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"Nice gun."

Headquarters shooting range.

After a round of test firing, the division commander, boss, brigade commander, and division chief of staff fired more than 3,000 rounds of ammunition, and everyone couldn't help but shout that it was a good gun.

"It's a really good gun."

The deputy general staff officer who came to attend the meeting also nodded in agreement.

Although the new gun uses a completely different bullet, the specification is 7.62X39. Its caliber and weight are smaller than the Mauser pointed bullets currently commonly used by the army, and its power is also much lower.

But enough for troop needs.

After all, today's troops are no longer in an era when rifles and grenades are insufficient. They have grenades, 60 mortars, and company and platoon 12.7 heavy machine guns. The close-range firepower is sufficient and no firearms are needed to supplement it.

And because the new bullets are lighter, individual soldiers can carry more bullets, which is very important for troops marching lightly.

And the most important point.

New firearms are a group of guns.

There are not only rifles, but also machine guns. The parts are versatile enough and the bullets are also versatile. This is what the bosses and commanders value most about this set of firearms.

Since the accuracy, range, weight and power can fully meet the combat needs of the troops.

The reliability is also extremely high.

Of course it's a good gun.

The only problem is that automatic weapons consume bullets quickly. Even if the new gun has a rate of fire selector and can be used in semi-automatic mode and fire bursts of bullets one by one, it still consumes much more bullets than a bolt-action rifle.

It is estimated that the bullet consumption in a battle is five or six times that of today.

In a tough battle for a regiment, it is estimated that nearly one million rounds of bullets will be consumed.

but··
"The arsenal produces one million rounds of ammunition a day, right?"

the boss asked.

Although it consumes a lot of bullets, it is not a big problem.

The newly acquired arsenal has a large production capacity.

The production capacity of one million hairs a day is more than 360 million hairs a year. Plus the independent group frees up every month, the total is 600 million hairs a year.

enough.

Moreover.

This time it's not just an arsenal.

In the base area, dozens of various factories have been prepared.

"Correct."

The brigade commander smiled and said:

"And it's normal production."

"Normal output?"

The boss frowned.

I didn't understand it for a while.

But he quickly came to his senses and asked again:
"You're saying that the output of one million rounds of ammunition per day is not the maximum, and can it be increased further?"

The boss's eyes widened.

Even the current independent regiment can only spare about 25 million rounds of ammunition every month, including pistols, squad machine gun rifles, and heavy machine gun bullets.

This is also the reason why the troops never launch an offensive or expand their base areas.

Insufficient offensive ability.

Artillery can determine the outcome of a war, but the victory of the battle must ultimately be won by the infantry.

"Correct."

The brigade commander nodded:

"Actually, one million rounds per day is calculated based on working twelve hours a day."

"Twelve hours."

The boss immediately thought of the two incredibly advanced printing machines in the hinterland of the base, which had been under heavy protection and had now been moved to reinforced concrete fortifications.

The instructions stated that only half a million copies could be printed per day.

But in fact, every day here refers to twelve hours of printing after the machine is turned on, and there is still room left. In fact, if printing is done 24 hours a day, each machine can print one million copies per day.

Two machines can print two million copies per day.

"Isn't it possible to produce two million rounds of ammunition every day?"

The boss’s eyes lit up.

"Correct."

The brigade commander nodded and said:

"However, considering that the machine needs rest and maintenance, in fact, it can only produce about 1.5 million rounds per day."

"So are guns."

"About seven hundred new automatic rifles can be produced every day."

"enough!"

The boss’s eyes are still shining.

1.5 million rounds of ammunition per day, which is close to more than 560 million rounds of ammunition per year. Add in the 25 million rounds of ammunition per month by the independent regiment, and that is more than 800 million rounds per year.

More than 700 rifles or machine guns are produced every day, which amounts to more than 200,000 a year.

There are enough bullets.

A little less rifle, but enough.

"immediately."

"Build this arsenal as quickly as possible."

The boss immediately gave the order.

But after finishing speaking, the boss paused and then said:
"No, follow the plan."

The boss realized his impatience.

An arsenal with an annual output of more than 200,000 guns and nearly 600 million rounds of ammunition requires raw materials that cannot be satisfied by carrying them on people's backs and transporting them secretly.

Must have its own raw material factory and supply line.

There is also talent development.

There is no rush.

There is no rush.

