Lucia took the ore to meet His Highness the Prince, and the nightingale's words were still ringing in her ears.
I have to say that she was shocked by the other party's calm attitude.
Although I don’t understand the relationship very well, it is impossible for the witch and the prince to be together at all, right?
In this way, shouldn’t you hide your thoughts carefully in your heart and prevent them from knowing?
Moreover, why even as an audience member, she feels blushed and extremely embarrassed?
Standing at the office door, taking a deep breath, Lucia pushed the door open and entered.
Your Highness, I brought the ore.
Let me see, Roland yawned.
The ruler of the border town looked like usual, and his sleepy eyes should have just woken up from his nap. He leaned on the back of the chair, with a natural expression and a easy-going tone, not as sharp as other nobles.
Lucia's inexplicable nervousness also relaxed a lot. She took out the ore particles found in the North Slope mine from her skin and placed them on her desk one by one.
After decomposition of the ability, these particles look similar, with either silver or grayish-white color. Perhaps only His Highness, the knowledgeable and talented prince, can tell what kind of ore it is.
The prince frowned and looked at it for a long time, put it in his palms and weighed it. He then looked at the sunshine behind him, and finally waved his hand, "Hehe, I will leave these ores to Mr. Strier to distinguish. You can continue to go to the backyard of the north slope to practice your abilities. If you don't understand, ask Anna for advice.
... Hey, don’t you even recognize Your Highness?Lucia quickly lowered her head and said, Yes.
Just as she was about to leave the office, Roland stopped her again.
By the way, your test score is good this time, and you ranked ninth in 68 points.It is not easy to be able to perform like this after just one month of learning with you, so you must keep it.And... He paused, and the next time I tested, I hope Ling can participate with everyone.
yes!Lucia responded excitedly.
*******************
After watching the little girl bow happily, Roland sighed at the metal particles on the table.
He was still too naive. He thought that after decomposing it into elemental materials, he might be able to figure out which ore veins are contained in the North Slope mine cave. However, the facts made him understand the huge gap between mechanical engineering and geology. These stones will eventually differentiate into three to four metals. The most retained can be considered as the ore of this type of metal, but they are almost the same in color and shape. For example, iron, aluminum, magnesium, and potassium are all silver-white metals in high purity, and it is too difficult to distinguish them with the naked eye.
Let’s leave this problem to the chief alchemist to solve. After all, it is much more reliable to verify the characteristics of materials through chemical reactions than to guess it yourself.
After dealing with this matter, Roland pulled out a piece of paper and began to plan how to deal with this year's Demon Moon.
As summer is coming to an end soon, the three months in autumn are his last preparation time. In addition to resisting the evil beasts invading the west, he also has to pay attention to the Tiffeko and the church in the east at any time.
It was no different from the previous year when he was struggling. Now the population and income under his rule have increased significantly, the iron smelting output is gradually increasing, and there are more than a dozen witches, who are fully confident that they will turn the Western Frontier into an insurmountable iron wall.
According to the combat experience of the previous year, the most threat to the city wall is undoubtedly the mixed evil beasts. Especially when the enemy has thick shells and the guns are difficult to penetrate, they either use explosive bags close to each other or send witches out of the city to fight. No matter which countermeasures are used, the danger will be greatly increased.
In addition, most of the similar enemies he faced were mainly cavalry and infantry, and he had never seen the siege weapons of this era.
If the other party can set up a torsion catapult, or a more advanced counterweight catapult, you may encounter a lot of trouble. After all, it is very inconvenient to install a gun in front to shoot downwards. Each time you load, you need to lift the muzzle again, and the shells are easily rolled out of the barrel.
It is imperative to develop a more powerful artillery.
Roland thought about it, listing the indicators he needed on paper one by one.
First, it should have sufficient range and power to break through the shell of the mixed evil beast from one thousand meters away. Secondly, it must be a rear loading ammunition, which can freely adjust the pitch angle and also have the ability to shoot quickly.
Finally, in order to reduce the time of repeated research and development, multiple uses of one shot should be considered during design, that is, it can be used as a fixed turret to suppress the enemy, or it can be directly pulled onto the ship as the main weapon of shallow water heavy gunboats in the future.
So it should be a heavy cannon with a large caliber and long body tube.
The first thing Roland thought of was the fifteen or sixteen-inch behemoths on the battleship, with a range of dozens of kilometers. He could dig several meters of deep pits on the ground with one shot, but he quickly rejected this unrealistic idea.
Although there is no problem with processing, based on the current material level in Bianfeng Town, at least nine of the ten cannons will explode. Even if the pipe wall is thickened to more than one meter, the things made will lose their practical value because they cannot move.
