Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 215 Beyond Visual Range Shooting

This was the first time Alexei had seen gun barrels facing the same direction side by side, but even so, how effective would they be?
Just to pull it requires a horse, or a small team of soldiers, or even a banshee. Loading and aiming on the battlefield will take up a lot of manpower. If these people use rifles, they should be able to achieve more results, right?
Alexei frowned secretly. He didn't quite understand why his lord made this thing. The rifled rifle was a very powerful weapon. According to Hughes, it was a "generation gap" from the flintlock rifle. At this time, tactics should be designed based on the advanced rifled rifle to maximize the advantages of the weapon.

Alexei glanced at the so-called Gatling gun with distrust. Could this thing be as useful as a rifle?

Xiu Si suddenly paused for a few seconds, then clapped his hands with a look of delight: "It just so happens that there are murlocs gathering in the south. It is said that there are quite a few arm monsters this time."

The arm monsters have always been Alexei's concern. They move too fast, and the distance advantage brought by rifles is not obvious. Landmines can be used to deal with them, but landmines are not very effective.
The mine that Xius took out was actually a semi-finished product. If Nini were to make the fuse, it would indeed explode stably, but Nini could just use a knife to chop the monster, which might not be less efficient than using a mine.

However, if Nini's improved sea snake spell is not used as a fuse, the probability of successful detonation is really low, and the mine becomes something that depends very much on luck and is not very reliable.

The key is that if this thing fails to detonate successfully, someone has to be sent to recover it. This is Castel after all, and we can't just throw the mine and leave it alone. Previously, a team of the Crusaders had encountered a situation where a mine was accidentally detonated during recovery, and several people were injured. Fortunately, they were standing in the opposite direction of the warhead when the mine exploded, and were only affected by the explosion, and no one was killed.

Soldiers are now very resistant to landmines.

Alexei did not plan to use mines on a large scale until he could find a reliable fuse. This meant that they had no good way to deal with the arm monsters. As long as there were more than three arm monsters appearing on the battlefield at the same time, the Crusaders would not have time to concentrate their fire.

Therefore, in the current battles, it is usually the Crusaders who shoot from a distance, while the Banshees hold the line with long swords. Once the arm monster breaks through to the front, Alexi orders to stop shooting and the Banshees will kill the arm monster.

As for the murlocs? It's good that they can make it here.

Without delay, they immediately entered the webway from the core furnace under the church. Before long, they appeared not far from the beach.

There are three patrol teams here, the other Crusaders are still on the way, and about ten banshees have already arrived.

According to past experience, banshees can quickly kill three times as many arm monsters in close combat. If the number of banshees reaches half the number of monsters, they can basically perfectly defend against the impact of the arm monsters without any omissions.

Looking into the distance, Zeus could only see more than fifty arm monsters on the opposite side, so densely packed that the beach was completely crowded.

"Can they gather so many at once now?!"

"No, there are more of them this time." Alexei's expression also became serious. With so many arm monsters, the role of the Crusaders would be quite small. Even if a hundred Crusaders were gathered together and started fighting at the maximum distance of one thousand meters, it would be difficult to kill ten arm monsters.

This kind of monster is very strange. Sometimes it can be killed with just one shot, and sometimes it takes a group of people to concentrate their fire for a long time to defeat it.

The reason is that the core of the arm monster is the disgusting meat ball in the middle. If the outer arms are hit, it will at most slow down its movement speed. As long as the core in the middle is not hit, it will not stop.

This was discovered by the banshees. They tried to cut off all the arms of the arm monster, but it kept squirming. Only by stabbing the long knife into its core could they truly kill it.

But this thing moves very fast, and the soldiers shooting from hundreds of meters away rely on the firepower coverage of numbers, so there is no possibility of aiming at all.

Therefore, after seeing so many arm monsters, Alexi immediately turned his head to look at Ash. In his opinion, this battle was the Banshee's home ground, and the Skitarii would probably just clean up the battlefield.

Hughes didn't care about that. He directed the Banshees to install the Gatling gun on a tripod, then brought in a few wooden boxes and took out a strange object. It looked a bit like a metal snack box, and Hughes fixed it on the top of the Gatling gun barrel.

This is the Gatling gun's feed hopper.

Since this machine gun still uses a hand crank to load and fire bullets, the upper limit of the firing rate is not high, so Hughes did not design an ammunition belt.

Belt feeding can greatly increase the feeding speed, but it is relatively difficult to eliminate the fault after it occurs. With the current level of mechanical processing, the failure rate of firearms is not low.

After loading the bullet, Zeus did not wait for the Crusaders to continue gathering, but directly turned the muzzle of the gun and aimed at the sea urchin monster.

Alexei was surprised, but after looking around, he said nothing.

Ash, Chloe and the others were all here, and there were quite a few banshees. Even if all the arm monsters rushed over now, they would be able to escape unscathed.

But the key point is, isn't this place too far away from the arm monster?
Although the arm monsters were densely packed on the beach, they were more than 1,500 meters away from here. Alexei graduated from an orthodox military academy, so he would not have misjudged the distance.

Even a rifled rifle cannot cause damage at this distance. The effective range of a rifled rifle is only a few hundred meters, and the maximum range is less than one thousand meters. Beyond this distance, it is difficult to cause casualties.

Moreover, it is almost impossible to aim at this range. We can only rely on the number of people to fire in the general direction. The hit rate is quite touching. The most effective killing range of this weapon is still within 200 meters.

One thousand five hundred meters is an unimaginable distance.

Hughes took a rough look. This Gatling gun was just a prototype. The sights had not been calibrated and there were no tracer bullets. However, Hughes had another way.

"Chloe!"

Chloe, who was wearing a slim-fitting suit, blinked and pointed at herself: "Me? Let me kill monsters?"

"No, turn on the perspective. I need to see where the bullet lands."

"X-ray vision?" Chloe was stunned for a moment, then she put her hands on her hips, her eyebrows raised. "You mean [self-binding]? Sure, it's possible, but what's the use?"

"Look, those fishmen are within your capabilities, right?"

"Almost. My abilities basically cover the area from here to the seaside."

"Then you will be my observer. After activating your ability, you will use your telepathic communication to tell me where the bullet will land."

Hughes looked ahead eagerly: "Let's experience beyond-visual-range shooting."

(End of this chapter)