Seven Hundred and Sixty Nine Negative Teaching Materials

The Japanese soldiers on Midway Island are trying their best to repair the Taisho 11-type light machine gun in their hands. This weapon performed mediocre after it was put into combat on the Pacific battlefield, and there were often various unbearable errors. .

Ever since the Empire of Japan's attack on the Hawaiian Islands finally failed, the Japanese navy had drawn up a huge plan for a strategic decisive battle around Midway Island. Unfortunately, the U.S. Navy was not fooled and stationed in Hawaii, waiting for their own more The aircraft carrier is launched.

Helpless, Yamamoto Fifty-Six had no choice but to lead the remaining forces of the Japanese navy to the south, and retreated back to the waters near the Marshall Islands, where there are many islands, where they trained the naval aviation forces that suffered heavy losses, so that the drivers could fight again. With the support of this navy, the Japanese Army in Australia launched an offensive code-named "Long Knife", which captured a series of key towns in the northeast of Australia.

But this series of attacks did not make Japan elated. Anyone with a little vision knows that the Japanese Navy spent all their wealth to bet that the US government would lose and surrender, and it failed completely. The Americans did not surrender in frustration and humiliation to negotiate a peace, as most politicians in the Japanese base camp expected. Instead, they drew out their long swords like a giant who had been awakened from a dream.

The United Fleet ran away, or "turned in", and the mess left behind was handed over to a group of poor people from the Japanese Army and Marine Corps. These soldiers were thrown thousands of miles to Midway Island. But in the case of losing the superiority of sea and air, it is necessary to fight a desperate war.

A group of Japanese soldiers were ordered to dig trenches on the beach and build various fortifications with sandbags and wood from the island. Now they still believe that the Japanese navy can come when they need it, and will prepare The landing force of the United States Navy who invaded the "sacred land" under their feet was strangled. The optimistic people felt that they would win the war within the next month, and the pessimistic ones believed that they could return to their hometown at the end of 1939.

The commander in charge of more than 20,000 Japanese infantry in Midway Island is called Iteng. He is an old commander who has fought in China for several years. He has rich combat experience and is one of the more optimistic figures in the Japanese army. one. Being able to be sent to Midway Island to command the battle at a critical moment also shows the trust of the base camp.

But to be honest, although this Itanium has a lot of combat experience, it is all the so-called "experience" he fought in China. Facing the Chinese regular army whose weapons and equipment are similar to or even slightly different from those of Japan, his command can be regarded as It was quite satisfactory, but when he was transferred to the Pacific Ocean to deal with the U.S. military with obvious superiority in firepower, his little experience seemed a bit out of date.

Just like on Kauai Island, the Japanese army is still building defense lines on the beach in an attempt to completely block the landing of the US military on the beach. This tactic is also one of the oldest tactics in resisting landing operations. up. Moreover, the Army and the Marine Corps have not received the news of the "transfer" of the Navy. They always think that the Navy is nearby.

support them in battle.

"Wipe it clean, this thing is too easy to jam." A Japanese machine gun shooter reminded his comrades who were wiping the machine gun: "I don't know if the group of officers know that using this weapon is simply entrapping ourselves. people."

The Taisho 11-type light machine gun was designed and produced in 1922 as Japan's first-line main light machine gun. According to Japan's consistent "non-mainstream" thinking at the time, this machine gun also decided to create an epic "imperialist development path with Japanese characteristics".

The Japanese Army strangely believes that the integration of their automatic weapons into combat units of the same level as infantry squads and platoons will inevitably increase the ammunition consumption of front-line infantry, so the resulting ammunition guarantee must be considered. This is not a problem at all in Germany and the United States with relatively high industrial production capacity. It has become a terrible technical indicator in Japan. It can be seen that Japan, which became rich overnight after the Sino-Japanese War, is not as rich and powerful as it seems on the surface.

Before being equipped with this light machine gun, the basic combat units of the Japanese Army's first-line infantry were not equipped with automatic weapons, and they all used manual "30" rifles or "38" rifles. And the Japanese army has always advocated diligence and thrift in housekeeping, paying attention to the "bushido spirit" that can use bayonets but not bullets-of course, the reason is actually to save some steel and build some more useful big guys like warships.

