This article introduces the machine guns used by the Volunteer Army.
When it comes to Western light machine guns, everyone must be the same as the code word, and immediately think of the famous Czech light machine gun (792mm), that is, the ZB-26 light machine gun. This light machine gun, produced by the Czech State Arsenal, was later designated as the standard machine gun.
The rate of fire of this machine gun crushed the crooked handle of Japan, and it was better than the rate of fire of the 92 heavy machine gun, so the Japanese army also liked this machine gun very much, and after capturing the ** Czech light machine gun, it was also equipped with a large number of them, and even copied them themselves.
But in fact, this machine gun did not quite fit the national conditions of China at that time, because it was too expensive to manufacture. I don't know why *** chose this machine gun as a standard equipment at that time, is this the so-called only buying expensive ones and not buying the right ones?
Moreover, the gun uses a 20-round reload magazine, which makes the fire not very sustainable. Its continuous firing ability was as bad as that of the light machine guns of the time, and a magazine could never be finished with a trigger, which would inevitably jam.
Therefore, the picture of the Czech light machine gun sweeping wildly in the film and television works will be beaten by the squad and platoon leader in reality.
The Volunteer Army conducts anti-landing operations, and the ZB-26 light machine gun is marching suppressive firing.
On the defensive positions, a squad of light machine guns of the Volunteer Army ZB-26 was conducting suppressive firing.
However, in World War II, there are two light machine guns, which can be pulled and held on to a magazine directly, both of which are the cousins of the ZB-26 light machine gun, and these two light machine guns are equipped with the Volunteer Army.
Now let's invite the cousins of these two ZB-26 light machine guns to appear.
British copy of the Bren light machine gun (267mm), it is the first light machine gun in the world to use a magazine, and you can pick the trigger to shoot a magazine in one go. This machine gun only entered China in the late stage of the Anti-Japanese War, and because of its excellent performance, in addition to British aid, ** also bought a lot from Britain out of his own pocket.
Therefore, the Volunteer Army naturally has this artifact.
Volunteer machine gunners using the Bren light machine gun to strafe enemy troops coming up the hill.
Here's a family photo, from near to far, the volunteers who are fighting on the defensive, their ** are Garand semi-automatic rifles, M1 carbines, and Bren light machine guns.
During the Anti-Japanese War, according to the aid agreement signed between Britain and **, Britain provided ** with the Bren light machine gun. But this excellent light machine gun, in ** in use, there are insurmountable problems, its 77mm*** is not on. Moreover, the curved magazine used by the Bren LMG is not compatible with the Czech-style straight magazine, which adds to the logistical difficulty.
At this time, the British local arsenal was making every effort to make the best doppelganger for the European battlefield, so in order to solve this problem, Britain commissioned the Canadian arsenal to make a new Bren machine gun for itself. This new Bren machine gun not only changed the caliber to the same 7 as the Czech light machine gun92mm, it can also be fed with a common straight magazine for Czech light machine guns.
This machine gun was called 7The 92mm Bren machine gun, but it is better known in China as the Qijiu Boran light machine gun, because the Chinese inscription on the gun is Qijiu Boran.
The Bren light machine gun is copied from the Czech light machine gun, and Qijiu is a change in the caliber of the Bren, so the appearance of these three guns is basically the same. However, Bren canceled the Czech-style heat sink, and Qijiu used the same straight magazine as the Czech-style, which is also the most direct difference in appearance between the three.
As a light machine gun specially made for the squadron, Qijiu Boran is equipped a lot more than its pro-brother Burun in the squadron, so Qijiu Boran has left many good stories in the volunteer army.
Among them, the most famous is Guan Chonggui, a special meritorious hero of the Volunteer Army and a 'second-class combat hero'.
In the Longtouli Resistance Battle in the Fourth Campaign launched by the Volunteers in 1951, Guan Chonggui led two soldiers to hold the forward position with a 79 machine gun for three days and two nights from February 24 to February 26. They repelled three attacks by more than 500 US and South Korean troops, killing and wounding more than 50 enemy troops. In this battle, Guan Chonggui created the miracle of shooting down one US Navy P-51 fighter plane with three points of fire from the Qijiu light machine gun.
After the war, the commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army, who learned of Guan Chonggui's deeds, ordered Guan Chonggui to be promoted directly to the line of fire, and was promoted from squad leader to deputy company commander in one go!
Kwan Chonggui demonstrated how he shot down a US plane with a 79 Boom.
In the tunnel operation, the 79 vigorous shooters of the Volunteer Army fired at the enemy through the firing port.
