The most critical thing is that the current production of light weapons by the Anti-Japanese Alliance has been mainly concentrated on automatic rifles, squad machine guns, and general-purpose machine guns, which are the main equipment of the troops. In addition, in order to reduce the caliber types of light weapons, in addition to manufacturing some submachine guns for the internal troops
, the demand for submachine guns of the Anti-League itself has been reduced a lot.
The manufacturing and production quantity of this kind of weapons has actually been continuously decreasing. And as the army continues to expand, the demand for standard weapons is also increasing. A large part of the current military production capacity of the Anti-Japanese Federation must satisfy its own needs.
Due to the demand for major standard weapons, the remaining production capacity is quite limited.
As for the production of submachine guns, as the German submachine guns exchanged by the troops within the customs have begun to enter the army in large numbers, they have been suppressed again and again. To meet the needs of the Soviets, it is not only necessary to re-allocate the production lines, but also
Reduce the Anti-Union's own production of small arms.
At the same time, under the circumstances that the trophies handed over by the Soviets had to be repaired, there really was not that much production capacity to satisfy the Soviets' excessive appetite. Two hundred thousand submachine guns might be enough for the United States and the Soviet Union.
A quarter, or even just a month's output.
But for the Anti-Japanese Alliance, it will take three to six months of production capacity to meet the demand. This can only be achieved when all other light weapons production has been stopped. This has not yet reduced the already very tight military industry.
Raw materials, losses caused by changing the direction of use.
As the focus of its own military production has shifted, and most of the original reserves have been used to re-equip the troops within the customs. This figure proposed by the Soviets really put Yang Zhen in a dilemma. Not only was it impossible to produce such a large
quantity, and Yang Zhen also believed that he had no obligation to do this for the Soviets.
Of course, if you tighten up, it's not impossible to get it out. If you take back all the submachine guns currently equipped by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, plus the submachine guns supplemented by the Guanchi troops, you can also take back all the submachine guns. And you can always maintain two
With an inventory of about 10,000 pieces, half of the production quantity is almost enough.
But the problem is not that simple. The gaps left by the transferred light weapons need to be filled by similar weapons. Moreover, even if the weapons issued to the troops are transferred back, they will still need to be renovated and repaired. This will also occupy the Northeast
At present, production capacity has been used to the extreme, and this does not include the consumption of military raw materials.
In addition, Yang Zhen believed that the Northeast had no obligation to do this for the Soviets. Moreover, Yang Zhen did not want the Northeast Bureau and the Anti-Japanese Alliance to become an arsenal for the Soviets to take whatever they wanted. It turned out that the Germans who redressed the troops inside the customs
The Anti-Japanese Alliance used food to manufacture equipment. At present, the Anti-Japanese Alliance has no obligation to produce light weapons for the Soviets.
It can be found that the difficulty of training a submachine gunner is far lower than that of a rifleman. At the same time, under the current situation on the Soviet-German battlefield, the submachine gun is a very cost-effective weapon. However, the Soviets insisted on requiring the Anti-Japanese Alliance to provide what they requested.
Two hundred thousand submachine guns, and some similar weapons were supplied every year during the war.
Although the magazine-based submachine guns manufactured by the Anti-Japanese Alliance are not as good as their drum-equipped submachine guns in terms of the amount of ammunition carried per unit, their structures are even simpler and their performance is more reliable. The most important thing is that the ammunition used is different from the Soviet submachine guns.
The ammunition used is universal. This is very tempting to the Soviets under the current situation of excessive losses and insufficient replenishment.
After Yang Zhen refused this request, the Soviets were also unceremonious and stated that if Yang Zhen did not agree, they would stop transferring the German-made weapons they needed to the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and directly seized a batch of German-made light weapons originally planned to be transferred.
and artillery. At the same time, they continued to put pressure on Yan'an, asking Yan'an to force Yang Zhen to agree.
This incident was quite big, no less than the mutual seizure of aid supplies and equipment. It was so big that it even alarmed the Americans. In the end, the Vice Chairman, the Acting Chief of Staff, and the United States and Britain came all the way to
Under the coordination of the head of the Chinese military delegation to the Soviet Union.
After some arguments, Yang Zhen finally conditionally agreed to the number proposed by the Soviets, and agreed to select and use the Soviet-made light weapons in the Anti-Japanese War inventory, mainly the weapons and equipment captured by the Outer Mongolian Army that year.
After renovation, it was handed over to the Soviet Union.
As compensation, the Soviet Union agreed to reduce part of the food supply to ease the economic pressure on the Anti-Japanese Alliance. However, the Soviets refused to make any reduction in the supply of coal. However, the Soviets also agreed that within the existing
On this basis, we will increase the supply of anti-Union cotton.
For the Soviets, this practice of making some moves from time to time was also quite a headache. The United States promised to arrange for the Canadian arsenal to produce another 30,000 Browning M-19s for the Anti-Japanese Alliance by the second half of 1943.
35 pistol, and provide some 9mm submachine gun ammunition.
At the same time, a batch of trophies from the United States and Britain on the battlefield in North Africa are provided, mainly machine guns and submachine guns, and corresponding ammunition. In addition, there are 20,000 carbines and 6 million carbine rounds. All weapons produced by the Anti-Japanese Alliance for the Soviets are required
All military raw materials and equipment are provided by Americans.
Moreover, this batch of weapons and supplies, not counted in the share of assistance to the Anti-Japanese Alliance, is all counted on the Soviet Union. In other words, this transaction is for the Soviet Union to provide raw materials, and the Northeast will produce and manufacture them, which they urgently need.
Small arms. Although the Northeast has taken up some of the already tight production capacity, it has also replaced some of its machinery and equipment.
