Chapter 12: One-Sided Slaughter (Part 6)

  On August 11th at around 4 pm, Xia Jun led the newly formed Jianzhou Security Team to Lujia Village, and they were discovered from afar.

  Soon, the Lu family village was **up**, and the sound of iron hitting copper drums echoed through the village, with the Lu clan leader beating the copper drum to gather the young and strong men in the clan.

  Xia Jun stopped advancing 500 meters away from Lujiazhuang Village and ordered the construction of a defensive line, drawing a line in front and ordering: "Dig a trench here immediately."

  "Yes."

  "Machine gun number one, set up over here, take position."

  "Yes."

  "Machine gun number two, occupy high ground 03."

  "Yes."

  "Sniper, on high ground 02, pick off bandits with fine firearms."

  "Yes."

  Xia Jun gave a series of consecutive orders, and after targeted training, they did not appear chaotic.

  In front of Lujia Village, there are three commanding heights marked by Xia Jun as 01, 02 and 03 highlands, all on the mountain tops on both sides. The bandits in Lujia Village had no military knowledge at all, and these three commanding heights were not defended at all.

  The upper highland of the upper highland, the construction of the trench is proceeding in an orderly manner. The bandits in Lujia Village saw a group of people with strange attire and guns coming to the village, and after gathering the young and strong men from the village, they were also discussing countermeasures.

  They waited for half a day and didn't see the group of people intending to attack the village. The bandits from Lu's family sneered, thinking that such a small number of people dared to come looking for trouble, truly seeking death.

  "Big brother, this group of people must have eaten dog gall and dare to come and offend our Lu family village. This breath is unbearable for me, let's take people out and kill them." Lu Hao Tiger, the second son of the Lu family, was already nearly fifty years old and had been a bandit all his life. Although he was older, his bandit nature remained unchanged.

  His brother Lu Haoshen is also fifty-three this year and is the head of the Lu family. The two are known as the big and little overlords of the Lu family.

  "Alright, Second Brother, you go scout ahead with some men. I find this group of people a bit suspicious." Lu Lao Da glanced at the military flag fluttering in the distance from Jianzhou Security Team and cautiously reminded Lu Er.

  Lu Lao Da had been a bandit all his life and was extremely cunning. The group of people in front of him couldn't understand their background or purpose, which left Lu Lao Da puzzled. Conveniently, Lu Er asked to kill his way out, so let him go probe them first!

  "I'd like to see what kind of people they are, really daring. You kids, come with Grandpa to slaughter pigs." Lu Lao Er was furious, just like a tiger provoked by ants, with a desire to slap the ants to death.

  ……

  The village gate of Lujia Village suddenly opened, and Lu Lao Er came out with a big chopper in his hand, leading more than 100 bandits to rush out of the village.

  These bandits' cold weapons were excellent, but their firearms were somewhat inferior, although there were three Mauser 98As.

  The bandits in Lujia Village didn't need to use overly sophisticated weapons when they robbed, and the government couldn't control them either, so there was no motivation to change equipment. If you really want to get weapons, it's relatively easy if you have money, those arms dealers never let go of the Chinese market.

  Lin Mudwa was ready on the high ground of 02, saw a group of bandits rushing out, looked carefully for half a moment, and locked onto the three bandits holding Mauser 98As.

  The only thing these bandits can use to threaten the security team is rifles.

  Lin Niwa took aim at a bandit's chest and pulled the trigger decisively. Xia Jun had given him some sniper training, telling him that the best target for sniping was in the thoracic cavity, not the head.

  Because the chest cavity is the easiest to hit, even if it doesn't kill, the opponent will still be out of the combat sequence, and the goal is achieved, there's no need to pursue a headshot.

  Of course, sometimes snipers will also try to shoot and kill the enemy's head in order to challenge themselves.

  Whoosh...

  The bandit holding the Mauser 98A below fell directly down, and a hole was shot in his chest.

  The gangsters were shocked, Lao Er remained unmoved, waving his arm and shouting: "You kids, charge for me!"

