Now, even if the battalion headquarters is expanded to a few dozen people, and the four companies combined, it will be almost 1,000 people, corresponding to a Japanese brigade, and a Japanese army brigade is about 1,200 people.

The Japanese army now also has a three-three system, three infantry squadrons, plus a machine gun squadron, and its four squadrons are not as many as the companies of the 74th Army, so why is the whole brigade more than one infantry battalion of the 74th Army?

The number of people they increased was mainly in the artillery platoon or artillery company, that is, the formation of the platoon or company of the 92 infantry gun, one artillery platoon, two artillery squads, each squad was equipped with a 70mm Type 92 infantry gun, and each squad was about 15 people.

In addition to the two artillery squads, there is also an ammunition squad, which is also a dozen people, a transport squad, a dozen people, plus the platoon headquarters, and one artillery platoon is almost fifty or sixty people.

Very few units will have an artillery battery of more than 100 men (including two artillery platoons with 2 infantry guns each, an ammunition platoon, and a transport platoon).

In a small number of artillery batteries, some of the most fortunate units could be assigned to Type 97 20mm anti-tank guns, which could be equipped with two platoons of anti-tank guns.

The 74th Army is also equipped with 37 tank defensive guns, which are also anti-tank weapons, but this gun used to be generally in the division-affiliated artillery battalions, and now the regiment's machine gun company is also equipped with one or two 37 guns, which can be regarded as a great increase in firepower.

As for the 20 anti-tank guns, they are generally equipped in the divisional artillery battalions, and the military artillery regiments also have them, and there are not many such weapons, in fact, after seeing this kind of weapon, Sangou is very eager to equip it to the infantry company.

This kind of big gun (commonly known as big gun), weapons with a general caliber of more than 20mm, are classified as guns, such as 37 guns, 50 mortars, etc.

Weapons with a caliber of less than 20mm are generally referred to as guns, such as 12.7 or 14.5 large-caliber anti-aircraft machine guns, but the caliber of this anti-tank gun is just 20mm, which belongs to the critical point of guns and guns.

Some people call it a big gun, and rightly so, it should be the largest gun, although this gun is anti-tank equipment, but it can also be used to hit fortress bunkers, and even heavy machine guns with shields.

Although the muzzle velocity of this gun is only 750 meters per second, it can penetrate 30mm thick steel plates at a distance of 350 meters and 20mm thick steel plates at a distance of 700 meters.

It's just that this gun is very heavy, the 97 type of the year is nearly 60 kilograms, and the gun of more than 100 catties is heavier than the heavy machine gun and small mortar, which is very inconvenient, and it has to be disassembled and separated from several parts when transporting.

But it is powerful, the rate of fire is fast, 7-12 rounds per minute, it is much better than mortars hitting enemy tanks, direct shooting, fast rate of fire, powerful, it is simply the nemesis of tanks.

As the most popular infantry, in addition to aircraft artillery, the most feared is the Japanese army's tank armored vehicles, if there is such a big gun, why worry?

It's just that I don't know why, Sangou has never understood that there are very few such weapons in the army, is it not enough to pay attention to it? The key to estimation should be the low imitation ability.

By buying some, the bullets are quickly finished, and the barrels, bullets, those steel-core armor-piercing bullets, tracer high-explosive bullets, are difficult to imitate, and the production cost is high, so there are very few.

But Sangou is a small battalion commander, and he doesn't have any strength to convey the voice of the bottom at all, although he has said many times to his direct boss Liu Guangyu, and Commander Liu has also reported to the top many times, but there is no response.

If you equip this kind of big gun to an infantry company, how can you still be afraid of devil tanks? If you're afraid of a ghost, come and knock out one one, it's easy, and it's much easier to use than heavy machine guns and mortars.

If there is air supremacy in China, Sangou still wants to be equipped with infantry guns like the Japanese brigade, after all, the 74th Army now says that the infantry battalion should be on par with the Japanese infantry brigade.

The others can be on par, but this infantry gun is not in line, if the third battalion has two infantry guns, then it is really not afraid of an infantry brigade of the Japanese army.

But now, as soon as the infantry cannon is pulled out, everyone can only immediately turn to the defensive, and they dare not rush out to attack.

There are ** infantry artillery mountain artillery, but it is concentrated in the troops above the divisional artillery battalion, and the 152nd regimental machine gun company is only equipped with 37 combat defense guns, and the infantry artillery mountain artillery is not to even think about it.

In view of the backwardness of air supremacy and military industry, in terms of army infantry, there is a gap between the army units corresponding to the Chinese and Japanese armies from the battalion level.

There is a gap between the battalion level and the Japanese brigade, and the gap is even greater at the regimental level corresponding to the Japanese wing, that is, the elite troops of the 74th Army, and the regimental level, that is, the machine gun company, has two more 37 anti-aircraft guns.

The Japanese wing must be equipped with at least 12 mountain artillery and field guns above 75mm, which is already the top of the divisional artillery battalions of the three divisions below the 74th Army.

Moreover, the infantry wing of the Japanese army can summon aircraft to participate in the battle according to the military situation, and the field artillery wing can also be summoned to use heavy artillery to assist in the battle.

The division headquarters can also send a tank squadron to the infantry wing, and these heavy firepower are not able to withstand the infantry regiment and even the infantry division, and it is also impossible to have.

The Japanese Army is now restructured, abolishing brigades and regiments, and changing the three-three system, and the wings are divisions and regiments, with one division and regiment having jurisdiction over three wings, and a combat wing and an artillery wing.

This artillery wing is equipped with at least 8 75mm field guns, 4 100mm howitzers, and some can also be equipped with 150mm field heavy guns.

The artillery of a division of the Japanese army is more powerful than the artillery firepower of a Chinese theater of operations, and not counting the assistance of tanks, combat vehicles and aircraft, which is the reason why a division of the Japanese army dares to run rampant in China.

On the other hand, the elite army of the 74th Army, whether it is a division-affiliated artillery battalion or a military-affiliated artillery regiment, its cannon is only 75 mountain artillery and a small number of Soviet-made 115 howitzers and American-made 105 howitzers.

Only when it comes to the theater or the artillery regimental artillery brigade directly under the Military Commission, there is a small number of Bofors 150 heavy guns, but that will not be dispatched unless it reaches a national-level general battle, and it is usually hidden deeply.

These cannons have become the most advanced national strategic weapons in China, and they have been dispatched to fight in Taierzhuang in Xuzhou before, and the effect is very significant.

But it was also a fight and immediately withdrew, was targeted by Japanese planes, and was blown into a pile of scrap metal after a while, Taierzhuang was still able to fight at that time, and the Japanese planes could not arrogantly look for Chinese artillery.

It was this heavy artillery brigade that made Han Fuqu, the king of Shandong, resentful, and the Military Commission promised to lend this heavy artillery brigade to Han Fuqu to resist the Japanese attack on Shandong.

But later, for some reason, it is estimated that Han Fuqu wanted to pretend to resist the war to preserve his strength, so he did not drive the heavy artillery brigade over, which made Han Fuqu find an excuse not to resist the war.

If there is no heavy artillery, there will be no resistance to the war, that is, if Han Fuqu dares to say it, if it is all like him, most of the local armies in the country will not have to resist Japan.

Therefore, Han Fuqu, the king of Shandong with heavy troops, retreated again and again, and finally retreated himself into the coffin, this kind of person, if he doesn't kill him, those local army bosses across the country will all learn from him, and China will really die in a few months.

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