Wiesenberg pointed the pistol at his temple and pulled the trigger. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Nothing happened.

Theoretically, once someone pulls the trigger, the hammer is lowered, and the impact of the firing pin causes it to hit the primer of the bullet, which ignites the propellant, producing a large amount of gas and rapidly expanding, pushing the bullet out of the muzzle - a series of actions and changes that will be completed in less than a second, that is, the next moment Wisenberg pulls the trigger, a bullet will drill into his temple and blast his head open.

But nothing happened.

No bullets flew out of the muzzle of the gun - and certainly no bullets hit his head. In fact, there were no gunshots either. Although Wiesenberg was certain that he did hear the slight sound of the hammer being lowered, what was supposed to happen next was apparently prevented by some unpredictable cause.

Like what......

With a little frustration, and a little anger, Wiesenberg turned the pistol in front of him. As he believed, the brand-new Mauser C96 semi-automatic pistol jammed.

Of course, there is a possibility of jamming in both semi-automatic and automatic weapons, there are no exceptions, the difference is only the degree of frequency. So for their users, they must master the necessary skills to troubleshoot the inherent malfunctions of this almost semi-automatic and automatic weapon.

Unfortunately, Wiesenberg doesn't have this skill yet.

He knew that a semi-automatic pistol could jam, but did not know how to rule it out. After all, even after the expeditionary force began to march to Shanxi, he was still using a revolver, and now it was entirely Colonel Kittel's idea to switch to a semi-automatic pistol, and this Mauser C96 was also the colonel's pistol.

He hadn't had a chance to learn and master the art of troubleshooting jamming - and certainly not the time for him to figure it out on his own.

Wiesenberg believed that the Chinese's bullets or bayonets had sent him to God before he found a way to troubleshoot; He will never be able to solve the problem of a pistol. But this also means that now, the weapon given to him by Colonel Kittel has become a piece of metal garbage weighing a few kilograms of metal.

Expensive metal junk - the Mauser Arsenal knew that production of the Mauser C96 semi-automatic pistol, which had only begun last year, in December of 1895, was still rare on the market, and was not the standard weapon of the German Army. So it's still worth a lot.

But expensive garbage is still just garbage.

"Damn shit!" Wiesenberg angrily condemned the weapon in his hand and threw it out as if he were really throwing away a chunk of metal trash.

Then he began to miss his revolver and devoted every bit of attention to it, completely immersed in the spirit world, not caring for anything around him. Because...... It's purely a self-defeating point of view, and in his opinion, the things around him are no longer worth caring about.

Wiesenberg had relinquished his command, officers and soldiers, but the surviving soldiers, under the command of some officers, were still stubbornly resisting for survival and the honor of the German soldiers.

Herald Helmut was an important key player in these resistances: from the moment the entire assault unit was divided into separate battle groups, he ran between them, passing on information, advice, instructions and orders, coordinating the actions of the various battle groups and helping the officers to stay on top of the situation. It is almost no exaggeration to say that without Helmut, the surviving commando officers would not have been able to organize a decent counterattack, and all of them, like their commanders, would have given up in desperation.

As a herald, Helmut played a role far beyond his rank and position.

He's important. And the officers and soldiers of the Qing army also recognized the important value of this Western devil who was running around on the battlefield like a rabbit. At the officer's orders, hundreds of weapons, including a few submachine guns, diverted their firepower in an attempt to drown out the troublemaker with a rain of bullets.

However, they all failed shamefully - a barrage of bullets hit one lieutenant, two ensigns, nine sergeants, and nineteen German soldiers, but none of them came close to their original target. Herald Helmut was unscathed and still running around the battlefield, leaving people stunned.

It took almost two minutes for Wu Luzhen, Zhang Shaozeng, and Lan Tianwei to recover from the shock.

"That's not true." Wu Luzhen shouted in disbelief.

"He must be killed!" Zhang Shaozeng turned to the officers around him and gave an order, "If a hundred people can't do it, let two hundred people do it." Gotta kill him! ”

"Remember to aim!" Lan Tianwei glared angrily at his soldiers, roaring. "Aim at your target, calculate the shooting parameters before firing. Don't be so impulsive! ”

But his soldiers did not understand what he meant, or understood, but could not do it, and were unwilling to do it. They remained the same, neither aiming nor estimating the amount of advance, just turning their guns to the target, and then began to lose themselves - attention! It's selflessness -- firing fiercely at him.

