Lieutenant Colonel Wharton stood in the lookout hole in the bunker, holding a telescope and quietly watching the new charge of the South Korean army in the distance, and as expected, he was once again beaten back by the Chinese in the encirclement.

However, Lieutenant Colonel Wharton did not get angry because of this, but picked up the cigar he had just lit, showed a knowing smile, and then nodded to himself: "The Chinese army in front of you is indeed extraordinary!" ”

"Yes, Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, they are really good!"

As soon as Lieutenant Colonel Wharton's voice fell, standing beside him, the advance man wearing a British major's uniform couldn't wait to pick up the conversation, and with a bit of gritted teeth, he said quickly: "Our British Seventh Brigade has suffered a big loss because of the Chinese army in front of us.

They first broke through the defensive line of the 6th Battalion of the British Commonwealth at Gwangpyeong-dong, and then surrounded and annihilated the Royal Tank Battalion between Highway 18 and Highway 12 70 kilometers north of Seoul......

Lieutenant Colonel Wharton squinted at the British major beside him, although he still had the arrogance and cynicism of an American cowboy on his face, but in his heart he despised the British major named Williams to his grandmother's house.

If you can't fight a war, you can't do it, but you have to find a lot of reasons to say that the Chinese army's weapons and equipment are extremely advanced, with incendiary bombs, armor-piercing bombs, and ordinary grenades, and the firepower is very sharp, coupled with flexible and changeable tactics, their British army can't stop it at all.

Why don't you say that you have made a fatal mistake in your tactics and made the old mistake of underestimating the enemy?

But then again, as a staunch supporter of the weapon-only theory in the US military, Lieutenant Colonel Wharton is still very concerned about the series of changes in the weapons and equipment of the Chinese in the Korean War.

From the Type 50 automatic rifle to the 40mm revolver grenade launcher, Lieutenant Colonel Wharton can be said to have studied it quite thoroughly, so much so that he overturned the conclusion that the equipment such as the Type 50 automatic rifle and the 40mm revolver grenade launcher in the US military was the Soviet Union's aid to China, because Lieutenant Colonel Wharton found that those new Chinese equipment were very different from typical Soviet-style equipment.

Therefore, Lieutenant Colonel Wharton came to the conclusion that China has a strong independent research and development capability in light weapons, and has even surpassed the United States in some aspects, and the most typical of these is the Type 50 automatic rifle, whether it is a design idea or specific tactical guidelines, it should be an example for the United States to learn!

As soon as this conclusion came out, it instantly caused an uproar within the US military, well, a superpower that is the world's number one wants to learn the design ideas and tactical guidelines of firearms from a purely poor agricultural country with almost zero industrial base?

What is it?

It's the biggest joke of the century!

The history of the United States' development of firearms is estimated to be longer than the process of China's modernization, when the American soldiers carried their own excellent rifles to fight in all directions, the Chinese soldiers were still carrying the miscellaneous goods of all countries trembling in the face of the foreign powers.

As a result, the Rifle Committee under the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Army immediately issued a statement, saying that they had noticed the situation of the Chinese Type 50 automatic rifle, but after identifying the 6.5mm ammunition used in the gun, it was only an improved version of the 6.5mm rifle cartridge produced by Japan during World War II.

Whether in terms of power or range, the new 7.62mm rifle cartridge that the Synchronous Gun Committee is finalizing is not at all in the same grade, and it is simply weak!

There is also the mechanical automatic principle used on the Type 50 automatic rifle, which is also very simple, except for a little better reliability, there is no other merit, all in all, China's Type 50 automatic rifle is a mediocre firearm, and the powerful and proud United States does not look down on it at all.

The US Armed Committee's rather technical statement set the tone for this matter, and then the CIA also revealed intentionally or unintentionally that there is no direct evidence to prove that the Type 50 automatic rifle and other equipment used by China are independently developed, that is to say, the possibility of obtaining them from the Soviet Union is still very large.

Immediately after that, the Springfield Arsenal, which had a close relationship with the US Rifle Commission, began to take this opportunity to actively carry out activities in the United States and in the US military, and described the new fully automatic rifle developed by itself on the basis of the M1 "Garand" semi-automatic rifle to fire the 7.62mm rifle cartridge customized by the Rifle Commission.

Therefore, under the watering of countless lavish dinners and parties, backed by the Springfield Arsenal, which developed the M1 "Garand" semi-automatic rifle during World War II, it was once again approved by Congress and the US military bigwigs, so in a jubilant mood, a model called the M14 automatic rifle entered the fast lane of project development.

Lieutenant Colonel Wharton, who learned of this, was simply dumbfounded, he did not want to fight a high-level American who flaunted freedom and innovation to be so conservative, and it was ridiculous to say that facts that speak louder than words as useless garbage just for the sake of that poor face and the dirty interests of some vested interest groups.

However, Lieutenant Colonel Wharton was pleased to find that the Chinese 40mm runner grenade launcher had attracted the attention of an American arms company, although in the overall public opinion this equipment, like other Chinese weapons, was no different from the garbage discarded on the street, so that the interested American arms company was also secretly researching it.

Therefore, Lieutenant Colonel Wharton was relieved, but he couldn't help but feel a little sad, and only felt that he should no longer drop his book bag at the Ordnance Bureau of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but should use real evidence to let those deceived American people know that the opponent of the United States in North Korea is not a good-for-nothing garbage country!

So in order to prove that Lieutenant Colonel Wharton applied to go to the Korean front, it happened that at this time, his old boss, Lieutenant General Van Vliet, who was also a weapons theory, was appointed commander-in-chief of the Eighth Army and became the front-line commander of the war against Korea.

In this way, Lieutenant Colonel Wharton was transferred to the First Cavalry Division of the Eighth Army in South Korea, and during the Fifth Campaign Counteroffensive, he commanded a regimental-level armored battle group with the rank of deputy chief of staff of the Staff of the First Cavalry Division.

It was at this time that he learned from the British that the heavy firepower company was unusual, especially the weapons and equipment that made him prove that his heart was uncontrollable: "Bite them, trap them, destroy them, and make them the most powerful specimens of Chinese weapons and equipment!" ”

Lieutenant Colonel Wharton roared in his heart, and led his battle group, under the guidance of Major Williams of the British Army, to surround the heavy fire company in the hilly area south of the Imjin River......