During the Red Army period, not to mention guns, even guns were not available to each person. After Jinggangshan joined forces, the Red Army was reorganized. The Red 12th Division of the Fourth Army, the main force of the Red Army, was led by Chen Yi. At that time, there were more than 1 guns in the division of more than 5, people, with an average of one gun for every 5 people. Those who didn't have guns used darts, so this division was called a darter division. When Huang Yangjie defended the war in 1928, the Red Army arranged five lines of defense. The first line was the bamboo nail array. The second is the bamboo fence obstacle; The third way is to roll the wooden thunder stone; The fourth way is the trench, and the fifth line of defense. The Red Army only arranges firearms, but each soldier only has 3 to 5 rounds of ammunition, which is seriously insufficient in firepower.
At that time, the Red Army was unable to make guns by itself, and there were only two ways to acquire equipment. First, there were two difficulties in this way. First, guns were too expensive, and the Red Army was too poor. Secondly, there were too few people selling guns to acquire them in large quantities. Second, looting, which the Red Army is best at, captured more than 2, guns in the second anti-encirclement campaign in the Central Soviet Area and more than 15, guns in the third anti-encirclement campaign. For a long time, Chiang Kai-shek was the Red Army's transport battalion chief. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, the transport battalion chief became Japanese, and during the Korean War, the United Nations Army (especially Koreans) played some similar roles.
Of course, self-reliance is the fundamental way to solve the problem, but for a long time, due to China's poor industrial base and poor manufacturing equipment, although large and small arsenals have been established, only a small number of bullets, rifles, grenades, mines and other light weapons can be made, let alone machine guns, and the quality of these light weapons is poor. Take the soldiers' favorite grenades as an example, even in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period. Some grenades made in my border area don't explode at all, while others explode in two. Even if they explode, they don't exist in the movies. When the enemy dies, a large number of them. In most cases, the Japanese devils stand intact, a little confused, and their bodies are covered with a lot of black powder, which looks like the old demon of Montenegro from a distance. This problem didn't get better until the middle of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.
in 1949, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, our army's weapons were mainly stolen, which were made in Hanyang (rarely) and officially owned in China. There were many covers on March 8th (the Northeast Field Army was equipped with two armies), many carbines (mainly equipped with the East China Field Army) and Soviet rifles (left behind when the Soviet Union withdrew from the Northeast, mainly equipped with the Northeast Field Army).
It's terrible that our country couldn't even make artillery shells for a long time, let alone tank shells. In War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's time, artillery shells had to be fired with the consent of the brigade commander, and in the War of Liberation, artillery shells had to be fired with the consent of the teachers, which was even worse than the cannon fodder regiment of the Kuomintang (in the movie "My Colonel, My Regiment",
insufficient firepower is a long-standing problem in our army, but the phobia of insufficient firepower appeared on the battlefield in North China. Compared with the fear of night fighting in the United States, it is not the soldiers in South who suffer from this disease, but the generals in China.
Faced with the enemy's firepower advantage, our soldiers seem to be used to it. They braved the enemy's bullets, rushed to the front, fought tenaciously, bombed bunkers and tanks, and fought without stopping, winning one victory after another. Have they ever been afraid?
In a bloody battle in Changjin Lake, our volunteer soldiers launched a fierce attack on the besieged 1st Division of the US Marine Corps. One squad fell and rushed to a platoon, while another platoon fell and rushed to a company. Even an entire battalion fell on the road of charging in less than ten minutes. My fallen soldiers still maintained the posture of charging. From a distance, they seemed to be still charging. After the end of the Korean War, Song Shilun, commander of the 9th Corps, stood silently on the bank of Changjin Lake, unwilling to leave for a long time. I don't know what he was thinking at that time, but he vowed to improve the firepower of our army.
Tieyuan blocked the war. Fu Chongbi, the 63rd Army, asked General Peng for troops after he woke up. Under the powerful firepower advantage of the joint army, there were only less than 1, troops left in the 63rd Army. During the Battle of Shangganling, all the commanders of our army who came down alive from the battlefield were in tears. When they went up, they were full of staff, and when they came back, few of them could bear it, and they almost collapsed. General Qin Jiwei, the commander of the 15th Army, did not dare to go home after the war. Why? Few of the soldiers he brought out from his hometown came back alive, and he could not face his father and fellow villagers in his hometown.
after the end of the Korean war, our army began to do everything possible to improve its firepower, from bullets to shells, from rifles to machine guns, from mortars to rocket launchers, from howitzers to rockets, from warships to airplanes. Initial results were achieved in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. At that time, our army prepared more than 8 tanks and self-propelled artillery, more than 9, guns and more than 3, vehicles, which has far exceeded the scale during the Korean War. In the counterattack against Vietnam, 48 artillery regiments were used and more than 88, shells were fired. 9% of the casualties of the Vietnamese army were caused by our artillery. The Vietnamese's words of asking for help from their superiors were highly consistent: "The artillery fire in China is too fierce, we can't hold it!"