"Zhang Wanhe is already making arrangements."

The deputy general staff replied.

···
at dusk.

"Humph."

"Tuba Road, nothing more than that."

Ze County.

When the Yamazaki Brigade was stationed, he saw his Third Infantry Squadron attacking and being repelled by the defending Tubal Army. However, old Japanese Yamazaki had a very relaxed expression and his tone was full of disdain.

This is the third wave of attack.

Throughout the day today, the three infantry squadrons of the Yamazaki Brigade launched an attack on the Tubal Road position stationed in the mountainous area south of Ze County, that is, on the south side of the starting point of the highway.

Although they failed to capture the Tubal Road position, thanks to the large skirmish line attack method and the artillery support from the mountain artillery unit, the casualties of the 3rd Infantry Squadron this time were not significant.

Including the broken, attrited, and lightly and seriously wounded, there was only half a team.

Within the acceptable range.

It can even be said that the casualties were very small.

In addition, this time, there are sufficient reserve troops to replenish, the lost troops can be replenished in time, and the lost weapons and consumed ammunition can also be replenished as soon as possible.

Tomorrow, the 3rd Infantry Squadron will be able to launch the second attack with great momentum.

The reason why. This is because although Tubal Road has a lot of advanced equipment, equipment that makes the Locust Army jealous, the light artillery is extremely powerful.

But there is a huge problem.

There was a severe shortage of rifles.

Even though the number of machine guns and grenade launchers reached the same level as the Locust Army or even higher, due to the lack of supplementary firepower from rifles, there were some firepower gaps in the defensive positions.

Artillery can indeed determine the outcome of a war.

The artillery on Tubal Road is indeed as strong as described in the documents issued by the headquarters.

It's not just the artillery that's advanced.

The 82 mortar can actually achieve a range of more than five kilometers, is extremely maneuverable, and has very good accuracy.

As a result, only four 82 mortars overwhelmed his four Type mountain guns. He could only occasionally support infantry attacks. Most of the rest of the time, he had to move or engage in artillery battles with the opposite artillery.

Obviously, the artillery quality of Tubal Road is also very good.

The 60mm mortar actually has a range of more than three kilometers, and the firepower is also very fierce. The three attacks were basically suppressed by the 60mm mortar.

Thanks to the powerful mortar firepower,
Although Tubalu's position not far away was estimated to have only more than 300 people, and its strength was less than one-third of his, it was still the reason why it firmly held the defensive position.

But no matter how powerful the artillery is, it cannot destroy every infantryman.

Artillery determines the outcome of the war.

Facing the fierce artillery fire from Tubal Road on the opposite position, his attack was suppressed. Not to mention a squadron, even if the entire brigade launched a group charge, they could only fail.

However, the lack of light firepower of the infantry prevented Tubal Road from further expansion.

Through this vacancy, he not only consumed the troops on the Tubal Road position, but also greatly reduced his own casualties.

Next,
It's a war of attrition.

The Locust Army will definitely win the final victory.

···
In the Japanese military system, the grassroots officer and captain Yamazaki Jihei was full of confidence in victory, believing that the Locust Army would definitely win in this war of attrition.

Can Tuba Road, relying on foreign aid, compete with the locust army?
But the devils at the top obviously don't think so.

···
"General."

"This is the casualty data and ammunition consumption data for the latest week."

at night.

A staff officer handed a report to Okamura Neji.

"understood."

When receiving the report, Okamura Neji even hesitated for a moment.

At the beginning of the sweep, the locust army was overwhelming and occupied more than a dozen counties in just five days. The economics class collected tens of millions of silver dollars in these counties in just a few days.

At one point, the base camp called directly to commend him.

It also made Neji Okamura almost change his mind - this sweep would be like every sweep by the locust army in the past, with the army marching all the way into the Tubal Road base.

But reason told him that this was impossible.

The real battle is yet to come.

The real, fierce battle of attrition will only break out when the locust army approaches the road network built by Tubal Road in southern Hebei.

Things developed as Gangcun expected.

The vanguard of the locust army was approaching Ze County. The Tuba Road was built at the location of the main line road connecting the three base areas of Taiyue, Taihang and Southern Hebei. It encountered a blockage.

After three days of strong attack, they failed to break through the Eighth Route Army's first line of defense.

The subsequent main force arrived and continued the attack for two days, but still failed to break through the Tubal defenses.

