"But before that, I would like your country to provide 150,000 trained or reservists to participate in a campaign that we will launch in three months' time, which will not be fought on the Western Front. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info "Campbell is ready to pull the Japanese into the future Battle of the Dardanelles!"

"And this fleet must be transported by the Japanese Navy, this is our bottom line, it cannot be changed, it cannot be discussed, there are only two options: agree and oppose." Campbell stared at each other, his tone unusually firm!

"Okay, let's settle it like this first." After hesitating for a few minutes, Katsura Taro finally nodded in agreement, and he didn't have to ask about the subsequent drafting and signing of the treaty, as soon as he thought that in his tenure, the territory of the Japanese Empire had once again more than doubled! Katsura Taro felt a little fluttery. "It seems that it is still me who has brought the empire to the top." After the meeting, Katsura Taro wrote in his diary unabashedly.

And for more than a month, the Japanese army, which was on the front line in France, was not so easy. Even though there were quite a few veterans and officers who participated in the Russo-Japanese War, there were even officers who participated in the offensive and defensive battles of Arthur. These people, who were quite conceited before they landed on European soil, now know that they are too young, too simple Tucson break! In the real world's top land battlefield, the Japanese discovered that the original first-class European powers had become accustomed to "exchange" with steel tonnage and firepower. The so-called "Yamato Soul" is worthless in the face of firepower like a volcanic eruption! Of course, the process of understanding this is very tragic.

"The French are okay, although we are a guest army, but the infantry weapons we are still very good." Playing with the 1911 Shaosha light machine gun in his hand, Terauchi Shouichi said to his officers with great satisfaction.

The father of this Japanese major is Meiji Lord, and his father Terauchi Masashi used to be the governor of Korea, with the power of their family, he can completely seek a high position step by step, but this eldest son obviously does not want to do this, after several struggles, Terauchi Shouichi, who has graduated from Japan's land university, has obtained a chance to come to the European battlefield, and this time, for him, it is completely a curious baby to come to the Grand View Garden, and the moment he stepped on French territory, he discovered how terrible the accumulation of European powers for hundreds of years is!

Although in the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese Army tried its best to strengthen infantry machine gun firepower, but in general, an infantry company had less than 2 machine guns! And now? After arriving in France, the French representative first said very sorry that because of the shortage of materials, there would be relatively few machine guns and other repeating weapons, and asked in a tentative tone .......how to equip each Japanese company with six light machine guns.

"Well, six?! 6 Ah! "Shouichi Terauchi never imagined that one day, his army would have such powerful firepower! You must know that an infantry squadron in Japan is 180 people, which is about the strength of a company, and by the time of World War II, an infantry squadron had only 6 machine guns, and a squad of 54 people only had about 2 machine guns. And now it is far inferior, even if the most NB existence of the Guards Division, that is, a company of three light machine guns, a squad of one, and the French actually gave them more than twice as many machine guns! And this is again in the case of insufficient number of machine guns. What a tyrant this TM is!

And what about the actual situation? The French did deduct some in terms of arms, because in a normal French company, one company was armed with 12 Shocha light machine guns (this is a historical fact), and theoretically, one squad ....... And in fact, both in terms of equipment and tactics, the French attacking infantry in this plane has begun to revolve around machine guns!

And in terms of heavy machine guns, the Japanese also abandoned the Maxine machine guns that had previously been used in the Russo-Japanese War. The same heavy machine gun of the French Hodchsky M1911 was chosen. The reason is very simple, because they found that the original domestic Maxine machine gun needs a lot of cooling water when it is used, according to the experience of the Japanese, an average of 200 rounds of ammunition will evaporate a liter of water out of thin air, although there are condenser tubes to collect fresh water, which can be reused, but this is too cumbersome after all. And even with condenser pipes, it is still necessary to constantly add additional cooling water, and sometimes there are even 2 machine guns that are constantly firing, and then a company of soldiers collects the water bottle to deliver ......water.

And the Japanese suddenly discovered that the French machine guns could shoot continuously without cooling water! This was simply too perfect for the Japanese, although the French told the Japanese that the machine gun was guaranteed not to be cooled with water only at a rate of 200 shots per minute. But the Japanese didn't care, after all, historically, they deliberately lowered the rate of fire when copying the Hodchsky machine gun.

(Historically, the rate of fire of the French Hodgkaith machine guns in World War 1 was not low, probably between 400 and 600 rounds.) Ammunition is also fed using plates, but it is also fed with a chain of 250 semi-movable rounds connected by several plates. Therefore, it is not a big problem for Hodge Chase to reach this rate of fire, and its Japanese imitation only has a bullet plate, and the actual rate of fire is less than 300 rounds. ）

In a firepower display, Shouichi Terauchi saw a Hodgekes machine gun with a rate of fire of 150 to 200 rounds per minute, which lasted for more than 1 hour, and used up more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition without a single failure! The Japanese, who had hardly seen anything good, were immediately excited, and Terauchi Shouichi said loudly to his colleagues next to him: "It's him, this is the weapon we dream of!" A weapon that can shoot continuously at the right speed! ”

The only thing that made the Japanese somewhat unhappy was that the weight of this French machine gun was somewhat too large. The weight of the body is 24 kg, and the weight of the huge French tripod is 30 kg. If you don't count bullets, it will cost 55KG! The machine gun company that the French gave to the Japanese did not determine.

An infantry battalion can be attached to a heavy machine-gun company consisting of 2 officers, 10 non-commissioned officers, 180 men and 60 horses. Equipped with 8 Hodgkaith M1911 heavy machine guns, of which there are 5 personnel in charge of machine guns, and one team leader, who is responsible for directing the entire machine gun group and setting up positions. The main shooter is naturally in charge of the battle, and the 3 secondary shooters are support and substitutes, in addition to which a large number of ammo players are required.

Under normal circumstances, the French suggested to the Japanese that an infantry battalion be accompanied by three infantry companies and a heavy machine gun company. That is, a Japanese infantry battalion can have 8 Hodgkes machine guns and 18 Shosha light machine guns!

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