The remaining more than 40,000 Mongolian soldiers crawled out from behind the mountains of corpses and corpse fragments, like a group of evil ghosts crawling out of hell.
They were covered in blood, roaring, trembling, and rushed forward hysterically.
Each eyeball was bloodshot, like a pack of wolves on the grassland that had been hungry for several days.
At this time, on the ten-meter high platform, the ammunition handlers on the left and right sides of the machine gun immediately installed a vertical magazine on the gun. This was a unified fifty-round magazine.
Then each of them holds a new magazine. The two behind them serve as ammunition handlers on the back. When their arms lose strength, they can be replaced as ammunition handlers.
Because the caliber of the hand-operated Gatling gun is relatively large, reaching 15 mm, the bullets are also relatively large. There cannot be too many bullets in the magazine.
Because the arm strength of the soldiers must be taken into consideration, Asian soldiers are relatively thin.
These soldiers were refugees before they joined the army. They were malnourished since childhood. Their bodies did not develop well at all.
Without enough fat, protein, and calories, how can you grow taller and stronger?
Although the best of the best have been selected during the recruitment process. Basically, those with the best physical fitness have been selected. However, their general height is only a little over 1.6 meters tall.
A person who is 1.7 meters tall is considered a big man. Only a few people are gifted and can grow tall in such a difficult environment.
Among modern heavy machine guns, it has the largest caliber. It is generally used in anti-aircraft machine guns.
The common heavy machine gun bullet caliber is only 0.5 inches. It is commonly known as the .50 machine gun.
The caliber of muskets in this era was generally on the large side. Spanish heavy matchlocks were all around 25mm. The Ming Dynasty's muskets were also in the range.
Because it is too difficult to manufacture a small-caliber barrel.
Yang Fan can only rely on existing technology to balance performance and cost-effectiveness. Calibers within 10mm will be gradually developed in the future. After all, the smaller the bullet, the greater the amount soldiers can carry, which is a good thing.
Such a large bullet has a full metal casing, so it weighs a lot.
The dead weight of a magazine, plus the weight of fifty rounds of bullets, is not light. No matter how big or heavy it is, it will be really hard for the soldier's arms to load it.
Moreover, the machine gun has a high rate of fire and needs to constantly change magazines. Under the current organization, the corps leader also serves as the shooter, and four subordinates are responsible for changing magazines, so that the supply can be increased.
Because when the Gatling gun is fired, the barrel rotates to fire. One barrel is loaded, one barrel is fired, and one barrel is ejected.
The cycle rotates back and forth, so it has time to cool down.
Moreover, Yang Fan's bullet primer was unqualified and had only half the fire rate, causing the rate of fire to drop by half, to only about a hundred rounds per minute.
In this way, you won't worry about the barrel heating up, and the air cooling will be enough to cool it down.
As long as you have enough bullets, you can continue shooting for a long time. The advantage of a Gatling gun compared to a light machine gun is that you don't need to change the barrel frequently, so you can shoot a lot at once.
"Gatling gun, fire!" followed an order.
The commanders on each high platform immediately grasped the left handle of the machine gun together to adjust the left and right direction and height direction of the muzzle, aiming at the enemy and shooting.
With the other hand, grab the horizontally arranged rocker on the right side and start shaking.
As the crank cranked, the barrel rotated. The hand-cranked Gatling gun fired immediately.
The Gatling machine gun is an external source machine gun, that is, the power to fire comes from the outside. This is different from all subsequent machine guns.
This primitive machine gun used a hand-cranked launcher, and later gradually developed into a battery-operated rotating barrel and an electric percussion trigger. There are no changes in principle.
Other types of modern machine guns are all internal source machine guns, which rely on the energy power when bullets are fired to achieve continuous shooting. They mainly include gas-guided (ak47), recoil-type (Maxin), and free-action machine guns (
Thompson submachine gun) etc.
Han Deqin was the commander of a machine gun battalion. He was originally a servant but one day he was suddenly ordered by the street and came to a secret place called the machine gun battalion training team.
He didn't know what a machine gun was, but he understood that it should be a kind of firecracker.
After the training started, he completely fell in love with this explosive guy.
At this time, he skillfully pointed the machine gun at the surging enemies outside the Checheng wall, used the instructor's instruction to swing left and right and form a cross-firing pattern with the adjacent machine guns on the left and right, and fired.
As he shook the handle, the machine gun rotated rapidly and very smoothly. Along the way, he protected the machine gun like he was protecting his own eyeballs. He liked this big guy so much.
A clicking sound sounded quickly, and a tongue of flame flew out from the top barrel.
He strictly followed the requirements of the drill, starting slowly at first, and then gradually accelerating. Although the Mongols came back with roars of mountains and tsunamis, which gave the defenders a lot of interference and pressure. However, Han Deqin remained unmoved and gradually accelerated.
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Soon the machine gun reached its maximum rate of fire, a rate of two hundred shots per minute. The fired bullets no longer flew out in a clatter, but like a fire snake, licking the surging fire.
Mongol.
Bullet casings and unfired bullets fell down from the ejection port like a tidal wave. A huge canvas bag under the machine gun's tripod received the ejected bullets and cartridge casings.
It's a pity that the fire rate is only half, otherwise the fire rate would be 200. Han Delin thought with some regret.
During the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese's crooked machine gun had a maximum rate of fire of 120 rounds. This rate of fire was actually not too low.
Ninety hand-cranked GAT companies on the three sides of the high platform opened fire together. The view from the central high ground was very spectacular. Lin Yueru and Xiao Niangpi held the telescopes excitedly and stared at it without blinking.
These machine guns were like waving whips made of flames, sweeping away all the surging Mongolians from left to right. The huge full-metal bullets had a range of five hundred meters, and the range of the Mongols was far away.
It exceeded the firing range of the previous artillery.
Hattu and Faturu were neighbors and had been promoted from the same cavalry team. They were both centurions. At this time, they led their remaining forty or fifty soldiers to rush to the distance from the city wall.
At a distance of twenty meters.
Fatulu shouted loudly and asked them to put the ladder up, and then rush forward to lower it. It would be right on the city wall.
At this time, Hatu saw a scene he would never forget. Perhaps due to the protection of the Immortal Heaven, he walked down this Shura battlefield alive. In his later years, with his children and grandchildren around his knees, he recounted what he saw and heard that day.
A tongue of fire, yes, a tongue of fire, was thrown out from the high platform inside the wall, like a fire dragon's tongue licking it. Just like a gecko's tongue flew out and swept away a flying fly. The tongue of fire licked it.
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It was like a whip that was on fire, being picked up and thrown by a demon.
Fatulu took the remaining forty or fifty companions of his centurion, carrying ladders, and rushed to the city wall.
The match rope was thrown over, and Hatu watched as each of them was swept away by the tongue of flames swinging horizontally. Everyone was beaten to pieces in an instant.
Hattu had never seen what it would be like on the battlefields of later generations when charging soldiers were hit by anti-aircraft machine guns.
However, on today's battlefield, he saw with his own eyes that Fa Tulu was licked by tongues of fire from the waist, and was directly broken into two parts.