Chapter 325

In fact, thanks to Jack Williams, now the high tree tribe has a simple punch.

The press is powered by water and powered by a separate water wheel.

But now this press is still very primitive. It can only punch some very simple iron objects, such as the tail of the grenade used in the catapult. This kind of press can not realize the stamping manufacturing.

Therefore, in the past five months, all the people in the tribe who can be deployed have been working overtime to make grenade shells.

What's more, this catapult is definitely a long-range attack weapon that the expeditionary army relies on most. The grenade is not only small in size and light in weight, so that one can run all over the street on his back, but also the power of the grenade is no less than that of the native grenade.

Although it can not be mass-produced because of the bitter acid, most of the grenades are filled with black powder, and then black powder, which is also a primary flowering bomb. Moreover, after using the impact fuze, it can ensure that this kind of grenade will explode when it touches the ground, causing the greatest damage to the enemy.

Therefore, for this expedition, the stone bear is going to use a barrel to bomb the enemy indiscriminately when he encounters a large number of enemies, and then shoot them with muskets. If the enemy does not collapse, then use bows and arrows to deal with them. As for indigenous grenades, they are the last long-range defense weapons.

Although the black powder can not be compared with the non flooded powder, after increasing the loading capacity of the black powder, the maximum throwing distance of the grenade is only about 50 meters lower than that of the non flooded powder, and the maximum range of the catapult can still reach more than 600 meters.

Bombing at this distance can definitely give the enemy a taste of what is called wanlei top!

After all, there are only so many people in the expeditionary army, so it is the first guarantee for the stone bear to reduce the casualty rate of the soldiers as far as possible. Therefore, long-range bombing with a catapult is the safest means of attack.

In the present era, no weapon has a range of more than 600 meters, except for the cannons used by vasichus who are stupid and thick and fire solid bullets.

As for accuracy, with the blossom bomb, and the carpet bombing without difference, what accuracy do you need? Just adjust the range and launch directly.

Therefore, the demand for grenades in this expedition is huge.

All in all, for the sake of this expedition and to make the gaoshu tribe well-known, the whole gaoshu tribe has been busy all winter, and all the people who can play have participated in the construction.

It is also because of the efforts of the people of the gaoshu tribe that the whole gaoshu tribe provided 170 grenades and 700 muskets for the expeditionary army at the time of worm month. Among them, more than 100 are newer muskets produced by barrel drilling technology.

In other words, only these hot weapons need nearly 900 people to operate.

As for grenades, in the past five months, the workers of gaoshu tribe have produced more than 14000 grenades!

It seems that the number is large, but it is allocated to each grenade, and each grenade is only allocated to more than 80 grenades.

At a rate of 20 rounds per minute, these grenades are enough for four minutes at most

However, the transportation of more than 14000 grenades has also become a big problem. Because the shrapnel is filled with black powder, in order to ensure the lethality of the shrapnel, the charge is much more than that of the kuweisuan charge. Therefore, the weight of a shrapnel is close to one kilogram, which is nearly twice as much as the weight of the 91 hand grenade used in my 89 type grenade.

There's really no way to reduce the weight of the grenade to this level in this era, which is the best effort Williams and edian can make.

So, the total weight of the 14000 odd grenades alone is 14000 kg, which is 14 tons.

Plus the propellant, it's even heavier.

But in order to ensure the survival rate of the brothers on the battlefield, this thing is indispensable. Therefore, in order to transport these ammunition, the gaoshu tribe has to send out as many as 100 four wheeled ox carts that can carry 200 kg!

Fortunately, there are more than 1000 soldiers in the tribe, and their training tasks include cooperation in catching bison.

In addition to the nose ring, the artifact of taming bison, the number of bison tamed by the gaoshu tribe has risen sharply in the past five months. The only thing that makes the people depressed is that the number of bison in the area around the gaoshu tribe is rapidly decreasing. In the future, it will not be easy for the people to hunt bison and eat beef

In this expedition, there were more than 200 four wheeled ox carts, including grain supply vehicles. Fortunately, one month before the battle, a team from the Cherokee court arrived at the gaoshu tribe.

Bone spear, the leader of bone spear tribe, the first guard tribe of Cherokee court, personally led 300 soldiers to gaoshu tribe, which was supported by chief junaruska.

Because of the addition of big killers such as grenades, the original 400 musketeers of gaoshu tribe did not increase, but they increased 350 artillery. Among the extra Musketeers, 300 were selected from the 1000 soldiers of wai'er tribe as Musketeers, so that the number of musketeers reached 700.

Although the catapult can be operated by one person, the stone bear decided to let two people operate together after considering. One is the main gunner and the other is the auxiliary gunner.

The weight of the barrel itself is not big. It's only a little more than two kilograms. It's nearly half lighter than a Ferguson rifle. So it's absolutely no problem for the main gunner to run around with his back on. In addition to the barrel, the main gunner can carry four additional grenades, so that the main gunner's load is only six kilograms.

In addition, the assistant gunner also carries five grenades, and then carries about one kilogram of propellant.

The way of fighting this time can't be as fierce as that of the Yuchi people in the last expedition. The horses and the bison tamers all fought with the troops. In this expedition, the logistic force is the logistic force and the combat force is the combat force. Once the scouts in front find the enemy, the logistics and combat forces are separated.

In this way, before each battle, the main gunner and the auxiliary gunner can carry a total of nine grenades plus the corresponding propellant, which is actually a lot.

As a result, the number of expeditionary personnel increased from 1400 to less than 2100. Among them, there are 1050 combat troops, 700 firemen and 350 gunners!

The remaining 1000 people will not be idle. The logistic forces alone and the soldiers to be protected will need at least 700 people. The remaining 300 are all carefully selected archers. They will take on guerrilla missions and attack with bows and arrows at critical moments. At the same time, these 300 are also responsible for building shield walls for the main forces at critical moments