Chapter 42: Like a Divine Help (Second Update, Ask for Recommendation, Ask for Collection)
They're coming!
Seeing that those Qing cavalry had obviously increased their speed, Zhu Guoqiang swallowed his saliva, and his gaze fell on the front - at a distance of 100 meters in front, there were several barbed wires - several snake-bellied barbed wire.
Although Zhu Guoqiang is a layman in military training, he can be regarded as a half-tone military fan. But I also know terms like barbed wire and trench warfare.
Going out of the city is definitely not an impulsive move, even if it is impulsive, but the reason is still there, and the few barbed wire fences in front of everyone are the last barriers, these barbed wire fences may seem inconspicuous, but in terms of the experience of another world, it is definitely an insurmountable obstacle for cavalry.
After a volley, the soldiers of the Guards all pulled the bolt to load, rotated the bolt upward, pulled back, and pushed forward. It takes a few seconds to complete a reload maneuver, and the distance in the rangefinder is still changing as they load.
In fact, even Zhu Guoqiang himself didn't know that his kind of "spanning shooting" was called projectile or straddle shooting in military terms, and it was a British rifleman's specialty in the Boer War and even World War I, and there was even a special ruler - salvo sights.
The rangefinder uses an optical instrument to measure the distant target, tells the direction and distance to the shooter, and after the shooter sets the ruler, he uses the illumination of the salvo sight to aim at the crosshair of the salvo sight and shoot in the direction of the target. In fact, in this process, the shooter basically cannot see the target, so naturally there is no need to aim visually, and the bullet does not basically fly straight to the target as when aiming directly, but falls towards the target in a long arc in the air, just like the trajectory of a cannonball.
Because this method of shooting is very accurate, it is necessary to shoot many guns at the same time, so that many projectiles are ejected and fall, so as to achieve the purpose of approximate killing.
For the poorly trained guards, all they need is to aim their rulers in the direction of the target from a distance, and then leave it to God. That is, luck, maybe for a single target, it takes shit luck to hit the target, but for the Qing army that charges in the group, there will always be some people who have bad luck and crash head-on with bullets.
In fact, Zhu Guoqiang didn't care how many bullets hit the Qing army, after all, he didn't really rely on these riflemen.
While the riflemen fired a fourth salvo, staring at the distance change in the rangefinder, Zhu Guoqiang shouted.
"Machine gun ready!"
Li Guodong, who is located on the right wing, he is an honor soldier in the palace, and he has been following the prince when he left the city last time, and when he heard the order, he immediately looked nervously in the direction where the voice came from, and then reacted.
Machine gun!
Two Maxim M1910/30 water-cooled machine guns!
This is the most important weapon that Zhu Guoqiang brought back from his last trip to Russia, and even these two heavy machine guns are the reason why he dares to swagger out of the city.
Perhaps, these two machine guns produced during World War II are a little old, but they are certainly no problem for fighting cavalry.
It is precisely because the heavy machine gun is very important that he will personally command the machine gun, in order to facilitate maneuvering, and even learn from the experience of Soviet Russia in another time and space, the two machine guns were put on the carriage and became a "gun card", but these two "gun cards" will not pursue.
"Fire ......"
When the order came, the machine gunner, who was already nervous and sweating in his palms, was stunned and had not yet reacted.
"Shoot!"
Seeing that the heavy machine gunner was a little stunned, Zhu Guoqiang said strongly.
Although it was only a matter of seconds, Li Guodong saw that the machine gunner did not move, so he immediately scolded, and then pushed the machine gunner away, operated it himself, and aimed at the front through the gap between the shields while pressing the firing plate.
"Dash...... Da ......"
In an instant, the machine gun went off!
The Maxim heavy machine gun on the carriage rang out!
With the rapid gun, the riflemen who had just fired two platoons of guns were stunned by the scene in front of them.
Not only them, everyone was stunned.
For the people of Chongzhen's twelve years, perhaps the rifle shooting in front of them had already stunned them for a while. But when the heavy machine guns rang out, they were all attracted by the bursting firecracker-like gunfire, and they even stood on tiptoe to see what was happening in front of them.
Even if many of them did not see the muzzle flame spewed from the muzzle of the heavy machine gun, the continuous sound of gunfire not only shocked and shocked their psyche, but also encouraged their morale.
