Chapter 81: Infantry Attacking Ships

Two water-cooled machine guns with ammunition were constantly pouring bullets on the deck and side porches of the Norman battleship. This fully automatic weapon fires several times faster than the rotary machine gun, and it only takes half a minute to drain a belt of 200 rounds.

On the Norman battleship, the crew was completely unprepared for a close-range attack, and only two machine guns left them dead and wounded. Witnessing this scene, Weiss was happy, but he did not get carried away. The tactics he adopted were to win in the face of uncompromising danger, to forcibly suppress the enemy's firepower, to cover the assault force to attack the Norman battleship, to disintegrate its combat capability from within, and if it was lost, the guns on the Norman battleship alone would be enough to tear these attackers to pieces, and would never give them the opportunity to withdraw the way they came. Therefore, while the machine guns were firing wildly, he moved forward in small steps, and at the same time observed the situation on the upper part of the Norman battleship, especially on the bridge, through the sniper scope, during which he captured two figures who walked out of the bridge to observe the battle situation at the open-air observation platform, and decisively killed them.

After half a minute of heavy fire, the riflemen and machine gunners reloaded, the raiders' firepower plummeted, and the opening rush entered the tempo transition phase. As the sun sets, two Union soldiers with their belts and shoulder belts full of pineball bullets turn to one side and throw thunder at Norman gun emplacements, bunkers, and sentry posts. A first-class grenadier must not only be physically strong and have excellent arm strength, but also have accurate judgment and control. Valc-Schmmers from the federal state of Neuchâtel and Carson Mudček from the federal state of Lorraine are examples of the best grenadiers in the federal army. Not only can they throw pineapple bullets out of 100 feet, but they can also throw them directly into the enemy's foxholes, and they are rare technical talents on the battlefield.

Weiss filled the rifle magazine with bullets, closed the bolt, turned his head to see the broad-shouldered "fellow" Carson Mudček working left and right, blowing several stubborn Norman soldiers out of their bunkers, and quickly glanced ahead, and found that the passage to the bow of the Norman battleship was no longer in major obstacles, and the entrance and exit hatches in the lower part of the Norman battleship were still open, and someone was running inside. In order to prevent the Norman crew from quickly closing the hatch, Weiss beckoned: "Carson, follow me, and when you are sure, throw the mine into the hatch of the enemy ship!" ”

With that, Weiss took his sniper rifle, lowered his head and bent over, and rushed forward. At this moment, there was no need for him to give special orders, the soldiers of the First Assault Group of the Federation Army were already rushing towards the bow of the enemy ship. As they rushed forward, they opened fire on the Normans along the way, never entangled too much with the enemy.

On the way to the Norman, Weiss turned on a special vision and conducted a technical reconnaissance of its status, revealing that the upper and lower limits of its speed were still the same, with the two sets of data changing by the number of digits if the flight mode was activated. This important information gave Weiss a lot of energy, and he and his assaulters were getting closer and closer to the goal. The hatch was right in front of you, and if unhindered, three or four seconds were enough to break into it.

Following Weiss's instructions, Carson threw three spinishells at the bow hatch of the Norman battleship, two of which smashed into the steel plate next to the hatch and blew down a piece of the Norman soldiers who tried to withdraw from the battleship, and the third one finally entered and exploded inside.

Seeing the raiders rushing to the door of the battleship, the Norman soldiers deployed around the battleship could see their intentions no matter how bad they were. Once the enemy succeeds, how terrible the consequences will be, you can think of it with your toes. At the critical moment, the Norman soldiers, who were scattered by the Union army, began to desperately stop them. Weiss was running when a Norman soldier with a bloody face suddenly jumped out of the bunker next to him, waving a sapper shovel on his head in his hand. If he was facing that rookie who had just arrived, this shovel might have made meritorious service in the past, but after the strict training and survival of the fittest at the Gaston Military Academy, and the repeated smelting and beating and death elimination on the battlefield, whether it was combat skills, cardiac endurance and nerve reflexes, it had reached a new level, what was this shovel? Without hesitation or procrastination, Weiss took advantage of the momentum and threw a flawless side kick that directly kicked the sturdy Norman soldier backwards. And then? Keep moving forward, of course!

Two seconds later, a few steps away from the hatch, a wounded Norman officer struggled to his feet and fired two shots at Weiss with his pistol. Weiss realized the danger, kicked his left foot violently, and his body suddenly shifted to the right, and his waist spine was like a dexterous loach, twisting into an S shape from head to hip. Although the body movement could not be compared to the speed of the bullet in any way, there was still a time difference of a few tenths of a second between the Norman officer aiming the target, pulling the trigger, and the firing pin firing the bullet. This time difference caused him to pass by the bullets fired by the enemy at close range. Then, he rolled sideways, pulled out his pistol with skillful movements during the rolling, did not get up, and fired at the Norman officer on his stomach, two shots and two hits, beautiful KO!

