Two soldiers came up carrying a heavy directional target, a round wooden plank covered with a thin sheet of iron, on which were carved with knives the ring number line.

The target is placed in an open space thirty meters away from the Iron Fist, and according to the range of the musket projectile, coupled with the current light problem, if you can hit the target at a distance of thirty meters, you can already be called a sharpshooter.

Iron Fist excitedly pulled out a thicker top fire rod from his waist and stabbed it into the barrel of the flintlock pistol, compacting the granular gunpowder at the bottom to avoid gas leakage due to gaps.

It could be seen that Iron Fist had drunk a lot of dark beer, but it took a full two minutes to complete the preparation before shooting.

The advantage of the flintlock pistol is that it is accurate and penetrating, but its disadvantages are also obvious, the rear-loading gun is too cumbersome to fire, and the speed of manual reloading is a little slow, and it can still fight in the case of obstacles, if both sides are fighting on the plain, then the reloading speed of the flintlock pistol is a fatal flaw.

To change this, it is necessary to develop a freelance bolt with a repeating hairstyle, and the bullets must be updated.

Replace the iron projectile with a standard pistol bullet.

In fact, the power of the gun and the strength of the penetration mainly depend on the bullet itself, and it has little to do with the gun itself, and the gun only plays the role of firing and guiding.

Rand remembers that the main components of a standard bullet are divided into a bullet (to kill and injure the enemy), a cartridge case (to reload * as well as to wrap the warhead), and a primer (or *, as it is called, which is mainly used to ignite * after being hit * to propel the warhead to fire).

The rest is easy to say, but the primer is not easy to make.

Although mercury thunderate was selected as a primer explosive at the beginning, it has been used for decades, but Rand is well aware of the shortcomings and shortcomings of this substance, although mercury thunderate has a high sensitivity to flames and firing pins, but its stability is too poor, and contains highly toxic, strong corrosiveness, and can easily damage the barrel and bullet wall.

The rand is not good at the phenomenon of a large number of artisans being poisoned in batches*, which is almost unavoidable in an era when the protection technology is far from up to standard.

When it comes to the materials used for the primer, Rand has a better choice.

......

Iron Fist finally finished his reloading, and after carefully examining the barrel and * to make sure there were no gaps that could cause a leak, he pulled the projectile from his cloth bag and pressed it into the barrel with the same dispensing.

"What is he going to do, sir?" Rannylus saw such a strange scene for the first time, and he looked at the strangely shaped iron pipe in the iron fist, and asked in confusion, "Is that some kind of instrument?"

"You'll know right away, a word of caution, remember to cover your ears. ”

"Is that gentleman's playing hard to hear?" Ranilus was guessing for himself, when suddenly there was a loud bang from the iron pipe, and the light of fire and the smoke of gunpowder came out at the same time.

"Boom!"

The unsuspecting Ranneruth was taken aback, he looked at the still smoking barrel of the gun, and even with his knowledge of traveling around the world, he did not recognize what it was really new.

Unlike the demons, Rand did not plan to keep the musket a new weapon, he planned to sell and manufacture it in batches, and as for the core technology project, without the help of Oak, Rand did not believe that other alchemy workshops could imitate the exact same.

"Hit!" shouted the soldier in charge of the target, "Five Rings." ”

The result of the five rings is already quite good, in the dim light, coupled with the fact that Iron Fist is already drunk, this level of accuracy is enough to be praised.

But Iron Fist himself was not satisfied, he frowned and cleaned the barrel with a wooden pole.

As the commander of the sheriff of the Korra, he had been a fanatical fan of the musket since its inception, and in order to practice accuracy, he would hold the musket in a standard posture for several hours every day, and the bones of his body would almost fall apart before he stopped.

As he thought, after the advent of the hot weapon of the musket, the era of cold weapons and the era of knights will soon pass, and only by keeping pace with the times can we ensure that we will not be eliminated.

So not only did he practice all day, but even the sheriffs under him were forced to carry wooden guns to practice stability.

"Come again!" Iron Fist shook his head, picked up the musket, and after readjusting his state, he pulled the trigger directly.

"Kang!"

The muzzle of the gun dragged out a long spark, and the muzzle of the muzzle carried the smoke.

A dull noise could be heard in the distance.

"Dang!"

"Nine rings, nine rings!" shouted the target soldier excitedly.

"Haha!" Iron Fist laughed, with a smug look on his face, "I've been practicing hard for more than a month, and if I want to say that the musket is accurate, I dare to say that I have the number one in the sky!"

"Bragging!"

"The instructor is blind, haha......"

Iron Fist raised his eyebrows and slapped his face: "Bet on a month's salary, who can beat me more rings, and pay immediately!"

The crowd suddenly exploded, and although they were not convinced, none of the soldiers were confident that they would be able to beat the iron fist in handling the musket.

"Is this, a weapon?" asked Lanilus, standing outside the crowd, with a puzzled look on his face.

"Would you like to try it?"

"Is that okay?" Rannylus was a little eager to try, and his favorite thing to do was to try new things as he traveled around the world, because as a businessman, he had to discover the potential value of something new.

"It's very simple. Rand clapped his hands.

By the time Rand led Ranny Ruth to the middle of the square, two unlucky men had already lost to Iron Fist, and the loser was crouched to the side with his head down, while Iron Fist was smiling, clutching two heavy purses of money in his hands, and smiling from ear to ear.

For this kind of competitive gambling, Rand did not go to prohibit.

Failure can be frustrating, but it can also be exciting.

Rand believed that the two soldiers who lost the money, after this, would realize that their skills were inferior.

If they are not reconciled, they can also be prompted to step up their practice in order to defeat their opponents in the next competition.

"Let our friends try out the new weapon. Rand took the musket from the Iron Fist and handed it to Laneruth.

"It's called a musket, it's a new weapon that I just tinkered with, and I'm going to teach you how to use it. ”

"First check whether the barrel and the inlet are blocked, then fill the gunpowder, use the pressure rod to compact the gunpowder, and finally fill the projectile. Rand deliberately slowed down the reloading process so that Lanilus could see every step.

"Form a straight line between the line of sight and the iron ring on the muzzle, aim at the target, and pull the trigger directly. ”

"Hey!" Ranilus flicked his index finger.

After a few moments, the voice of the soldier looking at the target was full of disbelief.

"Ten...... Ten rings!"