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Although the paratroopers and the marines, in service in this era and with such technical conditions, it is easy for heavy casualties to occur.

But no one can deny the development potential of these two arms, just like paratroopers. The paratroopers of this era were usually light infantry, but because of the parachute, they could be thrown into any place where the transport plane could reach―――――― of course, some dangerous places were forgotten, although the paratroopers could indeed get there. But after landing, if the ground shape is too complicated or dangerous, it is almost the same as throwing the paratroopers into the cemetery.

But even this is flawed, after all, the paratroopers' mobility ability is too strong, and it is definitely much stronger than the so-called mechanized divisions and motorized troops.

It's just that as light infantry, they don't have any heavy weapons, not even offensive equipment...

At least at this stage, the paratroopers are in preparation, in addition to rifles, pistols and grenade launchers, the most medium-sized equipment is light and heavy machine guns and 60mm mortars.

As for off-road vehicles, armored vehicles, and even tanks, these are things that don't need to be thought about at all.

After all, the technical conditions of this era have not yet reached the point where paratroopers can have such weapons. What's more, even if you have it, how to parachute is also a problem.

The technology of airborne such things is definitely much more complicated than airborne paratroopers, at least at present―――――― after all, such things are much larger and heavier than paratroopers. It's really hard to do without technology like rocket landing.

Let alone...

Even if you have this kind of thing, you can throw heavy equipment to the ground and still be intact. How to get these things up is also a difficult problem.

After all, the load of such things is not light, and although the current aviation technology is developed. But after all, it's just a start. It may be fine to carry some airborne troops or passengers, but if you carry something so large and you have to throw them from a high altitude.

It's too difficult, it's too much.

At least at this stage, it is really difficult to imagine how much of a role paratroopers can play.

Beheading?

This seems to be possible, but there is another problem, the riots caused by the airborne forces are not small. One of the most important points is that this thing has a lot of requirements for the wind, and one is not careful. Maybe you will be thrown out of 108,000 miles, and even if you want to kill it, you will find a place first, and you can gather all the people.

At least during the battle, it is normal for paratroopers to go missing some people.

However, as mentioned earlier, Yan Shao does not deny the potential of paratroopers. After all, although the paratroopers at this stage are only light infantry who can parachute, with the development of technology, they will soon have a lot of technical equipment, including military off-road vehicles, armored vehicles and even tanks.

At that time, the importance of these paratroopers will naturally be highlighted.

It should be clarified. In fact, during the First World War, the rudiments of paratroopers were already prominent.

During World War I, two soldiers jumped from the wing of a biplane and carried some explosives to blow up enemy warehouses, which caused a sensation at the time. 1927 year. The Soviet army used transport planes to drop troops in Central Asia and annihilated the rebels such as the Batuma Red bandits in one fell swoop, which was the first airborne war in the true sense of the word. 1930 year. The Soviet Airborne Forces officially established the world's first full-fledged paratrooper unit.

In the former Soviet Union paratrooper founder Onid? Minov's efforts, August 2, 1930. For the first time, a detachment of paratroopers was parachuted. This day later became the Day of the Airborne Forces of the Soviet Union. It was also the world's first detachment of the Airborne Forces. Three years later, the former Soviet Union held an air show in Moscow. The 10,000 spectators watched in silence as 46 paratroopers jumped out of two large bombers – a world record at the time. The Soviets also used a large parachute to throw a small battle tank, which failed to start after landing and had to be towed off the exercise ground, but it impressed the foreign observers who watched from the scene.

It was inspired by this that European and American countries began to build their own airborne troops. The parachute has also developed from a simple piece of cloth tied to a rope to today's huge families such as high-altitude parachutes, low-altitude parachutes, parawings, parachutes, and powered parachutes, and heavily armed soldiers and tanks and artillery weighing dozens of tons can be used to land safely.

As Giulio, the world's first advocate of air supremacy? The country of birth, the appearance of the parachute first catered to the heart of the Italian Air Force. They began to pioneer the development of mass skydiving technology in the world in the mid-20s. However, the Soviet Union's enormous efforts into skydiving technology dwarfed Italy and the rest of Europe.

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Although the role of paratroopers is still very small at this stage, as mentioned earlier, no one can deny the importance of paratroopers.

Since this class has a lot of potential, then...

It seems to be a normal thing to develop it early―――――― although Soviet Russia, as an advanced country in the parachute, has only used paratroopers for actual combat a few times in this life.