But the really shocking thing is probably the scene a mile away - at the moment when the heavy machine gun fired, the Qing cavalry rushing to the front was like stumbling on a horse rope, and the front hooves of the fast horse that were originally galloping suddenly fell down, and the people and horses fell to the ground together.
Although there were only two Maxim heavy machine guns, with the slight persuasion of the machine gunner from side to side, the long muzzle flame in front of the muzzle of the gun arced. And the Qing army at the point of the arc is even more upside down. The clatter of the machine guns was like the scythe of death, forming a barrier of death at the front of the team.
Even the Heavy doesn't need to adjust the gauge at all - the gauge is always fixed at the 500 position, and at the ballistic height of the 7.62×54mmR rifle bullet, it makes little difference whether the fixed 500-meter gauge hits a 200-meter or an 800-meter target. So, like a rifle, the machine gun has a fixed ruler, a fixed angle of fire, and all the heavy needs is to swing the machine gun from side to side, press the firing plate, and all this is just to deal with the lack of training. In fact, with the right adjustments, these epoch-making weapons can exert effects beyond people's imagination even if they are used in the most clumsy way.
Although Zhu Guoqiang, as the initiator of all this, was already mentally prepared, when he witnessed this one-sided "massacre", he was still stunned and looked at everything in front of him, and he couldn't even believe that just two heavy machine guns could bring such an effect.
The seemingly unstoppable flood was stopped at this moment.
If the shot of eighty rifles is like a pebble thrown onto a wave, then the bullets of a heavy machine gun are like a breakwater, a rainstorm of bullets that turns into an impassable death zone on the battlefield.
Dense bullets rained down on the charging cavalry, and on the snowy field without a trace of cover, the thousands of Qing cavalry who were in a dense formation could only let the bullets seem to fall on their bodies like raindrops.
When the Qing army that rushed to the front was hit by a bullet and fell from their horses, the Qing troops who followed closely behind even came to avoid the horses and people who fell to the ground, and they also tripped and fell to the ground.
Until this time, Nasuha didn't even know what was going on. Despite his experience, he was still stunned.
What's going on?
What was happening in front of him was completely beyond his imagination and beyond his comprehension.
No one could tell him the answer, and a mile and a half away, it was as if a god was using his divine power, constantly taking the lives of him and the Eight Banners warriors around him, and even the most tenacious Baturu screamed inexplicably, and then fell off his horse.
Is there really a fairy......
When Na Suha thought of the so-called "rumor" of "the god of fire descending to earth", an inexplicable fear permeated his heart, and when he looked up and looked forward again, he vaguely saw a few flames swept out of the Ming army's array, and that fear made him fear for the first time.
This, this must be a demon law!
It must be a demon law......
In the face of a machine gun that is constantly strafing, courage will only turn into death, and in the face of death, even the bravest will become a coward.
Especially when those unexplained things are associated with the power of ghosts and gods, for these Mongols and Jurchens who believe in primitive shamanic religion, that fear replaces all reason almost instantly, "Jizhigrad ......"
When the tearing of the war horse came from the side, he saw that the heavenly spirit cover of Jizhigrad's mount was lifted, and his brain was flying at the same time, the moment Jizhigrad was thrown off the horse, boundless fear made Batel look at the Ming army in front of him, at this time, in his opinion, the Ming army with its back to the city wall was no longer Nikan who was killed by others, but a god who attracted the power of ghosts and gods.
At this time, on the other side, those Ming soldiers who were still panicked shouted excitedly while being stunned by the scene in front of them.
"The god of fire descends to earth and is invincible!"
"The god of fire descends to earth and is invincible!"
……
Under the city wall, on the city wall, almost everyone shouted there with the biggest voice in their lives, these eight words are no longer their imagination, and now, this scene in front of them seems to prove that the prince is the god of fire, as long as he waves his arms, even if it is a brutal and invincible Donglu, it is also vulnerable.
It's almost in "The god of fire descends to earth, invincible!" At the same time, the Qing cavalry who were charging were on their backs. Dense, but like raindrops, it continued to fall on them, setting off a bloody storm in the middle of the cavalry, and the steel core bullets easily penetrated them, and the seemingly solid iron armor easily took their lives.
Like a shaman's curse, an invisible wall of death stood in front of them in their attempts to advance.
Whoosh - poof!
When the warriors around him screamed and fell off their horses. Nasuha, who had been frightened, still managed so much there, and when he turned his horse to flee to the left, he didn't even know what he was turning his horse, and now for him, there was only one thought left in his mind, run, run away......