Chapter 456 Riot·New World
While Purficott was busy developing the God-killing Armor, the two teams of steam knights she sent had also arrived by train, together with the two infantry battalions accompanying the operation. New World Colonies.
Because Kallen acted strictly in accordance with Purficott's instructions, the riots spread across a wide range, and many cities were affected.
But overall, this time Kallen and their actions still lacked sufficient rigor and organization.
In the cities that she can influence, everything is operating according to the methods taught to her by Purficott, and she will try her best to use the opportunity of this strike and uprising to develop a real armed force. The power comes out.
At the same time, Kallen is also taking this opportunity to purify the team and remove those who are not determined and speculators from the team.
As for the struggle with the colonial authorities, Kallen also followed the strategy that Purficott formulated for her as much as possible, avoiding frontal combat as much as possible, and instead used methods such as sneak attacks behind enemy lines and destroying supplies. Defeat the enemy while preserving your own vitality.
Because of this, the regional teams that Kallen can actually control have grown rapidly.
Coupled with the fact that Kallen was honest with her brother before the incident, revealed her identity and successfully invited him to join and assist her, Kallen's team quickly got rid of the state of stragglers.
Although it still mainly operates like a guerrilla group, the team itself has gradually been tempered and has become like a serious army.
Although Kallen's brother was angry and helpless that his sister had done such an amazing undertaking without saying a word, he couldn't bear her pleas and joined the Workers' Federation and helped Kallen train these workers.
As one of the few serious military talents within the Workers' Federation, the pamphlet that Perfectcott gave to Kallen naturally went into the hands of Kallen's brother.
The content of this booklet is not much. It mainly talks about how to cultivate the discipline of a team and how to fight an asymmetric war when the enemy is strong and we are weak.
Although what Purficott mentioned in the pamphlet is not much, for Brother Kallen, who is still aware of the tactic of queuing to kill, this is indeed a military that is shocking to the heavens. Thought.
As a serious officer, he knew that the imperial army had now been equipped with new weapons.
Compared with the original flintlocks and matchlocks, the new rifles that now use fixed bullets and copper-cased bullets are much faster in terms of firing rate and loading than in the past, not to mention the rapid improvement in accuracy and range after using rifling.
Queue to shoot is no longer suitable for the army now equipped with new weapons.
But the military has not yet formed a new tactical idea. After all, the new rifle has only appeared in too short a time, and it has been iterated twice.
You know, before Purficott came up with the new rifle, the main weapons of the empire were muzzle-loading flintlocks and matchlocks. When using them, you need to pour gunpowder from the muzzle and then stuff it. Insert the projectile and activate the gunpowder with a match rope or flint.
Although the development of imperial industry has allowed the army to generally replace flintlock muskets, the front-loading mode still determines that the firing efficiency of this type of musket is very low.
Even for a skilled veteran in the army, being able to fire three shots in one minute is already very fast. However, the paper-cased fixed-loading ammunition and needle-fired breech-loading gun that Purficott took out suddenly increased the rifle's rate of fire several times.
Paper-cased fixed-loading ammunition has a fixed charge. The entire bullet has been completely wrapped. When using it, you only need to pull the bolt, put in the bullet, and then close the bolt. , pull the trigger, use the firing pin to pierce the percussion powder inside the paper case, ignite the propellant, and the bullet will be ejected.
Compared with the original loading method of pouring gunpowder into the barrel and then tamping it down before inserting the bullet, this is undoubtedly much faster.
So, in the hands of skilled veterans, the rate of fire of the new needle-fired breech-loading gun can even reach more than a dozen rounds per minute, which is a rate of fire increased by three to five times!
And the most important thing is that the breech-loading gun only needs to pull the bolt to insert the bullet into the chamber. There is no need to stand the barrel up like the front-loading gun! This makes it possible to shoot from a prone or crouching position!
You must know that when loading the muzzleloader, in order to avoid the spillage of gunpowder and various other reasons, there is no way to load the ammunition lying down, and it is impossible to load the muzzleloader gun lying flat.
It is precisely because of this that there is a tactic of lining up and shooting on the battlefield that will look silly to later generations.
However, it was actually because of the weapons that the military commanders of that era could only adopt this silly tactic, ordering the soldiers to stand in a row and brave enemy fire to advance to a close enough distance. In order to shoot a neat enough volley.
But the breech-loaded needle gun does not have these problems! Moreover, rifled needle guns and tapered bullets also have more stable trajectories and more accurate hits, which are enough for soldiers to lie on the ground and shoot very accurately.
This naturally laid the foundation for guerrilla warfare and ambush warfare, allowing Kallen's team to launch attacks in various unexpected places.
Instead of being like in the past, you can only line up and shoot after both sides stand in the open field.
As for you asking where those breech-loading needle-fired rifles in Kallen's team came from?
Perfect invented this thing. She even has a repeating machine gun that can fire copper-cased bullets. Is it difficult for Karen to obtain the design drawings of the breech-loaded needle gun from her?
In addition, Pignisberg, where Kallen is located, has a military factory that can produce firearms and other weapons. It is relatively simple for gun workers to accumulate a batch of breech-loaded needle-fired guns.
They may only be able to accumulate one by one at first, but when they have a certain amount of arms and seize control of the city through worker riots, they can quickly expand production and obtain more weapons.
In the past, there were no orders, and the production technology and craftsmanship were backward, so the military factory in Pignisberg had little business.
But now, they are working for their own future. The workers in the military factory have burst out with great enthusiasm for work, and they voluntarily work overtime until late at night almost every day!
The purpose is to produce one more rifle so that more comrades can be armed to fight against the armies of capitalists and nobles.
Under such circumstances, Karen's team has swelled and become a serious headache for the colonial authorities in the New World.
Because of this, when the two teams of steam knights sent by Purficott arrived in the New World colony, the governor immediately sent an infantry division to cooperate with them in launching an offensive towards Fort Pigniss where Kallen was located.
(End of this chapter)