Chapter Forty-Six: Walker's Musket

Early the next morning, Vane came out of the room with Barka and Kalia and went down to the first floor. By this time, Walker was already waiting for the three of them. This has been going on for half a year, and Walker always arrives before the three of them, and then waits for them at the inn while helping out.

In the past, only when Vane first learned the fighting skills of a warrior, Kalia came down with him, and then he occasionally went back there to see how Vane was studying, and the rest of the time he was basically communicating with the Holy Light, so this time Kalia also went downstairs with him, which made Walker feel a little surprised. It's just a surprise, after all, Kalia doesn't have much to do with Walker, does it?

The four of them arrived at the training ground together, and Vane picked up his shield and weapon and began to practice. Walker then took off the musket on his back and handed it to Barka and said, "You give it, Barka boy." This is a work that I have carefully forged through the rite of passage. ”

"For me?" Barka took the musket and looked at it.

Walker snatched the musket back from Barka's hand and said, "What a dream, this is what I lent you to use." Remember to return it to me when you are done. ”

After saying that, he began to fiddle with the musket to show Barka, and then Kalia also surrounded him curiously. Vane ignored it, for he had already seen the musket on his way to the training ground.

How so? This musket is a very old arquebus, which relies on a lit arquebus to ignite the gunpowder and thus fire the bullets. The frequency of firing of such guns is very low. The flare-shaped muzzle makes it easy to pour gunpowder into the chamber, then tightly stuff a projectile at the muzzle position, and light the arquebus when used, waiting for the fiery to ignite. Finally in the inflated gas chin the muzzle of the projectile ejected out. That's how this gun shoots.

And if you want to shoot again, you have to clean the chamber with a stick with a strip of cloth. Otherwise, it is likely that the gunpowder that has not yet burned out will ignite when the gunpowder is poured into it.

Since the projectile is stuffed in the muzzle position, the hit rate of this gun is really touching, and you can't try to hit anything from ten meters away. It's all the type of faith that hits the faith. Of course, it's not impossible to hit 100 percent, as long as you can shoot this gun in the face of your enemies.

Although it has a shooting accuracy that is basically non-existent, the shooting speed is very slow, and so on. But the power of this gun is really strong, the projectile that is first stuffed in the muzzle is unusually tight under the power of the dwarf, and then the amount of gunpowder poured into the chamber is not ordinarily large. The result of this is that once fired, the kinetic energy carried by the projectile is not ordinarily large.

"I said Walker, this is the musket?" Barka asked, pouting after looking at me for a demonstration of what to do.

"That's right, how about it, it's powerful enough." Walker said to Barka with a proud face.

"It's really powerful, but it's too slow." Barka frowned and looked unwilling. As a result, Walker handed over the gun and turned to Vane and said, "Vane, you can also come and see, this musket is really inconvenient to use." ”

Vane heard Barka's complaints, stopped his practice and walked over. He had known for a long time that the arquebus was very cumbersome to use, but there was nothing he could do about it. He knew that the arquebus was followed by a flintlock pistol, but the flintlock pistol he only knew that it ignited the gunpowder by striking the flint to send out sparks, and the other Vane didn't know anything, after all, he was just an ordinary person, who would study the structural principle of the flintlock pistol? Moreover, the flintlock pistol seemed to him to only reduce the step of the arquebus, and there was not much improvement in other aspects, so he had no intention of opening it at first. It wasn't until Barka's complaint came that Vane stopped practicing and walked over.

To be honest, in fact, Vane thought it would be good to have a musket to use, and if his memory was correct, when Warcraft first started, that is, in the sixties, muskets were also used with flintlock pistols. Now, when Kael'thas was a High Elf toddler like the three of them, it was good to have an arquebus.

Walking up to Barka, Walker, and Kaliya, he held out his hand to Barka and said, "Show it to me." ”

"Here you go." Barka handed the arquebus to Vane and complained, "It's a lot of trouble to use, and I tried two shots just now, but I didn't hit it at all." ”

Vane took the arquebus, looked at it carefully, thought for a moment, and then reminded Walker, "Can you use flint and light the gunpowder by striking the flint, so that you don't need a troublesome step?" ”

"What? By tapping flint? Walker listened to Vane's words, thought carefully for a while, and then, without saying a word, turned and ran in the direction of the blacksmith's shop. He felt that there were really not many ways to do it, and maybe it could be achieved. At this time, Walker went to old Todd to study and study together, and it was better to have a dwarf technician come to study it earlier.

Seeing Walker running in the direction of the blacksmith shop, Vane didn't say much, just threw the arquebus in his hand to Barka and said: "You better use this practice first, the purpose of giving you the musket is not to allow you to carry out long-range attacks, but to have a chance to counterattack when you are approached by the enemy." It's much better than not having any means of resistance. Of course, in order to ensure a hit, you'd better wait for the enemy to get close enough before firing. So, practice well. ”

With that, Vane went back to his practice. It's not like he told Walker about the more advanced firearms, but now is an era of all manual work, and accuracy is completely unguaranteed, so what if he says it? Take bullets as an example, propellants, bullet casings, bullets and many other things must have sufficient processing accuracy. Although the dwarves' skills are good, they are only in terms of weapons such as swords, hammers, axes, and armor. As for those things that require a lot of precision, don't they have to wait until the gnomes enter industrial production to be able to produce them?

In fact, it's not that it can't be produced now, it's just that if you want to produce something with this kind of precision, you need a High Elf mage, who uses the way to make jewelry and constantly uses spells to change the shape of matter, and it takes at least seven days to produce a bullet, which is too expensive, who can afford it.