Chapter 007: Cold Gun Cold Gun Battle

Myanmar now has 16 million people, while Lashio has a population of only 40,000, which is not a big city, at least not in China, and only the southeast of Lashio is open, and the rest is surrounded by rivers.

The 200th Division was under-manned and therefore had to defend around Lashio to avoid its fall, but now that most of the 36th Division had arrived, the 200th Division would leave the city to them to defend while its own troops fought the Japanese on the periphery. The current situation doesn't seem to have to beat Lashio into slag, so try not to lead the devils here to fight, of course, the main thing is that most of the houses here are wooden, and it will be inconvenient to fight, not only will it not bring any benefits, but if the house burns down, it will harm the 200 divisions.

Since the 56th Division was discovered on the 25th, it has been attacked by small elite units of the 200th Division.

The so-called "cold gun and cold gun" tactic was actually learned from the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. From 1952 to 1953, during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the front-line troops of the Chinese People's Volunteers organized infantry and artillery to snipe at the exposed effective forces of the "United Army" and the South Korean People's Volunteers in a fixed or mobile manner, and destroyed their weapons and equipment.

At this time, the battle line was stable, and the two sides were in a state of confrontation for a long time, with the closest distance of about 100 meters. On January 29, 1952, in order to kill and injure a large number of "joint **" living forces, the Volunteer Army Headquarters issued tactical instructions to the front-line troops, requiring the general organization of special shooters to carry out sniper activities against a single target of the enemy. Beginning in May, the front-line units of the Chinese People's Volunteers launched a mass "cold gun and cold artillery war" in an all-round way. The method is to deploy special marksmen and sharpshooters to hunt down or destroy the opponent's exposed targets in a selected position in each position. Sniper operations have become increasingly active, effectively limiting the daytime activities of the "United **" and the South Korean Army on basic positions. By July 1953, infantry sniper operations had wiped out more than 52,600 troops of the "United **" and South Korean troops.

Of course, it's different here in Wang Hanzhang, because now the enemy is moving, and we are also moving, although they are all ambushing devils, but the current ambushes are different, they are all flashing people immediately after a shot, or flashing people after a submachine gun shuttle, or a rifle marksman secretly shoots a shot and leaves.

The target of the marksman is mainly the officer of the devil, the rifle is designed with a long distance and high accuracy, and at the same time, the officer who kills and injures the devil in large numbers is more effective than the soldier who kills and injures the devil, and can reduce the combat effectiveness of the devil more.

Submachine gunners, basically three people, two people in a group, 2 or 3 people are not big targets, easy to hide, easy to cover when escaping, they are ambushed on the side of the road, as soon as the devil's troops arrive at the ambush circle, they are a shuttle in front of the crowd. Because the distance is relatively close, in order to escape, they will also install one or two trick mines in their ambush position, of course, some are transformed with grenades, and the attacked devils are usually test flights and rush up in annoyance, generally there will be at least one team, or even multiple squads, and then unconsciously rush up to touch the mines, or detonate the grenade, and turn the people they blow up, with heavy losses.

As for the artillery, because it has to move and escape, the grenadier canister captured by the Japanese army captured at Kunlun Pass is used, the weight of the Japanese grenadier is only 2.7 kg, and the lightest mortar is 6 kg, and the weight of a rifle is generally about four kg, and the weight of the grenadier is much lighter than that of the rifle, so it is very easy to carry.

The grenadier is also known as the ultra-light mortar, which is mainly equipped with the Nazi German and Japanese armies in World War II, and the caliber is below 50mm. It is carried by individual soldiers and does not occupy the establishment. The caliber of the German grenadier is 50 mm, the warhead weighs about 1 kg, the firing range is about 250 meters, the rate of fire is 25 rounds / min, and the killing radius is about 5 meters.

The Japanese grenadier caliber is 50 mm, there are two models, the main difference is the length of the projectile, the main equipment of the Japanese invasion of China is 254 mm grenadier canister, each Japanese infantry squad (equivalent to the Chinese platoon, the number of people between 50 and 70 people) is equipped with a machine gun group (with two light machine guns), a grenadier group (with two grenadiers) and two rifle squads. Later for a squad with a grenadier and a light machine gun.

After the squadron captured the grenadier barrel, it was copied, but due to the constraints of the base conditions, it was impossible to engrave rifling the projectile barrel, so the smoothbore structure was adopted, and in order not to affect the firing range, the projectile was lengthened to 400 mm. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the squadron copied a large number of such grenadiers, causing casualties to the Japanese army.