At present, our army's rocket launchers are leading the world, and the missile army has threatened the security of the United States. The destroyer 55 is even the envy of Americans, and the fighter J-2 can be compared with the F-22. Although compared with the US military, our firepower is still insufficient in some aspects, but the overall difference is not big. Our army's firepower shortage is entering history. As for whether there is a phobia of firepower shortage, I don't know.
In the Korean War, China, who was defeated, suffered from the fear of insufficient firepower. In fact, the United States, which was defeated, also suffered from the fear of night fighting. Unlike China, it was mainly American soldiers who suffered from the fear of night fighting.
In the Korean battlefield, in order to avoid the casualties caused by the powerful firepower of the United Nations (mainly airplanes), the volunteers used a large number of close combat and night fighting to attack the enemy (because our army has been short of firepower for a long time, they have developed superb close combat and night fighting skills). After several encounters, the United Nations soldiers began to feel afraid of the night. At night, they dared not sleep, stared and cocked their ears to guard against the night attack of our army.
The United Nations Army adopted a simple and effective method to combat our army at night. At night, the United Nations troops in the wild put tanks, armored troops, etc. outside in a circle, forming an annular fortification, while the soldiers concentrated in the fortifications to camp and rest (this method was also adopted when the United Nations troops in the wild were hit by our army). These annular fortifications were actually an ideal target for artillery attack. Unfortunately, at that time, our volunteers either had no guns or had no guns, so they could only watch, but there was nothing they could do (at the beginning, our army,
Our army's ability to fight at night is very strong. On the night of November 27th, 195, our volunteers decided to send two platoons to take the 171 highland. When they attacked the third highland, there were only seven soldiers left. These seven soldiers fought fiercely for six hours relying on the fortifications of the American army and a heavy machine gun they captured, and repelled the American army for six times until dawn. On the night of November 16th, 1951, under the leadership of Gu Wenyi, the deputy company commander, the 7th Company, 3rd Class, 423rd Regiment, 141st Division, 47th Army of our Volunteers was ordered to capture the highlands on the east side of Fengshudong, the highlands on the southeast side of Songxian and the highlands on the northeast side of Neifeng Village. After a night of fighting, 37 enemies were killed, 1 enemy was captured, and 2 soldiers were killed and 2 wounded, respectively, and three highlands were successfully captured.
During the Battle of Shangganling, from 21st to 29th, our troops stationed in tunnels took the initiative to attack for 158 times at night, and all of them were successful except for 9 defeats, and more than 2, people were wiped out. At that time, the United Nations army had occupied the surface position, and our volunteer soldiers were forced to retreat to the tunnel. The situation was extremely critical. Even in this case, the success rate of our army's night fighting was over 94%, which shows how strong our army's night fighting ability is. Li Qiwei, the four-star general of the United States, succeeded MacArthur as the second commander of the United Nations Army. He once described Chinese people's Volunteer Army as follows: "China people are strong and fierce fighters. They often March at night and are more familiar with the terrain than we are. They are used to the climatic conditions and austere life in North China.'s army's attack at night is particularly mysterious and incredible. China soldiers are warriors, and they often attack regardless of casualties. South Korean troops often have a great fear of China's army, and almost regard China soldiers as heavenly generals. If China soldiers with rubber shoes suddenly appear in the positions of South Korean troops, they always frighten many South Korean soldiers to flee for their lives without looking back. They only have one thought: the fleeing China army.
after the end of the Korean war, the U.S. military began to invest heavily in the development of night vision equipment, and now it has developed to the fifth generation of full-color night vision equipment. In terms of the number of night vision devices, the US military has spared no effort. In a light infantry company with 14 people, there are 4 monocular low-light-level night vision devices, 22 binocular low-light-level night vision devices, 69 individual enhanced thermal imagers, 61 team thermal imagers and 2 large vehicle-mounted thermal imagers, with a total of 192, with an average of 1.3.
With the help of night vision equipment, the US military has won more than 3 battles, and the night is no longer exclusive to its opponents, from Iraq to Kosovo, from Saddam to bin Laden. The confidence and confidence of the U.S. military in fighting the midnight oil are increasing. Now, if our army fights the midnight oil with the U.S. military again, no one can guarantee whether it can take advantage.