NIP #118 - Everyone has a rangefinder, and everyone is a great gunner
#118 - Everyone has a rangefinder, and everyone is a great gunner
"Rangefinder?" Ren Zhong heard the request from Yang Village and didn't rush to answer. He seemed to have seen it in the main plane, but he hadn't thought about the military applications of these civilian products.
Just like binoculars, if Ren Zhong hadn't needed to bring them himself, he wouldn't have realized how rare they were in the *Bright Sword* world.
So, he later brought seven or eight of them when he had the chance, solving the need for updated binoculars for the Commander, Division Commander, Brigade Commander, and Li Yunlong, who were close to him. After all, 12x modern binoculars were much better than the 6x ones they had captured.
Back in the main plane, Ren Zhong found many brands of laser rangefinders online. Within a range of 1000 meters, the accuracy could reach 0.5 meters, and there was also angular difference measurement. With this thing, Wang Chengzhu's thumb ranging method instantly became useless.
When Wang Chengzhu of Yang Village received this batch of goods and read the instructions rewritten by Ren Zhong, he was silent for a long time.
However, after Zhuzi completed the test and mortar test firing according to the instructions, facing a hit rate of over 80%, Zhuzi quickly abandoned his thumb ranging method, which he had planned to pass down as a family heirloom, and began to fully embrace the new era.
The precise measurement of distance and angular deviation allowed Zhuzi to shift the focus of his teaching to calculating the firing angle of the mortar. Based on his experience, he compiled a jingle similar to the multiplication table, with a catchy rhyme for how to fire at 300 meters and how to fire at 500 meters, so that his apprentices, whose names he couldn't even remember, wouldn't have to learn from scratch.
There was no need to instill theoretical knowledge such as parabola and initial velocity. From 100 meters to 500 meters, they simply adjusted the angle according to the jingle.
A mortar team consisted of two people, one measuring the distance and observing the point of impact, and the other operating and correcting. With the help of Yang Village's now relatively abundant mortar shells, they conducted practical exercises. Now, a qualified mortarman could be trained in less than a week—according to the current graduation standard, the first hit rate of 10 targets must exceed 6.
Li Yunlong didn't expect Ren Zhong to really solve his problem. After the thing got into his hands, and after a short training by Zhuzi, Lao Li and Kong Jie even obtained the mortarman graduation qualification after practicing together.
If mortar shells weren't limited now, Lao Li would have liked to popularize mortarman training to all the main platoons of the Independent Regiment. He knew how disgusting this thing was on the battlefield against the little devils, and now Li Yunlong and the others were very happy.
With the laser rangefinder, even if a qualified mortarman counterattacked as a second move, there was a high probability that he could suppress the little devil's mortarman!
In this regard, technology is more powerful than magic. What the little devils need a lot of training to master, the Independent Regiment can now mass-produce in the short term!
Lao Li was very happy, but Ren Zhong was uncomfortable. This was another item that had to be satisfied, making his selection of goods more difficult.
However, Ren Zhong also gained something. The guerrilla warfare he had discussed with Zhang Dabiao only involved rifles, grenades, and landmines, most of which were short-range attacks. Although effective, they might not be effective quickly.
But now, with the method of easily operating mortars, the lethality and attack range of guerrilla warfare suddenly expanded, and the threat coefficient to the little devils and puppet troops was simply increased by an order of magnitude.
You should know that although the mortar shell's lethality is not as good as a mortar shell, it is still a terrifying heavy weapon that combines point and area damage. An exploding shell in a crowd can take down several devils and puppet troops, and even if they don't die on the spot, they will be disabled.
Now, the shells manufactured by Yang Village using high-quality gray cast iron are no less lethal than the devils' shells. After being blown open with high-quality explosives, the killing range is several meters in radius.
Moreover, the combat attack range can be expanded to over 500 meters at once, and the safety of the guerrilla warfare team using shell attacks can also be greatly improved!
This kind of attack launched from hundreds of meters away and then quickly leaving the battlefield makes it even more difficult for the little devils to defend against.
Soon, all the working teams in Heyuan added a mortarman team from Yang Village, and the imitation of the Type 71 medium-range walkie-talkie also began to be delivered. With this thing, a complete information network can soon be formed in the base area outside Heyuan City, and the actions of the little devils will no longer be missed.
But this is not enough. The tragedy of Dabeigou made Ren Zhong understand that even if the little devils are subdued outside the city and dare not come out to rebuild strongholds, they still have a huge advantage in the city. They dispatch teams at the company level along highways and main roads, and Heyuan lacks the strength to resist in the short term.
Therefore, Ren Zhong allocated all of the newly developed 82mm mortars and the newly processed 20 Type 56 semi-automatic rifles to Zhang Dabiao, allowing Zhang Dabiao to form the First Heyuan Guerrilla Battalion by drawing elites. The initial establishment was one company, one 82mm mortar squad, one mortar squad with 3 mortars, and 3 standard infantry platoons with 9 infantry squads, each squad leader and deputy squad leader equipped with Type 56 semi-automatic rifles. Each platoon is equipped with one crooked-neck machine gun.
This is a configuration tailored by Ren Zhong for Zhang Dabiao, so that when encountering a company-level little devil, they can restrain their opponents when fighting positional warfare.
Since laser rangefinders are very scarce, each working team needs to be independently configured to facilitate the implementation of guerrilla warfare. The mortar squad of the guerrilla battalion can only share one laser rangefinder for 3 mortars. With the current improved mortar range, sharing a laser rangefinder is not a big problem, and it can control the main firepower points of the little devils.
Mortars, as weapons of mass destruction, are deployed in remote areas to carry out positional coverage strikes. Even if the Heyuan little devils dispatch the strongest combat power of the Type 92 infantry gun squad, they still have a chance to fight.
If it weren't for Ren Zhong in Heyuan, Zhang Dabiao would definitely not be able to obtain these weapons and equipment.
Mortars are fine, under the current production capacity conditions, 3 mortars per company will soon become standard. If a company is not allocated a laser rangefinder, the mortars will be delegated to the platoon level for decentralized use.
If a laser rangefinder is allocated, then there is no doubt that concentrated use is more effective.
Because the little devils have not yet suffered major blows, basically battalion-level dare to run rampant in the base area. In Ren Zhong's time and space, the Yamazaki Battalion even went deep into the core area of the base area's arsenal, of course, Ren Zhong has not heard of such a thing.
He completely ignored how the brigade commander and others planned, and devoted himself to building his new base. This time, the priority was to solve the problem of copper smelting, after all, relying on bringing copper plates has become more and more wasteful of transportation capacity.
Although China in the main plane has solved the problem of steel bullets, Ren Zhong has not found specific process information. Relying on some half-knowledgeable explanations, Ren Zhong's trial production of steel bullets in Yang Village has many problems. It is easy to wear the barrel and affect the life of the gun, not to mention that it greatly increases the chance of bullet jams, which cannot be tolerated. This is often fatal on the battlefield.
The solution is said to be to plate a layer of brass, which not only reduces manufacturing costs, but also solves the friction problem between the cartridge case and the barrel. It's just that Ren Zhong has no clue about this copper plating process, and he dare not hand over this problem to domestic personnel to solve.
This is no longer scientific research, but a violation of the law.
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