Super Chief

This group of Chekassa natives unexpectedly lined up very rarely, which made Major Armand very gratified. It seemed that the native leader was not a fool. He also understood that in order to wipe out the enemy, he had to rely on the Great French Empire. Musketeers.

　　 The Stone Bear was also taken aback by this scene. When did the North American Indians learn to line up?

　　 However, after a daze, Shi Xiong finally smiled happily.

　　 Seeing that the neatly lined up of more than 300 enemies walked through one third of the pass, the stone bear knew that the invaders could not escape.

　　 So he waved his big hand, and the clansmen holding weapons in the front row immediately dispersed to both sides.

　　 After the soldiers in the current platoon dispersed, the soldiers who had been standing in the second row immediately erected what was originally on the ground.

　　 Suddenly, in front of the clansmen of the Gaoshu tribe, there appeared a two-meter-high, thirty-meter-long "branch wall".

　　 That’s right, at the very least, it seemed to Major Armand that there was a wall woven of branches in front of the Cherokee outside the pass!

　　 This sudden change made Major Armand suddenly feel a faint sense of anxiety, and this anxiety is not the same as the one that was caused when he saw the pass just now.

　　 When I saw this narrow and steep pass just now, Major Armand really had a kind of anxiety in his heart, but that kind of anxiety came more from whether he was ambushing on the hills on both sides of the pass. After all, such a narrow and steep pass, once there is an ambush by the enemy on the hills on both sides, entering into the pass is a kind of death-hunting behavior.

　　 But when his brothers figured out that there was no ambush on the hills on both sides of the pass, the anxiety completely disappeared.

　　 Under the understanding of the group of Musketeers under his opponent, Armand believed very much in the ability of his group of brothers to tackle tough problems face to face.

　　 Especially after seeing that the Cherokee natives on the opposite side were still waiting for their attack in such a dense array, Major Armand even had a joy of blossoming.

　　 Aboriginals are aboriginals. Before they have personally experienced the power of platoon guns, they are a group of wild oxen who live and die.

　　 It is estimated that after these indigenous people see and experience the power of the platoon guns, they will be scared and cry everywhere.

　　 But, with the appearance of the wall of branches that looked extremely crude, Major Armand's heart was hummed for no reason.

　　 He immediately raised his hand to signal the team to stop advancing, then took out the monocular telescope, and began to look carefully at the wall of branches erected by the natives on the opposite side.

　　 But no matter how you look at it, it is a simple wall of branches.

　　 This branch wall is woven with branches of different thicknesses. At first glance, it seems very thick, but under the telescope, this branch wall becomes nothing.

　　 The gap between each branch can even fit an adult's fist.

Although thick and dense branch shields or branch walls can indeed block some of the lead bullets fired by the musket, that kind of branch shields or branch walls are not only woven very densely, but also very thick, as far as seventy or eighty meters. The lead bullets fired by the external muskets are really difficult to penetrate this dense braid of branches.

　　 If the Cherokee natives in front of them also came up with that kind of dense and thick branch wall, Major Armand might change the way of attacking, but the branch wall in front of him would be a joke.

　　 Maybe some of the branches can block a small amount of lead bullets, but most of the lead bullets will pass through the gaps between the branches and hit the enemy.

"Aren't these indigenous people come here to make fun? Or to act? Don't they know that the clumsy branch wall in their hands can't withstand lead bullets at all?" Arman put down his binoculars and looked at the one hundred meters away. The Cherokee natives outside sneered contemptuously, then waved a big hand, and the team that had just stopped advancing again.

　　 Although he despises these primitive and backward natives in his heart, Major Armand still knows the weakness of his own Musketeers, that is, range and accuracy.

The muskets that these brothers took were the famous Saint-Etienne muskets. This army-standard musket, which was born out of the Saint-Etienne marine type and fired muskets, was finalized in 1717. Now the French Army also only uses it. Use this standard rifle. Although the Saint Etienne rifle is ahead of the standard rifle used by the British in all aspects, that is, the brown bes rifle, the range and accuracy of this rifle are not satisfactory.

　　 As a major officer who attaches great importance to muskets, Major Armand did a lot of experiments with his muskets when he was in the Okron Fortress.

　　 The rate of fire of this type of musket before firing is still very impressive. Generally, it can reach three to four rounds in a minute, and some veterans can shoot five rounds in a minute under extreme conditions. So in terms of rate of fire, the Saint Etienne musket is better than the British Brown Beth rifle.

　　 But in terms of range and accuracy, these two rifles are almost the same.

　　 Armand clearly remembered the scene where he led the Musketeers to experiment in the fortress.

The target is a ten-foot-high and six-foot-wide target that can hit 60 rounds at a distance of 100 steps (about 76 meters); 40 rounds at 200 steps; and only 25 rounds at 300 steps. .....

In the distance between 90 meters and 270 meters, the shooting rate of the Saint-Etienne rifle by UU Reading www.uukahnshu.com is only 53% to 15%, and this data reflects only as a The probability of damage to a target traveling in a dense formation when the formation is intensive shooting is not the hit rate that a single musketeer can achieve.

　　 Although the theoretical effective range of the Saint-Etienne rifle is 300 steps (approximately 228 meters), Major Armand knows very well that shooting at this distance is actually a waste of ammunition.

Only when "extremely careful aiming and shooting", three out of every four shots of a Saint-Etienne rifle can hit a target that is 150 yards (approximately 137 meters) in height and twice the width of the human body, of course, beyond Nothing can be hit at this distance. At two hundred and fifty yards, even if the height and width of the target doubled (four times that of the human body), none of the 10 shots hit.

　　 When the Saint Etienne rifle shoots a single shot, as long as the distance exceeds 30 meters, the true hit rate is only one-seventh. Even with a hundred Saint-Etiennes rifles in large-scale firepower coverage, even at a distance of 300 yards, there is still a certain amount of lethality, but the average hit rate of several volleys is only a pitiful less than 5%. , It can be said that it has completely failed.

And this 5% hit rate is not the result of someone deliberately aiming at a certain target and shooting, because at this distance, the soldiers have no idea where the bullet they fired will fly to after flying three hundred yards. ! The so-called hit is actually just luck, the result of large-scale firepower coverage.

　　 Therefore, Major Armand knows very well that the Saint-Etienne rifle can only achieve a more precise strike when it is within one hundred yards (about 91.5 meters) of the enemy.

　　 And now, the Musketeer team under his own is far from the enemy a hundred yards away, so the Musketeer team needs to move on!