The western part of the town, the Red Water River.

The snow made the carriage difficult, and it took a group of half days to drag the first field gun to the outside of the town.

“What is this time?”Carter was a little accustomed to the new stuff that the prince kept coming up with, “an enlarged musket?”

“Almost.”Roland commanded his men to take off the hook, personally adjust the angle of the gun rack, so that the gun body was flattened, and the pole was reached into the snow.

The principle of artillery and musket is exactly the same, so it is very appropriate to say that it is an enlarged version of the musket.The gun fired twelve pounds of solid iron balls, and the shells and gunpowder were loaded in front, leading to ignition.Roland, referring to the mature designs of history, instructed the carpenter to build a wooden gun rack for him.In order to improve durability, iron edges are carried out with more ground friction and large force when launching.

In order to make the gun rack and wheels, Roland almost spent the same amount of time as the drilled cannon, three carpenters busy for a week before the completion of the success, especially the diameter of more than half a person high wheel, the carpenter first cut out four sections and other length of the square strip, after infiltration with fire baking to bend, the end cut out of the groove, the outer edge of the ring coated iron skin tapping.This process took four days.

Therefore, in Roland's eyes, this statue is completely hand-made, and the limited edition of the twelve pounds of field guns all emits a dazzling light.When the test was dragged out, the entourage was very large - the chief knight Carter and the militia command the iron axe, the guard and the knight apprentices all came into battle, and the militia team also deployed 20 people to empty the venue and guard.In addition, he brought the nighting and lightning with him for the first time.Tonawa's blessing, the militia's prejuvenation of the witch group was minimized, and Nanawa himself became the second-most famous person in the team.

"Do it according to the process, first clean up the gun."Although Roland was very clear about the structure of the gun, the specific operation was blank.He racked his brain to recall the gunnery shots in various medieval films, trying to sort out a set of processes, and as for the actual effect, it is God knows.

With interest, the lightning pulled a mop-like cleaning rod from under the frame and stabbed it into the mug—unlike the other witches' contracts, the Lightning offered to serve Roland for as long as she could handle the novel inventions herself, and not pay.In the face of this saving condition, Roland naturally promised to come down, anyway, it is better to secretly study when it is the turn to keep the secret project.He had many ideas and inventions waiting to be realized, and just a few pieces were enough for her toss for a while.

After a few strokes, the mop did not bring out any debris, but according to the process, she had to carry out a second cleaning.Put on another mop, pump a few more, the gun to clean up is done.

“Do you understand everything?”Roland asked the knights and militiamen watching.This test is also a drill, and now that musket production has increased significantly, the militia is bound to evolve to the official infantry, and the wooden gun will be replaced by muskets and artillery.This requires a lot of shooting training to be proficient in the operation of these two thermal weapons on the battlefield.

Seeing everyone nod, he let the lightning take the next step.

The little girl took out a bag of paper-wrapped gunpowder, tucked it into the gun, and stabbed it straight to the end with a wooden pole.Then put the cannonballs on and stab them again.Remove the drill pipe from the rear end of the barrel into the lead eye, stab the drug pack, and then insert the lead, so that the launch preparation is completed.

In order to prevent accidents, everyone quit thirty steps away and hide behind the bunker.The lightning pushed the torch close to the lead, and saw the end spark shining, and in the blink of an eye it had been drilled into the barrel.

Then there was a loud noise –

The high-speed airflow of the muzzle brought up the snow, and a layer of snow fog was raised on the ground.The theoretical effective range of the twelve-pounder can reach more than kilometer, and even if there is no rifle, the trajectory of the front shell is still like a straight line.The armour target, placed about a hundred meters away, was hit by the front of the twelve-pound iron ball, and the whole flew up.The iron ball does not subside, and it bounces continuously after falling on the snow, stirring up a column of snowflakes.

When the smoke was gone, Carter and the iron axe ran to the target for the first time.The front of the armor was completely debunked, the front deck was affixed to the rear deck, and a large hole in the slapping was located in the center of the armor, and it was obvious that the shell flew forward about 100 meters after it broke through the target.Even when it falls to the ground and rolls, it has amazing power.

“What a terrible penetration!”Carter lamented that he had been able to imagine the horrors of being carried through the ranks when the enemy gathered together and were run through the ranks.

"The Three Gods are above," the iron axe began to believe a little, Roland is the messenger of the Mother of the Earth, except God, who can exert the power of the flame in such a situation?Those gunpowder particles, which he had repeatedly studied, were an ordinary flammable substance as long as the powder was spread out and ignited.The flame was the surging anger of the mother of the earth, and her most powerful weapon - the thought of the orange fire that erupts from the earth cave in the far south, and the never-ending orange fire, has the impulse to worship the prince.

Roland is not surprised by such an outcome, the twelve-pound field gun can be described as a classic generation, especially the Napoleonic guns that shine in the American Civil War, which fully proves that the caliber is the truth of beauty.

He then tested the strength of the gun with different loadings, although he knew that it might cause damage to the gun, it was a necessary test.

Always added to the three-package medicine, the gun has been fired when the muzzle has been raised, the gun frame has been shifted, and the barrel has not been significantly deformed.It seems that the steel cast barrel is very good in strength, Roland finally determined the standard charge in 1.2 times the test charge, the rest is to choose the gunner, repeated practice.

“Your Highness, this weapon is powerful, but it is too heavy.As long as you encounter a mud pit, you can make it move.”Carter immediately saw the shortcomings of the new weapon, "and every round of fire needs to clean the barrel and load the bullet."In addition, gunpowder and artillery are much heavier than muskets, and I am afraid that just one gun will require five to six men to operate.”

"Indeed, but it was all worth it, as long as it was equipped with two or three cannons, duke... No, I mean the evil beast, the giant tortoise, could not break through the walls any more."Roland coughed twice, darkly at risk.As for the defects of the twelve-pounder gun being too heavy, he intended to settle it by shipping.The steam engine wanted to be transformed into a steamship, and even the most primitive Minghu ship was a complex and huge mechanical system.

Instead of remodeling it yourself, it is better to buy a two-masted sailing boat directly, relying on Wendy's wind control ability to quickly transport the militia and artillery behind the duke's troops, and form a clamping with the front team, so as to surround the living power of the fortress duke.