The battle had only just begun, and August Dorn had ominous signs in his mind.

As a senior officer in Tanganyika, Auguste Dorn's level is still there, and the 2nd Tanganyika Division has also fought against the Fort Glory rebels, although compared with ordinary Africans, the quality of the Fort Glory rebels is better, but it is not much better, the most intuitive manifestation is that it is easy to get hot-blooded, and it is common to shoot at a distance of five or six hundred meters.

This time it was different, Fort Helmut clearly showed traces of fortifications, and the starting position of the 2nd Tanganyika Division was only about 500 meters away from Fort Helmut, but the attacking troops had advanced 300 meters all the way, and whether they had been counterattacked by the rebels of Fort Glory, which made Auguste Donn wonder if the position of Fort Helmut was a trick.

Obviously not, because Auguste Dorn, who was using a telescope to observe the Helmutburg position, accidentally discovered that there were also people using telescopes to observe the attacking German troops at the Helmut Fort position.

Auguste Donne's biggest regret at this time was that the 2nd Tanganyika Division was not equipped with artillery, and at this time it was actually necessary to use artillery to fire at the Helmutburg position for more than half an hour, and then put in the ground troops, which would have the best effect.

To deal with the Africans, you have to use artillery!

August Dorn had just had this idea in his mind, and he felt a little ridiculous when he was left behind by Auguste Dorn.

But what happened next proved that Auguste Donne's fears were not unnecessary.

Nyasaland is armed with a universal machine gun with a theoretical rate of fire of six hundred rounds.

Of course, no one in the battle kept the trigger on the line, so a box of 100 rounds could be used up in six seconds, so skilled shooters were still used to using two or three shots, so as to maximize the power of the general-purpose machine gun.

The point fire of the machine gunner can best reflect the level of the shooter, and a top shooter like Chen Ling can use tracer bullets to hit a perfect two or three point shots.

The assault regiment's defensive positions are based on machine gun positions to build an airtight fire network, so the rifle shooters will not point out until the machine guns are fired.

Chen Ling's position was at the forefront of the entire position, so the battle started from Chen Ling.

Although the attacking German troops were small in number and were not considered to be in a dense formation, Chen Liang still found the best time to fire with his rich experience.

Click, click-

The sound of the general-purpose machine gun is like a typewriter, crisp and melodious, full of rhythm, listening to Auguste Dorn's ears like the war drum of death.

At the moment of firing, there was a squad of German troops who were completely within Chen Ling's firing range, and in that brief moment, they formed a line in Chen Ling's firing range.

Chen Pang did not hesitate to shoot, and it took less than 20 rounds to sweep all six German soldiers.

This efficiency is not much better than that of a special shooter who uses a rifle to accurately roll names.

The moment he heard the gunshots, Auguste Dorn realized that something was wrong.

The sound of the general-purpose machine gun and the Maxim is different, the general-purpose machine gun is a crisp "click", and the Maxim is a heavy "knock knock", and the difference is still obvious.

Previously, the Fort Glory rebels were equipped with some Maxims, but never with a general-purpose machine gun.

However, August Dorn did not suspect the identity of the enemy on the other side at this time, and no one could have imagined that Nyasaland would brazenly send troops into Tanganyika to help the Tanganyika rebels in defiance of the world's condemnation, and if this matter was exposed, it might lead to a full-scale war between Britain and Germany.

Compared to Auguste Dorn, the German units involved in the offensive felt it more profoundly.

The linear tactical competition is courage and blood, even in the face of a rain of bullets, you must move forward bravely and not retreat.

But there are limits to this "bravery", if there are heavy casualties and there is no ability to continue the attack, then the soldiers will not go forward and die.

One of the battalions of German troops in charge of the attack was crippled less than a minute after the battle began, more than half of the soldiers were killed within ten seconds of the first start of the battle, and then the attacking troops were completely suppressed and could not advance at all.

There were also German soldiers who tried to fight back, but were often accurately named by a battalion of accurate shooters as soon as they emerged from behind cover.

In fact, even if they counterattacked, they could not find the target of the counterattack, and the first battalion was a foxhole in addition to the machine-gun position, and each accurate shooter prepared at least two or three foxholes, and every shot would change places, which would not give the German soldiers a chance to counterattack at all.

The machine guns that posed the greatest threat to the German soldiers, because of the setting of the position, would not be directly attacked by the German soldiers, and every time the German soldiers took a step forward, they had to be subjected to machine gun fire from both sides, as well as scattered attacks by frontal precision shooters.

