Chapter 37: The Second Cataclysm—The Bloody Battle (1)
"Is there that much space in there?" Zhang Shixin was in the periscope of the turret, looking at the dungeon residential area in front of him, and he was very shocked, because he saw many ten-story buildings, about thirty meters high.
This represents a very serious problem.
That is, whether he should rush over or take down the residential buildings one by one.
You must know that the density of zombies here, in addition to being no more than the group of zombies that poured out of Nimel that time, is much more than that of the Underground Railway.
In this case, it is not a good choice to lead the troops to force their way over, or to engage in a siege battle with these zombie hordes that seem to have no long-range attack power.
However, Zhang Shixin couldn't retreat, because he had a strong premonition that he would find something that surprised him in this place.
"......" Zhang Shixin gritted his teeth and made a decision to forcibly rush over.
Layer by layer, the competition for residential buildings, even if Zhang Shixin has more than 10,000 troops, it is enough to choke.
Whether it's time, or the number of zombies you face.
Not to mention that Zhang Shixin is now only about 2,100 troops, and it is divided into three parts.
Although the division of troops weakens the firepower of the troops, it can also successfully attract the attention of the zombie groups in other regions, and the pressure on each unit is still lighter overall.
Zombies are not people, and they will not choose the tactic of "no matter how many roads you are in, I will only fight one way".
If this situation really happens, Zhang Shixin can only admit it.
Now that he has decided on tactics, Zhang Shixin turns the flamethrower into a machine gunner or an assaulter.
Although it is said to be a change of arms, in the end, it is just the main weapon for changing soldiers.
The flamethrower was replaced with a Steyr 44 assault rifle, or a small-caliber machine gun with a drum.
As for the formation chosen......
Zhang Shixin glanced at the back of the tank, and suddenly a good idea came to mind - the platoon gun party.
But in the war with Europe, the platoon gun party, which can be called the best lineup to kill its own people, is also called the line of guns party......
Zhang Shixin will not copy this formation, what Zhang Shixin wants is the intensive firepower of the gun platoon formation.
Zhang Shixin's plan is to carry a considerable number of infantry behind the tank, and then use IS heavy tanks to first form a side-by-side formation, and roll out a passage at a constant speed.
The task of the infantry carried by the tank is not to remove the zombies, but to kill the zombies that are blocking the tank's advance.
This ensures the safety of tanks and armored vehicles to a certain extent.
At least it won't be easily approached by the zombie horde.
But if he fought with a normal regular army, Zhang Shixin would not use this method to kill, because just like the turret machine gunner, many of the infantry on the tank were live targets.
Zhang Shixin also did not think of replacing the MG-34 carried on the front of the tank with the M2 flamethrower, but after comparing the surnames of the M2 flamethrower and the MG-34 machine gun, he found that the firepower of the MG-34 machine gun was still a little better than that of the M2 flamethrower.
The range of the M2 flamethrower is relatively short, and a tank can only carry about 100 short bursts of fuel.
The biggest problem is not this, but since the assault method was used to force the way through this area, the distance between the tanks and combat vehicles is about ten meters apart.
Zhang Shixin didn't want the tank behind to use a flamethrower to hit the tank engine in front of him, or even roast the infantry carried by the tank in front.
Many tanks have variants of Spitfire, but Zhang Shixin thinks that the combat surname of Spitfire is too good, and its own safety is a very big problem.
In the same way that no infantry would dare to follow a Flamethrower in real life, a Spitfire is not a good cover for infantry.
Moreover, the range of the Spitfire tank is only 110 meters on average, which is still available if the Spitfire is equipped with a dedicated Spitfire turret.
As for the machine gun mount in front of the hull with a flamethrower, the firing range is even shorter.
Therefore, taking into account many aspects, Zhang Shixin has never had the idea of moving the Spitfire tank, and the combat distance is too short is an important factor.
Wait until the team is ready. Zhang Shixin gave the order for the team to advance.
