The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 659 Distribution of Garand Rifles
I have seen the style of automatic rifles in later generations.

In fact, Kong Jie has always dreamed of an automatic rifle.

At present, I want to realize that thousands of soldiers in the independent regiment have an automatic rifle.

With the current industrial level of the Independent Regiment, coupled with the presence of powerful enemies, it is basically a fantasy.

The main reason is that it is also impractical. Even if there is a fully automatic rifle, it will never be like a machine gun, with bullets that don't cost money.

Otherwise, why are fully automatic weapons like submachine guns rarely used in the Eighth Route Army?
Without him, ammunition is too scarce, so I dare not use that style of play at all.

The Eighth Route Army troops even advocated that one bullet should destroy one enemy, which was due to the helplessness and sadness of the scarcity of ammunition.

The M1 Garand rifle mentioned in Kong Jie's order from John was a step closer to Captain Kong's dream of an automatic rifle.

The American M1 Garand rifle, as a semi-automatic rifle, is actually not uncommon on the Sino-Japanese battlefield.

The national army has a large number of orders from the US government.

The M1 Garand rifle, because it is common to have eight bullets for the magazine, is commonly known as the Big Eight in China, and the gun weighs 4.73 kg.

In terms of weight, it is much heavier than the 3.95 kg 3.16-type rifle and the [-] kg Hanyang-made rifle.

But as a semi-automatic rifle, it has an effective range of 500 meters, plus it uses 7.62×63mm rifle bullets, so the specific parameters and performance advantages of the gun are not mentioned.

At least in terms of range, accuracy, power, ammunition capacity, etc., it can crush devils in all directions. There is only an effective range of 400 meters, 5 rounds of ammunition capacity, a bolt-action manual rifle, and a 6.5-style rifle that uses 50×[-]mm rifle ammunition. .

That extra weight disadvantage can be ignored.

The devil's 1-year-old cover, in front of the M[-] Garand rifle, can be said to be a younger brother.

The range is not as far as others, and the power is not as great as others.

The rate of fire of a bolt-action rifle is far inferior to that of a semi-automatic rifle.

You are still pulling the bolt after firing a shot, and they will kill you several times in a snap.

"Naturally there are disadvantages, one is that it is a bit too heavy, and the other is that the eight bullets of the M1 Garand rifle can only be ejected automatically after they are all empty, which means that if there is a bullet in your magazine, you cannot continue to refill it bullet."

"But let's soldiers let alone a bullet, half a bullet is reluctant to waste."

"Of course, for us, the advantages must outweigh the disadvantages. At least we can completely defeat the little devil in terms of equipment with this rifle."

Detachment Command.

Kong Jie held a Garand rifle in his hand, and while demonstrating it, he said to the soldiers.

It turned out that John also knew the great attraction of semi-automatic rifles like the Garand rifle to the Chinese army with backward equipment.

So in the last batch of arms, John sent over fifty or sixty Garand rifles.

After the distribution of these dozens of Garand rifles, the soldiers were indeed amazed.

Especially those soldiers who have only touched the bolt-action manual rifle, never thought that the original rifle can continue to shoot by continuously pulling the trigger.

For this reason, many soldiers who were not allocated Garand rifles came to find Kong Jie one by one, hoping to allocate several such semi-automatic rifles.

This is why Kong Jie proposed to buy the Garand rifle when he met John this time.

The second regiment leader Wang Leihu said with emotion: "Regiment commander, if all of our combat main force can be equipped with such semi-automatic rifles, wouldn't it be like playing with little devils?"

Shen Quan on the side struck and said:
"Dream, this kind of firearms is also a treasure in the national army camp. We just bought some from Yankees and want to equip a large number of troops. How is that possible?"

Monk Wei, who was standing behind Kong Jie without speaking, smiled brightly.

No matter how many firearms he has, the guard company is definitely indispensable for good things.

Who told me to be the leader's pillow...the people around me!
Kong Jie said with a smile: "It is not practical to equip the whole regiment. The bullet caliber used by the M1 Garand rifle is not the same as the Chinese official Hanyang that we usually use. If it is really equipped with a large amount, we probably have to get a special caliber. The bullet production line comes out."

"I went to see John this time, and I placed another batch of orders to buy this Garand rifle, but the quantity should not be too much, about 1000!"

As soon as Kong Jie's words fell, the eyes of the cadres present at the meeting all became fiery, and even their breathing became a little short.

"Head, is it our second regiment's turn this time? You can't be the leader of the first regiment, so you just take care of the first regiment?" Wang Leihu yelled aggrieved.

Shen Quan cast a glance at Wang Leihu and expressed his opinion: "Regimental Commander, I don't have much appetite. Our three regiments have recently specially built an elite combat company, as long as we can provide this company with a manpower."

"Old Shen, what you think is really beautiful!" Wang Leihu said.

Shen Quan didn't bother to talk to Wang Leihu, but just looked at Kong Jie eagerly.

Wang Leihu said: "Leader, if you say that, our second regiment will score at least two or three hundred points."

As for the first regiment, since the leader of the regiment is concurrently held by Kong Jie, Kong Jie will naturally not jump out to fight for him.

