Chapter 132

Major Armand was very pleased that these chekasa natives were rarely in line. It seems that the aboriginal leader is not a fool. He also knows that in order to completely annihilate the enemy, he has to rely on the riflemen of the great French Empire.

The stone bear was stunned by this scene. When did the North American Indians learn to line up?

However, in a daze, the stone bear finally smiles happily.

Seeing more than 300 enemies in a fairly neat line passing through one third of the pass, the stone bear knew that the invaders could not run away.

With a wave of his hand, the armed people in the front row immediately scattered to both sides.

After the soldiers of the current platoon dispersed, the soldiers who originally stood in the second platoon immediately erected the things that had been laid on the ground.

Suddenly, in front of the people of gaoshu tribe, there appeared a "branch wall" two meters high and more than 30 meters long.

Yes, at least in the eyes of major Armand, it seemed that there was a wall woven of branches in front of the Cherokees outside the pass!

This sudden change made major Armand suddenly have a kind of faint uneasiness, and this uneasiness was not the same as that just when he saw the pass.

Just now, when he saw the narrow and steep pass, major Armand did have a kind of uneasiness in his mind, but that uneasiness was more due to whether there was ambush on the hills on both sides of the pass. After all, such a narrow and steep pass, once there is an enemy ambush on the hills on both sides, it is a kind of behavior to rashly enter the pass.

But when his brothers found out that there was no ambush on the hills on both sides of the pass, the uneasiness completely dissipated.

Armand believed in his brothers' ability to face-to-face attack because of his opponent's understanding of this group of musketeers.

Especially after seeing that the Cherokee natives on the opposite side were still waiting for their attack, major Armand even had a kind of joy.

Aborigines are aborigines. Before they realized the power of Pai gun, they were a group of wild cattle.

It's estimated that when these aborigines first saw and realized the power of Pai gun, they would be scared to cry everywhere.

However, with the appearance of that seemingly very simple branch wall, major Armand's heart was a thump.

Then he raised his hand to stop the procession, took out the binoculars and began to look carefully at the branch wall erected by the aborigines.

But no matter how you look at it, it's a simple branch wall.

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

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

Although the thick and dense branch shield or branch wall can indeed block some of the lead bullets fired by the firegun, the branch shield or branch wall is not only woven very tightly, but also has a considerable thickness. It is really difficult for the lead bullets fired by the firegun 70 or 80 meters away to penetrate this dense branch fabric.

Major Armand might have changed his attack if the Cherokee natives had made that kind of dense and thick branch wall, but the branch wall was a joke.

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

"Are these natives here to be funny? Or to act? Don't they know that the clumsy branch walls in their hands can't resist lead bullets at all? " Armand put down his telescope and sneered scornfully at the Cherokee natives more than 100 meters away. Then he waved his hand and the team that had just stopped moved forward again.

Although he despised these primitive and backward aborigines, major Armand knew the weakness of his Musketeers, that is, range and accuracy.

The muskets held by these brothers are the famous San Etienne muskets. The army standard muskets, which were born out of the naval land firing muskets of San Etienne, were finalized in 1717. Now the French army only uses this type of muskets. Although the San Etienne rifle is ahead of the standard rifle used by the British in all aspects, that is, the brown Beth rifle, the range and accuracy of this rifle are not satisfactory.

As a major officer who attached great importance to muskets, major Armand did a lot of experiments with his muskets when he was at Fort okron.

The firing rate of this kind of front loaded muskets is very considerable. Generally, it can reach three to four shots a minute. Some veterans can shoot five shots a minute under extreme conditions. So in terms of shooting speed, the San Etienne musket is better than the Brits' Brown Beth rifle.

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

Armand clearly remembered the scene when he led the riflemen to do experiments in the fortress.

The target is a ten foot high, six foot wide target, which can hit 60 shots in a distance of 100 steps (about 76 meters); 40 shots at 200 paces; There are only 25 shots in 300 steps

In the distance of 90 meters to 270 meters, the hit rate of San etini rifle is only 53% to 15%. What this data reflects is only the damage probability of targets moving in a dense formation when firing in a line, not the hit rate that a single Musketeer can achieve.

Although the effective range of the San Etienne rifle in theory is 300 steps (about 228 meters), major Armand knows very well that it is a waste of ammunition to shoot at this distance.

Only when "aiming and shooting with extreme care", can three out of every four shots of a San etini rifle hit a target 150 yards (about 137 meters) high and twice as wide as the human body. Of course, beyond this distance, nothing can be hit. At 250 yards, even if the height and width of the target are doubled (four times that of the human body), none of the ten shots will hit.

The San etini rifle in a single shot, as long as the distance is more than 30 meters, the real hit rate is only one seventh. Even if one hundred San etini rifles are used in large-scale firepower coverage, even in the distance of 300 yards, they still have certain lethality, but the average hit rate of several volleys is only pitifully less than 5%, which can be said to have been completely invalid.

Moreover, the 5% hit rate is not the result of someone deliberately aiming at a certain target, because at this distance, the soldiers have no idea where the bullets they fired will fly after flying 300 yards! The so-called hit is just luck, the result of large-scale firepower coverage.

Therefore, major Armand knows very well that St. Etienne's rifle can only strike accurately when it is within 100 yards (about 91.5 meters) of the enemy.

And now, his firearm team is far less than 100 yards away from the enemy, so the firearm team needs to move on!