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Early June. On the banks of the Ili River, Gurban Alimatu.

This name is completely unfamiliar to Yang Qiu in later generations, but it is like a thorn in the early years of the Republic of China for those people with lofty ideals who were determined to restore the territory of the country. The new name Vernye (later Almaty, as it was later called, for ease of reading) was something they would never want to accept. In the disgraceful "Sino-Russian Beijing Treaty", people only pay attention to Chita, Shuangchengzi, and Vladivostok, but forget the three pearls of Western Xinjiang! From north to south, the three pearl lakes of the steppe, together with more than 700,000 square kilometers of fertile land in the vicinity, were ceded to Zaisangbo, Balkhash and Issyk-Kul lakes.

Many years later, this land became a well-known mining center in Russia, especially gold (Kyrgyzstan), which once accounted for 20% of Russia's share, and a large number of strategic scarce mineral deposits under the land, which provided 11 raw materials for the Russian aerospace industry in the bipolar world.

Today, 55 years after the loss, a group of great men are here again.

Ouyang Nan rode on a camel, and the Mauser G98 precision sniper rifle that had accompanied him for five years straddled his shoulder. I don't know if it's the glare of the sun or the tiredness of the road, I lazily squint my eyes and stare obliquely at a special new comrade-in-arms in front of me. This young man who led the way for Qiu Wenbin into Guilin City was already a 25-year-old veteran, fighting in Beiyang, fighting Japan, and fighting fiercely on the world's most terrible Western Front for two years, and became one of the most terrible snipers in the Wehrmacht, only in the two years on the Western Front, there were 142 people who could be confirmed! In his entire service career so far, the number of kills has reached 197! Because of this achievement, he was favored by the hunter unit last year, and not only became a hunter but also quickly became a squad leader.

However, he was not the most feared sniper in Europe, because there was a large mountain diagonally opposite.

The most terrible sniper in the European War - an Australian-Chinese sniper nicknamed "Mother of Death" and "Gallipoli's Killer", a soldier of the 5th Australian Light Cavalry Regiment. Shen Billy!

Unlike Wehrmacht hunters, who need to be trained for several years. The Chinese-Australian soldier had only "played" a game of shotgun kangaroo before the war. As soon as he thought of this, Ouyang Nan was a little discouraged, he actually lost to a kangaroo hunter. Shen Billy didn't notice that Ouyang Nan was looking at him. He dozed off with his head down, his body swaying slightly with the footsteps of the camel. As soon as the Paris Peace Conference began, he received an invitation from the Chinese National Defense Forces. With a monthly salary of 100 yuan, he can immediately bring his mother and sister, who are living in difficult Australia, to live in Shanghai. Originally joining the army to make life better for his mother and sister, he agreed to join the Hunters and retired from the Australian Army three months ago.

Although his father is from Shanghai, China, he was young when he went to Australia, so he didn't have much of an impression of the country. His idea is to make money, make more money to make family life better, and of course, it is also a good career to make money and help the motherland at the same time.

"Billy." Ouyang Nan finally couldn't bear it anymore and patted the camel to catch up with Shen Billy. Asked, "What did you do?" ”

"What and how?" Under his father's teaching, Shen Billy spoke Chinese well, but he was still a little dazed by this problem when he dozed off. The comrades-in-arms around him suddenly laughed. Ouyang Nan simply took off the gun bag and patted it. Meaning how can you hit so accurately.

Shen Billy thought it was a big deal, but he didn't think about it and asked himself about marksmanship. The eyelids drooped: "The kangaroo runs fast." ”

"The rabbit is also very fast, but I haven't seen any progress after practicing for a long time." The hunter assault man next to him interjected.

"Fuck off, you can still train as a sharpshooter when you see a woman's eyes that you can't take away?"

"Haha."

The comrades-in-arms taunted each other and joked with each other, a feeling that made Shen very comfortable, as if he was back in the familiar Australian army, not in a certain army in China, which was said to be conservative and feudal and rigid. He also had to admit that after the European War, the thinking and lifestyle of China's young light soldiers were gradually westernized, and it was precisely because of this that he quickly integrated into this army, at least these comrades-in-arms around him made him very comfortable.

"Billy, can you tell us about what Australia is like? And the kangaroo you always said, really run on two legs? The machine gunner squeezed Ouyang Nan away and took the initiative to hand over the cigarette and ignite the flame. Obviously, in the young man's mind, Australia is far more important than sniping. Billy Shen was just about to introduce the customs of Australia to everyone, when a huge black shadow suddenly appeared in the sky, and when he looked up, he found that it was actually an airship! So subconsciously it is to raise the gun. No wonder he reacted in this way, for any veteran of the European War, the prestige of the Zeppelin was too loud. Ouyang Nan quickly stopped his shot, and pointed to the Black Eagle symbol on the airship: "It's ours." ”

Shen Billy was a little surprised, although from the outside, this airship was not as big as Zeppelin, the body was slender like a spindle magnified countless times, and the hull pod was relatively small, but there was an obvious observation window on the abdomen. However, these were not his concerns, and he was surprised that the Wehrmacht was actually equipped with airships. Ouyang Nan obviously knew more than this hunter rookie, and smiled: "Mr. Xie Zhantai went to Chongqing five years ago. ”

"Oh."

