Chapter 376: Blockade
The Divine Engineer Army uses a new type of rear-loading gun, which sounds good, but in Renault's eyes, it is still garbage, and it is not ordinary garbage.
The so-called rear-loading gun is not the kind that comes with a magazine, several bullets at a time, a bolt, and a shot. Instead, you can only use one bullet at a time, and then one more after the shot. Compared to the front-loading flintlock pistol, the rate of fire is naturally much higher, but it is still too slow.
In Renault's vision, the rate of fire of at least 10 rounds per minute was barely usable, and one machine gun per 100 people was needed to increase the chances of victory.
There is also a reason for this, although the war of this era, although not entirely more than the number of people, the number of people is still the most important indicator of war.
This is also why, the elites sent by the Austrians landed in two places, but they were suppressed by Da Chu. Although the results were extremely rich, and the battle loss ratio was a bit scary, the reason why it was still impossible to achieve the strategic goal was still not achieved.
If it weren't for the airship bombing, the normal way of fighting would be to line up in a phalanx and fight for each other's lives. The front-loading musket is indeed a hot weapon, but its rate of fire, range and power are not at all eye-catching to Renault.
Don't think that you are absolutely backward with armor, the front-loading musket at this time is also lagging behind. Taking heavy cavalry as an example, the whole body armor weighs hundreds of pounds, the chest and abdomen are the thickest, and the power of the musket used to be 30 steps away, which is difficult to penetrate, and compared with body armor, it is not bad at all.
The musket could not be fired continuously, and most importantly, the density and penetration of the bullets were so weak that people were speechless, after all, the bullets could only hit the front row, and the people standing in the second row were much less dangerous.
The battle array has depth, and the depth of the battle of hundreds of thousands of people is more than several miles, and it is far from enough to rely on the rate of fire and lethality of muskets.
First of all, the firing range is much more than that of the front-loading musket, and the effective killing distance is at least 300 steps, and 500 steps away, which also has great damage to the bamboo armor soldiers.
Renault personally tried several times on the shooting range, and found that it was not necessary at all, in the absence of a sniper scope, the human eye was two hundred steps away, and it was not very clear to see people, even if the musket of the Divine Engineer Army was a rifled gun, there were very few people who could shoot accurately at this distance.
According to the requirements of the infantry training manual, within 100 steps, seven out of ten, is already a qualified musketeer. You can't be too demanding of Da Chu's soldiers, sharpshooters not only need a lot of bullets to feed, but also need to understand the physics related to wind deviation, humidity and even the earth's gravity, think about teaching those soldiers who can't read these things, Renault will go crazy.
Fortunately, the shooting accuracy within 100 steps does not need to understand this knowledge, and it can be done purely by hand. That's why Renault came up with a way to change his amateur to a professional, and he didn't need to teach anything, just one word: practice!
The musketeers who went to war for the first time behaved as bad as Renault had imagined. First, he rode a horse to pursue for a while, and then dismounted and advanced thirty paces, for fear that the gunfire would be too dense and startle the horse. The war horses of the Shengong Army have been trained in sound, but the time is too short, less than a year, and the noise is too loud, and it is still easy to be frightened.
After running horses and running, and then raising the gun to aim, it was still a moving target, and the results were miserable. Not to mention one out of ten, on average, it is good to reach one out of ten.
Even so, the blow to the elite of the Austrians was still quite large, and this situation of being able to only be beaten and unable to fight back made Sun Ying's elite subordinates almost crazy.
"General, this can't be done, I'll lead a team of people to stop the enemy. A radical stepped forward and said.
"Hmm. Sun Ying gritted his teeth and nodded, he knew that at this point, at least one should be left, and it would be difficult to say how many of the five hundred people could come back.
The radical shouted and spoke, more than 400 Austrian troops turned back and stood, waiting for orders, in the midst of artillery fire and bullet rain, such a performance, Renault looked at it and nodded again and again, if the Shengong Army has such a quality, there is no need to train so carefully.
Let's take a look at the performance of the Divine Workers' Army, Renault is sitting in the room, there is a feeling of watching a blockbuster, although the battle is a bit funny, the scene is still spectacular.
In Da Chu, this is the first hot weapon battle, or a rookie battle against the elite. However, Renault is not worried, after almost a year of training for the Divine Engineer Army, he has written a full year of code regulations, and this kind of retreat and blocking tactics in front of him is the most common.
100 steps, dismount, rush forward 30 steps, raise the gun......
"Bang bang bang bang......" The platoon guns rang out, and before the Shengong Army could fire, the guns rang out on the opposite side.
"Bang bang......" was stunned at the head of the team, and the gun on the opposite side rang out again.
Followed by the third and fourth rows......
It wasn't until four rows of guns rang out on the opposite side that the head of the Shengong Army reacted, Renault covered his face with both hands, and he didn't have the face to look at it, who is this head, it's so embarrassing. Even if the Aoren used a round of shooting, the four rows of guns together, there was more than a dozen breaths, and he actually stood there stupidly.
