The 115th Spanish Phalanx (2)
There is some reason for the disdain of the green elves, and in the era when the Spanish phalanx was rampant across the continent, firearms were very backward...... Ignition, loading, and cleaning, the rate of fire is extremely slow, unlike bows and arrows that can be thrown, and the rate of fire is relatively fast, so the military strategists of the European continent and the Ming Dynasty have been looking for a formation that can give full play to the maximum power of firearms.
In the Ming Dynasty, after Qi succeeded Guangnan to pacify the Japanese invaders, he transferred the Great Wall north to prevent the Mongolian nomadic cavalry. In order to give full play to the advantages of firearms, he adopted the method of mixing vehicles and steps to form a car battalion...... The tactics of the car battalion are to use strong chariots as defensive barriers, install firearms on the vehicles, refuse to defend when encountering the enemy, and use birds, rockets, and franc planes to take turns to strike.
However, the tactics of the Che Battalion were not applicable to Hathaway, because the new weapon she wanted to develop was much more advanced than the arquebus...... Sophia. Roland, Ming Yang. Ronaldo, Barthes. Willie and the others all looked at each other, shocked by Hathaway's endless thoughts, and their brains began to degrade in the direction of paste.
"This is just a preliminary attempt, and it will be possible to carry out multi-service coordinated operations in the future," Hathaway said with interest......
Wonderful ideas suddenly surged into her mind...... Although there is no energy source such as electricity and gasoline in the Titan world (even if it can be realized, she will not), the power system of many machines can be completely replaced by a magic system, and as long as you study carefully, it can be completely successful.
Of course, this will take time. With her energy, it is quite difficult to complete it independently. Still, there's one person to consider. The veteran has a lot of hair in the Sky City, so it is better to leave this research to him, and he only needs to come up with an idea...... Yes, that's it.
In the fairy garden, the veteran looked curiously at the pile of tubular metalwork that Hathaway had just put in, and suddenly sneezed, "Huh? It's impossible for a soul body to catch a cold, isn't it...... Hathaway must be scheming on me again! Without hesitation, he flew back to Sky City, wanting to hide.
Hathaway, however, continues to refine her otherworldly version of the Spanish phalanx, in the Spanish phalanx. The more famous is the 'backward reloading' technique, which means that only the first row can shoot. Then, after the first row of musketeers had finished shooting, they retreated in the gap between platoons and back to the last row to reload and let the second row of musketeers shoot.
But. Here in Hathaway. She's made drastic changes...... New weapons. She named her the Magic Gun. The main body of the entire squad is pikemen, and the soldiers with magic guns are in the middle, divided into three rows. Twelve people per row. At the front of the phalanx, there were two rows of pikemen, one of whose missions were to protect the Magic Lancers.
During the battle, the entire phalanx was on the defensive, with the two rows of spearmen in front crouching, the tail of the spear diagonally inserted into the ground, and the tip of the spear pointing obliquely upwards to form a horse-repellent defense...... This is mainly aimed at the enemy's cavalry. When the commander gives the command to attack, the first row of Magic Gunners starts firing, and when the shot is over, they immediately crouch down to reload, and the second row starts firing, and then crouches down to reload...... And so on, and so on.
The way the Lancers fight is simpler...... It's just a stabbing action, stabbing in different directions, stabbing bravely. On top of that, there's the conversion of formations and formations, a simple training method that is easier for orc warriors to master.
In large-scale battles, it is better to have cavalry cover on both flanks of such a battle formation. Hathaway currently has no cavalry, but Dean Eastwood has promised to send her a squadron of cavalry, and there is a group of cavalry mercenaries to send...... Judging from her current situation, at least in dealing with ordinary robbers and robbers, there is absolutely no problem.
Now the most important thing is to replace the musket, and the performance is more powerful than the bow and arrow. Ronaldo and others were skeptical, but Hathaway was confident enough.
When Hathaway modified the Colt pistol bullet, she had already considered the possibility of creating a new weapon. Later that from with Barthes. During the conversation between Willy and others, they found that in the Titan world, there are also many weapons that use magic power, such as magic crystal cannons, magic crossbow arrows, and magic catapults. However, despite the amount of mana, most alchemists seem to spend their energy on improving their personal strength or refining equipment for individual combat...... For example, some armor, swords and spears. In Hathaway's view, this has nothing to do with their strength, and more importantly, their vision is not enough.
