Bang bang bang...... Boom...... Boom......

A semi-automatic pistol in the left hand, a revolver in the right hand, weave a simple yet deadly symphony with very different sounds and rhythms. The bullets ran out again, and Weiss leaned against the bulkhead, pulled out a new, heavy magazine from the magazine pouch on his belt, shook his left hand, and knocked his right hand, reloading the 2.5-PIR Schmidt-style semi-automatic pistol in less than two seconds. Then, with his left hand and his right hand, he withdrew the empty cartridge casing from the revolver, and it took him nearly ten seconds to load five 3.2PIR rounds into the revolver's wheel of the Glenpa 3.2PIR revolver.

Semi-automatic pistols were born in the late part of the last war, and were popular among the officer class because of their fast rate of fire, fast loading and smooth appearance, but the power of a single shot was weak, and the requirements for maintenance and maintenance were high, and it was easy to jam on the battlefield, and since the outbreak of the war, the evaluation of combat units has been mixed. The revolver has a long history and is highly reliable, and is still the standard weapon issued by the Norman army to officers and non-commissioned officers, and its high single-shot power complements the semi-automatic pistol in hand-to-hand combat......

As Weiss reloaded, the accompanying Union soldiers quickly swept through the adjacent cabins and advanced along the passage to the upper level. According to the specifications of this battleship, the hull should have five or six decks, followed by the deck and superstructure - including the bridge, chimney, main turret, etc. Counting from the lowest level, Weiss has already led his companions to attack the fourth layer, and there are a lot of Norman sailors encountered on the way, but the obstacles are not great, and there is even a pleasant feeling of cutting melons and vegetables. However, Weiss did not get carried away by the progress in front of him, he constantly reminded the soldiers to stay vigilant, respond to each other, and constantly use his own human radar to detect the enemy situation and judge the situation, so as to control the pace of the advance, not only to avoid the disconnection between the front and rear of the troops, but also not to miss the opportunity to attack.

Soon, Weiss reached the entrance of the upper deck, where two Union soldiers were working together to drag a wounded companion back from the corner in front. Seeing Weiss, they stopped, the wounded was a non-commissioned officer, he was shot in the right shoulder, the wound was in a lower position, and it was estimated that it would be difficult to save his right arm, even so, he still forced himself to report to Weiss: "Captain, the front passage is guarded by Norman soldiers, the fire is very strong, we used two pineapple bullets, but it seems to have no effect. ”

The passage on the battleship was very narrow, and with the power of a pineapple bullet, it was enough to sweep a long passage, but the Normans only had to lean on the doors of the cabins, and as soon as the grenades came, they quickly hid in the cabins, of course, to avoid attacks as much as possible. Wei Si nodded at the non-commissioned officer: "Don't worry, the rest of the battle will be left to us!" ”

With that, Weiss motioned for two soldiers to take him to the lower cabin to treat his wounds, and he carried the following soldiers around the corner. He didn't take the plunge, but stretched out his military hat with his revolver to test the truth. Shots rang out from the other side of the passage, but several bullets failed to hit the hat. In this environment, it is not surprising that the defending side only needs to lose one or two grenades, which can cause great damage to the attacking side, and the reason why they don't use it is not that they didn't expect it, but that they don't have any goods in their hands at all!

Weiss took back his military hat, put it on his head, and said to the soldiers beside him in a low voice: "Don't care what I say, I'll rush at you, ready to ......"

Then, he took a deep breath and let out a low "throw the jackball bomb", but instead of actually throwing, he held for a second, and suddenly got up and rushed towards the side of the passage. The Norman crews might not have understood Ulster, but the pronunciation of the Spinball Bullet was so close to theirs that Weiss bet that they would retreat back into the cabin, leaving the defensive fire in the passage in a vacuum for the time being. He bent his waist and pressed against the wall, and ran forward as fast as he could, squinting at the enemy's position and number as he ran, three ...... Four...... Five......

