After studying the map for a moment, Rembert tapped his finger near the red circle.

"I remember there were about five villages in this area, and we could move them all over, and the land of the Thorn Wasteland wouldn't produce much food anyway......"

"I'll leave this to you, I won't ask too much, the sulfur ore and saltpeter produced will give priority to meeting the supply of the alchemy workshop, and the excess output can be considered for export, but we must ensure that there are two warehouses in stock in case of emergency." Jiang Feng said.

Seeing that the wizard trusted him so much, Rembert rejoiced in his heart and hurriedly nodded.

"Please rest assured that I, Rembert, will successfully complete the task you assigned with my life."

All the resources in the wizard's domain belong to the wizard's property, but let Jiang Feng personally supervise the miners' production, he obviously doesn't have that spare time.

So the mining of sulphur and saltpeter was left to the Carel family of Rembert. With the prestige of the Karel family in Boulder City and its surrounding areas, it will be much easier to deal with both the relocation and resettlement of the village.

As for whether Rembert would take advantage of his position in the city hall to falsify the accounts or something after controlling the resources of the two mines, Jiang Feng was not worried at all.

With Rembert's cleverness, it should have been clear that if he didn't want the Cweft family to be a lesson for him, he would honestly hug his thighs, and it would be absolutely impossible for him to think crookedly because of this little profit.

However, Jiang Feng would not let him work in vain, and appropriately divided ten percent of the profits from the sulfur mine and saltpeter mine to the Karel family as a reward for them. It is still necessary to give some sweetness appropriately, which is mainly considered from the perspective of production enthusiasm.

……

The training of musketeers is gradually on the right track, but this alone is not enough.

Only with the cooperation of artillery can the maximum advantage of the musketeers be brought into play and the morale of the enemy army can be destroyed to the extreme.

Fortunately, the Thorn Wastes lacked everything but stone, mine, and clay. After a week's hard work, Yiran's side finally burned enough cement and refractory bricks to build a simple iron-making blast furnace in the backyard of the alchemy workshop.

With this thing, it marks the real entry of Boulder City into the age of firearms. Ordinary blacksmiths cannot forge guns of acceptable quality, and ordinary pig iron cannot withstand the pressure of a huge explosion of gunpowder.

The iron-making blast furnace was unlocked, and together with the casting and forging process, not only the production of muskets would be greatly accelerated, but the thickness of the barrel could be appropriately reduced, making it possible to make iron-cast guns. After Du Wei arrived here from Crocodile Island, Jiang Feng was going to let him build a steel mill here, concentrate the craftsmen in the city, and move the assembly line production model out.

Anyway, when the nuclear power plant is repaired, the technology tree in this world will almost be broken by him, and it will not be worse at all.

In the backyard of the alchemy workshop, next to the wooden shed of the iron-making blast furnace, two blacksmiths were busy beside the blast furnace, putting the freshly fired iron rings into cold water to cool down. It was obviously unrealistic to have an alchemy apprentice with little experience in wrought iron to operate the blast furnace, so when the furnace was built, Fielding hired two blacksmiths in the workshop.

Noticing that Jiang Feng appeared here, the two blacksmiths hurriedly stopped what they were doing, and were about to kneel on one knee to perform the courtesy of a commoner to a nobleman, but Jiang Feng raised his hand to stop them.

"What's wrong with the production of parts?"

"My lord, a batch has been produced, and we have polished the parts to the specified size according to your requirements, and I don't know if we can satisfy you." The man in the leather apron looked at his physique larger than Jiang Feng, but he carefully lowered his head and said in a big way.

The moody personality of wizards is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, coupled with the transcendent status of wizards in the wizard's domain, most people's awe of wizards is written on their faces and engraved in their bones.

"You'll know if you can test it or not, load the parts into the car, and send them to the training ground in the north of the city."

"Yes, sir."

The two blacksmiths hurriedly beckoned to their apprentices and began to load large pieces of parts onto the caravan.

When he was on Crocodile Island, Jiang Feng had already made such a thing as a smoothbore cannon. It's not enough, this time he wants to take out the kind of section cannon used in naval warfare, but for the wild. Long-barreled smoothbore guns in combat environments.

The wooden handrails can be connected to the cart and can be quickly deployed by horses, and the barrel is connected to the position of the wooden support, and there is a semi-curved caliper to mark the firing angle, and the pitch angle of the barrel can be adjusted slightly.

For infantry phalanxes, especially heavily armored ones, the striking power of this flat-fire artillery can be said to be devastating.

Just imagine a gourd string.

A shell hit it, exaggerating the opposing formation. But as long as it hits the target, taking into account the secondary damage caused by the rolling and bounce of the cannonball, one shell will make a dozen or so people lose their combat effectiveness, and more than a hundred people will be frightened, and there will be no problem at all.

In the war of cold weapons, there has never been such a thing as a total annihilation target.

Whoever beats the opposing flag white first wins the war.

In order to let Fielding and the apprentices of the alchemy workshop more deeply appreciate the power of the new weapon and the importance of only working, Jiang Feng took them to the training ground together.

and Emily, who was energetic, also followed noisily. As for Yi Ran, she was originally not interested in coming, but she was pulled by Emily to be a strong man, and helplessly carried a wooden box, a mop and a bucket, and followed Jiang Feng.

The caravan arrived at the training ground first, and the militiamen who were resting curiously circled around the caravan, and when they saw Jiang Feng walking towards this side, they scattered and slipped away.

Jumping off his horse, Melle greeted him and asked respectfully.

"My lord, are you looking for me?"

"I need a large clearing, a little further away from the walls and residential areas, preferably with a target to test the performance of siege weapons."

"The place you are talking about must be in the training ground of the militia, where there are targets for testing ballistas, and they are definitely spacious enough." Melle hurriedly said.

The training grounds for the militia and the recruits are separated, but not far apart. Because it has a capacity of 20,000 people, and at the same time, it is necessary to carry out large-scale marches and promote further training, so there is no doubt about the spaciousness.

After thinking about it, Jiang Feng nodded and said.

"Okay, let's go there."

Melle bowed and saluted: "Qing comes with me." ”

Taking the caravan with them, the group arrived at the militia training ground shortly after.

At this time, Cilita and Frank were training the militia, and under the command of different colored flags, the militiamen divided into two groups collided with each other with long sticks wrapped in strips of cloth.

Seeing Jiang Feng walking towards this side, Celita frowned slightly, handed over the training task to Derrank, jumped off the standing horse, and walked in the direction of Jiang Feng.

"I've seen the Chief Wizard, I don't know what wind is blowing you here?"

"I'm going to test a weapon, maybe I'll have to borrow the training grounds, I wonder if Miss Cilita is interested?"

Cilita was stunned for a moment, he looked at Jiang Feng and Fielding, as well as the caravan behind him, and tilted his head suspiciously.

Borrowing the venue wasn't a big deal for her, and ballistas weren't part of today's training anyway, so Celita nodded yes and gave a knightly salute.

"We're here to help."

Finding four soldiers, Celita ordered them to remove the ballistas used for training and make room for Jiang Feng and them.

Jiang Feng commanded the caravan to stop beside it, and then stepped forward with Fielding and a kind of alchemy apprentice, took out the contents of the disaster prevention caravan, and then began to assemble it.

Looking at what was in front of her, Cilita frowned, if she was not mistaken, the two round ones should be two wheels......

The militia in the distance was clearly more familiar with this thing than Cilita.

One of the militiamen was surprised by this scene and said, "Look, the wizard is assembling the cart. ”

"Shhhhh The militia on the side reminded.

Hearing this, the militia quickly closed their mouths.

Wheels, planks, barrels......

Under Fielding's command, the six apprentices quickly assembled the smoothbore gun. With Fielding's talent, after seeing the shape of this thing, he immediately understood the function of this thing, and his eyes widened.

This thing is a large musket that eliminates the firing structure!

"When to shoot. Come out? Emily excitedly pulled Jiang Feng's sleeve, and Yi Ran, who was holding a kettle to drink, squirted out a mouthful of water.

Jiang Feng was also full of black lines, and reached out and knocked on Emily's head.

“…… Can you not use such a bad word? ”

"Hmm......"

Emily, who was holding her forehead, looked at Jiang Feng with an aggrieved expression, not understanding what she had done.

With two wheels and a long barrel, a full-fledged field. The battle smoothbore cannon appeared in front of everyone. Jiang Feng stepped forward and touched around, and after confirming that there were no potential safety hazards, he nodded with satisfaction.

"This is ......" Celita looked at it for a long time, but she didn't see anything special about it.

"You'll find out in a moment." Jiang Feng said lightly.

After Jiang Feng's inspection, Fielding stepped forward to check it in person again, and after confirming that no parts were left behind, he nodded, walked up to Jiang Feng and said, "My lord, it's ready." ”

"Remember the steps I said?"

"Yes." Fielding said.

Jiang Feng nodded and looked at Cilita next to him.

"Miss Cilita."

Suddenly called, Cilita looked over.

"What's the matter?"

"You usually train ballistas, what kind of ballista is qualified?"

Qualified?

It's a new word.

Cilita hesitated for a moment, looked at the front of the training ground, and pointed to the boulder about three hundred paces away.

"Usually when we test ballistas, we have the gunner shoot at the rock. If you can hit six times out of ten shots, you can pass it. ”

Glancing at the boulder three hundred steps away, Jiang Feng nodded and turned to look at Fielding.

"Ready to get started."