Bright Sword: Rebirth of Kong Jie

As for what Dongfeng is.

That was a reinforced company specially built by Kong Jie by drawing troops from the entire regiment - a special forces company directly under the regiment.

The company of 160 people adopted a firepower configuration that was specially enhanced after Kong Jie discussed it with Li Yunlong many times.

——Kong Jie once discussed and analyzed the equipment situation of the Japanese army’s conventional field forces with Li Yunlong.

He finally came to the conclusion that "the Japanese were very cunning, and it seemed that they were specifically trying to restrain our Chinese army. On the front battlefield, it was okay for them to have absolute air superiority and artillery advantage in a large-scale troop contest.

Even in small-scale combat units such as battalions, companies, platoons, and even classes, the Japanese were very cunning in comprehensively enhancing their manpower, equipment advantages, and the quality of their troops, thus completely suppressing our Chinese army. "

"In terms of troop strength, a small squad of the Japanese has about 12 people, which is comparable to the strength of one of our squads.

However, the smallest combat unit of the Japanese army was often a squad.

When a Japanese squad is fully staffed, its strength ranges from 54 to 72 men, which is much more than the Chinese army's usual full-strength platoon of 36 men.

At the company level, a Japanese squadron had about 200 men at full strength, while one of our companies often had only more than 100 men.

At this time, the Japs had already gained an absolute advantage in military strength.

When it comes to the battalion-level organization, it goes without saying that a Japanese battalion has a full staff of more than 1000 people, which is far more powerful than a full-staff battalion of the Central Army.

As for our Eighth Route Army, even if it is a reinforced battalion, it would be considered good if we had 500 soldiers.

Some small groups even have less than 1000 people in total.

We are at an absolute disadvantage in terms of military strength.”

"Not to mention the firepower configuration."

"A Japanese squad was equipped with three machine guns and three grenade launchers. All members had ample ammunition and used standard Type 1 rifles. At the squadron level, which was the company level, one or two heavy machine guns were sometimes added. At the battalion level, one or two Type 2 infantry guns were also added as strike firepower."

"As for our Chinese army, even the most well-equipped Central Army, it's considered good if a platoon can have one machine gun, and a company can have at most a few light machine guns, and don't even think about heavy machine guns. Artillery support is at least organized at the battalion level or above."

“So when the Chinese and Japanese sides engaged in a firefight, even the most elite Central Army was completely suppressed in terms of firepower.

The only machine gun firepower would be shot down by the Japanese grenade launchers as soon as it showed up. How could we fight this battle?

Losing battles gradually became the norm.

Sometimes I think that the reason why the army always loses battles is not only the fault of the soldiers, but also the overall weakness of the country and the obvious disadvantages and flaws in the firepower configuration of the army. "

to this end.

Kong Jie said: "In order to achieve the goal of invading China and suppress the firepower configuration of our Chinese army, the Japanese must have put a lot of effort in collecting intelligence and formulating plans, which eventually led to the firepower configuration structure of the Japanese conventional field army."

"Then let's do the opposite and build a combat unit belonging to our independent regiment, which is specially used to restrain the Japanese company-level firepower."

"First, let's compare it with a squad. The standard number of people in a Japanese squad is 12, usually equipped with a machine gun and a grenade launcher, and the rest of the personnel use rifles. At most, some commanders are equipped with two pistols.

Our fully-strength combat squad can increase its strength to 13 people.

The Japs have machine guns, and we also have machine guns. We will arrange one main shooter and one deputy shooter.

The Japs have grenade launchers, and we have a modified Type 50 small cannon with a tripod. The Japs' grenade launcher team needs two people, one to operate and one to load the cannon.

Our modified Type 50 small cannon is easy to operate and has stable performance. A soldier can basically master it after a week of emergency training.

In addition, we will add an extra grenade launcher to be responsible for using a grenade launcher to launch rifle grenades at the Japanese army. Although the range of rifle grenades is not as good as the devil's grenade launcher, it is far superior to the grenades thrown by the Japanese army, and can make up for the lack of close-range firepower attacks.

In addition, each squad is reinforced with a special shooter and an additional Type 38 rifle with a scope installed for use as a sniper rifle.

During specific combat, the special shooter can keep a certain distance from the main force of the squad, hiding himself while specifically restraining the enemy's machine gunners, gunners and other important members. "

Kong Jie spoke with great confidence.

"As for the platoon-level combat unit, it is the most common independent combat unit of the Japanese Army, the Japanese squad.

A Japanese infantry squad often had more than 50 soldiers.

It is equipped with three grenade launchers and three light machine guns, but other than that, there is not much else.

Among them, through many battles with the Japanese army, I have long discovered a pattern: the Japs rely heavily on the firepower of grenade launchers in combat.

If the Japanese grenade launchers failed to successfully knock out our machine gun fire, the Japanese would often hide themselves tightly and dare not attack blindly.

Since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, there is specific data showing that it was the enemy's grenade launcher fire that caused the greatest casualties to our Eighth Route Army, including the Central Army."

“So we must find a way to suppress the Japanese grenade launchers in the platoon-level confrontation.

Therefore, my additional firepower configuration for the platoon-level combat unit of this specially built reinforced company is: in addition to the three infantry squads, an additional firepower squad will be added, with a total strength of more than 50 people, equipped with three machine guns, three modified -mm small cannons, and a -mm mortar.

Although our Type 50 small cannon was improved based on the Japanese Type 89 grenade launcher.

However, the barrel was lengthened, propellant bags were added, and a tripod was installed to enhance stability, ensuring that the entire small cannon could fire farther and more accurately than the Japanese Type 89 grenade launcher.

With the addition of an additional reinforced Type 60 mortar, it can completely crush the Japanese grenade launchers in terms of range, power, and accuracy.

In this way, once the battle begins, we can completely suppress the Japanese army with squad-level firepower.

The accumulated firepower advantage of a squad or platoon is a huge advantage for the entire battalion, regiment, or even the entire army."

"But we don't have that kind of foundation at the moment, let alone promoting such additional enhanced firepower configuration to restrain the Japanese to the entire army. Even our independent regiment can only put together such a reinforced company temporarily."

"This time, the regiment's reinforced company will take eight captured Japanese cars to attack Huangyun Town. It will be a test of the combat effectiveness of our transformed and enhanced special operations force."

Li Yunlong is also looking forward to this.

The additional artillery pieces equipped by this reinforced company were basically made by Lao Kong himself in the repair shop.

I think it will definitely bring a big surprise to the devil...