At the same time, the recoil of these Tokarev pistols is too large when shooting. Although the accuracy is better than the Mauser pistol when shooting rapidly, it is much worse than the Browning pistol. When shooting rapidly with one hand, the muzzle jump is difficult to control, especially when The directivity of emergency shooting is quite poor. This shortcoming is undoubtedly very fatal to the combat nature of the directly affiliated reconnaissance brigade.
At the most critical time, when fighting in a narrow space, the bullets of this pistol have a lot of remaining power. Although it has strong penetrating power, it is precisely because the power is too high that it can easily form ricochet, causing unnecessary casualties. This This is also the least popular aspect of the Soviet-made Tokarev pistol.
Unlike ordinary troops who use pistols as self-defense weapons and have few opportunities to use them on the battlefield, for the directly affiliated reconnaissance brigade, the pistol is a very critical close combat weapon, especially when fighting indoors or in close-range street combat. Because rifles or submachine guns have too much damage and are much bulkier, there are quite a lot of opportunities to use pistols.
As for the Soviet-made Tokarev pistol, in this case, the bullet has high penetrating power and small stopping effect. At close range, it is often difficult to kill with one shot because of the high penetrating power, and the enemy still has the chance to resist. situation, and for the directly affiliated reconnaissance brigade that often encounters street fighting and indoor combat, shooting at extremely close range within twenty meters is almost commonplace.
In this regard, the Tokarev pistol is comparable to the 38-type rifle. Both have excessive penetrating power. Especially when shooting at close range, the trajectory is too straight, making the lethality relatively poor. However, this shortcoming Perhaps it is not a particularly fatal danger for rifles that mainly shoot at a distance of one hundred meters, but for pistols, it is a different matter.
If you shoot within a distance of five to ten meters, your bullet will pass through the person's body, but because of the small stopping effect, it will not cause the person to completely lose their ability to resist in the first place, allowing the opponent to still have the ability to fight back. Then Next step, you may be the unlucky one.
Moreover, due to its excessive penetrating power, shooting indoors and in narrow alleys can easily form ricochet bullets with extremely irregular trajectories. Ricochets are not bullets fired at aimed shots. They have no accurate aim at all. He doesn't know how to do that. Recognize which one is the enemy and which one is one of your own. When used in a small space, it can easily cause accidental injuries to your own people.
During last summer's battle, the Directly Affiliated Reconnaissance Battalion, the predecessor of the Directly Affiliated Reconnaissance Brigade, cooperated with the troops to seize the Japanese fortress group in the East Manchuria area. There was an exchange of fire indoors, killing three people with one shot. During the final attack inside the fortress, During the clearing campaign, in a sudden encounter with the enemy, a Tokarev pistol bullet fired by a soldier penetrated a Japanese officer and then entered the body of the guard behind him.
But the next bullet with extremely strong penetrating power did not completely lose its lethality. After it hit the wall and ricocheted, its power did not decrease. This bullet penetrated two enemies and then hit the wall, forming a ricochet. The ricochet opened the skull of the soldier who fired the bullet. The soldier who was unlucky enough to be hit by his own bullet died on the spot.
But the first guy who was hit by him did not completely lose his combat effectiveness because the bullet passed through his body. The guy who was struggling to death used his Southern Fourteenth Style gun to shoot down a follow-up soldier. Injured, the Anti-Alliance officers and soldiers who participated in the battle only killed two Japanese officers and soldiers, but one of them himself was killed and injured.
Because the stopping effect is too low and the penetration is too large, when fighting indoors or in narrow alleys or courtyards, when using a pistol, the bullet will ricochet when it penetrates the opponent's body and hits the wall, which in turn will cause casualties to oneself. This is not the case in combat, and the accuracy of this type of pistol is somewhat affected due to its poor directivity.
This kind of pistol is really powerful. For opponents with simple cover, its lethality can be said to be astonishing. Even if the opponent is hiding on the sofa, in the car, or even behind the mailbox, it will be difficult to avoid its damage. But indoors or in small places When fighting in the alleys or courtyards, the secondary lethality of its ricochet is also quite troublesome.
The most critical thing is that this kind of pistol has no safety. The hammer safety alone is extremely unreliable. Misfires and slides occur from time to time. In many cases, in order to avoid accidental injuries and exposure of combat intentions due to misfires, the troops can only When making big moves, remove all the bullets from the pistol.
This situation is not a big disadvantage for ordinary combat troops. If it is a field battle or a positional battle, and commanders at all levels reach the point of using pistols, I am afraid that the battle is destined to be lost, but for special forces Considering the nature of the force, the reconnaissance brigade directly under the military region is a serious problem.
This kind of pistol has obvious advantages and disadvantages, so the direct reconnaissance brigade hates it and loves it. What I love is that this pistol has a simple structure and strong penetrating power. Even if the opponent has certain cover, it is difficult to avoid it. It kills, and the pistol bullets it uses have a certain lethality even at a distance of more than a hundred meters.
The most important thing is that the reliability of this pistol is still good. Apart from some minor problems, its adaptability to harsh environments is unmatched by ordinary pistols. Even if it is soaked in mud or water, it can still be taken out. You can start directly without any cleaning.
What I hate about this gun is that although it has no major problems and its adaptability to harsh environments is quite good, there are also many small problems. Although it is strong enough, the jamming problem is enough to kill people on the battlefield, and When fighting in a small space, the lethality of this second attack is staggering.
