Chapter 226: Makqin's First Murder
Peng Yulin made a desperate bet and rushed up with the command ship. It's not that he has the consciousness of leading by example and putting others before himself, but he has to do it.
Because his last magic weapon is not on another ship, but on his ship! Due to limited resources, only his ship can obtain such a treasure.
At the same time, according to the original idea, this magic weapon was only used to defend oneself when attacked, or to block the pursuing enemy when fleeing. As a result, neither of these situations have arisen now, but it is necessary to break through the enemy's blockade and escape from the encirclement, so that as a last resort, you will have to charge into battle yourself!
As the saying goes, people are not as good as heaven!
Meng Zhong and Meng Jie, who were guarding the fortress, saw that the enemy's command ship was in the lead, rushed over with full horsepower, and immediately ordered all of them to meet the enemy's final madness. The people in the back row are also playing long guys, preparing to beat and catch people when the enemy ship approaches!
At this time, all the rolling logs and stones have been exhausted, and the weapons of long-range attacks such as muskets, artillery, and bows and arrows have basically been used up, and they cannot be used as the main weapons.
When the enemy ship reached thirty meters, everyone raised their attention to the apex, waiting for the contact battle to come.
Suddenly, the bow of the enemy's ship showed three never-before-seen creatures, which seemed to resemble a two-wheeled cart with a cylinder sticking out of it. The three guys were originally covered with canvas, and now they don't know what the purpose is.
Before the people guarding the fortress could figure out what was going on, the three odd guys, "Da ......", "Da ......", "Da ......" each spewed out a tongue of fire from the front of the cylinder.
The middle one goes straight to the barrage. The left and right sides swept directly towards the crowd on the left and right banks.
These people are still there to watch the excitement, saying that this fireworks is still more interesting, and I don't know what they mean by playing fireworks in broad daylight.
Although these people have also seen guns and cannons, they are all single-shot, and there are no traces of ballistics at all, so they don't know anything about this guy who has never seen it today, and they are still there to point out and laugh.
In an instant, their laughter was replaced by screams of terror and shouts of panic. These tongues of fire swept into these standing crowds, like a strong wind urging tender grass, sweeping down a large area at once!
If you look closely, the fallen people are already miserable. It's not just injuries and bleeding. And it's broken! Some even cut off their waists!
The tongue of fire continued to sweep, and after a while, there was no one standing on the ground, and it was the same on both sides.
The iron rope in the middle was also before the end of that tongue of fire. Cut off by the waist. Falling softly into the river.
This effect stunned everyone on both sides! No one could have imagined the power of this unassuming thing. There is such a lethality against the sky!
When Peng Yulin got this big killing weapon, he was still skeptical of Zeng Guofan's words, what kind of blocking the waist to cut off the tree, killing people like cutting leeks is only an adjective.
But Zeng Guofan's warning. But he did so to the letter, not only installing all three on his command ship, but also defending it so well that the news did not leak out at all.
For the defenders of the fortress, this sudden man-devouring monster was simply a disaster! There were seven or eight hundred people on each side of the strait, all of whom were knocked to the ground, either dead or wounded, and most of them died.
This kind of Cheng dù casualties were not only experienced by the fortress, but also did not include such heavy losses even if the previous boat gang and all the current heavenly armies were not so bad.
At this time, it was too late to make other adjustments, so I had to watch the remnants of the enemy ships swagger through the Black Dragon Pond section under the escort of the enemy's command ship, and sail away over the fortress.
This command ship carried the residual power of the three murderous weapons, and used its huge mouth that had just spewed tongues of fire to point at the positions on both sides of the strait where the troops on both sides of the strait were standing and were now strewn with corpses, and carried out deterrence, so that Meng Zhong, Meng Jie, and others, who were still still fighting power, did not dare to make any moves, lest they would attract a new round of tongues of fire to devour.
What caused this kind of killing, this kind of deterrence, was the Maxim heavy machine gun that had just come out!
In fact, this is also the weakness of the early Makqin heavy machines that Meng Zhong and the others don't know, after they fire a shuttle of bullets, they must be cooled down for a period of time before they can continue to be used effectively. Later, this shortcoming was gradually solved by water cooling and air cooling, and there was no longer such a defect.
At the same time, this machine gun did not have much ammunition reserves, only three units, including the one that was installed inside the machine gun.
The problem is that this shortcoming has only been discovered and overcome at the cost of countless human lives and blood, and it is impossible for those who make and use guns to publicize themselves.
Moreover, not to mention three bullets, even one, and no one could stop them - that's a whole six hundred bullets!
Due to ignorance, today the garrison made a foolish mistake - to meet the enemy in a dense formation. With a rate of fire of 10 rounds per second and 600 rounds per minute, these people were swept to the ground without even having a chance to lie down!
600 rounds per minute! Even in modern warfare, it is an unbearable blow!
Therefore, Makqin was born as such a murderer, not only helping Li Hongzhang and Peng Yulin, two important auxiliary ministers of Zeng Guofan, to escape, but also announcing to the world the important role it played in the war.
Due to the crossing of Mai Ke, the emergence of Makqin, its official use in the war, the two warring parties, and the place of the war all underwent fundamental changes, which had a heavy influence on the anti-Qing founding of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the future.
It didn't take long for Mai Ke to rush over. He didn't expect such a big change here. Not only did the boiled duck fly, but it also pecked the person who cooked the duck hard.
As soon as he saw the warhead he found, he knew that it was the sin that was created by Makqin. For this historical god of killing, Mai Ke, who is a special soldier, is of course familiar with it. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it changed war and is the hallmark of modern warfare.
But it's more of Mai Ke's own remorse. Only then did he remember that earlier, probably after the end of his trip to Gwangju, he had received information from Wu Renxiao and mentioned this matter. It's just that the situation at that time was not very specific, and I didn't make special efforts to follow up in the future, so that such a thing happened today, and I was at a loss in advance.
As a traverser, I was preempted by the ancients, shame!
If you are not careful, you will be bleeding like a river, and you will be a lesson in strict zhòng!
At this time, Mai Ke had already packed up his mood, and immediately turned on the spirit rhino movement with all his strength, and the search, diagnosis, and treatment functions were launched at the same time, so as to find all the soldiers who had not completely died, and carry out medical treatment according to the severity of the injury.
At the same time, call Wu Renxiao and let him see what the consequences will be if he doesn't do his job! (To be continued......)
PS: Thank you friends, continue to sincerely ask for subscriptions and all kinds of support! http://read.biquge.info/BookReader/3032268.aspx
http://read.biquge.info/BookReader/3032268.aspx