Chapter 371 (1/2)

Looking at the fast horse far away figure, stone bear helplessly shook his head, wry smile a few.

Kuaima is a good brother, even if the stone bear is the soul of the past also have to admit. Stone bear can clearly feel Kuaima's care and concern for silly head. It's not pretended. It's from the heart. Stone bear feels it very clearly.

The memory from this body makes the stone bear very clear how carefree the happy young man Kuaima used to be, but now, he is trying to catch up with himself, and he is trying to make himself stronger by various means.

With this, this is a very good brother.

Kuaima can also understand the concerns of bighorn sheep. If it is himself, I am afraid he will have such worries.

After all, it was not a tribe before, and it had formed such a big grudge on the battlefield.

However, the stone bear believes his own judgment. The big horn sheep has really changed.

As for the problem that Kuaima was worried about, Shi Xiong didn't think it was a problem. Although the power of the catapult is huge, it can be called the God of war in this era, but it still has some limitations. For example, the range, for example, the supply of ammunition.

It is undeniable that the catapult, which is 150 years ahead of this era, is the existence of no solution in this era. But also, this thing is not a real artillery or mortar after all, it has some limitations.

The first is range. Even if the catapult's propellant is replaced with non flooded powder, the maximum effective range can last for 700 meters. Although this distance is undoubtedly the dominant distance in this era, the stone bear always thinks it is not enough.

The second is the supply of ammunition. In order to stabilize the trajectory, the rear of the grenade is equipped with four stabilizing fins, which greatly increases the difficulty of shell casting.

Combined with the impact fuze, it is more difficult to make the grenade.

In the five months before the expedition to the Cree, hundreds of workers turned around and produced 14000 grenades. It seems that there are a lot of them, but on average, there are only 80 grenades on each grenade. At the firing rate of 20 grenades per minute, these grenades are not enough for a grenade to launch at full load for four minutes

So the grenades launched by the catapult are far from enough.

Even though Jack Williams and David Addison have been working hard to improve the grenade production line, it's hard to make the grenade throwing force a real strategic core in a short time.

Therefore, the stone bear is now preparing to develop a new generation of rifles.

With the successful development of mercury fulminate and firecap, the idea of developing a new generation of needled afterloading rifle can be realized.

Originally, stone bear's plan was to wait until Ferguson's rifle was equipped to a certain extent, and then began to develop the famous miner's rifle. After all, it's not so difficult to refit the mini rifle with the existing Ferguson rifle. And if the transformation is successful, Ferguson's upgraded Mini rifle will greatly increase the effective range of the musket.

The effective range of the original historical time and space miner rifle can exceed 500 meters, which is a terrible number. If the expeditionary army can have two thousand soldiers with miner's rifle, then the stone bear is confident to fight any European country with two thousand Musketeers!