"Crossing the Ancient Forest Road!" Uesugi pointed to a thin line on the map. +++++++ Uesugi Pillar had a bespectacled officer next to him, his name was Kazuo Yokota and he was a chief of staff next to Uesugi Tsuru, he lifted his glasses and his face showed some concern, and Uesugi saw his expression.

Uesugi asked, "Yokota-kun, do you have any different opinions?" ”

Yokota Kazuo pondered for a moment and said, "Your Excellency General." I think it seems a bit risky to let the mountain artillery unit cross the Gulin Road. We are not very familiar with this road, and cutting this road should be an ancient road, whether it can be walked by mountain artillery troops is still two questions. ”

Uesugi Zhu laughed and said, "Yokota-kun, you're too worried." I've already asked someone to scout the Gulin Road, and the road there can be completely accessible to mountain artillery troops, as for the danger! I don't think the people of China would have thought that our mountain artillery unit would come from there. ”

Kazuo Yokota said: "But ......" Before he could speak, Uesugi Zhu waved his hand and said, "Yokota-kun." Our troops should rush to the shanggang as soon as possible, but if the mountain artillery unit moves together with the large army, it will slow down the movement of the troops. I had to make sure that the infantry and artillery appeared together on the position of the shankhill and caught those people off guard. ”

Kazuo Yokota sounded like it was very reasonable, and he didn't mean to refute it for a while, but he still had a lot of uneasiness in his heart, and he thought for a moment and said, "Then Your Excellency, please allow me to join the mountain artillery troops." ”

Uesugi stigma said, "It's okay! This gives me more peace of mind. ”

"Don't worry! I promise to complete the task. Wang Tiecheng smiled slightly and said, "Chief of Staff, don't worry!" ”

Zhang Wenshan handed over a cigarette and said: "The Uesugi Division is very famous in the Burma battlefield, and his mountain artillery unit has made our expeditionary force suffer a lot. We must wipe out this mountain artillery unit known as the "Chinese Destruction Machine" in Gulindao. Do you have any more requirements? ”

Wang Tiecheng shook his head and said, "No." ”

Zhang Wenshan smiled: "Okay, you go down and prepare!" ”

The ancient forest road is an ancient road, it is said that Liu Bei entered the river and traveled to a forest before there was no way out, the army was put aside here for a day, the next day the military division Zhuge Liang opened the law to collapse the practice, invited many mountain gods to build a road for the carriage to walk in half an hour, although this is just a legend, but this ancient forest road can indeed walk horses and mountain cannons.

Uesugi Zhu's division really did not have any achievements in the country, but when he was in Burma, many troops of the expeditionary force suffered a lot of losses, and the combat effectiveness of the mountain artillery unit of his unit was very strong. The mountain artillery force consisted of about 500 men, and every four soldiers* made one mountain artillery.

The Japanese Type 41 75mm mountain gun is one of the main artillery used in Japan's war of aggression against China, and in the early stage, it was mainly equipped with the infantry brigade of its field troops or the infantry wing of the general field division, and it was the main suppressive firepower of the Japanese infantry brigade. However, many of the divisional artillery wings to which field divisions and regiments were formed later also began to be equipped with this kind of mountain artillery, which originally belonged to infantry brigades and infantry wings. The Type 41 75mm mountain gun is particularly lightweight, a soldier can push it around, has good mobility, and is very convenient to use in various terrains. The Type 94 Mountain Gun later replaced the Type 41 Mountain Gun as a divisional gun. The Type 41 Mountain Gun was issued to the infantry artillery squadrons of each infantry wing, which was responsible for the task of directly supporting infantry operations, and was renamed the Type 41 Infantry Mountain Artillery, with an additional shield on the appearance. There are two types of shields for the Type 41 mountain gun, one is narrower than the rut distance, and the other is wider than the rut distance. At that time, many domestic arsenals copied the Type 41 mountain gun, and became the main artillery force of the Central Army and various local troops in the early days. The main imitations are the Han 10-type 75 mountain cannon of the Hanyang Arsenal, the Jin-made 1-type mountain cannon of the Taiyuan Arsenal, and the Liao 14-type mountain cannon of the Shenyang Arsenal. Before the purchase of the Bufus M190 75mm mountain gun, this was the best mountain gun equipped by the Chinese side that year, and it was widely used in various battlefields of the Anti-Japanese War.

This kind of mountain artillery is very mobile, generally a cannon only needs two horses to be towed, if it is dismantled and used with six horses to carry on the relatively flat mountain road, it is because of the strong mobility and firepower of the Uesugi pillar is to use this advantage to fight a lot of wonderful battles, the Uesugi pillar is very dependent on this mountain artillery unit, generally without the mountain artillery unit, his infantry will not easily attack.

Uesugi Zhu graduated from the Japanese Imperial Academy, once studied in Germany, majoring in artillery, so his dependence on artillery is very important, and his trust in artillery has reached madness, so under normal circumstances, the marching speed of his division is dominated by artillery, and often artillery and infantry are put into battle almost at the same time.

The problem of the Uesugi pillar this time is that the infantry must rush to the battlefield faster, but the artillery unit cannot advance quickly on the mountain road, and the only way is to take a shortcut, and the short road is the ancient forest road, according to the calculation of the Uesugi pillar, the artillery can be inserted from the ancient forest road and the infantry can be put into the battlefield at the same time.

The ancient forest road is a road paved with bluestone slabs in the woods, although it has been overgrown with a lot of weeds, but if you look closely, you can still see pieces of bluestone, and the war horses are slowly advancing on the ancient road, and the devils are all advancing forward with guns.