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Contrary to Zhang Shixin, who was preparing to rush through the residential area that made him gnash his teeth, the cemetery had already begun to enter a state of battle.
"Da ......" At the defensive fulcrums at several entrances and exits of the mausoleum park, machine gunners are constantly strafing the zombie hordes that rush in.
The other members of the team are constantly shooting zombies with their own weapons.
Whenever the zombies approached, the defense fulcrum threw a few grenades, and then blew down a group of zombies.
After the zombies were blown down in pieces, two more people threw incendiary grenades, or Molotov cocktails, increasing the killing effect on the zombies.
Fei Lei's understanding of the use of weapons is no worse than Zhang Shixin's, but in the case of having to take care of ammunition, he must better arrange the use of even a pistol.
Because Zhang Shi was absent-minded, they had as much ammunition as they had left.
But fortunately, when Zhang Shixin left, he left behind enough ammunition that could be wasted for half a day, but because most of them were machine gun bullets or shells, the amount of other materials was not too small, but compared to materials such as machine gun bullets, Fei Lei still had to save some flowers.
He didn't know when Zhang Shixin would return, and until then, they had to stick here.
The snipers at the height of the cathedral sniped at the zombies in their line of sight one by one, but for the zombies who were too far away, the accuracy of the G-43 semi-automatic sniper rifle was still not enough to hit the opponent's head weakness.
Because even with the help of sniper scopes, the heads of those zombies still looked very small at a distance of about five hundred meters.
However, they don't have to worry too much about ammunition, they are equipped with about 1,000 rounds of 7.92mm rifle rounds, and there are a large number of bullets and shells of various calibers piled up in the armored vehicles or churches on the periphery.
Fei Lei had to say that he had a headache in the face of Zhang Shixin's complicated late situation, but fortunately, the logistics were not within the scope of his management.
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The premise of Zhang Shixin's choice of weapons is that the average surname can be the best, and the surname of the M1911 pistol can be seen from the time it was equipped.
Although the surname of the G43 semi-automatic rifle is not as good as that of the M1 Garand, compared to the Soviet SVT-40, the surname can still be quite good.
The main reason why the M1 Garand is not equipped is that the disadvantages are as obvious as the advantages. Especially when he heard the "ding" sound, he could only replace the bullets, and if the enemy figured out this truth, the troops of Zhang Shixin's subordinates would be even more damaged.
As for machine guns, medium-caliber machine guns, infantry mainly use MG34 general-purpose machine guns and FG42 paratrooper machine guns, and the maximum increase of MG42 machine guns and MG34 machine guns is mainly due to the rate of fire of 1200 rounds per minute. But elsewhere it's similar to MG34, and there are even signs of regression.
For example, the MG34 can change the barrel much faster than the MG42.
This is primarily a matter of structure. This problem also manifested itself on the barrel cooling jacket.
Many vehicles equipped with MG42 need to be modified, although the range is not very large, but according to the number of equipment base, it is a very troublesome problem.
Just as most tanks have a round hole for their guns, the MG42 has a square barrel heatsink, so the holes have to be recuted.
That's a troublesome problem.
Although it is easy to cut out, it can't stand the number base.
And the rate of fire of the MG42 is 1200 rounds a minute, and many German veterans think that this rate of fire does not have much significance.
Because, two or three shots in an enemy should fall, but more than 20 bullets at once are more of a senseless waste.
And the rate of fire is too fast, which means that the muzzle jump is more difficult to control.
Therefore, no matter how good a machine gun shooter is, he cannot use the MG42 to have a better hit rate than the MG34 in a test of 100 rounds or flush.
The M2 heavy machine gun is the only large-caliber machine gun that Zhang Shixin is equipped with, and it is much better than the machine guns of the same caliber in other countries at the same time.
Based on the above situation, Zhang Shixin's standard weapons and ammunition caliber are 7.92mm, 11.43mm and 12.7mm ammunition of different calibers.
This doesn't seem too complicated, of course, this is the case compared to Zhang Shixin's tank and combat vehicle shells.
