Chapter 769: Negative example

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The Japanese soldiers on Midway are trying their best to repair the Taisho 11-type light machine gun in their hands. This kind of weapon behaves in general after being put into combat on the Pacific battlefield, and often has various unbearable errors. .
Since the Great Japanese Empire's attack on the Hawaiian Islands eventually failed, the Japanese Navy has drawn up a huge plan for a strategic decisive battle around Midway. Unfortunately, the US Navy is not fooled, staying in Hawaii and waiting for more. The aircraft carrier launches.
Fifty-six Yamamoto had no choice but to lead the remnants of the Japanese navy to the south, and the tortoise retracted into the waters near the Marshall Islands, where the islands were numerous, where he trained the naval aviation that suffered heavy losses in order to try to fight again. With the support of this navy, Australia's Japanese Army launched an attack code-named "Long Sword", occupying a series of important northeastern towns in Australia.
However, this series of attacks did not make the country gleeful. Anyone with a little bit of vision knew that the Japanese navy had spent all his wealth to bet on a stupa that the US government would defeat and surrender, and it completely failed. Americans did not surrender to frustration and humiliation as most politicians in the Japanese base camp expected, but like a giant who had been awakened by a beautiful dream, he violently withdrew his long sword.
The United Fleet ran away, or "turned in", and the pile of mess left was handed over to the Japanese Army and a group of poor worms in the Marine Corps. These soldiers were thrown on the Midway Island. But it is necessary to fight a desperate war without losing the advantage of sea and air.
A group of Japanese soldiers were ordered to dig trenches on the beach, build various fortifications with rushed sandbags and wood on the island, and now they still believe that the Japanese navy can kill them when they need it and will prepare The US naval landing forces that violated the "sacred land" at their feet hanged cleanly. The optimistic people feel that they will achieve the final victory of the war in the next month, and some are pessimistic that they can return to their hometown by the end of 1939.
The commander in charge of more than 20,000 Japanese infantrymen on Midway is called Itan. He is an old commander who fought for several years in China. He has rich combat experience and is one of the more optimistic characters in the Japanese Army. One. Being able to be dispatched to Midway Island to direct the battle at a critical moment also shows the trust of the base camp.
But to be honest, although the Itanium has very rich combat experience, it is all the so-called "experience" from China. In the face of the Chinese regular army with weapons and equipment that are similar to Japan, and even slightly different, his command can be regarded as It's quite satisfactory, but when transferred to the Pacific to deal with the US military with obvious firepower advantage, his little experience seems a bit outdated.
Just like on Kauai, the Japanese Army is still building a line of defense on the beach in an attempt to completely block the landing of the US military at the beach head. This tactic is also one of the oldest tactics of resisting landing operations. It can only be described by the word unremarkable. Too. Moreover, the Army and the Marine Corps did not receive the news that the Navy "turned in." They always believed that the Navy was nearby and could support their operations.
"It's too easy to get cleaned. It's too easy to get stuck." A Japanese machine gun shooter reminded his comrades who were wiping the machine gun: "I don't know if the group of officers know or don't know, using this weapon is simply harming us. people."
The Taisho 11-type light machine gun is a Japanese first-line light machine gun designed and produced in 1922. According to Japan's usual "non-mainstream" idea, this machine gun also decided to create a ridiculous "imperialist development path with Japanese characteristics".
The Japanese Army thinks weirdly that their automatic weapons are placed in combat units of the same infantry squad and platoon level, which must increase the ammunition consumption of the first-line infantry, so the issue of ammunition support must be considered. This is not a problem at all in Germany and the United States, where industrial production capacity is relatively high, and it has become a terrible technical indicator when placed here in Japan. It can be seen that Japan, which became rich overnight after the Sino-Japanese War, did not seem so wealthy on the surface.
Before this light machine gun was equipped, the basic combat units of the Japanese Army ’s first-line infantry were not equipped with automatic weapons, and all used manual "three zero" rifles or "three eight" rifles. The Japanese army has always advocated hardworking and frugal housekeeping. Of course, the "Bushido spirit" that can use a bayonet without bullets is of course. The reason is that it is to save some steel and make more useful big guys such as warships.
