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"System, open the personal panel!"

Personal panel:

Host: Xu Le

Military Merit Points:

Attribute: Equal treatment [The killing effect of the system-produced characters is the same as that of the host]

Space: Unimog trucks [10], gold [2300 kg], ocean [ ], some antiques, some ammunition, some fuel...

Among them, some military merit points are from the past, minus the weapons exchange, and some military merit points are obtained by killing enemies in the Linfen Campaign.

Xu Le once calculated that if enemy soldiers were not counted, all lieutenants and above would receive a 5-fold kill effect, so a full-strength infantry regiment of the Japanese devils could provide about military merit points.

The Linfen Campaign almost completely wiped out four fully-strength infantry regiments, as well as a support force of over ten thousand troops composed of various small units and puppet troops.

But because it was not an encirclement of the supporting Japanese troops, although the Japanese suffered heavy losses, most of the officers escaped, especially the number of lieutenants killed was even smaller.

So the kill reward was less than 40.

"What a coincidence! It's exactly 65 yuan, no change. It looks good! What should I do next?"

"It seems that the infantry regiment has no equipment to equip for the time being, mainly because of insufficient manpower and no way to make up for it! As for tanks, with the 30 tanks we already have, although we can buy a full tank regiment, we can't meet the other equipment requirements!"

"A tank regiment is not just made up of tanks. It must also be equipped with dedicated artillery units to provide deep firepower to facilitate the tanks to penetrate. In addition, it must be equipped with dedicated air defense units to deal with enemy aircraft and prevent the tanks from being blocked!"

"And the tank regiment must ensure mobility, so its artillery unit is best to use self-propelled artillery. Self-propelled artillery is different from towed artillery. The price is several times more expensive, almost catching up with the price of a tank!"

"We have been besieging Linfen for so long. Fortunately, the Japanese didn't send bombers. Otherwise, the losses would be much greater. After all, the troops don't have special anti-aircraft weapons such as anti-aircraft guns or anti-aircraft machine guns. The plan in advance was to use anti-aircraft racks to support MG42 general-purpose machine guns and Gatling guns as temporary anti-aircraft firepower.

However, neither of them is specially designed for air defense, and the altitude of air shooting is only a few hundred meters, making it difficult to achieve accurate strikes on aircraft!

After all, although today's aircraft are all propeller-powered, their average ceiling altitude is several thousand meters, and some can even reach 1 meters. If they are carrying out bombing missions, they can carry out precise bombing at an altitude of meters!"

"We were lucky to have dodged it this time, but we may not be so lucky next time. Let's get the air defense forces out first, or at least send some people out for training!"

Thinking of this, Xu Le found a type of anti-aircraft weapon.

Type 25 200mm single-barrel anti-aircraft machine gun: military merit points.

Type 20 230mm anti-aircraft machine gun: military merit points.

Type 20A 250mm machine gun: military merit points.

Type 12.7 200mm anti-aircraft machine gun: military merit points.

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I don’t know if there is any rule in the system, but it actually put the Japanese anti-aircraft guns together. However, Xu Le skipped them directly because the Japanese anti-aircraft guns were terrible.

Xu Le was clear about the definition of a cannon. Any cannon with a caliber less than 20 mm is called a gun, and any cannon with a caliber equal to or greater than 20 mm is called a cannon.

DShK 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun: 250 military merit points.

ZPU 14.5mm anti-aircraft machine gun: 400 military merit points.

Hotchkiss 13.2mm anti-aircraft machine gun: 250 military merit points.

Browning M2 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun: 300 military merit points.

Type 54 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun: 450 military merit points.

Type 56 14.5mm quadruple anti-aircraft machine gun: 500 military merit points.

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Xu Le first looked at anti-aircraft machine guns, and finally he decided on the infantry regiment's anti-aircraft machine gun, the Type 77 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun.

It is a replacement for the Type 54 anti-aircraft machine gun. It solves many of the shortcomings of the Type 54 machine gun and has very strong performance in all aspects. It is the first anti-aircraft machine gun independently developed by China.

It is undeniable that as a Chinese, Xu Le would choose Chinese weapons as much as possible unless it was necessary, and he would not choose weapons with poor performance, after all, he wanted to crush them. He also did not choose weapons with too strong performance, because they were too close to the future and would be very expensive.

For example, the Type 77 anti-aircraft machine gun costs 800 military merit points, while the Type 54 only costs 450 military merit points, which is almost twice as expensive. But the money should be spent, because better weapons will result in fewer casualties in the troops.

As for the future, there will certainly be anti-aircraft machine guns that are countless times more expensive, but they are ridiculously expensive, starting at thousands of dollars, and are completely unnecessary when facing current aircraft.

The Type 77 anti-aircraft machine gun has a gun body weight of 21.3 kg and a gun mount weight of 28.3 kg. The initial velocity of the bullet is 820 meters per second. The theoretical rate of fire is about 700 rounds per minute, the actual combat rate of fire is 60 rounds per minute, the magazine capacity is 60 rounds, the maximum range is 7000 meters, the effective anti-aircraft shooting distance is 1600 meters, and the effective flat shooting distance is 800 meters.

This shooting distance is enough to deal with the current Japanese aircraft!

Moreover, the total weight is only 50 kilograms, including ammunition, etc., so a squad of people can carry it easily, not to mention it is equipped with a truck. It is perfect for use as an infantry air defense weapon.

"There weren't many choices for anti-aircraft machine guns. They had low damage and a short range. In addition, after World War II, aircraft developed rapidly, with improvements in altitude and speed. As a result, the role of anti-aircraft machine guns became less and less useful. Therefore, there was no improvement in anti-aircraft machine guns before the 80s."

"Anti-aircraft machine guns can only be used temporarily for air defense against low-altitude aircraft. It is more difficult to deal with enemy medium- and low-altitude aircraft."

"This can only be equipped to infantry regiments. Now the strength of a regiment is 3500 people. We can add an air defense company directly under the regiment, which will have three platoons and nine squads in total. Each squad is equipped with two anti-aircraft machine guns and will be transported by a Unimog truck.

During the battle transition, two people are responsible for transporting the gun body and the gun frame, and there are five ammunition handlers. Together with the squad leader, an anti-aircraft machine gun squad has 5 people, and a full company of 15 people is enough to operate. "

77 Type 12.7 72mm anti-aircraft machine guns were purchased, 18 for each regiment. There was also space for about 10 Unimog trucks in the system, and another 70 trucks could be purchased, with 20 for each anti-aircraft machine gun company.

Military merit points consumption.