However, although the head of the U.S. military delegation to the Soviet Union suggested that Yang Zhen did not want him to use an American-made Thomson submachine gun and provided his own submachine guns to the Soviets, leaving a gap, the suggestion that he wanted second-hand German submachine guns was somewhat of a big deal.
I was puzzled. But the generosity of the Americans finally eased the embarrassing situation.
Under this agreement, the Anti-Japanese Alliance transferred all its original inventory to the Soviet Union. The central government also sent a telegram to the major military regions that had been re-equipped, and all the self-made submachine guns provided by the Anti-Japanese Alliance were confiscated and transported back to the Northeast for refurbishment.
, the vacancy left after the handover is waiting to be replenished with the German-made submachine guns handed over by the Soviets.
In addition to the submachine guns equipped by the first ten divisions of the Anti-Japanese Alliance and the total of 4,000 units left as emergency reserves, the rest had been put in place after the carbines and pistols promised by the Americans were in place. Together with the inventory, all of them were
It was handed over to the Soviets. The two thousand self-made submachine guns handed over to the Shandong Military Region this time can be said to be the last inventory of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
In addition to retaining some for their own use, all 7.62 mm pistol ammunition in stock will be transferred to the Soviet Union. In addition to the ten divisions that also retain some self-made submachine guns, the anti-alliance forces from the 11th Division to the New
In the formed troops, the artillery and other non-front-line combat personnel originally equipped were generally replaced with German-made submachine guns.
Before this battle, in addition to the Shandong Military Region and some submachine guns manufactured by the Anti-League, the submachine guns equipped by the entire customs army were all German-made submachine guns. Moreover, the entire Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei and Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu strategic strategies
In this area, the main force has been completely Germanized, and the original Japanese weapons and old guns made in Hanyang have been completely eliminated.
In the words of the acting chief of staff of the Military Commission, Chongqing worked hard for nearly ten years after the Central Plains War and before the July 7th Incident. As a result, apart from helmets and water bottles, the weapons and equipment were only
In terms of caliber, it can be called a moral weapon.
The Eighteenth Army, which is currently the worst equipped, almost all the main troops have become real German weapon masters. Except for the helmets, which are American-made and British-style, and the military uniforms they wear. The light weapons include some domestic Maxim heavy machine guns.
, basically all are German-made, and even the heavy weapons are equipped with some German-made weapons.
However, compared to the submachine guns made by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, they have a faster rate of fire, but slightly lower accuracy, and focus more on firepower density. For these submachine guns, the shooting accuracy is quite high, and they can even be called high-precision submachine guns, although the rate of fire is slightly lower.
Low but more popular among customs troops.
After all, the submachine guns made by the Anti-Japanese Alliance with a rate of fire of nearly 700 rounds are, in the opinion of many commanders of the customs forces, just like those German-made machine guns. They are a waste of bullets. For the long term, supplies can only be obtained through seizure and collection.
.For the commanders of the internal force who have developed the habit of thrift.
This weapon, which sprays out bullets like rain, makes quite a few commanders feel distressed. The crossfire of two submachine guns can indeed cover a street. But these two submachine guns can kill a whole street in a few dozen minutes.
Company ammunition reserves.
The submachine guns of the Anti-Japanese Alliance are all good and have simple structures. One thing is that the high rate of fire also means a waste of bullets. It is not that the Guannai troops have not been equipped with submachine guns. Whether it is the imitation German MP in the arsenals of various factions, large or small,
Both the 18th submachine gun and the Jin-made Thompson submachine gun were used.
However, even the best-performing imported German-made MP 18 submachine gun has a maximum rate of fire of only 400 rounds. The various factions that use it most often have uneven self-imitation products with even lower rates of fire. Like the Anti-League
This submachine gun with a rate of fire of nearly 700 rounds has never been used.
Although the rate of fire of the German-made submachine gun is only 500 rounds, its shooting accuracy is extremely high. It can be within the effective range, which can not only satisfy relatively precise shooting, but also ensure the necessary firepower density. It is more suitable for killing one person with one bullet.
Used by the enemy's internal troops.
Therefore, although Yang Zhen was not satisfied with this exchange, it was a happy ending after the US-aided carbines and the second-hand goods transferred from the Soviet Union were in place. Although the Soviets were limited by the number of seizures, they were unable to achieve a one-to-one exchange.
, but the quantity is enough to meet the needs of the internal troops.
However, the German-made 75mm infantry gun handed over by the Soviets was purely due to its special caliber. Its performance was not much better than the Japanese-made Type 41 mountain gun. At the same time, the weight of the infantry gun was
Some are large, so the Anti-Union is not equipped to use them.
However, this kind of infantry gun has an extremely fast rate of fire, is much more powerful than the Japanese 92 infantry gun and 82 mortar, and has a longer range. It can shoot both horizontally and in a straight direction, but the Kanai troops like it very much. In the Type 41
The number of mountain artillery was insufficient, and the Type 92 infantry artillery's power as a brigade artillery was somewhat insufficient.
This kind of infantry gun is quite good at dealing with fortifications such as Japanese watchtowers. When firing in a straight direction, its ballistic performance is also very good. It can also be quickly disassembled, as well as the weight of the disassembled parts, which also makes the Sekiuchi troops quite satisfied.
Although the range is shorter, it is also in line with the combat characteristics of the customs troops.
The most important thing is that many artillery instructors in the Guan Nei army were from the former Chongqing army. This artillery was once an important equipment of the Central Army in Chongqing. The familiar equipment allowed the troops to get started quickly. Therefore, this German system
The deputy commander-in-chief who came to the Northeast for a meeting asked for all the infantry artillery.