The battle in Tshwane started quickly. The gunshots were not intensive, but they continued to sound!
Meng Xiu and the others came all the way here just to defeat the Dutch and seize the gold mines, so they had no other ideas at all and launched an attack immediately after arriving outside the town.
The musketeers holding twenty-one-type percussion rifles lined up and then fired at the Dutch's simple wooden wall from a distance of about a hundred meters.
At this distance, these thin and simple wooden walls, except for a few reinforced parts or thick support columns, are actually difficult to block the shooting of large-caliber musket bullets by ordinary wood.
The Chu Army's twenty-one/twenty-three-year-old flash cap percussion gun is notoriously powerful. It has a caliber of 18 millimeters. It uses new processes and new formulas to produce granular black powder, which is almost as powerful as It has reached the limit of black powder propellant for firearms.
These all bring huge kinetic energy to the bullets fired by this smoothbore gun.
The kinetic energy of more than 3,800 joules of discharge is enough to defeat all opponents. At a distance of 100 meters, it can still penetrate a two-millimeter-thick low-carbon steel plate... This is still the excellent low-carbon steel produced by Chu State. , if it is replaced by inferior low-carbon steel handmade by indigenous people, then this data can rise even higher.
With the help of such powerful bullets, the wooden walls made of just some small pieces of wood and planks, except for a few reinforced areas, could not even stop bullets in other areas.
As an aside, in front of firearms, even modern firearms, it is actually useless for you to hide behind thin steel plates or ordinary brick walls, let alone wooden boards.
Modern automatic rifles can penetrate brick walls more than ten millimeters thick, but old-fashioned bolt-action rifles, don't think they are less powerful because they are old. In fact, this thing is more powerful because it uses full-power bullets, full-power Bullets can easily penetrate a brick wall of more than 20 centimeters... The bricks are still solid... As for the hollow bricks, we will not discuss them.
Facing the shooting of modern firearms, if you want to avoid it, you'd better hide behind a load-bearing wall or a cement pillar. Ordinary brick walls are of no use.
As for the car door that the protagonist often uses in movies and TV series, it can't stop pistol bullets, let alone a rifle. If you follow the protagonist's example and rely on the car door to fight against the enemy, you will be beaten into pieces!
Facing the shooting from the riflemen of Meng Xiu's gang, the Dutch foolishly wanted to hide behind the wooden walls to fight at first, but they soon discovered that these thin wooden walls did not bring them any protection. Ability, even causing greater casualties due to wood fragments flying around after the bullet hits the wood.
As gunfire continued to sound, the Dutch hiding behind the wooden wall began to suffer casualties continuously, and screams sounded intermittently.
Some smart Dutch people reacted quickly and quickly left the thin wooden wall that looked very thick, but the bullets were barely useless, and turned around to the back of some more solid mounds of earth, stone piles and other bunkers.
After someone took the lead, others soon started to learn, looking for various bunkers and trying to hide.
Meng Xiu, who was outside the city, was holding a monocular and watched the Dutch people in front of him descending from the city one after another. He was a little disappointed and said: "These Dutch people react very quickly. Otherwise, we can take advantage of this opportunity to kill more people." Some of them can even destroy their morale."
"These Dutch are harder to fight than the natives. If it were the natives who don't understand anything, I'm afraid they would all rush out towards us by now. It would be easier than killing a chicken!"
"What a pity. These Dutch people have seen the world and know that bullets cannot be resisted!"
Meng Xiu has led many battles with the indigenous people and has rich experience. He knows that although they are also indigenous barbarians, there are still many white indigenous people in Europe and indigenous peoples in Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia, Africa, America and other places. Big difference.
The indigenous people in other places are basically still ignorant.
However, the indigenous people in Europe are more civilized. They are also civilized enough to make flintlock guns and field artillery.
Even before the rise of the Chu Empire, Europe was where science and technology developed most rapidly.
In the early stages of education in the Chu Empire, some of the science textbooks used were translated European works.
But thirty years later, the Europeans are still treading water, but the Chu Empire, under the leadership of Luo Zhixue, has absorbed the poor scientific knowledge of the Europeans, and combined it with the modern science brought by Luo Zhixue knowledge, and established a relatively complete modern scientific system rich in the characteristics of the Chu Empire.
There has been a huge gap between civilizations in just thirty years, and this gap is still widening.
