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 at the back serve as ammunition handlers on the back, and they can be used as ammunition handlers to replace them when their arms lose strength.
Because the caliber of the hand-operated Gatling gun is relatively large. Reached 15 mm. So the bullets are also larger. You can't hold 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 joining the army and had been malnourished since childhood. The body is not well developed at all.
Without enough fat, protein, and calories, how can you grow taller and stronger?
Although the best of the best have already been selected during recruitment. Basically, the people with the best physical fitness were picked away. However, their general height is only a little over 1.6 meters.
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, 14.5 is the largest caliber. Generally used for anti-aircraft machine guns.
The common bullet caliber for heavy machine guns is only 12.7, which is 0.5 inches. Commonly known as the .50 machine gun.
The caliber of muskets in this era was generally larger. Spanish heavy matchlock guns are around 25. Daming's gunshots are also between 15 and 20.
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 10 will gradually develop in the future. After all, the smaller the bullet, the more soldiers can carry, which is a good thing.
Such a large bullet has a full metal casing, so it weighs a lot.
The weight of a magazine plus the weight of fifty rounds of bullets is not light. No matter how big and heavy it is, it is really difficult for the soldier's arms to load it.
Moreover, the machine gun has a high rate of fire and requires constant magazine changes. Under the current establishment, the corps leader also serves as the shooter, and four of his subordinates are responsible for changing magazines, so that the supply can be increased.
Because when the Gatling gun is fired, the barrel rotates and fires. One barrel is loaded, one barrel is fired, and one barrel is ejected.
The cycle spins 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 be afraid of the barrel getting heated, 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 over a light machine gun is that you don't need to change the barrel frequently, so you can get a good shot at once.
"Gatling gun, fire!" followed an order.
The commanders on each high platform immediately held the left handle of the machine gun together to adjust the left and right and height directions of the muzzle, aiming at the enemy and shooting.
The other hand grabbed the horizontally arranged rocker on the right side and started shaking.
As the crank cranks, the barrel rotates. The hand-cranked Gatling gun opened fire immediately.
The Gatling machine gun is an external source machine gun, that is, the power to fire comes from outside. This was 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. In principle, there are no magical changes.
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. There are mainly gas-operated type (AK47), recoil type (Maxin), free-action bolt type (Thomson submachine gun), etc.
Han Deqin was the captain of a machine gun battalion. He was originally a servant but one day he was suddenly transferred from 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.
When the training started, he completely fell in love with this guy who exploded.
At this time, he skillfully pointed the machine gun at the surging enemies outside the Checheng city wall. He used the left and right swing taught by the instructor to form a cross-firing pattern with the adjacent machine guns on the left and right, and opened fire.
As he shook the handle, the machine gun rotated rapidly and smoothly. Along the way, he protected the machine gun like he was protecting his eyeballs. He likes 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 training code, starting slowly and then gradually speeding up. Despite the roar of the mountains and the tsunami, the Mongols who came back again gave the defenders a lot of interference and pressure. However, Han Deqin remained unmoved. Gradually accelerate.
Soon the machine gun reached its maximum rate of fire, a rate of two hundred rounds per minute. The fired bullets no longer flew out in a rattling manner, but rather like a fire snake, licking the surging Mongolians.
The bullet shells and unfired bullets fell down from the ejection port like a tide. A huge canvas bag under the machine gun's tripod holds the shells and shells.
It's a pity that the fire rate is only half, otherwise the fire rate would be 200. Han Deqin thought with some regret.
During the Anti-Japanese War, the little Japanese's crooked machine gun had a maximum rate of fire of 120 rounds. This rate of fire is actually not too low.
Ninety hand-cranked GAT companies on high platforms on three sides opened fire together. It looks very spectacular from the central high ground. Lin Yueru and Xiao Niangpi held the telescope excitedly and stared at it without blinking.
These machine guns were like waving whips made of flames, sweeping away all the surging Mongols from left to right. The huge custom-made all-metal bullets have a range of five hundred meters. The range of the Mongols' bullets far exceeds the shooting range of previous artillery.
Hattu and Fatulu were neighbors and had been promoted from partners in the same cavalry. They were both centurions. At this time, they led their remaining forty or fifty soldiers and rushed to a distance of twenty meters from the city wall.
Fatulu shouted loudly, asking them to put the ladder up, and then rush forward to bring it down. It just happened to be built 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, just like the tongue of a fire dragon licking it. Like a gecko's tongue flying out and scooping up a flying fly. Tongues of fire licked over.
It was like a whip that was on fire, being swung by a demon and thrown towards him.
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 past 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.
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