Now he can only produce high-purity knitting iron and ordinary steel with ordinary performance, so the solution is more conservative.
Roland finally set the caliber to the sacred number of 152 mm.
The gun uses a vertical wedge-type gun bolt, similar to a door that can slide up and down. When it is put down, the gunbore is exposed and the shell is loaded. After upward reset, the gunpowder gas is locked, so that the gunpowder gas erupts forward.
Compared with screw-type bulge and horizontal wedge bulge, it has the fastest firing speed and the principle is very simple. Its mechanical structure has long been well-versed in his mind.
However, in order to achieve rapid firing, the artillery must be equipped with a stationary, retreat, and re-energization mechanism. Simply put, it is like two air pumps, one filled with oil and the other is re-energization spring or gas.
When the rear seat of the muzzle is pulled, the two barrels of connecting rods are compressed, and the oil and the re-entry machine are compressed at the same time. The oil is used to buffer the recoil, and the re-entry spring completes the accumulation of force. After the shelling is completed, the gun barrel is pushed back to its original position.
Finally, there are shells.
Since he used the Holy Cult cannon, he naturally could no longer satisfy the poor solid iron ball and paper-packed soot shooting of Roland for safe reasons, so he decided to develop two fixed-load shells at the same time. One was an amplified version of the bullet with a solid metal warhead; the other was an explosive warhead with a trigger fuse, which was the howitzer from later generations.
After all, the latter has certain technical difficulties and requires repeated tests on the reliability of the fuse. It is impossible to guarantee the assembly of the troops before the Month of the Demon, so it is very necessary to produce the former to solve the problem.
Even solid warheads are easy to deal with slow-moving thick-armored evil beasts and fixed siege equipment.
Of course, no matter which shell is, it requires the consumption of a lot of smokeless gunpowder.
Before the two acids were produced in large-scale, new artillery could only be used as special weapons, and it would be impossible to achieve a refreshing artillery fire coverage.
At this moment, the guard pushed the door and walked in.
Your Highness, there is a secret letter from the royal capital.
Roland put down the quill and unbuttoned the envelope.The letter was not signed from beginning to end, and the handwriting was very unfamiliar, but the content of just one sentence showed that the letter was undoubtedly sent by Tassa.
A team of about a thousand people left the capital today and moved towards the west.
I have to say that she was shocked by the other party's calm attitude.
Although I don’t understand the relationship very well, it is impossible for the witch and the prince to be together at all, right?
In this way, shouldn’t you hide your thoughts carefully in your heart and prevent them from knowing?
Moreover, why even as an audience member, she feels blushed and extremely embarrassed?
Standing at the office door, taking a deep breath, Lucia pushed the door open and entered.
Your Highness, I brought the ore.
Let me see, Roland yawned.
The ruler of the border town looked like usual, and his sleepy eyes should have just woken up from his nap. He leaned on the back of the chair, with a natural expression and a easy-going tone, not as sharp as other nobles.
Lucia's inexplicable nervousness also relaxed a lot. She took out the ore particles found in the North Slope mine from her skin and placed them on her desk one by one.
After decomposition of the ability, these particles look similar, with either silver or grayish-white color. Perhaps only His Highness, the knowledgeable and talented prince, can tell what kind of ore it is.
The prince frowned and looked at it for a long time, put it in his palms and weighed it. He then looked at the sunshine behind him, and finally waved his hand, "Hehe, I will leave these ores to Mr. Strier to distinguish. You can continue to go to the backyard of the north slope to practice your abilities. If you don't understand, ask Anna for advice.
... Hey, don’t you even recognize Your Highness?Lucia quickly lowered her head and said, Yes.
Just as she was about to leave the office, Roland stopped her again.
By the way, your test score is good this time, and you ranked ninth in 68 points.It is not easy to be able to perform like this after just one month of learning with you, so you must keep it.And... He paused, and the next time I tested, I hope Ling can participate with everyone.
yes!Lucia responded excitedly.
*******************
After watching the little girl bow happily, Roland sighed at the metal particles on the table.
He was still too naive. He thought that after decomposing it into elemental materials, he might be able to figure out which ore veins are contained in the North Slope mine cave. However, the facts made him understand the huge gap between mechanical engineering and geology. These stones will eventually differentiate into three to four metals. The most retained can be considered as the ore of this type of metal, but they are almost the same in color and shape. For example, iron, aluminum, magnesium, and potassium are all silver-white metals in high purity, and it is too difficult to distinguish them with the naked eye.
