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Outside a trench that sank to the surface, the sky was blue, the grass was yellow, and if there was no trench, without the smoke that covered the sky, perhaps the scenery outside would be infinitely beautiful, and extremely lyrical, full of poetic atmosphere. Perhaps, looking out from the dark trenches, such beauty will be more precious and rare.

But a trench is a trench, a battlefield is a battlefield, and its gloom and coldness tell people that what they are facing is not poetry, but death.

The Russian soldiers walking on the withered yellow grass formed a formation and walked forward step by step, towards the trenches of the Northeast Army that they thought had been flattened.

"Stay in formation!"

Almost every tens of meters of marching, when the queue became a little untidy, the officers always maintained the formation of the company.

For this kind of infantry group charge, both officers and soldiers felt extremely natural, and for a hundred years, they had been fighting with this kind of phalanx group charge. And now, on the battlefield of the 20th century, this kind of infantry group charge, which has long been proven ineffective in the face of rapid-fire guns and machine guns, has once again appeared in front of the eyes of the world.

At this time, while Captain Mirinovich and thousands of other officers and sergeants were doing their best to maintain the order of the formation, the machine gunners and machine gun commanders of the Northeast Army were already busy in the machine gun position several hundred meters behind the Northeast Army.

Unlike many countries, the Northeast Army was the first to realize the role of machine guns and was equipped with a large number of machine guns, and most of their machine gunners and machine gun command officers had received extremely professional training in machine gun shooting and use, and even set up a special machine gun school for training machine gun officers and machine gunners, and because of this, German machine gunners. They are often more able to master the art of shooting than machine gunners in other countries.

Shooting, to be precise, is a science. Especially for machine guns, shooting is definitely a science! In this war, the use of machine guns was by no means the same as others understood, firing at a platoon of attacking troops under a machine gun that fired a dense number of projectiles, and in fact, the damage caused by this was extremely limited. If carefully arranged, the density of fire composed of a few simple machine guns is equivalent to that of an entire rifle battalion, and of course this poses a new test for the officers to arrange machine gun firing positions.

After years of research, the officers of the Northeast Army have worked out how to increase the power of machine guns -- intermittent firing, in which indirect firing is placed in a very important position in the machine gun firing technique of this war, the so-called indirect firing. That is, shooting at a display outside the field of view, which is extremely difficult to master, but its combat effect is equally terrifying. The greatest value of indirect fire is that the machine gun can be well concealed behind the defense line, with almost "murderous" fire to kill the enemy, at this time, the machine gun aiming and range calculation method is the same as the artillery, but the effect of the two is completely different, when the artillery shell comes, the soldier can get the prediction in advance through the whistling and screaming of the projectile, and for the indirect fire launched by the long-range machine gun, the soldiers can only hear the rustle like the wind sweeping the grass. This was followed by the screams of bullets striking the human body and the victims, and more importantly, indirect fire could easily form a denser, almost dead-end crossfire.

Accurate indirect fire required careful calculations on the part of the shooters, a complex method that the German machine gunners had long since developed for indirect fire. To help the shooter to conduct indirect fire at invisible targets, but the preparation for shooting was long.

Almost as soon as the shells overhead were far away, and the machine gunners who carried the machine guns to the firing positions were ready, the officers of the machine gun company quickly unfolded a high-precision, large-scale map and began to work on the map, on which every hill and ravine in the combat area could be found in detail, and the high-resolution photos taken by the reconnaissance planes every day also became an effective tool for the officers to carry out indirect fire.

Compass, goniometer, inclinometer, indexing gauge, aiming column...... With the help of various equipment, it took nearly two minutes for the heavy machine gunners in the rear to complete the preparation for indirect fire.

"Hurry up, in a few seconds, let's send Lao Maozi back to his hometown two kilometers away!"

Zhang Pengfei shouted with some excitement, now, for him, it is to bury all the Russians in the death zone composed of bullets and bullets!

"I dare to promise that we will make Lao Maozi unforgettable and unforgettable today!"

The Heavy said in a confident tone that they had been preparing for everything and had been anxiously waiting for this day to come, and now, this day had finally arrived, and it was time for them to show their might!

"They're going to be hopeless for the rest of their lives!"

At this moment, a signal came from the front, it was a signal to shoot, and the signal was issued, which meant that the Russian army had entered the firing area.

"Shoot!"

At the sound of an order, the nine Shen heavy machine guns of Zhang Pengfei's machine gun company opened fire.

"Steady ......"

"Maintain Formation ......"

Just as Captain Mirinovich was directing the troops forward, the silence of the early morning was broken by a rustling sound, first dozens of soldiers in the front column suddenly collapsed to the ground like mud, and the next moment, with the dense "whoosh" sound in the air, a small storm blew up on the originally silent grass, and the storm swept up patches of dead grass from time to time, and the dead grass danced on the grass.

