According to relevant data, during World War II, American soldiers needed to consume 25,000 bullets to kill and wound an enemy, while in the Korean War, it needed to consume 50,000 rounds, and in the Vietnam War, it reached 200,000 rounds.

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" Guerrilla Song " lyrics are: "We are all sharpshooters, and each bullet eliminates an enemy."

In CS gunfighting games, even if the opponent jumps and jumps, he is still shot and killed by gamers:

Of course, it will never jump around like that on the real battlefield.

In the chicken-eating game, use MK14 to open an 8x mirror to kill the opponent

. In the European and American war movies, you often fuck an army by one:

You can see that the machine gun has almost no recoil in this scene. In addition, this kind of strafing fire is OK to scare people, and the hit rate must be very touching

It's a pity that whether it is sung in the song, played in the game, or displayed in the movie, it is not the reality on the battlefield.

According to relevant data, during World War II , it took 25,000 bullets for American soldiers to kill and injure an enemy in , and when Korean War , it took 50,000 rounds, and when Vietnam War , it reached 200,000 rounds.

However, it should be noted that the US military's bullet consumption includes the ones fired during training, so there are many different opinions on how many bullets a US soldier consumes when killing and wounding an enemy during the battle.

However, our army's bullet consumption on the battlefield and the consumption in training are calculated separately, which gives us the opportunity to observe how many bullets the PLA soldiers need to consume to kill and injure an enemy on average.

First look at the first set of data:

In 1979, the Chinese People's Liberation Army consumed a total of 23,800 tons of ammunition, including 1.06 million shells and 55 million bullets. During the war, the Chinese People's Liberation Army wiped out 57,152 enemies, including 2,173 prisoners".

may be different from what everyone thought. In self-defense counterattack against Vietnam in 1979, the proportion of artillery annihilation of enemies was more than the two-mountain rotation battles that began in 1984. The reason is simple. In 1979, our army attacked on a large scale. The artillery destroyed a large number of Vietnamese towns and villages, but did not fight the most cruel street battles, because all Vietnamese towns were leveled. The key is that many of Vietnam's houses were wooden structures, and after the war, they could not even find a standing pillar. The Vietnamese youth stormtroopers and civilians who were hiding in towns and hoped to fight street battles were heavy casualties.

The two-mountain rotation battles that began in 1984 were both enemies and us. The regular army has built complete fortifications in combat, and the proportion of artillery annihilation of the enemy in our army has decreased.

This township is in a pretty good condition. Finally, there are several pillars standing

Vietnam later accused United Nations . The following contents are included (published in the statistics table of the Vietnam People's Daily on May 17, 1979):

(I) Destroyed cities: Four of the total four were destroyed, accounting for one hundred percent.

(II) Destroyed township: 320 of the total three hundred and twenty were destroyed, accounting for one hundred percent.

What What does that mean? The Vietnamese side said that we captured four cities and 320 townships and destroyed these four cities and 320 townships.

So, in the 1979 self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, the proportion of artillery annihilated enemies was as high as 91%! PLA soldiers used bullets grenades to kill and injure only 9%.

Then 57125-×0.09=5141 (person).

55 million ÷5141=10698 (shots),

You are not mistaken, 1979 self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, an average of 10698 bullets could kill and injure an enemy. (And the number of grenades that killed and killed the Vietnamese army was not removed)

Let's look at another set of data:

Former Logistics Minister of the 40th Division of the 14th Army Liu Shigong disclosed in an interview in 2014 that the ammunition consumption of the 40th Division:

ammunition consumption is large. From the start of the artillery on April 2 and the end of the defense on August 5, a total of more than 1.69 million guns and shells were consumed, and 138,872 guns and shells were over 60 mm caliber (including 71,519 guns and shells of the regiment battalion and 67,353 guns and shells of the division), and 16,679 grenades, totaling more than 4,047 tons. On July 12 alone, 13,063 guns and shells of the division were consumed, 13,873 guns and shells of the regiment were consumed, more than 250,000 guns of various types, and 4,545 grenades, totaling 784 tons.Among them, 122 howitzer shells consume more than 5,300 rounds, and an average of nearly 6 tons of ammunition is consumed by one gun.

