Chapter 286: The Backward Country (Third Update)
The soldiers of Tomorrow City also took a full day off and felt a relaxing time that had not been seen for a long time.
Due to the holiday of the whole army, the birds outside the city patrol frequently, and almost every half an hour to transmit information to ensure that the city will not be attacked tomorrow.
The pigeons set off from Tomorrow City for another long-range reconnaissance.
Some of the pigeons around Tomorrow City are on standby, resting on the outskirts of the forest, and if they see a strange orc appearing, they must pass on the information.
Some of the carrier pigeons are long-distance pigeons, flying to the Silver City section, and some flying to Moonlight Valley, monitoring back and forth.
More carrier pigeons are responsible for the transmission of each town to Tomorrow City, which is the basic task of the intelligence network.
In a few moments, the pigeon's eyes reflected the empty camp fence, the old stronghold left by the Bull Headed Country.
The pigeon continued to fly forward, and after flying a certain distance, it came to the sky above Moonlight Valley, and saw a group of minotaurs withdrawing from Moonlight Valley one after another.
Moonlight Valley, the outer gate of the city.
The minotaurs walked arm in arm with each other, and some of them had bandages on their chests, and their muscles were no longer as strong as rocks, showing signs of atrophy.
Most of them were not bandaged, they were medicated and were in good shape.
"How's your body, is the wound healed?"
"No, my body is a little weak, and my head is dizzy." The face of a certain minotaur captain turned pale.
"Are these bullets poisonous?"
"I remember that the musket intelligence given by Tomorrow City didn't say that it was poisonous."
"Aren't you talking nonsense, they are also experts in the use of muskets in Tomorrow City, how can they write about the dangers of bullets."
The orcs have raised the status of firearms to an extremely dangerous position.
The musket not only has a long range, but also breaks the shield with one shot, and the bullet is also poisonous, which is simply the best weapon of war.
"We must research this kind of weapon, this is the trend of future warfare." The minotaur clenched his fists, and his lips turned white.
The Minotaur walked all the way, completely leaving the location of Moonlight Valley and returning to the border town of the Minotaur.
There, the high-ranking of the Minotaur Kingdom spun around in a hurry, saw the return of the army, and called the wounded captain and other Minotaurs into the house for an hour of secret talk.
During this hour, the mood of the top brass of the Minotaur was like sitting on a big bird.
At first, when he heard that Lionheart had been defeated, he was like a bird flying up the clouds, and he was so excited that he couldn't find the north.
But when I heard that I was crippled by the firearms of Tomorrow City, only a thousand people were left to return home, and the birds that flew into the blue sky clicked and fell into the blue sky.
"So, Lionheart also has a new weapon, the musket, and Tomorrow City has a stronger musket than the Lionheart, so we were blown up?" The Minotaur higher-ups said angrily.
"That's right, Tomorrowland's musket has at least twice as long range as Lionheart's, and they also have a super giant musket with a long body and a large muzzle."
The Minotaur Captain recalls the battle against Tomorrow City, and he is most impressed by the cannon.
"I don't know what the name of that musket is, it's very terrifying, there are four 'big guns' that can release terrifying shells like Thor's Heavenly Punishment."
"There are fourteen 'big guns' that release solid iron balls, the speed of the iron balls is very fast, the power is very great, anyone who is hit by the iron ball, rubbed it, will die, or become disabled."
The more the minotaur spoke, the more frightened he became, his eyes widened, the muscles in his chest suddenly spasmed, his body twitched, and his mouth foamed.
The minotaur who interrogated the information was stunned, shook his shoulder, and exclaimed: "What's the matter, come on, come on, call the local priest over and let him save people!" ”
The sudden death of the captain who explained the matter caused panic among the soldiers, and everyone was in danger.
The high-level officials of the Bullhead Country interrogated several Bullhead captains in succession, and learned that the death of the wounded was not an accident, and that the dead all had one thing in common, they had all been hit by lead bullets in the previous days.
When the people of the Niutou country heard the news, they became even more enthusiastic about the musket, and they had an urgent idea in their hearts to invent the musket.
As long as the musket is born, with the strong national strength of their bull-headed country, they can arm a musketeer of three or four thousand people in half a year.
Dozens of arquebuses captured by the Niutou Kingdom were quickly sent to the royal city by the Niutou people, and the craftsmen of the royal city specialized in research and cracking.
The gunpowder used in the musket was also formulated by the local fireworks merchants, but the fireworks merchants were not the mainstream local commodities, and their research on gunpowder was still at the level of the original ancestral formula.
Primordial gunpowder like that, when propellant is extremely substandard.
But the orcs did not know that there was a difference between black powder and black powder, and when the king learned that someone had mastered the formula for gunpowder, he was so excited that he called it over and tried it on the spot.
The pyrotechnic merchant walked into the palace with his head held high, and placed a box of black powder boxes that he was most proud of.
The Minotaur had the orcs fill the arquebus with gunpowder and test fire it with a round buckshot, which was found to be able to fly, but could not penetrate any steel armor.
Within a few meters, shallow dents can be left on the surface of the steel plate.
Within more than ten meters, there are only shallow black marks on the surface of the steel plate.
Thirty meters, the plate armor was unscathed, the bullet floated, and I don't know where it went.
Even if it hits the plate armor, there are not many scars on the surface of the plate armor.
When the minotaur saw this, he slapped the floor in anger.
Even if the whole army was almost destroyed, it was so difficult for the craftsmen of the royal city to even make a whole set of muskets and gunpowder.
"Pass the order, gather all the capable craftsmen and craftsmen from all over the country, concentrate manpower and material resources, and make qualified firing gunpowder within a month within a month, and muskets will also be manufactured within a month!"
The king slapped the floor angrily, and the cobweb-like cracks in the ground made the pyrotechnic merchant shudder and bow his head in disapproval.
In the past, they were too lazy to study the gunpowder formula left by their ancestors, but now they can't do it if they don't study it.
"Not only the musket has to be studied, but the giant musket has to be studied!" The king gave another order for craftsmen to study the process of making artillery.
This can be a pain for the craftsmen, it is easier to imitate the arquebus, there is a model is not afraid that it will not be made, but the "big gun" has no drawings, relying on other people's verbal descriptions, it is too difficult to make, and the craftsman has no clue at all.
The blacksmiths returned to the blacksmith shop and began to work on arquebuses and asked upwards for additional human resources.
The blacksmith needs the orcs who have seen the heat weapons war to be by his side for advice and ask some detailed questions.
"Lionheart's musket needs to burn ropes, the range is about forty meters, we captured some gunpowder bags and bullet packs, and after testing, we found that Lionheart's arquebus has an effective range of fifty meters, but it is more accurate within forty meters, and the power is enough to penetrate plate armor."
The blacksmith didn't want to ask about these things, they wanted to ask about the firearms of Tomorrow City.
The Minotaur did not capture the weapons of Tomorrow City, and the survivors have horrified memories of Tomorrow City's weapons, only remembering the rows of fallen corpses.
"They don't have arquebuses, they can shoot directly after reloading, it's terrible, I don't know what their muskets look like!" So said the Minotaur.
The blacksmiths were even more confused when they heard this, how could the enemy ignite the firing powder inside the musket without the arquebus?
They can't think, they can't understand, it's not a gap in technology, it's a gap in the way of thinking.