Almost without warning, a bullet struck Captain Mirinovich in the shoulder, piercing his lower back, at this point. The rain of bullets with the "rustle" sound was like hail and smashed down directly from the sky, and most of the soldiers who were hit were shot in the shoulder, and the exit was either from the waist or wrist.

It was a storm, a storm carefully prepared by the machine gunners of the Northeast Army for the Russian infantry.

When the Russian army, which was 1,600 meters away, was still more than 200 meters away from the position of the Chinese army. They were baptized by a rain of bullets, but they did not hear the gunshots, and 1,600 meters away, the officers of the machine gun company who commanded the troops to carry out indirect fire at a large inclination with the help of equipment just kept directing the machine gunners to attack according to the prescribed "form", and the machine gunners numbly pulled the trigger, and in the deafening machine gun sound, the barrel of the gun was constantly heated, and even began to turn red.

When a 100-round drum is about to be finished, the unwanted machine gunner hands over or shouts, and the ammunition man, who has been waiting for a long time, will carry the drum and insert the drum into the machine gun at the moment when the bullet is finished, and then the machine gun will be jubilant again, and the tail of the boat will be heavily pointed under the push of gunpowder gas. This is a heavy bullet specially developed by the Northeast Army for heavy machine guns, although the power of the 6.5 mm bullet is slightly inferior, but it is enough for the anti-human body, and this kind of heavy pointed bullet in the stern, in addition to the weight of the warhead, also adds a steel core to enhance its penetrating power, with the jubilation of the machine gun continues to spray wine, when the furious roar of these steel core bullets. The bullet was pushed more than a thousand meters away, where it could easily penetrate the body of any enemy, and even several people.

The roar of the machine guns was deafening to the machine gunners of the Northeast Army, but to the Russians caught in the torrential rain, it was silent, it was like a silent massacre, and the rain of bullets swept everything in the dense columns, at this time. The column composed of nearly 100,000 Russian troops was completely shrouded in the dust and broken grass stirred up by the bullets, and a red blood mist continued to rise in the flying of the soil and grass, and the blood mist seemed to rise from the boiling on the ground, enveloping the column in it.

In the rain of bullets, the shouts of the officers were constantly heard. The soldiers who had been struck by the surprise had completely forgotten their previous hopes of victory, and they either stood there blankly and confused, or marched numbly, or instinctively lay on the ground, but they could not stop the bullets that dragged a slight whistling sound in the air, and they kept falling and hitting the soldiers' bodies like eyes.

Where is the enemy?

Up ahead!

Where are the bullets?

Overhead!

No one could hear the enemy's gunfire, only the screams of the wounded soldiers, and Sergeant Ivan, who was still stubbornly carrying out the order and ordering the troops to rush towards the Chinese defense line in columns, could hear the sound of bullets hitting the trunks of trees, and could also hear the crisp sound of bullets hitting the bones of soldiers, and in the continuous terrifying whoosh sounds, one after another fell down, and he saw a soldier in front of him whose head was pierced by the enemy's bullets, and his white brains flew out, As the soldier was about to fall, several bullets tore his waist apart, breaking his body in two.

Sou...... Phew!

The whistle of bullets sounded beside him, and he saw the screams of the boy from Warsaw, and he fell, and he didn't even see the blood mist rising, and at this time, as far as his line of sight could see, there was a red everywhere, and the red was in the air, like fog, shrouded in his sight, and the red, in the sunlight, looked a little strangely beautiful.

"Fast, fast, fast forward......"

Finally, Ivan, who realized that they had become a target, as a veteran, was the first to react, he tried to speed up himself, and then dodged the rain of bullets, but just when he gave this order, a cloud of red mist and dust burst out at the junction of his neck and shoulders, the red blood mist was so weird, when the red blood mist burst out, his whole person had already lie soft on the ground eroded by the rain of bullets.

When some timid soldiers tried to dodge the bullet rain in the crater, the bullets kept hitting their backs, and at this time, the silence between heaven and earth seemed to be only the silence before, and the sound that the soldiers could hear, only the flutter of their bodies when they were hit, the sound of bones shattering, and more and more screams, became the most swan song in many of their lives.

At this time, the tragic situation on the battlefield was like tens of thousands of people being thrown into a giant meat grinder, with stumps and broken arms everywhere, and corpses piled up on the battlefield, but even so, the Russian soldiers called "cattle" still stubbornly advanced.

The dense bullets are like a sharp scythe, and in an instant, the Russian army is "swept down in groups like cutting wheat", at this time, look at the scene in front of you. The soldiers of the Northeast Army in the defensive position finally knew what the "scythe of death" was, and the scythe of death was through that kind of quiet and silent way. Slaughtering humans, and now, the intermittent machine gun shows this scene, isn't it the wielding of the Death Scythe in the human world?

