Double-Cut During the War of Resistance: My Wife Came from 1937

"You...you said you killed the enemy at a distance of 3540 meters?"

At that moment, Chief of Staff Ni's eyes revealed an expression of disbelief.

Because 3540 meters is more than seven li (approximately 3.5 kilometers).

That's a firearm!

Not cannons!

In their time, even machine guns could only fire a little over a kilometer.

The Japanese Type 92 70mm infantry gun had a maximum range of less than 3000 meters.

Other 75mm caliber mountain guns and field guns can fire that far, but those are only available to regiments.

In Chief of Staff Ni's mind, the Barrett rifle, capable of killing enemies from 5 miles away, was already impressive enough.

I never expected there to be such a huge gap between him and this McMillan guy.

"Yes!"

Ma Hongwei nodded and said, "It's that far!"

He paused for a moment, then explained, "However, it wasn't a single shot that hit; it was three shots fired in total."

"The first two bullets missed, and one only grazed the backpack. It wasn't until the third bullet that the enemy was killed. The bullet itself traveled through the air for 10 seconds!"

"In this process, the influence of wind needs to be taken into account, so very good air conditions are required."

"Therefore, if the leaders intend to use Barrett or McMillan rifles to carry out decapitation strikes against the leaders of the Japanese and puppet troops, they must form two- or three-person teams and have them fire together, so that the hit rate will be higher."

"Even if it wasn't a direct hit, it's still remarkable!"

Chief of Staff Ni nodded, not underestimating the situation because of this.

It should be noted that even veteran Japanese soldiers could not hit their targets with every shot.

At a distance of over 400 meters, you might not hit a single target even with five shots.

At 600 meters, only a very few sharpshooters can occasionally hit the enemy.

Then, Chief of Staff Ni inquired, "Comrade Hongwei, how many Barrett and McMillan rifles did you bring back?"

Ma Hongwei replied, "There are 12 Barrett M107s, while the McMillan TAC-50 only has 9!"

"There are only 21 in total!"

Upon hearing this, Chief of Staff Ni couldn't help but ask with some disappointment, "Could we buy more?"

"Sir, it's not that I'm unwilling to buy more, it's just that these two types of guns are too expensive!"

Ma Hongwei shook his head and sighed, "A Barrett M107 costs 94000 yuan, which is more expensive than a 120mm heavy mortar. The price of 12 Barretts is equivalent to about 17 rounds of 6.5mm bullets."

"The McMillan TAC-50 is even more expensive, selling for 134000 yuan per unit, which is more expensive than two 120mm heavy mortars. Nine of these are more expensive than twelve Barrett mortars!"

"hiss!"

Chief of Staff Ni was shocked.

Although he knew those two guns were good, he didn't expect them to be so expensive.

The value of these 21 guns alone is equivalent to more than 30 120mm heavy mortars, or 340,000 rounds of ammunition.

Chief of Staff Ni finally shook his head and sighed, "In that case, let's buy more cheap guns!"

He remembered that a rifle only cost around 700 yuan, right?

One Barrett M107 is enough to buy 134 ordinary rifles.

Ma Hongwei said, "I just thought that this could kill some high-ranking Japanese generals, so I bought some."

Because of the protection of their American "father," the Japanese war criminals in later generations were not purged, and their families still wielded considerable influence in Japan.

There's also the Yasukuni Shrine... no, it's now the war criminal shrine, where a group of murderers are still enshrined.

This timeline has its own advantages; we must kill more of these war criminals and the people in the toilet.

Ideally, we should also kill the Japanese emperor... I mean, the Japanese king.

What kind of worthless piece of trash dares to call himself Emperor?

During the Eastern Han and Northern and Southern Dynasties, the title conferred was that of the King of Wa, not the Emperor.

Even during the Ming Dynasty, the title bestowed upon Japan was "King," not "Emperor."

Ma Hongwei paused, then continued, "Sir, although I didn't buy many anti-materiel sniper rifles, I did buy 100 SVD Dragunov sniper rifles!"

"This SVD sniper rifle uses the same 7.62x54R full-power round as the Mosin-Nagant, and it uses a 4x scope."

"Generally speaking, the optimal engagement distance is between 400 and 600 meters, with an effective range of 800 meters. However, it is affected by wind, making it difficult to guarantee a hit with every shot."

Chief of Staff Ni said, "That's still better than the Japanese Type 97 sniper rifle. The 2.5x scope that's mounted on it only has a reliable engagement range of 300-400 meters."

"If there are 100 rifles, each division can get about 30, and there are also 12 Barrett rifles, so each division can get four. McMillan will get three per division!"

"So many sniper rifles were issued to the sharpshooters in the army, specifically to kill the Japanese officers and machine gunners!"

"Sir, you should discuss this issue yourselves!"

Ma Hongwei then said, "Now let me report to you what guns we bought this time!"

As he spoke, Ma Hongwei began to recite the menu like a menu: "This time I brought 20000 Type 53 rifles. The Type 53 rifle is a copy of the Mosin-Nagant rifle."

"10000 Type 56 semi-automatic rifles, 80 PKM general-purpose machine guns, and 150 RPK light machine guns."

"And another thing!"

Upon hearing this, Chief of Staff Ni couldn't help but exclaim in amazement, "Twenty thousand Type 53 rifles, plus ten thousand Type 56 semi-automatic rifles, that's thirty thousand rifles!"

"You should know that when our 129th Division was first established, the whole division had more than 13000 people, but only 7400 rifles."

"Old He's 120th Division had more than 1000 fewer men than us, but they had more than 400 fewer rifles."

"Old Lin's 115th Division had more than 1000 men than us, but less than 800 more rifles."

"These 30,000 rifles are enough to form four more main divisions!"

At this point, Chief of Staff Ni couldn't help but smile broadly as he said, "Most importantly, we're not using standard-issue rifles, but rather a hodgepodge of rifles from all over the world—old-fashioned rifles, Hanyang rifles, Chiang Kai-shek rifles, and all sorts of other types."

"After fighting for so many years, we're finally wealthy. Thank you so much!"

"You're too kind, sir. This is what we should do."

Ma Hongwei said with a smile, "I haven't finished reporting on this equipment yet, let's continue!"