There has never been such a humiliating battle, let alone in Africa, even in the Franco-Prussian War, facing the French army known as the "world's first army", the German army has never encountered such a situation.

Even in this situation, Auguste Dorn was reluctant to order his troops to withdraw from the battle, instead urging his troops forward in an attempt to get more information.

At this time, it was clear that the general-purpose machine gun had an advantage over Makqin, and it was clear that the battle had begun for most of the day, but the Makqin equipped by the 2nd Tanganyika Division had not yet completed the preparations, and the gap was very obvious.

You must know that the machine-gun shooters of the 2nd Tanganyika Division are also white, and this technique is not good for Africans.

"Order the troops to move on, otherwise the military law team will enforce the law on the spot, and we will get more information from the enemy!" Auguste Dorn is ruthless, even if it is a pile of people, to break through the enemy's defenses.

"General, the situation is not good-" Deputy Division Commander Marshall Thomas had a solemn expression, just now he had been observing the defensive positions of the "rebels" at Fort Helmut, and to be honest, the ability shown by the "rebels" at Fort Helmut shocked Marshall Thomas.

The Nyasaland Arsenal is now capable of producing tracer rounds, so when soldiers prepare their boxes in advance, in order to give the shooter enough tips, the chain will be filled with a tracer bullet every five rounds.

In this way, in battle, the shooter can adjust in time according to the trajectory of the tracer projectile, inflicting more damage on the enemy.

One or two machine-gun positions, this situation is not obvious, but dozens of machine-gun positions are firing at the same time, and what is presented in front of Marshall Thomas is an impermeable network of fire.

A web of fire woven with tracer bullets and death.

"The Fort Glory rebels don't have that ability, absolutely not, or we wouldn't have been able to defeat them before—" Marshall Thomas said.

"And who is the enemy on our side?" August Dorn roared in rage, and then, as if aware of something, his face turned pale.

"No way, the people of Nyasaland don't dare—" Marshall Thomas muttered to himself, incredulous, but as if it were the only plausible explanation.

"Now is the time to defend the glory, either way, until we take the position." Auguste Donn bred together and finally really valued his opponent.

So the second attack of the German troops was launched under the cover of the Maxim heavy machine guns, although the 2nd Tanganyika Division was equipped with a little less Maxim, and all the Maxim heavy machine guns added up to only six.

In the past, six Maxim heavy machine guns were enough to deal with the indigenous Africans.

In 1893, Cecil Rhodes' 50 mercenaries easily repelled a siege of up to 5,000 Zulu warriors with the help of four Maxim heavy machine guns, killing 3,000 of them.

In 1898, in the battle of Omdurman in the Sultan, as many as 15,000 of the 20,000 monks attacked in front of the Makqin machine-gun position.

The 2nd Tanganyika Division also wanted to create a myth in military history once again with the help of Makqin, but unfortunately this time the Germans certainly could not do so.

As soon as the heavy roar of the Maxim heavy machine gun sounded, it was hit by mortar fire.

The artillery position of the 1st Battalion consisted of 6 90-millimeter mortars, 12 60-millimeter mortars, and 18 mortars.

But this scene was like a bolt from the blue in the eyes of August Dorn and Marshall Thomas.

The battle could not be fought, and the little ambition that had just been stirred up in the hearts of Auguste Dorn and Marshall Thomas vanished along with the machine-gun position.

"We must retreat, this is not an enemy that we can defeat." Marshall Thomas is now very certain that there must be "unknown forces" directly involved in the civil unrest in Tanganyika.

Considering the situation in Tanganyika, it is simply self-evident who this "unknown force" is.

"Yes, not right now!" Auguste Dorn was very unwilling, but he had no choice but to order his troops to retreat.

The "rebels" at Fort Helmut had artillery, and it seemed that there were so many of them that the battle could not be fought, and August Dorn now had ample reasons to retreat, and he had to report the situation to Erich von Falkingham and Governor Leutwein at once.

However, it was not easy to withdraw if he wanted to, and at the same time that August Dorn ordered the retreat, a large number of cavalry appeared on the flank of the 2nd Tanganyika Division, which was not the second battalion of the assault regiment responsible for the detour, but the real Fort Glory rebels.

"Retreat, retreat immediately!" Auguste Dorn did not hesitate, the Germans and the Tetera now had a blood feud, and if Auguste Dorn was captured by the Nyasaland forces, then perhaps Auguste Dorn would be treated in a way that matched his status.

But if he is captured by the rebels of Fort Glory, then Auguste Dorn's fate will probably be tragic.