At dawn the next day, Diego saw some of the wounded dwarven miners retreating from the Flame Ridge, and it was clear that the mine had been lost.

"It's a bunch of greenskinned orcs and black iron dwarves, and some minotaurs, God knows how these guys got together!" A dwarven miner who was still intact said tiredly, and Orphest and Scranger listened to him in confusion, but the two of them clearly couldn't figure out what was going on.

The members of the Brotherhood of Thorium were a little panicked to treat the wounded, and Masrae Bearskin joined the rescuers, in fact, he was already busy before dawn. Because of the newly restored belief in Kazgros, there are not many Titan Forge priests in the Thor Silver Brotherhood, and a healer is especially valuable to the current Thorsilver Watchtower. Even if he didn't specialize in the Restoration system, Masrae's healing spells were still irreplaceable for the wounded.

Diego stayed with Masrae for a while, and when he realized that he couldn't help much, he returned to the workshop, where he lit the small furnace. Then began the preparations for the construction of the gun. The sense of urgency and crisis in his heart enveloped him like the ubiquitous haze of a scorching canyon, and he was a little breathless.

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Own a gun! This is something that almost all men dream of, but before the crossing, under the strict prohibition of the Celestial Empire, this dream was impossible to achieve, an old shotgun that Diego once owned in his hometown, which was handed down from his grandfather's generation, a breech charge, an old-fashioned shotgun that fired four lead bullets at a time, but was later confiscated.

After graduating from university, although I ordered a bunch of magazines such as "Weapon Knowledge" and "Light Weapons", it was no different from painting cakes to satisfy hunger. Now that he has crossed over, Diego's goblin engineering skills are at full level, and if he doesn't get a good gun, he feels too bad to think about it.

Moreover, in this dangerous world, a good gun is undoubtedly the best guarantee for self-defense, and there is a good saying that weapons are the second life of a soldier. A good weapon can undoubtedly make you live longer, and Diego wants to live a long life.

He intended to borrow and improve on the material of the Thurium musket - although it was not mass-produced and equipped with the Ironforge Rangers, not because of its flawed design, but because of its high cost, it was a problem for Diego today, and he had almost swept up half of the Thursilver Brotherhood's stock.

Although the silver musket is only of excellent quality, and there are many designs of the musket in Diego's mind that are better than it, such as the fire core sniper rifle and the gyro-balanced kryptonite heavy gun, but those epic quality designs do not require a large number of expensive rare materials, and some materials can not even be described as rare, which is simply unique in the world, like the legendary weapon of the blood elves, Solidar Star Fury, which is even inlaid with a piece of fallen star core fragments, and it is said that it does not need arrows at all when shooting, Each time the string is shot, it shoots a beam of highly condensed starlight on its own.

And Diego now only has a dozen black iron ingots, two or three silver ingots, and a Mithril ingot, and there is a lot of ordinary metal, which can be used to craft epic weapons, is it possible?

However, even though the design of the Thurium Musket was extremely mature, Diego decided to make a massive improvement to it. Diego had always been extremely dissatisfied with the shape of Azeroth's weapons, especially after the start of the Burning Crusade, when those weapons were as dazzling as they were, and it was hard for him to imagine how a thief could sneak away with two such glittering weapons.

So the layout and shape of the rifle ended up with the design of the M1 Garand rifle - after solving the problem of bullets, this design is no longer a castle. The reason for the semi-automatic design is that he is about to face the enemy of the cold weapon era, melee combat will be the most situation, the rate of fire of the M1 Garand and the capacity of 8 rounds can almost guarantee the demand, and its bridge magazine replacement speed is not slow, there will be no enemy rushing to him, but the empty warehouse hangs up, and he is busy changing the magazine - he did not think of using the classic design of the AK rifle, but the material he has at hand cannot guarantee that it will not be damaged in the case of the high rate of fire of the AK, so he has to give up.