The 79 shooters of the Volunteer Army erected a ruler to shoot accurately at the target.
One of the things that the 79 Bran light machine gun and the Bren light machine gun are very popular with the volunteer soldiers is that they can be carried directly in their hands in this way, providing real-time fire support with the troops' attack.
This cannot be done with Czech light machine guns, which are easy to jam when used in this way. Therefore, the picture of soldiers holding Czech light machine guns in film and television dramas and charging at the same time is very difficult to see in actual combat.
Let's take a group photo of the light machine gunners of the Volunteer Army, charging with a machine gun is really handsome.
Let's take another family photo, the ** used by the volunteer soldiers from right to left, in order is the Thomson submachine gun, the Garand semi-automatic rifle, and the Qijiu Biran light machine gun.
From the comprehensive replacement of the British and American semi-automatic and automatic ** by the Volunteer Army, it is not difficult to see that the Japanese weapons with weak firepower have been eliminated, and the British and American weapons that consume huge ammunition have become the main force of the Volunteer Army. This also reflects the tremendous improvement in logistics of the Volunteer Army, and shows the great progress made by the new Chinese workers.
The following light machine guns used by the Volunteer Army have not been able to find the video materials used by the Volunteer Army, so they are only briefly introduced.
When it comes to the '**Chicken' machine gun, the first thing that comes to everyone's mind is the Soviet-made DP-28 machine gun. However, the first ** chicken that appeared in China was the Belgian-made Lewis light machine gun (about 77mm）。The biggest feature of this gun is its large iron cylinder that wraps the barrel, this design is because it was originally designed as an aviation machine gun, so this large iron cylinder can have a good effect of heat dissipation on high-speed aircraft.
Because of this large iron barrel, the shortcomings of this Lewis machine gun are also obvious, its empty gun is 3 pounds heavier than the Czech light machine gun. Coupled with that 47-round cartridge, it is definitely the 'heavyweight' of light machine guns.
The gun has been in service in the people's army since the Red Army, but due to the constraints of conditions, until the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, there was no clear understanding of the people's army's use of it**. However, in Harrison Foreman's album, I found this one**. The thick cloth-wrapped barrel sticking out of the far left of the center is probably the Lewis machine gun.
There is a 50-round machine gun that is often mentioned in the Eighth Route Army's battle report, but in fact, it is a mistake to remember the Lewis machine gun with a 47-round cartridge. As an old ** that has been used for more than 30 years, the Lewis machine gun is still not old in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the quality of this machine gun is really good.
This is the Cheerali light machine gun (75mm), which resembles an automatic rifle. But unlike the M1918 Browning automatic rifle (i.e., the Bar rifle), which is an automatic rifle, a part-time light machine gun, the Cheerari is a serious light machine gun.
It was because of its quirky shape that the Swiss military was reluctant to adopt it, but it was favored by thousands of miles away**. During the Anti-Japanese War, the ** army had tens of thousands of Cheerali light machine guns, which was one of the main machine guns equipped in the Anti-Japanese War. In order to use ammunition with the Czech light machine gun, the caliber was changed to 7 for the imitation model92mm。
The People's Army has a long history of using the Cheerali light machine guns, and when the Red Fourth Regiment flew to capture the Luding Bridge, it was the Cheerali light machine guns and mortars that provided fire support to the 23 brave men of the Red Army who crossed the bridge and captured the bridgehead. The number of Cheerali light machine guns used by the Volunteer Army is not a lot, and the Volunteer Army Headquarters has issued hundreds of the machine guns to the front-line troops at one time, but unfortunately the code word has not been able to find the best information.
The light machine gun is finally introduced, and the following is an introduction to the Western general-purpose machine guns and heavy machine guns used by the Volunteer Army.
First of all, let's introduce a guy that everyone is not very familiar with.
Denmark's Madsen general-purpose machine gun, this gun has a changeable caliber, and China introduced it for logistical convenience is 792mm。
In fact, if you take a closer look at these machine guns introduced before the Anti-Japanese War, you will find that they are basically based on the products of small European countries, and I don't know if this is to prevent the invasion of imperialist powers and deliberately choose this way to avoid the enemy.
The Madsen machine gun is the originator of the general-purpose machine gun, and the first soldier in the picture is carrying its tripod. The Madsen machine gun is mounted on a tripod and can be used as an anti-aircraft machine gun and a heavy machine gun. This tripod design was later copied by Germany and became the standard equipment for the MG general-purpose machine gun.