Hearing the footsteps in the passage, the Norman crew realized that they had been fooled by their opponents, and hurriedly came out to resist, but the opportunity was lost, and there was no brutal weapon such as grenades to remedy, and the result was like a gopher in a game of whack-a-mole, hammered off one by one by the federal officers and soldiers who rushed over.

A few seconds later, Weiss fired the last bullet from his revolver, killing the last Norman crew member in the hatch. Upon closer inspection, the five Norman crew members were armed with three rifles, one pistol, and one of them had a wrench in his hand.

The battle had just come to an end, and before it could be reloaded, there was a rush of footsteps in the passage ahead. Weiss let out a low roar of "avoid", left the revolver, took out a pineapple bullet from the back waist, pulled the buckle, threw it out with great strength, and dodged into the cabin with the open hatch. After a deafening roar, he picked up the left wheel, got up and walked out of the cabin, and walked a few steps along the passageway, where he saw several bloody wreckage in the blackened and deformed bulkhead. Judging from the military uniforms on their bodies, there is no doubt that they are all Norman sailors.

Weiss had no joy or sorrow in his heart, the expression on his face was as cold as iron, he waved his hand behind him, and said in a low voice: "Forward!" ”

One level further up, the cabin passage is much wider than the lower floors, and there is a concave slide in the center that connects the cabins on both sides. These cabins do not have the usual small round windows on the hatches, and the door handles are located on a circular turntable. When they arrived, it was as if they had suddenly stabbed into a hornet's nest, and Normans in crew outfits swarmed in—some from the end of the passage, some from the cabins on either side. If this was a group fight, Weiss and his companions would have been drowned alive by their opponents, but the advent of industrial civilization has made a qualitative leap forward in the role of tools in improving force. Pistols, rifles, and spinach bullets, these all beckoned to the enemy, and the guys with machine guns followed, and a dozen or twenty people were stunned to clean up the other party's fifty or sixty people.

The gunfire finally stopped, but the ears were still ringing. Weiss led his soldiers down the passage, their boots stained with Norman blood. Behind the hatches on both sides of the passage is the independent gun compartment of the gun silhouette secondary gun, and the slide rails on the channel should be a backup way for the gun to transport ammunition. These medium-caliber secondary guns have both rate of fire and power, and are important weapons on battleships in both air and ground combat, but they can only shoot externally and cannot deal with threats inside the battleship.

The passage was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder smoke and blood, and the oncoming sober air made Weiss can't help but speed up his pace. As you ascend the steel steps, the flow of air becomes more pronounced, and the light in front of you changes...... Eventually, he stood in a hatch and saw the outside world.

Outside the hatch, there is a spotless hardwood deck.

Weiss stood at the hatch for two seconds, waiting for his companions behind him to follow. An officer-like Norman sailor suddenly came from outside, and when he realized that it was a Federation soldier in "alternative" attire standing at the door, he tried to pull out his gun in a panic, but before the gun could be drawn, his head was already covered by the muzzle of the black hole. The thing hesitated for a moment, obviously not wanting to be confused, so it slowly raised its hand. Weiss walked out with his gun on his head, looking to the left and right with his peripheral vision, and after external strafing and internal strangulation, there were few people on the deck of the Norman battleship at this time. He wanted the Norman officer, who had given up resistance, to be a leader and lead them to the bridge command room, but found that his Norman thesaurus could not accurately express the meaning, so he grabbed him by the collar and asked, "Where is your commander?" ”

Unexpectedly, the Norman officer trembled and stretched out his hand to the stern of the ship.

What's going on?

At this moment, Weiss heard the roar of the engine from the stern of the ship, and hurriedly followed the soldiers to escort the Norman officer to the stern, but as soon as he reached the chimney position, he saw a monoplane catapult from the special rails at the stern.

This rudimentary monoplane was the standard "lifeboat" of the Norman battleship.

