On December 13, 1937, Nanjing's national ** hundreds of thousands of troops retreated, Nanjing fell, Nanjing became hell in history, Li Ming knew what the fall of Nanjing meant, since God let me come here, then I have to take on the responsibility of China, as a soldier to defend the land and resist the war but our responsibility, Li Ming wore a military uniform, lectured in the square, everyone is afraid of not shooting to death, not afraid, not afraid, okay, the ground has long been placed a wooden box, everyone opens is a new German SS uniform, leather boots, steel helmets, MG42 machine gun European Führer Hitley metaphor chainsaw think about it, the name is terrifying, the secondary weapon **** pistol, standard 50 rounds, and a German military spur is extremely sharp.

The German army and the Volunteers have long cooperated, Germany developed and manufactured water-cooled heavy machine guns, the Germans wanted to improve on the basis of air-cooled light machine guns, so the German military's attention shifted to the MG30 machine gun, a series of innovations were made on the basis of the MG30 prototype, such as a quick-detachable barrel, the application of high-speed bullet chains, and the first application of low-cost high-quality and high-precision stamping process. It far surpassed the excellent performance of other improvements and quickly won the bid. This is the MG42 universal machine gun.

The successful research of MG42 is actually an important breakthrough in firearms production technology. Dr. Grunov himself was not a gunsmith, he was an expert in metal stamping technology, at that time, due to the great demand for machine guns in the German front-line troops, he thought from a professional point of view that it was difficult to meet such needs according to the traditional firearms manufacturing process (the original process was machined, a piece of solid metal was processed by lathes, milling machines, etc., and unnecessary parts were cut off, and the metal utilization rate was only about 25 percent, which was a waste of materials and a lot of man-hours). In fact, the MG42 produced by the metal stamping process not only saves materials and man-hours, but also makes it more compact, which is very practical for Germany, which lacks metal resources.

However, when the MG42 was first born and equipped with troops, it was actually a crude weapon, a patchwork of several pieces of iron and an iron pipe, to Western spies lurking in Europe. Snowflakes flew to Washington and London, and the content was the same: Germany was no longer good, they were desperately short of raw materials, and even the machine guns at the heart of their tactics were made with such rudimentary and crude manufacturing techniques.

However, when American and British gunsmiths learned of this situation, they were shocked. They were well aware that the Germans, with their stamping technology, were far ahead of them in terms of machine guns. In the actual combat later, this was also well proved.

Whether in the ice and snow of minus 40 degrees Celsius in the Soviet Union, or in the low scrubs of Normandy; Whether it was the hot desert of North Africa or the rubble heaps of Berlin, the MG42 was an absolute firepower pillar for the German army and a nightmare for the Allied soldiers. U.S. soldiers called MG42 "Hitler's chainsaw," while others described MG42 as "Hitler's zipper."

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MG42, a German-made machine gun known as the best machine gun of World War II, was made by American GIs who were invincible everywhere and flew everywhere, but it made them depressed, unmotivated, and demoralized, and regarded it as an "infantry nightmare". It is the three superlative adjective phrases used by critics of light weapons: "the shortest time, the lowest cost, but the best weapon".

The most striking impression of the Allied soldiers on the MG42 is its gunfire, the MG42 machine gun has a minimum rate of 1200 rounds per minute and a maximum of 1500 rounds per minute, and after the machine gun rate of fire exceeds 1000 rounds per minute, people cannot distinguish a single gunshot, the MG42 shooting sound is not like the "click" sound of a Czech or Browning machine gun, but similar to the "snort" sound of a high-speed chainsaw (the sound is a bit like the M134 heavy machine gun of the American army), and there are also Allied soldiers described it as the sound of tearing a large piece of linen, the recruits have nothing to do with this, the last thing the veterans of the Allied forces want to hear is this demonic voice, for them, this voice is the voice of the Grim Reaper, because of the high rate of fire of MG42, the shooter can shoot 12 to 15 rounds every time he pulls the trigger for a short burst, if an unfortunate soldier is shot by MG42, then he will be shot several times in an instant, and the possibility of survival is very small, in actual combat, MG42 because of its high rate of fire, not only can it deal with small groups of targets with ease, It is also very effective in dealing with the group's objectives.