Although the semi-automatic rifle was not as accurate as the bolt-action rifle and had a much shorter range - as far as he knew, the effective range of the M1 Garand was 730 meters (but in reality, it would be difficult to hit a target beyond 500 yards without a scope), but he did not think that his forging skills could be so high that it could be comparable to that of a precision CNC machine, and he estimated that he would be satisfied with 400 meters, because compared to ordinary dwarven muskets and bows, this range was already overwhelmingly superior.

Diego remembers the longbowman with the farthest range before the crossing (don't be reminded of the armbow, it's a crossbow), which had a maximum range of about 350 meters and a limit of 400 meters, but its power was more covered by curved shots than direct shots; The effective range of the musket is generally not more than ninety-one meters (one hundred yards) - and if you are hit beyond this range, you will only be unlucky.

In Azeroth, the range of the Dwarven Musket is much the same, and the Night Elves are much like the Dwarves, with natural archers who like to use bows and arrows with an amazing rate of fire, but the effective range is generally no more than seventy meters (small elevation angle, near direct fire). Marksmen who use magic weapons have a longer range, some epic and even legendary bows and muskets have a range that is not much higher than that of M1, and there are many fantasy effects unique to the world of Azeroth, such as additional fire or cold damage. (Okay, let's forget the Hunter's pathetic 45-yard range!) ）

After preparing all the materials, Diego began to build the world's first semi-automatic rifle, but he clearly underestimated the difficulties he had to face. Before the crossing, he was just a pseudo ~ military fan, although the title is an engineer, but that is traffic engineering, to put it bluntly, it is a highway repair, almost completely ignorant of firearms manufacturing, those knowledge about M1 is still out of hobby from Baidu to check, this limited knowledge can only provide a general design idea, to build this gun more or rely on the engineering skills in his current body memory.

The caliber of the barrel is 7.62 mm (.30 inches), although the small-caliber rifle is light in weight, the recoil is also small, it is easy to control when firing, and the continuous firing accuracy is high, but for the hunters of Azeroth, most of their opponents' melee classes are wearing plate armor, and some even have magical defense effects, even if they are cloth professions such as mages and warlocks, most of them are ice armor and magic armor. Small-caliber rifles are like tickling and difficult to penetrate. And in Diego's opinion, he was powerful enough to handle a large-caliber rifle, and these advantages of a small-caliber rifle were not necessary for him. If it weren't for the flexibility and durability of the rifle's metal components and barrel, he would have even wanted to go with a 12.7 mm (.50 in) caliber.

Because the breech charge was no longer required, Diego eliminated the flared muzzle of the Thursilver musket. The barrel is a double-layer composite design, the inner cavity of the barrel is made of high-temperature, wear-resistant black iron, and the outer layer is wrapped in silver with extremely high strength and toughness. Because the bolt and trigger need to conduct arcane energy, he uses Mithril and Thorsilver alloys with good magical compatibility.

The great blacksmith Born Knight was a great help in handling the metals, and his familiarity with them completely solved Diego's concerns. With his selfless help, Diego's biggest headache was how to deal with the metal seams of the barrel was no longer a problem at all, and his idea of a double-layered barrel was realized, instead of being a hidden danger that could easily explode.

The manufacture of the musket was a delicate task, and the manufacture of the barrel alone took Diego about a month, and the manufacture of the other components did not go smoothly. The ideal is plump, and the reality is skinny. Although his engineering skills have been practiced to the top, in this real world, he still has not made a few engineering items.

Goblin engineering is obviously not as simple as in the game, a wrench, a screwdriver, and a forging hammer can do it. The hammer used for light forging is divided into sledgehammer, medium hammer, small hammer, and can also be divided into long hammer and short hammer, and the hammering techniques are light hammer, heavy hammer, flower hammer, side beating and cushion buckle, and the clamp of the blank has pliers, clips, sharp clamps, wide clamps, large-mouth bent clamps and fine-mouth straight clamps, as well as various tools such as axes, chisels, drills and other tools used for cutting blanks.

