Chapter 139

This kind of inland river armed transport ship is a good thing.

At present, although the British have won the seven-year war between Britain and France, their strength at sea is still weaker than that of the Spaniards, and even worse than that of the Dutch.

The famous battle at Trafalgar will take another 40 years, so the Spaniards still dominate the Atlantic.

However, although the British defeated the French, the French navy was still very powerful. Especially in the middle and early 18th century, the French naval guns were very powerful.

At this time, the British had not yet developed the famous Garang gun. The famous light heavy gun was not developed by the British cannon company until 1778, so at this time, the French gun was even more advanced than the British.

If it were not for the fact that the training of the British for artillery had reached a state of change, which led to the British firing much faster than the French, it would be uncertain whether the British navy could defeat the French navy.

Anyway, although France was defeated, some of the things that the French left in the new world were good things. Just like these four inland river armed transport ships, although they can't compare with the sailing warships that can sail in the sea, on inland river, these armed transport ships are the existence of the force of the bull!

Stone bear touched his chin and recalled some comparisons between British and French naval guns in the 18th century. After associating with the great role of these four inland river armed transport ships, he soon made a decision to win these four precious inland river armed transport ships.

However, although okron fortress is a military fortress, it is located on the South Bank of the Ohio River, not on the Bank of the Mississippi River. Its strategic position is far less important than those military fortresses on the Bank of the Mississippi River.

So even if Fort okron was guarding the Tennessee and Ohio rivers, there couldn't be four armed transporters there. After all, fortress okron is a military fortress, not a colonial city.

"Major Armand, how could your Fort okron have four armed River transporters? With the scale of your okron fortress, it's a luxury to equip one inland river armed transport ship. How can you mobilize four at once? " Stone bear asked with his arm in his arms.

Major Armand looked at the strong man, pursed his lips and said, "these four ships were originally intended to transport materials along the Ohio River to several military fortresses in the upper reaches. The soldiers driving these four ships are not soldiers of the army, but soldiers of our French imperial Marine Corps. However, my rank was higher than their captain's, and I promised these four captains and captains a lot of benefits, so they agreed to follow us. Those guys are also greedy. As soon as they hear that there is gold here, they... "

As early as the 15th and 16th centuries, the establishment of the Marine Corps had been established in some European countries. But at that time, it was not called that name. It was called the naval landing force. It was a service set up by the major naval powers in Europe for landing operations.

For example, Britain established a naval landing regiment in the 17th century, and France, Spain, the Netherlands, Russia and other countries have similar forces.

In the 18th century, the name of the Marine Corps began to spread around the world.

Stone bear nodded, "so how many soldiers are left behind on each ship? What are the weapons on board? "

Armand seemed to realize that the devil wanted to attack the four river armed transport ships, so he shook his head and said, "you can't attack the four ships. You can't beat those guys."

Stone bear cold stare Armand one eye, "let you say you say, I want to do what also can't tolerate you to tell."

"Your people really can't beat those guys. Although there are only ten Marines on each ship, they all have muskets, and each ship is equipped with six Wallerian cannons. Even now those ships have landed, there are twelve cannons on the side facing the river bank! And the side of the ship is so high that you can't beat those four boats. "

"Ha ha, you don't have to worry if you don't fight." The stone bear laughingly dropped such a sentence and turned to walk.

If it is really the kind of sailing warship in the sea, the stone bear will never attack. The windsurfing warships of the 18th century can't be dealt with by the gaoshu tribe. They just need to stop the ship in the sea hundreds of meters away from the coast, and then fire guns hundreds of meters away.

Let alone the gaoshu tribe. Even if we pull the whole Cherokee people over, we can't do with the sailboats.

You are too many, but no matter how many you are, you can't reach other people's boat.

Ten thousand steps back, even if your people can get close to other people's windsurfing warships by boat, are they fools? Are you allowed to board? They don't know how to hold the anchor and leave?

In the sea, if you don't have the same level of sail warships, you can't catch up with others, you're still a little rough! But others can walk you to death like a dog.

We have no way to deal with the large sailing warships on the sea, but we have a way to deal with the inland river armed transport ships that are anchored on the shore.

If this kind of inland river armed transport ship did not dock, then the stone bear would never touch their tiger's butt. Because even in the middle of the river, the stone bear can't get close to others. The most important thing is that the kind of valerian guns that major Armand just said are really big killers against infantry.

Valerian artillery refers to the various types of artillery used by the French army in the early 18th century, also known as the valerian system artillery.

Wallier system artillery covers all kinds of artillery from 84 mm light artillery to 155 mm heavy artillery. It is the most important artillery system of the French army in the 18th century.

According to Armand, the shell guns installed on the four armed transport ships are likely to be light guns of 84mm caliber.

If this kind of gun is installed on the windsurfing warship, it will not be very effective, but it will be very powerful if it is installed on the inland river armed transport ship. Especially when this kind of gun does not fire solid projectiles but grape projectiles, that is to say, the killing power to infantry is really catastrophic.

Although the distance of the gun is not very long, it is far beyond the range of the San Etienne rifle. If the four armed transport ships were in the middle of the river, the stone bear would never touch them.

But now they are all on shore. If there is a night attack, it seems that it is not impossible to take these four ships