Kazuo Yokota walked on the ancient road and looked at the woods on all sides, and he was still frightened, and an officer beside him said, "Your Excellency! It seems that it is relatively safe here. ”

Kazuo Yokota waved his hand on the side and said, "Don't take the enemy lightly. I always feel uneasy about sending some scouts to the front. Kazuo pointed around and said, "You see, if the environment here hides tens of thousands of troops, it's okay." I think Your Excellency the General's decision this time was too hasty. ”

The officer said, "Your Excellency! I guess it's not that serious, right? We don't have to deal with the people of China for a day or two. ”

Kazuo Yokota said, "Let's go and have a look!" ”

"Yes!" The officer bowed his head and said, "I'll send someone right away." ”

Kazuo Yokota looked up at the sky and said to himself, "It's going to be dark soon." Thinking about it, he ordered: "Let the troops rest in place." ”

The night slowly engulfed the woods, and a crescent moon was already hanging in the sky, and a few starlights made the woods look particularly strange and deep.

Kazuo Yokota looked around and sat around by a bonfire and seemed a little uneasy, and an officer handed him a cup of hot water and said, "Your Excellency! When do we depart? ”

"Wait until the investigators come back and report the situation." Kazuo Yokota said, "I hope there are no ghosts here." ”

Ghosts lurked in the woods, each smeared with black pot ash, and a pair of white eyes stared at the ancient forest road.

The National Youth Division's Broadsword Battalion No. 106 Battalion, this unit was formed in the National Youth Division after the defense of Nanjing, and the soldiers with a martial arts foundation were selected from many scattered soldiers, and it has always been the vanguard of the National Youth Division. The Broadsword Battalion fully considered the needs of their close combat in terms of weaponry, and the soldiers were all equipped with Thomson submachine guns supplied from the center and a water Devil's Head Knife, which can be described as the characteristics of the Broadsword Battalion. As mentioned above, Shaofan prefers German-style weapons because he was influenced by his study in Germany, his guard regiment and special operations battalion; Almost all of the reconnaissance battalions were German weapons, for which he also contributed a lot of British and American weapons to Li Zongren in the Battle of Xu Beng, and later the government received a large number of American aid materials for China, and the favored trench typewriters were distributed to the Central Army in large quantities, and Shaofan's National Youth Division was also distributed a lot. Because of the rapid expansion of the National Youth Division, coupled with the fact that Germany launched a war in Europe, the channels for German weapons became more and more difficult, Shaofan began to adjust the weapons and equipment of the troops, and all the troops in the battalion began to be distributed with American-style weapons and a small number of British weapons, such as the 105th Battalion was equipped with British weapons Lee Enfield rifles, and the artillery battalions were equipped with all British Stern submachine guns, the origin of which we will discuss later. The broadsword battalion is all Thomson submachine guns, this kind of submachine guns with great power at close range are mostly transported from the Yunnan-Burma highway, and have become the darlings of many troops. Shen Shaofan once said: "If he has tanks and armored vehicles, the combat effectiveness of the National Youth Division is far several times that of the Fifth Army." When the first expeditionary force failed, Du Yuming also passed: "The combat effectiveness of the National Youth Division was the strongest in the National Revolutionary Army at that time, and if it merged with its 5th Army, there would be a day of clamour." Later, the National Youth Division was ordered to participate in the battle of the Second Yunnan-Burma Expedition, which proved that Du Yuming's law was completely true.

The Thompson submachine gun was named after the American General Thompson, but was actually designed by the Americans O.V. Perth and T. H. Oakkhoff. The early development of the submachine gun was the M1919 type, its earliest production model was the M191 type, and later the M19 and M198 series submachine guns appeared one after another. Among them, the M198A1 was successfully developed in 190 years, and a small amount of equipment was used by the US army, and was also used by Britain, France and other allied teams in World War II. In 194, the M198A1 was improved, the M1 submachine gun was developed, and it was officially equipped with the US army, becoming the first standard submachine gun of the US army, and later improved to the M1A1 submachine gun on the basis of the M1 type. During World War II, more than 1.4 million Thompson submachine guns were produced, which ceased production in 1945 and were gradually replaced by the American MA1 submachine guns. The Thompson submachine gun is powerful and powerful, but what it lacks is a complex structure and a large mass. 1. The gun M198A1 submachine gun adopts a unique semi-free bolt-type operating principle, the bolt has an H-shaped delayed recoil block made of bronze, which is located in the groove of the bolt tilted back at an angle of 70 °, the effect is to delay the bolt recoil by frictional resistance at different angles at the moment of launch. When the chamber pressure begins to fall, the locking protrusions on both sides of the H-block interact with the unlocking bevel on the receiver to cause the H-block to rise, and the bolt begins to move backwards. Although the delay mechanism avoids the failure of early shelling and shell explosion of the bolt, the structure is complex. The outside of the barrel is machined with annular heat slots, and there is a zigzag shock absorber in the muzzle part. Equipped with 0-round and 0-round magazines or 50-round, 100-round drums. Most of the parts of the gun are castings, and the mass of the whole gun is large, up to 4.9kg without bullets. The main improvement of the M1 11.4mm submachine gun is the cancellation of the H-block bolt delay mechanism, and the working principle is changed to a free bolt type. In addition, the pull handle was changed from the original upper part of the receiver to the right side of the receiver, the barrel heat sink and toothed shock absorber were removed, and only the 0-round and 0-round magazines were used for feeding. The M1A1 11.4mm submachine gun M1A1 is an improved version of the M1 type, its main difference is that the movable firing pin is changed to a fixed firing pin, and the striking iron is canceled, and everything else is exactly the same as the M1 type.