Chapter 154

At the end of the 18th century.

In this era, the battle between cold weapons and hot weapons is far from winning.

On land, with the development of technology, the application of cannons and muskets has increasingly become the mainstream topic of war. The era of heavy armored Knights running across the battlefield has ended, and cavalry as king has unconsciously become a word that can only be found in old papers.

However, even in the near future, his majesty Napoleon, who is about to make the whole Europe tremble, dare not expect to use pure firearms to stop the decisive charge of a cavalry.

Bayonet is an extremely important tactical supplement to flint rifle.

In fact, the reason why Europe has adhered to the platoon tactics for a long time is that, in addition to the theory that volley is conducive to increasing the fire density, a very important aspect is that platoon is one. The most suitable buried battle formation for infantry is the cold weapon war heritage left to Europe by the ancient Roman Corps culture.

The same is true of naval warfare.

Huge wind-driven battleships run across the water, and large caliber cannons are their most trusted claws and fangs.

Every maritime power adheres to a more stable hull, more and longer gun decks, larger caliber guns and faster loading speed. However, throughout the sail age, the number of sailboats really buried under guns is very small.

Artillery battles at sea can last for as little as two hours, but more than a few days and nights. Depending on the unfavorable characteristics of the times, they often run out of ammunition and food, and the two sides may not be able to decide the outcome.

The core means of quick victory and decisive victory is still to meet the side.

Side to side warfare is an independent discipline of naval warfare, including approaching, berthing, side to side, boarding and seizing ships, each of which has a far longer history than artillery warfare.

The long history means that predecessors have carried out in-depth exploration and optimization of these projects, which is difficult to innovate, the model is rigid, and some basic principles are regarded as standards, as if some changes are heinous.

It is one of the so-called basic principles that no shelling is carried out when the ship is connected to the side.

There are many reasons for this principle.

For example, with the development of the cast iron industry, the caliber and weight of the guns on board far exceed the specifications of the land. An ordinary cannon needs 3 to 10 people to operate, such as heavy guns with more than 24 pounds, and the number of gunners is required to reach 12-14.

The space on the ship is limited, and the number of sailors is also limited. In order to ensure that there are enough sailors to participate in the artillery battle, other types of sailors have been greatly reduced.

In general, except for the most basic operators, every sailor exists for artillery.

Therefore, in case of a side to side battle, the stormtroopers must be drawn from the guns. One person does not serve two things, so it is difficult for both sides to be perfect.

This is one of them.

The second reason is that the best distance for a naval battle is between 30 and 200 meters. No matter how far it is, the turbulence of the sea will make accuracy empty talk. If it is too close, the power of shells cannot be released.

The projectile pushed out of the smooth chamber by black powder needs enough distance to accelerate, and enough arc to convert kinetic energy into potential energy, and then further convert it into kinetic energy to cause killing.

The connecting side obviously does not have this condition. Even if the artillery is fired, it is difficult for the fired shells to penetrate the hard hull and cause effective damage.

However, nothing is absolute.

The root of no shelling in the docking state is the useless shelling and lack of manpower, which are not tenable in the docking between the Jackdaw and brigantine.

Lorraine had more enemies than few, and he demanded quick victory in this small-scale surface war, so it was impossible to put all the sailors on the side. Only a few people really boarded the ship with him, and the manpower left on the ship was enough to complete the saturation shooting on one side.

As an armed merchant ship of Destroyer class, the Jackdaw is far higher than brigantin, which is listed as a frigate. There is a height difference of at least 2 meters between the two sides, which is a standard condescending.

As the two sides approached, brigantin's gun door was facing the strongest hull of the jackdaw, and the Jackdaw's gun door was facing the opponent's unobstructed main deck.

The kinetic energy of the projectile can no longer be released. It is enough to smash the human body.

With Lorraine's order, the artillery roared, 10 12 pound runs spilled thousands of shrapnel over brigantin's deck, setting off a bloody storm and sweeping away all moving objects on the deck.

For a time, it was impossible to calculate how much this round of shelling had achieved. Blood and brains covered the deck, and there was no standing enemy in front of Lorraine.

He threw the first hook and rope.

After him, Noah and the long-awaited sailors threw out hooks and ropes, howled, rushed through the narrow gap between the two ships in their own ways, and stepped firmly on a piece of flesh and blood.

Katrina beat her chest and saluted Lorraine across the side of the ship, then bent over and untied the hook and rope.

"I will not give scuna an opportunity. Please take care of the captain. Don't rush in in case of difficulties!"

"What's the difficulty..." Lorraine slowly drew out his knife and raised his eyes to sweep through the mess. "I don't know if the captain of the ship is still alive. To tell you the truth, I still want to know which unlucky man took the job, because it's a shame for the sea people to die in the lake."

……

The battle on land quickly came to an end as the iron felt camp joined the encirclement.

After all, the time of Indian civilization is short. It is only a matter of recent generations to fully enter the firearms era.

Even if they are familiar with firearms, they still have a big gap with whites in positional warfare.

Not to mention the Indians who are willing to take risks for more than 100 leather rifles, they are certainly not the elite tribes among the Indians, but their opponent is the iron felt camp, the leader of the French army, which claims that in addition to being willful and having the greatest combat power in the world.

The gap in combat power was further widened, and the unlucky bronze was accidentally ranked in the king's Bureau.

Scream, lament, despair, cry

When Lieutenant Colonel Elvin came out of the jungle, the guard had already given the battlefield to the soldiers of the iron felt camp. Even the count jumped out of the carriage and breathed the early spring air in the sun at the edge of the battlefield.

Seeing Lieutenant Colonel Elvin coming, the count smiled: "I didn't expect to meet the lieutenant colonel far away from the military camp."

The lieutenant colonel snapped and saluted with his legs: "the iron felt camp is conducting defense training. I didn't expect that it would involve the count and harm you!"

"It's not your fault," the count waved generously. "It's just that I need to stay by the forest for a while because of some trivial things."

Just as he was talking, there was a sudden thunder of guns in the sky.

The lieutenant colonel frowned: "the situation on the lake is..."

"I heard that a group of pirates had mixed their ships into Lake Pontchartrain, and my captain was cleaning the lake."

"Ships? Shelling?"

"Doesn't the Colonel know about it?"

The count looked at acharin in surprise. Acharin smiled and shook his head gently.

This reaction made the count laugh.

He affectionately patted the Colonel on the shoulder and said slowly, "some people want to make a final decision on what has happened in the past two months, but they can't get my support. So they probably think that as long as the people who raise objections are solved, there will be no objection."

"Do you mean... The conclusion?"

"Yes, there are great differences on who is a patriot."