The dwarf ironstone held his breath and aimed in a straight line, and then pulled the trigger hard, with a loud "bang", accompanied by the breath of gunsmoke, the scarecrow target a hundred steps away was directly exploded with one shot!

Duke began to shudder at the sudden loud noise, and he didn't expect the musket to be so loud. But when he smelled the smoke, his face was full of intoxication. This is the smell of gunpowder, the real smoke of gunpowder, the feeling and taste of the era of hot weapons, which always makes people yearn for it.

The distance of 100 paces, converted into meters, is about 76 meters. This distance is actually not too far, and there is no way to compare it with the sniper rifles of later generations. But for a front-loading smoothbore gun, if it can point where to hit within a distance of a hundred meters, then it is already able to crush the bow and arrow.

Because the cost of cultivating a musketeer is far lower than the cost of an archer, and the difficulty of making a musket is very high, but once the barrel production is truly broken, the cost of mass production will far exceed the cost of the bow and crossbow. As for the degree of endurance, it is far better than the bow and arrow, you must know that the bow and arrow maintenance is extremely troublesome, and there is no way to use it in rainy days, and even a little damp is at risk of being scrapped.

This is why it is so difficult to train a good archer in ancient times, the requirements are too high, even if the musket has to be inserted a little, but it can rely on industrial production and large quantities of equipment to completely dominate the cold weapon archer.

However, if you want to really crush the archers in the smoothbore era, you need the appearance of artillery. As the god of war, even if it is a front-loading smoothbore gun, there are enough of them to form a fire cover, and the archers will have no chance at all.

"My lord, the barrel of the gun is extremely solid, even if it is just one and a half gunpowder, there is no problem at all. ”

When the stove said this, he was also proud, and this musket gave him a face. After all, in this age of magic, almost no lords are interested in muskets, and even the dwarves themselves have abandoned the dwarven musketeers as a class.

It is also because of the abandonment that firearms have been in a state of stagnation for thousands of years, and there has never been an advanced musket with reloading, let alone a mini bullet.

"There really is not much problem with the quality of the musket, after all, it is a boring barrel, and the structural strength is more than that of coiled steel. I wanted to see the ultimate range and accuracy of this musket, otherwise it would be almost impossible to recreate the glory of a firearm at the current range. ”

Hearing Duke's words, the furnace's face instantly became solemn, the biggest reason why the dwarven musketeers were completely eliminated in the first place was not because of insufficient power. In terms of the power of muskets at close range, except for a few overweight armor on the mainland, basically all armor can penetrate everything.

But the range is always the fatal wound of the musket, not to mention the comparison with the magic delivery distance, even if it is a bow and arrow or an orc troll shooter, the musket is worse, and after a certain range, the accuracy of the musket plummets, unless it is a platoon of gun arrays, otherwise it really depends on fate whether it can hit someone.

"Iron stone, shoot at a 100-meter, 200-meter target. ”

"I see, Uncle Stove. Ironstone nodded back, then reloaded the musket.

With the order of the stove, the scarecrow target was placed at the position of 100 meters and 200 meters, and then Tieshi once again raised the musket in his hand and fired at the human target at 100 meters.

There was a loud "bang", and the human target at a distance of 100 meters exploded, which made the factory personnel who watched this scene around let out an exclamation. Although it is only a short 100 meters, it is a very good level to be able to achieve such accuracy.

The ironstone was reloaded very quickly, and it took about ten seconds for another musket to be loaded, this time aiming at the two hundred meters scarecrow target in the distance. The distance of two hundred meters does not sound very large, but it is really only a fist-sized target with the naked eye. Not to mention this world, even if it is placed in the Middle Ages on the earth, this distance from wanting to hit the target depends more on fate, and the reason why Duke tested it was just to see what the limit distance of the rifle produced by the hydroelectric factory was.

This time, the iron stone took a little longer to aim than before, but soon a gunshot was heard, but the previous situation of the scarecrow target exploding did not appear, and only the target could be seen shaking slightly, still standing in place.

Seeing that the scarecrow target did not fall, a look of disappointment appeared on Tieshi's face. But at this time, Duke applauded, because the target had obviously been hit by a bullet, but the smoothbore gun was hit with a shotgun similar to a shotgun, and only scattered small projectiles were scattered in the distance, so it was naturally impossible for the target to crack directly like before.

But even so, it is enough to prove that the storm musket still has some lethality at a distance of two hundred meters, and there may be no way to maintain accuracy and power at this distance, but the musket of this era has never been used as a sniper rifle alone, once there are rows of musketeers forming a row of guns, this power is very objective.

"Tieshi, your marksmanship is very good, and you fight beautifully. ”

Duke didn't forget to praise Ironstone, judging by his title, it seemed that he was still the nephew of the furnace.

"Thank you, Lord Lord, for the compliment. ”

Tie Shi replied with a red face at this time, being able to be praised by Duke, and it could be seen that he was also very excited.

Duke smiled at him, then tapped the dwarf on the shoulder twice in encouragement, then turned to the stove and said to Bruno, "The barrel is basically fine, and the accuracy is within acceptable ranges." Although there is still a big gap in the fight against magic, there is still a great advantage against ordinary archers and warriors, within a distance of dozens of meters, even a warrior in armor will be crippled if he is not killed by a single shot. ”

"Next, let's start mass production and start small batches of equipment, and form a brigade of about two hundred musketeers to conduct basic platoon shooting training. If all goes well, the Stormcaster will soon have the 3rd Stormtroop Musket Regiment. ”

Hearing the three words of the musket regiment, the eyes of the furnace almost burst into light, as an old musketeer, his lifelong dream is to reproduce the glory of the dwarven musketeer, the dwarf who did not have any magical talent back then, is relying on a musket, hard to carry the magic bow and arrow of humans and elves, and the throwing spear of the beasts, becoming one of the main combat races on the continent.

Now this dream has finally come true again one day, how to make the stove not excited.

I saw the furnace patting his chest heavily, and assured Duke: "Lord Lord, the furnace will definitely live up to your expectations and ensure the establishment of the most powerful musketeer army on this continent!"