Chapter 402: People who can't keep up with the changing situation

After the meeting,

Zhou Yiming and other security chiefs from various factories all rode their bicycles to the factory. In addition to arranging factory security issues during the exercise, they also mobilized their comrades.

Ma Yongqiu, He Yuzhu and other comrades began to inspect weapons, equipment and vehicles.

Open the armory and take out all the used and unused machine guns, mortars, and recoilless guns.

The ground was filled with them.
"Everyone, hurry up and check these weapons and equipment, especially those that have not been used for a long time.
If there is any problem, please ask Vice Captain He to fix it.

We are relying on these heavy weapons for this exercise. Our firepower is already several notches lower than that of regular troops. If it gets worse, this battle will be difficult to fight."

The voice just fell,

Han Chengxiang, the deputy captain of the militia who had a long career but retired due to injury and had never been to the front line on the peninsula,

While happily picking up the barrel of a mortar, he said,

"Xiao Ma, this is a little wrong.

Back then, didn’t we liberate the entire Daxia with just millet and rifles? Now we have heavy machine guns and mortars, so how can we say we can’t fight anymore?”

Just like Li Yunlong often scolded Ding Wei and Kong Jie, "When you were carrying the Hanyang-made machine, I was carrying the fast and slow machine."
Although Ma Yongqiu was the captain of the militia, he could not put on airs in front of Han Chengxiang, a senior veteran.
Hearing this, I could only smile bitterly.

"Old Han, you haven't been to the peninsula, so you may not have a deep understanding of the war between the two great powers.
I tell you, things are different now than they were in the past.

Didn’t we say in the song that in the past we could kill an enemy with one bullet, so we had to aim carefully and shoot.

But on the battlefield of the peninsula, the emphasis is on fire suppression.
Whether or not the first shot can hit the enemy is actually not important at all. What is important is to use heavy weapons to suppress the enemy from a long distance, making the enemy unable to move, and then find other ways to eliminate them.

In the past two years, all regular troops stationed in Beijing have been equipped with Type 56 semi-automatic rifles, with a magazine containing 30 rounds of ammunition.
But what do our militia use?
The Type 38 rifle and the Monaco rifle that were eliminated during the army's major equipment change some time ago, the best ones are the PPSh and Thompson.
The two are at exactly the same level in terms of firepower density.

If the number of our heavy weapons is insufficient, they will not be able to suppress the enemy's infantry, and they will be able to take us down with just one charge.

If you don’t believe me, ask Zhuzi. I have seen it before.

With the intensity of firepower at the Battle of Shangganling, the top of the mountain was cut down by several meters. With the millet and rifles you mentioned, it is estimated that they could not hold out for even an hour.
What's the use of having good marksmanship?"

Hearing Ma Yongqiu mention him, He Yuzhu, who was carrying a heavy machine gun with several comrades, nodded.
"Brother Han, the intensity of firepower on the battlefield now is indeed completely different from before liberation.

Not to mention that almost every regular soldier now has an automatic rifle.
The firepower density is much stronger than that of our militia.

If the higher-ups don't give us militiamen equipment, we will be the weakest target in the entire exercise, and we will just be sparring partners.

I guess a lot of people want to come up and take advantage of us and use us as a breakthrough point.

The only thing we can do now is to make use of the effective range of automatic rifles of several hundred meters, and use heavy machine guns and mortars to suppress them from a distance of one or two thousand meters to prevent them from rushing to the vicinity of our positions.
Otherwise, with the single-shot rifles in our hands, we will surely collapse in one charge."

Although he had never seen a modern battlefield and didn't know whether He Yuzhu and Ma Yongqiu were right, Han Chengxiang had seen a heavy machine gun and knew that it was a big consumer of bullets.

Coming from that era, he couldn't help but feel a little distressed.
"We have a lot of heavy weapons now. If we keep firing to suppress the enemy, I don't know how many bullets we will consume in a day.
If we had so many bullets back then, we wouldn't have had so many deaths." After feeling distressed, Han Chengxiang subconsciously asked,
"Xiao Ma, how long can the few bullets our militia have last to make these big guys?"

Hearing this, Ma Yongqiu shook his head.

"I don't know about that. It depends on how many blank bullets our superiors give us. As long as the logistics supply can keep up, we can fight until the end of time.

If there is not much to allocate, then we can block it as long as we can.

Anyway, I can’t let people look down on me.”

Hearing this, He Yuzhu, who had just put the heavy machine gun on the ground, nodded with a smile.
"That's for sure. If we don't cause enough trouble to them, the garrison will definitely laugh at us after the exercise.

But to be honest, our militia is not very suitable for direct confrontation.
It is quite suitable for guarding the rear and fighting security battles."

"Then why don't you go and give some advice to the garrison leaders tomorrow? Our militia has been catching spies in recent years, so we are quite familiar with this area."

"Okay, let's give it a try and see if Lao Li and the others agree."

After all the weapons and equipment in the warehouse were cleared out, Ma Yongqiu led everyone to check and maintain the equipment.

After a while, Han Chengxiang was heard cursing out of pain.
"These bastards are really good at wasting things. They ruined such good equipment like this.
Look at how much damage has been done.”

Hearing his scolding, He Yuzhu and Ma Yongqiu didn't take it seriously.
Since the War of Liberation, especially after the end of the Peninsular War, Daxia has had a relatively stable external environment and the assistance of the Russians, and has focused on industrial and agricultural construction.

Before the gun barrels had even cooled, a considerable number of regular field troops were converted into production and construction troops on the spot under a single order from above.
Countless weapons and equipment were sealed on the spot.
The authorities simply cannot afford so much funding and professional personnel to maintain these weapons and equipment.

Not to mention that semi-automatic weapons are now the norm.

There is no need to spend huge amounts of money on special maintenance for antiques that are destined to be eliminated, such as the Type 38 rifle, the Monaco rifle, and the PPSh rifle.

"Old Han, stop complaining here. If it's broken, just dismantle it and reassemble it with good parts.

As for those that are broken, we will register them and deal with them after this exercise is over."

"Oh, okay!"

After working from morning to afternoon, He Yuzhu and his team finally completed the maintenance of weapons, equipment and vehicles, and completed the preparations for the confrontation exercise.

"Okay, I've done what I need to do. Now I'm going to go back and arrange my life and work.

We will gather today and tomorrow morning, and then follow the garrison into the mountains.

Disband now! "

After leaving the base, He Yuzhu went to Fengze Garden.

(End of this chapter)