War, always, has been the case, and for thousands of years, human ingenuity has been constantly invested in war. People are constantly researching how to kill their own kind more effectively, and today, they have reached, at least in the eyes of these Northeast Army soldiers, this day, can no longer be surpassed, because they have achieved the long-awaited goal of mankind - humans can finally kill their own kind efficiently!

"Ready to shoot!"

Although he was stunned by the tragic scene in front of him, Xu Xinyuan, as a front-mounted machine gunner, was still at the time when the order was given. The trigger of the Shen machine gun was pulled.

It can be said that in the world in 1902, no army had more machine guns than the Northeast Army, and no army was more skilled in the use of machine guns than them, and with tens of thousands of light and heavy machine guns, in addition to using this interval fire, they also had a large number of light machine guns and heavy machine guns used to fill the blind spot of crossfire. There is a huge blindness in any crossfire, especially this kind of long-range indirect fire, unlike the machine gunners in the rear who cannot witness the shooting, through the optical scope Xu Xinyuan can see the Russian soldiers who were killed by him, and see those Russian soldiers being knocked to the ground under his guns.

At the same time as he pulled the trigger, the artillery also began to shell, the shells continued to fall into the blind spot of the cross-fire zone, and the fragments of the corpse soared in the explosion, and when Xu Xinyuan pulled the trigger, what he saw was that the Russians who had finally poured out of the death zone fell in pieces under his gun, the blood mist was filled in the group, and the fan-shaped bullet rain was swept in the crowd. The sluggish Russian soldiers were knocked out in a batch, and those behind continued to rush up, and then fell again, and then those behind rushed up again, and fell again......

Such an extremely tragic scene is constantly repeated and repeated. The rain of bullets, the mist of blood, the sound of gunfire, the sound of explosions, and finally it all came together into two words - death, corpse.

At this time, time in the world seemed to stand still, for the soldiers of the Northeast Army, they just kept pulling the trigger, and the scene of corpses piling up on the battlefield and how the blood flowed also frightened them, this kind of unprecedented hellish scene even made Xu Xinyuan, a machine gun shooter, tremble.

Despite a sense of fear welling up in their hearts, Xu Xinyuan and his comrades-in-arms still kept pulling the trigger, and the rain of bullets spit out from the barrels of their guns fell mercilessly on the bodies of the Russian soldiers, tearing his body to pieces.

This thrilling battle...... No, it's the massacre, it continues, and in the face of this massacre, the fighters who were excited before couldn't even bear to witness this tragic massacre, but for many machine gunners, they were stunned by the massacre they had created.

"Don't attack anymore!"

Numbly pulling the trigger, Xu Xinyuan shouted at those Russian soldiers in his heart, don't they know that their stupid behavior is impossible to change reality, and it is impossible for the human body to stop the bullet?

But those Russian soldiers who were struggling on the death line obviously couldn't hear his shouts, and just blindly endured unprecedented casualties, forward, forward, step by step towards the defensive positions of the Northeast Army, although every step, they needed to pay hundreds of deaths, but they still did not hesitate to advance, attacking.

On the morning of the same day, those Russian soldiers finally rushed into the trenches of the Northeast Army in individual sections, and in the trenches they fought a life-and-death white-knives battle with the officers and soldiers of the Northeast guarding the trenches, and the bayonets played a role at this time, and the bloody battle continued, and on this day, this one-sided massacre lasted a whole day.

On this day, when the sun was setting, the Russian army suffered more than 80,000 casualties, and by the evening, at such a heavy price, it only captured less than 10 square kilometers of land, and also set a history - a record for the heaviest casualties in the history of human warfare.

In one day!

It can be said that on this day, such huge casualties are enough for the Russians to remember.

And the battle of Nizhne-Udinsk, to be precise, this massacre, is enough to make this war go down in the history of human warfare, not because of its significance, not because it blocked the Russian army's attempts to reinforce the Far Eastern Army, not because it shattered the dreams of the Russians, but simply because of the casualties of the Russians.

Before the battle began, Semenovich and many Russian soldiers believed that they could use this battle to crush the opposite Chinese Third Corps and open the way to the Far East, but now, a day later, they had to face the reality that the Third Corps was not defeated, but the Siberian Corps, which lost more than 10% of its troops in one day!

The enemy has not yet been defeated, but the Siberian regiment has lost its initial sharpness......

But their sacrifice was not meaningless, and in the middle of the night, in view of the devastating blow to the forward positions, the 3rd Corps retreated more than a dozen kilometers overnight.

This news more or less always balances people's minds, at least the sacrifices of the Russian army were not sacrificed in vain, at least the massacre is still worth a little ...

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