At the same time, due to the excessive penetration, it is difficult to cause fatal damage to the opponent with one shot when shooting at close range. At this time, there is no such thing as a bulletproof vest. The pistol has poor stopping effect when shooting at close range, unless it hits the target. Otherwise, the damage caused to the opponent will not be fatal in many cases. When this kind of pistol is fired at close range, even if it hits the opponent, it is usually only one shot in two eyes, which cannot completely destroy the enemy's combat effectiveness.
Of course, if it is at a distance of about 25 to 50 meters, the lethality of this pistol is absolutely amazing. If a shot hits, the minimum injury will be a slight injury, but who can guarantee that every time a shot is fired, it will be at a distance of 25 meters. From a distance, especially when fighting indoors or in a small space, it is quite common for the shooting distance to be less than ten meters.
You must know that when the reconnaissance brigade directly under the military region uses pistols, many of them are indoors or at very close distances. When they cannot use other weapons and can only use pistols, if they fight in a small space and use automatic rifles, then Undoubtedly, he felt that his life was short, even if it was an intermediate-type bullet of anti-alliance equipment, its ricochet lethality would be astonishing when fighting in this kind of space.
After the battle last summer, many cadres and soldiers in the directly affiliated reconnaissance brigade reported and asked to change their guns. Of course, a large number of cadres and soldiers believed that this kind of pistol could penetrate a six-centimeter brick wall at a distance of 25 meters. It has great power and simple structure. It is also proposed to retain this kind of pistol.
After repeated research, in view of the excellent performance of the Browning M 1935 pistol, which would remain an excellent pistol for many years to come, Yang Zhen decided to order 10,000 9mm bullets from the United States. The magazine has a capacity of thirteen rounds, and the accuracy is excellent. The most important thing is the Browning M1935 pistol with good stop function. It is used as a combat pistol for the directly affiliated reconnaissance brigade.
However, despite the replacement of new pistols, the Soviet-made Tokarev pistols originally equipped by the directly affiliated reconnaissance brigade have not completely withdrawn from the equipment sequence. Each combat group, that is, each combat squad retains one or two. In order to ensure penetration when necessary.
As for the rest of the combat troops, considering the versatility of submachine gun ammunition and the different combat tasks of general troops, they are mainly engaged in field combat. Even in street fighting, opportunities are not common. The most critical issue is the cost, so they will continue to use it. The Soviet-made Tokarev pistol is used as a sidearm for grassroots commanders.
However, considering the particularity of the guard force, especially when guarding in the city, a pistol with excessive penetration can easily injure civilians. When performing guard tasks on the battlefield, automatic rifles or submachine guns are generally used, so Yang Guardsmen with cadres at division level and above also equipped themselves with this type of pistol and used it as a personal security weapon.
The old commander, who did not know that there were so many reasons why this kind of pistol appeared in the Anti-Japanese League, felt that the Anti-Japanese League was now equipped with two pistols of different calibers. This seemed a bit wasteful. An army equipped with Two standard combat pistols with different calibers are simply unnecessary.
Moreover, this is only done in other secondary military regions, which are equipped with more than ten kinds of pistol calibers, and even many pistols, each with only a few rounds of bullets. Except for the Mauser pistols, which have relatively uniform bullet calibers, the rest of the pistols rarely have The caliber is the same. When your own army is already equipped with a combat pistol with excellent performance, it is undoubtedly a wasteful move to start a new combat pistol with a completely different caliber.
The Soviet-made Tokarev pistol is the standard configuration of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. This veteran once test-fired this pistol used by troops delivering food to him. He felt that although it had certain flaws, especially the recoil was a bit too large, But its performance is still very good. The most important thing is that it has a simple structure and excellent adaptability. Its power is even higher than the various shell guns currently equipped by the customs forces, and its accuracy is also better than that of the shell guns.
It can be said that among the various pistols I have used, the performance is definitely top-notch. Although the accuracy is slightly worse than the Browning pistol, and the recoil is much greater, the lethality is greater than the Browning pistol. It is much heavier and lighter than the Mauser military pistol. Compared with the Browning pistol, which is commonly used as a self-defense pistol, it is more suitable for use as a combat pistol.
At this time, China has almost become the reason for the small arms exhibition halls around the world. This veteran, who has been in the army for thirty years, although he cannot say that he has used all kinds of domestic pistols, he knows very well about the Soviet-made pistols. He still admires the performance of the Tokarev pistol.
This kind of pistol is very suitable for the current low cultural level of the army, so he believes that it is completely unnecessary for the Anti-Japanese Alliance to develop a pistol at this time, and it is also a waste of relatively limited resources. For Yang Zhen, it has two functions. Although he didn't say anything about the similar pistol, he seemed to disagree.
But in the ensuing battle, a close battle to eliminate an infiltration of Japanese and puppet plainclothes troops and rescue the members of the Art Troupe of the Propaganda Department of the Political Department of the advancing army who were held hostage, in addition to witnessing the combat effectiveness of the Anti-Union Guards In addition, with the perspective of thirty years in the army, he quickly realized Yang Zhen's intention of acquiring such a pistol.
The old commander's observation did not last long. Before his patience ran out, his thoughts were interrupted by a report from the head of the security regiment who was responsible for the security of the advancing army headquarters and who finally understood the situation. It was just that this The report from the head of the guard made the old commander very angry.