Since the mass equipping of the army with rifled rifles, there has probably never been anything like this in the war, more than two hundred soldiers...... And ten of the soldiers were using the latest automatic weapons, pouring fire on a target, but in the end they couldn't even touch his skin.

In the new attack, the bullets hit at least forty more people, but all of them grazed Helmut's side.

He was still running up and down the battlefield, going from one battle group to another, doing his best to fulfill his duty.

Wu Luzhen, Zhang Shaozeng, and Lan Tianwei all had an urge to strangle him to death.

On another battlefield, Kittel also had an urge to send all of his Chinese opponents to the gallows.

The tentative attack on the flanks proposed by Rohr failed because the despicable Chinese once again concealed their actual strength: in the previous four attacks, the Chinese army had not used artillery, and the artillery remained silent until the fifth attack.

It was just when the infantry company sent by Rohr was about to approach the first line of trenches on the right flank under the cover of the barrage, and at the very moment when all the senior officers thought that they were about to succeed, the Chinese artillery opened fire, and about thirty shells fell in an instant on the advancing ranks of the advancing soldiers, blowing down almost a quarter of the unsuspecting soldiers, and then, nine rapid rounds of supplementary fire, left the rest in place.

A whole infantry company, more than a hundred officers and enlisted men, not a single one of them retreated to the starting position. Never before had the expeditionary force suffered such a heavy blow.

A new record, a shameful failure.

"What's going on? Can anyone tell me how the artillery fire of the Chinese can be so fierce? "Kittel is about to have a stroke.

Now he had forgotten his original purpose - to find weaknesses in the American-style defense system and ways to break through it in actual combat. After paying such heavy losses, the colonel had only one thought left in his head: to fight back, to take revenge.

But first, we have to figure out what exactly happened.

"The ...... they use It seems to be the kind of light mortar of the Americans. Wagner thought for a moment to make sure his guess was not wrong, "It's that kind of artillery." It was the only one that could fire so quickly and hide in the trenches. ”

"Trenches?" Lunt turned his gaze to the positions of the Chinese troops, looked at them for a while, and then turned back, "I don't see ......"

"No one saw the artillery positions of the Chinese, and no one saw the flames when the artillery fired." "They put their artillery in the trenches," Rohr affirmed. ”

"When did the Chinese get this light mortar? I've never heard anything like it. "Kittel tried to calm the brain, but he couldn't." May I think that this was secretly provided to his compatriots by the American general named Qin Lang after the start of the war? ”

No one knew how much his guess was true—at this moment, Wagner, Lund, and Rohr were simply frightened by the overly bold speculation. "Colonel, your guess is enough to cause a diplomatic storm." Wagner cautioned, "We have no evidence. ”

"And he's really just an arms dealer and mercenary leader, and his military advisers are in charge of training the Chinese army. It is not surprising that the Chinese army massively uses weapons produced by his company. Lent shook his head, "Even if we find a little evidence, it doesn't make any sense. ”

"The more important thing now is to fight back. We must retaliate...... Look! Luo Er suddenly shouted, pointing to a certain position in the position of the Chinese army, "There is a man in yellow there." ”

The officers all turned around and raised their binoculars. As Rohr declared, there was indeed a Chinese in yellow at that location, and many officers and soldiers gathered around him. Finally, and more importantly, this guy in yellow is also holding a telescope and is observing here.

A big man, most likely the top commander of the Chinese army, or a higher-ranking official. The senior officers quickly exchanged glances.

"Knock him off." Kittel said. "Perhaps, after killing him, the Chinese army will collapse."

Wagner nodded, and continued, "But it's a little far. Will our field artillery be able to hit? ”

"Call Major Schellner." Kittel called.

The commander of the artillery was able to answer questions.

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Note: It must be noted that the German Army was not equipped with such weapons, except for the purchase of 150,000 9 mm Mauser C96s (135,000 were actually delivered) during World War I

Added: Regarding the question of the dialogue of the Chinese, I actually thought about it for a long time, but in order to maintain the style of the whole book, I can only write like that, please forgive me (to be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )