Chapter 41: The Power of Heavy Machine Guns
(The heavy machine gun is coming, da-da-da...... Don't hurry up and put the recommendation ticket! Collection! Tip or something? Don't you want me to spit on you? )
The early Maxim heavy machine guns were not like the Maxim heavy machine guns that we often see in TV dramas, and the early Maxim heavy machine guns looked bulky.
In addition to the round barrel, the entire body of the gun is surrounded by a rectangular iron box, and although there is a single and burst setting, it is not very reliable to use.
Therefore, after placing the machine gun in the corner, Wang Sirui directly adjusted the heavy machine gun to the slowest rate of fire, which is about 100 bullets a minute.
'Da Da Da ......'
A slow rate of fire does not mean that it is not lethal, and it is clear that even a slow rate of fire can inflict huge casualties on the enemy in the face of a skilled machine gunner.
And in the past, in this kind of defense, the machine gunner was often very limited.
For example, he has to consider that the bullet he fires will not injure his own people, and he also needs to consider whether the bullet can hit the opponent, etc.
Blind strafing like that will not only fail to achieve the desired results in the end, but also waste a lot of ammunition.
With the addition of this heavy machine gun in Wang Sirui's hand, the third company once again achieved a suppressive effect. On the Japanese side, they couldn't raise their heads when they were beaten, and most of the time they could only stretch out their hands to fight back.
The other fighters of the third company began to carry out a capstone cleanup of the Japanese army, and once someone exposed the bunker, they would immediately attract three or four bullets to take care of all aspects.
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A group of Japanese troops closely followed dozens of Qing troops, while Captain Sakai, the leader of the team, frowned deeply.
The enemy who ran ahead of them was too cunning.
Since entering the Qing Kingdom, they have never encountered such an enemy, which time is it not that as long as they chase behind, the enemy army in front will desperately flee as if they were defeated?
How can it be like now, while escaping, there is still time to turn over and shoot.
What made Captain Sakai most angry was that because of his own carelessness, five or six of the pursuing Japanese soldiers had fallen, and all of them were wounded by the other party's sudden reversal of the shot.
Captain Sakai secretly swore in his heart that he would catch these people, and then drain their blood and skin them.
It's just that as time passed, Captain Sakai suddenly sensed that something seemed to be wrong.
The gang seemed to be deliberately taking themselves to another place, otherwise why would they stop and shoot when they had the opportunity to get rid of themselves?
Although it is nominally a blockade, but in reality? To shoot means to tell them where the pursuing enemy is, and unless it is a tactical arrangement, no one will want to do this in such geographical conditions.
This will only lure more enemies over, and will not allow you to escape smoothly.
Listening to the gunfire coming from behind him, Captain Sakai didn't feel any surprise, the scattered gunshots may be that there are still fish that have slipped through the net.
But immediately afterward, a large number of gunshots were heard behind him. And these gunshots all came from the Japanese army's standard equipment, the Type 30 rifle.
Although it is impossible to distinguish friend or foe from the sound of gunfire, the approximate comparison of enemy forces can be distinguished by the number of gunfires.
After feeling that the ambush soldiers behind him seemed to be about the same number as the number of people being pursued on his side, Captain Sakai breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
'Da Da Da ......'
The sound of the heavy machine gun completely relieved Captain Sakai, as long as the heavy machine gun was still firing, it proved that their team was absolutely safe.
Absolutely no one could pass through the heavy machine-gun blockade, not even the Boxers, who claimed to be invulnerable.
'Da Da Da ......'
'Smack! Syllable! Syllable! ……’
Suddenly, there was gunfire all around. And Captain Sakai, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, was instantly scared out of a cold sweat.
This gunshot, but it came from his side, definitely not behind.
Moreover, there is also the sound of machine guns, can it be said? ……
Captain Sakai didn't have much time to react, and the sudden gunfire around him solved everything.
The Maxim heavy machine gun was adjusted to the maximum rate of fire, and because of the bracket and the fixation of the brick mouth, the heavy machine gun was not adjusted too much.
In addition, the soldiers in ambush around were not on the ground, most of them were standing behind the wall, or from the window on the second floor to shoot, as long as the machine gun muzzle on their side did not shoot at it, it was absolutely impossible to accidentally injure their own people.
Coupled with the selection of the machine gun position, in front of it was a small alley about two meters wide and hundreds of meters long, which happened to be a T-junction, and the Japanese army was located below the T-junction at this time. It can be said that as long as the heavy machine gun can be activated and hit suddenly enough, a single bullet chain can almost solve all the Japanese troops in front of them.
Before Captain Sakai could react, the Japanese soldiers in front of him were in a mess.
However, this was not their own mess, but the overwhelming bullets of the heavy machine guns hit their bodies, and the bloody muzzles of the guns kept spraying blood, and it was faintly raining blood in the air.
The heavy machine gun in front of the 'Da ......' was still spewing out anger from it, and in the narrow alley, the Japanese army had no room to hide.
Perhaps the only place to hide is the small area that some people's houses recessed in.
But there are only a dozen or so households in this alley, and there are only a dozen or so gates when it is full, and hundreds of Japanese soldiers have no way to hide in them even if they have their heads broken.
They want to break in, at least to keep them safe for the time being.
However, after hitting it a few times, it was found that the gate seemed to be blocked from the inside, and even if several people tried their best to hit it, at most it could only loosen the wooden gate slightly.
If it was just that, while the Japanese were slamming on the door, hundreds of muzzles suddenly stretched out from the walls on both sides, or on the second floor, and they were shooting indiscriminately at the Japanese soldiers who were slamming the door.
Coupled with the heavy machine guns underneath, for a while, most of the Japanese casualties were lost, and there were only less than 50 people who could still stand at this moment.
And even if some Japanese soldiers reacted and thought of lying on the ground to avoid heavy machine gun fire, or using the corpses of their comrades as cover, they still could not resist the enemy's attack.
They can withstand bullets from the front, but they can't withstand bullets from above and behind.
In just two or three minutes, all 150 Japanese soldiers were killed, and not even a single wounded could still breathe.
"Quick! Clean up the battlefield, clothes, shoes, hats, weapons, ammunition, gold and silver, and don't let go of a single one. When all the Japanese troops fell, Wu Yang repeatedly confirmed that he ordered loudly.
The battle here will definitely attract the attention of the other coalition forces, they must clean up the battlefield as soon as possible, then go to support the third company, and then leave here as soon as possible.