Taking advantage of the deterrence of the spinach bullets and the suspicious formation of shouting various tactical slogans in different tones, Weiss and two Union soldiers successfully held the entrance and exit of the fortress for nearly ten minutes. Don't underestimate these ten minutes, you must know that on the battlefield, hundreds or even thousands of lives may fall in one minute, and one minute can determine the outcome of a battle, and even dominate the victory or defeat of a battle.

Finally, there was a rush of footsteps in the hallway behind him. Weiss looked back, and in his special vision he saw a green virtual frame that made him very happy. In order to avoid a mistaken attack in this poorly lit passage, Weiss returned to the first bend to greet his new companion.

There were 8 Union soldiers running along the passage, and the leader, who had apparently heard about Weiss's identity from his companions who had remained in the fighting room, panted and saluted the man in the Norman army uniform: "Sir, 47th Combat Division, 189th Infantry Regiment, Sergeant Morendall, salute you!" ”

Weiss immediately returned the standard federal military salute: "23rd Reserve Regiment of the 340th Defense Division, Acting Second Lieutenant Clumber Haisen." ”

After that, the two did not have a superfluous politeness, and directly communicated about the battle situation and battle plan. Weiss's suggestion was to let them guard the entrance to the fortress with the two who arrived first, and he returned to the fighting room alone, and led the soldiers who came in behind him to clean the remaining corners of the fortress, use the remaining weapons and ammunition of the Normans, and then meet them at the entrance and exit of the fortress.

Sergeant Morendall, who looked to be twenty-two or thirteen years old, had a muscular build, exceptionally thick arms, and his eyes still looked bright and bright in the dark passages. He listened carefully to Weiss's briefing, accepted Weiss's suggestion without any doubt, and assured: "Don't worry, sir, leave this to us!" ”

As the Federation soldiers passed by him and entered the crooked passage leading to the entrance and exit of the fortress, Weiss suddenly felt a sense of relief. He let out a sigh of relief and rested with his back against the wall for half a minute, before he collected his mood and quickly ran towards the fighting room......

A quarter of an hour later, the unknown fortress had completely fallen into the hands of the Union Army. However, the number of Union soldiers entering the fort did not increase exponentially, nor did it immediately become a breach in the Norman line, and the Normans in the surrounding positions had apparently received the news and blocked the Union troops with firepower, preventing them from approaching the fort smoothly. Weiss roughly counted the number of people, the number of Federation soldiers in the fort was less than fifty, and in the area of a hundred feet in front of the fort, there were more than 100 Union soldiers killed in battle.

The situation waits for no one. With only two federal officers arriving, Weiss took the initiative to take on the task of analyzing the battle situation and making suggestions, and he proposed to the officers that a small number of troops should hold the fort, and the rest should rush out of the fort and sweep along the trenches to both flanks, remove the fire points within 500 to 1,000 feet around the fort, relieve the pressure on the friendly forces in front of the position, and help the large force wedge into the Norman army's defense.

Since they can come here through the enemy's bullets and bullets, none of these federal soldiers in front of them are timid and afraid of death, but between the concentration of troops and the one-line assault and the division of troops to attack the two wings, these two officers have different opinions, and in terms of actual combat command, Weiss has very little experience, and even less successful experience, although his small human radar can play some "unpredictable prophet" role in a complex melee environment, but there is a way that no matter how high the kung fu is, he is afraid of kitchen knives, and enters the trench dog fight, If you are unlucky, you may be blown up by shells or grenades and you will not be able to take care of yourself.

Two lieutenants and company commanders of the same rank and position argued and argued, but neither could convince anyone, and they felt that they would inevitably delay the fighters if they continued in this way, so they simply adopted a compromise method: one of them led the troops and horses of their headquarters to stay in the fortress, and the other led the rest of the soldiers into the trenches.

Although staying behind meant a lower probability of casualties, and a sortie would be accompanied by death, Weiss thought about it for a moment and simply chose the latter.

In a few moments, the federal officers and soldiers in the fortress completed the wartime grouping, and 27 people were organized into the attack detachment, each carrying an extra rifle and two grenades, and came to the entrance and exit of the fortress with bayonets. Two sturdy soldiers took turns throwing a wave of thunder outside, and the smoke and dust from the explosion filled the trench. At this moment, the lieutenant officer who led the team in battle shouted "Follow me", and the soldiers of the Federal Army rushed out, and their resolute backs escaped into the smoke and dust one by one.

Carrying a rifle with a bayonet on his back and a "hand cannon" issued by the Norman army for officers, Weiss left the fort with the first few pacesetters. The thunderstorm just now did have the effect of clearing the obstacles and blinding the eyes, but it was also nakedly telling the Normans that the Union troops who had seized the fortress were starting to turn against them. As a result, bullets brought from all directions flew around the entrance and exit of the fortress. Weiss advanced in the trench, and before he had gone ten meters, he had already "rubbed shoulders" with bullets several times, and not only bullets, but also machine gun shells flew strangely, they could easily tear apart a sturdy body, even if they fell close, the splash of gravel and gravel had a certain lethality......

Go straight out and turn right, the smoke in front of him gradually faded, Weiss no longer held his breath, he took a small breath of sour air, his lungs were slightly uncomfortable, but he could still hold on, his eyes were a little spicy, and tears kept flowing out, but this did not affect his use of human flesh radar. In the field of vision, there are red dotted frames everywhere in front of and to the left, some are still a hundred feet away, and some are very close.

