Chapter 1724 Good Luck (Thanks to User I冷酷 杰 for the Reward!)

In theory, even the smallest unit of the Japanese army, which has a standard strength of only 13 people, that is, the squad, has artillery.

However, this kind of artillery is only theoretical.

After all, in the eyes of the Chinese who are seriously lacking in artillery, the grenade launcher is equivalent to a small steel cannon.

Take the eight-nine type grenade launcher, which is the most commonly used by the Japanese, as an example, and the Japanese have almost played it out.

This grenade launcher has a caliber of only 50 mm, a total length of just over 40 cm, and a total weight of about three kilograms.

However, the maximum range of this grenade launcher can reach 700 meters!

And its effective range can reach 500 meters!

Specifically in terms of lethality, the killing radius is between five and eight meters.

Once the grenade of this grenade launcher falls into the middle of a crowd, it can easily kill and injure dozens of people!

If this is not a cannon, what is it?

The most important thing is that the manufacturing cost of this big killer is only one-fourth of the Type 38 rifle.

In theory, the grenade launcher is used to attack machine gun positions or cluster targets.

However, according to the extremely despicable character of the devils, grenade launchers are often used to launch chemical weapons.

In fact, just like in history, in the Battle of Shanghai last year, that is, in 1937, the devils used grenade launchers to launch many tear gas grenades and grenades that can cause vomiting.

Even the devils used highly toxic grenades.

Many Chinese anti-Japanese armed forces suffered heavy losses due to the devils' operation.

What made Ye Tian depressed was that in the entire 14-year Anti-Japanese War, one-fifth of the casualties of Chinese soldiers came from the devils' various chemical weapons!

In fact, most of the devils' squads, that is, the devils' squads, did not have grenade launchers.

Only those specially strengthened devils' troops and in the strengthened squads would be equipped with an extra grenade launcher.

And this grenade launcher was operated by two devils.

And in every devils' infantry squad, the grenade launcher became standard.

In addition to three infantry squads, each Japanese infantry squad is also equipped with a grenade launcher squad equipped with three grenade launchers.

Some Japanese squads are only equipped with two infantry squads, but have an additional machine gun squad with two Type 99 light machine guns.

Above the Japanese squad is the squadron with a standard strength of 180 people.

In the Japanese infantry squad, in general, there are no other cannons except grenade launchers.

However, the upper unit of the infantry squadron, that is, the Japanese battalion with a standard strength of 1,100 people, has two Type 92 infantry guns.

Above the Japanese infantry squadron is the Japanese infantry regiment with a standard strength of 3,800 people, which has six Type 92 infantry guns.

In addition, it is also equipped with six 37mm anti-tank guns, that is, anti-tank guns, or rapid-fire guns.

Above the regiment, under normal circumstances, is the division.

However, between the regiment and the division, there are often units such as brigades.

The brigade is a special organization of the island country during the war of aggression against China. It is generally divided into two categories:

First, within the Class A division, there are two brigades under its jurisdiction, and each brigade manages two infantry regiments.

Second, there is an independent mixed brigade, which does not belong to the leadership of the division, but is directly under the command of the front army, etc.

Generally speaking, this independent mixed brigade has a strength of about 10,000 people.

When it is organized at the level of the division, it has an artillery regiment.

Under normal circumstances, a Class A division has an artillery regiment under its jurisdiction.

In this artillery regiment, there are more than 2,300 people.

It has four artillery battalions with a strength of nearly 700 people, each equipped with 12 field guns or mountain guns.

The caliber of these field guns and mountain guns is mostly 75 mm.

However, occasionally, a caliber of 105 mm howitzers are organized.

In addition, the Class A division also has a rapid-fire artillery battalion with 18 rapid-fire guns.

Compared with the artillery regiment under this division, the heavy artillery regiment under the Japanese heavy artillery brigade is more powerful.

In this heavy artillery regiment, the standard equipment is a heavy cannon with a caliber of 150 mm and a heavy mortar with a caliber of 240 mm.

There are even heavy howitzers with a caliber of 305 mm.

Even more, there are mortars with a caliber of 320 mm.

In a word, the Japanese artillery regiment is the core unit of the Japanese division.

Since he encountered it, Ye Tian was unwilling to give up.

The point is that Ye Tian wanted to seize all the artillery of this artillery regiment and give it to other anti-Japanese armed forces.

Although the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army did not use these artillery, other anti-Japanese armed forces needed them very much.

Because it was in the deep mountains and old forests, in order to facilitate transportation and transfer of positions, the artillery of this artillery regiment were all mountain artillery with a caliber of 75 mm.

Although the power of this cannon is not as good as that of field artillery of the same caliber, it is still very powerful because it can be fired in a curved manner and is light and flexible.

What makes Ye Tian depressed is that artillery is a technical job, and many Chinese soldiers find it difficult to exert its maximum power.

The most important thing is that with the end of the Battle of Shanghai, the Battle of Jiangyin, the Battle of Nanjing, the Battle of Taiyuan and other battles, many Chinese artillerymen were killed and injured.

There is no way. Although the Chinese anti-Japanese armed forces are in urgent need of artillery, they are even more lacking in artillery veterans, so they can only use new recruits to make up the numbers.

On the other hand, the Japanese artillerymen, one by one, have very good skills.

To be honest, in many battles, due to strong command and resolute execution of soldiers, the Japanese troops were often able to quickly concentrate the artillery in an extremely small space.

In this way, the firepower was concentrated to the greatest extent, so the Japanese troops could even face the American artillery, which had more artillery, larger caliber and more powerful, or the old Russian artillery.

Even if it was operated well, the Japanese artillery could still win the final victory!

Thinking of this, Ye Tian looked bitter.

However, Ye Tian was determined to seize the 48 75mm mountain artillery.

If you think of it, you must do it!

For this reason, Ye Tian immediately took action.

Moreover, Ye Tian also automatically ignored the dangers in the process.

Of course, not wanting to die for the country, Ye Tian did not forget to turn on the early warning function of the super anti-war system.

In this way, under the cover of the night, while deliberately paying attention not to be seen by the crazy Japanese and traitors, Ye Tian made a circle and gradually approached the Japanese artillery regiment.

In order to achieve this tactical goal, Ye Tian thought about it and used two big moves.

First, he called the nearby wild beasts to continue to harass and intimidate these devils and traitors from a long distance.

Second, whenever he found a suitable target of devils or traitors, Ye Tian would stop and attack them with unscrupulous artillery.

What made Ye Tian happy was that because he deliberately appeared in places where devils and traitors gathered, the results were naturally very good because the attack was too sudden.

And the idea of ​​changing a place every time he fired a row of artillery made him continue to create brilliance.

In fact, since the moment he went to battle again after midnight, he continued to lead his troops to kill and injure a large number of devils and traitors.

What made Ye Tian most happy was that after a while of indirect attacks, the area around the devil artillery regiment almost became an undefended zone.

It turned out that most of the devils and traitors who guarded this artillery regiment were tossed around by his tricks and ran away from their defense areas.

Feeling that it was almost time, while sighing at his good luck, Ye Tian decided to go and take care of this long-cherished target.

Just after running a few steps, Ye Tian suddenly showed an incredible expression.