"The shotgun has finally been successfully studied...... "Wang Sirui's smile instantly took over his entire face after learning the experimental results of the shotgun. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Shotguns are in many ways inferior to rifles, machine guns, and even pistols.

However, in the face of trench warfare, street fighting, and even defense, the power of the shotgun is too terrifying, the bullets are scattered out one by one, and at close range, it can directly knock people away, so to speak, the shotgun is the only important support weapon that can make up for the close combat of the troops in addition to the pistol.

You can imagine how terrifying the combat effectiveness of the troops would be if each squad was equipped with a shotgun.

If there are heavy machine guns at long distances when defending the enemy's charge, there will be light machine guns in the future, rifles at medium distances, Type 03 automatic rifles at medium and close ranges, a small number of pistols at close range, grenades, Type 03 automatic rifles and rifles, and light machine guns can occasionally participate in it, but the effect is not too great, if you add a shotgun, at a distance of twenty or thirty meters, it will make up for some of the vacancies in this line of death, if each squad is equipped with two shotguns, as long as the troops cooperate perfectly, Basically, it can be guaranteed that there will be no enemy within 40 meters of the position and will still be able to attack.

The investment of millions of dollars did not disappoint Wang Sirui, although it took them two and a half years, or even longer, but Wang Sirui still felt that he had earned.

The Chinese Empire is indeed poor, not long after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the tax revenue has been halved for six years (tax exemption for three years), how can the central government still have money? Even now, life at all levels of government is tight.

But in two aspects, Wang Sirui is not the slightest slack, the first is the research of equipment, the average annual expenditure on this is tens of millions of dollars.

If it weren't for the seizure of those princes and nobles after taking control of the capital, Wang Sirui would definitely not have enough economy to support such a huge R&D team.

But it turned out to be the right thing to do.

So far, the team that has spent tens of millions of dollars has brought the Type 03 automatic rifle to the empire, and is currently ramping up production, and the plan is to equip each squad leader with one in the early stage, and then gradually increase it.

60-mm light mortar with a maximum firing range of one and a half thousand meters. 37mm anti-aircraft guns, tank guns, and boar tanks.

Once all these equipment are equipped with the troops, then the overall combat effectiveness of the Imperial Army will directly reach the top and become the leader of the entire world army.

Of course not, a large amount of money has been invested in the Royal Army, which has developed by leaps and bounds, and with advanced training methods, the troops can easily accept this new concept.

Although the shotgun has not yet been tested and all the data has not yet been reported, this can no longer stop Wang Sirui's joy.

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At the same time, unlike Wang Sirui's joy, the pressure on the North Korean front is increasing day by day.

Because the commanders of the three divisions were recalled, the time gained by the Royal Army's accelerated advance a few days ago was pulled back, and the front-line troops sent a battalion of troops to scatter in squads to spy on the positions of the Japanese troops.

As a result, a large number of Japanese troops were found to be gathering near Pyongyang, and although it was not seen how many Japanese troops there were, it was judged from the traces on the ground that at least 20,000 Japanese troops were gathering there.

The Japanese army that was killed by them before the union, this is almost the entire strength of the Japanese army. If this battle can be won, it means that the matter is a foregone conclusion, and there is no suspense that Japan will be driven out of Korea.

But at this critical juncture, there was such a huge change within the Royal Army.

The deputy division commanders who succeeded Xu Jie, Ai Kun and Li Yunchang became much more cautious because of their lack of experience and the lessons of the previous division commanders, and it was precisely because of their caution that the fighters that could have dispersed and consumed the Japanese army passed quietly, and by the time they reacted, the fighters were gone.

And for this situation, Cai Ye, who is on the front line, is also helpless.

The three deputy division commanders on top, Yan Yuhong, deputy commander of the 23rd Division, are the commander of the 231st Brigade and the deputy division commander concurrently, and Yan Yuhong has only served as the brigade commander for less than half a year before that, and under the guidance of Li Yunchang, he has just played with the 231st Brigade, but before he can adapt to it, he became the division commander.

This is a division, not two squads for him to command, in the war last year, Yan Yuhong was only a battalion commander, was promoted to regiment commander for merit, and after half a year as a regiment commander and then promoted to brigade commander, after half a year as a brigade commander, he became a division commander, and the speed of promotion can be said to be unable to catch up with a rocket, but for the troops, this is really not a good thing.