On the contrary, Lei Dasheng, the commander of the first battalion, argued a few words, not to be outdone.

Who wouldn't be envious of such a good semi-automatic rifle?
As a result, Captain Kong spoke up:
"This batch of equipment has to be used on steel blades. Compared with our base camp in Gentu, the situation in Zhongtiao Mountain is more severe. Let's send it to the Fourth Regiment first!"

Shen Quan: "..."

Wang Leihu: "..."

Lei Dasheng: "..."

As soon as Wang Leihu opened his mouth, he said emphatically: "What a ghost, this old Wang doesn't make a sound when he is in front of him, and every time he gets the benefits, he is indispensable. Fortunately, people are not in front of him now, and the benefits still let him One was taken away."

Kong Jie was stunned for a moment, but he really didn't notice this, and then he scolded with both irony and laughter:
"Look at how promising you all are, you said that you are also the commander of the regiment, when did you see me and ask the brigade commander for equipment?
When did you see the brigade commander support the equipment of our independent regiment? "

The three of Shen Quan were stunned for a moment, and went through their memories.

This is really the case, Kong Jiezhen didn't say much, and asked the brigade department what kind of reinforcements he wanted.

In contrast, the group leaders reached out to ask the old group leader Kong Jie for equipment, which is indeed a bit unreasonable.

Lei Dasheng muttered, "I'm the battalion commander, so I need some equipment. Isn't that reasonable?"

"First Battalion Commander, what did you say?" Kong Jie asked suddenly.

Lei Dasheng straightened his body and replied loudly: "Report to the leader, I mean, who made you capable!"

"It's like children from a good family and children from a bad family. If the family is good, don't they have the conditions to reach out to their parents!"

"That's right!"

Shen Quan and Wang Leihu reacted and quickly echoed.

Kong Jie: "..."

Then he said: "Wang Huaibao led the Fourth Regiment and Han Feng to open up a base area in Zhongtiao Mountain. It was the most difficult at the beginning of the opening. This batch of equipment will support them. Don't think about it."

"However, this Garand rifle will not be out of stock in the future. I forgot to tell you that I also bought a whole Garand rifle production line from John. Although the output is not very large, if the materials are sufficient, There are still three or four hundred rifles produced a month."

Head Kong's understatement.

All the cadres were stunned, and then admired the head of the group, Kong Jie, it was like a surging river, endless...

a few days later.

John, who had reached a cooperation with Kong Jie, used American merchant ships to travel the Yellow River waterway. According to his usual habits, he had already managed to pass the wharf along the way.

Using all kinds of transported foreign vegetables as a cover, secretly transport the arms purchased on Kong Jie's arms order.

All the way to Shanxi smoothly.

After entering the country, Xu Fenggong, who was deeply trusted by the Japanese army, came forward on his behalf to carry out some normal business cooperation with John on the surface, and then the independent regiment sent troops to secretly transport the batch of arms back to the base area.

More than 1200 M1 Garand rifles were successfully obtained, plus boxes of corresponding 7.62mm bullets.

John was honest this time, and didn't give any discount on the arms order given by Kong Jie.

In addition to these Garand rifles, a batch of communication equipment needed by Kong Jie was also sent.

In addition, there are seeds of various vegetables such as tomatoes, radishes, and cabbage that Kong Jie asked John to ask for.

Using the seeds of these foreign vegetables, Kong Jie plans to expand the planting of vegetables on some newly reclaimed wasteland in Genji Land.

In order to ensure that the soldiers can have sufficient supply of vegetables in their daily meals, and will not lack vitamins and some trace elements.

After the Garand rifles were delivered, Kong Jie kept 300 of them, and let the transport team secretly pass through the transportation channel connecting the Zhongtiao Mountain area at night, plus some ammunition, food and other materials to reinforce Zhongtiao Mountain. Send it to the four groups.

Here we want to talk about the defense of the Japanese 47th and 41st Divisions on Zhongtiao Mountain.

With the passage of time, after realizing that the independent regiment did not continue to send troops south, the precautions were relaxed a lot.

In the follow-up, Kong Jie reduced the pressure on Japan for the Fourth Regiment active in the Zhongtiao Mountain area in order to contain the Japanese troops.

He has sent troops south to harass the Japanese army many times.

And try to open up several secret transportation channels leading to Zhongtiao Mountain.

Therefore, the base camp of the independent regiment transported some supplies to the fourth regiment, and they all traveled at night through these secret transportation channels.

……

For the Japanese army.

Not long ago, after the disastrous defeat in the battle to prevent the first detachment of the Eighth Route Army from going south to reinforce Zhongtiao Mountain.

They have no way of knowing exactly how many Eighth Route Army troops are hiding in the Zhongtiao Mountain area.

In order to prevent Zhongtiao Mountain from being developed into the second Taihang base by the Eighth Route Army.

The 47th Division of the Japanese army originally stationed in Yuncheng and the 41st Division in Linfen contacted the Japanese and puppet troops in the Zhongtiao Mountain area, and launched sweeping raids again and again in the Zhongtiao Mountain area...

(End of this chapter)