Chapter 473: Capture of Taiwan

"Dada

On the streets of Hsinchu, a series of machine-gun fire rang out incessantly.

A Japanese soldier hiding behind a sandbag bunker was firing a machine gun at the Wehrmacht soldiers who were rushing towards the area.

Under his suppression, the Wehrmacht soldiers who were rushing towards here could barely move.

"Hahahaha, what's up, you damn Chinese people!!"

Looking at the Wehrmacht soldiers who were being suppressed by themselves, the machine gunner laughed wildly.

Of course, under the sound of machine guns, his laughter would certainly not reach the street corner dozens of meters away, and the Wehrmacht soldiers dozens of meters away would not be able to hear what he was saying.

Even so, the suppressed soldiers tried to take the bunker.

"Old Liu, you go to the roof."

After trying a few times, but being beaten back, Li Nan said to his comrades on the side.

The Japanese machine gunner on the opposite side was hiding behind a bunker made of sandbags, and Li Nan's semi-automatic rifle in their hands could not pose much of a threat to him.

As for the grenade launcher, although the range of the grenade launcher is a little longer than that of the grenade, the distance is still a little worse. Mortars and bazookas take some time to aim, and at this time they are undoubtedly exposed to the field of view of the machine gunner...

Even though the bazooka is still a secret weapon in the Wehrmacht, your enemy suddenly comes out with a strange-looking weapon aimed at you, so I'm afraid your first reaction is not to wait for him to make a move, but to kill him before he can make a move, right?

So let the mortar guys and anti-tank crews with bazookas come out. Striking the Heavy behind cover is basically a deadly thing.

Therefore, Li Nan can only think of another way...

Fortunately...

Now it's an urban war ...

"I see."

Before coming to Taiwan, Li Nan and the others had all conducted landing training and urban warfare training, so the soldier named Lao Liu somewhat understood Li Nan's thoughts.

So Lao Liu removed the equipment on his body, especially after removing the grenade and other equipment. I followed some railings and other things on the side of the wall, and slowly climbed up to the roof.

After reaching the roof more than two stories high, after noticing that the machine gunner did not notice him, Lao Liu handed down a rope, and the soldiers below tied a bazooka to the rope. Slowly let Lao Liu pull up to the roof.

During this period, in order to prevent the machine gunner on the opposite side from noticing this, Li Nan and the others also launched a feint attack several times to attract the attention of the machine gunner.

In fact, it worked well, perhaps because the Japanese soldier was too confident, or maybe he and his companions had gone crazy and didn't even notice that there was a Wehrmacht soldier on the building in the upper right corner. He was holding a bazooka and aiming it at himself.

"Alright..."

Of course, the fact that the Japanese soldiers did not notice Lao Yanagi does not mean that Lao Liu will not make a move.

After taking some time to aim, noticing that the Japanese soldiers behind the bunker did not notice him, Lao Yanagi ejected the rocket from the bazooka.

After being shot out of the bazooka. The rocket pulled a long white line in the air.

In addition, the speed of the rocket is actually not very fast, and his sound is not small, so when he first came out, he really attracted the attention of the Japanese.

It's a pity that the Japanese don't know much about this weapon, even if they do. It was only during the Battle of the Beach. In addition, the Japanese soldiers in the bunker were not the routs on the beach defense line, so seeing that this thing with a white line was flying towards him, the Japanese soldiers were still pulling the trigger in a daze, ......, "Bang!! ”

It's not a big sound. But it was definitely not a small explosion.

Then Lao Liu, who did this, and Li Nan, the initiator, saw an explosion in the bunker piled up from sandbags.

And in this explosion, almost all of the Japanese soldiers who were still very rampant just now were sent to the western sky, even their accomplice, that is, the machine gun. Of course. Since the power of the rockets did not matter much, the machine gun did not suffer much damage.

After all, no matter what. Machine guns made of steel are also much stronger than human flesh and blood.

"Okay, rush over !!"

Seeing that the machine gun fortifications that were in the way were removed, Li Nan said to his companions beside him.

On the other side, Lao Liu, who is a hero, is in a forgotten state, climbing down from the roof with a rope.

In fact, he had other options just now, such as a sniper rifle or something.

In fact, the number of sniper rifles in the Wehrmacht is not small at present―――――― although it seems that not everyone is qualified to be a sniper.

Even so, a sniper rifle with a scope is much more accurate than a regular rifle, especially at long ranges, and of course in special battles such as urban warfare.

However, after all, it is impossible for a sniper rifle to kill several enemies at once, and if they come one by one, it is easy to startle the Japanese and arouse their vigilance.

Therefore, Lao Liu can only choose rockets, which can kill the weapons that announce the enemy at one time.

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In urban warfare, the Wehrmacht's firepower configuration was significantly more rational than that of the Japanese.

As far as the Japanese are concerned, the only weapons in their hands are the Type 99 rifle and the Type 38 rifle, in addition to grenadiers and light and heavy machine guns in general―――――― especially the small-caliber rifle like the Type 38 rifle, which is only 6.5mm caliber rifle with surprisingly low lethality, and it is precisely because of this that the Japanese will be equipped with 7.7mm Type 99 rifles.

