The Third Reich: I seized power

“Your Excellency, after the improvement, the strength of each infantry squad has been increased to 14 men, including a non-commissioned officer squad leader, a two-man machine gun team, a two-man grenade canister team, and a nine-man rifle team.

The squad leader used a submachine gun and carried six magazines of 32 rounds. The machine gun crew eliminated the third shooter, and the excess ammunition was carried by the logistics unit and distributed in wartime. The grenade group carries a grenade canister and 36 shells. In the nine-man rifle group, four will be equipped with new semi-automatic rifles and five with Mauser 98K rifles. Among them, among the five equipped with Mauser 98K, the one with the best marksmanship was equipped with a sniper rifle. ”

Admiral Bromberg introduced Hess.

The reason why the 98K rifle has not been completely eliminated is because this rifle has very good performance, long range and high reliability. At least in the initial period of the war, it will not lag behind.

At the same time, it can also effectively save ammunition and reduce logistical pressure.

Semi-automatic rifles, although very powerful, also consume more bullets. For the Third Reich, which was already poor in resources, it would undoubtedly cause a lot of pressure. In addition, it will increase the logistical pressure.

“Three infantry squads constitute an infantry platoon. In addition to the chief and deputy platoon commanders, there were two heralds, a heavy machine gun group and a mortar group. The heavy machine gun family is armed with a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun and the mortar crew is armed with a 60 mm mortar. ”

In another time and space, the Third Reich was almost unarmed with large-caliber heavy machine guns. Although the MG34 general-purpose machine gun and later the M42 general-purpose machine gun are very good. But this machine gun is, after all, 7.92 mm caliber, and does not penetrate chest walls, sandbags, brick and wood bunkers. The infantry platoon is armed with a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun, which can form a suppression effect on the battlefield.

The mortar can be detached for portability. A three-man mortar group that can carry one mortar plus fifty rounds of shells.

Thus, the number of an infantry platoon reached 52 people.

An infantry company consists of 3 infantry platoons, in addition to anti-tank groups, heavy fire groups, quartermaster units, supply columns.

Among them, the anti-tank group has three hunting teams, each with two people, equipped with an iron fist bazooka. This optimized rocket launcher with a range of 100 meters can effectively penetrate all current tanks and will become a weapon for front-line infantry to hunt down enemy armored targets.

The Heavy Fire Group consists of two 12.7 mm heavy machine gun teams and two 80 mm medium mortar teams. Further reinforcement of the infantry company’s machine-gun fire and mortar fire.

The total number of infantry companies reached two hundred and one people.

The infantry battalion has a battalion headquarters, three infantry companies and one heavy weapons company.

Among them, the heavy weapons company is armed with six 12.7 mm heavy machine guns and six seven 120 mm heavy mortars.

The strength of each infantry battalion is more than 800 men.

An infantry regiment consists of three infantry battalions, an anti-tank company, an artillery company, a heavy company, and regimental headquarters.

The anti-tank company was armed with 37-mm anti-tank guns 12 guns. The artillery battery was armed with six light 105 mm howitzers.

The strength of the entire infantry regiment reached more than three thousand people.

Each infantry division consists of a divisional headquarters, three infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, a reconnaissance battalion, an anti-tank battalion, an engineer battalion, and a heavy regiment.

Among them, the artillery regiment included a battalion of 150-mm heavy howitzers armed with 18 150-mm heavy howitzers, and two battalions of 105-mm light howitzers armed with 18 105-mm light howitzers.

The anti-tank battalion was armed with 36 57-mm anti-tank guns.

The strength of each infantry division amounted to more than 16,000 people.

After the reorganization, the strength of the infantry division was slightly reduced by more than 1,000 men compared with before.

However, the combat effectiveness has not decreased but increased.

In terms of artillery alone, there were 18 150-mm heavy howitzers and 54 105-mm light howitzers. In addition to this, each infantry division had 72 anti-tank guns. So many anti-tank guns, even in the face of the attack of the enemy’s armored forces, can withstand it, and even cause great damage to the enemy.

In addition, each infantry division had 54 120-mm heavy mortars, 54 80-mm medium mortars and 81 60-mm light mortars. And that’s not counting the more than two hundred grenade canisters.

In terms of machine guns, 12.7 mm heavy machine guns were added, and each infantry division was equipped with more than 200 such heavy machine guns. Plus the same huge number of universal machine guns.

The infantry divisions of the Third Reich were enough to hang any country in terms of machine-gun fire.

Not to mention the infantry squads equipped with grenade canisters, semi-automatic rifles and sniper rifles. As a result, the firepower of the infantry squad was further improved. Armed to the teeth, it’s not an exaggeration.

Such an elite infantry division will undoubtedly be able to inflict great casualties on the enemy with its powerful firepower on the battlefield.