Chapter 0015: The Age of Thermal Weapons
Although Brian was very dissatisfied with Van Peilai's training, Brian thought to himself that both Captain Gale and Knight Carmen had obeyed the training, maybe the two had already told the lord how to train, but they just let the lord pretend to be pretending to be majestic. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
In fact, in the end, it was Captain Gale and the Knight of Carmen who came to train.
Thinking about it like this, Brian felt that his idea made sense, and he began to look forward to Captain Gale teaching him the fighting skills that a good knight should have in the future.
It's just that......
Damn, what the hell is this?
Raise your legs in the sun to maintain a standing position, and hold your hands in front of and behind you for half an hourglass.
Can anyone tell me, what the hell is this training?
When the knight goes into battle to kill the enemy, he does not stand still to kill others, but to train his sword skills, not to stand in the sun and sweat profusely, while the lord sits under the pergola and writes and paints leisurely.
However, he did not dare to complain, because Captain Gale and Knight Carmen were also standing with their legs raised with a bitter expression.
By the way, it seems to be called standing in a military posture.
What kind of military posture, this is just teasing, right?
However, everyone was afraid to protest for the sake of fifteen silver francs a month and three meals a day, and Brian had to shut up.
All afternoon, Brian was in a military stance. There are those who lift their legs, and there are those who stand upright with their legs and put their hands on their legs, and what else walks in unison, and shouts one-two-one...... Anyway, all kinds of tricks of standing and walking made Brian feel extremely depressed.
By the way, there are various complex requirements for squatting, one foot in front and one foot in the back when squatting, and the two legs squatting down are also divided into various postures of the front and rear feet and calves, or use the back to support the body.
Anyway, Brian, who was squatting, kept scolding Van Pei for coming up with such an abusive thing.
However, as the lord promised, when the evening arrived, there were three meats, one soup and one vegetable, as well as rice and steamed buns, and everyone still had a large piece of beef. This kind of dinner treatment is indeed the envy of the regular army, who makes the lord rich and capricious now!
Brian, who was tired of being a dog, originally wanted to sit lazily and eat like everyone else, but he was immediately asked by the lord to sit up straight, with his waist straight, and no one was allowed to eat without opening his mouth to order eating.
Whoever can't do it, immediately get out and punish the military posture.
The lord's request, although they were starving to death, how could these civilians dare to protest, they could only try to straighten their waists, hoping that the lord would hurry up and start eating.
Just when Brian also straightened his waist and thought that he would be able to eat it in the next moment, it turned out that the damned lord actually waited for half an hourglass and did not order the meal, which made the two hungry recruits who secretly took a small piece of steamed buns and was immediately pulled out by the lord to stand outside in a military posture, and it was said that there was no food tonight.
Hey, poor fellow.
A moment of silence for these two unfortunate bastards.
Brian thought to himself, although this lord was a little messy, but he seemed to have a good set.
For the training of the new army, Van Pei started from the training in the standing military posture, followed by long-distance running with weights, which are all modern basic military training. As for hand-to-hand combat skills, although they must also be learned, such as fighting bayonets, they can be placed in the back for the time being in order to meet the king's requirements.
This kind of training may not be understood by people of this era, but this training is the standard in the era of thermal weapons.
Thermal weapons, of course, Van Pei has, are the things that Van Pei writes and draws in the pergola in the afternoon - grenades.
Van Pei's grenade is intended to use a jagged iron shell, so that it can burst and produce a lot of fragments to splash and kill the enemy. The structure inside is not complicated, the outermost part is the safety bolt, the firing pin rod and the charge hole, and the inside is the firing pin, firing pin spring, detonator, fuse, fire cap.
Among them, the most important is the gunpowder in the grenade.
In this era, there was already gunpowder, and even in times of war there were rockets and the like, but not modern thermal weapons. For example, rockets tie flammable substances such as grease to arrowheads, and then ignite gunpowder and push them out.
But more often than not, gunpowder is only used to make celebratory fireworks, because it really doesn't have much power.
In addition to drawing the drawings of the grenade in the afternoon, Van Pei also wrote a formula for gunpowder far beyond the current one, once the gunpowder is configured and then loaded into the grenade, after detonation, it is a modern thermal weapon, and the lethality is very amazing.
After tossing the eggs of this group of recruits, after Fan Pei came out of the cafeteria, he pondered and went to find Zorn.
If you want to mass-produce grenades, you can only recruit a large number of blacksmiths and purchase a large number of gunpowder raw materials to make them without a steam engine.
Originally, it was best to find Philigot, but Philigot had already gone to other towns to buy, so Van Pei could only find Baron Zorne, who used to have a trading house and often traveled back and forth between the Far North and the commercial alliance.
Let's see what he can do to get his hands on these things.
However, when Van Pei was looking for Baron Zorn everywhere, he found an interesting thing, Zorn, who was appointed by himself as a night teacher, would wander around the town when he was not busy, and often put forward some opinions on the cleaning and restoration of the town's streets.
For example, when Van Pei had already built a factory, Zorn immediately asked people to dig a well behind the factory.
"Dear Young Master Van Pei, I don't mean to offend you about the town planning, it's just that maybe you have been living in the royal capital and don't care about the construction of the town, so you don't know about many things. For example, this factory, since it is a spinning factory, there will definitely be a lot of cotton yarn piled up in the back warehouse, which is easy to catch fire, and if you don't dig a well, once the fire is fired, it will not be able to be controlled, and even spread to all the nearby houses. â
Zorn is in his early forties and likes to wear a high-brimmed hat, which seems to Van PÊe to be a bit of a pirate hat. His body was slightly fat, and half a month of prison life made his face a lot haggard, and he could clearly see that his complexion was sickly pale.
Although he is now just a free man, he is no longer the original Baron Zorne, and he is also grateful to the young master Van Pei for saving his family.
But Zorn is engaged in urban construction for the hairy boy Fanpei, which is full of loopholes at a glance, and he just casually walked around and found the problem.
Regarding Zorn's proposal, Van Pei smiled: "There are many details to pay attention to in urban construction, but it is definitely useless for you to dig a well like this to fight the fire, and it is more convenient for me to use the water of the Emerald River as a reserve to fight the fire." â
"You are reluctant to seek the near and far, the Emerald River is a mile away from here, once the fire burns, there is no time to bring water over."
Zorn felt that he was a little disappointed in this noble young master from the royal capital, and if he didn't understand city construction at first, then it was understandable. But it would be a bit foolish to have pointed out the problem and given a solution, and still put on a big aristocratic stand and refused to take his own opinion.
"I can't get in, it's full of rocks underneath, it's so hard that you can't see the water at all."
But just as Zorn was about to give this stupid noble young master a lesson, a shouting sound came from under the well.