The Japanese army encountered a strange phenomenon in the War of Resistance Against Japan: whenever they exchanged fire with the Eighth Route Army, whether they were wounded or killed Japanese soldiers, the wounds were torn, as if they were hit by special bullets such as dummy bullets. The Japanese military department was puzzled by this and sent military experts to investigate. The results of the survey surprised them:
These bullets are not dummies, but they produce the effect of dummies, which is incredible. ”
When the Japanese commander heard this answer, he felt a chill in his heart, and he exclaimed:
How can China's military industry make such great progress? ”
In fact, this is not the progress of the first worker, but the helplessness of the first team.
The Japanese soldiers were armed with Meiji-38 rifles, and each had 120 rounds of ammunition, which were packed in three cartridges on the front and back waists. The Japanese army was generous with ammunition, not only giving the soldiers plenty of ammunition in battle, but also giving them plenty of ammunition during training.
According to the data, the soldiers of the Japanese army consumed more than 200 rounds of ammunition per person per month in the early stage of training, and such high-intensity shooting training made the combat effectiveness and military quality of the Japanese army far surpass that of the squadron.
Therefore, on the battlefield, the shooting accuracy of the Japanese army is also very high, which is why in the War of Resistance against Japan, the battle loss ratio between the two sides was as high as ten to one.
At that time, China was still in a backward state, there were very few modern enterprises, the military industry was even more backward, and domestic production could not meet the needs of the huge army at all.
However, at that time, Japan had basically achieved near-modernization, had a mature industrialization system, and Japan's military enterprises were able to provide continuous military supplies for the Japanese army, such as bullets and grenades.
At that time, although the Kuomintang army had the name of a million army, but the number of bullets was far less than that of the Japanese army, in the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, it could still rely on elite troops such as German armor divisions to confront the Japanese army head-on, but when these elites were exhausted, the lack of bullets in the squadron was exposed.
Due to the lack of bullets, most of the Chinese soldiers have almost no chance to shoot on the training ground, they can only learn to release guns and load bullets, and the real shooting skills can only be learned on the battlefield.
There are mainly two bullets in the Kuomintang army, one is produced domestically, such as the bullets produced by the Hanyang Arsenal. According to statistics, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Kuomintang imported or received aid from Germany, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Hungary and the United States, totaling 2.5 billion rounds.
On average, the Kuomintang can use 3 bullets per year12.5 billion rounds, this number sounds like a lot, but when it comes to the heads of each soldier, it seems very little.
At that time, the Kuomintang army had 3 million men, so each soldier could only get 100 rounds of ammunition per year, which was less than the number of bullets that the Japanese army consumed in training every month. Modern warfare relied on bullets, and each soldier had only a hundred rounds of ammunition per year, which simply could not meet the needs of the combat at that time.
According to research, during World War II, several hundred rounds of ammunition were needed to train a qualified soldier, but according to the number of bullets in the Kuomintang army, it can be seen that most of the soldiers in the Kuomintang army at that time were unqualified.
Because there is no ammunition, there is no actual shooting training, and their shooting accuracy is also very low, and if they do go to the battlefield, their combat effectiveness is very limited.
The long-term lack of bullets in the squadron can also be seen in the expeditionary force, which has the support of the allies, so there is no need to worry about bullets. But there were many people in the expeditionary force who were transferred from the Kuomintang army, and they remembered the words of the instructors: not a single bullet could be wasted.
So when Stilwell, the instructor of the expeditionary force, was training the Chinese expeditionary force, he found that after these soldiers got the Thomson submachine gun, they actually shot one shot at a time. This made Stilwell cry and laugh, but he felt more helpless and sad, and he said to these soldiers:
Kid, that's not how submachine guns hit. ”
What Stilwell didn't know was that the average number of bullets fired by Chinese soldiers at the training ground at that time was no more than five, and bullets were precious to them, and many Chinese soldiers could neither think of nor dare to think of such a luxurious attack method as a submachine gun.
This is also why China has rarely trained snipers for a long time, and the proportion of snipers in the squadron is very low compared to other countries. Snipers have a special and important role in warfare, and their role is irreplaceable by no other class when performing decapitation operations or killing specific targets.
But it takes a lot of bullets to train a qualified or even excellent sniper, according to statistics, it takes at least 5,000 rounds of ammunition to train a qualified sniper, which is equivalent to the bullet consumption of fifty soldiers in a year, and with China's military strength at that time, it is difficult to train a large number of snipers.