For the Chinese in Australia, the name Tse Chan-tai is known to many people, he is a pioneer of aviation among the overseas Chinese, and later after returning to Hong Kong, he built airships, but later he was keen on revolution rather than technical research. Now that he is back to his technical work, Shen Billy is also happy for him: "He is a good person. Ouyang Nan was a little sullen, although some of the hunters had strange tempers and were unwilling to speak for a few days and nights, but Shen Billy seemed to have nothing in mind, and secretly wondered if it was caused by the loss of his father at a young age.

The airship also spotted the team, and after two turns, dropped a transmitter.

The assaulter rode back the transmitter, opened and took out the paper and handed it to Ouyang Nan, after comparing the coded book and translating it, his face changed slightly, like a wild wolf that smelled blood, and opened the gun bag: "Ready to work, five kilometers to the west, one of our troops is entangled by guerrillas and needs to be rescued!" ”

This sentence is an order!

The hunters quickly headed west, and Billy Shen prepared on the camels as everyone else. The gun he used was the same as Ouyang Nan, a G98 precision rifle purchased from Germany by the Wehrmacht before the war, using the Wehrmacht's 7.62*51 full-power ammunition. Install the ZEISS 4x optical telescope. Special steel-core bullets are also issued to enhance lethality. This bullet is an improved version of the German K bullet, which only broke through the production technology at the end of last year, but the production volume is still small due to the difficulty of processing and the high precision requirements. Equip only some special units. However, it is extremely powerful, ensuring that it can penetrate a brick wall 300 meters away and then kill the target behind it. In addition to rifles, equipment such as compasses, field compressed biscuits, 9mm Minyuan pistols, egg grenades and yellow explosive blocks, and sleeping bags were distributed.

The Hunter Squad is no ordinary infantry squad. The standard is 15 people. In addition to the two G98 sniper bolt-action rifles, there were three modified long-barrel submachine guns of the 17-year model, two Han II light machine guns, one Winchers M1912 special shotgun, six experimental semi-automatic rifles of the 18-year model, and two 40mm grenades of the 1917 model.

The 18-year semi-automatic rifle and the 17-year 40mm grenade are the latest equipment, and for various reasons only hunter units are currently equipped. The former was developed by Liu Qingen and the Russian firearms designer Ferguson Federov who invented the world's first "Federov M1916 automatic rifle", and the design template was derived from the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle that Yang Qiu took out in his early years. Federov was one of the many Russian technical experts invited to China during the European War, and when he arrived and joined the Hanyang Design Department, he felt that the 10-round semi-automatic rifle was still too weak. At that time, Hanyang began to develop a new submachine gun, and he found that the design of the 32-round double-row magazine was very ingenious, so he transplanted it to the rifle. The fixed magazine was changed to a steel molded double-row 20-round magazine design. The double-row magazine ensures that the firing baseline is not too high. The firepower is also stronger, and due to the fact that it is a single-shot semi-automatic. The recoil is much smaller than that of the automatic rifle he designed, so he can continue to use the more powerful 7.62*51 full-power bullet.

But this gun is still an experimental product, and the hunter lad is very "innocent" and becomes a guinea pig again.

As for the 17-year 40mm howitzer, it is completely imitated from the M79 howitzer used by the US military in the Vietnam War, and there are only two kinds of ammunition, grenades and shotguns, because they are simple to manufacture and easy to use, and the cost is comparable to that of grenadiers, so it has been determined that the grenadiers used in the army will be completely replaced, and the 60mm mortars that have also begun to be equipped will form a team support firepower for the next 20 years.

"Billy, I'm still 4 times off." Ouyang Nan hooked the corners of his mouth and raised four fingers.

Billy Shen understood what that meant, because his sniper success was 201 times. Raising his rifle to look at his new observer, he plugged in the scope and said lightly: "Kangaroos run faster than the enemy." ”

"What does that mean?" The machine gunner looked at Shen Billy and the observer who ran forward, and approached Ouyang Nan very defiantly and scratched his head. The latter glared at him angrily: "It means that Lao Tzu is not as good as him and can't hit the kangaroo." ”

The fighting took place near the small station of the unfinished Tusi (Turkestan to Siberian Railway) railway. Construction of the railway began in 1910, and in 1915 it was said that it was repaired to Semipalatinsk, but in fact it stopped at Barnaul due to the war. The place where the fighting took place was part of the western section of the railway, but it had long since stopped, saying that the railway station was actually a small Slavic settlement, except that the roadbed had not yet been laid with rails and sleepers.

Three or four hundred poor partisans had surrounded the unfinished station with the help of a 75mm gun, and the exchange of fire was very fierce, although it was impossible to tell which brother unit was surrounded, but judging from the intensity of the fire, it should have been a light infantry company, with only grenadiers and light machine guns.

