This resulted in the fact that although the Japanese army encountered the Anti-Alliance Type 40 automatic rifle in the Northeastern battlefield, and the US military's M-Garand semi-automatic rifle, M-carbine and Thompson submachine gun in the Pacific battlefield, their German ally, in Europe, A large number of G 43 semi-automatic rifles and G 44 automatic rifles have been used on the battlefield, but he can still only use old-fashioned bolt-action rifles to face the enemy's overwhelming infantry firepower.
Even in 1943, huge amounts of troops were consumed on various battlefields, and the training of new recruits could no longer be guaranteed as at the beginning of the war. The quality of the soldiers also declined very quickly. There were even old soldiers and young soldiers in the Japanese army. When the policy of elite troops can no longer be maintained, the troops are equipped with a large number of automatic weapons and the density of firepower is used to make up for the lack of training.
The reason for not changing in the early stage is because for the Japanese base camp, as long as they cannot use their own standard ammunition, they will not equip it no matter how excellent the performance is. It is also quite shameful to rely on the rate of fire rather than the accuracy of shooting to suppress the enemy. Even if the troops below suffered a lot, they would not change their views.
The senior management thinks that the rate of fire cannot be compared, so can they compete with them with bayonet and long-range shooting accuracy? If they can't suppress it within 400 meters, they can use the Japanese army's generally excellent shooting skills to suppress it with precise shooting from 400 meters away. Do you want to keep them? If that doesn't work, you can add some sniper rifles to the frontline combat troops. It's not like the empire doesn't have sniper rifles.
The manufacture of sniper rifles that can be improved by using ordinary rifles is much easier than the production of automatic rifles, and it is also much more cost-effective. With the quality of individual soldiers of the Japanese army, mass training of field snipers who can shoot accurately from four hundred meters away, It's still very relaxing.
As for how many Japanese soldiers can shoot accurately at a distance of 400 meters? This has almost reached the level of professional snipers, and is equipped with a small number of snipers. Can they suppress the overwhelming enemy's small weapons at a distance of 400 meters? Firepower was not something that the top brass of the Japanese army could consider.
In the opinion of some senior Japanese military officials, they have automatic rifles. Isn't the Imperial Army also equipped with a large number of light and heavy machine guns? If rifles have the rate of fire of machine guns, then if machine guns are needed for anything, they should be equipped with rifles. The effective range is four hundred meters. It's not useless when facing machine guns.
If it really doesn't work, can we increase the number of light machine guns and use them to deal with their so-called automatic rifles? Type 38 and Type 99 rifles cannot suppress these automatic firearms, but light and heavy machine guns can still do it. Regardless of range and lethality, these Automatic rifles can even compare to light and heavy machine guns.
This is the same attitude towards semi-automatic rifles. As for fully automatic rifles, which waste more bullets, the Japanese will not imitate them. Apart from the short range, fast rate of fire, and waste of ammunition, the other two shortcomings in the eyes of the Japanese army are The Japanese stubbornly rejected the Anti-Japanese Type 40 rifle, which had both accuracy and a certain level of stabbing ability.
What's more, the automatic rifle equipped by the directly affiliated reconnaissance brigade is much shorter and cannot fight with a bayonet. In the eyes of the Japanese military leaders, this gun has no advantages other than a fast rate of fire and acceptable accuracy. Just kidding. Can a rifle that can't fight a bayonet still be called a rifle? What's the use of having only a high rate of fire?
If you can't fight with the bayonet, and wait for the bullets to be used up in a short time, do you want the imperial soldiers to raise their hands and surrender? Hand-to-hand combat is an important means for the imperial soldiers to win on the battlefield. If you can't fight with the bayonet, it will remove the imperial army from the battle. An important tactic, fighting behind enemy lines requires more attention to cherishing and saving ammunition.
Therefore, after the transformation was unsuccessful, coupled with the conservative ideas of the top management, and after many twists and turns, even though the Japanese army was well-informed and formed a special operations force, it was still equipped with Type 38 and Type 99 rifles. Type 9 light machine gun, grenade launcher, Type 92 heavy machine gun, and even Type 92 infantry gun.
In addition to a small number of pistols and light weapons, the Japanese army also did not equip these troops with the small number of Anti-Union 60 mortars, rocket launchers, recoilless rifles and other imitations that they captured on the battlefield, preferring to let this unit carry nine Two heavy machine guns and ninety-two infantry guns are used to perform this kind of combat mission.
Because the combat staff of the Japanese army believed that these weapons did have a certain effect and power, and were also very light, but they would produce fire when fired, which would reveal the whereabouts of their troops. Therefore, although the Japanese army copied some recoilless rifles, they distributed them To the Japanese troops everywhere, but the special forces formed by the Japanese army were still equipped with Japanese standard light weapons.
As for the various tactical trainings, they mainly adopted the combat methods used by the Japanese army during sneak attacks, that is, reconnaissance behind enemy lines, which was the most standard traditional reconnaissance operation mode in World War II, plus the combination with the Anti-Japanese Alliance During the many battles between the two armies, they learned a few techniques and tactics.
The general idea of it still did not change the Japanese army's inherent reconnaissance thinking. After all this trouble, a good special operations force, they said in Northeastern dialect, could not even be considered a tremor. They were copying cats and tigers. As a result, the Japanese and the Kwantung Army created a group of blind cats.
Of course, during the sneak attack on the Anti-Japanese Alliance, some Anti-Union weapons captured on the battlefield were also equipped. However, the main weapons, especially the suppressive weapons, were grenade launchers and 92 heavy machine guns that were deeply trusted by the Japanese army. At the critical moment, a 92 Infantry Cannon will be carried, and a saber must be worn. This must not be forgotten under any circumstances.
