Night had not yet fallen, and the hazy twilight shrouded the fields, and the vision was no longer so clear. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 InfoA combined combat force of hundreds of Irish independence fighters and German naval infantry waited quietly for the British forces trying to attack their flanks.

The "British Chicks" did not let them wait for a while, and soon the outpost fighters rushed back: "Here they are!" ”

Hearing this news, there was a crisp sound of pulling the bolt behind the ridge.

"Hold your breath and wait until the enemy is close to a position of three or four hundred meters before firing. Remember, unless the enemy is stacked together, only shoot short shots and take them out one at a time. ”

The German soldier in a beanie hat whispered to the Irish soldier who was operating the Madsen light machine gun, he spoke German, while the Irishman next to him stared intently at the crosshair of the gun, not knowing whether he understood it or whether it was a chicken or a duck.

The sub-shooter lying on the other side was holding a curved magazine with a very serious expression.

The experience of the German marines on the French battlefield showed that in medium- and long-distance combat, a short shot of two or three bullets is the most effective attack, as long as the aim is accurate, the hit rate of each short shot can reach more than 80 percent, even if only one enemy is killed at a time, the continuous short shot can also achieve an amazing killing effect.

"Attention ......"

The low command spread quickly, and there was an instant burst of murderous aura on the side of the ridge, but the British soldiers on the opposite side were still dazed. The "English chicks" in dark blue uniforms formed a straggler formation in the fields, timid, sneaky, like a flock of wild cats wandering near the village, hungry but afraid of being beaten.

When the second "attention" sounded, there was a sparse sound of bolts behind the ridge, and the German soldiers loaded their bullets only to avoid the possible adverse effects of a misfire.

It was not until the British soldiers at the head of the platoon had reached a position about 300 meters from the ridge that the German officer in charge of directing the battle fired three shots into the air to signal the beginning of the battle.

In the field, the sound of gunfire erupted, the crisp single shot of rifles, the continuous strafing of machine guns, the rhythmic burst fire of light machine guns, and all kinds of sounds converged together. In the blink of an eye, dozens of British soldiers on the opposite side were knocked down.

After firing the first round from his Mauser rifle, the German soldier in a skullcap did not rush to shoot again, but shouted to the Irish shooter beside him: "Short shots hit the front, burst shots hit the bevel, be sure to aim and hit." It's a good idea to pause when your vision is obscured by gunsmoke so that you can keep an eye on the number of bullets in the magazine and minimize the time it takes to change the magazine......"

Before he could finish speaking, the German soldier stretched out his right hand and pressed down on the back of the Irish machine gunner's head, and at the moment when he pressed his face to the ground, the hat on his head was blown away by the bullet. Realizing what had just happened, the Irish Heavy was stunned, and he looked at the bullet-ridden hat in a daze, and it took him a moment to come to his senses and look at the German soldier with great gratitude.

As if nothing happened, the German soldier took aim with his gun in his hand and admonished: "Be careful to hide at all times on the battlefield, and the machine gunners are especially vulnerable to enemy attacks." ”

The Irish machine gunner, who had almost lost his life, nodded incomprehensibly, and he re-set up the machine gun, but continued not to fire like the Germans, because the dead and undead Britons had all fallen down, and it was getting dark, and their dark blue uniforms became the ideal protective color, and as long as they stayed still and did not fire back, the shooters on the ridge could not catch them at all. In Europe, the use of a few cannons would solve the problem, while here the combined Irish and German forces would have to brainstorm tactics.

"The 2nd Company of Bandon Battalion come with me!"

"The 1st Company of the McRum Battalion is coming with me!"

"Kenmel even come with me!"

It was the officer of the Irish Volunteer calling his soldiers to take a detour from the flank. Nominally, the Irish Volunteer Army is modeled after the most commonly used model of European armies, and its highest specification is the corps, followed by divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, companies, and platoons, but the senior commanders of the Irish Volunteers do not have the experience and ability to command large forces, and their forces are scattered throughout Ireland, and they have never assembled more than 10,000 troops in any city or battlefield, they usually operate on the specifications of regiments, battalions, and companies, and the monotonous numbers are not used, and where the soldiers come fromThis unit is called a regiment, a battalion, or a company, and then distinguishes different battalions and companies from the same place by numbers or the name of the commander. The Irish felt that this way of formation had a sense of belonging, but it was inevitably a problem for the newcomers of the German officers and soldiers.