So with this light machine gun, ammunition security became a problem. Specifically, it also includes two aspects: one is the quantity of ammunition, that is to say, it must be sufficient; the second is the problem of the type of ammunition, that is, to ensure universal use. And GM is the fundamental requirement to ensure the protection of ammunition. The rifle and machine gun use the same bullet, which can maximize the convenience of ammunition support in combat.
Hearing this, I could n’t help but cry out for the Japanese Army ’s budding family weapons shooting idea. Germany, far away from the ocean and on the other side, really came to attention under the leadership of Akado. The road of chemical development has also given birth to a group of highly versatile weapons and equipment.
For example, most parts of the German leopard tank can be used in common with the tiger tank, which also allows Germany to take advantage of the tank production line. But even the 21st-century U.S. general-purpose fighter project did not have the magnificent long-cherished wish that the parts were fully universal. Do n’t doubt it. This time, the adorable Japanese army officials are at the forefront of the world. A cute request.
The Japanese Army considered the convenience of the first-line infantry to use ammunition in combat. It is required that this type of automatic weapon to be incorporated into the first-line infantry combat system should use the same ammunition as the rifle. In other words, the machine gun should use a rifle with 5 rounds of magazines. In this way, the infantry has realized the universal supply of ammunition, which not only can further improve the convenience of ammunition support, but also simplify the factory production, especially the ammunition packaging link, the whole box of Japanese 6.5mm rifle bullets are all bullets It is stored in a magazine with 5 rounds of ammunition, and there is almost no ammunition package, so that on the battlefield, a box of ammunition can be directly used for both rifles and light machine guns.
In addition to emphasizing the common use of ammunition for step and machine guns, it also emphasizes the common use of ammunition for step and machine guns. When step and machine guns have the same ammunition and the same supply of ammunition, a box of ammunition is opened. During the battle, you can collect the rifleman's bullets for the machine gun; if the machine gun is broken, or to save ammunition, you can distribute the remaining bullets to the rifleman.
Does it sound tall? Does it sound great? Of course, you can still play (design) things like this in the end, and you have to admire the strong tolerance of Japanese gun designers. But the end result of such a balance is that the "user experience" of this product is really bad.
In today's society, products must emphasize a user experience, and it is very important to explain how a product user feels during use. As a weapon, the user who uses them is a soldier, and if the user experience of the weapon is poor, then the soldier can only use his life to complain.
This kind of light machine gun with Japanese characteristics is very sensitive to changes in the meteorological environment. At the beginning, the reliability of the light machine gun used in northeast China was very poor under the conditions of low temperature and severe cold. The manufacturer adopted the method of installing the oil pot next to the loader and oiling the machine parts and bullets at any time to maintain reliability.
Obviously, this temporary remedy did not fundamentally change the problem of poor reliability. Later, the reliability of use under high-temperature and high-humidity conditions in Southeast Asia became worse, and even the oil pot was useless. In the report of the front-line machine gunners, the Taisho 11-type light machine gun only has a relatively low failure rate under the ideal conditions of meticulous wiping and maintenance and soft combat intensity during the cold and hot seasons, not dry and wet Does the condition of use sound familiar? In fact, thirty years later, the NASA Hercules launch vehicle manual also suggested the same.
It is not difficult to explain why the reputation of this Japanese-invented weapon is so poor that even after the squadron seized this light machine gun, it rarely used it by itself. Because according to the quality of the squadron at that time, there are not many people who can use this machine gun.
The poor Japanese Army, on several simple machine gun positions on the beach, erected this kind of machine gun with constant failures, ready to resist the American attack. In fact, General Itanian, as a commander, had never thought that the Americans would come, because a month ago, the Japanese navy had lured the United States to a decisive battle nearby. He still stubbornly believes that for at least two months, the US Navy cannot appear in the waters near Midway.
Facts have proved that his lieutenant likes to hit the face, and it is fierce and accurate. When Itanium thought he was right, his adjutant rushed into his headquarters and said aloud the sentence that Itanian did not want to hear most: "American planes appeared in the sky! Americans attacked!"
Before the adjutant brother calmed down, the stern air defense sirens began to sound. The ground on the entire Midway Island seemed to tremble, trembling violently with the explosion of air bombs one after another—
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