Chapter 43: An Hour and a Half
(Brother Axian said to give a surprise, the fish head wanted to give it tomorrow, and Brother Axian told him that tomorrow's April Fool's Day would be ...... Well, add a little more to warm up for April Fool's Day. )
The M1914 Haqikes heavy machine gun, also known as the Hodchix heavy machine gun, has a gun length of 139 cm, a barrel length of 80 cm, a muzzle velocity of 724 meters per second, and can fire 450 rounds per minute, using a 250-round articulated chain.
Because it uses an air-cooled barrel, the Haqikeith heavy machine gun must stop every 25 rounds or so to avoid overheating the barrel and damaging the barrel life. Therefore, the Hacchikes heavy machine gun can also be fed with a 25-round plate, which is just right to give the barrel a little cooling time between reloads.
Qin Zhiyuan arranged the Haqikes heavy machine gun here, using a 250-round chain, and the shooter did not operate according to the requirements of the drill code, and pulled the trigger until all the bullets were exhausted.
After the shot, the barrel had begun to smoke and was slightly dark red, and the barrel was useless, or rather, the heavy machine gun was useless. Even after it is completely cooled, the barrel is bent, making it impossible to aim and shoot.
The inability to aim here refers to long-range aiming, which can still be used in tunnels with a straight line length of less than 100 meters.
The shelling of the French did not stop, the Germans continued to pour in, so the machine guns could not be stopped yet.
So, after putting on a new chain, Haqikis continued to growl.
By the time the gunfire stopped, the barrel had turned a conspicuous red, like the color of wrought iron on a blacksmith's workbench, and it was discernible to the naked eye that it had begun to sag.
The Germans paid a huge price, the corpses in the tunnel were already more than half a meter high, and the blood on the ground flowed freely into a stream. There are no wounded soldiers in the tunnel now, and even if there are wounded soldiers, they will drown if they are not crushed to death.
Maybe the Germans on the ground were dead, maybe the Germans had found other cover, or maybe the Germans were finally scared, and there were no Germans in sight at the mouth of the tunnel.
"You retreat to Position D and come over for Lewis's first group." The heavy machine gun has been scrapped, the shooter and the sub-shooter have completed the task, and Qin Zhiyuan ordered a replacement. The D position is the hall position, Qin Zhiyuan's current position is the A position, and they have to go through the B position and the C position to reach the D position.
Qin Zhiyuan also had more than a dozen Lewis light machine guns and M1909 Haqikis light machine guns in his hands, and he organized these light machine guns into three squads, ready to support or snipe at any time. The ultimate position is
"Yes, sir." The two shooters didn't talk nonsense and turned around and ran, they were already satisfied at this time, they had been in the army for so long, and the German soldiers they killed together were probably not as much as in these two minutes.
"Forehead drop...... O God! Lieutenant Garth, who was beside Qin Zhiyuan, was shocked by the efficiency of the heavy machine gun.
As a veteran machine gun company commander, Garth knew how powerful heavy machine guns could be, but he never realized how powerful they were.
Qin Zhiyuan didn't want to explain to Garth an important line of topographical behavior, as an officer, Garth should understand. Under the right circumstances, any weapon can turn into a key winner.
"Uh...... Sir, is there a defensiveness here? The leader of the machine gun team, who rushed over to take over the mission, was stunned by the hellish scene in front of him.
"In 15 minutes, you can retreat to D-position." Qin Zhiyuan estimated that this task should be easily completed, and within 15 minutes, the Germans may not be able to figure out the situation.
When the Germans figured out what was going on in the tunnel, and then regrouped and attacked again, I am afraid that half an hour may not be enough.
Of course, the Germans could also choose to blow up the tunnel, so that the Germans would no longer have to fill it with human lives. Qin Zhiyuan was not worried about this, the Germans knew that there was gold in the tunnel, and if the tunnel was blown up, they would not get anything.
The French also knew that there was gold in the tunnel, the French did not give up here, their artillery did not rest, and the explosions on the ground did not stop. Every explosion would cause the tunnel to shake for a while, this kind of previously terrifying scene now made Qin Zhiyuan and them feel extremely relieved.
It is possible that the British, or may not know, that they were the closest reinforcements to here, and according to Bastian, the British would have arrived in the evening, and it was already half past five in the afternoon, and the British could arrive at any moment.
The efficiency of the Germans surprised Qin Zhiyuan, and after 20 minutes, the Germans resumed the attack.
Having learned that there was strong fire in the tunnel, the Germans did not attack head-on, but first threw two smoke grenades in, and then sent soldiers to crawl forward, trying to get close and throw grenades.
Qin Zhiyuan had a plan for this, and as soon as he saw the Germans throwing grenades, he ordered Zheng to start work vigorously.
If the grenade is replaced with a shot put, Zheng Dali can go to the Olympics, which last year failed to take place because of the world war. At the last Olympic Games, in 1912, the American Parrick MacDonald won the gold medal with 15.34 meters, although the shot put was heavier than a grenade, but if Zheng Dali was allowed to compete, his results were even better than this.
Zheng Dali's "humanoid mortar" really lived up to its name, and after he began to throw grenades, the Germans' smoke bombs were useless, and the grenades were thrown far and fast, and the smoke from the explosion was much thicker than the smoke produced by the smoke bombs.
The Germans are very tenacious, or rather stubborn, and they go forward one after the other, plunging headlong into the tunnels that have swallowed the lives of countless Germans, without hesitation.
After throwing a box of grenades, even with Zheng Dali's physical strength, he felt very tired.
So Qin Zhiyuan ordered to retreat to position B.
The Germans paid a huge price and finally captured Position A, but they had to be careful, when Qin Zhiyuan and they withdrew, they left behind a large number of tricks and traps, and the Germans still had a long way to die.
Half an hour later, Qin Zhiyuan took the initiative to give up position B.
Another half an hour later, Qin Zhiyuan took the initiative to give up the C position.
Finally, at half past six, the French and Chinese retreated to the D position, the last one.
"Brothers de France, you have fulfilled your mission as soldiers, and you have proved your bravery with your perseverance. Now is the time for you to take a proper rest, General Fritz Wilhelm Theodor Karl von Bello has promised to treat you in a way that is befitting of your status. Lay down your arms, brothers French, enough blood has been shed, it's time for your war to end, think of your family, who are waiting for you to go back, think of your mother, your wife...... "Between the offensives, the Germans used loudspeakers to persuade them to surrender.
On the one hand, the Germans had to prepare, and on the other hand, they wanted to use language to break or shake the French will to resist.
"Aha...... Please go back and tell your General Bello that our commander is the eastern overlord from China, and if we want to surrender, we need to get Qin's consent, so you have to replace 'French brothers' with 'Chinese brothers'. Garth, who has become a loyal fan of Qin Zhiyuan, responded with a tweeter.
This is the first time that Qin Zhiyuan's name has broken through France and is associated with World War I.
At this moment, Qin Zhiyuan noticed that the shelling on the ground had stopped.
"Reinforcements have arrived!" Qin Zhiyuan let out a sigh of relief.
"Hooray!" All the French and Chinese erupted in earth-shattering cheers that covered the German tweeters.