The lord hunted down by the game

Chapter 95
"Get ready~~~
aim……

fire! ! ! "

The first row kneeling on one knee, and the second row standing upright, sparks flashed in front of the gun phalanx, followed by thick white smoke, which began to block the view.

In the era of queuing to shoot, officers paid attention to the first shot not only because the soldiers fired the first time the most stable performance, but also because the white smoke obscured the field of vision.

As long as it is not a battlefield with high winds, the sight of the soldiers in the front row will basically become blurred after two or three rounds of guns, and the hit rate will naturally be greatly reduced.

Of course, you don’t need to worry about this problem if you learn the three-column salvo at close range like the British army. Within 30 meters, as long as the general direction is not wrong, the opposite side is still in a dense formation, and you can be fooled after all!

The musketeers arranged by General Gates on the front line naturally did not have the guts to fire a volley at a distance of 30 meters. In fact, their first round of shooting was at a distance of about [-] meters.

This is the effective range of ordinary flintlock guns in this era, and even farther can be hit, but the hit rate will be so low that it will not even have one or two percent, and it is a waste of bullets to shoot out.

Unless it is a light infantry using a high-precision flintlock, it will shoot within a distance of 300-[-] meters.

This is also the hit limit of the musket gun.

That kind of high-precision flintlock guns are all handmade, and the cost is high, and it is not a big country that can't afford to equip them.

Moreover, the hit rate at a distance of 300 meters is not very ideal. Light infantry generally prefers to fire within 200 meters.

Of course, there are also front-loading rifles, which are the kind of muskets that need to be smashed in with a hammer...

Rifled guns have actually been invented long ago, appearing not much later than flintlock guns, but after the barrel has rifling, how to ensure airtightness becomes a problem, so the lead bullets used in rifled guns are generally slightly thicker than the barrel Throw it away so that the rifling can be blocked to prevent air leakage (the air leakage will not hit far).

In this way, the lead bullet is the same size as the muzzle of the gun, so it can only be smashed in with a hammer...

It is conceivable how slow the loading efficiency of this rifled gun is, and it takes a few minutes to shoot one round. According to this frequency, the enemy has strode up to the front and used the smoothbore gun for several rounds!
This is why rifled guns have not been popularized, and only a small number of hunters and light infantry will be equipped.

General Gates has light infantry under his command, but none of them use front-loading rifles. After all, the United States of America is a pioneering country, and it is still a federal situation. It is difficult to find musketeers who specialize in front-loading rifles.

The technical requirements for musketeers to use muzzle rifles are much higher than those for smoothbore gunners.

Therefore, the light infantry in the U.S. military all use flintlock guns, and the quality is not comparable to the high-precision flintlock guns used by the elite light infantry of the European powers, and the hit rate is higher than that of the continental smoothbore guns.

However, the excellence of the light infantry in the U.S. Army is that all of them are hunters and veterans with good marksmanship.

It is an exaggeration to say that the smoothbore gun cannot be aimed in later generations. It is not that the smoothbore gun cannot be aimed, but it is too difficult to aim, and it is different from the firearms of later generations.

However, the most important thing in this world is elites. Practice makes perfect for muskets. There are always a group of people who can even control the offset trajectory of muskets to improve the hit rate!
It's just that no matter how good a sharpshooter is, his hit rate will increase at about [-] meters, and no matter how far it is, it cannot be changed by human skills.

Therefore, in theory, there is not much difference between the effective range of the English longbow projectile and the flintlock gun. The effective range here refers to the range with lethality. Although the bow and arrow can be projected farther, the force will be weakened geometrically. It also becomes impervious to human muscle.

The soldiers in the first two rows who had finished shooting quickly handed over the muskets in their hands to the people behind, and then took the loaded flintlock guns from the hands of the people behind to shoot.

The efficiency of this shooting method is actually not as good as the tactical platoon guns that alternately change formations back and forth, but the formation tactics require very high discipline and long-term formation training. For American soldiers, this is precisely what is lacking.

So they used the rotten but simple way of presenting muskets that has long been used.

The soldiers in the first two rows don't need to move at all, just stand in place and take the fire from the muskets, which can minimize formation changes and prevent the soldiers themselves from falling into chaos.

Of course, the second round of shooting could not be a volley, and the two rows of soldiers also merged into one row and began to shoot freely.

Behind every shooting soldier are two soldiers responsible for loading. A combat team has three guns. The rate of fire of the flintlock gun is enough to ensure a steady stream of firepower.

This can only be played when the army has an absolute advantage. Otherwise, adopting this tactic means that the firepower density will be directly reduced by two-thirds, and two out of every three musketeers will not be able to shoot!
The best way to deal with this tactic is to use the housekeeping skills of the British army to shoot three salvos at close range for a few rounds, knocking down all the shooters in the front row, and almost collapsed on the other side...

However, the Yellow Turban Warriors didn't have muskets, and they didn't even have many crossbowmen. As a result, they were swept down in pieces during the charge and shooting, and the casualty rate was more than twice that of the US military!
This does not include the Yellow Turban wrestlers who were wiped out by the artillery before!
As a result, within a few minutes, the crossbowmen among the yellow turban wrestlers were all killed and injured, but their sacrifice bought precious time for the yellow turban wrestlers fighting hand to hand.

With the morale bonus of not fearing death, even though more than half of the yellow turban wrestlers were killed or injured, they still rushed into the US phalanx lined with bayonets without hesitation.

A row of yellow-turban wrestlers held their swords and spears and rammed them directly against the wall. When their bodies were pierced by bayonets, the weapons in their hands also killed the horrified American soldiers on the opposite side...

The first wave of impact was a life-for-life posture!
It was this kind of desperate style of play, the casualties of thousands of American soldiers on the front line exceeded one achievement, and all of them collapsed...

Although most of the front-line U.S. soldiers were armed citizens of Wilmington, and the rest were recruits in the U.S. military, the speed of collapse still exceeded General Gates' expectations.

The most important thing is that the physical strength and speed of those yellow turban wrestlers surpassed that of ordinary American soldiers, chasing after the rout and killing them was so sour...

At this time, due to the entanglement of soldiers from both sides, the artillery of the US military had to stop, and the casualty rate of the Yellow Turban Lux suddenly became flat.

However, General Gates had already anticipated this situation. When the front-line US soldiers collapsed, the elite US troops on the left and right wings had formed formations and pressed up.

(End of this chapter)