152mm shells for the Su-152, 51mm shells for the S-203, 105mm shells for the King Tiger and Cheetah, 58mm shells for the Type 85, 100mm shells for the Su-122S, KV-122S and IS. 57mm shells for the A-20, 75mm shells for the VK-2802 Shadow Panther, 150mm shells for the Panther and Wild Bee self-propelled guns, 100mm shells for the T-44, and finally a 132mm rocket for the Katyusha rocket launcher.
Well, the above is only the types of ammunition classified by caliber, if you subdivide it again, Zhang Shixin's tank and combat vehicle shells definitely have more than 50 types, and there are more of them.
Therefore, Firay looked at the boxes of ammunition and admired how his boss could accept such chaotic logistics.
If he hadn't known that Zhang Shixin had a secret that no one knew, he would definitely advise Zhang Shixin to simplify the logistics supply system.
Because, just looking at the ammunition box logo described in common words, he felt dizzy.
If Zhang Shixin knew Fei Lei's thoughts, he would pat the other party's shoulder helplessly:
"If the Soviet artillery hadn't hit so badly, I wouldn't have needed such a complex set of equipment."
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A considerable part of the materials left by Zhang Shixin did not have much effect on Fei Lei, and he did not need to take care of the impact like Zhang Shixin.
To be honest, he was very interested in that kind of homemade dummy bomb, but for many reasons, Zhang Shixin did not officially use it as a set of equipment, and he was not good for his boss to do these things that could make the Elven Dragon Security Company infamous.
So, in this case, Firay had to let his subordinates secretly make these dummy bombs.
In this defensive battle, these dummy shells, which had been hidden in the ammunition after they were made, were turned over by Firay and distributed to each soldier.
These dummy bullets can be regarded as one less than one, but Firey, who was above the cathedral and observed the situation, found that the hit rate of these bullets was lower than that of ordinary bullets, but the power was not comparable to that of ordinary bullets.
In particular, the sniper's 7.92mm dummy bullet hits the zombie's chest, which may directly break the opponent's spine.
Without the nerve transmission center, these zombies who fell to the ground could not move again, let alone make other attacks.
In this case, Firay thought of a large number of ordinary bullets, and his heart was very helpless......
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In a window on the second floor of the cathedral, a teenager was observing the situation through a scope.
After a while, a zombie appeared in the area to the left of the scope, and the boy quickly adjusted his body, and then placed the crosshair on the zombie's chest.
"Pong"
A 7.92mm bullet that came out of the disembowelment drilled into the zombie's neck after a short flight time, and then, the young man saw a piece of flesh exploding from the back of the zombie's neck, and then fell to the ground unwillingly.
The boy ignored the zombie again, shrugged his shoulders slightly, and turned his attention to the other zombie.
"Pong"
Another gunshot rang out.
However, unlike just now, after the boy saw a bunch of brown mixtures exploding from the back of the zombie's head, he found that the zombie had an inconspicuous bullet hole in the forehead.
Right in the bull's-eye.
After cheering himself on, the boy continued to look for the nearest target.
The place he faced was the southern entrance to the royal mausoleum of the Glenshire Empire.
His mission is to snipe the lone zombie who has crossed several defensive fulcrums with several comrades who are also facing this direction.
He did not have much aversion to such a task, nor did he feel happy.
How to say that?
He was not well educated and could not think of better words.
However, according to Liu Hu's bald master, his life was saved by the boss, so it is natural for him to work for the boss.
He thought that Liu Hu's words were good, but he knew that Liu Hu was desperate to train him, more for the sake of his own life.
Because he heard that the boss gave the master a death order, that is, for a period of time, if his marksmanship is not up to par, he will use the master with an apple on his head as a target.
The young man couldn't help but smile when he thought of this, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, but there was no ambiguity in the movements of his hands.
Remove the empty magazine, grab a magazine full of bullets from the window edge, insert one into the slot under the barrel, and then pull the bolt and aim it at the south gate of the cemetery again.
"Pong"
A bullet came out of its chamber again and flew towards its target......
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