Chapter 581: Battle of the Somme

Cheng Yanqiu's voice rang in Qi Lin's ears. Judging from the performance of the surrounding German soldiers, this voice should only be heard by Qi Lin.
"If you really want to know all the truth, just pass these tests. I know it's not difficult for you."
When these words were spoken, the voice disappeared without a trace, as if everything was Qi Lin's illusion.
Only the sound of guns on the battlefield continued to fluctuate.
It seemed that it was to take care of Qi Lin. The German soldiers around him all spoke English. With the historical background of the time, this scene seemed a bit strange.
Qi Lin took a look at the Mauser G98 rifle in his hand, and checked his equipment again-in addition to the debris, he only had 13 rounds of 7.92 mm Mauser rifle ammunition and an M24 type. Wooden handle grenade—At this time, it was almost half a year before the M1917 cluster anti-tank grenade developed specifically to deal with tanks appeared.
Only with the charge of the M24 grenade, unless multiple grenades are bundled together, it is possible to blast through the armor of the tank-however, the most important point is that the grenades must be thrown close to the tank. That risk is too great. Big.
Of the three Mark I tanks, one is a "male", equipped with two 57mm naval rapid-fire guns and four 7.7mm Vickers water-cooled heavy machine guns. The other two are "male and female". There were no rapid-fire guns, but six heavy machine guns.
Coupled with the Enfield rifle in the hands of the infantry behind the tank, the British army kept suppressing the German positions with firepower. The German soldiers had to hide in the trenches, and the guys who dared to show their heads were basically shot at by the intensive shooting. Killed.
Even if Qi Lin is an evolutionary, without cover, it is almost impossible for him to get close to the tank and throw a grenade. As long as he rushes out of the trench, he will be beaten into a hornet's nest.
How to destroy the tank when it is impossible to get close to it?
As for another condition-24 hours of survival, this condition may be achieved if you change to another battlefield, but you must know that this is the Somme River, and Qi Lin's location is still the forefront of the front, only distance from the British position Less than three hundred meters.
If he chooses to escape, he will be greeted by the supervising team’s machine gun shooting
"Destroy tanks from a long distance..." Qi Lin constantly searched for information about World War I in his mind-he had not taken a history class taught in school, not to mention the courses of military academy, and his knowledge of World War I was limited to some. Check the information and play war shooting games in your free time.
However, in this little pitiful information, it really made Qi Lin find a weapon that can be used against tanks!
"K type bullet!"
K-type bullet, referred to as K bullet, to put it bluntly, in fact, this is an early armor-piercing bullet. The K bullet with a tungsten carbide core can penetrate a 10 mm thick steel plate at a distance of 100 meters.
At the time of the Battle of the Somme, the German army was equipped with K bullets, but at that time K bullets were allocated to snipers and machine gunners, specifically to deal with enemies hiding behind shields made of metal armor plates.
The armor thickness of the Mark I tank is just about ten to fifteen millimeters. If you find the angle, the K bullet can penetrate the armor plate of the tank and kill its internal crew, but it was not until 1917 that the Germans captured it. This situation was discovered only after two Mark I vehicles, and K bombs were distributed to ordinary infantry as anti-tank weapons.
It didn't take long for the British army to put the thicker-armored Mark IV tank on the battlefield, and the K bomb lost its role as an anti-tank weapon.
Qi Lin pulled over a soldier next to him and asked loudly, "Are there any K bullets? Who has K bullets here?!"
"Wh...what?" The soldier was obviously still in the horror and fear of seeing the tank for the first time, and he did not react at all. Qi Lin asked him what.
"K bomb! I said K bomb!"
"...K bullets? That...that only snipers and machine gunners have...Squad leader, we are an infantry squad...Wh, how come there is such a thing?" The soldier cowered a little. Said-Qi Lin had noticed his rank from the very beginning. He was a corporal. Calculated according to the German army during World War I, he should be the squad leader of this infantry squad.
During World War II, the German rifle squad basically revolved around the MG34 or MG42 in the squad. However, during World War I, machine guns were not so popular. At most, ordinary infantry squads only had submachine guns, which were rarely deployed. Machine gun.
Moreover, due to weight issues, most machine guns are fixed on the ground, and the division of machine gun squads and rifle squads is still very clear.
"Where is the nearest machine gun squad?" Qi Lin continued to ask. At this critical juncture, he didn't bother to consider whether the questioning in his capacity seemed abrupt, anyway, he would return after the battle... Ah yeah, after completing this test, he will leave this battlefield.
"Ma, Sergeant Marcus's machine gun squad... is in the C6 position next door... but... but I haven't heard the sound of shooting from them for a long time..."
"Where is the C6 position?" Qi Lin felt that ~EbookFREE.me~ If this is a traversal plot, I am afraid that the identity of the traverser will be exposed in minutes.
"On... over there..." Fortunately, out of fear and tension, the soldier didn't think so much, and honestly pointed Qi Lin a direction.
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The C6 position is not far from the trench where Qi Lin and his rifle squad are located, but the section between the trenches between the two sides has been destroyed by artillery shells. If Qi Lin wants to enter the C6 position, he must rush through a section of about 15 meters. Lots around, without any cover.
Fortunately, as an evolutionary, Qi Lin still has the advantage of speed. He took advantage of other people not paying attention, and with a flash, he crossed the blank space and rolled into the opposite trench.
This is the C6 position where Sergeant Marcus’s machine gun squad is located, but Qi Lin understands why the soldier said that he hadn’t heard the machine gun for a long time—a mortar shell fell into it impartially. In the trenches, the entire machine gun squad was killed.
The MG08 Maxim heavy machine gun was leaning slantingly against the edge of the trench, with two damaged wooden ammunition boxes next to it.
If Qi Lin remembers correctly, every Maxin heavy machine gun will be equipped with two to three K bullet chains, and one bullet chain is 250 rounds of ammunition. For the Maxin heavy machine gun, which has an amazing rate of fire, it may only support a few A second shot, but for Qi Lin, it was completely enough.
"Fortunately, the bullets of MG08 can be used with G98. The German logistics concept is still very advanced..."
Qi Lin quickly found the two cloth bullet chains with special labels, and knocked off the K bullets on them one by one.
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