Although as the Locust Army became familiar with Tubal Road, they curbed their arrogance and began to adjust their tactics, and the casualties gradually decreased, the corresponding price was a slowdown in the scope of the attack and an increase in ammunition consumption.

Even though this time, there were two heavy artillery brigades and eighteen 150-caliber heavy artillery support, Tubal Road also had solid fortifications and defense lines that took several months to build.

The 150 heavy artillery is indeed powerful. The forty kilogram shells are far more powerful than the 105 sixteen kilogram shells and can directly destroy most civil fortifications, even multi-layer civil fortifications.

But in the face of the strong and huge fortifications that took several months to build, even the civil fortifications and a dozen artillery pieces were still not enough.

The outcome of the war cannot be decided.

Not to mention, there are a large number of reinforced concrete fortresses on Tubal Road.

This is beyond the power of 150 artillery.

Thanks to the smooth road network, various units of the Eighth Route Army can provide timely support to each other, support troops and supplies can be transported to the positions in time, and the wounded can also be sent to rear hospitals in time.

Aircraft bombing cannot effectively cut off the transportation on Tubal Road. What's more, Tubal Road also has advanced fighter jets that can basically control the air near the highway.

As a result, even if he concentrated his troops and firepower to break through some positions, Tubal Road could mobilize reserve troops in time to make up for it.

Subsequently, he began to adjust his tactics and stopped the frontal large force attack.

The offensive forces of the two divisions will use the regiment as the attack direction and the brigade as the intervening unit, seeking to break through from the flanks and cut off the road transportation line of Tubal Road.

As long as he cuts off the Tuba Road, he can crush the reserves, capture Ze County, and then continue to advance along the road until he completely captures the southern Hebei base area.

Naturally, the Eighth Route Army could not let him succeed.

Hundreds of thousands of troops from both sides launched a large-scale operation around the highway, interspersing and counter-penetrating, infiltrating and counter-infiltrating.

Although large-scale battles did not break out, small-scale contact battles at the brigade level and squadron level were intensively staged almost every day, and the battle situation once fell into a complete stalemate.

This battle has been going on for a week.

"this!"

Looking at the material consumption and casualty report in his hand, Neji Okamura felt his scalp numb.

He had a premonition that the casualties would be huge.

There will also be a lot of material consumption.

Some of the main troops on Tubal Road have a large number of submachine guns and mortars, and their light firepower is stronger than that of the Locust Army. Telecommunications capabilities have been extended to every platoon, while the Locust Army can only equip the brigade with radio stations.

With weak firepower and an absolute disadvantage in communications, if a small group of troops fight, the Locust Army will inevitably have the upper hand.

The advantage of the Locust Army lies in large-scale combat.

However, if you want to win, if you want to capture the Tubal Road fortification group near the highway, you must cut off the supply channel to the Tubal Road forward position, that is, you must cut off the highway line.

A frontal attack was not feasible.

They can only flank and test the attack, looking for weak spots in the Tubal defense line.

This is bound to be a large-scale war of attrition.

But in the end, the casualties and material consumption reports compiled by the general staff were still much more than he expected.

The attack in just one week actually consumed the supplies that were expected to be consumed for 21 days.

"Pause the attack."

Okamura Neji sighed.

Not just supplies.

There are also casualties.

Half a month after the attack, seven infantry brigades and fifteen infantry squadrons have been surrounded and wiped out. Due to the disadvantage of communication, the Locust Army suffered extremely heavy casualties.

"What a tough opponent!"

After giving the retreat order, Okamura Neji looked at the sand table in front of him and sighed.

To be fair, rational analysis, from a broad perspective, the current strength of the Locust Army and Tubal Road, with the same strength, the Locust Army still has a certain advantage, even a huge advantage.

The only ones with an advantage are some of the elite main groups on Tubal Road.

Such as the independent group.

the reason is simple.

The time for Tubal Road to obtain equipment was too short, less than a year, the troop expansion was too fast, and there was a lack of rifles and other weapons.

As for the Locust Army, most of the troops are elite soldiers who have experienced two or even three years. After all, he has two Class A divisions in this battle.

only··
The commander on Tubal Road opposite is obviously a master.

Not inferior to his masters at all.

The positions were deployed in an interconnected manner, with almost no big blind spots or defensive loopholes. The deployment of troops and generals was also exquisite, giving him no chance. (End of chapter)