However, the Madsen machine gun does not look at the appearance of a machine gun, in fact, it is the opposite of the Swiss Kelari machine gun in front, it was originally designed as a semi-automatic rifle! As a result, although it is equipped with a tripod and claims to be a general-purpose machine gun, it is still generally considered a light machine gun.
There are different versions of the shooting time of this **, some say it is the Liberation War, some say it is the training of the militia of New China, and the suspicion from the outfit is that this is the Volunteer Army. With so many Seventy-Nine Light Machine Guns, as well as Madsen Machine Guns mounted on tripods, it is clear that this is an anti-aircraft position.
However, the most used general-purpose machine gun in the Volunteer Army is this American-made M1919A4 Browning general-purpose machine gun (762mm), after all, a whole bunch was captured on the battlefield in Korea. This gun is generally referred to as a heavy machine gun, but it can be used by individual soldiers, so it should actually be a general-purpose machine gun.
When introducing the Japanese machine ** earlier, the codeword made a mistake and took the machine gun in this ** as 12The 7mm trap was firecracked. After careful comparison, the machine gun at the feet of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army should be the empty version of the M1919A4 Browning general-purpose machine gun. This machine gun is also supposed to be a Japanese copy, and the plane was dismantled from the plane after being shot down by the Eighth Route Army.
So this gun is also an old acquaintance of the people's army.
The Volunteer Army is testing the captured **, the Volunteer Army lying on his stomach is testing the captured M1919A4, and the Volunteer Army standing behind him seems to be testing the Stern submachine gun.
On the bank of the river, a machine gun position constructed of two M1919A4s, the clothing of the volunteers fits well with the background of the riverbank.
The Volunteers used the captured M1919A4 to launch an attack on the American airstrip.
The 79 shooters of the Volunteer Army used tracer bullets to indicate targets for the M1919A4 shooters.
Hatch Chase (Hatch Heat, Hotchix are it) heavy machine gun (792mm), this old gun, which has participated in the war in World War I, was introduced to China in the thirties of the last century, and changed to 7 according to the requirements92mm caliber. During the Anti-Japanese War, ** had a total of 2,792 Hatch Chase heavy machine guns, which could be equipped with 465 heavy machine gun companies.
The Japanese Army's Type 92 heavy machine gun is an imitation of the gun, but Japan's strange bullet plate feed, so that the gun is proud of its high rate of fire, completely in the Type 92 heavy machine gun, the junior can not be seen.
Speaking of heavy machine guns, the military industry of the first is a little interesting, the Makqin heavy machine gun was basically localized during the first period. However, the so-called imitation of light machine guns is actually assembled with imported parts, and in fact, the localization rate is extremely low.
However, the M1917A1 Browning heavy machine gun (762mm), most of them are assembled with imported American parts, and its localization rate is very low.
This M1917A1 Browning heavy machine gun is an American imitation of the Maxim machine gun, but it appeared in China very early, basically coinciding with the birth of Beiyang during the Qing Dynasty. The replica is called the Knuckle Heavy Machine Gun, and because its water-cooled jacket is made of brass, it is nicknamed the 'Old Scalper' by the soldiers.
The biggest difference between the Browning heavy machine gun and the Maxim heavy machine gun is that the Maxim uses a rotating handle, while the Browning handle is inline. In this Red Army**, the Red Army uses Maxim or Browning, let's identify it together.
The M1917A1 Browning heavy machine gun is undoubtedly the core of the defensive position, but the survival rate of this heavy machine gun in the face of the Japanese army with firepower advantage is worrying, so it should not be common to be arranged in the open field to fight the American army.
Like this, being used as a fire center to block the enemy army on the top of the hill should be the daily use of the M1917A1 Browning heavy machine gun in the hands of the volunteers.
The Volunteer Army used the M1917A1 Browning heavy machine gun to carry out projectile fire on the high ground to cover the infantry attack.
The M1919A4 general-purpose machine gun introduced earlier is actually a lightweight version of the M1917A1 Browning heavy machine gun with the water tank canceled.
American-made M2 heavy machine gun (12..)7mm), this is a big guy. By its 12When a 7mm bullet hits, it will immediately remove your arms and legs when it hits your arms and legs, and if it hits the torso position, it will be even more hopeless, and it will directly tear people apart.
The remote-controlled version of the M2HB heavy machine gun is the M3 aviation machine gun, and the first one is an M3 aviation machine gun, which was obviously dismantled by the volunteer soldiers from the downed US military plane, and was directly used as an anti-aircraft machine gun by the volunteers.