Chapter 2396 New Gun Ready

There are always some pains in this world that you can only know how painful they are after you experience them yourself. It is definitely not something you can easily experience or even guarantee that you can bear by just talking about it, such as the pain of being suppressed by heavy machine gun fire.

The red barrage that came like a storm "whizzed" past the scalp, and the whistling sound in this galloping death storm can take a person's life even if it touches the edge.

This has nothing to do with courage or not, it is just the most instinctive primitive fear of being born as a human. The fear of death has shaped all creatures on this blue planet, including humans, of course.

It is completely unrealistic to expect to do something in this galloping death storm. It does not mean that no one can do it. There may be individual exceptions, but it is still not enough to call it a universal phenomenon. This individual phenomenon is still useless to the overall situation, just like the headless German corpse with a smashed head, which cannot save the entire position.

"Damn it! Those Russians are crazy. They must be shooting at us with hundreds of machine guns! Bullets are everywhere!"

"I can't reload, I can't reload at all! I can't even touch the launcher, damn it!"

"What should we do? The Russians are coming!"

In order to avoid being taken away directly by retaliatory fire, the seemingly normal and reasonable move of placing the launcher and the operator in different places has cost the lives of these German anti-tank missile teams at this moment.

The separation of people and missiles means that the person who reloads the missile must rush over first. This simple launcher with only an iron frame does not have an automatic loading device.

But in this situation, with this situation, running through the dense machine gun fire net and holding the missile to reload?

Not to mention the probability of survival, the probability of you running to the launcher with the missile is basically the same as the probability that you, a German, take out your pistol and shoot at your forehead immediately, but the result is a dud and the suicide fails. Anyone with a sound mind knows how stupid it is to cross the fire net to reload the missiles at this moment, which is basically the same as seeking death.

But the awkward situation is awkward here

Staying in the trenches without doing anything is waiting for death, and running over to reload now means immediate death, and even sticking your head out to look outside may kill you on the spot.

What to do? The situation has become a choice between dying immediately and dying later, or so it seems.

The surviving German soldiers trembling under the terrifying fire net and horrified by the bodies of their dead comrades beside them are terrified and desperate, and they are deeply trapped in it and become at a loss and almost collapsed.

But soon, literally, it won’t take long for their despair and collapse to come to an end.

But it will not end in a hopeful way, but with more brutal destruction and death.

"Comrades! Charge! Follow me! Hurrah!!!"

Before they could come to their senses from the terrifying shout, the torrential rain of fully automatic gunfire was coming at them.

Dada dada --

Puff -- Puff --

"Ugh"

"Ah!!!"

The sound of gunfire, bullets hitting flesh and soil, and the inhumane screams of the dying that were like a pig being slaughtered

All kinds of different sounds mixed together and rushed straight into the sky, accompanied by the sound of pairs of large-sized military boots flying into the trenches, and the sound of their feet landing on the ground, whether it was soil, corpses, or anything else.

"Check your feet, are there any alive?!"

"No!"

"Safe!"

"All dead!"

"Very good!"

Click---

He skillfully took out a magazine from the chest mount on his upper body, raised his hand and knocked off the empty magazine inserted in the gun body, replaced it, and pulled the bolt handle back with his backhand to instantly complete the reloading and prepare.

"Keep going! Machine gunners, get ready, let the comrades see that you can use a new gun!"

"Yes!"

The so-called new gun does not only refer to AK, but also other weapons, such as something newer than AK, the new masterpiece of Degtyarev, the top Soviet gun master and designer of DP light machine gun: RPD machine gun.

Malashenko felt a long time ago that the current mechanized infantry squad firepower configuration of the leader division had some problems, and the key lies in the squad machine gun.

The DP light machine gun with a magazine feed cannot be said to be bad. It is indeed a good gun that has made great contributions to the Patriotic War and has been tested by war for a long time, but it is not so suitable for the mechanized infantry of the leader division.

The huge magazine feed tray is not easy to carry, and it is not so perfect whether it is installed on the gun body horizontally or vertically in the infantry fighting vehicle, which always makes people feel quite uncomfortable.

When it comes to the charge operation, the problem is even more obvious. The DP light machine gun is not designed for mobile handheld operations. It is of course no problem to fight fixed position defense battles and set up to fire, but for the leader division where mobile charge operations account for the majority, it is really difficult to find a suitable mobile holding and firing method.

It is obviously not suitable to hold the barrel or the heat dissipation cover by hand. You have to start grilling meat on the iron plate before firing two rounds.

Holding the gun is also not suitable. The horizontally placed feed tray above the gun makes the grip size very small, and it is not convenient to control the weapon which is already heavy after the magazine is loaded. Holding and firing in this posture is generally criticized by machine gunners.

Holding the bipod under the gun can solve the problem, but this holding position is too awkward.

Two temporary hits are fine, but after two more rounds, no matter how skilled the machine gunner is, his accuracy will plummet.

Malashenko believes that this is due to the loss of physical strength caused by running and bumping with this thing and constantly firing.

No matter how strong the arms are, a strong man cannot maintain a hip-shooting posture while holding a tripod for a long time without losing accuracy. Even if your arms are not sore and your hands are sore, no matter how hard you grit your teeth, you can't avoid the fact that the accuracy is seriously reduced and the combat efficiency is affected. In the final analysis, this is not a correct and appropriate way to hold a gun.

The squad machine gun is the core firepower pillar of the infantry squad. This will not change in any era. At least it will still be the same in the future world before Comrade Ma's time travel. It is naturally the same for the current leader division. .

No matter how strong your division's heavy firepower is, there will always be times when the squad's machine guns are needed to show off their skills. In battles between infantry and infantry, there will always be occasions when heavy firepower cannot support them. That's when light weapons speak for themselves and play their main role. , for example, the current battle of going deep into the trenches and starting to clean up, it does not mean that heavy firepower can completely ignore whether the squad has a machine gun or not.

Fortunately, the solution to the problem was already sent to the leadership division for trial before Malashenko could write a report or make a request: it was the latest RPD light machine gun neatly stacked in boxes one after another.

Not only does the use of a 100-round non-dispersible ammunition chain greatly enhance the firepower, but it also uses a bottom-fed ammunition box to carry ammunition. Compared with the original DP, which is placed in a crowded and narrow infantry fighting vehicle, it looks extremely awkward no matter how it is placed horizontally or vertically. For a light machine gun, it's simply not too good.

The newly added handguard at the front of the gun body also perfectly solves the problem of the DP light machine gun being inconvenient to hold. You can hold the machine gun from the waist and pour out firepower at the German stick in a non-stop manner.

The two most criticized problems of the mechanized infantry machine gunners of the Leader Division have been perfectly solved, and they have also greatly increased the ammunition capacity and firepower output by more than doubling.

Is there something wrong with this gun?

Nothing wrong! At least in the eyes of the mechanized infantry machine gunners like the Leader Division, it was absolutely fine and not too good at all.

As for the new gun that has been well received at the shooting range, is it a Noble Phantasm against German sticks and is it useful?

It's simple. The best test site is right in front of you. Those armed live targets less than a hundred meters away are the best test objects.

On Army Day, I wish our soldiers a happy holiday and good health~