Chapter 1085: Desert March

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readx;?“ The machine-gun carriage first came to prominence in 9091 against the Musilin rebels in Xinjiang. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 During the info battle, the rebels were almost stunned by its firepower. There is an example of this: about 1,000 Muslin rebels surrendered to a small squad of cavalry because they found that the cavalry unit had a machine-gun wagon. In fact, it was nothing more than an ordinary wagon used to transport hay, and the machine guns were made by the cavalry improvised with broom rods, horse dung paper, and paint to scare people. Having proved their worth, each cavalry regiment scrambled to equip itself with machine-gun carriages. The carriage as a motorized vehicle has also been improved, with some of the body reinforced with iron parts, and in addition to the machine gun, it can carry up to eight 250-round cartridge belts and about 2 gallons of cooling water. ”

"Ian, the head of the military observer mission sent by the British to Xinjiang, and later the rank of army general? Sir Hamilton commented on the war: 'When the Maxim machine guns are erected in the trenches, the only thing the cavalry can do is cook for the infantry. If the cavalry had a Maxim machine-gun carriage, the situation would have been completely reversed. 'The cavalry of the dry army developed a special tactic of gathering a number of machine-gun wagons to charge in a line or diagonally, and when approaching the enemy, they suddenly turned at the same time and fired at a certain point in the line. The barrage caught the rebel infantry off guard, and the rebels' cavalry brigade would be directly scattered and would not be able to regroup at all. ”

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