Chapter 582: K-Type Armor-Piercing Bullet
Qi Lin pulled back the regular S-shaped bullets in his G98, and then pressed the five K-shaped rounds into it with a bridge clip.
In addition, he brought nearly 100 K-rounds as a backup before leaving the trench, which had been blown up by shells.
As soon as Qi Lin got into another trench, he ran head-on into a small group of German soldiers who had retreated from the front, almost all of them wounded, and two were carried on stretchers, covered in blood, and their lives were uncertain.
"Corporal, why are you here?" The leader of this group of German troops was a second lieutenant, and when he saw Qi Lin holding a rifle and getting out of the corner, he subconsciously raised the pistol in his hand, but fortunately, he saw the military uniform on Qi Lin's body in time, so he didn't pull the trigger.
"Marcus's machine gun squad has been denied by shells, and I must inform the others, or this line will soon be breached!" Qi Lin casually made an excuse and said.
"This line of defense has been breached." The second lieutenant sighed, "None of us can stop those steel chariots, they are like monsters, they can walk on the ground in front of barbed wire and trenches, the first three trenches have been lost, it is estimated that the British will soon rush here, we have to retreat to the underground fortifications." ”
"Frank...... There are only three of those steel chariots, and we still have a chance-" Originally, Qi Lin wanted to single-handedly take out three tanks, but now seeing this group of soldiers, he suddenly thought of a way with a greater success rate.
"Opportunity?!" The second lieutenant smiled bitterly, "There is no chance, our bullets have penetrated the armor of this combat vehicle at all, they don't even need to shoot, they can run over our soldiers directly!" ”
"No, we can penetrate its armor, just with K-shells!" After saying that, Qi Lin ran back to the position of the machine gun squad and carried the chains of the other two K-type bullets.
The soldiers looked at each other, and the second lieutenant also looked suspicious, but Qi Lin didn't care about pushing the K-shaped bullet in the rifle onto the chamber of the gun, and said to the second lieutenant: "We can do an experiment." ”
After saying that, Qi Lin poked half of his head out slightly - since this area had just been bombarded by gunfire like a scrubbing of the ground, a large amount of gunpowder smoke filled the position, which could just be used as a cover.
Qi Lin picked up the G98 rifle and began to use the sights that came with the rifle to aim......
(As the saying goes, it's the pure ones who use the machine to aim, and pull the big bolt...... )
The best angle for armor piercing with K shells is perpendicular to the armor plate - K shells, as early armor-piercing shells, are not capped and hooded, so they cannot use the positive effect to correct the angle of the warhead, once the tilt angle is too large, the warhead can easily slide away from the armor plate and form a ricochet.
Qi Lin had been waiting, and the second lieutenant was also clutching the telescope in his hand, observing the tank on the opposite side through the fainter and fainter smoke of gunpowder.
The smoke was gradually dissipating, and the three Mark I tanks had already run over the barbed wire fence arranged in front of the position by several moral troops, and at this moment, the right half of the body of a female Mark I tank sank down a little when it crossed a trench, although for the tank that used tracks to advance, it could quickly get out of the predicament, but it was this amplitude of a significant offset, and the armor plate of the right turret was just perpendicular to Qi Lin's trajectory for a moment-
"Phew!!"
Qi Lin immediately pulled the trigger, and the K-shaped bullet came out of its chamber, passed through the diffuse gunsmoke, and shot straight at the armor plate of the turret on the right, making a round hole!
"It worked!" The second lieutenant exclaimed in a low voice, "You...... How did you do it?! ”
"Let's not talk about that, run!" A shot pierced through the tank armor, Qi Lin was not complacent, but immediately pulled the second lieutenant and ran towards the depths of the trench, while the other German soldiers were stunned for a moment and immediately followed.
Qi Lin and the others had only left the firing site for more than 20 seconds, first several rounds of machine gun fire, bullets constantly hitting the sandbags and dirt on the edge of the trench, and then a dense burst of shells fell on the place where they had just stayed, making a deafening explosion - if they had not moved in time, I am afraid that they would have all been killed by the shells by now.
During World War I, the most common tactic used against snipers was to call for artillery fire.
"I should have hit the machine gunner in the right turret, and look, that tank is starting to retreat!" Qi Lin took out the trench periscope and looked at the opposite position.
Sure enough, the Mark I. tank, half of which was stuck in the trench, began to slowly retreat after getting out of the trench, and a closer look revealed that the tank's other machine guns were still pouring ammunition at the German positions, except for the one on the right turret that never fired again.
The interior of the Mark I was cramped and had a crew of up to eight people, including the commander, driver, gunner, and loader, and if someone in one position was shot, it would be difficult for the others to move the body out of the way to fill it unless they threw it out of the tank.
But doing so is almost like committing suicide.
"What the hell is going on? Can K-shells really penetrate the shell of that steel chariot?! The second lieutenant pulled Qi Lin with some excitement and asked.
The second lieutenant was already desperate in the face of the steel monster like the tank, which was on the battlefield for the first time, but now, he seemed to see a glimmer of hope in the despair.
Qi Lin nodded: "Yes, but it's very reluctant, you have to hit the armor plate vertically to have the possibility of penetration." ”
When the second lieutenant heard this, he immediately asked the soldiers to divide the K-type shells on the two bullet chains, and there were a total of twenty-four soldiers here, and in addition to the two seriously wounded, twenty-two people each received more than 20 K-type shells.
"What do we do next? Shoot at the steel chariot? The second lieutenant asked Qi Lin, but he didn't realize that he seemed to be completely subordinate to this non-commissioned officer who was several ranks lower than him.
"We can't shoot rashly, it's just a waste of bullets, and we're going to be used as snipers and lead to a new round of artillery fire." "We had to spread out, move along the trenches, look for reasonable shooting opportunities, and we had to change positions with every shot...... We don't have to kill the tanks, ah no, I mean the crew of the steel chariot, as long as they know that we have the ability to threaten them, they will definitely not dare to be so unscrupulous, and the speed of the advance will be greatly slowed down, and when the time comes, just let the artillery pick them up! ”()
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