Chapter 268 (2/2)

But the conflict really turned into a one-sided massacre. But it wasn't the Zulu who slaughtered the British soldiers, it was the 50 British soldiers who slaughtered the Zulu.

Because the 50 British infantry had four Markham heavy machine guns. This kind of big guy can fire 600 bullets a minute. Once he fires, no matter who is on the opposite side, as long as he is exposed to the muzzle of the gun, there will be no way out.

As a result, in less than half an hour, the more than 5000 Zulu warriors who attacked the British garrison threw down more than 3000 bodies and fled in a hurry.

For the first time, the Markham heavy machine gun showed its great dominance on the battlefield.

In 1895, in the battles of Chitral and Sudan in Afghanistan, the soldiers of the offensive side were killed and injured under the heavy machine gun of the defensive side.

In 1898, in the battle of ntuman in Sudan, 20000 mendicant monks of the Communist Party of China fell in front of the position of the Markham heavy machine gun during the attack.

In the Boer War, which began in 1899, Boer people were devastated by Markham heavy machine gun when charging, and the loss was more than 70%.

The battle that really made the Markham heavy machine gun famous was the battle of Somme River during the first World War.

In the largest battle of the first World War, the British Army invested 54 divisions, the French 32 divisions and the German 67 divisions.

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

However, in order to prevent the advance of the British and French allied forces, the German army deployed a Markham heavy machine gun every 100 meters in positional warfare. Under the popular ”group charge” at that time, facing such a dense firepower configuration, it was undoubtedly a large-scale suicide. At that time, because of Markham's vitality on the battlefield, more than 60000 people were killed and injured by the British and French allied forces in one day. It created the largest number of casualties in a single day in the first World War.

Stone bear has not witnessed the killing of Zulu people in Rhodesia by makchin heavy machine gun, nor has he witnessed the great power of makchin heavy machine gun in the battle of SOM river. But today, he witnessed the result of heat weapons against flesh and blood.

In contrast, the previous massacres of the five small tribes of Yuchi people were not on the table at all. This contrast is like the gap between the single shot rifle and the automatic Markham heavy machine gun.

The ratio of the number of soldiers on both sides participating in the battle is 85:500. The number of stone bear's side is superior and absolutely inferior, but they have muskets in their hands, and they can fire six rifles in a minute!

In the case of firing in turn, the 85 soldiers can theoretically fire 510 rounds a minute, which is almost as dense as a Markham heavy machine gun.

Although the lead bullets fired by Ferguson's rifles are far less powerful than the copper coated steel core bullets fired by Markham's heavy machine guns, this level of bullet density can not be stopped by only 500 Yuchi people with original weapons.

Yuchi people have no horses, and although they rush up like a noisy swarm of bees, they do not disperse according to the line of scattered troops. The intensity of the troops is comparable to that of the Spanish Dafang formation.

So although the 20 soldiers on the stone bear's side can only cover a short distance, once this row of guns goes crazy, the massacre like makchin will inevitably fall on the head of Yuchi people