Hearing this, Dai Anlan laughed, and after returning the salute, he said: "General Pan Sen's words are serious, since it is a misunderstanding, it is not a big deal." We still have to look forward! ”

"Well said, General Dai, thank you for your understanding! Although this was a quasi-military operation caused by a misunderstanding, it really tested the ability of our British troops to assemble urgently and attack quickly, and it was still of great help to our subsequent battle situation. "Lieutenant General Slim is still consistent with the pride of the British aristocracy.

After the meeting between the three parties, they naturally explained the cause and effect of the incident and resolved the misunderstanding.

Speaking of which, it was really the walkie-talkie call that Xiao Xiaomin typed, and after Xiaohu received the message, he thought that the five college students had caused trouble and were detained by the expeditionary force, so he reported the matter to Li Junhao.

At that time, Li Junhao immediately thought of the rumored dark case of the old army, and was very worried about the safety of five college students, especially three of them, and felt that his strength was insufficient, so he immediately contacted Lieutenant General Slim of the British army, and mobilized a battalion of British troops to rush over, without even thinking about what serious consequences would be caused by the fire! Fortunately, I finally knew that this was a misunderstanding, otherwise I don't know how it ended in the end?

After clearing up the misunderstanding, it is natural to talk about some light topics. As for walkie-talkies, Li Junhao said that he was already preparing supplies and would equip the expeditionary force at that time, but ignored General Slim's eyes.

After listening to Huang Xiang's introduction of the shooting competition just now, Li Junhao and Slim were a little curious.

Li Junhao was a little unacceptable to Liu Yunliang who lost to the Mauser 98K with an M1 rifle, and said in his heart: It seems that this kid really lacks training!

Slim found this interesting, of course, he thought that the British Army's Lee Enfield short rifle was the best rifle at the moment, not only with high accuracy, but also with a capacity of 10 rounds with an internal magazine higher than that of the M1 and 98K; Moreover, because the gun is designed with a rear-end locking brigade transfer pull bolt, the bolt can be pulled with a flick of a finger, which can greatly increase the reload speed, and a good shooter trained in rapid fire can shoot a rate of fire of more than 30 rounds per minute, which is unique in bolt-action rifles!

Out of pride in the British rifle, Slim proposed that since it was a competition, it should be more comprehensive, and let the American-made M1, German-made 98K, British Lee Enfield, Soviet-made Mosin Nagant, and Japanese-made 38 Dagai be compared together, so that everyone can understand the performance of rifles in various countries.

Hearing this, Dai Anlan and Li Junhao glanced at each other, and they both understood in their hearts that this was Slim's desire to show off the power of the British rifle, but this was harmless; Moreover, it is correct in saying one thing, that is, officers and men can understand the performance of the weapons of various countries and know what they want on the battlefield.

So, the three parties agreed to play again, and Li Junhao sent his own guard captain Nick to the field, using an American-made M1 semi-automatic rifle;

The British Army sent a six-year sergeant major, using an English-made Lee Enfield rifle;

A captain company commander of the 200th Regiment of the 599th Division who had gone to Germany to study, using a German-made 98K rifle;

A sergeant veteran of the 600th Regiment used a Soviet-made Mosin Nagant (M1891/30 model);

A lieutenant instructor in the Recruit Training Division uses a Japanese-made 38 large cover.

In this way, the five rifles competed on the same stage, and the referees were personally refereed by Major General Pan Sen, an observer from the United States, Lieutenant General Slim, commander of the 1st Division of the British and Burmese Army, and Major General Dai Anlan, commander of the 200th Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

While all five rifles are fed with top-loading magazines, the 98K, Mosin Nagant, and 38 Dagai rifles all use 5-round magazines, the M1 uses 8-round magazines, and Lee Enfield uses 10-round magazines.

For the sake of fairness, we discussed a more reasonable way to make each rifle play to its own strengths. That is, three five-round magazine-fed rifles are loaded 8 times, each firing 40 rounds; M1 reloaded 6 times and fired 48 rounds; Lee Enfield reloads 5 times and fires 50 rounds.

The test is divided into two parts, one is the total speed of all bullets after shooting, and the other is to compare the target rate.

In fact, this method is not completely fair, but Nick feels that the M1 is a semi-automatic rifle, which is already an advantage compared to the other four bolt-action rifles, although it has 8 more rounds, but it still has an advantage to change two magazines less.

The British sergeant major has absolute confidence in his rapid-fire skills, and he has the least number of reloads, and he doesn't care about 10 more rounds at all.

The other three contestants also thought that this was basically fair, so they had no objections.

After the start of the game, the five people who used the lying position to shoot quickly began to reload and shoot, all of them were experienced veterans, and there was no nervousness about this kind of enemyless fixed target shooting competition.

In an instant, all kinds of gunfire rang out like bursting beans, and the five rifles actually played a platoon-level feeling of shooting at the platoon level, which made the British army and the expeditionary officers and soldiers who were watching dazzle and admire.

To everyone's surprise, especially the British officers and soldiers, the first to shoot was the M1 rifle, and 44 of the 48 rounds were on target, with a target rate of more than 90%, which was also the first.

The second fastest rate of fire was the Lee Enfield rifle, but 39 of the 50 rounds were on target, and the target rate was only 76%, which was lower than the 85% of the 98K and the 80% of the 38 big cover.

The worst result was the Mosin Nagant rifle, which had the slowest rate of fire and a target rate of only 72.5 percent.

Judging from the results, the advantages of semi-automatic rifles are obvious, there is no need to pull the bolt every time you shoot, which not only reduces hand movements, saves time, but also allows the shooter to have more time to aim, which is of great significance in actual combat.

Seeing the results of the competition, everyone was thoughtful, especially the officers and soldiers of the 200th Division, who were a little depressed, and their weapons and equipment were completely backward!

Division commander Dai Anlan and a group of officers knew that the problem of equipment was very serious, and among the three main regiments, the 598 and 599 regiments used 98K, which was already the best equipment in the domestic army; The 600th regiment used Mosin Nagant, and could only achieve unity at the level of one regiment; The rest of the auxiliaries are varied.

Most of the engineer regiments use medium and formal rifles, which are quite good, the armored regiment and artillery regiment have tanks and artillery, and the individual weapons are almost acceptable, and the automobile regiment and cavalry regiment use the Wanguo brand that has been eliminated by the main force, not to mention the baggage regiment, and even the old sleeve and Hanyang cannot guarantee a manpower.

This made the combat effectiveness of the entire 200 division extremely unbalanced, not to mention the huge pressure on military logistics.

(End of chapter)