So this time with a light machine gun, ammunition protection has become a problem. Specifically, it also includes two aspects: one is the quantity of ammunition, that is to say, it must be enough; the other is the type of ammunition, that is, it must be universal. Universal use is the fundamental requirement to ensure ammunition security. Rifles and machine guns use the same bullet, which can maximize the convenience of ammunition security in combat.

Hearing this, I can't help but shout out for the Japanese Army's budding family weapon shooting idea. Germany, which is far away from the ocean and the other side, has really embarked on the attention of the generalization of family weapons under the leadership of Akado. The road of globalized development has also given birth to a batch of highly versatile weapons and equipment.

For example, most parts of the German Panther tank can be used in common with the Tiger tank, which also allows Germany to take advantage of the tank production line. However, even the American general-purpose fighter project in the 21st century has not achieved the grand long-cherished wish of complete universal use of parts-don't doubt, yes, this time, the cute senior Japanese army officials are at the forefront of the world again. They made a cute request.

The Japanese Army considered the convenience of front-line infantry to use ammunition in battle. It is required that this type of automatic weapon that is about to be incorporated into the front-line infantry combat organization should use the same ammunition as the rifle. That is to say, the machine gun is to be fed with a rifle with a 5-round magazine. In this way, the infantry has realized the universal supply of ammunition, which can not only further improve the convenience of ammunition support, but also simplify the factory production, especially the ammunition packaging. Stored together on a magazine with 5 rounds of bullets, there is almost no shotgun packaging, so that the bullets can be used directly for rifles and light machine guns at the same time as soon as the box is opened on the battlefield.

That is to say, while emphasizing the common use of ammunition for rifles and machine guns, it also emphasizes that rifles and machine guns are used for common use of ammunition. The rifle and machine gun have the same ammunition and the same supply of ammunition. Open a box of ammunition, and the rifleman can use it directly, and the machine gunner can also use it directly; During the battle, the rifleman's bullets can be collected for use by the machine gun; if the machine gun is broken, or in order to save ammunition, the remaining bullets can be distributed to the rifleman for use.

Does it sound tall? Doesn't it sound wonderful? Of course, the things that can be played (designed) after playing like this, I have to admire the strong tolerance of Japanese gun designers. However, the final result of such a balance is that the "user experience" of this product is really bad.

In today's society, it is very important for products to emphasize user experience, which explains 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 weather environment. At the beginning, it was used in the low temperature and severe cold conditions in Northeast China, and the reliability was very poor. The manufacturer has adopted the method of installing the oil pot next to the loading machine and oiling the parts and bullets at any time to maintain reliability.

Obviously, this temporary remedy did not fundamentally change the problem of its poor reliability. Later, the reliability of the use under the high temperature and high humidity conditions in Southeast Asia became even worse, and even the oil can was useless. According to the reports of the front-line machine gunners, the Taisho 11 light machine gun has a relatively low failure rate only in the seasons that are neither hot nor cold, dry or wet, and under ideal conditions of careful wiping and maintenance and mild combat intensity— — Does this condition of use sound familiar? In fact, 30 years later, NASA's Hercules launch vehicle manual also suggested this.

This is not difficult to explain why this Japanese-invented weapon has such a bad reputation, so that after the squadron captured this light machine gun, they rarely kept it for themselves. Because according to the quality of the squadron at that time, there were really not many people who could use this kind of machine gun.

The poor Japanese army set up such malfunctioning machine guns on a few simple machine gun positions on the beach, ready to resist the American attack. In fact, as the commander, General Iteng never thought that the Americans would come, because a month ago, the Japanese navy lured the United States to a decisive battle nearby, and it took more than ten days to wait for the American navy to come. He has still stubbornly believed that, at least for two months, it is impossible for the U.S. Navy to appear in the waters near Midway Island.

As it turned out, his lieutenant loved punching in the face, and he hit them hard and accurately. When Iteng was self-righteous, his adjutant rushed into his command post and uttered loudly the sentence that Iteng least wanted to hear: "American planes appeared in the sky! The Americans are attacking!"

Before the adjutant brother could calm down, the stern air defense alarm began to sound, and the ground of the entire Midway Island seemed to be trembling, amidst the explosion of aerial bombs one after another, trembling violently.

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