"The third person, whose name appeared in the previous story, but he himself did not appear. But his importance to the ending of the story is self-evident, even more than that of Commander Henry Laugh.

He was the inventor of the Maxim machine gun, an epoch-making rapid-fire weapon.

Born on February 5, 1840, in Maine, USA, Maxim, his full name is Hiram Stevens Maxim, born into a poor family, and became a well-known inventor through diligent self-education.

He spent most of his time in England, and in 1901 he was knighted by Queen Victoria for his service. It was the eighth year after his weapon massacred the locals in Matabele.

To be sure, Maxim was an excellent weapons designer, and his design and invention of the Maxim machine gun ushered in a new era in the development of automatic weapons in the world, and he also contributed greatly to the development of smokeless gunpowder, which made his machine gun more effective.

Before the advent of the Maxim machine gun, the guns used by people were non-automatic guns, and the bullets needed to be loaded one by one. The decisive force for victory in the war depended largely on how fast the reload was, and many people were inexplicably killed before they could reload a second round.

In 1882, when Makqin went to England to investigate, he found that soldiers often shot from the recoil of old rifles, and their shoulders were bruised and purple. This shows that the recoil of the gun has a considerable amount of energy, which comes from the gunpowder gases produced when the bullet is fired.

It was from the recoil phenomenon that people are accustomed to and turned a blind eye to that Makqin found the ideal impetus for the automatic continuous firing of weapons. Makqin first carried out a modification test on an old-fashioned Winchester rifle, using the gunpowder gas emitted by the bullet during firing to make the gun complete a series of actions such as unlocking, unshelling, feeding, and re-locking, realizing the automatic continuous shooting of the single-barreled gun and reducing the recoil of the gun.

Makqin was the first to successfully develop the world's first automatic rifle in 1883. Later, based on the experience gained from the rifle, he further developed and perfected the principle of automatic fire with a short recoil of the barrel.

He also changed the traditional way of feeding bombs and made a 6-meter-long canvas bullet chain. Continuous feeding of ammunition for machine guns. In order to cool down the barrel that heats up due to continuous high-speed firing, Maxim also uses water cooling.

In 1884, Maxim built the world's first machine gun capable of automatic continuous fire, with a rate of fire of more than 600 rounds per minute. At the moment of launch, the machine gun and the barrel are buckled together, using the gunpowder gas energy as the power, through a set of mechanisms to open the chamber, the bolt continues to recoil to withdraw the empty cartridge case and throw it out of the gun, and then drive the bullet supply mechanism to compress the re-entry spring, under the action of spring force, the bolt pushes the bullet into place and fires again. This way, once the shooting starts, the machine gun can continue to fire until the cartridge belt is finished, which can save a lot of reload time.

In addition to the earliest World War I fame, Maxim was most prominent in World War I, when the German army was armed with MG08 Maxim heavy machine guns, and in the battle of the Somme, 60,000 British soldiers were killed in one day, becoming the deadliest day in World War I. Since then, armies of various countries have been equipped with Maxim heavy machine guns, and Maxim has become a well-known weapon for killing.

The fourth figure, who is closely related to Maxim, does not appear in this war.

His name was Benjamin Smith, and he was a well-known craftsman and blacksmith in London, who was not only skilled in making copper and iron utensils, but also studied gold and silver utensils.

Maxim worked on his greatest creations in a cramped laboratory in London, but as an inventor of his time, the early Maxim was clearly not very gifted.

He could imagine how his weapon should function internally, but his poor craftsmanship and rudimentary equipment made it difficult to machine the most delicate parts.

Maxim sought out Smith to help solve his problem, and Smith conquered the fledgling inventor with a series of genius creations and crafts. In his hands, the steel was soft and tame like plasticine, and all the parts appeared as if out of thin air, but they were perfect.

Macron soon patented his first successful sample, but he was silent about Smith's contributions.

Smith did not wait for his work to come to prominence before he died, although his good craftsmanship and social prestige allowed him to leave a considerable inheritance, so that his wife and children could live a better life.

But with Makqin became a millionaire through the patent of his joint work with Smith. He did not think again of the skilled craftsman in London, who was bent on selling his weapons all over the world for large sums of pounds, francs, and dollars.

The fifth man, who participated in the most heroic battles of the Shangani River and the Bembezie River, but he was the losing side, and he was also not named, and there is no record of him in any historical sources, he was only summed up in numbers such as 6000 and 600.

His name was Mumguru, a very common local name.

He was not a Northern Engne of the kingdom of Matabele, but a conquered Tswana who originally lived on the banks of the Vaal River, but when he was still a young man, he was captured by a regiment of his age in the kingdom of Matabele while grazing, and then incorporated into this legion.

Although he didn't mean to join here, Mumguru enjoyed this life as a warrior. He ate well, had meat for every meal, and dressed well. Each warrior was dressed in military uniform: a shawl woven of black ostrich feather, a short monkeyskin skirt, a white oxtail tied at the elbows, knees, and ankles, feathers around the neck, and armed with a javelin with a wooden handle, a club, and a cowhide shield.

This army was the most powerful army north of the Limpopo River and south of the Zambezi River, and until the end of the 19th century it had been a very effective defender of Zimbabwe against colonial invasions, with the exception of the cavalry of the Upper Griqua and Kola, armed with muskets and horses. Even the Griqua and Kola feared night battles and ambushes from elusive legions of their age.

Mumguru was shot and killed in the Battle of the Shangani River, and did not experience the bloodier battles that followed. He wailed on the battlefield until he exhausted all his strength, and there were no companions or enemies to rescue him, at least to give him a good time.

He could see vultures whirling around the African savannah, followed by many foraging bald eagles every time a legion of his age set out.

But this time, it was Mumguru himself who fell"

The ant paused for a moment: "The story of the five people is finished, do you know what I want to express?" ”