Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1020

[Chapter 1012 Machine gun flames]

“They are a group of brave young men, very good, Charlie, take them to the back, and when these people from Chongqing land, let them experience the power of our British red shirts!”

Alden was happy He said that the presence of more than 8,000 people made his nervousness slightly relieved.

While the British were organizing a counterattack, the imperial warships at sea began to put down small boats one after another, and the soldiers sat on the small boats and began to row towards the shore.

After a while, the entire sea was filled with small boats carrying troops.

Seeing this, Alden and Kenneth’s expressions changed. They did not expect that the Dayu Congress would devote so many troops to attack Australia.

“God bless!”

Kenneth crossed himself.

“Bombard the boats at sea, hurry up!” Alden didn’t have time to pray to God now. He shouted for the soldiers to attack.

Only half of the thirty forts built urgently were destroyed by the warships of the Great Chongqing in a short period of time. Of course, they did not gain anything, as a cannonball hit one of the warships.

At this time, the battleship was burning with fierce fire.

“Lieutenant, we have no more explosives,” a soldier shouted.

“What!” Alden’s vision went dark. At this moment, he suddenly became angry and cursed, “Damn the British Navy, why don’t they give us more cannonballs, bastards, bastards!”

After yelling, he said with red eyes: ” Now, use solid bullets immediately. “

Kenneth felt desperate. Three British warships docked in Wales a while ago, and these shells were provided by them. However, according to the people in the navy, these shells were very expensive. The price is enough to make fifty or sixty solid bullets, so this kind of artillery shells are still supplied on a proportional basis.

Even the Navy uses 90% solid bullets and 10% split bullets.

At sea, soldiers were using seawater to extinguish the burning deck, where a hole was blown by a British bomb. After the flames were extinguished, repairmen immediately used nails and boards to repair the damaged area.

Lei Ming breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this scene. If the battleship he led was hit, there would undoubtedly be a stain on the war to attack Australia, and this was something he couldn’t bear.

Putting away his binoculars, Lei Ming looked at the boats one after another and said, “Let the machine gun team calm down. Don’t fire before landing. This will alert the snake.”

“Yes.” Shi Yanjun immediately asked the flag bearer to wave the flag in his hand. Issue an order that the machine gun is their secret weapon in this battle and must be saved for last use.

His order was given, just as the batteries on the shore fired another volley.

Shi Yanjun was startled, and he immediately protected Lei Ming, but the black cannonball hit the deck and only caused wood chips to fly, without exploding.

“This is a solid bullet. As we expected, they did not have enough explosive bullets.” Lei Ming picked up the shells on the deck and smiled, feeling relieved.

Without the threat of explosive bombs, the threat to the imperial soldiers was suddenly reduced. Hundreds of boats disembarked and withstood the bombardment of solid bombs and arrived at the shore in half an hour.

“Machine gun ready!”

Stepping on the soft beach, San Yuzhu calmly gave the order. He was the commander of the fifth regiment of the third division. As a forward, they arrived at the coast first.

At the same time as they landed, the British red shirt troops were also gathering. Just as they predicted, the British army, which had never seen machine guns, still used the old line tactics.

With a wicked smile, Chang Yuzhu also asked the soldiers to use line tactics to confuse the opponent. Secretly, he hid the machine gunners in the line, preparing for a surprise attack.

“Boom, boom, boom…”

The British fort was still spitting out shells, but now the target was the imperial soldiers who came ashore. Looking at the surrounding forts, San Yuzhu separated a pair of skirmishers to suppress these forts.

“Bang bang bang…”

The Chinese rifle made a crisp sound. The British soldier on a fort was about to reload and suddenly fell into a pool of blood. The metal bullet instantly penetrated his chest.

The British troops on other forts also had a hard time. The Han-style rifles had an accurate and long range, while the artillery on the forts was only three hundred meters away from them, and they were all within the range of the Han-style rifles.

In addition, the skirmisher line was composed of soldiers with excellent shooting skills. For a time, the British troops on the fort suffered heavy losses.

At the same time as rifles and artillery exchanged, four British arrays slowly walked ashore. According to Alden’s plan, the attack would be carried out while only half of the Chongqing soldiers were ashore, because this would achieve the best results. .

Therefore, in addition to deploying all his regular troops, he also deployed temporarily organized militiamen on the battlefield. More than 11,000 people formed a dense line on the open beach and approached the Chongqing army.

On the edge of the beach, San Yuzhu’s array was completed. There was a machine gun every five meters in these arrays. In order to conquer Australia, a hundred machine guns were put into the battlefield. These machine guns were enough for the British to drink a bottle.

Standing on one side of the array, San Yuzhu led the soldiers forward, while the machine gun team followed behind the array pushing the machine gun.

The drum sound of “dong dong dong” came from the British array, which was full of rhythm, but the British did not think that they were heading toward death with every step they took.

Three hundred meters, two hundred meters, one hundred meters, the distance was getting closer and closer. The British did not fire. San Yuzhu breathed a sigh of relief. According to the information they learned from Western businessmen, the British red shirts were generally there. He fired at a distance of fifty meters and defeated the enemy in one wave.

Now the British are confirming this.

However, San Yuzhu would not give the British a chance to enter fifty meters. Following his order, the soldiers fired a volley from a distance of ninety meters.

“Bang bang bang…” After the intensive gunfire, the soldiers in the front row of the British array suddenly fell down almost a row, but the British soldiers in the British array did not panic. The soldiers behind immediately filled the vacancy in front, showing strict discipline.

“Machine gun!”

San Yuzhu was a little surprised by the discipline of the British soldiers. In the ten years of war, they had rarely encountered such a disciplined army, but this made him excited.

As the order was given, the soldiers immediately stopped advancing to make way for the machine gunners, and the machine gunners in the back row immediately pushed the machine guns to the front.

The main shooter held the gun, and the deputy shooter quickly loaded the ammunition belt. At this time, the distance between the two armies was only sixty meters.

“Fire!”

Everything was ready, San Yuzhu shouted. At this time, the British had reached fifty meters. The British soldiers stopped and raised their flintlocks to take aim.

“Click, click, click…”

Before the British soldiers could pull the trigger, the first twenty machine guns that came ashore spit out tongues of fire. The bullets flew towards the British soldiers like a bullet chain, and the British soldiers who were crowded together fell down one after another. .

(End of chapter)