Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 200 You have to get used to being crushed by the weapon generation gap
At this distance, there doesn't seem to be much point in moving to the beat of the drum. Just aiming and shooting should solve the problem.

The soldiers took the rifles on their backs in a slightly chaotic manner, took out the fixed paper shells from their waist pockets, and loaded them with bullets.

The earliest rifled guns were the same as smoothbore guns, which were loaded with gunpowder first and then the bullet. However, it was extremely difficult to squeeze the bullet into the rifled barrel, so soldiers often had to smash the bullet in.

Alexei used this method when he first tried out the black powder-fired rifle. He commented that it was not as good as the smoothbore rifle. This loading method resulted in an extremely low rate of fire, with less than one shot fired per minute. What was even worse was that the loading could not be done in a uniform manner, seriously affecting the efficiency of the salvo.

Rifled guns were useless when they were first developed, but a new invention changed everything.

That's the Minié bullet.

Of course, Hughes would not step on these holes again. He directly equipped the rifled gun with Minié bullets, which are split bullets. The front bullet is similar to a traditional bullet, and the middle and rear parts are hollow and can be loaded with gunpowder. There is also a cork behind the bullet.

The expansion of the cork butt makes the chamber airtight, reduces the residual gunpowder residue, and avoids frequent cleaning of the barrel. The bullet caliber is slightly smaller than the barrel and can be easily loaded without hammering. It should be noted that the old rifled gun takes 90-120 seconds per round, but after replacing it with Minié bullet, it only takes 20-30 seconds.

The soldiers stuffed the bullets into the barrels, pulled out the included cleaning rods from under the muzzle, poked the bullets to the bottom, then pulled out the cleaning rods and raised the guns to aim.

Alexei glanced at the fish-man in the distance and shouted an order:
"Fire!"

boom!
There was a burst of gunfire, and the two fishmen fell down.

The fishmen were in a commotion. They didn't quite understand what was happening. There was indeed a small group of humans in the distance, but at this distance?

They neither saw the incoming arrows nor the falling stones. They just looked at the humans in confusion. There was indeed a sound coming from there.

This distance was close to the limit of the effective range of rifles. The soldiers had only trained for a few days and were still a little unfamiliar with aiming and shooting. Several soldiers' bullets did not penetrate the bottom, and the guns misfired when they pulled the trigger. Another soldier was so nervous that he forgot to take out the cleaning rod, and the cleaning rod flew away during the shooting. He had to borrow the cleaning rod from his comrades.

Even so, Alexei still took a breath and completed the kill from 600 meters away, which was simply a fantasy on the battlefield.

Hughes, who was far away, covered his face. Alexi did not let the soldiers fire in echelons. This was a volley of eighty soldiers. Although the distance was extremely far, the hit rate was really too low.

As expected, the new recruits are still unreliable.

"Reload!"

Alexei shouted orders, and several captains passed his orders to each team.

The soldiers took out new paper shells and bullets again and started a new round of loading ammunition.

If it was a musket, they would also need to clean the barrel, but with Minié bullets, they didn't need to. The better seal meant less gunpowder residue, and they just had to stuff the new bullet in.

Nearly a minute passed before the soldiers barely finished loading the next bullet. The fishmen had just ended the chaos and were hesitating whether to attack this side.

"Fire!"

boom! !

Another volley of gunfire, and four fishmen fell instantly. They finally realized that they were attacked by humans, and rushed forward with various weapons in hand, shouting.

"Don't panic, reload!"

The soldiers were indeed not panicked, and some of them were even brave enough to curse at the fishmen. The two sides were 600 meters apart, and the fishmen looked like just a big bug, so they didn't feel much at all.

The results of the two rounds of shooting also greatly encouraged people's morale, not to mention that Hughes and Alexi were standing next to them, and the commander was right next to them, so the soldiers' morale was very high.

This time, their technique was more refined. They had practiced aiming, shooting, and reloading over and over again over the past few days, and now they were slowly regaining their grip. "Fire!"

boom! !

This time the accuracy was much better. The fishermen only rushed about a hundred meters before six more fell.

"Fire!"

boom! !

Another volley of fire, and only ten murlocs were left. They were now more than two hundred meters away from the soldiers, and were already out of breath. Watching their fellow tribesmen fall one by one, the fear in their eyes gradually overwhelmed the others.

The six murlocs screamed and fled in all directions, and only four rushed over.

"Fire!"

boom! !

All the charging fishmen fell down, but at this moment, they were still more than a hundred meters away from the soldiers.

Alexei organized another round of shooting, but this time the effect was mediocre. The soldiers were obviously not very good at shooting moving targets. The fishmen who rushed straight towards them were okay, but they only kept half of those who fled in all directions.

Just like that. We won?

Alexei announced with a dull look on his face that the troops were to be dispersed and began to clean up the battlefield. This was the strangest battle he had ever participated in.

From beginning to end, those fishmen did not pose even the slightest threat to them. The only unlucky guy who was injured was because he forgot to clean the chamber after the previous bullet misfired, and he put in the second bullet and pulled the trigger, and the chamber exploded directly.

The soldiers did not feel much fear. They felt that this battle was not much different from the target shooting training they had yesterday. They both aimed and shot from a distance. There was no difference.

It was not until they started cleaning up the battlefield and faced the enemy corpses that there was some commotion and many people squatted on the ground and vomited.

Alexei stood there blankly with a complicated expression. Hughes walked up and patted him on the back.

"What are you thinking about?"

"Lord, I."

Alexei was speechless for a moment. He had never seen such a strange battle. He even felt that he, the commander, was a bit redundant. The soldiers only needed to aim and fire to solve the enemy.

"Actually, this is the crushing defeat caused by the generation gap in weapons. You must adapt to it. There will be many more battles like this in the future."

Xius looked amused, this was just the beginning.

The crushing power brought by industry is all-round. Now he just has an additional rifle. Hughes didn't even arrange a proper production line for this thing. In his opinion, artillery will be the main combat power of the army in the future.

"In the future, you will face enemies more powerful than this, but it doesn't matter. Our technological development speed will continue to accelerate. Just try to keep up with the times."

"Okay, sir." Alexei had a complicated expression. No wonder Zeus didn't care much about training soldiers. If he had such weapons, then other things really didn't matter.

"Let's take a break and go support Ash. Let's see how effective this thing is against that arm monster."

(End of this chapter)