0p0 Third Reich Episode 169
Third Reich Episode 169
Text Chapter 265 Squad Weapons
When a group of people entered the exercise field on foot, all the troops participating in the exercise had already lined up.
Naturally, the morale of the two garrison companies was not high. After all, no matter how hard the training was, it was still different from actual combat. It would be uncomfortable to be beaten by others during the drill.
As for the Wehrmacht Company under Lyon, everyone was also dissatisfied.Especially Bruce, he felt that he was crushed by the SS with weapons, which did not reflect their fighting level.
But at this time, the big bosses of the National Defense Forces don't care what Bruce thinks.For them, it is king to quickly see what the secret to the increased combat effectiveness of the SS is.
In front of you, a standard new SS infantry company has already lined up on the exercise ground.
They had just gone through intense drills and had no appearance at all. Their faces were blackened by gunpowder smoke, and their bodies were covered with mud. A few unlucky ones still had their heads covered with paint, so they simply wrapped them with gauze, and the gauze was covered with bright red blood Stained red spots.This was done in hand-to-hand combat with the elite company of the National Defense Forces before. Because Bruce and his gang refused to admit defeat, they attacked very darkly.
But the winners belong to the winners, their lineup is neat and impeccable!
The SS is different from the general armed SS, they are full-time combat troops!
Regardless of personnel selection, training level, and even discipline, they are completely comparable to the National Defense Forces.
Because in a sense, this is the "private army" of the head of state, so Reinhardt has always been very concerned about the construction of the SS, and personally emphasized discipline to put an end to the vicious killing of prisoners by the SS in history. Event happens.
Of course, the garrison SS who prepares second-rate weapons is also strictly disciplined.After all, they will be stationed in the occupied area in the future, and it is impossible to die like they did in history.
On the other hand, the Wehrmacht does not care how neatly you line up.What they want to know, what they want to see, are the weapons and establishment of the SS, so that they can be used to improve the combat effectiveness of the Wehrmacht.
So, Reinhardt motioned to the head of the SS Weapons Experimental Corps, Major General Rashid of the SS, to make an introduction.Because he is a participant in the formulation of the new establishment, he knows this best.
Major General Rashid first asked a squad to come out and introduce and show the weapons on his body to the commanders of the National Defense Forces.
The first is the g43 semi-automatic rifle, which the Wehrmacht also understands.Because in the previous Polish campaign, I saw some SS troops try it out, and the effect was very good. This time, a batch was also used for exercises, but the regiment leader told them that this was different from the early trial products during the Polish campaign. It is an improved model of the early g43.
According to the requirements of the head of state, Mauser's engineers used a large number of stamping parts in order to reduce production costs and working hours, which has reduced the cost of the entire semi-automatic rifle by one-third, and the working hours have been reduced by nearly half!
The progress in production indicates that this ten-round detachable magazine-fed semi-automatic rifle will soon be equipped with the Wehrmacht on a large scale.
At the same time, Rashid asked the machine gunner to show off with the squad leader carrying a submachine gun.
The squad leader's submachine gun is the MP submachine gun familiar to the generals, but it has also been rectified.
Because in the Polish campaign, some officers and soldiers felt that the rate of fire of the MP submachine gun was not enough.Moreover, the submachine gun is fired with 9x19 Parabellum ammunition. Excessively demanding the accuracy of continuous shooting is of little significance. Therefore, the gun designers will find ways to increase the rate of fire, choose to increase the projection volume, and give up the overemphasized continuous shooting. *Spend.
At the same time, this submachine gun named mp40 also uses a large number of stamping parts.
The machine gunner's machine gun is somewhat different from the Wehrmacht model.
But if modern people see it, they will definitely recognize that this is the most powerful machine gun mg42 in World War II!
This is also a heavily stamped weapon, but was born prematurely due to various factors.Because it is now an experimental gun, it is temporarily named mg40 experimental type.But as long as there is a demand, the major arsenals can immediately start the horsepower to produce quickly.
After the generals saw these three weapons that did everything possible to reduce the cost and increase the production speed, all of them felt like a bright mirror.Because they know that the end of the Polish campaign is not the beginning of peace, but a bigger war is brewing.As long as Britain and France's declaration of war on Germany is not withdrawn for one day, the war will not end for one day!
However, some people noticed the difference in this infantry squad. Before Rashid introduced it, General Liszt couldn't wait to ask questions.
"Head, why are there two people in your class without rifles? If I'm not mistaken, the firearms they only carry should be combat pistols from the Mauser factory. I used this one before, and it's too big. , it’s very inconvenient to use.”
Rashid smiled and pointed at the two soldiers who were not carrying rifles: "They?"
He didn't make a fool of himself, and quickly explained to the generals headed by Lister: "Everyone knows that our squad battles revolve around machine guns. But in actual combat, we found that when the machine gun is suppressing the target, one person controls it. It is very difficult. In fact, the robot hand needs to be assisted by the assistant shooter and the ammunition hand.”
Rashid paused, looked around and continued: "Whether it's to help reload or replace the spare barrel, it is difficult for the ammunitionist's rifle to function at this time. In addition, our new machine gun has a higher rate of fire. Hurry up, in order to maintain the continuous combat capability, we increased the number of bullets carried by the ammunition hand and replaced the rifle with a Mauser combat pistol. The Walther p38 pistol of the sub-shooter was also replaced by a combat pistol due to its insufficient power. "
As he said that, Rashid took down the wooden gun case on his ammunition hand, took out the Mauser m1932 pistol from it, and skillfully connected the gun case with the grip to make the gun body longer.Then he inserted another 20-round long magazine and continued:
"Look! Now, here's a small submachine gun, with the box attached, it has the stock, and the 20-round clip gives it enough ammunition to spill. Most importantly, it's ammo It is also Parabellum, which is the mainstream pistol of our army.”
