"Uncle, is Yecheng really so good?" Hanzhu, who had just turned eighteen years old, sat on a pile of ammunition boxes and listened to the squad leader talking about the landscape of Southeast Asia.

"Then, why am I lying to you? You will know when we change our defenses one day. The rice there is ripe three times a year, and the river is full of fish, including sea fish, which are very cheap."

"Anyway, in all the years I've been living in Coconut City, I've never heard of anyone starving to death."

Zhao Dezhong held a cigarette and kept it under his nose to smell it. This was a place where munitions were kept, and fireworks were strictly prohibited. He could only enjoy the smell.

Hanzhu moved from Dongshan to the north, that is, he came through Guandong, and Zhao Dezhong moved from Dongshan to the south, that is, he was sold from the north to Nanhua.

The two met at the border of the three provinces. Hanzhu was a fellow countryman, so Zhao Dezhong simply asked him to be by his side as an ammunition hand.

Zhao Dezhong has been in the army for nine years. He has fought against Arabs and made meritorious service. He was promoted to sergeant major based on his qualifications and was transferred to the fortress area as a machine gun instructor.

"Three crops a year? It's such a good place. I wish I could go there sometime." Han Zhu thought about it for a while.

In the final analysis, whether they broke into Guandong or immigrated to South China, their original driving force was land annexation and famine caused by natural and man-made disasters.

I was so hungry that I couldn't survive anymore, so I had no choice but to leave my hometown and live somewhere else.

The rural sentiments at this time are incomprehensible to future generations. Leaving your hometown and moving elsewhere is unimaginable for those who can still survive.

There are even some people who, even if they starve to death, will not leave their hometown and become a lonely ghost.

Jingle Bell……

The electric bell in the tunnel suddenly rang.

"Ready to fight!"

"The enemy is coming, take your positions."

As the bell rang, the soldiers resting in the tunnel moved nervously and quickly, and returned to their posts as soon as possible.

Of course, there are many people who find that their position has been destroyed when they return to their posts, and they look for other nearby locations.

"Here comes the notebook, Han Zhu, grab your things and let's go." Zhao Dezhong put the cigarette in his breast pocket, picked up a pile of parts, and said to Han Zhu.

"Yes!" Han Zhu first stood up and saluted, then bent down again.

First, he put four bullet belts on his shoulders, then put two wooden ammunition boxes together and hugged them at once.

A bullet belt contains 150 rounds. A single 6.8 mm bullet weighs 23 grams. It is a general model for machine guns and rifles. The total weight is 150*23=3450 grams. Four bullets weigh 13.8 kilograms.

An ammunition box has two iron boxes, a total of 1,200 rounds of ammunition, 27.6 kilograms, and the two boxes contain a total of 2,400 rounds, 55.2 kilograms.

Not counting the weight of the wooden ammunition box and the iron box, Hanzhu held 3,000 rounds of ammunition and weighed 69 kilograms. Adding the weight of the box, it definitely exceeded 140 kilograms, the weight of an ordinary adult.

Ordinary people holding such heavy things would stagger when walking, but Han Zhu seemed to be very relaxed, running after Zhao Dezhong holding the things and asking questions at the same time.

"Uncle, when can we switch to Fangyecheng? I want to see what the land that is harvested three times a year looks like, and whether it produces oil when pinched."

"Uncle, what is a rubber forest? Is it a place where bananas grow? You said bananas are similar to plantains. Why are they called bananas?"

"Uncle, I know that the fruits on some trees can extract oil, but the quantity is not large. You said that everyone in Coconut City eats this oil, how many fruits will be produced? I am tired of growing peanuts, but it is so easy to plant trees..."

"uncle……"

"Stop, stop, stop... If you want to go to Yecheng, just fight hard, try to finish this battle, and go to Chang'an to be awarded a medal." Zhao Dezhong pinched his nose, feeling a little dazed.

"You shouldn't have said this to him, what a mouthful you are!" Zhao Dezhong clapped his mouth and quickened his pace.

After traveling about two hundred meters, Zhao Dezhong walked out of the tunnel, entered the traffic trench, and then followed the traffic trench for dozens of meters to reach his destination.

A machine gun fort made of reinforced concrete with a thickness of more than two meters.

The fortress is in the shape of a semicircle and has four shooting holes. The shooting holes are wide on the outside and narrow on the inside to provide a larger shooting range.

Zhao Dezhong is in charge of this machine gun fort. He leads a machine gun squad and controls the two water-cooled Maxim heavy machine guns in the fort.

"Monitor."

"Monitor."

The soldiers who were nearby had already arrived, saw him and said hello, and there were other people behind him, either carrying or carrying ammunition boxes and bullet belts, and walked in.

The machine gun fort looks big from the outside, but it's much smaller inside. A squad of fourteen people can't all huddle inside the machine gun fort, otherwise they won't be able to turn around.

The six ammunition handlers will shrink into the cave dug out at the back, where they will then load the empty bullets with ammunition.

"The enemy still has two minutes to come up. Now, hurry up and check the machine gun, fill the water tank with water, and oil the gun." Zhao Dezhong looked at it and could see directly about 700 to 800 meters away. The Japanese had not yet shown their heads.

Moreover, the Japanese will have to consider the issue of armed swimming in the future. The speed will not be fast, and they are very safe.

