Pioneering

Chapter 195 Soldiers approaching the city and the birth of breech-loading guns

In Skeller City, in the elegant and majestic Flanner palace complex, the rather chubby Grand Duke Ansos kicked over his favorite seat on weekdays, and roared frantically:

"Trash, it's all trash! Idiot aristocrats! Stupid Fengshen Church! I￥@#...!"

Jewelry, gold and silver utensils, furniture, works of art... After smashing many valuable ornaments impotently and furiously, Ansos sat powerlessly on the ground, and could faintly hear the terrifying sound of shelling and casting spells in his ears. The sound of chanting mantras, the sound of sword fighting...

A month ago, Salt cast a spell to pretend to be Edgar, put on Edgar's equipment and weapons, deceived the gate of Talodan City in one fell swoop, and killed the unsuspecting Archbishop Moran at close range.

The warriors dressed as the church army guarded the city gate, and the Asshai warrior army took the opportunity to cover up and destroy the city. The defenders who lost the city defense and command were like fish on a sticky board, ready to be slaughtered.

Under the slogan of "surrender, don't kill", the number of Yaxia's allies has increased by more than 20...

Divorce schemes, borrowing swords to kill people, countering empty city schemes, diverting the tiger away from the mountain... It can only be said that John learned the art of war very quickly and well.

At this point, the defense line of Otto Province was broken, and Salt led an army of more than 9 warriors and 25 allies, and went straight into the city of Skele, which was under the king's territory.

Along the way, Sart followed Zhong Ming's "smart plan" to beat nobles and distribute food.

Except for a small number of extraordinary knights under the command of the nobles who have no worries about food, drink, and a happy life, which standing army can have no family members to support?

The standing army is just enough to feed one person, and after the "war tax" is added, their families will not have a good time.

Therefore, it can be said that wherever Salt is hit, there is an "internal response", and there are crowds "welcoming the king's teacher".

The attitude of the nobles in Andreoya is also very subtle. Before the Otto Province fell, they still tried their best to prepare food, grass and soldiers, and rushed to the front line to fill in the pits, and they did not hesitate to pay the king.

After all, saving the principality is saving oneself.

But since Salt began to dominate the king's territory, the attitude of the nobles has become a little subtle.

Not only has the support plummeted, but the lights in Sartre's marching camp have often been brightly lit recently, and there are many inexplicable gifts and greetings that need to be counted all night.

And the resistance of the administrative officials in the king's territory is far less tenacious than the nobles who guard their fiefs.

At first, these bureaucrats would pretend to resist, but when they saw that there were too many people running away, they didn't even pretend to be. Before the Asshai army arrived, these officers had already packed their belts and ran away...

The most embarrassing thing is the small group of nobles left over from the original Devonshire.

Originally, Yaxia and Andre Oya were at war, and these little nobles who were forced to move by Zhong Ming were extremely excited. They cried out that they brought their own dry food to help the principality "conquer the lost ground". They rushed to the front and fought hardest.

They cooperated with the reinforcements dispatched by the principality, and the standing army left by Zhong Ming was defeated steadily.

But as the situation became more and more unfavorable, and the reinforcements were withdrawn to support the defense line of Talodan City, they became more and more uneasy... This situation is not right, the principality is about to end!
Do you still want to fight?For a while, these rebellious guys who dived are embarrassed here...

Salt had no doubts that as long as the status and territorial power of these unscrupulous nobles were promised to remain unchanged, most of the nobles would jump back on the spot and backstab their old clubs.

It's just that I'm just a wage earner, so I wouldn't be able to promise anything without Zhong Ming asking.

Moreover, according to Sartre's observation, his master has a very strong desire for power in his heart, and in his heart he really hates the nobles' enfeoffment of his territory.

Skeller City is worthy of being the capital of a country. After thousands of years of erosion, its defense is still astonishing.

A tough protective circle with no dead ends, a city wall so tall that a transcendent with a physical body of the first level can't touch his head when he jumps, and battlements full of demon-destroying bows and crossbows...

The city is even more abundant in food and grass, and the 40 defenders are well-equipped, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Salter stood on a small hill, admiring from afar his deputy John commanding the allied forces to attack the city.

Since discovering John, a military prodigy, Salt only felt that he had freed his hands and could go to the battlefield to find fish and souls.

After successive battles, Salt relied on the resentful souls on the battlefield, his strength increased greatly, and he had already reached the level of the middle stage of the third rank, which made him fall in love with war.

After all, no matter how much the devil deceives people's souls, it won't come as fast as the battlefield.

On the city wall, soldiers brandished knives and guns, defending the fortress with their lives.

Under the city, the alliance army charged desperately, behind them was the [-] warrior supervisor team who had just replaced their breech-loading guns.

After these days of consumption, the magic cannon and magic circle are on the verge of being scrapped, and both sides have chosen to stop using them tacitly.

It has to be said that Ford is indeed a rare industrial genius. Relying on Zhong Ming's vague drawings, he forcibly created a breech-loading gun.However, Ford was not greedy for credit, and the title of inventor still fell to Zhong Ming.

This rifle is named Yasha Type 01. The barrel is made of steel, with a total length of 140 cm, a caliber of 0.9 inches (2.3 cm), and a weight of about 8.6 kg. It is engraved with mysterious patterns.

The buttstock is made of high-quality purple birch cloud wood (produced in the Jueling Mountains), and the top of the buttstock is equipped with a front sight (inferior glass) for easy aiming.

The inside of the gun is designed with a smoothbore, that is, there is no rifling in the barrel (the industrial level is not enough), and the bullet with a round head is used, and the effective range is only 90-100 meters.

A breech block is set inside the barrel, and a breech bolt is used to connect the powder cartridge to the barrel.

There is an open muzzle at the front of the barrel that supports an unloaded magazine.

There is a shell extraction mechanism on the breech block, and the shell in the gun chamber is taken out by a switch.

In addition, it is equipped with an iron thorn, which can be used in close combat.

The typical silly, big, black and rough design, and these [-] pieces were handcrafted by artisans. The time was too tight and too short, and the assembly line didn't start at all.

What's more, you can't let the apprentices of the Wizarding Academy go to the assembly line to burn rune circles on the barrels and enchant the bullets, right?
Being able to recruit apprentices to work for the principality by virtue of the mission of the college, and flexible employment is already Zhong Minghui's repayment for his kindness to them.

Counting on the wizard to go to the factory...?
Even if the power of this Type 01 design is only at the level of Blue Star's breech-loading guns in the mid-19th century, it is a killer weapon that directly surpasses the era of breech-loading guns.

Coupled with the blessing of rune enchantment, it is not a problem to hit the vital point and send away a knight with a first-level physical body on the spot, provided that the hit can be hit...

Perhaps in the annals of the Zoya world, there will be more Type 01 appearances than this war, because this is an unprecedented weapon that can make ordinary people threaten extraordinary people.

These [-] experimental firearms can only be handed over to the most elite troops to supervise and urge the most second-five troops like the Association Army.

(End of this chapter)