On the other hand, the Wehrmacht was armed not only with semi-automatic rifles, which were far superior to the Japanese in terms of firepower, but also with submachine guns, shotguns, bazookas, recoilless guns and mortars, and even a small number of automatic rifles for testing.

Even the M1911A Browning pistol used by the Wehrmacht was much stronger than the Southern Type 14 pistol used by the Japanese army.

The Japanese Southern Type 14 pistol is an improved version of the original Southern Type pistol. Manufactured by the Nagoya Arsenal, it was listed as a standard weapon of the Japanese Army in 1925 and was equipped with generals and colonels during World War II. In the U.S. military, the gun has the title "Oriental Luger", but not because of how superior the performance of the pistol is. Rather, it is because the gun resembles a German-made Luger pistol.

This pistol uses a southern 8mm bullet, with a long aiming baseline, high accuracy, and a very large bullet damage that is basically the same as that of a dumm, and unprotected personnel are hit. Usually either dead or disabled. But this bullet penetration is very weak, with 5 layers of quilt can be blocked, in addition to the design structure of the gun, must be strictly maintained to ensure reliability, otherwise it is easy to appear after the second bullet is not loaded in place, resulting in a pause in shooting, need to be manually loaded, become a "manual pistol".

This gun was designed by Nanbu Daisa. The appearance appears to be modeled after the German Luger P08 pistol. However, the design is relatively unsuccessful, such as the firing pin is not hard enough and brittle, the firing is weak, it is easy to break, and even suicide is not guaranteed (American GI). Jamming is frequent. Due to the mistake in the design of the magazine jam, the magazine is easy to fall off when firing, and it is easy to misfire. As soon as the distance is long, the bullets fly randomly, and the penetration is extremely poor, and even the thicker wooden door cannot penetrate (the words of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army). Even if the Eighth Route Army had no guns and no artillery, they were unwilling to use this gun. It's a poorly designed pistol. ..., of course, perhaps for this reason. That's why the Japanese designed the Type 94 pistol later, but even the Type 94 pistol has more flaws and cannot be compared with a classic pistol like the M1911.

Although there is a great advantage in equipment. However, after all, urban warfare is not like storming in the field, and although equipment is very important in urban warfare, the perseverance and combat effectiveness of soldiers are also very important.

Therefore, in Hsinchu City, the Wehrmacht soldiers who rushed into the city were simply unable to move an inch.

But even so, when the two armies clashed. Because of the equipment and training, it was always the Wehrmacht that survived.

Of course, exceptions are not without ...

"What kind of weapon is this..."

Inside the headquarters in Hsinchu. Looking at a weapon on the table, Hirata Ichiro asked the staff officer beside him.

"This is something that the soldiers below just captured in one of the battles..."

As he spoke, the staff officer picked up the weapon, and then removed the magazines of the weapons rather awkwardly.

"According to the reaction of the soldiers below, this weapon has strong firepower, and can even shoot non-stop, and it is basically completely able to suppress our soldiers during the battle, if it were not for the fact that a soldier pulled a grenade and rushed into the room where the Chinese were hiding, and died with the other party, I am afraid that the small group of soldiers would have been wiped out..."

"So..."

For example, when the Japanese were defeated in history, the military doctor on duty when the defeated Japanese army evacuated often shot all the wounded and sick before leaving, or let them commit suicide with grenades.

Therefore, hearing the staff officer say this, Hirata Ichiro was not very surprised.

"So this weapon is..."

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The staff officer shook his head and did not say anything, but after taking Ichiro Hirata out of the command headquarters, he loaded a magazine with bullets, and then handed over the weapon to Ichiro Hirata.

Although it was the first time he had come into contact with this weapon, Ichiro Hirata was relatively proficient in aiming at a target outside the headquarters. But when he pulled the trigger, he was very accustomed to only knocking.

Seeing this scene, the staff officer hurriedly said on the side.

"You try to keep the trigger on it!"

Ichiro Hirata was a little strange, but he tried to do what the staff officer said.

And then...

"Dada-da..."

From the weapon, a barrage of bullets was fired...

"It's !!"

After releasing the trigger, Ichiro Hirata looked at the weapon in his hand in surprise.

"This is supposed to be an automatic rifle, right?"

Thinking about what he had just seen, the magazine was definitely ammunition for rifle cartridges, Hirata Ichiro thought for a moment.

Hearing Hirata's words, the staff officer also nodded.

The Japanese are not turtles, and it is absolutely impossible that they have not heard of automatic weapons.

Of course. STG44 or something, because that hasn't appeared yet.

But in fact, the so-called automatic rifle was actually born very early.

The world's first rifle capable of bursting was developed by the American Christoph. Invented by Spencer in 1860, this gun has a hole in the butt that runs through the chamber, which is the magazine. It has 10 rounds of ammunition, and there is a spring at the mouth, which pushes the bullet into the chamber with spring force.