And the 40th Division of the 14th Army achieved brilliant results in annihilation of more than 7,100 enemies in the defensive battles after recovering Laoshan and later.

Since in the rotation battle between the two mountains, both sides were regular troops fighting, and they built a large number of anti-aircraft shelters such as cat ear piercing , the proportion of our army's artillery annihilation of the enemy in the Vietnamese army decreased to about 70%. According to this ratio:

7100×0.3=2130 (people)

169 million ÷2130=793 (emitted)

16679÷2130=7.83 (pieces)

1984, the 40th Division consumed an average of 793 bullets plus 7.8 grenades to kill and injure an enemy.

Considering that the number of enemies annihilated in the "7.12 Victory" accounted for nearly half of the total number of enemies annihilated by the 40th Division, and the proportion of artillery annihilated by the enemy on that day is likely to exceed 70%. If you correct it, the number of enemies annihilated in the "7.12 Victory" is conservatively set to 3,000 people. The 40th Division killed 4,100 enemies during the remaining time, and another number came out:

4100×0.3=1230 (people)

(1.69 million-250,000) ÷1230=1170 (emitted)

(16679-4545) ÷1230=7.83 (pieces)

That is, the 40th Division consumed an average of 1,170 bullets and 9.8 grenades to kill and injure an enemy.

Why did the bullets consumed by our army to kill and wound a Vietnamese army dropped sharply by more than 90% in just five years from 1979 to 1984?

Editor analyzed First, because the Chinese and Vietnamese armies on the Laoshan front line were close forces, and there were more close combat, and the bullet hit rate increased significantly, because at that time, the enemy and our front lines were intertwined, and the distance was even only a few meters or ten meters away;

Second, a large number of new recruits in the army who had just joined the army for one or two months, and even had no queuing training. Before going to the battlefield, they learned to shoot and throw grenades. The shooting level is as good as you can imagine. This phenomenon did not exist at all in 1984. All the soldiers who participated in the battle were veterans, and even veterans who came to fight had to train for 5 months before they could go to the battlefield.

Now everyone knows that if he was a soldier, he would take 300 rounds (10 full magazines) of bullets to the battlefield. As a result, he would not kill a single enemy after all the bullets were fired in one day. It is estimated that after firing thousands of bullets in three or four days, he would cover one.

Why does it seem easy to get on target during military training? For example, during military training, I went to the army for 5 rounds and 43 rounds. The first time I went to the army, I still had 5 rounds and 43 rounds. At least on average, they were above 8 rounds and above. It is impossible to off-target.

The movements are not distorted during training, and your breathing is calm and you are not panicked. But when you arrive on the battlefield, the shells are blowing, the smoke is filled with gunpowder, and the injured moans and excited shouts are interfering with you all the time. You also need to shoot while running, and you will hold the fire when you see a figure. It doesn’t matter if you hit it or not. Let’s start first - sweep it out in one stroke and talk about it!

This kind of shooting makes it all the way to hit the enemy

Of course, there are exceptions on the battlefield. For example, in 1979, our army had no snipers, but the lone hero Rock Dragon killed more than 20 Vietnamese troops:

Rock Dragon fought in the east and west, fighting for more than 3 hours, and only 25 of the 150 bullets he brought were left. How many Vietnamese troops were killed and injured? The company ordered him to figure it out one by one, which made him unable to sleep on the position for almost a night. He mumbled while fiddling with his fingers, and finally reported: 56.

like the rock dragon, hiding behind the enemy's back, is the easiest way to hit the target.

The rock dragon can achieve such a high record, largely because he hides behind the enemy's position, is in an excellent position to put the cold gun from behind, and has almost no psychological pressure to face the enemy head-on; in addition, he is an excellent shooter himself, with 9 shots and 87 rings in the assessment, and 56 and a half are also suitable for precision shooting.

Conclusion:

Whether our soldiers needed tens of thousands of bullets to kill and wound an enemy in 1979, or 1,170 bullets in 1984, it was already very good. In fact, on the battlefield, the US, Russian and Ukrainian troops consume more bullets. Relatively speaking, the PLA consumes the least bullets to kill and injure an enemy.