As for the types of wrenches, there are more than 40 kinds ......of wrenches, such as dull wrenches, live wrenches, torx wrenches, multi-purpose wrenches, percussion wrenches, socket wrenches, socket drivers, cross wrenches, ratchet wrenches, hook wrenches, hexagon wrenches, and inner square wrenches. Of course, not all of the M1 rifles will be used, but it will be enough to make Diego dizzy and dizzy.

The casting, casting, forging, grinding, and debugging of the precision parts of the M1 rifle need to be meticulous in each process, and there must be no mistakes, otherwise the parts may not fit together, or the air tightness may not meet the requirements - simply put, when shooting, the scorching gunpowder slag may destroy your face. In addition, the dosage and heat control of various fluxes and additives are also very experienced and eye-catching. Not only that, but some of the components were not as strong as they were finished and some even cracked after stress testing, much to Diego's annoyance.

Even so, Diego did not let up his demands, and as a paranoid technoman, he demanded that his work must surpass most dwarven muskets, at least of good quality. To do this, he had to rework again and again, and even throw away the scrap parts and remake them, but fortunately, most of the parts were small and did not waste too much material. However, in this kind of theory and practice, repeated failures, Diego's engineering level has grown rapidly like a spring sprout, and the theoretical knowledge that originally only existed in his mind has finally become an instinctive skill and skill, and he is no longer the mouth cannon with a high eye, but a real engineering master with superb skills.

But even so, because of the repeated occurrence of scrap parts, the consumption of materials gradually exceeded his reserves, and many of the scrap materials used could not be recycled, so he had to withdraw some from Born Knight again, although the old dwarf did not say anything about it, but Diego was very ashamed, you know, the black iron dwarf had lost the last mine, this was already their last inventory. He secretly made up his mind that before leaving, he would repay the messy Twilight cultists for a purge of them.

In comparison, the butt and handguard were relatively simple and took only a few days. He chose the finest ironwood, which was not grown natives in the Scorching Gorge - in fact, because of the heat, no trees grew here - and it came from distant Camlido. It was not easy for smugglers to cut down these precious timbers from the ancient trees of war in Felwood Forest, and they would risk their lives - neither the fallen Sartre nor the Night Elf sentinels guarding nature would allow such a thing to happen. In order to deal with the wood, he also specially retrieved the boring and dying Masrae Bearskin from the wild, and the druid's spells came in handy, the spell-treated wood was stronger than steel, strong, but elastic and tenacious, and Diego even saved the bottom pad to prevent the butt from cracking and increase the cushioning effect.

Relying on the experience accumulated in rifle making, Diego also built a pistol, this time completely earth technology. He chose a simpler and more reliable revolver design, which would not jam, and as for the dud, he only needed to pull the trigger again - to be honest, he was not so confident in the reliability of the bullets he made, you know, even before the crossing, the AK series of guns, which were known for their reliability and durability, the bullets imitated by third world countries were also uneven, and the quality was uneven. So, the design of this pistol is based on the classic Smith Wiesen M500. In Diego's view, all firearms must be considered first and foremost. This pistol that can shoot elephants is believed to be enough to give a big surprise to the plate armor professions who have worked hard to finally put it up.

However, the power also brings a lot of recoil, and this pistol is extremely difficult to control, and because of the addition of Thoryin, this gun weighs more than eight pounds, so it may be more appropriate to call it a hand cannon, even with Diego's current arm strength, it took a long time to practice to become proficient.

After completing the manufacture of firearms, Diego began to make bullets. After hundreds of practices, he has become quite proficient in the art of making bullets. This makes the bullet faster. It took him three weeks to roll more than 5,000 rounds of M1 rifle ammunition and more than 1,000 pistol rounds in one go, using a bullet machine -- because of the storage of the demon cloth bag, he was not at all worried about not being able to take it with him.

At the same time, Diego asked the great blacksmith Bean Knight to forge a bayonet from the remaining silver and black iron scraps, which he knew was far inferior to engineering. Because neither the M1 nor the M500 are known for their ammunition capacity, and the M500's rotor nest can only hold even 5 rounds, it is impossible for him not to leave himself a little way back. As a last resort, this time he did not stand out from the crowd, but chose the style design of Azeroth, the shape of the spear "Stone Crow", but with some modifications to the position of the handle, which can be held or hung on a rifle.

