Chapter 326 (1/2)
During the expedition to Yuchi people, the stone bear found that the effect on the shield wall was very good. Especially in the days when Yuchi people chased and killed them, if they hadn't prepared the big wooden shield wrapped with iron sheet in advance, maybe the expedition team would have had to drop more than ten bodies or even more bodies on Yuchi people's side to get out.
The last expedition to Yuchi was Shi Xiong's first command of battle. Even if he was from later generations, he had more than 200 years of knowledge than anyone else in the world, but he was still a rookie in military affairs.
Although the expeditionary team has much more advanced thermal weapons than Yuchi people, Shi Xiong, a rookie, underestimates the huge gap in the number of people. Sometimes it can close the gap between weapons.
At the beginning of the battle with the Yuchi people, because the chief of the Yuchi people and several tribal leaders were shot and killed by the stone bear in advance, the Yuchi people were leaderless, which was completely confused by a hundred Musketeers, and finally led to the collapse. But in the final stage of being chased, Yuchi people were chased so miserably in the last few days because they had the command of the big horn sheep from the Cree nationality, and the route of the expedition team's retreat was not suitable for the Musketeers to wield the most power.
If it wasn't for the final decisive battle, the beach was really suitable for the firemen, and the final result of that battle was not known.
However, it was the decisive battle that made Shi Xiong realize that the protection of his own fighters was also very important.
Although we have long-range attack weapons such as grenades, muskets and bows, the number of the expeditionary army is only over 2000, and the expeditionary army needs to face a large tribe with a population of nearly 100000.
Although the stone bear is confident that even if he is facing the ten thousand Kerrey people, his troops can finally defeat the enemy by virtue of the advanced nature of the weapons. But the decisive battle with Yu and the red people decided that the stone bear decided to add a protective umbrella to the main combat troops.
This layer of umbrella is the 300 guerrillas.
These 300 men usually fight together with the main forces, but their main time is to shoot with a strong bow after the enemy breaks through a distance of 120 meters. The strong bow made of steel plate of gaoshu tribe has a range nearly twice that of the bows and arrows of the Keri people, so it is also a powerful supplement to the muskets.
However, once the enemy breaks through to within 80 meters with the help of the number of people, the three hundred people will build a shield wall for the Musketeers in front with the large shield on their backs, so as to protect the Musketeers behind the shield wall to the maximum extent.
The weight of one big shield is more than 20 jin. These 300 guerrillas can't carry such a heavy thing to fight again. After all, although the weight of their own arrows is less than that of the big iron arrows used by the stone bear, they carry a large number of arrows, so their weight is already very heavy. With the big shield, they don't do anything at all.
Therefore, in order to ensure the attack and defense capabilities of these guerrillas, the stone bear specially equipped them with 50 domesticated bison, which are their ”logistics soldiers”, specially used to carry the large shields and arrows of these Rangers.
With these guerrillas in, with the main force, stone bear has the confidence to withstand the attack of 10000 people!
No matter how powerful the Cree are, they are just a tribe with a population of about 100000. The number of soldiers in such a tribe is about 30000. How many times can they organize attacks on a scale of 10000?