Although there were certain mistakes in the Japanese army learning special operations tactics and equipping their special forces with weapons and equipment, they still struggled a lot with light weapons. In the words of later generations, although they failed in the end, they had tried hard after all. Pass.
Although this so-called special force of the Japanese army had brought some losses to the Anti-Japanese Alliance, its losses on the battlefield far exceeded the results obtained, and it was defeated by the Anti-Japanese Alliance within a short period of time. Suffering heavy losses, they finally had no choice but to withdraw from the battlefield.
Although there were certain misjudgments, Yang Zhen's judgment was generally followed, and Guo Bingxun's worries did not become a reality. However, there was one thing that both he and Guo Bingxun made wrong, that is, the Japanese army's Judging from the military equipment destroyed in this battle and the resilience and determination of the South Manchuria railway system, neither of them expected that the Japanese army would spend such a large amount of money.
A considerable number of factories, the Japanese limited financial resources and equipment manufacturing and replenishment capabilities, as well as changes in the front line, were not able to recover until the end of the war. However, for those that could be recovered, the Japanese invested in almost crazy recovery methods, and in a short period of time Within a few days, most of them had resumed production.
Especially the Fengtian Arsenal, which was responsible for almost the entire supply of small arms and ammunition for the Japanese invaders and nearly half of the Japanese army's small arms production, although one-third of the machinery and equipment was moved away, especially the new machinery and equipment. , almost all the skilled workers and technicians were also taken away in one fell swoop.
There were only a few fish left that slipped through the net, and they simply could not afford to restore an arsenal. However, after the war, the Japanese base camp recruited a group of Korean technicians from the Incheon Arsenal in North Korea, and even the local Tokyo Arsenal and Osaka Artillery Factory. and workers, as well as most of the equipment transferred from the Pyongyang branch factory to replenish this arsenal.
And all the workers, equipment, and technical personnel of several arsenals established by the Chinese Dispatch Army in the pass were merged into the Fengtian Arsenal, and a large number of technical personnel were mobilized from the country to repair the bombed equipment in a short period of time. Transformation equipment, and transportation systems.
Less than two months after the end of the battle, Fengtian Arsenal resumed production. Although the output could not be compared with the previous supply to the entire Japanese army, the small arms and ammunition could basically meet the needs of the Kwantung Army after the war, and could provide supplies to the Kwantung Army. The Japanese army fought and provided some small arms and ammunition.
Even in the middle of 1943, when the Anti-Japanese Alliance and the US military bombed the Japanese mainland with increasing intensity, the output of the arsenal was sharply reduced due to the fierce bombing, and even when the mainland and North Korea were unable to start work, the Japanese base camp used South Korea to Located in northeastern China, the Anti-Japanese Alliance used vigilant tactics against its bombings, but never encountered heavy bombing.
The entire Tokyo Army Arsenal and the main body of the Incheon Arsenal were moved to Luda and part of it in Dandong. The Kokura Arsenal and the small arms portion of the Incheon Arsenal were moved to Fengtian and merged with the Fengtian Arsenal to ensure the supply of Army weapons and ammunition.
There was no way, the Anti-Japanese Alliance bombed the Japanese military industrial bases in Japan and North Korea without any mercy, and specifically used carpet bombing to bomb cities with dense Japanese military industries, trying to fundamentally reduce Japan's domestic military production capacity. Uprooted.
But for South Manchuria, where a large number of Chinese people gathered, except for the Lushun Naval Base, which was bombed by the Americans, the bombing of the entire South Manchuria area was just like a dragonfly. At most, they would come over every now and then and drop a few small bombs. It means, it means, it is the same as Compared to the Japanese mainland, which was in a mess due to bombing, the entire southern part of Manchuria is unusually safe and quiet.
Being bombed by the Anti-Japanese Alliance with increasing intensity, and as the war progressed, the US military also deployed more and more bombers to bomb Japan. Under the indiscriminate bombing, the bombed areas were almost untenable on the mainland. The Japanese Army could only find a place to move its arsenal.
What else should I do? Just watch these damn Chinese blow up all the arsenals and the cities where the arsenals are located. The damn Chinese are like a group of tarsal maggots targeting the Army. As long as there is an Army Every city with arsenal was bombed to the ground by them.
As for the nearby naval bases and arsenals, even if they were within their bombing targets, they would not lift a finger. Within half a year, the output of the six major local arsenals and North Korea's Incheon arsenal had dropped by half. After being bombed like this If we go down, all the guns and artillery of the army troops on the front line will probably run out of food.
Although they have always liked to stab people in the back, they are shady people, and they have always used every possible means to exploit and plunder, but they know clearly in their hearts what the Anti-Japanese Alliance is doing by doing this. They know very well that the goal of these Chinese people is Forcing them to move their factories to Manchuria to facilitate their attacks on the ground.
After these arsenals fall into their hands, they can immediately become a powerful helper for their own military production, doubling their military production capacity in a short period of time. By then, the Imperial Army's military production capacity will be reduced by half, and it will be unable to replace battle losses, and its strength will be completely reduced. One will wax and wane.
Even if they didn't have this idea, once the merged Fengtian Arsenal encounters any danger, the replenishment of the Imperial Army's weapons and equipment, especially the replenishment of light weapons, will definitely have a fatal impact. Their move, even if they do not The idea of taking the arsenal as one's own, but he must also have the idea of one pot.