to think that this time the Americans gave 1,000 Garands, but they were equipped with only 600,000 rounds of .3 rifle ammunition. On average, each
This rifle only has 6,000 rounds of ammunition, and it will run out of ammunition if you are not careful. This Garand rifle is yours!"
"Thank you, *** member!" the monk responded happily.
Zhou Weihan immediately looked at Dong Jiang, wanting to see what he could tell him.
"Although these two rifles are both semi-automatic rifles, there is still a big difference. This Garand rifle has a much longer range than the 38-gun currently used by the Japanese army, and its muzzle velocity is faster. If it is used by veterans, the 3-8
The Garand can even suppress the firepower of Japanese machine guns!"
"At the same time, an eight-round clip is used for loading. When loading, the clip and bullets are put into the magazine together. After the last round is fired, the clip will pop out of the magazine and make a sound.
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"Good or bad. In this way, not only will we remind ourselves that if the two sides are too close when fighting, it will also remind the enemy that we need to reload, which may give the enemy an opportunity!"
"Besides, this carbine is much smaller in comparison. It is equipped with a 15-round magazine. Its function is similar to the flower mechanism currently used by my reconnaissance company, but it is much more stable in terms of performance!"
"It's a pity that although these two rifles use the same type of bullets, they cannot be used interchangeably!" Dong Jiang finally said with regret.
The M1 Garand rifle was the standard rifle of the U.S. Army during World War II. It was a semi-automatic rifle using the gas-operated principle and a long-stroke piston.
Designed in the 1930s, it was heavily equipped with the US military during World War II. Therefore, the US military was the only army during World War II to fully equip semi-automatic rifles to replace the old rotating bolt-action rifles.
Although other countries such as Big Brother Germany also have their own semi-automatic rifles, they only have a small amount of equipment and have not completely replaced non-automatic rifles.
The m1 carbine is another infantry weapon used by the US military in World War II. This gun was not originally designed to be equipped for ordinary infantry, but for officers, heavy weapons operators, drivers, signal troops and other non-frontline combatants as a self-defense weapon.
Zhou Weihan nodded after hearing this: "That's right. From now on, in addition to being equipped with walkie-talkies, all soldiers using rifles in the reconnaissance companies and special operations teams will be replaced with Garand rifles."
Although the boss had previously stated that Zhou Weihan would handle this batch of weapons and equipment on his own, Zhou Weihan had also discussed it with the Eighth Route Army headquarters.
Half of the walkie-talkies need to be allocated to the Taiyue, Taibei and Southern Hebei Military Regions for use, and the remaining weapons and equipment will be given priority to the troops in the Hebei, Shandong and Henan Military Regions.
It's okay to say that artillery and heavy machine guns are nothing more than concentrated use. Carbines can be equipped with grassroots squad and platoon-level cadres to serve as firepower points to make up for the shortcomings of submachine guns.
But for the Garand rifle, Zhou Weihan originally wanted to form a small assault group composed of M2 heavy machine guns, Czech light machine guns, mortars and Garand rifles with various levels of firepower, to give the Japanese army a fatal blow at the critical moment.
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On the same day, personnel from the First Theater Transportation Division evacuated to Changzhi, but Rooney and several US soldiers stayed in Pingshun to provide guidance.
That night, inside the headquarters.
"Hey, *** officer, I'm Dong Jiang, can you hear me?"
"I can hear you very clearly, so let's leave it at that. You must learn from our American friends carefully. It will be troublesome to find them after passing this village!"
What is currently going on is the test of the negative scr-300 high-power walkie-talkie. Dong Jiang is in the camp outside the city, and Zhou Weihan is at the headquarters.
"Old Zhou, this is too convenient. From the headquarters to the camp outside the city, it is at least ten kilometers away. How do you think this thing was developed?" Xing Zhiguo looked at the walkie-talkie in front of him and began to play with it curiously.
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"Americans have good equipment. Low-power walkie-talkies like this are equipped at the platoon level, while high-power ones are used by combat units above the company level. In this way, combat units at all levels can communicate at any time. How can it be like
Our Eighth Route Army is not even equipped with a radio station, so we can only rely on personnel to transmit messages." Zhou Weihan said.
"Good things are good things, but it's a pity that we don't have the ability to produce them ourselves and can only be controlled by others!" Xing Zhiguo couldn't help but sigh.
"Where do you come from so many emotions? It would be great if it can be used now. You see, when the little devils raid the Hebei, Shandong and Yu base areas, this thing will come in handy!" Zhou Weihan finally said.
