It is very easy to control the horses, as long as the management is strengthened, and the number of horses is counted and checked every day. If a horse is lost, send out a large army to find it, and see the horse in life and the corpse of the horse in death. If an Indian steals a horse, he destroys the other party and never gives the other party a chance to own a horse.

The ferocity of the Indian cavalry in the 19th century, Marin remembers it. At that time, the American colonists were once disgraced by the Indian cavalry of the western prairies. If it weren't for the fact that the colonists' guns had entered the age of rifled guns, and the Indian cavalry was generally small, perhaps the American colonists would have been helpless against the Indian cavalry. After all, a smoothbore gun could not deal with a light cavalry that came and went like the wind.

Therefore, Marin will not repeat the mistakes of the past in any case, and give the Indians a chance to get horses. As long as there were no cavalry, the Indians would not be able to make waves.

In the absence of horses for the Indians, the vast North American prairies were as easy to conquer as the Pampas. However, the North American prairies do not have the advantage of being close to large rivers in the Pampas, and the agricultural potential is not great. However, with a dispatch of a few hundred Cossacks, it was easy to take it down.

Some people may think that a few hundred cavalry is too little? Tell you, that's a lot......

You must know that Pizarro conquered the Inca Empire with only more than 160 Spanish mercenaries, of which only 62 were cavalry. But it was these 62 Spanish cavalrymen who wore only half-body armor (Spanish armor only protected the front, and the back was exposed) that broke up the 80,000 troops of the Inca Empire at once, and captured the Inca emperor alive, creating a miracle in human history.

Therefore, Marin sent hundreds of Cossack cavalry to conquer the North American steppes, which was not a problem at all. The problem is, don't let the Indians steal the horses.

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As for the shotgun, the ability to break defenses is not more than a star and a half stronger than the earthen bow and arrow of the Indian stone arrows. The stone arrows shot by the arches of the Indians may not be able to break through the thick hides of the bison. Even if it is broken, it will not penetrate too deeply into the flesh. In such a situation, instead of killing the bison, it will anger the bison, especially the bull.

Therefore, when the Indians hunted the North American bison, most of them would choose the herd of cows and calves, and did not dare to provoke the bull herd. Otherwise, it will be impossible to determine who will hunt and kill by the mad bulls. In the face of the 60-mile charging speed of the North American bison, it is difficult to escape.

And with horses and shotguns, it is different, and the bullets of the shotgun are enough to break through the hides of cattle and kill bison. At the same time, riding the flower horse beloved by the Indians (the Indians loved the colored horse, and later this breed spread in the United States and became known as the American flower horse), the Indian hunter also had enough ability to escape when he encountered the bison going berserk. The advantage of the American flower horse is that it has a short-term outbreak, which may be the advantage of running for its life in front of the angry bull of the North American bison......

Of course, it was in the face of a small number of hunters that the bison dared to go berserk. If you encounter a few hundred cavalry, the North American bison is not stupid, and will definitely have to run away...... In fact, the 60-mile running speed of the North American bison was also practiced by being chased by North American wolves. It can be seen that the North American bison is not biao, and they should flee when they know the danger. In order to escape for his life, he practiced a running speed that was fast enough to get on high speeds......

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A clockwork rifle with 30 grams of buckshot is enough to fight a bison. The arquebus is not good, it is inconvenient to use on horseback, and when you run, the arquebus may be blown out by the howling wind.

Hundreds of Cossack cavalrymen hunted bison with clockwork muskets, enough to calm down the bison bulls, who were prone to hot blood, and then run away. If you can't do it, you can also let those Cossacks learn to ride steppe wolves and make a wolf-like howl to scare those North American bison. The North American gray wolf, which can weigh up to 80 kilograms, is the natural predator of the North American bison. The howl of a wolf can terrify the bison......

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Speaking of shotguns, Marin's mind suddenly appeared with information about the later M870 Remington shotgun. The shotguns of later generations were different from ordinary guns. Military guns, generally rifled guns, hit long distances and are powerful. But in the hunting process, playing far is a disadvantage. Because you can't be sure if there's someone hundreds or even thousands of meters away. If a stray bullet accidentally injures a passerby, that's not good. If you use rifled guns to hunt in a place like China where there must be people a few hundred meters away, it is easy for stray bullets to injure innocent people. Therefore, there is generally a loess slope behind the shooting range, which is specially designed to absorb the missed bullets. Or, simply, a closed shooting gallery.

Therefore, in order to avoid accidental injury, many shotguns are smoothbore guns and use specialized shotgun cartridges......

In later generations, there were generally three main types of bullets for smoothbore shotguns - bird bullets, deer bullets and single-headed bullets.

Birdbullets are actually lead, the eggshell of a very thick shotgun bullet with a relatively short copper propellant base at the end, containing a primer. Most of the front is a plastic shell, which contains a pile of lead......

Bird bullets are very powerful, hit on people, and are generally not fatal, but can be painful - can you imagine a handful of lead being sprayed into your flesh? When the doctor uses tweezers to remove lead from your flesh, you will be in pain, not to mention that the lead is poisonous...... Therefore, the riot police like this kind of shotgun that can't kill people, but can beat people to death......

The bullet of the deer bullet is a pile of steel balls, similar to the small steel balls inside the bearing. This kind of steel ball can kill people, and is generally used to hunt medium-sized prey such as deer, and the less dangerous kind can also be used to hunt cattle.

And the most terrifying thing is probably the one-headed bullet. Unlike bird bullets and deer bullets, the warhead of a single-headed bullet is not a number of boys, but a single lead bullet, which is very heavy, and of course very powerful.

For example, the single-headed bullet of the No. 12 shotgun, the bullet alone weighs about 37.64 grams, and the kinetic energy is very high. Therefore, this kind of shotgun bullet is generally used to fight wild boars and other thick-skinned beasts.

This kind of bullet is terrifying, when it enters the flesh, it will grind a large piece and enter the body, which will definitely kill.

The most amazing thing is that although the single-headed bullet is shot with a shotgun shotgun, its accuracy is very high. Why? Because the head of the bullet will have some protruding male spirals in the head. Therefore, even when fired from a smoothbore gun, it can rotate to form a stable flight, so that the bullet accuracy is improved.

However, the rotation principle of the single-headed bullet is the opposite of the rotation of the rifled gun bullet - the rifled gun uses the rotational force generated by the gunpowder gas in the barrel in the rifling to force the bullet to rotate.

The single-headed bullet uses the rifling of the bullet head to rotate slowly under the air resistance when flying against the wind, generating a certain stable force to keep the warhead stable.

However, because of the slow rotation, the effective range of the single-headed bullet cannot be compared with that of a rifled gun. The effective range of rifled gun bullets is generally several hundred meters, while the effective range of single-headed bullets is only more than 200 meters. In other words, a hunter who uses a single-headed bullet will aim at a prey at a distance of 200 meters at most, and no matter how far it goes, it will not hit......

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"Oops!" Marin suddenly gave himself a slap in the face......

Why? Why didn't he think of a one-headed bullet before he blamed himself......