Volume 5: "I Am the Legend" (I) Chapter 58: Gaining Strength (5)

Alberta continued to walk towards the interior of the cave, and what shocked him was yet to come, as there were not only heavy machine guns, light machine guns, Imperial Okai heavy machine guns, and Storm light machine guns. And when Alberta continued to walk towards the interior of the cave, it was discovered that there were still 6 rapid-fire 20mm rapid-fire cannons and 4 medium rapid-fire guns of 40mm calibre.

When Alberta saw the artillery, he was almost indescribably excited. He knew what these guns meant.

When Alberta stepped forward, he found that the guns were engraved with words: Imperial Type 892 Light Rapid-Fire Cannon, Hail Type Rapid-Fire Cannon. Alberta is somewhat unclear why this cannon is called hail. But when Alberta saw the loader on the cannon, and the bay magazine, he knew why.

Originally, this kind of gun used a bomb bay type to feed ammunition, a huge magazine that needs to be held by one person, which is the ammunition supply device of a light 20 mm caliber cannon. And inside this huge magazine, you can hold 20 20-caliber cannon shells. Therefore...... When Alberta saw the 20mm cannon, it was clear why it was called hail. Because it can inflict a hail blow on the enemy.

As for the 40 mm caliber guns, they were also fed with magazines. However, the 40 mm caliber gun, due to the length and weight of the shells, can only be loaded with 10 shells in one magazine.

The 40 mm caliber gun is called the Imperial Type 898 light rapid-fire gun, the Hurricane gun, of course, this gun can take two ways: curved or direct fire. Alberta saw the ruler, and the maximum range was 12,510 meters. That is, more than 12 km of range.

As Alberta continued to move forward, he saw that there were not only artillery, but also about 3,000 standard rifles that the Reich was now equipped with, and although it was a little backward compared to the latest Manlich rifle, it was the Empire's current rifle: the Manlipp rifle, which was the Reich Type 870 rifle, the Manlipp rifle. Although the Manlich rifle is a straight-pull bolt rifle with a swing lock, it is common sense that the rate of fire should be higher than that of the Manlich rifle.

However, due to the immaturity of the Straight Pull bolt technology of the Manlip rifle, and the Straight Pull bolt is easy to jam when the cartridge case is withdrawn. The jam rate is very high, so the rate of fire of the Manlip rifles that the Empire is now equipped with is not very fast. In addition, the Manlip rifle adopts a cassette bomb bay, and the way to input the cartridge is manual bolt push, so only Imperial soldiers who are skilled in using Manlip can use the Manlip rifle well, resulting in the cartridge not jamming.

However, the Manlip rifle is the world's first rifle with five rounds in a single bay. Compared to all previous one-child rifles, the rate of fire has been greatly increased. A skilled shooter can average more than 15 rounds per minute. The rate of fire of the one-child rifle is around 5 to 8 rounds. If a rifleman can shoot 8 rounds per minute, he is a soldier who is very good at using a one-child rifle. Such soldiers are usually well-trained veterans and are rare.

And most ordinary soldiers usually have a rate of fire of about 5 rounds, if they are recruits who have not been trained for a long time or even conscripts who have just enlisted in the army. In times of war, which can cause panic and even tension, the rate of fire of the soldiers will be greatly reduced, and the rate of fire will be reduced to about 3 rounds per minute. In this way, the rate of fire of the Manlip rifle is three to five times that of the one-child rifle used in various countries in the past.

Of course, Alberta knew that in the bloody battle at Port Epale, the main casualties of the defenders of Port Epale were heavy machine guns, and most of the soldiers died at the hands of heavy machine guns, not ordinary rifles.

Alberta continues to count that there are still a thousand boxes of grenades in the entire cave. Alberta looked at the markings on the grenade box: Imperial Type 860 grenade. Alberta's heart trembled when he saw the words written on it, and it was April 1, 903 A.D. The Empire launched a fierce attack on the port of Epalai at noon on September 13, 902 AD.

Other words...... Alberta pondered in his mind: that is, the Empire had prepared all kinds of weapons for attack at least forty years ago...... When Alberta thought of this, his heart suddenly cooled. He pondered in fear the heart of the Empire's jackals.

Alberta took out a grenade and studied it carefully. And on top of each box are instructions for use and simple drawings of grenades. Alberta discovered that the grenade was made up of three parts: the explosive part, the wooden pole part, and the cable ignition part.

The upper part of the grenade mouth is 0.18 kg of explosives, while the lower part is a detonator tube for ignition. The lower part of the detonator tube is the delay tube, and further below is the friction igniter. Inside the igniter, further down is the drawstring. And from the pull cord and friction igniter, this part has reached the wooden rod part of the grenade.

How to describe this grenade? It's like a stick, and the top is a tall, protruding metal part. The rod of the grenade, on the other hand, is the wooden rod part. At the bottom of the grenade is a metal cover that can be opened. When the metal cover is opened, inside is a bead made of earthenware. By pulling the clay beads apart, the drawstring can be pulled and the igniter rubbed against it, while the delay tube is responsible for giving the grenade thrower about five seconds or more for the thrower to throw the grenade out.