"Your commander?" Weiss asked, pointing to the monoplane that flew into the air.

The captured Norman officer hurriedly nodded yes.

"Count you fast!" Weiss muttered, he didn't know at this time that it was the Duke of Dallance who had a high status in the Norman Empire that he watched slip away. The Dallands family is a typical military family of the upper class of the Norman Empire, with ancestral generals and marshals emerging in an endless stream, and some family members have served in prominent positions such as Minister of War and Chief of General Staff in modern times. Since the outbreak of this war, whether in Wessex or on the Confederate battlefield, the Norman army has lost many generals, but no general with the rank of general commander has been killed, let alone captured by the enemy. Weiss's "assertive" assault almost set such an unprecedented record, and if it came to fruition, it would be a heavy blow to the Norman Empire, and it would be a great encouragement to the beleaguered federal military and civilians, and even to the Wessex royal family and government, which still did not give up the fight - of course, these are all later words. On the deck of the Norman battleship, Weiss led more than a dozen Federation soldiers from the amidship to the stern and from the stern to the bow, clearing out all the Norman crews who were still resisting.

As night fell, standing on the bow deck and looking out over the city, you could see bright flames flickering in the dark ruins. The collapse of August's steel building undoubtedly boosted the morale of the Union troops who had fought hard for a day.

Tonight, as long as the Norman fleet can't make it back, it's the best time for the Union army to retake the city!

Weiss did not cherish the scenery of the bow of the ship, nor did he look forward to the glory of recovering the Austrian city, and saw more and more Norman soldiers on the ground converging on the battleship, he looked back and saw that there were open gun emplacements on the side of the bridge, these guns were not of large caliber, but they could hit planes on the top and infantry on the bottom. It was only before the raiders jumped out of the drain, quickly approached and forced their way into the battleship, and the Norman crew did not have time to use their guns to stop the attack, and after that, the fire spread inside the battleship, and the Norman crew was sent to carry out combat missions that they were not good at, and as a result, they were sent to the heads. When Weiss and the others came to the deck, there were only a few Norman sailors left in the gun position, and they were helpless against the approaching raiders due to the range of artillery fire.

Basic gunnery and junior artillery command were regular subjects at the Bathton Military Academy, and although Norman artillery differed from the standard weapons of the Union army in many ways, the principles of operation were similar. Weiss hurriedly assigned tasks to the Union soldiers who followed him, and told most of them to continue the attack on the bridge, and he led three old subordinates from the reconnaissance battalion to those open-air gun emplacements - unlike the ordinary infantry of the Union Army, the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion not only had to have a variety of infantry skills, but also learned to drive various vehicles and use various weapons, so that they could be useful in reconnaissance operations. Although during the war, all kinds of training were simplified and the standards were lowered, and the scouts who entered the industry in wartime could not be proficient in everything at all, it was much better than letting ordinary infantry catch ducks on the shelves.

Coming to the secondary gun combat position one level above the deck, Weiss picked a single-barreled machine gun that uses magazines to feed ammunition, fumbled for half a minute, pounded three or two times, and successfully got started. Fired at the Norman soldiers on the ground, ran out of shells in the magazine, and went through the process of unloading and loading the magazine, then handed the machine gun to the two old subordinates who came with him, and then led the other to the other side of the ship, picked an identical machine gun, and fired the gun with ease. This string of shells was fired, and three or five Norman soldiers were torn to pieces at every turn. However, the Norman soldiers on the ground were not stupid, seeing the machine guns on the battleship firing at them, they knew that it was the attackers who were doing it, and they raised their guns to shoot, but the open gun emplacements had a two-foot-high baffle, and the cannon body was equipped with a steel shield to provide the most basic protection for the operator. In this way, Weiss and his companions emptied one magazine after another, and the empty shells rolled to the ground, depleting the enemy's strength and fighting spirit little by little, and gaining an extremely favorable situation for his comrades who raided the stadium......