Let’s leave this problem to the chief alchemist to solve. After all, it is much more reliable to verify the characteristics of materials through chemical reactions than to guess it yourself.
After dealing with this matter, Roland pulled out a piece of paper and began to plan how to deal with this year's Demon Moon.
As summer is coming to an end soon, the three months in autumn are his last preparation time. In addition to resisting the evil beasts invading the west, he also has to pay attention to the Tiffeko and the church in the east at any time.
It was no different from the previous year when he was struggling. Now the population and income under his rule have increased significantly, the iron smelting output is gradually increasing, and there are more than a dozen witches, who are fully confident that they will turn the Western Frontier into an insurmountable iron wall.
According to the combat experience of the previous year, the most threat to the city wall is undoubtedly the mixed evil beasts. Especially when the enemy has thick shells and the guns are difficult to penetrate, they either use explosive bags close to each other or send witches out of the city to fight. No matter which countermeasures are used, the danger will be greatly increased.
In addition, most of the similar enemies he faced were mainly cavalry and infantry, and he had never seen the siege weapons of this era.
If the other party can set up a torsion catapult, or a more advanced counterweight catapult, you may encounter a lot of trouble. After all, it is very inconvenient to install a gun in front to shoot downwards. Each time you load, you need to lift the muzzle again, and the shells are easily rolled out of the barrel.
It is imperative to develop a more powerful artillery.
Roland thought about it, listing the indicators he needed on paper one by one.
First, it should have sufficient range and power to break through the shell of the mixed evil beast from one thousand meters away. Secondly, it must be a rear loading ammunition, which can freely adjust the pitch angle and also have the ability to shoot quickly.
Finally, in order to reduce the time of repeated research and development, multiple uses of one shot should be considered during design, that is, it can be used as a fixed turret to suppress the enemy, or it can be directly pulled onto the ship as the main weapon of shallow water heavy gunboats in the future.
So it should be a heavy cannon with a large caliber and long body tube.
The first thing Roland thought of was the fifteen or sixteen-inch behemoths on the battleship, with a range of dozens of kilometers. He could dig several meters of deep pits on the ground with one shot, but he quickly rejected this unrealistic idea.
Although there is no problem with processing, based on the current material level in Bianfeng Town, at least nine of the ten cannons will explode. Even if the pipe wall is thickened to more than one meter, the things made will lose their practical value because they cannot move.
Now he can only produce high-purity knitting iron and ordinary steel with ordinary performance, so the solution is more conservative.
Roland finally set the caliber to the sacred number of 152 mm.
The gun uses a vertical wedge-type gun bolt, similar to a door that can slide up and down. When it is put down, the gunbore is exposed and the shell is loaded. After upward reset, the gunpowder gas is locked, so that the gunpowder gas erupts forward.
Compared with screw-type bulge and horizontal wedge bulge, it has the fastest firing speed and the principle is very simple. Its mechanical structure has long been well-versed in his mind.
However, in order to achieve rapid firing, the artillery must be equipped with a stationary, retreat, and re-energization mechanism. Simply put, it is like two air pumps, one filled with oil and the other is re-energization spring or gas.
When the rear seat of the muzzle is pulled, the two barrels of connecting rods are compressed, and the oil and the re-entry machine are compressed at the same time. The oil is used to buffer the recoil, and the re-entry spring completes the accumulation of force. After the shelling is completed, the gun barrel is pushed back to its original position.
Finally, there are shells.
Since he used the Holy Cult cannon, he naturally could no longer satisfy the poor solid iron ball and paper-packed soot shooting of Roland for safe reasons, so he decided to develop two fixed-load shells at the same time. One was an amplified version of the bullet with a solid metal warhead; the other was an explosive warhead with a trigger fuse, which was the howitzer from later generations.
After all, the latter has certain technical difficulties and requires repeated tests on the reliability of the fuse. It is impossible to guarantee the assembly of the troops before the Month of the Demon, so it is very necessary to produce the former to solve the problem.
Even solid warheads are easy to deal with slow-moving thick-armored evil beasts and fixed siege equipment.
Of course, no matter which shell is, it requires the consumption of a lot of smokeless gunpowder.
Before the two acids were produced in large-scale, new artillery could only be used as special weapons, and it would be impossible to achieve a refreshing artillery fire coverage.
At this moment, the guard pushed the door and walked in.
Your Highness, there is a secret letter from the royal capital.
Roland put down the quill and unbuttoned the envelope.The letter was not signed from beginning to end, and the handwriting was very unfamiliar, but the content of just one sentence showed that the letter was undoubtedly sent by Tassa.
A team of about a thousand people left the capital today and moved towards the west.
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