Ouyang Nan did not attack immediately, but observed first. After the October Revolution, many Soviet armed forces of all kinds were established in this area, most of them were early immigrants of Slavs, as well as Georgian, Tatar, Turkish, German, etc., among which the greatest threat to the security of western Xinjiang was the Dungan and the Turkestan armed forces known as Turkic descendants. The former triggered the Han-Hui War, which killed tens of millions, and the latter was the biggest source of instability in Xinjiang! These people have become the main force in the Central Asian theater after being recruited by the poor party.

The attack plan was quickly formulated, and it was still the most typical machine gun squad tactic, using machine guns as the guide to attack from the east, and Ouyang Nan and Shen Billy were responsible for long-range protection.

The hunter squad quickly dispersed, and the entire skirmish line was hundreds of meters wide. Shen Billy was very unfamiliar with the three-three tactics, so his observer was allowed to follow him and teach him. The machine gunners took their positions first, and two light machine guns spewed out tongues of fire from the east almost without warning, and in one fell swoop the attacking poor party forces were blinded.

"Quick."

The observer slapped Billy on him, and the latter ran forward after him. Just ran less than 20 meters. From 400 meters away, more than a dozen guerrilla cavalry rushed over with a scream. Cavalry in sight. Shen Billy not only didn't get nervous, but quickly squinted his eyes, raised his gun and aimed at it, and the action was smooth and smooth. Hearing only a crisp snap, the cavalry who took the lead in waving his sword and rushing fell headlong.

Didn't wait for a second shot. The fireman on the left has also quickly fired two 40mm fragmentation high-explosive grenades, the 40mm grenade does not need to be aimed like a sniper, relying on explosions and built-in fragments. Two fireballs after destroying the cavalry charge formation. It also gave Shen Billy room to play, only to see him shoot while wandering, and in the blink of an eye, four or five cavalrymen had already fallen.

Everyone finally saw what "Gallipoli's killer" was, even Ouyang Nan nodded secretly, and after killing a guerrilla soldier running towards this side with a single shot, he led everyone to quickly lean towards the train station.

Compared with the decaying and ineffective Russian army on the Eastern Front, the poor partisans were much more combative, but their organization and tactics were very poor, and the infantry and cavalry swarmed over to block the hunters when they saw them. But this headless fly-like charge may be effective against ordinary troops, but against an elite squad like the Hunter is no different from sending them to death. Fortunately, the guerrilla officers quickly sensed that something was wrong and found that the opponent was attacking in a tight formation. It's also very fast. The two light machine guns always maintained crossfire to provide suppression, and the grenade gun provided fire support. The experimental 18-year-old semi-automatic rifle, which was put into actual combat for the first time, showed the advantage of strong firepower, and a group of two could suppress at least a dozen Mosin Nagant rifles.

"Machine gun, push the machine gun over." Seeing that this group of enemies was very unusual, the poor party officer hurriedly took out a killer weapon that had been useless, and asked everyone to push an M1905 heavy machine gun over.

Seeing the heavy machine gun, Ouyang Nan suddenly shouted in his heart, because the surrounding terrain was flat and lacked shelter, once the heavy machine gun fired, it was very easy to press the hunters to the ground and couldn't raise their heads, so he immediately asked the fireman to suppress it. Bang bang the two 40mm grenades deviated relatively far, but they still interfered with the machine gun action, and Ouyang Nan took this opportunity to quickly raise the gun. Just as he was about to pull the trigger, Shen Billy came out of nowhere and shot at the shield first.

The Russian Heavy cowered behind the steel shield and thought it was okay, but the steel bullet easily pierced through the shield and hit him in the head. Seeing that the machine gunner was killed, the besieged Wehrmacht in the railway station began to counterattack, and under the cover of several grenadiers, they cooperated with the hunters to launch a counter-encirclement from all directions, and the poor party guerrillas immediately dropped dozens of corpses and retreated south.

Shen Billy put away the gun, and when he turned his head to look, Ouyang Nan had already made a six gesture to him, which meant to complete six snipers. He smiled and didn't answer, because he had also completed six snipers without losing or winning, making the two look at each other and smile.

The besieged brother troops came out of the bunker one after another, and Shen Billy found that most of these soldiers were short, with thick lower limbs, and a lot of equipment on their bodies was somewhat similar to them, and the armbands were embroidered with a strange animal with scales, nails, pointed heads, long tails, and claws embellished with gold.

"It's the 18th Mountain Brigade, and the armband is embroidered with the golden-clawed pangolin unique to Fanjing Mountain." When the observer introduced Shen Billy, Ouyang Nan also learned about it from the captain and company commander. They were all from the reconnaissance company of the 18th Mountain Brigade, and they were ordered to reconnoiter the Almaty poor partisans, and they were accidentally found and fled here while capturing their tongues.

Many officers in the reconnaissance company also recognized the hunter, and it was natural to be very affectionate to meet them in the far west, but before the soldiers could greet each other, a soldier came to report the discovery of the British squad.

Ouyang Nan frowned, the quagmire of Central Asia really affected the whole body, I didn't think that the British would also intervene! However, because the command took care not to contact the British troops unless necessary before departure, after thinking about it, it was better to return to Karakum with the reconnaissance company first