In World War II, the tactics of the German infantry were mainly based on machine guns, and the infantry squad was composed of a machine gun team and a rifle team, and the machine gun team was responsible for suppressing the enemy stronghold during the attack, and then the rifle team used the terrain to approach the enemy stronghold, and then annihilated the enemy with *** or hand ** in close combat.

And the general step is that the machine gun first occupies a suitable firing position, and the rifle group simultaneously detours to the flanks; The machine guns then fire head-on to attract and suppress enemy fire, while the rifle squad approaches from the flanks or rear, and then relies on the bravery of the rifle squad and the melee weapons in their hands to eliminate the opponent in the stronghold. In the case of defense, the position is divided into several sections or a number of independent strongholds, with the machine gun group as the core, and the rifle group is responsible for guarding and protecting the machine gun team. In short, the machine gun is the backbone of fire in the defense. So special attention should be paid to the protection of machine guns, as soon as the machine guns are destroyed, the defense will be extremely difficult.

In actual combat, it is often not based on squads, but on platoon and company. But the principle of combat is still the same. Only the use of mortars or heavy machine guns belonging to the platoon company was added. The MG42 was more than capable of meeting the tactical needs of the German army. It has a very good suppression ability, because its range is basically the same as that of machine guns in other countries, and its much higher rate of fire, the general machine gun simply cannot have the upper hand in the machine gun fire. Perhaps the most disadvantaged of them was the Soviet units armed with the Deggalev light machine gun, which could not be suppressed because the rate of fire of the Deggalev was only one-eighth or nine-eighth of that of the MG42. And the Soviet Golyunov heavy machine gun was extremely bulky and could not be effectively handled, and of course it was no match for the MG42. The weakness of the machine guns was also an important reason for the heavy casualties of the Soviet and German armies.

The MG42 is a weapon that the Germans can absolutely trust, it is very reliable in actual combat, even in the freezing cold of minus 40 degrees, the MG42 can still maintain a stable rate of fire. Because the MG42 is an air-cooled machine gun, in cold conditions, it can effectively reduce the time to change the barrel. In France, the barrel of the MG42 had to be replaced after 300 rounds of continuous fire, and in the Soviet Union this figure could be increased to 500 to 600 rounds. The Groves design replacement device is very simple, as long as you pull a lever and tilt the barrel, the barrel will automatically disengage and jump out, without touching the hot gun with your hands. It only takes a few seconds to replace a barrel. In the fierce battles outside Stalingrad and Moscow, the MG42 provided fire support as best it could.

It uses very few materials and can be manufactured through a simple assembly line, and the cost is only 70% of MG34, and the labor hours and materials required are only 50% of MG34. Throughout World War II, about 1 million MG42s (some say 700,000) were produced, which is a staggering number. You must know that the production capacity of Germany in World War II was only 1.2 million, and such a high production capacity is jaw-dropping. With such a high-performance weapon and so easy to make, the word perfect is not overstated in its case.

In order to prevent the militarists in Nanjing from destroying the city of Nanjing, plundering local cultural relics, and slaughtering unarmed civilian soldiers, Li Ming ordered the troops participating in the war to include the ghost special combat team, the wolf tooth special combat team, and the Eighth Army of the Volunteer Army is also the steel army of the army, this unit was also a fruitful battle, participated in the late Qing Dynasty Boxer and Qing soldiers, Fushun battle, the Eight-Nation Coalition Battle, the combat experience is quite rich, ordered the bomber first brigade, the second brigade, the third brigade to launch an attack after the special forces were stationed, the third navy, The fourth destroyer blockaded the Songjiang River and the Yangtze River, and the sea route leading to Nanjing, Suzhou, and Hangzhou encountered Japanese steamers and opened fire without asking for instructions, and must be sunk.