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Shi Xiong sat on Huofeng's back with a big bow, coldly watching the massacre in front of him, without a trace of fluctuation in his heart.

That's right, this is actually a slaughter on one side!

Although the number of warriors in the court of Yuchi and the two guarding tribes exceeded Shixiong’s expectations, and these 500 or so Yuchi warriors can be said to be the most elite warriors in the entire Yuchi tribe, they hold primitive bone knives. The Yuchi warriors with bone spears and bows are slaughtered in front of real hot weapons.

And this slaughter reminds Shi Xiong of the famous Maxim heavy machine gun.

Shi Xiong was a semi-military fan in his previous life. He had learned about the Maxim heavy machine gun from various sources.

Before the appearance of the Maxim heavy machine gun, people have used muskets for hundreds of years, but all guns are non-automatic guns, and the bullets need to be loaded one by one. At that time, the decisive force for victory in the war was largely determined by the speed of reloading. Many people were killed inexplicably before they had time to fill the second bullet.

The reason why Shixiong asked Ferguson to develop a new rifle is that the range is only one aspect, and the key is to increase the loading speed.

Hiram Stevens Maxim is a name that cannot be avoided in the history of human warfare. The inventor of the heavy machine gun was born in the United States on February 25, 1840. He was born in poverty and became an apprentice to a carriage manufacturer at the age of fourteen.

This child born in a poor family has little cultural accomplishment, but he is born with a brain that loves invention. With this inventive mind, he obtained a patent for a perm iron in the United States, and later invented a gas generator for lighting and a locomotive headlight.

In 1883, he went to England.

At the time when the European continent was raging, Maxine turned to research rapid-fire weapons. In 1884, Maxim produced the world's first machine gun capable of automatic continuous shooting. This is a truly fully automatic machine gun, capable of firing more than 600 rounds per minute.

The description of this mechanical movement is complicated and abstract, but if you look at it yourself, you will immediately admire its ingenuity and ingenuity. In the Maxim machine gun, for the first time, humans have used such mechanisms as the recoil spring, reliable shell ejection system, belt feed mechanism, acceleration mechanism, reliable adjustment of the bottom clearance of the bullet, and hydraulic buffer for adjusting the rate of fire.

Even in the 21st century, professional firearms developers still follow the three basic principles of gunpowder gas energy automatic shooting pioneered by Maxim-barrel recoil, bolt action and air-guided.

As soon as the Maxim heavy machine gun was born, it immediately showed outstanding performance on the battlefield.

The first application of the Maxim heavy machine gun on the battlefield took place on a battlefield in Rhodesia in 1893.

Rhodesia is the later Zimbabwe. At that time, this country was a British colony, but the local Zulus were very unfriendly to the British, and a war broke out between the colonizers and the colonized.

Perhaps it’s not appropriate to use war to describe the conflict, because at that time there were more than 5,000 Zulus armed with bone knives, bone spears and bows and arrows attacking the British station, but there were only 50 British soldiers defending the station. infantry.

If the comparison is purely based on the number of people, this should be a one-sided massacre. Fifty people cannot be the opponent of five thousand people anyway.

However, that conflict really turned into a one-sided massacre. But it was not the Zulus who slaughtered the British soldiers, but the fifty British soldiers slaughtered the Zulus.

Because those fifty British infantrymen had four Maxine heavy machine guns at the time. Once this kind of big guy that can fire six hundred bullets in a minute opens fire, no matter who is on the opposite side, as long as he is exposed to the muzzle, there must be no way to survive.

As a result, in less than half an hour, the more than 5,000 Zulu warriors who attacked the British garrison dropped more than 3,000 corpses and fled in a hurry.

The Maxim heavy machine gun showed its great dominance on the battlefield for the first time.

In 1895, in the Battle of Chitral in Afghanistan and the Battle of Sudan, soldiers on the offensive side suffered heavy casualties under the defensive Maxine heavy machine gun.

In 1898, at the Battle of Omdurman in Sudan, 20,000*****/teaching dervishes attacked, and as many as 15,000 fell in front of the position of the Makchin heavy machine gun.

In the Boer War that began in 1899, the Boers suffered a devastating blow from the Maxine heavy machine gun when they charged, with losses exceeding 70%.

The battle that really made Maxine's heavy machine gun famous was the Battle of the Somme during World War I.

In the largest battle of the First World War, the British had 54 divisions, the French had 32 divisions, and the Germans had 67 divisions.

However, although the Maxim heavy machine gun had already emerged in many small-scale battles at that time, for the military of various countries, this heavy machine gun was just put into use and did not get the attention of all countries.

However, in order to prevent the advancement of the British and French forces, the German army deployed a Maxim heavy machine gun every 100 meters in the positional battle. Facing such intensive firepower allocation under the popular "group charge" at the time ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is undoubtedly a large-scale suicide. At that time, because of Maxine's vitality on the battlefield, more than 60,000 people were killed and injured in the British and French coalition forces in one day. Created the highest number of casualties in a single day in the First World War.

Shi Xiong has not personally witnessed the massacre of the Zulus by the Maxine heavy machine gun in Rhodesia, nor has he personally witnessed the great power of the Maxine heavy machine gun in the Battle of the Somme, but he witnessed the impact of the hot weapon. The result of the flesh and blood.

In contrast, the previous slaughter of the five small tribes of the Yu Chi people could not make it onto the stage at all. This comparison is like the difference between a single-shot rifle and a fully automatic Maxine heavy machine gun.

The ratio of the number of fighters on both sides participating in the battle this time is 85:500. The number of Shixiongs is dominant and absolute disadvantage, but Shixiongs have muskets in their hands, and they can fire six shots of Ferguson rifled guns in one minute!

In the case of alternate shooting, these 85 soldiers can theoretically fire 510 rounds of bullets per minute. The density of such bullets is almost comparable to that of a Maxim heavy machine gun.

Although the lead bullet fired by the Ferguson rifle is far from the power of the copper-clad steel core bullet fired by the Maxim heavy machine gun, the density of the bullets at this level is not something that a mere five hundred Yu Chi people with primitive weapons can stop. .

The Yu Chi people had no horses, and although they rushed up in a swarm, they did not spread out according to the skirmish line, and the density of the team was comparable to that of the Spanish phalanx.

Therefore, although the twenty soldiers on Shixiong's side can only cover a distance that is not very wide, once this row of guns goes crazy, a massacre like Maxim inevitably falls on Yu Chiren's head. .....