The western route is the estuary of the Suifen River, which originates from the white body and black water all the way to the east, and turns around before entering the sea, and flows from north to south into the Amur Bay on the west side of the city of Vladivostok. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The defensive positions of the volunteers spread along the east bank of the Suifen River, the frozen Suifen River was as wide as a large road, and the remnants of snow exposed under the remnants of snow where the horses had just been trampled by the war horses.

It was already half past nine in the morning, and after the 1st Cossack Regiment broke through the line in the morning, it took the Volunteers two and a half hours to expand the line, and the east bank of the Suifen River was no longer what it was in the early morning.

Relying on a four-kilometer-wide firing position, countless barbed wire fences were built on the battlefield, and for this battle, Xiao Letian specially customized 50 tons of spiked iron wire from the Tanggu Iron Works, all of which were shipped to the Far East by ship around the city one by one.

Previously, the Volunteers were on the offensive and only a small amount of barbed wire was used, but now that the offensive and defensive posture has changed, these spare supplies can be considered to come in handy.

The thick pine wood is sharpened and smashed into the ground, and the three wooden sticks are bundled into a tripod, which is strong and stable. Twenty meters to smash one, and then tie it up one by one with spiked wire.

This kind of unskilled work can be done by everyone, and the whole battlefield is full of sappers and civilians with steamed buns in their mouths and barbed wire in their hands.

The soldiers were not idle, they rushed to the ice and began to dig the ice to bury explosives, this is a hard work, the thickness of the ice can not be directly put explosives, then the power will be much reduced, you can only chisel a groove thirty centimeters deep, bury the explosives in the groove to improve the efficiency of the explosion.

From the south to the entire defense line is more than 1,500 meters away, everyone knows that this little explosive in hand cannot completely destroy the ice surface, and there is not enough time at all, but even if it is only to delay the attack of a part of the cavalry, this is enough.

A steady stream of soldiers brought more sandbags, and the firing positions began to stretch and gradually connect until the last strong Gatling was erected on the position, which was finally exchanged for cheers from the audience.

"Holy shit! I can be regarded as sending this baby, why did you go earlier!"

The shooters who manipulated the Gatling smiled bitterly and said that you know how difficult this weapon is, a Gatling needs a squad of soldiers to serve, this is a high-tech weapon.

The Gatling of this era belongs to the most primitive version, and it is not at all as easy to operate as shown in later film and television works, and the cumbersome six-barreled Gatling heavy machine gun, just like a small field gun, must be placed on a special gun carriage for movement, and it is not shown at all by the soldier carrying it on his shoulder.

This kind of weapon is not an automatic weapon now, and it must rely on an extremely experienced shooter to shake the crank to rotate, which is a very rigorous technical work, too fast and prone to jamming and other failures, too slow The rate of fire cannot achieve the effect of suppressing the enemy, and the psychological quality of the shooter is also very strong.

If the shooter's psychological quality is not good enough, he will unconsciously speed up the speed of shaking, faster and faster and faster to know that mechanical failures such as jamming occur.

Therefore, the main and secondary shooters of the Gatling gun are selected from the oldest veterans who are accustomed to life and death.

A Gatling has two main and secondary marksmen, and the squad leader and deputy squad leader are observers and are responsible for training on weekdays, and two loaders.

These two loaders are crucial, as Gatling does not use a chain feed or a magazine feed, but a primitive platoon. A long row of fifty rounds of ammunition was manually stuffed into the inlet slot by the loader during the firing.

This is not a good job, Gatling has to pour two or three hundred rounds of ammunition per minute at one point of fire, which means that the two loaders have to reload three times per minute, a total of six reloads, and the middle must also be connected and tacitly connected, and a steady stream of end to end can ensure the effective output of firepower.

It can be seen that the loader is also a very dangerous job, cat's waist, standing upright, reloading, backwards...... A series of jobs also make it very easy for them to expose their targets and be easily strafed by the enemy.

There are two shooters, two observers, two loaders, and the remaining four are mechanics and reserves. The movement of heavy machine guns and the fixation of brackets when firing, the construction of bulletproof bunkers are all done by mechanics and reserves, and most importantly by mechanics, and some minor faults must be fixed on the spot.

They are the sappers of the heavy machine gun squad, and they are also the reserve force that can be replenished at any time. Exactly ten people formed a Gatling shooting squad, and only in this way could this primitive heavy firepower play its effective role.

Of course, the soldiers who had suffered heavy casualties in the past were going to curse the streets, and if they didn't send such a good weapon to fight the enemy, and kept the eggs? But how did they know how difficult it was to serve such a delicate weapon, and why didn't the Western Army use it in large quantities when they knew that the Americans had invented such a weapon? To put it bluntly, it was because it was too difficult to serve.

However, one of the attributes of the Chinese is patience and difficulty. Not only can they endure hardships, but they also have strong endurance, their minds are delicate, and they dare to do some small work, and they will not go crazy, and it is this excellent national attribute that they are not disgusted with Gatling's squeamish weapon at all.

There is even a saying in the machine gun class, not to mention that it is difficult to serve Uncle Jia, no matter how difficult it is, it is better to serve than the Eight Banners Uncle in Sijiu City! Anyone who has mixed with those ancestors can serve this Uncle Jia.

Just now, Uncle Jia lost his temper again, and the replacement of parts was delayed for half an hour...... But now you can rest assured! With ten units and uncles guarding the town, even if the enemy has thousands of troops and horses, he will want to rush through a star and a half!"

Just when the main observer was bragging, suddenly in the southwest of the battlefield, several war horses suddenly sprang out of the grove on the other side of the Suifen River, and the horses were full of soldiers wearing Chinese military uniforms, and the first one was actually a half-old child.

I saw that the four hooves of the war horse under the child's crotch were flying like lightning, and the child just rushed to the ice, and the child took out a phosphorus head from his arms and lit it in the wind, and the bright yellow alarm rose to the sky.

"The Rakshasa is coming! The whole forest and the post road are full of Rakshasa ghosts...... Enemy reinforcements are coming!"

The veterans who were deploying at the front were stunned when they saw it: "What kind of person is this? How can you ride such a good war horse!"

The veteran didn't rub the sand in his eyes, he pointed to the tall horses and stammered, "It's not ...... No...... Isn't that what a horse is coming from?"

"Damn, that's an Arab horse that can only be ridden at the rank of regiment commander or above! It is said that it was bought from the far away desert!"