What are the people in the Chu Empire studying now?
Study electromagnetism, internal combustion engines, and more advanced basic materials.
What are Europeans studying?
Anyway, they couldn't even get a single bullet out of the way, so the firing rate of their flintlock rifles never increased.
Europe in the seventeenth century was actually still in the late Middle Ages, and much scientific knowledge was in its infancy. The development of science even required a struggle with the conservative church.
Galileo was placed under house arrest until his death, and those who supported heliocentrism were continually burned to death by the church.
Newton is still in school and has just come into contact with calculus... Well, there is no need for Newton to learn calculus these days, because the Dachu Empire had already developed calculus through Luo Zhixue more than ten years ago.
The same is true for gravity... Twenty years ago, there was content related to gravity in the imperial examinations of the Great Chu Empire.
Therefore, after Newton was hit by an apple, he suddenly came up with the law of universal gravitation, which is impossible to appear in this world.
Even the general theory of relativity and the special theory of relativity have actually appeared in the textbooks of college students in the Dachu Empire.
In the process of establishing the education system of the Da Chu Empire, Luo Zhixue recorded almost everything he remembered from his previous life, whether it was theoretical knowledge or some common sense of later generations, etc.
These knowledge materials, including texts and sketches, fill three rooms...and these materials are also the most confidential scientific research materials in the Chu Empire, and they are also the most strictly preserved materials. They have been copied. More than ten copies are stored in different scientific institutions.
Currently, only researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology's associate professor level or above can access relevant parts after applying.
But these things, many Luo Zhixue only know the superficial things, so they are imperfect and unsystematic, lacking a lot of things in the middle, and many of them are simple and straightforward descriptive languages... without data, let alone What's the formula?
So just relying on these things, but without systematic study, without enough IQ and talent to organize and study by yourself, you can't actually produce any scientific research results.
Because what Luo Zhixue records are some specific nouns, they can at most give you some inspiration, guidance, and tell you where the goal is, but how to reach the goal is your business...
For example, string theory in theoretical physics, he knew the word, and he also knew that this thing was probably very cool. It was a great theory that was used to explain the basic composition of the world, and was expected to unify the four fundamental forces!
But you have to ask him what exactly string theory is, how to express it mathematically, and what are the formulas? Where's the proof?
He'd be damned if he knew this!
Professor Anbo, the dean of the School of Electromagnetics in the Department of Physics of the Royal Institute of Technology, discovered in his early years that quite a lot of these materials mentioned computers. He went to read a lot of the information about computers, and it turned out that he was confused. …
Many things seemed to him like science fiction products. He really couldn't imagine that there would be such a thing that could perform various calculations like the human brain and have various magical effects.
Even when he saw that the central processing unit in a computer, even though it was only a few square centimeters, could integrate tens of billions of transistors, his imagination began to run out...
He couldn't imagine how tens of billions of transistors could be crammed into an area of only a few square centimeters... Although he still didn't understand what a transistor was...
What confused him even more was how this thing could be made. Even the top workers couldn't make such a thing!
He pondered that on such a small-area board, even the most skilled micro-machining master, using the most advanced micro-machining equipment in Chu State, with the support of a microscope, would be unable to do anything but carving. Just a few hundred things of a specific shape.
Well, it was just carving out simple shapes without considering other things, let alone a transistor... At that time, he didn't know what a transistor was!
And tens of billions...
At that moment, he had the urge to believe in a Buddha and worship a deity...
This unscientific!
After reading some of the top-secret information, Anbo felt as if he had lost his soul, thinking about the computer described in the information, and then thinking about the basic electromagnetic theory he was studying. There was not even a theorem of the electromagnetic unified theory. When he was able to do it, he felt a huge sense of powerlessness!
Today, the empire's electromagnetic development is just in its infancy, and it hasn't even understood the basic theory yet... batteries, generators and even electric motors can be made in the laboratory.
It doesn’t mean that they understand the principles and why they can succeed if they do this!
Now, the main task of a group of professors at the School of Electromagnetics at the Royal Institute of Technology is to understand why... at least the basic theory must be understood. Otherwise, it will be difficult to develop quickly if we don’t know what is happening but don’t know why.
With the current level of primitive electromagnetics in the empire, if we want to reach the level of electronic computers mentioned in the book... how much money will be invested, how much time will be spent, and how many talented scientists will be killed...
