As early as the beginning of the construction of the cement section, Roland made plans for the experimental housing of several subsequent projects, most of which were built around the North Slope mining area, and could be effectively concentrated to guard - the construction of this kind of bungalow with a stone brick wall and a very fast construction speed, and did not affect the construction progress of the city wall.

The nitrates purchased from Liuye Town are transported to the nearby warehouse for storage, and when they are needed, they are weighed by the domestic workers and sent to the bungalow in batches.The same is true of charcoal and sulfur, where the handling and mixing of the three raw materials are done by people in different groups, which minimizes the risk of leaks.

Roland called twenty pounds from the prepared black gunpowder and slowly fell on a made sheepskin.

These gunpowder have been soaked, compacted, dried, croked, screened and so on, and have been uniformly sized granular, with excellent combustion performance.In order to prevent electrostatic accidents, no metalware is used in the entire production process, and most of them are ceramic or log products.

After pouring the gunpowder, Roland folded the sheepskin layer, wrapped it to three layers, and tied it with a rope.

“Is that all?”Carter asked.Can this thing be called a weapon?Although it is an improvement of snow powder, who can be choked by the sound alone?Dealing with farmers who have never been to the battlefield may work, and no trained warriors or mercenaries will take it seriously.However, the chief knight carefully considered that what His Highness had done recently seemed to be unreasonable and mostly had an amazing effect.If the intelligence of the evil beast is similar to that of the beast, perhaps this thing will be unexpectedly effective?For example, a violent sound makes them frightened and scattered, so as to reduce the pressure of the city guard.

Roland put the wrapped gunpowder into Carter's arms, and took the bag of fine powder for the fire, "Almost, we go outside the city wall, the iron axe should be ready."

About two miles west of the city wall, a vacant lot between the hidden forest and the desperate mountains is the test explosion area he has drawn.

Iron axes and several other hunters have been waiting here for a long time, except for the iron axe himself, everyone is a local, but also the best batch of arrows.Hearing that His Royal Highness had a task entrusted to them, he immediately rushed to follow the iron axe.

Now everyone knows that the new lords of the border town are never stingy about the employment of the honorarium.

As Roland ordered, they stood up long wooden poles around them, tied ropes, and circled the cordiers for nearly half.Knight patrols were arranged in the direction of the city wall to prevent accidental approaching.

Roland checked it around the cordon and nodded, “Did the prey all bring it?”

"Your Highness, all here," the iron axe dragged a cage forward, and Carter noticed that there were several pheasants and rabbits in it.

“Very well, put them at a distance of five, ten, fifteen, thirty, five, thirty, each pile tied to one.”

Carter shook his head and proposed, "Your Highness, these animals you choose may not be able to test the effect, they are very timid, and they are scattered and fled with a little noise."Even if you can scare them, you don't necessarily scare the beast."

“Scaring the beast?”Roland smiled and then reacted, "I didn't intend to scare them away, even though the sound of this thing exploding was really amazing."

He took the chief knight to the middle of the circle, put down the gunpowder bag, and drew a small mouth with a dagger, so that the gunpowder leaked out.Then pull out the leather bag containing gunpowder powder, sprinkled from the crack, and sprinkle it backwards.

Today is a windless weather, perfect for this original way of detonating.

He kept out nearly a hundred meters before Roland put away his leather bag.

"Well, just ignite the fire," he repeated, estimating the distance, and after confirming it, he said to Carter, "to call the hunters."

Roland is also a little excited at this moment, has done a small amount of flash fire test, he is not worried about the results of the test.What he cares about is that this will be a great moment, and from today, the thermoweapons will officially take the stage, and he will be written into the milestones of history as the leader.

After everyone was concentrated, Roland lit the powder.

Carter lay on the ground, looking at the fast-moving Mars, his heart was a little disapproving.

At such a distance, and not placed in the bronze bucket, whether the sound of snow powder could be heard here was still a problem, and His Royal Highness let everyone lie on the ground.But since the four princes had taken the lead in doing so, he could not say anything more.

The ground is cold in winter, and the cold can also be felt through the chain.When Carter moved his body and was about to turn his chest, a loud bang suddenly sounded—

As the distance was so close that the sound of explosions and shock waves reached almost at the same time, he felt his ears buzzing and the world suddenly quieted.The tremor of the earth was fleeting, and he raised his head, only to see a black cloud rising slowly, and then the rubble and mud fell like rain.

Roland was much less hit than the chief knight, and he was immediately prepared to protect himself after the firecrackers would have blocked his ears.The explosion point is not like the movie, will free up the huge fireball.The fire flashed away, and a large number of mud was raised by the air and rushed to about ten meters in the air.When the dust settled, Roland's only feeling was that the sound was more loud than firecrackers.

As for the iron axe and several other hunters, they were already stunned.Only the iron axe knew that the trip was to test a new weapon, but it was not expected that the sound of the weapon would be so amazing.

I am afraid that only the thunder of heaven's punishment can be compared with it!

Roland stood up and took the crowd back to the explosion point, the ground is a half-meter deep pit, the nearest rabbit from the explosive heart has long been missing, only a short piece of wooden pile on the ground.

He examined the other animals one by one, and the pheasants placed ten and fifteen paces lay motionless on the ground, apparently dead, and though not seeing the obvious trauma, Roland knew they had died from the shock wave at the time of the explosion.

The only survivor was a gray rabbit thirty paces away, with blood oozing from its thin ear wall, and no longer struggling to see someone close, as if the loud noise had taken away its soul.

Carter spit, his huming ears gradually returning to normal, and he understood what his Highness meant by what he meant by "not intending to scare them away."Is this really snow powder improved?The alchemist alone is afraid of being far above the astrologer.

The iron axe looked at Roland completely changed, "Your Highness, if the militia can have such weapons, the border town will no longer be afraid of the threat of evil beasts."I don’t know if it can be made in large quantities.”

Roland said, "Probably not, until the month of the devil comes, it is estimated that only 20 or 30 can be made."The main key is nitrite, this era of nitrine means is still very primitive, relying on the lime mixture poured into the feminine urinal of human and animal manure to collect the precipitation of potassium nitrate crystal.In addition to the demand of alchemy and the upper aristocracy, there are almost no other uses, so there are not many such refineries, and if they are used to make explosives, they will soon be exhausted.

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