Chapter 268 (1/2)

Stone bear sitting on the back of Huofeng with a big bow, looking at the slaughter in front of him coldly, without any fluctuation in his heart.

Yes, this is actually a one-sided massacre!

Although the number of soldiers of Yuchi royal court and the two guard tribes exceeds the expectation of Shi Xiong, and these 500 or so Yuchi soldiers can be said to be the most elite soldiers in the whole Yuchi tribe, these Yuchi soldiers with primitive bone knives, bone spears and bows and arrows are slaughtered in front of real hot weapons.

And this slaughter reminds stone bear of the famous Markham heavy machine gun.

Stone bear was a semi army fan in his previous life. He learned about Markham heavy machine gun from various materials.

Before the emergence of Markham heavy machine gun, people have used muskets for hundreds of years, but all guns are non automatic guns, and each bullet needs to be loaded and fired. At that time, the decisive power of war victory depended largely on the speed of loading ammunition. Many people were killed inexplicably before they could fill in the second bullet.

The reason why stone bear let Ferguson develop a new rifle is that the range is only one aspect, and the key is to improve the loading speed.

Hellam Stevens Markham is an inextricable name in the history of human war. Born in the United States on February 25, 1840, the inventor of the heavy machine gun came from a poor family. At the age of 14, he became an apprentice to a carriage manufacturer.

Born in a poor family, the child does not have much culture, but is born with an inventive mind. With his inventive mind, he obtained a patent for a perm and iron in the United States, and later invented a gas generator for lighting and a locomotive headlight.

In 1883, he went to England.

At that time, when the war was raging in the European continent, Markham turned to the study of rapid fire weapons. In 1884, Markham made the world's first machine gun that could shoot continuously and automatically. This is a fully automatic machine gun in the true sense, which can fire more than 600 bullets per minute.

The description of this mechanical movement is complex and abstract, but if you take a look at it for yourself, you will immediately admire its delicacy and ingenuity. In Markham machine gun, for the first time, human beings have used such mechanisms as compound feed spring, reliable shell throwing system, belt feeding mechanism, acceleration mechanism, reliable adjustment of bottom clearance, shooting speed adjustment of hydraulic buffer, etc.

Even in the 21st century, professional gun developers still follow the three basic principles of automatic gunpowder gas energy shooting initiated by Markham - recoil gun barrel, recoil gun and air guide.

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

The first application of Markham heavy machine gun in the battlefield took place in 1893 in Rhodesia.

Rhodesia was later Zimbabwe. At that time, the country was a colony of the British, but the local Zulu people were very unfriendly to the British. A war broke out between the colonists and the colonized.

Perhaps it is not appropriate to use war to describe the conflict, because although there were more than 5000 Zulu people with bone knives, spears and bows attacking the British garrison at that time, the British soldiers defending the garrison were only 50 infantry.

If we only compare the number of people, it should be a one-sided massacre. Fifty people can't be a match for five thousand in any case.