After having this idea, Hathaway first used his pistol as an experimental subject, made improvements, and after success, he took the opportunity of inventing magic fireworks and magic wands to make a variety of experiments and improvements, and finally made a decisive breakthrough. However, the breakthrough made in the magic array only solved the problem of power and the processing of bullets, and the most important thing was the body of the magic gun.
First of all, she designed an alchemy circle, carving a magic circle on a special alloy slug to give it super armor-piercing ability and explosive ability under certain conditions. Although it is said to be an alloy, it only adds a relatively common and inexpensive magic metal to the fine iron, mainly to maintain its stability when carving the magic array. This kind of warhead was designed by her as a sharp cone, hollow, purely from the cost point of view, one gold carat can buy eighty of these bullets, and the processed warhead, one gold carat can only buy ten.
The second is the design of the power system, Hathaway has checked the alchemy products of this world, but has not found any gunpowder. She knew some simple gunpowder recipes, but she didn't know how to make them into weapons...... And she felt that even if she designed a weapon like an arquebus, it would be too stupid, and it seemed more convenient to replace the amount of gunpowder with mana. A composite magic circle designed by Hathaway. The outermost magic circle is to draw mana and supply it to the second magic circle. The role of the second magic array is mainly to use the force of the wind, which can send the bullet farther and the force is greater. The magic power supply of the magic gun is made of cheaper magic crystal powder, which is cheaper in cost and can be purchased and stored in large quantities. In comparison, most of the large-scale magic weapons in this world realm use large blocks of standard magic crystals...... It's not that they don't know how to save, it's that only that kind of large magic crystal can provide powerful magic power and produce powerful destructive effects.
The most obscure is the design of the barrel, although there is Alia. With the help of Fgu, but ordinary blacksmiths were unable to produce a straight and through-through steel pipe, so far, she had only obtained sixty, and when she was debugging the alchemy circle, five of them were discarded, and the remaining fifty-five had been processed...... In the barrel, engraved with a special magic pattern, when the bullet is fed into the barrel, it will activate these magic patterns, not only the bullet can follow a straight line, but also can rotate during the movement, so that its lethality will be more terrifying. On the barrel, there is also a crosshair, most of the parts have already been completed, and it will be ready to be assembled only after the butt, which she commissioned for processing, is delivered.
In the backyard of Mr. Hughes's house, there was a screeching grinding sound. Furgu was wearing a strange goggle and was carefully grinding a lens with a grinding wheel. This grinding wheel is also made by Hathaway, and the sand is definitely pure diamond...... They have been magically broken down into fine particles and then embedded in the surface of the grinding wheels.
The transmission of this grinding wheel is a geared structure, and the power used is still magic, whether it is cutting or grinding, it is a sharp weapon, Alia. Fogu quickly fell in love with the new tool. And in order to avoid the powder or sparks from grinding to hurt her eyes, she specially put on that strange goggle...... She loves the crystal-polished goggles, which she wears even when she's not at work.
The grinding wheels rotated at high speed, making a harsh noise, and a thick layer of powder fell on the ground. After a while, Alia. Forgu disconnected the magic supply from the grinding wheel, and then used a caliper to measure the diameter of the crystal piece in his hand...... She had become proficient in using Hathaway's new tools, and what she was holding in her hand was a lens, a lens used on a normal sight. Next to her, there are some slightly larger lenses that are machined for telescopes, and the sights she now uses for the magic sniper rifle.
After some measurements, Alia . . . With a satisfied look on her face, she used a special dyeing agent on the lenses to draw a crosshair, and then began to assemble it.
"Miss Fogu, Mr. Berg is back." Lina walked over briskly to report.
"Let him bring things in." Alia. Vergu replied.
After a while, Berg walked in with a large suitcase, looking a little embarrassed, and Linna, who followed him, forced a smile, but her expression was full of schadenfreude.
Berg was also extremely depressed. In the past, when he was in Vermont City, he was a small manager who was always a little answer, but now he is no different from an errand runner, he does not support anyone around Hathaway...... Just like today, he has to go to the workshop to process it in person, and then get it back in person, and the funds that can be used are all tightly stuck, not to mention that he wants to fill his own pocket, and he can't even hire someone to run errands.
"Miss Forgu, will you take an inventory of these things?" Berg's eyes were sneaking at the lenses on the ground and the assembled sights, but he didn't know what they were.
"No need. After putting it down, you can get out of the way. "Alia. Fogu has never been pretentious about Berg, with the temper of a dwarf, it is already good to have a seizure without seeing each other once, and Berg has to reluctantly put down the box and leave with a lot of heart. (To be continued......)