In the active German army, the standard infantry company had more than two hundred soldiers, and the Irish Volunteer company ranged in size from a few dozen to one or two hundred, and the training and equipment varied from place to place. Before the armed uprising, the Irish Volunteers claimed to have 20,000 soldiers, and about 15,000 people actually received military training, with the secret assistance of the German government, these Irish armed men each had a Mauser G1898, and also obtained a batch of Maxim water-cooled heavy machine guns, which were relatively well-equipped, and after the incident, although the Irish Volunteers captured thousands of Enfield rifles from the British garrison and the police and security forces, their scale expanded too quickly, At least half of the people can only make do with all kinds of guys that can be considered weapons. However, when the German Marines arrived in Ireland, they brought them 200 7.7 mm Madsen machine guns, which made the Irish volunteers still more equipped with automatic weapons than the British and French armies.

After the outbreak of the war, the Kingdom of Denmark remained neutral, but it was not as far away as the countries of the Americas. Geographically, this small European country located in the northern part of Jutland and the nearby islands was like a bird's nest in a tree in front of the Germans, and it was easy to occupy or even destroy it with the German army and navy, so during the war, the Danish royal family and government were under great pressure from the German side, and many political and foreign policies were biased in favor of the German side, and the Allies could only protest against this. After the Second Battle of Flanders, the eastern and southeastern North Seas and the western Baltic Sea were largely under the control of the German Navy. Under these circumstances, the Madsen machine guns ordered by Britain, France, Russia and other countries from Denmark before the war could no longer be delivered, so the German government bought these weapons. Although the Madsen light machine guns were produced on the Madsen production line, the caliber varied from order to order - the Russians used 7-point 62 mm rifle cartridges and therefore ordered 7-point 62 mm Madsen machine guns, the British ordered 7.7 mm, Germany ordered 7.92 mm, and Sweden, Norway and Denmark used 6.5 mm each.

Technically, the Madsen machine guns ordered by Russia, Britain and the Nordic countries could be bored and milled into 7.92 mm caliber for Mauser rifle cartridges, but it took a lot of time to reprocess, so the Germans transferred the 200 Madsen light machine guns originally supplied to the British army to the Irish Volunteers, and the 400 that were supposed to be delivered to the Russian army were equipped with the German army fighting on the Eastern Front, and the ammunition captured on the battlefield should be enough for these light machine guns.

Under the staff command of the German officers, several companies of the Irish Volunteers with strong combat effectiveness quickly detoured to the flanks of the battlefield, and two platoons of German naval infantry accompanied them. As it got darker and darker, and in order to avoid "meeting the British" during the battle, the German naval infantrymen wearing beanies loaded their rifles with bayonets.

In a short time, the Irish-German joint combat force completed the outflanking of the British new army, but the "chicks" continued to lie on their stomachs indifferently, without the slightest intention of turning around and fleeing, which could not help but remind people of bait worms on fishing hooks. Sure enough, sparse gunshots suddenly rang out in the direction of the riverbank. Judging from the momentum alone, this may have been a small exchange of fire between the British and Allied scouts, but the German officer, who had suffered British losses on the banks of the Somme, did not think so, and he hurriedly sent a lookout in the direction of the river bank and ordered the participating troops to attack.

After a storm of suppressive fire, the combined Irish-German forces charged the besieged British from three directions. In contrast, the Irish Volunteers were still at the primitive level of charging and fighting, and if the enemy had set up a defensive position with machine guns in front, such an attack would inevitably pay a heavy price, even if it could be won. Fortunately, these "British chicks" in front of them had neither machine guns nor grenades, and their hasty fire caused only negligible resistance. Seeing the murderous Irish rushing to their faces, the surviving British soldiers quickly dropped their weapons, raised their hands, and looked at each other with pitiful eyes......

The battle lasted just over half an hour from beginning to end, and more than 150 British officers and men became trophies of the Irish-German joint combat force, while the gunfire in the distance was like a steady spring rain, not fierce, but intermittent. At the urging of the German officers, the officers of the Irish Volunteers quickly gathered their troops and escorted the prisoners back to the ridges they had previously blocked to reposition. After about ten minutes, the soldiers sent to spy on the enemy brought back a rather surprising news: thousands of British troops were coming along the river!

"It can't be!" "Had it not been for the artillery support of those two British warships," exclaimed one of the Irish Volunteers, "the British troops defending the line would have been crushed by us during the day, and where would they have troops to fight back." ”

"It's just in time!" Another Irish commander said disapprovingly, "Save us from attacking them again tomorrow, and solve the problem once and for all tonight." ”

The German officer, who commanded the joint operations force with the two men, was more cautious than either of them: "The British are coming, and we had better be careful." ”

"What's so scary, do they have a trick up their sleeve that we haven't seen?"

The two Irish commanders looked contemptuous, and they had fought their troops all the way from the mountains south of County Carey to the south, and had hardly suffered from the British, but the Irish soldiers who had resisted the British landing force in Cork, and the German marines who had been battered by the British in Pikini, France, were not so complacent.

The British Navy's ability to shell the shore was quite powerful.

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