Chapter 35 Prepare to meet the enemy
"Kul, go back first and report the situation here to the battalion commander."
"What about you?"
"I'm here to monitor, and if they leave we can't find them again easily."
"But......"
"But what? Obey orders. I haven't settled the score with you for leaving privately. If I can't handle it this time, I'll see how I'll deal with you when I come back."
"Yes, company commander!"
At this time, Xiao Lin happened to finish the training of the officers and came to the training ground to check the status of everyone's training. When he heard the report of the soldier Cour, his face changed. He quickly brought a few people to the place where they discovered the British army. At the same time, he quickly asked the two company commanders to assemble the troops and adjust their status. He hurriedly forgot that these Apache had been lying on the ground for three hours and had been staring at the enemy. Xiao Lin bent down and walked over slowly.
"How is the situation?"
"You are here, and the enemy seems to be coming for us. This road, walking for a long time, is our camp. However, their carriages are trapped in mud pits and cannot be dragged out now and are being repaired."
Xiao Lin raised his telescope and followed Apache's guidance to check the enemy's movements. Two carriages in the British army overturned, and the three cannons were all trapped in. Some soldiers were slumped on the ground with mud and water. It seemed that they had pushed the car for a long time and were so tired. Seeing that it was getting dark, they also left the main road and set up camp beside the road. During this period, white people generally did not choose night battles. The accuracy of the smoothbore gun was not good, and the night battles were even worse.
Xiao Lin asked James to take five people to replace Apache, and continue to monitor the movements of the lobster soldiers here. Then, he brought the others back to the assembly ground. Xiao Lin had only three hundred warriors at present, and only forty-one white men were good at using muskets, and had basically mastered the technology of using formal rifles. In addition, more than 200 Eagle Tribe warriors only knew how to shoot with the rifles in their hands, and the accuracy was not guaranteed.
Although there are great disadvantages in terms of numbers, Xiaolin and his weapons are much stronger than those of Babu's men. In this era, the British army began to change their brown bass muskets. The brown bass muskets first originated from an arms development contract signed by the Royal Ordnance Bureau on September 15, 1714. The main content of the contract included soliciting design opinions from private ordnance merchants under preferential conditions, and then approved and produced by the Ordnance Bureau authorities. Now, it is impossible for the colonial people to change their new guns unless their chief officer is very wise.
Babu was obviously not a man with great eyes, so his soldiers could only use backward muskets. This musket has no highlight in history that can be remembered (it is really impossible to find out, helpless). At this time, the equipment of the British army was not even comparable to that of the French. Even the three three-pound field guns were old people in the 17th century. They were not very accurate and had little power, and they could not even compare to the earliest grenades.
On Xiao Lin's side, the firepower intensity of three hundred formal rifles was enough to match that of four hundred muskets and lobster soldiers. There were also one hundred people, all archers who used compound bows with an effective range of 150 steps. When they were in close combat, they could still use steel knives to fight. The combat skills that had been honed in the jungle for more than ten years, coupled with Xiao Lin's modern military training, their combat power was very strong.
The most important thing is that in order to strengthen firepower, Xiao Lin specially prepared five fast and slow machines, which are the sharp weapon of warriors without machine guns and submachine guns, and the box cannons. The four graduate students majoring in mechanical manufacturing were right, not only helped to develop the formal rifle at once, but after Xiao Lin made a request, he also helped to polish the five fast and slow machines.
Mauser pistol (mauser �
This kind of pistol, plus a buttstock, can even be turned into an original semi-automatic rifle or semi-automatic submachine gun. A speed and slow machine has the firepower comparable to twenty seventeenth-century muskets. Xiao Lin used two of his own, three company commanders and one by one. When the firepower explodes, he can also withstand fifty lobster soldiers holding smoothbore guns.
Xiao Lin also has a batch of primitive grenades in his hand. These grenades were some round, hard and thick plastic toys purchased by Xiao Lin in the 21st century as shells, and then filled the gunpowder gravel nails and placed the leads. These work were all done on the American continent. However, this grenade has a very good power. The explosion radius is two meters, and the hard plastic will not burn it all at once. It can support the gunpowder to break through the shell and allow the iron nails and gravel to shoot out.
While the lobster soldiers were camping and repairing, Xiao Lin led the soldiers to find a good place to ambush. Xiao Lin couldn't help but thank the Indians who died by the whites. They used their lives to raise these colonial soldiers to be arrogant and despised the Indians and never formally did them. This is also one of the reasons why the whites were beaten by the Indians who obtained advanced smoothbore guns in the later period. If they attacked the colonies of other European countries, they would never be so careless. Even if they did not launch an attack immediately, they would send a sentry to investigate the surroundings.
This trail is basically surrounded by hill stones. Although it is not high, there are still many slopes about fifty meters high. The place Xiao Lin chose is a slope of more than forty meters, which is at an angle of forty-five degrees, lying on the top, and all the situations on the road can be seen clearly. Three hundred soldiers entered the position overnight and immediately began to dig trenches, and they did not go to bed until five in the morning. At around ten in the morning, James and others who were staring at the lobster soldiers came over, and the lobster soldiers set off.
They were awakened and saved late, and they spent a lot of time to drag out the carriages and cannons that were still trapped in the mud pit. It was already good to set off at this time. Xiao Lin asked everyone to prepare. With the help of the intercom, he could pass his commands to every platoon leader. The sun was hanging above his head, and it was eleven o'clock in the morning when the figure of the lobster soldier appeared in front of everyone.
The one who led the way was the infantry using smoothbore guns. These people were both the main force and cannon fodder. Xiao Lin did not rush to do it. He had to clean up the three field artillery first. The infantry had to walk out of the ambush circle before the artillery appeared. They walked in the middle, one by one, and there were fifty cavalry at the end, which should be the army behind the hall. Xiao Lin first aimed at a lobster soldier riding on the horse dragging the artillery. After he was sure that he could kill, he fired the gun.
"Bang!"
A gunshot resounded throughout the valley. When Xiao Lin heard the gunshot, the musketeers and archers under him attacked at the same time. The musketeers were standing in the trenches, and the archers were still showing half of their bodies. Suddenly, some of them were met, and the seven hundred lobster soldiers under Babu were in chaos. With the help of Xiao Lin and several soldiers with good shooting skills, all the lobster soldiers next to the cannon were quickly cleared. Moreover, anyone close to the cannon was shot and killed.
Chapter completed!