Fortunately, the front-loading musket used by the Austrians was very bad, and there was no chance of a head at thirty paces away. The God of Wealth has already opened the statistics module, the Austrian blocking troops, fired 400 bullets, and the Shengong Army, which was seventy steps away, had a total of two people injured by stray bullets, and they were all slightly injured, at this distance, as long as the bullets did not hit the head, the leather armor on the body could provide effective protection.
"Lie down. It was only at this moment that the radical recalled the contents of the combat drill and went down to his stomach.
The Austrians do not have machine guns or flowering shells, and lying down is a very effective self-protection, as long as the posture is correct, the chance of being hit is less than 1 in 10,000.
You must know that in the era of World War II on Earth, weapons were already quite first, and on average, it took thousands of bullets to kill a person. The front-loading musket of the Austrians did almost no damage to the Divine Engineer Army lying seventy paces away, how bad luck must it be before they were killed?
Just now, a group of 500 musketeers stood there in a row, greeted the rain of bullets in four rows, and only two people were injured.
No matter how dissatisfied Renault is with it, there is a generation difference compared to the front-loading musket, and the difference is not a little bit, it is an all-round rolling, and the last thing the Divine Engineer Army is afraid of is to shoot at the enemy.
"Free fire. "The leader finally returned to normal, and began to give orders, this kind of training, I don't know how many times the Shengong Army has done it, just now I was purely frightened.
Under an order, the gunfire was loud, although the single one needs to be loaded with bullets every time he shoots, but this is a rear-loading gun, whether it is the loading posture or the rate of fire, the firing range, the opponent is only seventy steps away, which is easier than the usual target, after all, they do not run, but are ready to block.
As one bullet after another was fired, the soldiers of the Divine Engineer Army felt a lot more at ease, and the medical soldiers in the rear, bent over and half-squatted, ran over quickly and carried the two lightly injured soldiers down.
Everything is carried out, but Renault can't laugh or cry, you bend your fart waist, the Divine Engineer Army at this time can be said to be outside the range of the opponent's musketeers, unless you are lucky enough to carry it home, it is difficult to get hurt.
I took out the list of the Divine Workers Army from the table, and turned the first page, the establishment of the Divine Workers Army was not large, with more than 5,000 people in the navy, land and air forces combined, and 3,500 people in the army, which included the logistics of 500 people, and there were only seven departments, and there were only seven radicals.
In fact, he didn't need to look at the list, he had already recognized the radical, Chu Bugui from Liuyun, a peak martial artist of the ninth grade, a person who usually looked very calm, how could he go to the battlefield and be like this?
You must know that Chu Bugui is a veteran in Liuyun, experienced in a hundred battles, killed countless people, and is an absolutely ruthless character. Among the seven radicals, he is one of the few nine-rank martial artists.
Most martial artists prefer to go to the Air Force and become a fighter pilot, after all, it is quite attractive to be able to fly in the sky. And the foot plane does need more warriors, and ordinary people don't have enough strength.
Chu Bugui was indeed a little dizzy just now, saying that he was frightened, some of them were too much, Chu Ye had seen many big scenes, and this was only a battle of hundreds of people, which was nothing.
But when he heard the sound of the platoon of guns on the opposite side, it was false to say that his heart was not trembling, he knew very well the power of the musket, such a close distance, even if he was heavily armored, he couldn't stop it, with the power of the musket, the Jiupin martial artist could also be killed with one hit, and there was no difference between ordinary soldiers and warriors under the attack of the musket.
When the first row of gunshots rang out, Chu Bugui's heart tightened, it's over, how many dead and injured people will have to be killed!
As a result, when I turned my head to look, there were no dead people!
The second row of guns went off again, what's going on?
For Mao is not dead yet?
By the time he figured it out, the Austrian musketeers had already fired four rows of bullets, and the stunned Divine Workers were also confused.
It wasn't until this time that Chu Bugui figured out the reason, specially, the Aoren's musket was so bad.
So what are you waiting for, it, shoot!
Fortunately, the usual training came into play at this time, and before shooting, the order to lie down was habitually given.
In the more than half a year of training, everyone, including the radicals, trained the most in queues and lying down to shoot, and the orders of less than ten have been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, and they don't need to think at all.
When the gunshots rang out, seeing that someone on the opposite side was shot from time to time, and he began to learn to lie down and shoot, Chu Bugui had completely calmed down.
Of course, the Austrians did not have the habit of shooting from their stomachs, they were accustomed to rushing in front of the enemy in a neat line, eager to put the barrel of the gun against the enemy's head and shoot again.
Not this time, they don't lack courage, but this time the purpose is to block the Chu people, not to charge, and if they can block for a moment more, they will buy a moment of time for the large army behind.
"Call for artillery support. "Calm down and don't return, it only takes three breaths to find out the corresponding method from the drill, and sigh in my heart, the drill is really easy to use. When he was asked to memorize the drill code, he scolded his mother in his heart, he was not afraid of picking up a knife to cut people, and endorsing a book would cost people's lives, which was more uncomfortable than practicing queues under the sun.
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