Chapter 745: Machine Gun

According to the attacker's original plan, even if the first self-exposed carriage could not explode in the political envoy in Dali City, it would have to explode in the most prosperous commercial area in the city, killing and injuring people in the city as much as possible, so that Dali City was in a state of anxiety and had no time to take care of anything else - as for the current residents of Dali City, Dali people are still the mainstay, and the attackers don't care at all how many nationals will be killed by such an explosion.

When the Dali Kingdom was still there, these royal nobles did not treat the low-level Dali people as people, and now that the Dali Kingdom is gone, they don't care about the lives of ordinary Dali people.

Instead, they thought that after inflicting such heavy casualties, the Dali people would blame Huaxia for failing to maintain law and order, thus shaking their approval of Huaxia rule.

No one worries about whether the victims will hate them, and the princes and nobles of Dali feel that they should be born to be the ruler of Dali, the master of those who sacrificed.

Shouldn't it be a glorious thing for slaves to die for their masters?

Since they thought so, those attackers from other places naturally didn't care even more.

According to the assailants' assumptions, after the explosion was successful, the martial arts masters who were ambushed in this direction would rush into the city, slash and slash, and expand the chaos.

And the garrison outside Dali should be quickly dispatched to rescue Dali.

At this time, the second self-detonating carriage launched an assault on the Chinese troops in the formation.

If all goes well, the wagon can inflict heavy casualties on the Chinese army and allow the Chinese army to take care of one or the other between the camp and the city of Dali.

If given the opportunity, the Assassins here would also try to launch several attacks to put more pressure on the Chinese army and delay it for more time.

If they don't have the opportunity, they will harass the Chinese army along the way and try to prevent the Chinese army from coming to the farm.

However, like the road in Dali City, the actions here are also full of situations.

When the self-detonating carriage tried to approach the barracks, it was discovered by the sentries in advance - there had already been an explosion in Dali City, and the barracks naturally immediately raised their vigilance.

In fact, even if the vigilance was not raised, the self-detonating carriage could not approach the gate of the barracks, because there were horses and barbed wire in front of the gate, and the barracks was located in an open area outside the city, and it was strange that a carriage was forcibly rushing towards the barracks.

The self-detonating wagon ignored the sentinel's warning and forced its charge towards the barracks, only to see a horse get tangled in barbed wire and fail to get closer.

The Chinese soldiers immediately fired muskets, and the lead bullets killed all four horses and the coachman, who detonated the gunpowder before he died—the second explosion that Xu Shiyang saw.

The explosion blew a huge hole in the barbed wire fence in front of the barracks and created a huge crater in the road.

However, it failed to inflict any casualties on the Chinese army.

Neither attack had the desired effect, but the attackers also had trouble on the Chinese side, that is, limited to the backwardness of the means of communication, they did not know whether the action of containment on both sides was successful, and they could only launch an attack on the farm as soon as they saw the explosion.

The main force of the attackers who attacked the farm, in addition to the problem, they also used a self-detonating carriage to take the lead, but I don't know if the driver was too nervous, the carriage was too fast, and it was out of touch with the follow-up infantry.

Some of the lighter masters barely followed the carriage a short distance, while others pulled farther away, and the uncooperative attackers formed a long line of snakes.

After storming the farm, the attackers came face to face with the defensive positions of the Guards in a vast field.

Xu Shiyang took a look and was surprised to find that the enemy only had one carriage.

"This is not a tank again! It's too underestimated! ”

The carriage rushed towards this side desperately, and it seemed that it was a little imposing, but he was rushing at the northeast corner of the vehicle phalanx, facing a "gun truck".

The so-called gun card of the Chinese army is actually an early machine gun ......mounted on the carriage, well, it cannot be said to be a machine gun, well, it is actually a multi-barreled platoon gun.

Montini, who is closer to another plane in shape, also has 37 barrels clustered in a cylinder, and the bullets are loaded in a cartridge similar to the Divine Cannon Cartridge.

The operator places the loaded cartridge disc on the notch at the rear end of the gun and pushes a lever to push the latching block forward to complete the locking, so that the bullet is exactly aligned with each barrel.

The operator then turns a joystick located at the rear and the firing mechanism fires all 37 rounds in the disc one by one.

After one round of shooting, the operator pulls the lever, the cartridge slides out, and the operator puts another loaded cartridge into it to start another round of shooting.

To put it simply, this is somewhat like a machine gun version of the God Cannon, with a reload pattern very close to the God Cannon, but much more advanced in terms of firing.

With a preloaded cartridge, a trained machine gun crew could fire 200 rounds in one minute with such a machine gun.

This kind of machine gun has just been invented by an army major in the Third Arsenal of the Empire (Jinmen), and there are currently less than twenty of them.

It turned out to come in handy now.

Although it was only an early machine gun, it was already a "big killer" for enemies who liked to charge in groups.

As long as there are 2 machine guns with good shooting range, no matter how elite the cold weapon unit can rush to the front with their numbers, before all the ammunition is exhausted.

The attackers were no exception, not to mention that they weren't really elite.

When the self-detonating carriage approached about 300 meters of the vehicle phalanx, it was hit head-on by machine guns, and 37 rounds were fired almost instantaneously, and the long tongue of fire was like a whip, cutting the two horses and the coachman who were pulling the cart into two pieces!

Another lucky bullet hit the wheels (which shows how large the dispersion was) and sent the wheels of the self-detonated carriage to the side. ,

After losing one wheel, the two remaining horses neighed and struggled, but the heavily modified carriage and the two hundred pounds of gunpowder in it weighed down the poor horses completely immobilized.

The self-detonation tactic was a tragic failure.

This is actually not surprising, in order for the self-detonation tactic to succeed, it is necessary to suppress the enemy's counterattack fire first, and charge directly at the enemy who has the ability to return fire, even if the self-detonating Steyr in another plane has been carefully modified, it is difficult to succeed, let alone these carriages that do not provide full protection (at least the protection of the horses pulling the cart is poor).

About half a minute after the self-detonating carriage was incapacitated, the first group of foot attackers appeared in the field of view of the guards, by which time the machine guns had been replaced with ammunition discs as a matter of course.

This was followed by a firepower blow that cut the head and covered the face.

This time it was two machine guns, plus at least half of the rifles firing at the same time, and one hundred and fifty rounds were scattered, and at least twenty of the attackers fell to the ground in convulsions like electrocution.