Chapter 371

Looking at the fast horse far away figure, stone bear helplessly shook his head, wry smile a few.

Kuaima is a good brother, even if the stone bear is the soul of the past also have to admit. Stone bear can clearly feel Kuaima's care and concern for silly head. It's not pretended. It's from the heart. Stone bear feels it very clearly.

The memory from this body makes the stone bear very clear how carefree the happy young man Kuaima used to be, but now, he is trying to catch up with himself, and he is trying to make himself stronger by various means.

With this, this is a very good brother.

Kuaima can also understand the concerns of bighorn sheep. If it is himself, I am afraid he will have such worries.

After all, it was not a tribe before, and it had formed such a big grudge on the battlefield.

However, the stone bear believes his own judgment. The big horn sheep has really changed.

As for the problem that Kuaima was worried about, Shi Xiong didn't think it was a problem. Although the power of the catapult is huge, it can be called the God of war in this era, but it still has some limitations. For example, the range, for example, the supply of ammunition.

It is undeniable that the catapult, which is 150 years ahead of this era, is the existence of no solution in this era. But also, this thing is not a real artillery or mortar after all, it has some limitations.

The first is range. Even if the catapult's propellant is replaced with non flooded powder, the maximum effective range can last for 700 meters. Although this distance is undoubtedly the dominant distance in this era, the stone bear always thinks it is not enough.

The second is the supply of ammunition. In order to stabilize the trajectory, the rear of the grenade is equipped with four stabilizing fins, which greatly increases the difficulty of shell casting.

Combined with the impact fuze, it is more difficult to make the grenade.

In the five months before the expedition to the Cree, hundreds of workers turned around and produced 14000 grenades. It seems that there are a lot of them, but on average, there are only 80 grenades on each grenade. At the firing rate of 20 grenades per minute, these grenades are not enough for a grenade to launch at full load for four minutes

So the grenades launched by the catapult are far from enough.

Even though Jack Williams and David Addison have been working hard to improve the grenade production line, it's hard to make the grenade throwing force a real strategic core in a short time.

Therefore, the stone bear is now preparing to develop a new generation of rifles.

With the successful development of mercury fulminate and firecap, the idea of developing a new generation of needled afterloading rifle can be realized.

Originally, stone bear's plan was to wait until Ferguson's rifle was equipped to a certain extent, and then began to develop the famous miner's rifle. After all, it's not so difficult to refit the mini rifle with the existing Ferguson rifle. And if the transformation is successful, Ferguson's upgraded Mini rifle will greatly increase the effective range of the musket.

The effective range of the original historical time and space miner rifle can exceed 500 meters, which is a terrible number. If the expeditionary army can have two thousand soldiers with miner's rifle, then the stone bear is confident to fight any European country with two thousand Musketeers!

The most important thing is that it is not very difficult to refit a Ferguson rifle into a miner's rifle. Once it can be refitted, the tribe will not waste much.

This is the original plan of the stone bear.

But as the saying goes, plans never catch up with changes. Stone bear is now facing such an embarrassing situation.

Stone bear didn't expect brother Gai to be so fierce, so he got mercury fulminate and fire cap out in a short time.

With the firecap, the biggest difficulty for the introduction of the needle type afterloading rifling gun has been eliminated, because with the firecap, the bullet with fixed charge can be developed, so the needle type afterloading rifling gun is not a problem.

Today's flint guns, including the latest Ferguson rifles, all use the charging method of "lead shot + bulk black powder". Even now, the propellant of each bullet is quantitative, but when loading, the propellant and lead shot are scattered and loaded into the barrel.

Although Ferguson's rifle is loaded in the way of rear loading, and its firing speed per minute is nearly twice as fast as that of front loading, this method of bulk loading is still relatively slow.

However, because all of them are flint guns now, the propellants in the gun chamber need external flint to ignite, so the guns of this era must use this kind of bulk way of propellants. Otherwise, if the propellants are wrapped in the cartridge case, the external fire will not ignite the propellants, and the bullets will not be able to shoot out of the gun chamber.

Before the fire cap was made out, even if the military of European countries had long thought about the issue of fixed ammunition, the real fixed ammunition had no use at all.

When the fire cap appears, the fixed ammunition will appear.

In the original historical time and space, the fire cap would not be invented until half a century later. At present, the armies of all European countries do not have fire caps, and they still use the pre fire loading gun. So when brother gaige got out the fire caps, he was half a century ahead of the most advanced countries in Europe.

The fire cap appeared. At the beginning, Shi Xiong intended to use it on the grenade, and he was also practical, but the biggest application of the fire cap was in the fixed ammunition, whether it was the fixed ammunition with metal shell or the fixed ammunition with paper shell.

Although the barrel is excellent, no one can stop it in this era, it is not as convenient as the rifle. Therefore, the stone bear is now considering whether it is time to make the fixed ammunition and the real needle type afterloading rifles.

Stone bear knows very well that once this kind of needled afterloading rifles with paper cartridge case and fixed ammunition is equipped with the army of the gaoshu tribe, the army of the gaoshu tribe will have the biggest cornerstone for dominating North America, and even the United States will not be able to compete with the army of the gaoshu tribe with needled afterloading rifles.

There's no way to fight. Even if the U.S. armed forces are carrying Kentucky rifles with an effective range of less than 200 meters, how can they fight back with a pinprick rifle with an effective range of 600 meters? Moreover, the firing rate of the needle type afterloading rifles is generally about 12 rounds per minute, which is twice as fast as that of the Ferguson rifles!

The effective range of this kind of rifle is more than three times that of other rifles, and the shooting speed is so high. The army of gaoshu tribe with this kind of rifle can fly kites to kill the enemy alive in battle!

You can't hit me, but I can hit you with any posture!

How can we fight such a battle?