On the morning of September 2, greeted by the salute soldiers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the 20 strategic transport aircraft were transported, and the remains of the eighth batch of 109 Chinese Volunteer Army soldiers in South Korea returned to the embrace of the motherland!
When I watched the live broadcast, I was also in tears, and when I was a child, I learned the text of "Who is the Most Lovely Person", and the heroic deeds of the volunteer army had long been engraved in my mind, and after watching the live broadcast, I found out the relevant books on the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea to relive that period of history.
At that time, the British "Buren" MK1 light machine gun used by the volunteer army, it was the "cousin" of the famous Czech ZB-26 light machine gun, in 1933 the British tendered for light machine guns, the ZB-26 also participated in the selection, due to the excellent performance was selected by the British, after making appropriate improvements in 1935 it was in service in the British Army, the British Enfield Arsenal purchased a ZB-26 patent from the Czech Republic in 1938 began full production, but the caliber of the British 7.7 mm, firing 7.7 * 56 bullets, Squad platoons used 25-round trapezoidal magazines and 30-round curved magazines for field battles, which can also be used with ZB-26 magazines.
When I once again learned about the weapons and equipment of the volunteer army in these historical materials, I found that when I first entered the DPRK, the volunteer army did not say artillery, tanks, aircraft... Heavy weapons cannot be compared with the United States and South Korea and their minions, and even battalion weapons such as light and heavy machine guns are varied, and different calibers have not formed a unified system, and the number is very small... And it was with this equipment that we used infantry tactics to the extreme, driving the US and ROK troops and their servants to the south of the "38th Line."
30 rounds of curved magazine, Buren MKI machine gun is in 1941 after entering our country, integrity in the stage of resistance, the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and other countries began to provide assistance to China's anti-Japanese materials, the first entry is 7.7 * 56 type, that is, the British version, but with the Chinese anti-Japanese military and civilians used at that time 7.92 * 57 bullets are not common, the British in the Canadian arsenal immediately changed to 7.92 mm caliber, the caliber of the Buren MKI in Our country called "seven nine Boran", the caliber of the machine gun assistance has more than 100,000 pieces, Fought together with the ZB-26 against the Japanese.
The "Seven Nines" used by the Volunteer Army came from the liberation war, but in the early days of the Volunteer Army's entry into the Korean War, there were very few "Taisho Eleven-year light machine guns", which is commonly known as the "crooked handle machine gun", which was accurate enough at 400 meters, but the failure rate was too high, and it was also the consensus of the enemy and us during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, so it almost did not participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
Our army captured a lot of US-made light and heavy machine guns in the Liberation War, M1919A4 also has a lot, this type of general-purpose machine gun is the main fire support weapon of the US military camp company detachment during World War II, firing 7.62 * 63 bullets, and M1 "Garand" semi-automatic rifle bullets are common to use 100, 200 rounds of ammunition chain feeding method, fire support is higher than "seven nine Buran", but the gun weight is large, under normal circumstances, two people need to cooperate to use mobility is worse.
Our army also captured a relatively large number of M1918A2 automatic rifles in the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, that is, BAR, which is the main automatic weapon of the squad squad before the US military M1919A4 did not have a large number of equipment companies, each squad is equipped with 2 light machine guns, this type uses 20-round magazines to supply ammunition, also uses 7.62 * 63 bullets, M1918A2 automatic rifle is characterized by the long barrel, the theoretical rate of fire is as high as 650 rounds / min, the muzzle initial speed is 805 meters / second, and the shooting accuracy is relatively high. When necessary, the installation of bipods and optical scopes can be used as sniper rifles, and our sniper hero Zhang Taofang has competed with the US snipers who use the gun, and finally Zhang Taofang's old hero has a high skill to kill the US snipers.
In the early days of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the number of heavy machine guns of our army was not much, and a division under the ace brigade like the 39th Army was only about 50, and most of them were captured in the Liberation War "Min twenty-four" (imitating the German MG08 Maqin, Jinling Factory) or "Thirty Festival" (imitating browning M1917 water-cooled machine gun, Hanyang Factory), firing 7.92 * 57 bullets, these two types of guns because of the water-cooled barrel, the firepower is very high, the mechanical action is also very reliable, but because of the water-cooled sleeve is also very bulky, The gun body is not loaded with water, there are more than 40 pounds, carrying a full set of equipment on foot and marching with abnormal fatigue.
M2HB 12.7 mm heavy machine guns, most of which were also captured by our army in the Liberation War, but the total number is very small, because our army did not have air force cover in the early days of entering the DPRK, and there were almost no anti-aircraft guns, so the M2HB heavy machine guns were basically used for air defense, used as anti-aircraft machine guns, and rarely covered infantry operations.
Due to the non-uniformity of the infantry weapon system in the early days of our army's entry into the DPRK, coupled with the fact that the war was too fierce and the amount of bullets consumed was huge, in order to improve the equipment after the "four battles," China signed an agreement with the Soviet Union to purchase dozens of divisions of equipment to improve the quality of the weapons of the volunteer army, and the light and heavy machine guns were also largely re-equipped.
The Teggarev DP-27 light machine gun, also known as the "large plate gun", usually supplied with 47 rounds/60 rounds of single-layer magazines, firing 7.62 * 54R bullets, the firing distance is slightly higher than the "Seven Nine Buran", and the ammunition supply is relatively sufficient, and the late and late periods of the war gradually became the main fire support weapon of the volunteer squad platoon.
Guolyunov SG43 heavy machine gun, the main fire support weapon of our military battalion company detachment, with a frame and shield is its main feature, the gun also fired 7.62 * 54R bullets, the theoretical rate of fire of 650 rounds, muzzle initial speed of up to 850 m / s, within 1000 meters with the US military M1919A4 machine gun against the reason, due to the faster rate of fire and shield protection reasons are still slightly superior, after the end of the war the gun was imitated by China named the 53 type heavy machine gun.
The Dshk46 type heavy machine gun developed by Teggarev-Spakin is a heavy machine gun with a base improvement of the type 38, with a caliber of 12.7 mm, the purpose of its development is to suppress a variety of 7.62, 7.7, 7.92 caliber Makqin heavy machine guns of European countries by virtue of its large caliber and long range, our army is usually used in air defense operations after it is equipped, the gun is also imitated and named by our country: 54/54-1 heavy machine gun, due to the long range, reliable mechanical action, bullet power ... Our army still uses it today.
Generally speaking, the performance of light and heavy machine guns during our army's entry into the war in Korea was no different from that of the United States and South Korea and their minions, but the number was too small, and there were more than 300 light machine guns and more than 50 heavy machine guns in one division, which seemed to be equipped with squads and platoons and even battalions, but the serious shortage of heavy weapons in our army also led to the fact that light and heavy machine guns had to undertake more tasks, so machine guns were not enough.
However, under the condition that its weapons were completely inferior, our army still exerted the world's strongest light infantry tactics and defeated the enemy with great fearless heroism and modern equipment.
Seventy-one years later, the heroes and martyrs have returned home, and the merits they have created for the tranquility of the republic and the happiness of the people will forever be recorded in the annals of the history of the Chinese nation.