industrial lord

Chapter 206 The Bastion Full of Explosives
The shipbuilding industry in Hanma City is quite developed. There are many shipyards along the Elbe River. There is no shortage of hydraulic sawing machines, excellent carpenters and raw materials.

A lot of gold coins were thrown down, and the shipbuilding stopped for a while, and planks, carpenters and nails came to the construction site in the east of the city in a steady stream.

Those who came here earlier were the farmers who had just harvested the oats from the surrounding villages. They brought tools and dug ditches along the lime lines on the ground.

If you look down from the air, you can find that the trench dug on the ground is in the shape of "☆".

In Frederick's hometown, the use of the first-generation artillery led to the appearance of the bastion, and here, the reason why he opened the bastion was to promote the power of the revolver rifles equipped by the armies of the Dukes of Mainz and Bavaria.

The carpenters quickly nailed the formwork under Frederick's instructions, and the stone merchants also transported the stones.

The militiamen in Wessen's army who were in charge of building the fort brought steam engines, mixers and cement from Wessen. These were originally intended to be used as an advertisement for Baron Wessen's pier next year, and now it's just right.

The bastion he designed has a "☆" shape. The pentagonal area formed by the five obtuse angles of the bastion is 120 meters long, and the usable area is about 2.5 square meters.

The total length of the external wall is 1942 meters. The design refers to the upright road shoulder retaining wall. The height of the above-ground part is about 4.4 meters, the height of the underground part is 1.1 meters, the width of the top is about 1.4 meters, the width of the bottom is about 2.5 meters, and the top is 1.5 meters high and 0.5 meters thick. In the parapet, there is no crenel, but a shooting port is set every 0.5 meters so that people can shoot in a kneeling position. Each corner has a shooting port for triple-mounted pea guns. The project volume is about 2.2 cubic meters.

A trench parallel to the wall was excavated more than ten meters outside the wall, 3 meters deep and 4 meters wide. The excavated soil was piled up on this side of the wall to form a 2-meter-high right-angled slope. The distance of one meter is enough for the firepower behind to call names calmly.

It's just that there is not enough cement, and Frederick couldn't build a pure concrete bastion, so he used rubble concrete walls.

The time is tight and the task is heavy. The father of Party A is willing to spend money, and the farmers around are willing to take part-time jobs during the slack. In addition, three meals a day and supper are enough. The original three shifts have become two shifts. The city wall grows upwards at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Frederick and a few older brothers who had worked in the industrial park were the busiest. On the one hand, they had to watch the mixer, and on the other hand, they had to watch the work of the farmers who could make people feel high blood pressure.

Placing stones is a technical task. Attention should be paid to the overlap between stones and the tie stones between different layers.

The magicians who were in charge of vibrating were also exhausted. A few local magicians who knew the earthquake technique chatted with them when they came to see the excitement. After learning that the wages here were high and the work was not dangerous, they immediately switched jobs.

Some spies and onlookers observed the construction site from a distance for a while, and left with disdain after seeing that the so-called fortress was just stuffing stones into the planks.

The formwork was dismantled at night, and these boards are still useful. A wooden platform needs to be built inside the wall, otherwise there is no way for people to stand on the top of the wall less than 1 meter wide.

Then Frederick asked people to hang the prepared large pieces of cloth sealed with old sacks and broken sails on the wall, arranged for people to water them from time to time, and began to maintain the wall.

The spies took a look and saw that there were rags hanging on the wall and water was being poured on it. They thought that the wall was a stone between two wooden planks, and at most they should be rammed with soil. Sprinkling water on the cloth must be to prevent the wooden planks from being ignited.

Outside the bastion, the Grand Dukes of Bain and Mainz arranged for farmers to dig ditches, and barbed wire was stretched between the ditches.

They also have another worry, what if the enemy uses a giant trebuchet.

"Don't worry!" Bruce said to the two archdukes. "A large trebuchet needs to be 200 meters away from the city wall to throw heavy bullets, and rifles can hit it. If you can throw light bullets 500 meters away, we still have this!"

After the craftsmen in the bastion left, Frederick let in reinforcements and supplies from the territory.

This time, the Springfield Armory formed a team, led by the factory director Bruce himself, and brought some experimental weapons, and Frederick arranged them in the bastion.

What they mainly brought was a weapon that gave Frederick a bit of a toothache. The launcher of this thing was actually a mortar, using a 100mm jet tank originally prepared for a jet gun, with a caliber of 50mm. When necessary, the grenade of the cherry cannon can be fired, but the arsenal provides it with several super-caliber shells.

These shells have a large head with fins around the head to stabilize the flight, and a steel tailpipe inserted into the barrel at the end.

Bruce held a long-tailed cannonball with a small head and said: "This can hit a place of 1000 meters, even if the magic crystal cannon comes."

Nowadays, the magic crystal cannon has a range of 700 to 800 meters, and it is big and heavy. It is generally only used for city defense, and its range is not as good as new weapons.

At this time, Grand Duke Byrne pinched his chin and said to the Grand Duke of Mainz: "Should we get a magic crystal cannon from Hanma City, and point it at the gate. If the gate is breached, we will shoot it."

It was the first time that the Grand Duke of Mainz heard that the magic crystal cannon would be equipped with a bayonet. After thinking for a while, he said, "I think it's ok, so let's get a small one, otherwise it would be bad to expand the door."

Bruce convinced them, and pointed to some other boxes and said: "Here are some grenades, the master said they were made too heavy, and the throwing distance is not much larger than the killing range. They are suitable for defense, so let me bring them. .”

Now the lack of firepower syndrome has a tendency to spread in the Springfield Arsenal. For example, this experimental grenade is so heavy that even soldiers who have begun to embark on the path of extraordinary power can only throw it more than 30 meters, and then its killing radius is 30 meters. .

After opening the box, the Grand Duke of Mainz picked up one and weighed it. He smiled and said to the Grand Duke Byrne, "Shall we have a competition then?"

Grand Duke Byrne picked up the manual and began to study it, and said with a cold snort, "I'm afraid you'll throw it out without pulling the string, and waste good things for nothing."

He turned to Bruce and asked, "What else did you bring?"

"Land mines." Bruce walked aside and opened a box and said, "There are mines for cleaning infantry phalanxes, there are mines for preventing sneak attacks at night, and there are special mines for blasting cavalry."

"Specialize in blasting cavalry?" The two archdukes were a little surprised, are the weapons in Wessen State so smart?
Bruce saw what they were thinking, and explained with a smile: "Actually, its fuze is relatively tight. Ordinary people will not explode if they step on it too lightly. Even people and horses will not explode if they step on it with enough weight. Heavy infantry is also fine. "

"By the way, if any fool jumps on it, it will explode too."

Grand Duke Bai En nodded and said, "That's not bad, who came up with this ghost idea?"

Bruce scratched his head a little embarrassedly.

At this time, he suddenly thought of something, and said hastily: "These weapons need to be kept scattered. It is best to dig holes and put them in them. If they are burned, we will all be ruined!"

This reminder made the two grand dukes break out in a cold sweat. They had observed the training of the Wessen Army. The grenade of a small cherry cannon is so powerful. Then look at the piles of boxes around them...

The two immediately asked someone to dig a hole in the ground and put all these things in.

At this time, a soldier from the Wesson Army came to report that the wireless communication equipment had been installed and adjusted.

(End of this chapter)