  Lin Niwa saw that although Lu Lao Er was a bit older, he looked very fierce and was shouting loudly, as if he had some status. Lin Niwa immediately thought of the sniper law taught by the team leader: snipers don't kill people for the sake of killing, but to disrupt the enemy's actions and plans.

  Lin Niwa thought, this old thing should be an important target!

  Moving the muzzle, Lin Niwa fired a shot, and Lu Laoer, who was rushing down the mountain, was hit and flew out, then his head tilted... dead.

  "Old Two..."

  Lü Lǎodà, who was watching from the tower in the village, let out a loud shout as soon as he saw this scene. Lü Lǎoèr didn't respond at all, and according to Comrade Ho Chi Minh's poetic description - he stiffened.

  The bandits who rushed out of the village were at a loss, and with Lao Er's death, they lost their commander. The group suddenly stopped in its tracks. But Lin Niwa on high ground was unstoppable.

  Whoosh... whoosh... whoosh...

  Eight bullets were fired in a row, and the bandits below fell down one by one. Lin Mudwa finished firing, quickly pulled his head back, and lay on the high ground to reload the bullets.

  The bandits below were blown up, eight people were killed, and it was unknown where the bullets came from. Lu Lao Da saw that the situation was not good, so he hurriedly let people carry the bodies into the village.

  "Lu Haohu, the bandit from Lujiazhuang Village, has been killed. You have earned 5,000 reward points." The mechanical voice of the platform's assistant program appeared after Lu Er'er died.

  Xia Jun was shocked, this Lu Haohu is really a wicked bandit!

  According to the platform's assistant program, the more vicious and evil the bandits are, the higher the score they get when killed. Taking down a Lu Lao Er has earned Xia Jun back his investment, and he has almost regained the equipment of 15 squads. The profit from this bandit-sweeping business is indeed substantial.

  ……

  Due to Lin Niwa's sniping, the bandits who had just rushed out of the village retreated, and Lu Lao Da looked at his brother's corpse with uncontrollable anger, a group of people pointing and gesturing towards the mountain.

  "It seems to be there."

  "No, it's over there."

  Several young men in the clan pointed to a mountain ridge with a look of horror, and Lu Lao Da shouted angrily, pointing to the 02 high ground where Lin Ni Wa was: "Are you pigs! It's clearly on that mountain ridge, damn it, return my second child."

  Lu Lao Da let out a loud roar, and in his rage, he picked up a Mauser 98B rifle. "Get me out of here!" he shouted. "Kill those sons of bitches! Twenty silver coins for each one you take down. Anyone who takes a step back will be sent to the execution ground, and their families will be taken care of by the clan."

  Before long, the village gate opened again. Xia Jun saw a large crowd of people rushing out of the village below, roughly estimated to be nearly two hundred, possibly more.

  "Machine guns ready, machine guns ready." Xia Jun hastily ordered.

  "Report, sir, machine gun ready." The guard in charge of the machine gun replied. Xia Jun waved his arm and shouted loudly: "Fire!"

  "Dada dada dada dada..."

  After receiving the order, the guard immediately pulled the trigger and swept down the mountain bandits in a row. Hearing the gunfire on the position, the guards responsible for machine gun shooting on the 03 high ground also followed suit.

  Two machine guns fired at the bandits rushing down from the mountain, and in a burst of crazy sweeps, more than ten bandits who rushed out of the village fell to the ground amidst the whistling bullets.

  But most of them were caused by machine guns on the heights, which were high and commanding, and at the flank of those bandits, sweeping left and right against the crowd. The machine guns on the position were mainly to prevent the bandits from approaching, and shooting the bandits on the mountain was not so accurate.

  Of course, machine guns are not invincible. After all, they were far away from those bandits. Soon the bandits on the mountain dispersed and continued to charge down with great ferocity.

  The high ground was in the front, only about 150 meters away from the village. The bandits rushed up and fired at the top of the mountain. Lin Mudwa hid on the top of the mountain and was so scared by the whizzing bullets that he didn't dare to show his head.