1866 Oliver. Winchester also developed a repeating rifle called the "Winchester rifle". However, at this time, the repeating gun can only be pushed into the chamber one after another, and actions such as unlocking and shelling still need to be completed manually.

The first real automatic rifle was invented in 1883 by the American engineer H.S. Makqin. When firing from a rifle. The resulting gunpowder gases, in addition to ejecting the bullet out of the barrel, also imbues the gun with recoil. Maxim used the power of part of the gunpowder gas to make the gun complete a series of actions such as unlocking, unshelling, feeding and re-locking, so as to realize the automatic continuous shooting of the rifle and reduce the recoil of the gun on the shooter. Makqin modified and tested the Winchester rifle, and finally succeeded in creating the world's first automatic rifle in 1883. …,

And what really got the armament was the Browning rifle.

During the First World War, the American team found out after entering the war. In trench warfare, in the harsh environment of continental Europe, they lacked intensive firepower. In 1917 by weapons designer John ? A semi-automatic or fully automatic rifle designed by Browning was quickly selected by the military, quickly put into production, and was officially designated M1918 by the military.

Due to its late development, only a small number of Browning automatic rifles were in service at the end of World War I. But it was still popular with front-line soldiers for its high reliability, and by the end of 1919 a total of 100,000 bars had been produced. The Browning automatic rifle was copied and produced in Europe in the 30s of the 20th century and was welcomed by some countries as a light machine gun. It was mainly used in World War II, when the U.S. infantry squad used automatic rifles, three per platoon, to build fire suppression points. As a result, the firepower of the infantry squad was greatly increased, and the infantry trusted the automatic rifles, and a total of 200,000 Browning automatic rifles were delivered to the army during the war.

So when Ichiro Hirata saw the power of an automatic rifle. It soon became clear what kind of weapon it was.

Of course, another point is that Hirata once served as a testimony of the Sino-Japanese honeymoon period, and once went to China to study, and during his study abroad, Hirata was also influenced by the Wehrmacht's concept of attaching importance to firepower―――――― but unfortunately, this concept is completely unsuitable for Japan, which is poor in resources, so people like Hirata are naturally useless...

"But I didn't expect them to actually make it..."

Look at what's on the table. The shape is somewhat similar to the historical AK-47 automatic weapon, Ichiro Hirata sighed at the same time. There is even less confidence in whether this war will be won.

But...

"Go, send a telegram to Tokyo..."

After standing there and thinking about it, Hirata Ichiro said to the staff officer.

"Let them arrange a submarine and send this rifle to Tokyo with a submarine ..."

"Yes!!"

The staff officer, who understood Hirata's intentions, quickly nodded.

After the staff officer left, Hirata continued to look at the rifle on the table and sighed.

"The Chinese have already used such weapons, but we are still armed with Type 38 rifles, can we really win this war?"

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Wang Yaowu and the others did not know that an automatic rifle had fallen into the hands of the Japanese, or it should be said that they did not care if they knew.

Because unless you're not prepared to use this weapon on the battlefield at all, exposure is a matter of time.

For example, in Pakistan in later generations, the Americans have been tucking away the hidden invisible version of the Black Hawk, wasn't it exposed when they killed Uncle bin Laden? And the thing that claims to be a stealth drone was also captured by Iran in the process of using it...

Therefore, from the time they used this weapon, Wang Yaowu and others were already mentally prepared that this weapon would fall into the hands of the Japanese.

Of course, there is another reason why it will be so indifferent, that is, Japan's resources are poor, and it is not suitable for using such weapons at all, so even if this weapon falls into the hands of the Japanese, Wang Yaowu and they don't care at all...

Now Wang Yaowu and they care about it, it's just when they can take the whole of Taiwan...

After opening a breakthrough on the coast of Hsinchu, the 13th Group Army and a large number of national defense forces originally assembled in Fujian had all launched an offensive against Taiwan.

After a large number of national defense forces poured into Taiwan, due to the absolute disadvantage in terms of military strength, the Japanese could only hold on to the few towns in Taiwan and prepare to fight urban warfare with the national defense forces.

However, while abandoning other areas, those Japanese troops who held on to the towns were divided by the Wehrmacht, of course, there was no way to do it, after all, the Japanese army was completely unable to compete with the Wehrmacht in terms of strength.

However, in this case, the fall of Taiwan is only a matter of time.

Under the onslaught of Wang Yaowu and Dai Anlan, Tainan, Hsinchu and other towns fell one by one, and it took only about half a month for the two to take the whole of Taiwan, leaving only a small number of areas and remnants of the Japanese army to resist.

On the other hand, thanks to the submarine that Hirata arranged before the fall of Hsinchu, the Japanese today have also obtained the entity of the automatic rifle...

However, after thinking about it for a while, Tojo and the others wisely did not copy this weapon, because Japan's resources were not enough to use it, but...

But they took him, intending to make a deal with the Germans...

They can't afford this kind of weapon, but the Germans can afford it ...