After the grenade is pulled, the delay tube is delayed for five seconds, and the detonator tube ignites 0.18 kg of explosives, causing the grenade to explode.

Alberta looked at the grenade's instruction manual. Know that this grenade will be thrown quite a distance. And he saw that it was written: a skilled thrower can throw a grenade at a distance of fifty meters.

There were 200 grenades in each box and 100 boxes of grenades, for a total of 20,000 grenades.

The Imperial Rifle Type 870 Manlip rifle has 300 boxes of 10 rifles each, for a total of 3,000 rifles. And the universal bullets of the Manlipp rifle and the Manlich rifle are both eight-millimeter bullets. The Empire's newest standard rifle, the Manlich Type 890, had 50 cases of ten rifles each, for a total of 500 rifles.

As for the ammunition, there are a total of 2,000 boxes of eight-millimeter ammunition, each box has 2,000 rounds of ammunition, and these ammunition are plasticized, not scattered in the ammunition box, but plasticized, with 40 rounds of ammunition per box. There were 50 boxes in one box, so each box contained two thousand rounds of ammunition. There are more than four million rounds of eight-millimeter ammunition in total.

There are 5 heavy machine guns in the cave, the model is the Imperial 880 K-type heavy machine gun, the Imperial Okai heavy machine gun. As for the heavy machine guns, there were 200 boxes of ammunition, each with 200 rounds of ammunition. The heavy machine gun had a total of 40,000 rounds of ammunition. The magazines of these heavy machine gun bullets can be directly connected to the heavy machine gun, so 200 rounds of ammunition can be directly connected to the heavy machine gun and fired directly. And there are a hundred boxes of thirty rounds of cartridge ammunition for heavy machine guns. Each box has 30 plates, all of which are plastic-sealed and placed in the box. So there are 900 rounds of ammunition in one box, and 90,000 rounds of heavy machine gun bullets in one hundred boxes. Alberta knew that when it came to a real war, these bullets seemed like a lot, and if he could arm an army of 3,000 men, these bullets would only be able to support three days of intense conflict.

Alberta continued to count and found another light machine gun, the Depson 895 S-type light machine gun. This light machine gun has 500 boxes of ammunition. And each box of bullets is stored in the form of a magazine, and there is no need to directly load the bullet, and the bullet can be reloaded by directly snapping the magazine into the machine gun, eliminating the process of loading the bullets into the magazine one by one.

The Imperial Depson 895 Type S LMG had 500 boxes of 50 magazines and 32 rounds per magazine, while the ammunition box of the Deppson 895 Type S LMG had 1,600 rounds of LMG ammunition. 500 boxes with 800,000 rounds of ammunition.

When Alberta saw this, he couldn't help but sigh: the light machine gun had 800,000 rounds of ammunition, but the heavy machine gun only had 90,000 rounds of cartridge ammunition, plus 40,000 rounds of chain cartridge ammunition...... When it comes to real fighting, it should be that heavy machine guns consume ammunition quickly. Light machine guns have more ammunition than heavy machine guns...... That's weird......

In fact, Alberta did not know that the Imperial officers and scientists who transported the ammunition and weapons were transported. They considered the heavy machine guns to be old models of firearms, but some were symbolically delivered. They also believe that light machine guns are the most powerful guns. Because after all, the light machine gun is the latest weapon. And Alberta doesn't know. When the empire made weapons, the weapons written "such and such a year" were actually written in the year when the development of the weapon began. This also explains why the Imperial Type 895 LMG is the Depsen 895 Type S LMG written in 895, but it is not yet installed.

After a bit of counting, Alberta found 200 boxes of ammunition for the 20mm Hail rapid-fire cannon, each containing 40 rounds of ammunition. Thus, the hail rapid-fire cannon had 8000 shells.

As for the Hurricane rapid-fire gun, there are 50 boxes of ammunition, each box has 20 rounds of ammunition, for a total of only 1,000 rounds of ammunition. Alberta felt that the shells of the rapid-fire cannon were reasonable, but the shells of the 40mm rapid-fire gun were too few...... There were only 1,000 rounds.

At that time, for Imperial officers and scientists transporting munitions, it was already possible to arm an Imperial Light Combat Brigade with the ability to transport these weapons and ammunition. So they took a great risk...... They had already been spotted when they had just delivered a quarter of the total amount of artillery ammunition that was ready to be shipped...... Therefore, they could only ship shells with a rapid-fire cannon of 20 caliber mm and a rapid-fire gun of 40 mm caliber, a total of 9,000 rounds. That's pretty good already.

Although Alberta doesn't know what's going on. But he already felt very satisfied.

It was at this time that Alberta finally found a letter that was very simple: I hope you will use this batch of arms to fight against the unjust Empire!

Alberta was very touched by these two men: the officers of the Empire and the military scientists of the Empire. At this point, Alberta came to the innermost part of the cave, and he found twenty more boxes of pistols and twenty boxes of pistol ammunition. When he opened the pistol case, he was shocked by the appearance of this advanced pistol in the shape of L!

Alberta knew, he had gained enough strength, and the next thing Alberta said in his heart: "I...... It's legendary! ”

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