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Chapter 579 The Power of the Machine Gun

The two sides were fighting at close range, and the Tsarist Russian soldiers who used line tactics had to bear the muskets of the soldiers of the frontier regiment, and came to the front to shoot at the frontier regiment with great sacrifices.

On the hillside, Chen Xiaode led Batur, Rourke and others to observe the changes on the battlefield.

"We prepared fortifications in advance, and they shot at us almost to give away their heads." Chen Xiaode was also using binoculars, and saw the fallen Tsarist Russian soldiers in front of him, as well as the rock-solid defense line. Worried about being able to hold the line of defense.

"Look, they finally couldn't hold back and are coming to attack us." Rourke saw a cavalry from the Tsarist Russian regiment, sweeping towards this side at an extremely fast speed.

"Prepare to meet them!" Seeing that the Tsarist Russian army could not resist the temptation, Chen Xiaode ordered the [-] soldiers guarding the hillside to get ready.

Batur was still a little worried when he saw the cavalry that seemed to have 3000 soldiers coming from the west.Although the Kyushu Army launched a new type of firearm called "machine gun", Batur, who had never seen the power of a machine gun, expressed doubts about the power of the machine gun.

"Let me come in person!" Chen Xiaode rolled up his sleeves and came behind a hand-cranked Gatling gun in person.

Three thousand Tsarist Russian cavalry came at a fast speed, and both sides in the fierce battle on the battlefield noticed the dynamics of this cavalry.In the camp of the Pioneering Regiment, the lieutenant of the Mobei Cavalry as a reserve team asked his superior: "It seems that the place where we sent troops to attack is where the commander of our cavalry brigade and the deputy head of the Pioneering Regiment are? Are we going to send troops to support them? "

"No, the general has already greeted me in advance. This is a trap set by the general. We just need to keep an eye on the main battlefield." The cavalry officer said.

"It turned out to be a trap." The reserve cavalry didn't move at all, and they were still waiting quietly.

Tsarist Russian general Yakovlev and Cossack commander Xinla led cavalry to charge. They saw the hillside getting closer and saw the flags on it. Some soldiers waved the flags, as if they were using the flags to convey orders.

"Sure enough, it's their command post, destroy them before their reinforcements arrive!" Xin La pulled out the saber from his waist and pointed straight ahead.

"Get off your horse and charge up!" Yakovlev saw that there was still some slope, and it was difficult for the horses to attack when they reached the bottom of the hill, so he ordered the soldiers to dismount and form a team to attack.

Three thousand Tsarist Russian soldiers quickly formed six formations, ready to attack the hillside in groups of 500.

Chen Xiaode held the handle in his hand, and said to the soldiers on the left and right: "They are coming, all machine gun teams get ready!"

Tsarist Russian soldiers held muskets and moved forward with difficulty.

"The range of this machine gun should be farther than our rifles, and they will start shooting after they get into the range." Chen Xiaode held his breath, watching the Russian soldiers all over the mountains and plains getting closer and closer.

It was the first time Chen Xiaode used this kind of weapon, and not many people in the entire Kyushu Army had seen such weapons as machine guns.In a short period of time, the Kyushu Army trained dozens of machine gunners, and they were all sent here.

"General, it's done!" A machine gunner more than ten meters to the left reminded Chen Xiaode that the Tsarist Russian soldiers had already entered the effective killing range.

Batur and other members of the Zhungeer tribe also held their breath, and all of them turned their attention to Chen Xiaode, waiting for his order.

"Huh—" Chen Xiaode took a deep breath, turned the handle with his right arm, "Shoot!"

Da da da!The cold multi-barrel rotates, and the metal bullets used for the first time pour out!More than a dozen hand-cranked machine guns fired at the same time, and the dense firepower exploded in an instant!

The bullets splashed like a metal storm, and the gravel below was flying! !The Tsarist Russian soldiers at the front couldn't imagine that there were only two or 300 soldiers on the opposite side who would burst out with such powerful firepower, and fell to the ground under the penetration of bullets.

Cossack commander Sinla led the first batch of troops to attack.Two metal bullets brushed past his side face, and the turbulent air made his ears ring!A large number of soldiers around him fell down, and they were all harvested by metal bullets from top to bottom!
He subconsciously threw himself behind the boulder beside him. At this moment, several bullets landed on his original spot, leaving several holes in the ground.

The first batch of [-] Tsarist Russian soldiers who attacked the hillside were killed or injured, and the rest were suppressed and could not lift their heads. They could only escape by hiding behind stones and trees.But they couldn't move on, the front was already covered by the death line of machine guns.

Chen Xiaode turned the handle faster and faster like crazy, the barrel of the machine gun controlled by him became hotter and hotter, he seemed to be red-eyed.

"General, please calm down!" The experienced machine gunner at the side stopped the excited Chen Xiaode, and he calmed down a little.

"What's wrong with me..." Chen Xiaode saw that other machine gunners had stopped attacking except himself.

"This machine gun is powerful, but its biggest weakness is that the machine gunner is excited on the battlefield because the distance between the enemy and himself is getting closer during the charge, and he can't control himself. He will turn the handle like crazy, causing The machine gun overheated and jammed or exploded. The enemy below has been suppressed, and continuing to fire at this time is just a waste of wear and tear on the machine gun and wasting bullets.” The machine gunner explained, “When we were experimenting with machine guns, one of the machine guns was blown because it was rotating too fast. Bomb exploded, killing a machine gunner on the spot."

Chen Xiaode listened with lingering fear, if his chest exploded just now, wouldn't it be an honorable sacrifice?

"This machine gun is really powerful. It has the courage of a million men!" Batur witnessed the scene of more than a dozen hand-cranked machine guns firing at the same time. It was only after he was disabled that he expressed emotion.

"For weapons like this, the Kyushu Army should only have a dozen or so?" asked the Zhungeer nobleman following Batur with lingering fear.

In his opinion, the firepower of machine guns far exceeds that of muskets, and such heaven-defying weapons should be in small numbers.

"It took a few months to produce more than a dozen, but in the next few years, the number should rise to hundreds." Chen Xiaode touched the hot barrel, and his fingers reflexively moved backwards. shrink.

"You mean you will have hundreds...hundreds of machine guns in the future?" Batur was shocked.

The power of the musket is obvious to all, and Batur thought that if this thing is used to deal with cavalry, the killing efficiency will be much higher than that of the musket!A position composed of hundreds of machine guns, even tens of thousands of cavalry would not dare to attack!
"No accident." Chen Xiaode said.

(End of this chapter)