Gao Hongsheng is equipped with both Bergman MG15NA light machine gun and Madsen light machine gun, which seems to be a bit repetitive, but he also has his considerations.

The Bergman light machine gun he wanted to use as a platoon-level heavy firepower, and the Madsen light machine gun was used as an important support weapon for the class, and as for the company-level support heavy firepower, of course, it was a heavy machine gun with 50 firepower, but that thing still had to wait until these weapons were ready.

At the same time, he wanted to put an important weapon in the production of Austria-Hungary, that is, the Italian M35 type 45 mm rapid-fire light mortar during World War II, for which people have mixed reviews, some people praised it as "the world's best designed small-caliber mortar", critics called it "the world's most sophisticated device for firing a pound of weight to a distance of 500 yards".

The caliber of this gun is 45 millimeters, the weight of the cannon is 15.4 kilograms, the weight of the bullet is less than 0.5 kilograms, that is, one city catty, the maximum angle of fire is 85 degrees, the maximum firing range is 535 meters, and the maximum rate of fire is 25 to 30 rounds per minute.

The entire mortar system consisted of three parts, the gun body, the gun mount and the cartridge magazine (5mm empty cartridges).

This gun design structure is very unique, it has two layers of gun body, the tail of the inner gun body is open, and the outer gun body has an opening for loading shells in the front of one-half of the gun body, after the two layers of gun body are put together, under a handle control, the inner gun body can be moved back and forth, and the empty cartridge magazine is inserted vertically above the rear of the outer gun and connected to the medicine room.

When firing, the shooter pushes the handle forward, and the inner gun body moves forward accordingly, so that the reloading port on the outer gun body is opened, and then the loader loads the loader, and then the shooter pulls the handle back, and the inner gun body moves backward to complete the locking, and at the same time, the empty pack magazine used for firing also pushes an empty pack of bullets into the medicine room, and the shooter pulls the trigger to complete the firing of a shell.

Its gun carriage is very distinctive, it is a "well" shaped swing gun carriage, although this design makes the structure of this gun carriage very complex, improving the production difficulty, but it gives it good shooting stability and flexible angles.

Another feature is that there is a chest pad for the shooter to lie on it, because the overall height of the M35 light mortar is very low, the shooter is usually lying on the ground to operate (can also be erected in the trench, can stand to operate), so the chest pad can allow the shooter to operate for a long time without feeling tired, and can also sit on the mat to operate, on the other hand, the weight of the shooter also plays a role in stabilizing the dìng artillery, and at the same time it is also the back pad when carrying the mortar, which improves the comfort when carrying the mortar, When carrying it, you can easily carry it by folding the gun carriage and chest pad in the middle.

Gao Hongsheng values this light rapid-fire mortar because of its high rate of fire, with a sustained maximum rate of fire of up to 25 rounds per minute, which is comparable to an automatic grenade even today.

With this high rate of fire, the M35 rapid-fire mortar can effectively suppress the attack of the enemy infantry, and the enemy infantry has not yet been deployed at 400 to 500 meters from the front of the position, and the rain of grenades can make the enemy infantry unable to form a battle group, under this dense firepower, the infantry attack is simply a torture, there are grenade explosions everywhere, and it is impossible to organize the offensive formation at all, and the offensive formation can only be placed outside this weapon, which increases the distance of the attack, This gives the defending side more time to organize their defenses.

Logically speaking, this weapon should be quite good, but the mistake is that the Italian army used it as a battalion support weapon, with each infantry battalion supporting company having two mortar platoons of nine guns each.

It is inconceivable that it is an ultra-light mortar in the hands of a battalion, and not equipped like a grenadier at the squad or platoon level.

The weight of the shell of the M35 45 mm rapid-fire mortar is only about one catty, that is, it is equivalent to the weight of a grenade, which is about the same as the grenade fired by the grenadier, and the killing range is about five meters.

Compared with the grenadier, this weapon also has incomparable advantages, first of all, the firing range reaches 500 meters, which is about the same level as a 60-millimeter mortar, the rate of fire is also high, and the training of shooters is much simpler than that of grenadiers due to the use of gun carriages.

Gao Hongsheng didn't think about the grenadier canister, but the requirements for gunner training were too high, and it was impossible to shoot accurately, and because the range was too close, two or three hundred meters away, the gunner was easily exposed to being killed by enemy snipers.

As for the gun grenade, he also considered it, but at present, even the grenade is only equipped, the advanced thing of the gun grenade is far less useful than a professional small mortar, and the use of gun grenades must be specially trained, most of the people in his small bandit team don't even know a few big characters, even if the gun grenade is really equipped with the troops, then the corresponding training can make him die, far from training a group of gunners who use rapid-fire mortars.

Training 100 people and training 10 people are fundamentally two different concepts, the fewer people, the better the training, and at the same time, the better the effect of training, and a large part of the use of gun grenades is obtained by experience, far less simple than the mortar gunners trained by the scale on the gun mount.

In addition, the price of gun grenades is much more expensive than mortar shells, especially the fuse of gun grenades is much more complex and expensive than the fuse of mortar shells, and he is not extravagant enough to use gun grenades as mortar shells.

The M35 rapid-fire mortar would not make the mistakes of the Italian army, and he was going to devolve it to the infantry squad to use it as a close-range support weapon.

To put it simply, this kind of light mortar can be used as a grenadier canister, and when used alone, it can accompany the infantry attack, hit the enemy's light machine gun fire points or infantry small groups, and when used in a concentrated manner, it can be used to carry out blocking fire, disrupt the enemy's infantry group at four or five hundred meters, so that the enemy cannot assemble and disrupt the enemy's offensive rhythm.

According to the grenadier equipment plan of the Japanese army that invaded China during World War II, the number of their squad is about 50 to 70 people, equipped with two grenadiers and two crooked light machine guns, this equipment plan is enough to deal with the squadron that lacks guns and ammunition, but it is not enough to look at the armies of European and American countries.

Gao Hongsheng is not short of money, and the stronger the power to defend himself in this world, the safer he is, so he directly equips it according to the firepower standards of later generations.

An infantry squad, two light machine guns, two light rapid-fire mortars, two positive and negative squad leaders, plus six riflemen, directly calculated that an infantry squad turned out to be sixteen people.

According to the three-three system, a platoon should have three infantry squads under its jurisdiction, but he added a firepower squad and a baggage squad, mainly to increase the firepower of six Bergman MG15NA light machine guns to increase the firepower of platoon-level units, and at the same time added a baggage squad to improve the supply capacity of ammunition.

In fact, the rapid-fire mortars and Bergman machine guns he made were ammunition-eating tigers, and without a baggage squad to be responsible for the supply of ammunition, they simply could not support several battles.

After such a platoon, the entire platoon reached more than 80 people, which was almost equal to a company in later generations, and more than a squad when the Japanese army invaded China.

However, there was no way out, and the poor road conditions in China at that time determined that he could only increase the number of people in the team to increase the amount of ammunition carried by the troops, otherwise he would face the dilemma of having guns but no ammunition.