In any case, if we start developing paratroopers now, there is no doubt that in the future China will definitely become the most advanced country in parachuting.

The same is true for the Marines, from the Battle of the Dardanelles to the later Battle of Normandy, the bloody course of the landing operation can be seen.

Unless the gap between them is too great, the landing operation will either fail or win miserably, and there will be very few chances of victory. Of course, having said that, no one would deny the importance of landing operations. Especially if you use it well, it can even reach the point of surprising victory.

For example, the Inchon landings in the Korean War. You must know that it was the South Korean and American troops who were the first to retreat, if it had not been for the Inchon landing. Even if the Americans were indeed much stronger than the North Koreans, it would not be easy to win so easily.

It is precisely because of this relationship that MacArthur has won so much glory.

Of course, as we all know, it didn't take long for MacArthur's cowhide to be punctured...

Just like when he was in the Philippines, no matter how beautiful he shouted, it was useless.

In any case, the development of landing technology is still very important. Especially in later generations, it has developed to the point of three-dimensional landing, hovercraft, helicopters, amphibious landing ships, and even amphibious assault ships and dock landing ships.

The appearance of these equipment has greatly improved the success of the landing.

Of course. It is certainly impossible to develop these things at this stage.

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In any case, these two arms must not lack a weapon, which is also the most basic weapon in an army. That's the rifle. No army can do without such weapons.

This is also why Jiang Baili and Sa Zhenbing will come over, after all, both armies are preparing these two things.

Although these two things are only a little rudimentary so far, no one can see how much of a role these two pieces of equipment can play.

But Jiang Baili is not an ordinary person after all, naturally he can see the development potential of this type of troops, and he is naturally willing to invest a lot of resources in it, and he also attaches great importance to the development of paratroopers in the puzzled eyes of others.

As for Sa Zhen Bing...

All right. Perhaps Isaac Zhenbing's vision may not be able to see the importance of the Marine Corps. Maybe he knew the importance of the Marines, but he couldn't imagine the importance of the Marines.

But for the Navy, having an army is no less a dream.

Because this will be the only thing that the Navy has. And it is also the most legitimate army unit.

Thereupon...

Sa Zhenbing came in person, as I said earlier, this is the only army force in the navy after all. Sa Zhenbing naturally needs to be given considerable attention.

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The location of the shooting range is not very far from here, and soon everyone came to the shooting range in this base.

In the direction of the range. More than a dozen soldiers were standing in front of the shooting range in a neat line.

After seeing Yan Shao and the others coming, these soldiers immediately saluted Yan Shao and the others.

Meanwhile. Yan Shao and others also returned the salute.

"Okay, let's demonstrate..."Nodding to the person in charge of the shooting range, Li Ruize spoke.

"Yes!"

Nodding, soon the dozen or so soldiers took out their weapons from the side and placed them neatly in front of them. And in front of Yan Shao and others, he completed a series of actions, including reloading.

And Yan Shao and the others also watched intently, from a certain point of view, the people present can also be called experts. Even Yan Shao can be called half, after all, he used to shoot targets a lot.

Therefore, he will not be particularly unfamiliar with firearms, but if he is asked to identify the model of the gun―――――― this is a bit difficult for a strong man.

On the other hand, after loading the bullets in front of Yan Shao and the others, those soldiers also picked up their rifles and aimed at the opposite target.

However, they did not shoot directly, but waited for orders from the side.

It was only after the order was given that they pulled the trigger.

Although both Jiang Baili and other officers had heard of the power of this weapon, and knew that this rifle had far more firepower than all firearms, including the Lee Enfield rifle.

However, when these soldiers did use these weapons, they realized that they still underestimated the power of such weapons.

While the power of the Lee Enfield rifle is indeed amazing, as a semi-automatic rifle, the power of these weapons is only even more amazing.

At least in front of everyone, I saw those soldiers constantly pulling the trigger after aiming at the target. Immediately afterwards, I saw that the sparks at the muzzle position never stopped.

Although Jiang Baili, Cai Ye and others have also been in the army for many years and have been fighting horses, they have never seen a rifle with such firepower.

It's a pity. Maybe it's because the firepower is too strong, and they ran out of kung fu bullets after a while...

"It's a pity. If there is more ammunition in the magazine, it may be one of the firepower outputs in the squad..."

When I said that. Wu Peifu's face looked slightly regretful.

At least in his opinion, the firepower of this rifle is already very strong, and if there is more ammunition, it may be second only to the light machine gun.

