Chapter 239: Improvements in Artillery
Glenn immediately understood, and left the restaurant on the second floor with Flandy and went to the library on the fourth floor.
After they each sat down on the sofa, Flandy asked, "Gülen, the teacher is looking for you today." ”
"Hmm"
"Do you know everything about the Warcraft Continent?"
"Got it. ”
"How's it going? Isn't it stressful?"
"Hehe, Flandie, you're wrong, the pressure is there, but it's not big. ”
"Oh, so confident?"
"Of course!"
Flandy was a little surprised, and even he and his teacher Algernon were a little worried, not knowing where Gülen's confidence came from.
I couldn't help but ask curiously, "Where did you get your faith?"
"Because of you!hahaha!" Gülen laughed.
“...... You have so much faith in me?" Flandy was speechless.
"It's not just you, but also Archmage Algernon, and Dennis, and Prime Minister Donn, there are so many people helping me, what am I afraid of!"
"Hahaha, Gülen, you're right!"
At first, Flandi thought Gülen would be worried, but he didn't expect him to be so confident. It seems that since becoming emperor, Gülen has indeed grown.
"It's just some Warcraft!Flandie, you've already defeated two Warcraft Kings, and you've killed one Warcraft King, and Archmage Algernon has killed one Warcraft King.
Our human race is countless times stronger than more than six hundred years ago, and there were only a hundred great magicians who were able to drive the demonic beasts out of the Oskaia continent at the beginning, so what is there to be afraid of now?"
Flandi looked at Gülen with satisfaction and said, "Yes, there is nothing to be afraid of, now there are no less than five or six hundred magicians in our human race, and there are thousands of magicians, there is indeed nothing to be afraid of!"
"You forgot to mention that there are countless Demon Warriors!" Glenn added.
Since the invention of the Mana Activator, the Oskaia Empire has had at least five thousand more pseudo-demon warriors in a few months. Almost half of the previous number.
Now there is still more than half a year before autumn, and if you go all out to build magic weapons, the number of demon warriors will reach a terrifying tens of thousands by then.
Tens of thousands of demon warriors, even if twelve Warcraft kings come together, they will be bitten to death by ants!
"But don't take it lightly. Flandi said: "This autumn's beast tide will definitely be the strongest ever, hundreds of years ago the Warcraft still had a way to retreat, and they can retreat to the current Warcraft Continent, but this time they have no way to retreat, be careful and fight to the death." ”
"Don't worry, Flandy, we have the Duk Mahon battlefield! I went to see it a few days ago, it's really unimaginable, we humans have such a spectacular defense, if countless cannons are put on top of that battle line, the monster will not have a chance at all!"
In these days in the Continent of Warcraft, Flandi really didn't care much about artillery, so he asked, "Oh, how is the development of artillery now?"
"Awesome!" Gülen gave a thumbs up. "I've seen several artillery tests, and each of these tests has become more powerful and farther, and even the accuracy has improved dramatically. ”
"Well, it seems that Senior Barry is doing a good job, and it's time to improve the artillery again. ”
"Isn't the artillery already very powerful?" said Gülen strangely.
"Hahaha, it's far from it, the true power of the cannon hasn't been emitted at all!"
Glenn's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "How else can it be improved, how powerful can it be?"
"You see that the current artillery still fires iron balls, right?"
"yes!"
"Then have you ever wondered what would happen if you made the iron ball pointy and hit the monster?"
"It's fine if it's pointed, but it's fine if it's pointed forward, but if it's facing forward somewhere else, it won't work. ”
"Then just let its tip point forward. ”
"How is that possible, it rolls when it shoots out, and it is impossible to always keep one direction forward!"
"Hehe, it looks like you've done some research on artillery now. ”
"Of course, I'm also studying your mechanics book, and it's still easy to understand such a simple truth. ”
"Actually, you just need to add a spin to keep it flying with the tip pointing forward. ”
"So how?"
"It's very simple, add rifling to the barrel, and I'll tell Senior Barry about the specifics. ”
"If it really succeeds, then the cannonball will stick into the body of the monster like an awl?"
"That's right, and the shells need to be improved. ”
"The shells are heavy enough, right, why do they need to be improved?"
"Don't you realize that every shell you fire now has to reload the gunpowder and clean the barrel, which is a very troublesome thing?"
"Okay, at least one launch in a few minutes is fine. ”
"It's too slow, the shells need to be fired faster, at least a few rounds a minute!"
"Ah, what's the best way to do that?"
"Of course, make a shell, put the shell in the shell, fill the shell with gunpowder, just add a little flint to the bottom of the shell for percussion ignition.
In this case, as long as you prepare enough shells in the early stage, when the time comes, isn't it very time-saving?"
"Can it be like this?" Glenn widened his eyes as he simulated it in his head, and found that it was indeed much more convenient than before.
"Why do you think that the current artillery is really a bit rubbish?"
"This is the foundation, and the artillery has to be developed little by little until it is what I imagined it to be. ”
"What do you think you think? Tell me what else?"
"Power! The power of the artillery is still too small. ”
This time, Gülen no longer emphasized the current power of artillery, but directly asked, "Is there any other way to increase the power of the cannonballs?"
"Of course, have you forgotten when I first showed you gunpowder?"
"Of course I do. ”
"How about making the warhead of the cannonball hollow and adding gunpowder to it? As long as a small device for collision ignition is added to the tip of the cannonball, as soon as it touches the demonic beast, it will explode immediately, do you think this will increase the power?"
Gülen was stunned by the picture Flandy's depiction, and he had always thought that artillery shells would be at their most powerful with the potential energy of speed and weight.
After Frandy said this, he suddenly felt that the power of that bit of potential energy was simply not worth mentioning in the face of the explosion.
"Flandy, you're so ruthless!" Gülen was now completely convinced.
"Hey, hey. And even harder!"
"More ruthless?" Gülen didn't know what to say.
"That's right, even harder, mines!"
"And what are mines?"
"To put it simply, it is to wrap the gunpowder in an iron sheet or something, bury it in the ground, and then make a tripwire fuse, so that as soon as it touches the tripwire, the gunpowder in the mine will explode immediately!"
Gülen pursed his lips and said, "Then it's better to bombard it directly with artillery." ”
"Artillery can shoot as far as you want, but you can bury mines as far as you want, the first time we only used five kilograms of gunpowder, and you have seen the power, what if you use ten kilograms of gunpowder? What about twenty kilograms of gunpowder? What will be the effect of simply using fifty kilograms of gunpowder!"
"Fifty kilograms of gunpowder ......"
"Yes! Anyway, it's the Warcraft that will attack, we will bury this kind of mine all the way to the Warcraft Continent from the battlefield of Dukmahon, and bury all the mines in that strait, think about it, just if the Warcraft wants to reach the city of the Duk Mahon's defense line, how many will die!"
"Uh......"
Gülen thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't evaluate Flandy's tactics, and finally sighed: "Alas...... I didn't expect you to collect those things in the first place, and now they have such a big effect. ”
"That's right, but if you want to achieve this effect, a waste recycling plant will probably not produce enough, and it would be better to build a few more factories around a big city like the Kunmo Wangdu. ”
"I see, gunpowder is so important, I'll bring it up at the meeting tomorrow. ”
"So, don't worry, the Demonic Beast won't be able to attack the Oskaia Continent at all!"
"Hmm!" Gülen nodded heavily.