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The active druid obviously did not take Diego's efforts seriously, in the eyes of the Night Elves, the bow and arrow were the only long-range weapons, and the musket was neither beautiful nor elegant weapon should not be invented, so some time before Diego made the gun, Masrae also visited a few times curiously, but in the later period, he was no longer interested in boring repeated forging, polishing, and trialing, and after almost drinking up all the stock in the tavern, he began to "get close to nature" all over the mountains.

So, when Diego, armed to the teeth, appeared in front of Masrae Bearskin two months later, the Night Elves were completely stunned by the murderous human. Although he didn't understand how powerful those weapons were completely different from the dwarven muskets, the specially matte barrel, the sharp black blade, and the simple and rigid lines revealed the coldness and hideousness everywhere, which made people shudder. He was shocked almost immediately, and it was completely unconscious. After seeing the M1 rifle shoot through the thick wooden plank from 50 meters away, he immediately dispelled the idea of trying the power of this weapon, although the druid turned into a giant bear with rough skin and thick flesh, a shot may not be fatal, but no one wants to have a few bullet holes on his body.

As a top leather master, Diego made all the matching leather goods for all his weapons, the bayonet scabbard diagonally on the chest, the ammunition belt around the waist, the quick-draw holster of the pistol on the side of the thigh, and the rifle strap on the back, completely Wild West style, but original, rough but not rough, simple but not simple, even for the aesthetically discerning Night Elves, can not make any criticism of this unique Minotaur style.

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Note: Don't say that the technology of this era does not guarantee the realization of this rifle design. I once saw a more than 50-minute instructional video, building a flintlock rifle by hand, without CNC machine tools, without forging equipment, and it took about a week, relying only on the father and son using a blacksmith forging hammer and some simple tools, and even the rifling was pulled out, or 7 (you read that right, it's an odd number). M1 Garand seems to be only 4, right?

Again, don't underestimate the wisdom of the people of Azeroth. In the world of Azeroth, the creation of dwarven muskets has accumulated enough technology for thousands of years. Judging by the construction of the dwarven musket shown on various pictures, it has an upward-wrenched hammer, and there is no flint on the hammer, and there is a raised anvil directly opposite the hammer, which should be the characteristic of the breech charge, and in the history of firearms, the firing pistol is only one step away from the reloader. Judging from the shooting action of the hunters in the game, almost all muskets are rear-loaded, and I have never seen a hunter put the muzzle up to reload gunpowder. That is, this M1 is at most one step ahead, moving from manual to semi-automatic fire. And, in the world of magic, never say the phrase "it's impossible" lightly.

As far as I know, during the Burning Expedition, automatic rifles appeared, and it was a green gun of excellent quality, it seemed to be called a dwarf assault rifle, I can't remember the name, can you help me determine it? Assault rifle! If it's not automatic, can it be called an assault rifle?

Of course, don't think that there is an M1 that is invincible in the world, limited to the material, this gun is considered a blue excellent quality by virtue of the rate of fire, although it is technically ahead of the curve, relatively close to the epic quality, but in the final analysis, it is impossible to surpass those powerful epic quality purple weapons. Spells, magic spells, skills, ......, in this world, supernatural power is too powerful.

When it comes to bows and arrows, don't think that the process of making a bow is simple. The selection of ancient bows is extremely rigorous, divided into six kinds of materials: stems, horns, tendons, glue, silk and lacquer, and the time requirements for making zuò are extremely strict, the bow is analyzed in winter, the corners are treated in spring, the tendons are treated in summer, and the materials are closed in autumn, and sometimes they have to be hidden for another year, the process is complicated, and it even takes two to three years for an old bow maker to make a good bow to complete. Also, don't mention the range of archery competitions, which are modern compound bows, which are not at all the same thing as ancient bows.

Finally, my number may not be very accurate, because there are many arguments about the information on the Internet, but it can be kept roughly without obvious fallacies, so don't delve into it.