Chapter 195 (1/2)

Good news keeps coming.

Stone bear has just finished discussing with Lilei and Hongyun about spring ploughing, and Ferguson has another good news.

New rifles have been made!

This is good news to the core.

For a tribe, food and weapons are two indispensable foundations. In fact, from a tribe to a country, food and weapons are also the most basic things.

No matter in ancient times or in modern times, no matter in a dynasty or in a country, internal kings and external tyrants are highly valued.

The inner king is the inner king, and the outer hegemony is the outer hegemony.

The concrete embodiment of the inner king and the outer hegemony is that the domestic people live and work in peace and contentment, and do not worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation; On the other hand, outside the country, no country dares to invade, or even all countries come to Korea.

If a country or dynasty can do this, it can be called great.

Of course, if we want to achieve this, we cannot do without food and weapons.

Food is the basis for the implementation of kingcraft at home. If there is not enough food, let alone the implementation of kingcraft, it will be good if the people do not overthrow you. You can't even feed the common people. How can you dare to be king?

The foundation of foreign hegemony is weapons, powerful weapons, ahead of other countries' weapons. If you want other countries to respect you and convince you, you have to come up with something for other countries to convince you. And this kind of thing is a powerful weapon!

If you don't listen, I'll beat you. Laozi has more powerful weapons than you. If you don't obey, you will be beaten by Laozi.

If the gaoshu tribe wants to develop, these two are indispensable.

With the development of spring ploughing this year, as long as there is no natural disaster, the food of gaoshu tribe is destined to get a huge harvest.

And weapons, now there are more than 100 muskets in gaoshu tribe. The people of gaoshu tribe have fully realized the huge gap between hot weapons and cold weapons. Although the present muskets are not so powerful, if they are used intensively, the power is still unstoppable by cold weapons.

However, the new musket developed by Lieutenant Ferguson, that is, the epoch-making rear loading rifles in history, Ferguson rifles have many defects, but compared with the front loading muskets commonly used in European countries, their power, range and accuracy have been improved by more than one level.

To use the modern weapons of later generations as an analogy, if the front loaded muskets used in European countries are 155mm self-propelled guns, then the rear loaded muskets developed by Lieutenant Ferguson are surface to surface short-range missiles.

Although the power of surface to surface short-range missiles is not so strong, they are much more powerful than self-propelled artillery.

If the whole people of the gaoshu tribe are equipped with this new rifle, and through continuous training, the force of the gaoshu tribe will immediately rise to a very high level. At least according to the judgment of the stone bear, the force of the gaoshu tribe will become the most powerful Indian tribe in the whole new world, even compared with the well-trained European army.

”Boss, you see this gun is OK!” Second lieutenant Ferguson had an irrepressible smile on his face and a proud tone.

This is a back loaded gun. Before the news of the new gun was released, Lieutenant Ferguson had tested this gun hundreds of times. No matter in terms of loading speed, range, accuracy and power, this gun is far better than the front loaded muskets commonly used in various countries.

Shi Xiong was a typical puppet fan in his previous life, that is, he was dissatisfied with a bottle of weapons and sloshed half a bottle. He can say one or two or three things about weapons, whether they are modern or old. But if you want to ask him deeper principles, he doesn't quite understand.

As an epoch-making rifle, stone bear has naturally seen pictures of this Ferguson rifle many times in his previous life. Of course, this Ferguson rifle is mostly imitated by people.

But there is almost no difference between the rifle in front of me and the rifle in the picture in my memory. If there is one, it is a real gun in front of me, and the visual impact is definitely not comparable to that in the picture.

Stone bear grabbed the gun and weighed it. The weight of the gun satisfied stone bear.

This gun is about half lighter than the French San Etienne rifle captured by stone bear, which is a great improvement.

You should know that rifles usually accompany a rifleman for a long time, especially during the war, rifles are the closest partners of the rifleman.

So the problem is, if the weight of the muskets is too heavy, it will bring a great burden to the musketeers. Just like the St. Etienne rifle captured by the stone bear, this front loaded smooth bore rifle is a very good rifle in this era, but the weight of this gun is a little too heavy.

The total length of the San Etienne rifle is about 55 inches, which is about 1.4 meters. It is about the same length as the British Brown Beth rifle and the Ferguson rifle. However, the weight of the San Etienne rifle is more than 15 pounds, which is close to 7 kg.