Chapter 266: Precision Marksman
After reading the establishment of the infantry squad, the generals of the Wehrmacht can be said to have a lot of emotion.
To tell the truth, the Wehrmacht's own submachine guns, machine guns, and even semi-automatic rifles were not fundamentally different from the SS. Even, those stamped versions of the SS looked uglier than the weapons of the Wehrmacht!
But just two more submachine guns doubled the SS's automatic fire at close range. Besides, this thing is still "waste utilization", and now there are a large number of ready-made combat pistols that can replenish the advanced soldier class, and there is almost no pressure to change clothes!
According to a ten-person squad to replenish two to change equipment, even if 100,000 are removed and evenly distributed to the air force and armored units, there are nearly 300,000, which can strengthen 1.5 million troops, so that the combat effectiveness of these 1.5 million troops can easily rise to a higher level!
And some people have begun to wonder whether it is possible to equip elite troops with semi-automatic rifles and combat pistols in large proportions.
In this way, you can take into account both distance and distance, suppress the opponent's single-shot rifle with machine guns and semi-automatic fire at a long distance, and wait until the enemy charges in front of you, and suddenly rushes when you see someone with a combat pistol, how enjoyable is it?!
Anyway, if you count the weight of ammunition, it will increase by three or four kilograms, and anyway, the Great German soldiers are tall, and the physical price paid is simply insignificant compared to the increase in combat effectiveness.
But when the generals thought that this was all the firepower of the SS drill infantry squad, Rashid took the rifle of one of them.
Everyone looked at it and was immediately attracted by this G43 semi-automatic rifle.
They were so extravagant as to distribute scopes to infantry squads?!
"God!"
"It's too extravagant, how can it be so comparatively equipped, it's just a class!"
Someone screamed in surprise. They didn't believe that Reinhardt could get the Wehrmacht to the point where every squad could get a scope!
"That's right! This is the 3x mirror that we commissioned from ZEISS. Rashid laughed conceitedly: "It is characterized by its simplicity and cheapness, and is capable of mass production of mass equipment." And the G43 semi-automatic rifle equipped with such a scope, we call it a precision rifle. Correspondingly, the soldier who uses this weapon is called a precision shooter, and it is an important combat unit in the 10-man infantry squad, and it will become an important pillar of fire in our infantry squad like a machine gun, and it will be served by the person with the best marksmanship in the squad. ”
Rashid handed the rifle with the scope mounted to the curious generals, and passed them to each other as he continued:
"There is a difference between an accurate shooter and a sniper. Similarly, precision shooters are more likely to suppress opposing soldiers on the battlefield, while snipers are more inclined to lurk and wait for opportunities to eliminate the opponent's high-value personnel rather than cheap infantry. Of course, the definition is not absolute, as long as there is an opportunity, the precision shooter will definitely give priority to sniping the opposing officer. ”
The concept of precision marksman is a new army unit proposed by Reinhardt's Finnish observation mission based on the experience of sniping on the Finnish battlefield and Reinhardt's understanding of street fighting, which is now being piloted in the SS.
In fact, Reinhardt is very sure that as long as there are accurate shooters, the German army will be able to fight more handily and take advantage of the street battles similar to those in the Battle of Stalingrad in the future!
Rashid did not pause for a moment, and carefully introduced everyone: "The scope is assigned to the shift because a good gunner can often form a degree of suppression no less than a machine gun with accurate shooting. As long as it is in place with the squad machine gun, it is simply invincible! ”
Rashid's face was flushed, and he shook his fist vigorously when he spoke of excitement: "Generals! Imagine that when our machine gun suppresses a firing point for a while, and suddenly stops firing and pretends to change ammunition, the opposite side will inevitably show its head and return fire. At this time, the accurate shooter who has been pre-aimed can directly shoot him down. ”
All the spectators nodded their heads in praise, and the precision shooters and machine guns fought together. This is no longer a simple one plus one equals two, the combat effectiveness of the combination of the two is somewhat immeasurable for a while!
The emergence of accurate shooters will completely change the tactics of the German infantry squad!
Taking the G43 rifle that had been passed around and returned to his hand, Rashid picked up the gun, glanced into the distance, and continued to add:
"Because the G43 is fed by a 10-round magazine and the casing is thrown sideways, it is easy to mount a scope on the gun. Moreover, the 10-round ammunition capacity has unparalleled firepower continuity for accurate shooting. Although the scope magnification is not as good as our previous Mauser 98K sniper rifle, the 3x scope can better cooperate with the G43 semi-automatic rifle to deliver accurate and fast fire. As for lowering the magnification to a smaller magnification to facilitate mass production, it can instead give precision shooters a larger field of view in the scope, allowing them to find and lock on to targets faster. This is especially important in short-distance street fights! ”
Street fighting, also commonly known as urban warfare, is a street-by-street, house-by-house battle between streets, usually in a city or a large village. First, it is characterized by close hand-to-hand combat between the enemy and us, and its brutality is great. The second is that the enemy and the enemy are mixed with each other, and the dog's teeth are intertwined, which is highly dangerous.
In this mode of combat, it will inevitably be difficult to rely on snipers alone. Precision shooters, which are intermediate products between snipers and ordinary soldiers, are difficult to snipe from a distance like a sniper, but in the specific environment of short-handed street fighting, their role is no less than that of a sniper!
With that, Rashid motioned for the infantry squad to return to the column. Since then, the introduction of equipment for regular infantry squads has come to an end.
Just when the generals and marshals thought that this was the end, there was still a little unfinished. Rashid, like a magician who always conjures up surprises, called out a four-man battle team from the queue.
One of them was armed with an MP submachine gun, and the other three were each holding a strange weapon, a bit like a flare gun that generals were familiar with, but much larger than a flare gun.
All of the members of the battle group were wearing canvas waistcoats filled with ammunition that looked like large shotgun shotguns, a weapon that no one present had ever seen.
At this time, Rashid proudly pointed to their "flare gun" and said: "This is a 40mm grenade launcher, and the idea comes from our flare launcher. After all, as early as in previous battles, our soldiers often used this weapon, which is mainly used to fire signal flares, to fire grenades to destroy targets. And because our observation group got a batch of samples of 50 grenadiers made daily after the outbreak of the Battle of Nomenkan in the Far East. After research, we found that the Japanese army's high and low pressure ammunition was very interesting, so we borrowed it. ”