Chapter 216 The Roar of the Heavy Machine Gun

If the black powder flintlock rifle can basically only be used in close combat, then the rifled rifle has a range of less than 300 meters.

However, if you are targeting a slowly moving fishman, or a huge arm monster moving straight forward, then if you fire in unison and someone does the special calibration, you can hit it from five or six hundred meters away.

The machine gun directly extends the range beyond human visual range, which is beyond visual range shooting.

The tripod is firmly stuck on the ground. When the tripod is erected, the recoil of the heavy machine gun is quite small, and the bullets can be accurately fired within a certain range.

The hand-cranked Gatling gun made by Zeus is not very accurate, but with Chloe's extraordinary ability, it can provide instant feedback on the bullet landing point. In addition, the arm monsters are crowded together on the coast, so Zeus is quite confident that he can cause a lot of casualties.

At this time, aiming doesn't make much sense. The only thing that can limit his killing range is the range of the bullet, and in this regard, bullets far outweigh directly loaded gunpowder.

In addition to the amount of gunpowder, what affects the range of a gun is more importantly the air tightness of the barrel.

The reason why the Minié bullet greatly improved the range of the rifle is that the lead bullet can be stuck in the rifling to a certain extent, which makes it more sealed. The gas generated by the explosion of gunpowder can push the bullet to do more work. For directly loaded projectiles, the gas utilization rate is only about 60%.

For the brass bullets used by Gatling, this value is as high as 90% to 95%. The same amount of powder brings higher initial velocity, greater power, and longer range.

The probability of barrel explosion, moisture resistance, and misfire ratio are completely incomparable. A brass stamped bullet improves the firearm in all aspects.

Xius called Nini over. She helped to make many parts of the gun, and she was also the only person who had seen the gun fire.

Nini loaded the bullets skillfully and shook the handle at the same time.

Hughes clenched the heavy machine gun in his hand, took a deep breath, and opened fire! 'Too close, at least another 500 meters.'

Ta! "It's too far. It's all in the sea."

Alexei was a little surprised. He looked at the slowly rotating barrel. It turned out that this kind of gun did not fire all the bullets at the same time, but fired one by one. But what was the use of this? This firing rate was naturally much faster than that of a rifle, but it required at least three people to load, one to aim, and one to crank the handle.

Well, maybe the person operating the machine gun can crank the handle at the same time, saving one person, but that still doesn't make much sense.

Transporting such a heavy firearm with great effort only increased the firepower density of about five people, which was really not cost-effective. However, if the range could be increased to one thousand meters, that would be another matter.

This machine gun, maybe... not bad? After more than ten bullets, Hughes's bullets gradually became more accurate, and the first bullet finally fell into the beach where the arm monsters gathered.

"Nini!"

The speed of Nini's rotating crank suddenly increased. The sound of machine gun bullets firing one by one became continuous. The bullets flew like raindrops to the distant beach, stirring up a red splash of water.

Broken limbs and arms flew in the air in an instant. If the bullets of the rifle drilled a hole in the flesh, then the bullets of the heavy machine gun simply and violently cleared an area.

There was no difference between flesh, grass, wood, sand and gravel. The fishman who subconsciously dodged was swept into pieces along with his cover.

"Move up a little to the left! Continue moving up two base points! !"

Chloe's voice became excited. With the help of her extraordinary abilities, she looked at the beach from an aerial perspective. The arm monsters piled together became the best targets for the machine gun's inclined firepower.

Under her command, the bullets seemed to be an extension of her will. Wherever she looked, dense firepower would plow there. It made no difference whether it was an arm monster or a fishman. Flesh and blood were like fragile straw in front of the bullets.

An arm monster raised its body and charged forward, but was then cut through by a line of bullets and simply exploded into two halves. Another fishman stood up under the firepower, but was instantly shrunken to half his size.

Blood and flesh mixed together, and the waving arms suddenly lost support and fell down. The fishman looked at the basin-sized blood hole on his chest in confusion, and several more appeared after a while.

The monsters gathered together and turned into a hive, and then into a mass of rotten meat that was indistinguishable from each other.

Under the heavy machine gun fire, the beach had become a hellish scene.

After just a few minutes, the roar of the machine gun stopped. Chloe looked at the beach in the distance and couldn't help swallowing.

This was the battle she was commanding. She only needed to say left or right. She didn't even move from where she was. It only took such a short while. Alexei was standing there stupidly at this moment. He was stunned when the sound of bullets firing became continuous. The huge sound of bullets firing made his mind chaotic. The little remaining sanity kept screaming, but he couldn't hear it clearly.

It was not until now, when the world suddenly fell silent, that he understood what had happened.

This Gatling gun, just one, has more firepower than the entire Skitarii.

Smoke was slowly coming out of the barrels of the Gatling guns, and the continuous firing made the barrels become hot.

"Why stop?" Nini asked with some confusion.

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"All the arm monsters are dead." Chloe licked her lips. She felt her throat dry. "More than fifty of them. All dead."

The crowd fell silent instantly.

The beach where the monsters gathered was a full 1,500 meters away from here. At this distance, normal human vision couldn't even see what was happening.

There were fifty monsters with arms. It took two teams of Banshees a long time to chop them down with knives, but a Gatling gun could solve the problem in just a few minutes.

Moreover, it was only in the first short period that Zeus was firing in a strafing manner. After that, he basically followed Chloe's instructions and fired short bursts. The projectile fire accurately hit the monsters from a distance of 1,500 meters.

The arm monster was two or three stories tall and huge in size, which made it easier for Chloe to command. If the target was the fishman, she might not be able to kill them all accurately due to the deviation of the hand-cranked Gatling gun.

Alexei wiped the sweat from his forehead with trembling hands. He suddenly understood why Hughes had to go into battle himself. The steam rifle was also very powerful, but Alexei did not care too much about this weapon because it was difficult for humans to use them directly.

That is a weapon specially used by extraordinary people.

But the Gatling gun is different. Zeus is a mortal, but the Crusaders can also use this weapon. Even if Chloe's extraordinary ability to observe is excluded, even if it can only attack a fixed angle and a fixed position, this weapon will completely subvert the battlefield.

Looking at the heavy machine gun placed in front of the crowd, Alexei's fingers trembled constantly.

This is the first time that humans can face off against extraordinary monsters head-on.

(End of this chapter)