And can I wait until that day?
It's probably hopeless.
Whenever he thinks about this, Professor Anbo, who has been dealing with electromagnetics for more than ten years, feels even more uncomfortable.
Just like the ignorant little boy, he just started to appreciate the beauty of the baby girl, but in the end he dreamed of a fatally seductive fairy sister who was as beautiful as a fairy and surpassed all imagination, flying around in front of him... But But you can't touch her, you can't even see her clearly, there's only a hazy feeling...
However, in reality, what he saw was the fat girl next door with yellow teeth, short and fat as a pig, and a runny nose...
The most important thing is that everyone says that you and the fat girl are childhood sweethearts and are a perfect match...
How much damage must be done to this young heart!
Therefore, in order to prevent latecomers from seeing things they shouldn't see and being greatly impacted, this information is kept strictly confidential and cannot be seen below a certain level. The information that associate professors and full professors can see are also different. Ordinary professors The things that industry-leading senior professors can see are also different.
However, despite this or that problem, the scientific and technological level of the Chu Empire has developed by leaps and bounds because of the data recorded by Luo Zhixue on a daily basis.
This has led to the fact that in terms of overall technological level, today's Great Chu Empire has roughly reached the level of the mid-19th century in the original time and space. However, this is not a unified view, but some are better developed and some are less advanced. Worse.
At least if you ask the Chu Empire to build a 10,000-ton armored ship made of pure steel now, it still won't work. But this thing could basically be built around the 1860s in the original time and space.
However, the Dachu Empire has now begun small-scale trials of single-shot bolt-action rifles using all-metal bullets. The technical level of this thing in the original time and space has actually reached the level of the 1870s.
Therefore, the technological development of the Chu Empire was actually unbalanced.
However, even such a great Chu Empire could defeat the indigenous peoples of various countries, even those European countries.
The Portuguese, Dutch, and English were all unable to withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of the Chu army...
The same situation also occurred on the small battlefield in Tshwane. Meng Xiu and his group of armed bandits used the 21-year-style flash cap guns in their hands to suppress the defense of the Dutch immigrants.
After the Dutch killed and injured thirty or forty people one after another, they were forced to evacuate the wooden walls and hide behind various messy bunkers.
It's a pity that their bunkers are not systematic, and they don't even have a complete trench... And this kind of scattered and unsystematic bunkers, coupled with a group of young men without professional training, how can they withstand the perennial calamity? plundering bandits.
When Meng Xiu and the others saw that the Dutch didn't dare to fight back, they immediately began to attack the wooden wall!
They lined up and fired while advancing slowly. The continuous fire suppression made these Dutch people dare not come out to challenge.
As a result, Meng Xiu and the others encountered almost no actual resistance and arrived at the wooden wall. For such a low wooden wall, there was no need to knock it down or knock it open, they could just climb over it.
At this time, a small number of Dutch people finally came out to counterattack, but there was no organization. They spontaneously and sporadically came out of the bunker and fired with matchlock guns. As a result, Meng Xiu and the others directly opened fire and killed them.
And more people, after seeing a group of Chu people rushing up, they ran towards the rear in unison.
This has nothing to do with their determination and belief, it is simply a lack of professional training.
Even if a young man without professional training is equipped with the same weapon, he will not be a match for the regular army.
Although Meng Xiu and the others are not regular troops, they have fought more wars than regular troops, and they have quite a lot of experience in fighting the indigenous people in particular.
After this wave of people rushed in, Meng Xiu's mouth curved slightly as he faced the Dutch people who kept escaping.
This battle was as easy and simple as expected, and there was no strong resistance at all.
It seems that this gold mine has been obtained.
After taking control of the gold mine, we must organize the indigenous mining and gold mining as soon as possible to dig out the gold as soon as possible.
The gold you dig is your own gold!
However, at this moment, a young Dutch woman hiding in the window of the wooden house looked at Meng Xiu and others in front of them with eyes filled with hatred.
At her feet, there was a young Dutch man lying without sound. There was a large pool of blood on the ground. After being shot, he struggled to rush towards the wooden wall in front of him and returned home... and died in front of the woman. !
The woman picked up the bloody matchlock gun, took a deep breath, took aim and fired!
With a crisp gunshot, Meng Xiu, who was walking among the crowd, suddenly fell down...
