Chapter 12 The Storm is Coming

Captain Perez is spending his days like the middle of the year. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Although he was a soldier, he did not like to fight. It's all because I was young and blinded by that beautiful uniform, and I did this Rausch job!

The current fat shortage was bought through the relationship of the brother-in-law, just to get more oil and water overseas, and the anti-Agadir did not fight at all, so he could secretly do some small business.

And in this battle, he really did his best. But people are in the field, how can there be that strange idea.

Unfortunately, he was unlucky when he escaped, and he broke his foot when he went down the mountain, and in the end he did not catch up with the governor's boat. The other party probably thought he was dead, right? Anyway, he didn't even think to come back and look for it.

Next, he tried to hide in a remote cave, intending to seize the ship and escape when the time was right.

But kobolds, who are 'battlefield cleaning professionals', won't give him a chance. They led a group of big scary yellow dogs, and it didn't take much effort to find themselves, and when they saw the true face of the kobolds, Perez even thought that he had fallen into hell and was about to be taken away by the demons!

Because of some inexplicable misunderstanding, the kobold thought he was a government clerk running around - of course, this thing knew how to read, and he was very cunning and lost his military uniform.

Because of some strange ideas of Liu Jingtian, the kobold people did not loot the property of the local aborigines, which can be said to be insignificant, well, except for those big businessmen...... It's just for the natives to register their identities and then lock them up at home.

So Captain Perez made an unexpected windfall: he impersonated Governor Francisco's butler - who had already run away with him. So, got a lot of money from the room!

The 'butler' was merely a servant, but in fact he was a personal merchant in the service of the governor, and the wealth left in the room can be imagined.

It's a pity that happiness came so shortly, and the kobold began to engage in some kind of cheating!

He described himself as an accountant, businessman, and weapons designer - to some extent, the truth. So he was counted as an accountant and engineer, and was thrown into the natives, joining the blacksmiths' guild.

Next, I registered, moved, and lectured, and I started working in a daze.

After joining the meeting, I realized that many people in the blacksmith's guild had problems: tinkerers, human traffickers, and a few local snakes mixed in the road, all of which were fakes with rough iron, but at most blunt knives. As for the real blacksmith, I'm afraid it's less than half.

So, everyone was miserable to make all kinds of strange gadgets, because of the level of problems, there were countless wastes, and they were really full of whips, and some of the work was too bad to be transferred directly to move bricks.

Needless to say, even Perez, who was an accountant and designer, occasionally ate whips, and everyone kept bribing the manager, a kobold named Duncan.

However, Duncan is a black-hearted person, he doesn't do anything when he collects money, and if you dare to ask him, he pretends to be a language barrier, and when it comes to assigning tasks, he suddenly becomes a person, and he doesn't even speak three or four languages without typos...... What a hell!

Even if you are a kobold, you can't be so shameless!

Everyone can only live like a year, anyway, it is only a thousand kilometers away from the Portuguese mainland, and the home fleet will come sooner or later.

However, Perez occasionally struggles with a problem: although he occasionally eats whips, his waist bag is a real drum!

I have eaten a wave of the governor's private money!

What if the kobold is beaten back...... It seems that what is waiting for you is not just as simple as paying back the money......

What to do? Who is expected to win?

That's a problem.

In fact, there are really many guys who have the same troubles......

Liu Jingtian doesn't understand this, he's been very busy lately.

The experiment of the breech gun went quite well, and after several 'explosions in situ', everyone had a deep understanding of the structure of the new gun, for which the manufacturing process was improved, and it was already possible to finalize it.

Because of the previous experience in casting a six-pounder gun, this breech gun directly inherited a lot of the former's data, length and caliber, etc., and the weight increased by dozens of kilograms, and the gun carriage also directly inherited the structure of the former.

One thing that has always been a pity is that at present, due to the lack of bronze, the kobold can only be made of iron except for those few snake cannons in the cottage.

This was completely a last resort, because the kobold's iron cannon craftsmanship level was still very limited, and the weight of the cannon with the same performance was much heavier than that of the bronze cannon, and the manufacturing time was four or five times longer.

Because, with the current casting technology, the cast iron is white iron with very poor performance, gray iron and so on, which is the technology after the 19th century.

White iron is brittle, making it a terrible material for artillery that tests toughness. In order to ensure that the gun body has sufficient length, the iron cannon wall must be greatly thickened, but the thermal expansion and cold contraction, the casting is easy to crack when cooling, which is a hurdle that the whole world cannot bypass.

With a scrap rate of 70 percent, the cannon casting master is a national hand.

Therefore, in the original time and space, only the British worked hard to brush up on their proficiency, and finally could make iron cannons in large quantities, and rarely bronze cannons. Later, the Dutch made a big breakthrough in boring technology and began to make iron cannons on a large scale. And the other European powers, all of them are made of bronze cannons.

Although bronze is not very wear-resistant, its toughness is far better than that of white iron, and the weight can be saved by nearly half, and it can be recast if it is broken, and it does not need to be scrapped directly like iron cannons.

The only drawback is that it is much more expensive than the iron cannon, which costs about 5 times what it looks like.

Liu Jingtian can't help it, everyone who has used it knows that white iron is a slag, theoretically, cast steel is a good thing, but the melting point of cast iron is a little more than 1100 degrees, and the melting point of cast steel is at least 1300 degrees, which is a world of difference.

At present, the kobold's frying steel method and steel filling method, the steel is in a semi-molten state, and it is difficult to cast, but the crucible steel can see the liquid steel, but the output is measured in kilograms, not to mention.

Unless open-hearths, converters and the like are invented, large-scale steel casting is completely unrealistic. But these technologies are still very early for kobolds.

However, the traversers are not without a solution, at least for now, the kobolds' cannons use several new technologies, and the iron cannons are only a limited amount worse than the bronze cannons.

The kobold first used heated steel plates to knock out the inner chamber of the cannon, and then used the iron method to make the outer layer of the cannon out of cast iron. Moreover, the gun body is a layer-by-layer structure, so that the gun body has an inward stress, which also reduces a lot of weight.

Unfortunately, with so many processing steps, the production time will be delayed for a long time, and although the weight is controlled, the service life is shorter.

Liu Jingtian said that it doesn't matter, it's good to carry it for the first few years, with a bunch of books, I'm not afraid that I won't be able to make a steel cannon!

He thought very beautifully, in the future, when facing an opponent with equal firepower, he would first concentrate heavy artillery on the opponent's artillery and use the numerical advantage to abuse it!

Then use the high rate of fire of the light breech gun to hunt the opponent's infantry, and continue to abuse the opponent before the opponent reaches the range of the refuel.

In this way, when it comes to the part where the musketeers play the queue to shoot, if they can't beat the enemy, they can chop and feed the dogs.