"When firing on the move, I recommend that you use semi-automatic fire as much as possible, not fully automatic, not because you are worried about running out of ammunition, but because even if this machine gun is well maintained, after 300 rounds in a short period of time, the barrel will have to stop firing because the barrel is too hot, and this natural cooling process can take a few minutes. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Alright, boys, let's start feeling the fire of the Shosha machine gun." Pierre walked to a shooting range, then took the machine gun in his hand steadily, and fired a long point shot and a few single shots with great ease. Moments later, about three or four bullet holes appeared in the target 150 meters away.

And the Japanese military Cao next to him is not so good, the first time he used this weapon, except for the first few bullets, it was quite reliable, and the rest didn't know where to fly. Then the Japanese, who thought they had lost face, decisively lay on the ground and used a lying position to increase stability. He turned on the bipod and aimed at a distant target.

"No, friend, wait, this won't work!" Before Pierre could stop the latter, the Japanese soldier let out a scream accompanied by the sound of machine guns. Because of the long recoil principle, the rear of the receiver of the Shosha machine gun can easily hit the face of the shooter who shoots in a lying position when firing continuously! Unfortunately, this kind of military cao was slapped in the face, and historically, in the French army, Shosha was called a face-slapping gun, which shows that the man-machine function of this gun is really not very good.

After stumbling and training for three weeks, the Japanese finally had a general understanding of the French weapons in their hands, and it only took three days to actually learn how to shoot, and the longer world was learning how to maintain the weapons in their hands, such as how to clean up the dust and mud caused by the many large openings in Qiang's body. For example, how to protect the fragile magazine, the Japanese found that the magazine on the body was easy to crush when they suddenly lay down, and when the bullet was full, the Z-shaped spring in the magazine was easy to fatigue and lose its elasticity.

However, this was not all of Shosha's problem, and soon, some Japanese soldiers reacted that when the bullet was dirty, it would not be able to load, the bolt could not be locked, the gun would not be able to fire automatically if it was overheated, contaminated or carbonized, and worse, the machine gun could not be disassembled to troubleshoot ....... In other words, after it broke, the French could not count on this gun except for praying to God and the Japanese except for praying for Aunt Amatera......su.

(If the historical evaluation of the Allies is debatable, then the evaluation of the Germans is enough to prove the failure of the Shosha machine gun, and the German machine gunners will be trained in various machine guns that can be found on the battlefield, including Lewis machine guns, Madsen machine guns, etc., but there is no training ...... for the Shosha machine gun.) It follows from this that the Germans were dismissive of this. ）

Soon the Japanese quickly cooled down from the excitement of receiving the new equipment, especially after seeing the Lewis machine gun during a visit to the British army's firepower display, and they were even more dissatisfied with the British and French approach, the Lewis machine gun was 47 rounds of drums, and could fire 10 rounds a second, while Shosha only had three rounds a second. Not to mention the terrible man-machine. Finally, when the Japanese asked why the French produced such an inferior machine gun, the French explained simply, because it was cheap and easy to produce!

Historically, the French used a large number of stamping, willow jointing, welding and other technologies in the production of this machine gun, and used relatively few parts. So the French produced 247,000 during the First World War! At the same time, the United States and Britain were armed with only 50,000 Lewis machine guns in World War I! And from the beginning of World War I to the end of production of Lewis machine guns in 1946, a total of 148,000 units were produced!

Is the Lewis machine gun good? Very good, I don't know where it is higher than Sausha, but alas, the cost is too high, in 1915, a Lewis machine gun cost 165 pounds! What does this cost mean? A British MK tank is only £5,000! So, from this point of view, Shosha was really successful, at least allowing the French to have a lot of automatic fire!

Mastering the weapons in their hands was only the first step for the Japanese army to become familiar with the European theater, they also needed to learn a completely new set of tactics, how to fight in small scale with machine guns as the core of infantry, and how to launch large-scale operations under the cover of artillery and tanks. And just the small-scale cooperation of more than a dozen people before made the original Japanese Army feel quite uncomfortable.

Historically, the Germans' storm commandos were once prominent, but in fact, the French were also very good at infantry tactics in the middle and late periods. Of course, because of the bad weapons in their hands, the group armed with the Shosha machine gun would have been able to defeat the ......Germans with the MG15 light machine gun under normal circumstances.

But you can't say that the French army tactics are not good, in this plane, the French have pointed out the squad platoon combat mode based on machine guns and gun grenadiers, a standard French infantry platoon consists of three combat groups, of which the machine gun team equipped with the Shosha machine gun is 4 people, including the main and secondary marksman and two ammunition men, in general, each ammunition hand will carry a special backpack that can hold 12 magazines and a tote bag that can hold 4 magazines. Then there was a grenade group equipped with a grenade launcher, in addition to the remaining infantry to form a support group, which was responsible for covering and carrying more ammunition.

The French were actually in a similar mode of operation to the German Army, with machine gun crews suppressing, grenadiers taking out targeted targets, and infantry being responsible for occupation and cleanup. The Germans' approach is that the machine gun group is flat-fire annihilation and grenadier curved attack, the attack power is stronger, but the problem is not caused by the French tactical backwardness, but because the Shosha machine gun firepower is really a problem, in addition to the rate of fire is not good, the accuracy is not good, in the face of small targets or single targets, the recommended range of the Shosha machine gun is 100 to 200 meters, while the range of the machine gun in the hands of the Germans is about 400 meters .......

And this kind of squad assault tactics is undoubtedly completely new to the Japanese army, and it is completely different from the Russo-Japanese War in which once the charge is made, the soldiers in a battalion launch a swarm of assaults, although, not long ago, the French also played roughly.

A pure pig assault did not require much technology, and now, when the French tried to hand over their tactical ideas and combat style to this Japanese army, which did not even have a primary school education, the problem was too great. Although the Japanese had more powerful weapons, their stubbornness still caught the French by surprise, and the French did not understand why the Japanese had to install bayonets on all their machine guns.

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