"And one more thing," Rasheed said, after seeing Reinhardt nod, saying that the decision killed two birds with one stone.
'"Because of the outbreak of the war, major domestic arsenals have backlogged a large number of Asian orders. Since this Mauser combat pistol is very popular in Asia, we have been producing it in large quantities. Now, those pistols that have been produced in large quantities are in Mao It is roughly estimated that there are [-] pistols, all of which are in stock! Moreover, our Czech Skoda factory also has a large number of these pistols piled up in the corner of the warehouse."
"Counting the seizures from Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland, we can probably find nearly 30 combat pistols. Even if we remove the ones that are not 9mm and cannot be fired continuously, it is conservatively estimated that there are still about 20. And because Asia The orders over there are booming, and Spain is also producing this weapon on a large scale. As long as we want to install a large number of them, we can even place an order from Spain to supplement them. I think Flange will not refuse."
"Now, suddenly, we can field 20-30 powerful combat pistols. The most important thing is that they are in stock! Some have even been paid for, but because of the war, they are backlogged in warehouses and cannot be shipped. We don't even use Spend money, and suddenly have hundreds of thousands of 'submachine guns' just to dig them up from the dusty corners of the warehouse!"
The generals thought about it carefully, and quickly understood what it would be like when this weapon rushed into the enemy's trench and splashed ammunition wantonly.
On defense, this allows the infantry to organize a new line of defense at close range.The original two mp submachine guns were supplemented by two battle rifles, which would make the line of defense formed by the rain of bullets even more indestructible.And because it is smaller than a submachine gun, it can even be distributed to armored soldiers, pilots as self-defense weapons, and can also be used to make up for the shortage of pistols and distributed to low-level officers.Although it is a bit heavier and bigger, but such a powerful weapon, no one will be dissatisfied with getting more.
Text Chapter 266 Accurate shooter
After reading the establishment of the infantry squad, the generals of the National Defense Forces can be said to have a lot of emotion.
To be honest, whether the Wehrmacht's own submachine guns, machine guns, or even semi-automatic rifles, there is no essential difference from the SS.Even the stamped versions used by the SS look uglier than the weapons of the Wehrmacht!
But just two more assault pistols actually doubled the close-range automatic firepower of the SS.Besides, this thing is still "waste utilization". Now there are a large number of ready-made combat pistols that can supplement the progressive squad, and there is almost no pressure to change equipment!
According to a ten-person squad, two are added to change the equipment. Even if 10 are removed and evenly distributed to the air force and armored forces, there are still nearly 30, which can strengthen 150 million troops and easily raise the combat effectiveness of these 150 million troops to a higher level!
And some people have already begun to wonder whether it is possible to replace a large proportion of elite troops with semi-automatic rifles and combat pistols.
In this way, both the distance and the distance can be considered, and the opponent's single-shot rifle can be suppressed with machine guns and semi-automatic firepower from a long distance. When the enemy rushes to the front, they will rush to the enemy with a combat pistol. How fun is it? !
Anyway, the weight of the ammunition will increase by three to four kilograms. Anyway, the German soldiers are tall, so the physical price paid is insignificant compared with the increase in combat effectiveness.
But when the generals thought that this was all the firepower of the SS drill squad, Rashid took another rifle from one of them.
Everyone took a look, and they were immediately attracted by this G43 semi-automatic rifle.
They are so extravagant that they distribute scopes to infantry squads? !
"God!"
"It's too extravagant, how can it be possible to match equipment like this, this is just a class!"
Someone cried out in surprise.They didn't believe that Reinhardt could change the equipment of the Wehrmacht to the point where every squad could be equipped with a scope!
"That's right! This is the 3x scope we commissioned Zeiss to develop." Rashid said with a conceited smile: "It is characterized by being simple and cheap, and capable of mass-producing large-scale equipment. And the g43 semi-automatic scope equipped with this scope Rifles, we call them precision rifles. Correspondingly, soldiers who use this weapon are called precision shooters, which is an important combat unit in a 10-man infantry squad, and it will become an important firepower pillar in our infantry squad like a machine gun. The man with the best marksmanship in the class will be in charge."
Rashid handed the rifle with the scope installed to the curious generals on one side, and passed them to each other, while continuing to introduce:
"There is a certain difference between a precision shooter and a sniper. The same is precision shooting, and the precision shooter is more likely to suppress the opposing soldiers on the battlefield, while the sniper is more inclined to lurk and wait for an opportunity to destroy the opponent's high-value personnel rather than cheap infantry. Of course, the definition It's not absolute, as long as there is a chance, the precision shooter will definitely give priority to killing the opposing officer."
The concept of precision shooter is a new arm of the army proposed by the Finnish observation team sent by Reinhardt to sum up the sniper experience in the Finnish battlefield, coupled with Reinhardt's understanding of street warfare, and is currently being piloted in the SS.
In fact, Reinhardt is very convinced that as long as there are accurate shooters, the German army will be able to fight more easily and take advantage of street battles similar to those in the Battle of Stalingrad in the future!
Rashid did not pause at all, and carefully introduced to everyone: "The scope is distributed to the squad because a good shooter can often form a level of suppression no less than that of a machine gun with precise shooting. As long as it cooperates with the squad's machine gun In place, there is no disadvantage at all!"
Rashid blushed, and when he was excited, he shook his fist vigorously: "Generals! Imagine that when our machine gun suppresses a firepower point for a while, and suddenly stops firing and pretends to reload, the other side will definitely show up and fight back. This At that time, the precise shooter who has already previewed can shoot directly to knock him down."