  The first time Lin Mudwa went to the battlefield, he was so scared that his hands were shaking. In just half a minute, the bandits rushed to the foot of the mountain. Lin Mudwa suddenly became anxious, took out the hand grenade from his waist, pulled out a melon-shaped one, bit off the fuse and threw it randomly at the crowd below.

  "Boom!"

  Only a loud noise came from below, and the defensive grenade was thrown into the crowd of bandits. After the explosion, shrapnel flew everywhere, covering an area with a radius of ten meters, and the bandits in the center of the explosion were killed on the spot.

  At the same time, the two machine guns also brought their firepower to an extreme, and the bandits who had rushed down the mountain were killed or wounded in a short period of time. They couldn't rush up under the 02 high ground.

  More than 200 bandits came out of the village in a dense and disorderly manner, but now they were scattered and sparse.

  Those bandits' momentum passed, and when they looked back, they saw that there were corpses lying all over the place, shot by the Maxim machine gun. The consequences were naturally unbearable, and many bandits were suddenly frightened, their hands and feet softened, some simply threw away their weapons and ran back directly.

  Zhang Si Gou and his men were excited, holding their rifles and aiming at the bandits, shooting one by one. Their rifles in hand could be said to be the most advanced infantry equipment of this era, how could they not love them?

  However, their marksmanship was clearly not great, and after more than half a month of marksmanship training without counting ammunition consumption, the security team's soldiers' marksmanship became much more accurate.

  The battle quickly turned into a massacre, with the bandits fleeing back into the village and leaving behind a pile of bodies under the fire of the M1910 machine guns and M1 Garand semi-automatic rifles.

  Xia Jun found that his command in this battle was somewhat inappropriate, or too cautious. The machine gun on the position should be set up on the 02 high ground, so as to form a crossfire with the 03 high ground, but now the two machine guns are at a 90-degree angle.

  Crossfire is naturally best on both sides and the shooter's hit rate is much higher when shooting sideways, which is mainly a reason for the shooting method.

  Shooting from the side, the enemy's broadside is wide, while the width of the front is not so long, and shooting is also not so handy, the efficiency difference between the two is huge.

  Xia Jun placed the machine gun on the position, mainly because he was afraid of being approached by bandits, but with the current strong firepower of the security team, such worries were completely unnecessary.

  Xia Jun's military knowledge was mostly theoretical, after all, he had only participated in the army as a soldier and his military knowledge was mainly obtained from online research, supplemented by some of his own experiences within the army, but lacking in practical experience.

  Since the establishment of the security team, Xia Jun's command ability has also been improved.

  Only about sixty bandits escaped back to the village, Lu Lao Da was already scared out of his wits on the tower, it wasn't until after many of his clansmen were killed or wounded that he realized the enemy they faced this time was not ordinary.

  The water-cooled Vickers heavy machine gun represents absolute firepower in this era. Nowadays, the Jianzhou Security Regiment has basically formed a combat method centered on machine guns. Even if the M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle has stronger firepower than the bolt-action rifle, it is still not as powerful as a machine gun, and compared to the armies of major powers, it's simply not worth mentioning.

  The German Army was heavily equipped with machine guns in both World War I and World War II. In World War I, they used the Maschinengewehr 08, while in World War II, they used the MG42 general-purpose machine gun, which had unparalleled firepower and was extremely lightweight. Whether in World War I or World War II, Germany's application and development of machine guns were at the forefront of other countries, making machine guns an absolute pillar of German Army firepower.

  There is also an MG42 on the exchange platform, but one needs 500 points, which is really expensive. Xia Jun's current enemy is just bandits and possibly the Qing army that may come to suppress them, so there is no need for an MG42 at all, a Maxim heavy machine gun can handle it.

  The battle ended quickly and Xia Jun ordered a sweep of the battlefield.

  At the same time, he took the loudspeaker and climbed up to position 02. The village bandits wouldn't come out for a while, so next was to solve the problem with psychological tactics.

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