Seeing a few red dotted boxes approaching quickly on the left, Weiss reminded the Federation soldiers in front of him in a loud voice: "Attention! The enemy is coming from the left! ”

The two Federation soldiers in front of him hurriedly stopped and squatted to aim, Weiss pressed his right shoulder against the wall of the trench, bowed his left leg, knelt with his right leg, and turned his hand flat, just waiting for the black shadow in front of him to appear, decisively pulled the trigger, and after each shot, there was the scream of the person who was shot. Four shots and four shots, without exception.

Without even seeing what the enemy looked like, the Union soldiers mechanically aimed, fired, and reloaded, and Weiss fired four shots from his revolver, and in about the same time, some fired two with rifles, and some actually reached three. The fire was so ferocious that the Norman soldiers had no chance to get close, and they fell to their deaths one by one in the trenches, and their rifles were all stuck with sharp bayonets.

Before Weiss could turn on the battlefield cheat again, the Union soldiers in front of him quickly got up and moved forward. The skirmish had just been won so cleanly that they were not only confident but also enthusiastic. At this time, Weiss could not restrain them from acting cautiously, so the cat had to watch while loading bombs on the side.

In this open terrain, the smoke and dust disperse quickly. Weiss took less than half a minute to reload the "hand cannon", and the field of vision in front of him was much broader, and on the position of the Norman army, this group of brave and fearless Union soldiers, the number was at an absolute disadvantage, once the cover of gunpowder smoke was lost, so that the enemy could see their true strength, the situation may become very passive, but things always have its two sides, after the "fog of the battlefield" is opened, many Normans will be surprised that the Union army broke into their position, and the Union army blocked in front of the position will be greatly encouraged.

By the time Weiss had made his way back to the strikers, they had captured a Norman point of fire and captured a machine gun in the wooden-built firing bunker. This weapon is extremely powerful and effective in defensive operations, but the disadvantage is that it is not convenient for wartime maneuvering after deployment. Weiss walked through the bunker, looked left and right, and found that the position of the bunker was not only conducive to blocking the ground in front of him, but also suitable for holding the battle line and resisting the enemy's lateral infiltration. The Union soldiers were able to take it down quickly, thanks to their swiftness and decisiveness, and the Normans were caught off guard - the muzzles of the machine guns were still facing the front of the position, indicating that the Norman soldiers here did not make a correct judgment about the battle situation.

After a while, the lieutenant of the Union Army, who had led the attack, came up from behind, and when he saw Weiss, he did not ask him about the situation and his judgment, but observed and made a decision on his own: he assigned a non-commissioned officer with five soldiers to guard here, using the enemy's bunkers and machine guns for defense, and he himself and the rest of the soldiers turned around and extended the control area in another direction.

This strategy was very helpful in holding the fort and taking on friendly forces, which coincided with Weiss's original idea. So, Weiss joined the ranks of the U-turn attack without hesitation, but the confident lieutenant officer walked in front, and this time Weiss walked behind the line in order to improve the balance of the battle formation. They quickly passed in front of the fort, replenished by several fresh men, and continued to sweep the trenches, but soon the invincible attack was delayed, and the wails of the wounded continued to come from the front, and the bullets whizzed overhead. Immediately afterwards, the attacking team began to retreat, and Weiss did not "retreat bravely", but leaned against the wall of the trench and let his companions pass by. The Union soldiers did not blindly retreat, but helped and covered their wounded comrades to go first, and the rest of them fought and retreated.

There were fewer and fewer companions in front of him, and Weiss came from the end of the group to the head of the group motionlessly, holding the revolver in one hand, throwing two spinach bullets with the other, and then following the team in a tactical retreat, stopping at the fork in the passage adjacent to the fortress, leaning on the corner to defend it.

The gunfire kept approaching, and after a few moments, Weiss glanced over and saw a Norman soldier holding a machine gun that looked like a "Czech-made", firing as he walked. That posture is so booming, so bullish, full of envy, jealousy and hatred!

As the real chief firearms designer of the Klumber-Heisen family, Weiss did not try to copy the "Czech-made", but because he was not very familiar with its construction, after several trade-offs, he still put the direction of research and development on the Maxim water-cooled heavy machine gun, and it was successful......

When it comes to magazine-type light machine guns, the deepest impression of the Chinese people is "made in the Czech Republic". It is undeniable that this is indeed a very classic light weapon, but it is not an epoch-making work, but an excellent descendant who stands on the shoulders of giants. As early as 1902, before the Qing Dynasty died, the Danes designed and built the Madsen light machine gun, which used a magazine to feed from the top. Two years later, the gun became the standard equipment of the Danish army, and realizing the power of this new weapon, Tsarist Russia, Austria-Hungary, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Portugal and other countries competed to buy it (China's Guangdong Ordnance Factory also began to imitate this light machine gun in 1908, SO, the screen footage of Qing Dynasty officials holding machine guns is not brain-blowing, but has a historical basis).

At the Bela Casser Pass, Weiss and his companions regrettably missed the Normans' artificial star stone-making machine, which was considered a "key factor" enough to change the course of the war. Now, when he suddenly saw a rattling light machine gun in the trench of the Norman army, he couldn't help but light up in his eyes, and immediately thought in his heart how to capture this weapon, as long as it was disassembled and studied, it would soon be able to be imitated, and even quickly improve the light automatic weapon with better performance, so that the melee firepower of the Union army would climb to a new level.