Bang...bang...bang!
Mister led, in the City of Fire Oil, bursts of thunderous explosions echoed on the training ground.
More than a dozen imperial soldiers lined up in a long queue, pulling the trigger unfamiliarly. Lead pellets flew out from the flaming muzzle and hit the target fifty meters away. The strong armor was A big hole penetrated in an instant, and the wooden pillar behind was also smashed to pieces.
"Not bad power. No wonder the Imperial Crusade led by Edwell suffered a disastrous defeat at the hands of these people." Joshua looked at the muskets in the hands of these soldiers and said in a low tone.
"Have you shown it to the craftsmen? Is there any way to imitate it?" Lucia said with interest.
"It is not a problem to imitate other parts of this kind of weapon, but this kind of steel pipe is very special." Joshua took a musket, and with a shake of his wrist, he used magic to dismember it, leaving only That gun barrel.
Lucia reached out and took it, looked at it carefully for a while, and found nothing wrong. It was just an ordinary steel product, and there was no trace of magic or magic.
"It has no cracks and no traces of connection!" Joshua reminded softly.
Lucia paused for a moment before she came to her senses.
If ordinary craftsmen want to turn iron ore into hard steel, they must use high temperatures to melt it and then temper it repeatedly.
The steel pipe in front of me is one meter long, but its diameter is only a few tens of millimeters. It looks seamless, and there is even a thread-like structure inside. This is indeed very magical.
"Could it be that magic was used?" Cardinal Sirid reminded him.
"Unlikely!" Lucia shook her head.
Only the Grand Wizard has the ability to control metal elements. Although there is no problem in making such a steel pipe, as far as she knows, there are only thirty Grand Wizards in the entire council, but the Musketeers have tens of thousands. With just a few How long does it take to make ten great wizards?
Then you don’t have to do anything else every day, just rub the steel pipe there. Think about it and you know it’s impossible. It’s really overkill and underutilized...
Lucia thought for a while and felt that there were two possible solutions.
For example, find an extremely hard substance, place it in the middle of molten iron, and then forge it, or prepare a mold and pour the molten iron into it.
After Lucia finished speaking, Joshua told her tactfully that the craftsmen had already tried similar methods!
As a result, the manufactured steel pipe was simply not qualified. When reinstalled on the musket, the accuracy would become very poor, and one of the muskets even exploded.
Lucia was quite surprised. It seemed that the wizards had really made something interesting. "What about the captured personnel? Don't they know anything about it either?"
In addition to the seizure of a large number of muskets, hundreds of musketeers were captured in this battle. The methods of using muskets were also searched out from the minds of these people.
"They used to be poor people who worked in the fields and fished. They only knew how to use it and didn't know how to make this kind of weapon."
Having said this, Joshua paused, and then said again. "These people have had their hearts corrupted by evil spirits. Unless we use coercive means, we can't get any information from them..."
"Are there no exceptions?" Lucia raised her eyebrows. Logically speaking, there would be a few weaklings among these hundreds of people.
"No exceptions!" Joshua said solemnly.
He searched the memories of these people and roughly found the reason.
These musketeers used to be a group of poor people who were starving and freezing. They basically had families. Joining the musketeers can only be described as a one-stop success!
The price offered by the council is very high. As long as you become a musketeer, you can get fifteen to twenty silver coins every month and live a life of eating meat.
If he died on the battlefield, he would receive a generous pension, and his family would also be properly accommodated and assigned to work in the workshop.
This treatment is higher than that of the most elite guards in the empire, and is almost catching up with the God's Punishment Army. Therefore, most of the Musketeers are in a state of fanaticism similar to belief, and their hearts are corrupted by money.
It can only be said that those wizards also spent a lot of money in order to cope with the empire's crusade.
While the two were discussing, the imperial soldiers who were demonstrating the muskets loaded the projectiles with difficulty, and fired another volley, directly smashing the target in front of them.
"It takes more than a minute to load the projectiles. In my opinion, the weapons of these wizards are nothing more than that... they are not as useful as an archer on the battlefield." Sirid saw the two adults expressing their opinions on this evil creation called a musket. He was so considerate that he couldn't help but speak out.
As a conservative bishop, Sirid has always been extremely wary of these witchcraft weapons. According to the church's charter, destroying them once discovered is the most important thing to do.
Moreover, it takes more than one minute to fire out a projectile. This shortcoming is fatal. As long as one blow misses, there will be no resistance at all.
Sirid is confident that even if he encounters a whole team of musketeers, he has a hundred ways to kill the opponent, or even control them.
Joshua is naturally aware of the shortcomings of this thing, but this still cannot conceal the advantages of the musket. "Do you know how long it takes to train a qualified Imperial archer?"
"About... half a year?" Sirid said hesitantly.
"It's three to five years!" Joshua corrected. "The requirements for personnel are also very demanding, and they need to be selected from strong soldiers."
"And it only took them two or three hours to learn to operate muskets!" Joshua pointed to the imperial soldiers who were testing weapons.
The most important thing is that the musket's armor-breaking ability is very strong, which is unmatched by the crossbow.
In previous battles, a knight wearing fine armor could rush and kill at will on the battlefield, but some stray arrows could not break through the protection at all.
Now the form is different, I'm afraid one shot of a musket can kill it!
This improvement is undoubtedly terrifying!
In other words, those wizards only need to grab a random poor man on the street and train him for a few hours, and the other party may kill a knight who has practiced his skills for decades on the battlefield!
"According to reports from several God's Punishment Army knights, the wizards have loaded a special musket on a running iron box, which can fire dozens of projectiles in one second. Even a bishop will be killed on the spot. Tear it into pieces." Joshua said solemnly.
Obviously wizards have found a way to overcome the shortcomings of muskets, but they have not deployed them on a large scale.
(PS: The second chapter is still around two or three o'clock. There is a lot of work this week, so it is a little unstable. Please forgive me.)
