Chapter Ten: A Helping Hand
Hu Weidong took a closer look and couldn't help but take a cold breath, only to see that the pursuers behind the man were all wearing plain clothes and holding box-shaped guns. "Special Task Force? No, could it be the Plainclothes Unit? There are about thirty or forty of them, just to catch one person?"
As the figure approached rapidly, Hu Weidong finally saw his appearance and attire. The man was about 18 or 19 years old, not very tall, only around 1.7 meters, wearing ordinary farmer's clothes, but his movements were as swift and agile as a leopard. His face was plain, but his eyes were extremely lively. What surprised Hu Weidong the most was that when the man was being chased so tightly by the enemy, he still held something tightly in one hand, using only his left hand to hold the gun and counterattack. "What is he holding? Could it be... a child?"
"When it comes to protecting children in such a crisis, they must not be bad people. Moreover, the opponent is still the Biedong team, so this task must be helped!", Hu Weidong made up his mind and immediately pulled out his double guns and fired at the two pursuers, but unfortunately, due to the slight distance, only one was knocked down. Objectively speaking, Hu Weidong's move at this time was not very advantageous, but in order to save the young man, he had to quickly clarify the enemy and avoid misunderstandings, after all, they were also disguised as Biedong team members at this time. What if the young man got nervous and fired back at them?
Although it's unclear why Lian Chang fired so early, the sound of gunfire was an order and everyone followed suit, drawing their guns and firing. Unfortunately, these new recruits' marksmanship still needed improvement, and at this distance, the pistols were slightly out of range. As a result, after one round of shooting, ten handguns only managed to take down one enemy. Fortunately, the machine gunner was lucky and managed to hit two enemies with one burst at a distance of about 300 meters.
When the young man heard the sound of gunfire ahead, he was startled at first, especially when he found that the other party's attire was almost the same as that of the special forces. However, he soon saw that the "enemies" on both sides had begun to "mutually slaughter" each other, and suddenly realized that the "special forces" in front might be fake, and couldn't help but feel overjoyed, rushing forward like a bird set free. Since the enemy's firepower was all attracted by Hu Weidong and his men, he managed to rush all the way without taking a single bullet.
"Are you the Red Army?" The young man, holding a child in one hand and climbing up the rocky mountain with the other, simply flipped into the bunker where the machine gunner was. At this time, the child was still sleeping soundly, I don't know if it was because of the young man's superb skills, so that he didn't feel the bumps at all? Or is this little life already used to this kind of gunfire and explosions......
The machine gunner didn't have time to answer the young man's question. Although he had fought in several battles since joining the militia, each time was a successful surprise attack and the enemy was just a mob, so winning was just a matter of minutes. But this time, the enemy outnumbered them and was well-trained, and the machine gunner was the team's most important firepower point, the heavy pressure made him almost unable to breathe, he was almost subconsciously sweeping and replacing magazines, even without noticing that there was an extra person beside him...
The young man frowned as soon as he saw the way the machine gunner was shooting. Seeing the enemy approaching, he couldn't help but feel anxious and pushed the machine gunner aside, snatching the light machine gun to replace him. The machine gunner's face turned bright red with anger, almost pulling out his pistol to fight the young man, when he heard the company commander's order: "Let him use the machine gun first, you use your pistol."
At this time, the performance of young people also explained why Hu Weidong had to give such an order. The light machine gun in his hand did not "dada" continuously, but shot out a short and crisp rhythm like a drumbeat, with an accuracy that was surprisingly high. When this magazine was used up, five or six enemies had already been knocked to the ground, and the rest were all shocked, crawling on the ground and advancing, no longer daring to run and charge forward as they did just now.
"You see, this is called a short burst of fire. Learn from it. However, whether you can practice short bursts to the point where every shot hits its mark depends on your luck." Hu Weidong said as he handed over a twenty-shot pistol to the young man, "Use this, those guys are all crouching down, machine guns aren't good for shooting them."
"Good gun!", the young man took over the gun and looked at it, instantly beaming with joy. As a master of gunslinging, he could tell its quality at a glance. With the German-made long-barreled twenty-shooter, the young man was even more unstoppable, his bullets precisely targeting the enemy's heads, taking out several more in no time. However, the enemy's numbers were too great, and each one was exceptionally skilled. After suffering over a dozen casualties, they finally managed to close in to within 100 meters. At this distance, the enemy's marksmanship became frighteningly accurate, and with their numerical advantage, two of their men were shot dead in an instant. The enemy took advantage of the momentum, jumping up from the ground and charging forward in an attempt to storm the position all at once. By now, a single light machine gun was no longer enough to hold them back. The young man grew anxious, thinking of making a last stand, when suddenly he heard Hu Weidong shouting, "Switch to automatic, mow them down!"
All that could be heard was a burst of popping sounds, like beans being fried. The twenty or so special police officers who were charging towards the handgun squad's position were almost instantly knocked to the ground. Many of them still had their eyes wide open even after they stopped breathing, and until death, they didn't understand why the twenty rounds of gunfire had a killing power close to that of a submachine gun...
But the young man was a bystander, he thought for a moment about Hu Weidong's strange hand shape when he fired earlier, and suddenly realized, "So that's how to use continuous shooting!"
Due to the inherent defect of the Twenty Nines as a handgun, the recoil is too great when firing continuously. Therefore, before fully automatic shooting, the wooden gun case must be assembled on the gun body as a stock to control the muzzle jump, which is complicated and difficult to carry. However, historically clever Chinese people discovered a simple technique that not only solved the problem of muzzle jump but also turned it into an advantage for full-automatic rapid fire sweeping - the gunner holds the shotgun with his right hand, pulls the trigger to the rapid-fire position, raises the gun with his palm up, stretches forward and left, pulls the trigger, and the upward recoil of the muzzle makes the shotgun sweep from the gunner's left front to the right front; when raising the gun with the palm down, it sweeps from the right front to the left front; when holding the gun with the left hand, it is completely reversed. This is truly a stroke of genius that turns a flaw into an advantage!
The earliest semi-automatic pistol that could fire continuously was not finalized until 1928 (it was a Spanish version, but the semi-automatic model came out earlier, and the original German one did not finalize until 1932). It would have been sold to China even later. Except for Kang Ze's plainclothes team (the Nationalist government ordered 10,000 twenty-rounds from Germany, except for a small number of officers who liked this pistol, most were given to Kang Ze's special operations team), at that time, other Chinese troops were still very few equipped with it. Therefore, even if someone had already discovered this technique, there was no time to promote it on a large scale. So when Hu Weidong promoted this small trick he saw online in the military, it instantly greatly enhanced the militia's automatic firepower. Within 50-60 meters, eleven quick and slow machines swept together, eliminating twenty or so special operations personnel who were tactically backward and had too small a distance between them. It was really too easy...
