Chapter 204 Defense and Loss
What to do if the incoming enemy is far from the defense facilities you have prepared.
For example, the enemy comes from the sky.
The wooden wall is only to prevent the invasion of hostile targets from the ground, but facing the extremely fast floating rays, these wooden walls are completely decorations, and the six musket sentry towers with protective capabilities are extremely critical at this time.
The alarm bell rang, and the soldiers who were still working immediately put down their work at hand, ran to the armory where the weapons were stored as quickly as possible to take out the muskets with their own logos, and took a bag of ammunition at the same time.
Gather under the banner of their respective platoon leaders according to the team.
"Each unit relies on the building to fight freely, shoot freely, and switch to special ammunition for flying targets."
Fighting in the sky island environment, Ji Lin is by no means unprepared. After being promoted to the fourth era and confirming that he chose the sky island world for development, the first thing he did in scientific research was to ask the dean to develop fixed paper shell bullets and special shotguns for muskets.
For the former, fixed paper shell bullets are a technology that can effectively increase the firing rate of muskets and reduce the time used for reloading. Shotguns are excellent for hitting small and medium-sized aerial targets.
Humans have been using shotguns since they first mastered the art of musketry.
A type of shooting ammunition specially designed for fighting small and medium-sized units at close range. 10 to 16 lead blocks/lead bullets wrapped in paper produced in the territory are shotguns provided by the territory's industrial capacity for these musketeers.
While studying shotguns, we are also studying how to produce shotguns in the territory's industrial model.
The blacksmith shop cuts off irregular pieces of lead blocks and lead balls as part of the projectile body, and does not pursue surface integrity in this regard. Non-spherical lead bullets will lose range and accuracy and cause damage to the barrel, but the current industrial level of the territory does not support them to grind every lead bullet flat.
The territory can produce gun barrels normally, but the territory does not have the technology to mass-produce small lead balls. The blacksmiths' efforts in grinding lead blocks are enough for them to make more than a dozen gun barrels for the territory's musketeers.
Then the scattered large boxes of lead pellets will be given to the civilians who are resting at home at night to be packaged in paper shells, and these scattered small pieces of lead will be wrapped into the bullets.
‘Shotgun shooting: weapon range is reduced to 55, and 45 points of additional long-range power are provided against low-armor/unarmored units, which decreases with the target's armor strength. ’
The musketeer who switched to shotgun directly lost three-quarters of the weapon range, but in return, a huge increase in damage to unarmored units.
Double damage, but for this double damage, you have to sacrifice your range to 55 meters.
Ji Lin would not consider this technology at all when facing other lords. The effective range of 200 meters is the best of all long-range infantry of the same era, so that when he finished a round of firing, the opponent had not yet entered the firing range.
This means that he can run away after shooting from a distance.
The job of stopping the target from moving forward is left to the hunting spiders, who evacuate the battlefield much faster than musketeers.
Ji Lin looked at the group of floating rays approaching quickly from a distance. From a distance, these soft big flying pancakes flapping their wings slowly were quite cute.
I wonder if the hunting spider can be effective against the enemy from the air.
"Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, assemble and form a team."
Even after a period of training, the soldiers still cannot fully abide by the discipline in the face of an emergency, pick up their equipment and form a team in the shortest time to wait for orders.
There is a gap between training and actual combat. Ji Lin is not worried about the problem being exposed, but worried that the problem will not be exposed, and it is easiest to correct it when the problem has not formed inertia.
Six squads of musket shooters have been arranged to be stationed in the six musket sentry towers, and the remaining twenty-four squads and eight platoons have become a problem in how to allocate the houses in the camp for defensive operations.
If they are allowed to allocate freely, it will definitely be a mess.
Thinking of the possible chaotic scene, Chang Heng must take on the responsibility of a general, calling out the platoon leaders one by one and giving them orders.
"One row per house, rows one and two to defend the mine in the northeast corner, rows three and four to defend the newly built ore warehouse, rows five, six, and seven to defend the newly built residential area."
Chang Heng was cautious not to let the musketeers defend the armory. The pile of crystal ore gunpowder in the armory was no joke. A little spark would send the armory and all the people nearby into the sky.
Ji Lin looked at the soldiers who received the order but began to become chaotic while running, and he had another goal in mind.
In the future, these soldiers still need to be mobilized for special exercises, and the work of dividing the defense area must be done well at the beginning. Fu Yu came too fast, and he didn't even assign special defense areas to these military teams.
The shortest training time for these soldiers is only two months. The current reaction and assembly speed are the result of the soldiers' extraordinary performance.
Two hundred and forty soldiers completed the assembly and formation with their own weapons and ammunition within four minutes, and replaced them with special shotgun ammunition to defend against the upcoming small air unit attack.
As the squads and platoons on the ground entered their houses in a slight chaos, the floating rays flew across the fields, making bursts of hisses.
Changheng and Ji Lin each chose a musket sentry tower and entered it to command. The soldiers here had all loaded their muskets with anti-small unit shotgun shells.
Using single-headed bullets to attack a target flying at a very fast speed was not a good choice.
"Fire!"
Ji Lin pulled out a musket and fired the first shot at the group of floating rays.
If you look down, you can see a group of small black and gray objects swooping down at a very fast speed towards a camp that is mainly made of wood, like dust falling in the air, followed by bursts of light white smoke coming out from the front of the wooden tower.
Then, thunderous gunshots rang out and spread, and the floating rays flying in the front seemed to hit the iron curtain head-on and were shot down from the air.
The floating rays riding the wind rolled on the lawn like a stone thrown into the water, and then there was no more life.
The firepower of the outpost ended, and the floating rays also showed their threat to these uninvited guests. Their wings and tails were all carrying deadly bone blades.
Not all soldiers had time to retreat into the house.
With the blessing of the diving speed, the floating rays were like rotating sharp blades, diving, cutting, and killing with blood.
The dead soldiers were decomposed, disappeared in the light stream, and recalled. Only the blood-stained clothes and long-handled muskets on the ground proved that they had existed.
This kind of death is not terrible at all. They were recalled before they even felt the pain.
This was the first loss suffered by the territory.
It was also the mistake of the lord and the generals. They did not expect the first wave of enemy attacks to arrive so quickly. Chang Heng was also glad that he did not let the musketeers stand outside the house to meet the enemy, but relied on the wooden house for defense.
The bone blade could not effectively break the thick wooden wall.
The tragic opening battle began.