"I'm asking you to oil the machine gun, not soaking the bolt in oil."

"Your place is dripping. Are you sure it's tightened? If not, I'll twist your head off!"

"While the enemy hasn't come up yet, fill the empty bullet belts with bullets. When they come out, put the bullet belts back on. There are a lot of people. I'm going to go on a killing spree today."

"Fix it, yes. Don't hold it tight when you fire the gun later. Remember what I usually teach you."

Zhao Dezhong was furious when he saw these new recruits rushing around.

Although he was the same at the beginning, he was kicked in the butt by the squad leader because he didn't connect the condenser pipe properly.

After the machine gun was fixed, he could see the silhouette of people on the other side.

Zhao Dezhong took out two boxes from the tool bag he carried with him and opened them. Inside were two sights, 2.5x standard military sights produced by the Surabaya Optical Equipment Manufacturing Factory.

The most expensive thing in this bunker, not counting the bunker itself, apart from the machine gun, are these two sights.

The ex-factory price of a 2.5x optical sight is 120 yuan. This price is higher than what other manufacturers sold to the domestic military in the same period. There is no way, the production of optical equipment in China started late.

Optical equipment is something that really depends on time and polish.

The ordinary telescopes produced by the Surabaya factory are low in cost and have average performance. After all, the accuracy is not high. A few meters more or less is not bad for ordinary telescopes.

However, the military standard sight is different. As the accuracy requirements go up, the cost goes up.

Fortunately, it can be done.

"It's installed." Zhao Dezhong thought for a moment, handed the sight to the other main shooter, and asked him to install it.

The 2.5x military standard sight combines ballistic performance and is available in two shooting modes: 6.8 mm and 11.43 mm. The aiming distance can be adjusted between 200 meters and 1200 meters.

This is a sight specially made for the Maxim heavy machine gun. Different machine guns have different special sights. For example, the 12.7mm vehicle-mounted machine gun is equipped with a 4x sight.

This sight is more expensive, because the 12.7mm itself has a lot of vibration, and the vibration of the vehicle has to be taken into consideration, and the anti-seismic requirements are high. One sight costs more than 200 yuan.

For comparison, the price of a rifle is only fifteen yuan, which is enough to prove how expensive optical equipment is.

"I saw it, I saw it, shot, left..." Han Zhu said it happily at first, but as he said it, he saw Zhao Dezhong's dark face.

"Make sure the sights are installed and stable, and then you can load the bullet." Zhao Dezhong said to the other shooter when he saw Han Zhu sitting back.

Click!

With a crisp sound, a 6.8mm bullet was pushed into the barrel of the gun.

"Free fire, burst fire, focus on killing the enemy." After giving the order, Zhao Dezhong turned his eyes to the sight.

He put two or three advancing Japanese soldiers into the sight, estimated the distance, slightly raised the muzzle, and pressed the trigger.

That's right, you press the trigger. The trigger of the Maxim heavy machine gun is at the very back and is pressed forward instead of pulled backward.

Dong Dong Dong Dong, Dong Dong, Dong Dong Dong.

A total of nine gunshots were fired, divided into three times. A little more than a second later, Zhao Dezhong clearly saw that two soldiers had been shot and fell to the ground, and one soldier stood there as if he had been frightened, at a loss.

Boom, boom, boom!

He pressed again and fired three more bullets. The bullets flew for more than a second and hit the soldier who was standing still. Two of the three bullets hit him, one on the leg and one on the lower right abdomen.

The heavy machine gun uses 6.8mm rifle bullets that were standardized during the Nanhua period. The warhead is a non-streamlined pointed bullet and has a lead-core copper back. When it hits the human body, it will roll because the center of gravity is destroyed, creating a strong cavity effect.

Except for a very small number of truly ruthless people, those who were hit several times by full-power rifle bullets and were still alive and kicking to fight back were those who were active in movies and TV series.

Even if excessive secretion of adrenaline causes the human body to be overly excited and unable to feel pain, this will not last long. If a person is hit in the torso by a full-power bullet, the person will quickly lose the ability to move.

Unless it's an immature weapon.

Dong dong dong… dong dong dong…

The machine guns were firing rhythmically. Not only the two Zhao Dezhongs, but hundreds of machine guns along the entire defense line were firing rhythmically.

Every time the rhythm sounds twice, a Japanese will inevitably fall. This is why recruits are afraid of artillery and veterans are afraid of machine guns.

The machine gun's huge weight and ultra-long barrel give it powerful accuracy. In the hands of an experienced machine gun shooter, when firing in bursts, it can produce a number of kills that even precision shooters cannot match.

Several bullets flew towards the same target, and the small jumps made it impossible for people to hide. The only thing waiting for them was death.

Even if you miss it by luck the first time, the second time will come soon.

boom!boom!boom!

A burst of explosions sounded around the bunker, and Zhao Dezhong felt the vibration. At least one of them hit the bunker.

"Bah!" Zhao Dezhong spit out a mouthful of dust.

The explosion failed to destroy the bunker, but the dust kicked up by the air wave blew in along the shooting holes, obstructing the view and covering the soldiers' faces with gray.

"The enemy has arrived at the riverside. Increase the rate of fire and prepare for fire suppression." After the dust dispersed, Zhao Dezhong shouted back.
Chapter completed!