Liu Yi, deputy commander of the 52nd Division, this is transferred from the deputy commander of the reserve division, it has been almost half a year, and there is no problem with training assistance, since he went to the reserve division, he has basically not been in contact with the war, and he is quite good in theory.

Cao Anchun, deputy commander of the 60th Division, was a slightly better part, he was a brigade commander as early as the reserve period, and he was a regiment commander before he went to the reserve.

Subsequently, Cao Anchun's brigade was reorganized into the 60th Division, and Cao Anchun's resume was still very good, so he concurrently served as the deputy division commander.

Cao Anchun is the only veteran of the three divisions who has some division commander's war experience, but he has not yet played the 60th Division, this is not to say that the other brigade does not listen to his command, and now with the lessons of the previous three division commanders, who dares not to obey orders?

The main thing is to be ordered in danger, and I have no experience as a division commander, so I suddenly have so many troops in my hands, and I don't know how to arrange it for a while.

As for Cai Yi, don't mention it.

Although he is a historical bull, Cai Ye is still very young and simple, and some of his ideas are certainly very constructive, but some ideas cannot stand scrutiny, and they still need time and war to hone them.

Seeing the fighters disappear again and again, Cai Ye, as an overseer, was also sweating profusely.

Could he blame the troops? Of course not, because all three division commanders were transferred in one go, and no officers of the same rank were transferred to command, so it was strange that the troops did not go into chaos.

Although Cai himself has the name of an overseer, he is actually just a second lieutenant officer, okay, which second lieutenant have you ever seen to command three divisions to fight? Even if they dare to listen, Cai Ye doesn't dare to command indiscriminately.

However, just when Cai Yi was at a loss, Cao Kun suddenly appeared on the front line.

In fact, Cao Kun is also well aware of the consequences of doing this, but he has no choice.

The Royal Army is expanding so fast that most officers simply don't have time to adapt and train, often just sitting in their current position, and are promoted before they can work well for two days, and then adapt to their new positions.

In those units that do not have a combat mission, the impact of this situation is not yet significant, but in those that have a combat mission, it is fatal.

Therefore, after Cao Kun forwarded the telegram to Cai Yi, he immediately moved to the front line with the Volunteer Army Headquarters, and now in the entire Volunteer Army, only Cao Kun can control the scene.

Anyway, he has also been in the position of army commander for half a year, and the Eighth Army has been managed by him in an orderly manner, and now no one else can do this well except himself.

"Commander, I didn't do a good job, the troops lost countless fighters, please punish me!" Cai Ye lowered his arrogant head, relying on the emperor's appreciation and the attention of commanders at all levels, Cai Ye has been proud of the spring breeze since he came to the army, and he has been moving forward.

When he was in the headquarters before, he didn't feel it so deeply, but this time he came to the front as an Overseer, and he really realized that he was too inflated before.

"I'll talk about this later, how is the situation on the front line now?" Cao Kun nodded, not to punish Cai Yi, but to ask directly.

"At least 20,000 or more Japanese troops are massing in Pyongyang, because the Japanese army has too many troops, and our reconnaissance troops do not dare to get too close, so we do not know their armament situation there. At present, the 60th and 52nd Divisions are at the front, about 20 kilometers away from Pyongyang, and the 23rd Division is about 30 kilometers away. Cai Ye reported.

"Little devil, are you going to live a life?" Cao Kun was stunned for a moment, and continued: "Since they don't want to live anymore, then let's help them, tonight, all departments will step up the replenishment of supplies, and the materials in charge of the 23rd Division will be handed over to the North Korean army to be responsible, and they will go around to Pyongyang at night, and the whole army will launch a general offensive tomorrow morning." ”

The Japanese army has been assembled, and there is nothing to be hypocritical on the side of the Royal Army, the time is only half a month at most, and now two days have passed, and now they only need to kill the more than 20,000 Japanese troops in front of them, and they can drive straight in, and it is basically impossible to encounter any decent resistance in the remaining ten days.

For the Royal Army, as long as the Japanese troops in front of them are gnawed, the following days are basically as simple as a long-distance field training, and they only need to harvest the ground everywhere.

"In addition, pay more attention to the dynamics of the Korean army trained by the Japanese, so far, we have not seen these Korean soldiers, although there is nothing to be afraid of, but there are more lice can bite elephants to death." Cao Kun continued. (To be continued.) )