Chapter 581 Battle of the Somme
Cheng Yanqiu's voice sounded in Qi Lin's ears. Judging from the performance of the German soldiers around him, this voice should only be heard by Qi Lin.
"If you really want to know all the truth, just pass these tests, I know this is not difficult for you."
When this sentence was spoken, the sound disappeared without a trace, as if everything was Qi Lin's illusion.
Only the sound of gunfire on the battlefield was still coming one after another.
It seemed to be to take care of Qi Lin, the German soldiers around them all spoke English, and with the historical background at that time, this scene seemed a bit strange.
Qi Lin looked at the Mauser G98 rifle in his hand and checked the equipment on his body again. In addition to the debris, he only had 13 7.92mm Mauser rifle bullets left on his body, and an m24-type wooden grenade. At this time, it was almost half a year before the m1917 cluster anti-tank grenade developed specifically for combat vehicles appeared.
The charge amount of m24 grenades can only be blown through the tank's armor unless multiple grenades are tied together - however, the most important point is that the throwing of grenades must be close to the tank, which is too great.
The three Mark tanks, one of which is a "male", are equipped with two 57mm caliber naval rapid-fire cannons and four 7.7mm caliber Vicks water-cooled heavy machine guns, and the other two are "male and female", without rapid-fire cannons, but are equipped with six heavy machine guns.
Coupled with the Enfield rifle in the hands of the infantry following behind the tank, the British army kept suppressing the German positions with firepower. The German soldiers had to stay in the trenches, and the guys who dared to show their heads were basically killed by the dense shooting.
Even if Qi Lin is an evolutionist, it is almost impossible for him to get close to the tank to throw grenades without cover. As soon as he rushes out of the trench, he will be immediately beaten into a hornet's nest.
How to destroy the tank when you cannot get close to it?
As for another condition - 24 hours of survival, this condition may be achieved if you change to another battlefield, but you must know that this is the Somme River, and Qi Lin is located at the damn front line, less than 300 meters away from the British position.
If you choose to escape, then the machine gun fire of the supervisory team is welcomed-
"Destroy the tanks from a distance..." Qi Lin kept plucking the information about World War I in his mind - he had never attended history classes taught in school, let alone military academy courses. His understanding of World War I was limited to some information he checked in his spare time and war shooting games he had played.
However, among this little pitiful information, Qi Lin really found a weapon that can be used to deal with tanks!
"K-type bullet!"
K-type bullets, referred to as k-type bullets, to put it bluntly, this is actually an early armor-piercing bomb. K-type bullets with tungsten carbide cores can penetrate 10 mm thick steel plates at a distance of 10 meters.
During the Battle of the Somme, the German army had equipped K-bombs, but at that time, K-bombs were all for snipers and machine gunners, specifically used to deal with enemies hiding behind shields made of metal armor plates.
The armor thickness of the Mark 1 tank is only about ten to fifteen millimeters. If you find the angle, using k-bombs can completely penetrate the tank's armor plate and kill the crew inside it. However, it was not until 1917 that the German army discovered this situation after seizing two Mark 1 vehicles, and then began to issue k-bombs to ordinary infantry as anti-tank weapons.
However, not long after, the British army threw the Mark 4 tank with thicker armor into the battlefield, and the K-bombs lost their role as anti-tank weapons.
Qi Lin pulled a soldier next to him and asked loudly: "Is there a K-bomb? Who has a K-bomb here?!"
"What...what?" The soldier was obviously still in the horror and fear of seeing the tank for the first time, and he didn't react at all. What Qi Lin asked him.
"K-bomb! I said k-bomb!"
"...k bullets? Then... only snipers and machine gunners have... squad leader, we are an infantry squad...how, how could there be that kind of thing?" The soldier said timidly - Qi Lin had noticed his military rank from the very beginning. He was a corporal. According to the German army's organization during World War I, he should be the squad leader of this infantry squad.
During World War II, the German rifle squad basically fought around the squad's mg34 or mg42, but during World War I, machine guns were not so popular. Ordinary infantry squads only had submachine guns at most, and machine guns were rarely equipped.
Moreover, due to weight issues, most machine guns are fixed on the position, and the division between machine gun squad and rifle squad is still very clear.
"Where is the machine gun squad recently?" Qi Lin continued to ask. At this critical moment, he was too lazy to consider whether this question seemed abrupt as he was. Anyway, he would reply after the battle... Ah, if he completed this test, he would leave the battlefield.
"Ma, Sergeant Marcus's machine gun squad...at's in the next c6 position...but, but I haven't heard any guns there in a long time..."
"Where is the position of C6?" Qi Lin felt that if this was a time travel plot, he might be exposed in minutes.
"At... over there..." Fortunately, this soldier did not think so much about it out of fear and nervousness, and honestly pointed a direction to Qi Lin.
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The c6 position is not far from the trench where Qi Lin and his rifle squad are located, but the section connected between the trenches between the two sides has been blown up by shells. If Qi Lin wants to enter the c6 position, he must rush through a section about fifteen meters without any cover.
Fortunately, as an evolutionist, Qi Lin still had the advantage of speed. He took advantage of the others' attention and flashed across that blank area and rolled into the trenches opposite him.
This is the C6 position where Sergeant Marcus's machine gun squad is located, but Qi Lin understood why the soldier said that he had not heard the sound of a machine gun for a long time - a mortar shell fell into the trench without any bias, and killed the entire machine gun squad.
The mg08 Maxim heavy machine gun was leaning crookedly against the edge of the trench, with two broken wooden bullet boxes placed next to it.
If Qi Lin remembers correctly, each Maxim heavy machine gun will be equipped with two to three k bullet links, and one bullet link is 250 bullets. For the Maxim heavy machine gun with an amazing rate of fire, it may only support a few seconds of strafing, but for Qi Lin, it is completely enough.
"Fortunately, mg08's bullets and g98 are common, and the German army's logistics concept is still very advanced..."
Qi Lin soon found the two cloth bullet links with special marks and snatched the K bullets on them one by one.
Chapter completed!