In sight, the two fastest and fiercest Federation soldiers rushed into the boarding hatch located below the bow - the flying warships of the Norman Empire and the Free Federation of Ulster, the regular entry and exit hatches were designed more than ten feet from the bottom, and the crew boarded the ship through the airport facility or gangway. In this regard, it is estimated that taking into account the characteristics of the natural environment and the conventional strategic and tactical settings, the designers of the Wessex battleship have a different way of thinking, and they have always opened hatches close to the bottom of the battleship, and basically do not need to use tools to board the ship.

Carson, the excellent grenadier who had previously managed to drop a pineapple bullet into the hatch, must have been killed or wounded by the crew close to the hatch, and the two Federation soldiers did not seem to encounter internal resistance when they boarded the ship, one of them leaned against the hatch, beckoning his companions to speed up while shooting at the Norman soldiers who were desperately resisting near the hatch. Seeing this, Weiss left his sniper rifle, pulled out the second pistol he had brought with him, and ran to the door of the battleship. When he stepped on the pedal and jumped onto the battleship, his heart that was hanging in the air finally fell to the ground, but after only a few seconds, he suddenly noticed a tremor under his feet, and the heart that had just fallen was suspended again: the power system of the enemy ship had been activated, and the floating system had begun to operate!

Time was pressing, Weiss was unintentionally lamented by the infantry's crazy move to seize the ship, and shouted to the Union soldiers beside him: "Matteson, stay and answer!" The rest, as originally planned, advanced to the bridge attack! ”

Leaving this sentence behind, Weiss led several soldiers who had already boarded the ship to the battleship. This scene is similar to the attack on the Norman warship at the Belakaser Pass at that time, but there are many differences in the details. Walking along the passage, passing through two hatches, two people came running up, wearing cloth military caps and dark uniforms, which at first glance looked like the crew's attire. Both men had rifles in their hands, but when they encountered the attackers head-on, their first reaction was not to fight, but to shout. Wei Si would not be polite to them, raise his hand twice, shoot his head with a gun, and directly open the passage. Walking through two more hatches, I came to a circular walkway along the ramp upward, which surrounded a steel column with a diameter of about ten feet, which looked like a bomb supply channel on a battleship. There is a double-track slide in the front and back of the walkway, and the width of the track is less than three feet, presumably used by ammunition pulleys to transport large-caliber shells and launch waist packs.

Standing on the aisle, Weiss squinted and looked around, and found that there were more than a dozen Norman soldiers in the cabin in the direction of the bow, and he wanted to send them to the sky with two spinimile bullets, but after thinking about it, this should be the firing room of the main gun in the bow, if there are spare shells and propellants piled up in it, directly put on the grenade, and the bow can be reimbursed in one breath, but the problem is that he and these brothers around him also have to explain here. With the current situation, is it worth it to end up with a group of Norman crews? Of course it's not a good deal!

So Weiss ordered his two companions to meet the enemy in reverse, and he took the rest of the men along the slip to the bow of the ship. After more than ten steps, the slide "disappeared" under a closed hatch. Under the operation of the ship-seizing mentality, Weiss immediately had a plan, waved his hand and motioned for his companions to hide next to the hatch, slammed the hatch himself, and shouted "Open the door, open the door, open the door" in Norman.

The people inside did not blindly open the door, but asked who was outside, Weiss slapped the door and bluffed: "The captain has an order, open the door quickly!" ”

A crack opened in the panning hatch to the side, and Weiss saw the right moment to shoot the head behind the door, and the Union soldiers waiting for the door to open the hatch with all his might. Weiss took a vantage point, leaned down, lunged forward, forced his way into the hatch, shot into the air and shouted in Norman: "Death to the rebels!" ”

As he expected, this was the battleship's former main gun room, with two huge gun mounts occupying nearly half of the gun room, and 11 Norman crew members next to the gun mounts, who seemed to be preparing for the shooting, and did not even have a decent weapon in their hands except oil cans, wrenches, and stabbing sticks. Hearing the roars of the raiders, they all looked terrified.

Weiss glanced at the turret, and there were no shells or cartridges ready to fire next to the gun mount. In the previous reconnaissance and surveillance process, this Norman battleship has not used artillery fire to support the front-line troops to fight, indicating that the front-line battle situation is controllable in the eyes of the Normans, so far, there is no need to risk being counterattacked by the federal army to let this big guy use heavy artillery to participate in the battle, and it also confirms the Normans' conjecture that the headquarters will be located on this battleship.

The accompanying Union soldiers quickly took control of the bow gun room, and although the Normans honestly raised their hands, Weiss really had no extra men to watch over them. He couldn't find a balance between humanity and responsibility. After a difficult weigh-up, he whispered in Ulster: "Kill them!" ”

Rushing through the rain of bullets and passing through the edge of life and death, the mentality of the Union soldiers has long been as resolute as iron. In the face of the invaders, even a group of enemies who gave up resistance, they did not hesitate at all, and killed all the Norman crews with a face-to-face shot.

The gunfire stopped, and Weiss reloaded the pistol magazine and told the soldiers: "Blow up the aiming and control equipment of these cannons, and move on!" ”