In fact, in later generations, there were indeed some countries that used semi-automatic rifles as the main fire support within the squad.

However, hearing his words, Yan Shao on the side said with a smile. "Rest assured, these rifles will not just be used as a soldier's equipment and then become a fire support point within a squad, but will become standard equipment for all Wehrmacht soldiers―――――― of course. Except for machine gunners and artillerymen! ”

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That's right, Yan Shao is not a stingy person, in order to strengthen the strength of the national defense force, Yan Shao is willing to do many things. After all, in this era of the jungle, there is nothing more important than strengthening oneself―――――― provided that one does not put a heavy burden on the entire country's economy.

And Yan Shao is obviously not like this, not to mention that after having a large amount of oil resources, China is now in a state of rare rich oil, so naturally there is no need to worry about this.

So Yan Shao's plan was simple...

"As long as this rifle is verified through guò, it is determined that there is no problem. Then the whole army will be equipped with this equipment. Our goal is simple: to make this equipment accessible to even the most ordinary soldiers, and ultimately to make the entire Wehrmacht the most powerful force in the world. ”

"As for funding, you don't need to worry about that. Naturally, I would discuss the issue of funding with someone from the Ministry of Finance. ”

"But..."

Speaking of this, Yan Shao glanced at Jiang Baili, Cai Yi and the others, and then continued. "It's peacetime, after all. At least in the short term, it doesn't seem like there will be any major war, so the speed of weapon refitting doesn't need to be too fast. It only needs to be able to complete a complete outfit within five to ten years..."

Hearing Yan Shao say this, Cai Ye nodded with Jiang Baili and the others. It shows understanding, and at the same time there is some happiness in the bottom of my heart.

What Yan Shao just said, they can naturally understand. After all, just like Yan Shao said, it can be said that it is a time of peace, and there is no need to mobilize the army to change the costumes of more than 3 million soldiers in a short period of time.

That would be too costly and unnecessary.

Considering that there is no possibility of war in the near future, it is enough to be able to complete the refitting of troops within five years. Even if it is ten years, it is okay, after all, it will take at least twenty or thirty years for a rifle to be eliminated.

For example, the early Hanyang-made, the later mid-formal, and a series of later rifles.

Or the U.S. military, you know, even during the Vietnam War, there were still a significant number of U.S. troops using the M1 Garand rifle. One can imagine how long this rifle has been lived.

Then, as Yan Shao said, in the absence of the possibility of a large-scale war, there is indeed no need to change clothes in a hurry.

It's hard to even read whether you need to change your outfit, after all, the mainstream equipment in the world today is still manual rifles, which are used by almost all powerful countries.

In other words, even if it remained the same, there would be no threat to the national government.

And this is also something that Cai Ye feels happy and happy about, after all, as figures who have studied both China and the West, they are not ignorant of foreign political systems. Naturally, it is clear how much foreign governments are procrastinating, especially when it comes to military-related matters.

Those government officials will do everything they can to drag the army back, so that the army cannot get enough military spending―――――― according to them, it is a shameful waste to invest so much military money in the army.

Naturally, whether it is a waste or not, I believe everyone knows very well.

And at least as far as Cai Ye and Jiang Baili know, Yan Shao is definitely not such a person, at least Yan Shao has never felt that excessive military spending is a heavy burden on the country.

Yan Shao is only preventing the strength of the army from becoming too large on the one hand, and on the other hand, he is constantly increasing the strength of the army. Of course, this may seem contradictory, but in fact it is not contradictory at all.

Because what the former prevents is the will of the army itself. As mentioned earlier, any leader or government wants the military to exist as an instrument without ideas.

It's just that the army is such a thing, how can it really be thoughtless.

What Yan Shao needs to guard against is the expansion of this kind of power.

At the very least, if the military really has its own ideas and starts thinking about its own interests, then the whole of China will face a catastrophe. Chinese history has clearly recorded what kind of catastrophe those military regimes were for the whole country...

Fortunately, at least so far, the army is still within the control of Yan Shao, or rather, the army is actually willing to be controlled by Yan Shao.

Of course, this is only if Yan Shao is still alive, but as the country's strength increases, China's external threat is greatly reduced. In this case, Yan Shao has begun to think about reforming the political system, so that China will officially embark on a smooth path, so that even if there is no one, nothing will happen to China―――――― but unfortunately, many times things do not seem to be so smooth? (My novel "The Road to Expansion" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lucky draw for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued......)