Because of the short preparation time for launch, it is also widely used as a self-defense firearm in the command headquarters. The warhead weighs about 800 grams, the firing range is 300 meters, the rate of fire is 30 rounds / min, the killing radius is about 5 meters, and the weight of the grenadier is lighter than that of Germany.

The advantages of the grenadier canister are many, such as being lightweight, easy to carry, and providing timely fire support. Mortars of the same caliber in the world generally exceed at least 6 kilograms, and the ** grenadier is less than 3 kilograms, which is much lighter than the weight of a rifle, and is very suitable for individual carrying.

The Type 91 grenade is only 0.45 kilograms, an ammunition bag is only 3.6 kilograms for eight rounds, and the entire combat system with grenadiers is less than 7 kilograms, which is much lighter than a Czech light machine gun. Due to their light weight, grenadier crews would not be as heavy as mortar or heavy machine gun crews - unable to fight with front-line infantry in a timely manner. In real combat, grenadier groups can even charge with the infantry.

Another example is that the power is good and the cost is low. In general, the radius of destruction of the grenadier is about 5 to 8 meters, and a grenade can kill and injure dozens of people if it falls in a crowd, which is still good for a 50 mm caliber. The cost of the grenadier is only a quarter of that of a rifle for Japan, which is mature in technology, and the Type 91 grenade is basically the same as that of ordinary infantry grenades. Such a price is simply too cheap compared to the good record of grenadiers, and during World War II, the Nationalist Government alone manufactured more than 40,000 units and equipped a large number of ** troops.

It can also launch chemical weapons. Everyone knows that the Japanese army used chemical weapons in World War II, and to this day there are still hundreds of thousands of chemical shells left in Northeast China unprocessed. The Japanese army generally refers to chemical weapons as "decisive weapons", and they believe that chemical weapons are very tenacious for defense, but the squadrons that are basically not equipped with gas masks are very effective, which shows their importance. In the most difficult offensive or defensive battles, the Japanese used mortars and grenadiers to use chemical warheads in large quantities.

In the Battle of Shanghai in 1937, the Japanese used grenadiers for the first time to fire tear gas and sneezing (vomit) gas, causing many soldiers in the Chinese defenders to lose their will. During the Battle of Wuhan in 1938, due to the repeated encirclement and annihilation of the Japanese army and more stubborn resistance, the Japanese army used poison gas more unscrupulously and began to use the highly toxic erosive poison gas mustard gas and Lewis gas, causing a large number of casualties among Chinese soldiers.

In some battles during the entire eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, about 20 percent of the squadron suffered casualties in chemical weapons. The grenadier is a platoon-level first-line support weapon, which can release chemical weapons for tactical strikes in a very timely manner according to the needs of the battlefield, which is very convenient.

In terms of carrying or power, the grenadier is the most convenient to carry in sports warfare, and it is also the most suitable for use as a cold cannon in sports. In positional warfare, mortars with a longer range can now be used.

Until the 29th, the 56th Division arrived in Lashio, "cold guns and cold artillery" killed and injured more than 1,500 people of the 56th Division, a brigade of devils was eliminated, and the wounded needed twice as many people to take care of, that is to say, a wing basically played no role on the battlefield, and many troops of the 200th Division went to attack the transport convoy of the devils. A wing commander of the largest division, showing off there, was directly headshot, but most of the casualties caused to the devils were in the first two days, and the devils were completely unsuitable for this style of play of the squadron at first, so that they suffered losses again and again, and this style of play was confusing, so the devils could only continue to send countless small units to reconnoitre.

In this way, the speed of the march is much slower, the fear of the prestige of the 200th division and the fighting style of the squadron, all the devils are terrified, they were bent on finding the 200th division to avenge the Japanese army who died in the hands of the Kunlun Pass and Tonggu in the hands of the 200th division, and the officers are even more hype, so every devil knows that the enemy they are about to face is the 200th division, the only mechanized division in China, and now it is devastated by the 200th division, the morale of the devils has plummeted, and they don't know what else is waiting for them in the 200th division, Before I saw the 200th Division, a wing was reimbursed, and without killing a few enemy troops, the 200th Division can be called the most elite division in China, which is really not covered.

And the 200 division tightly lost more than 100 people and some weapons and ammunition. Although the attacking army did not have time to see the results of the battle, but every time the general situation was said, the soldiers who had experienced a hundred battles could still speculate the approximate results, and Dai Anlan did not expect that this "cold gun and cold gun" would be so effective, and before the official start of the battle, the devil would lose so much, and he couldn't help but add a little hope to Wang Hanzhang's seemingly unreliable big plan.