As Duke laid out the layout of the industrial assembly line, Galileo was amazed by this new mode of production. Because in the Middle Ages, it was basically an apprenticeship, and all the production steps were completed by a master, and this kind of batch production and assembly method was the first time I had seen it.

However, compared to Galileo's surprise, Copperbeard and Bruro were much calmer, because their barrel production method was, in a sense, the prototype of a semi-assembly line.

Before a barrel, not to mention the boring and assembly of the back, even the initial smelting may have been completed by a dwarven craftsman, which is unimaginable in modern society. A master of ordnance, does he still need to go to the iron factory to smelt raw ore?

With the implementation of Duke's half-hydraulic and semi-manual method, and the fact that Storm Castle also has a special magic blast furnace, this allows the dwarven master craftsmen to only need to concentrate on boring the barrel, and even the other assembly design of the firearm is responsible for special personnel, and finally the assembly is completed by professionals.

This division of labor and cooperation has directly improved the efficiency of boring a barrel for more than ten days. Now a finished musket may only take a day to complete, so they are also impressed by this division of labor, but they did not expect Duke to apply this method to the storm carriage again, and become more professional.

With the planning of the Storm Wagon Factory in place, Duke took advantage of Bruno and Copperbeard's presence to talk to them about firearms such as muskets and artillery.

"Bronze Whisker, when the Ice Demon was attacking the city before, the Musket team played very well, and it can even be said that it was beyond my expectations. ”

In the face of Duke's sudden compliment, Bronze Whisker looked excited at this time, and at the same time replied very excitedly: "Thank you Lord Lord for your compliment, the musketeers were considered a symbol of backwardness before, and it was your persistence, Lord Lord, that allowed us to see the dawn of victory." ”

Hearing the dwarf of Copperbeard's upright slap, Duke just smiled and replied, "It's also your efforts that have made the Musket Team the result today." By the way, what is the rate of production of barrels now?"

"My lord, the hydroelectric factory is now capable of producing thirty barrels per day, and if you count the assembly and scrap rate, you can probably produce twenty finished muskets per day. This is mainly due to the lack of craftsmen, if the lord you can send another batch of workers or dwarven craftsmen over, I guarantee that the daily output will be at least fifty!"

The production of fifty muskets per day means that at least fifteen hundred muskets can be produced in a month, even if the barrel replacement is counted, there is no problem in ensuring the combat consumption of a musket team of thousands of people. You must know that this kind of efficiency, if it was placed before, even large dwarven tribes and even human kingdoms could not achieve this kind of production efficiency, and Storm Castle surpassed the things that some previous kingdoms could not do with the power of a small territory, I have to say that this is the charm of the technology industry.

"Twenty pieces a day is enough, and the more you should know the situation in Storm Castle now, many aspects require manpower and funds, and it is impossible to put all the investment on the musket team. ”

Hearing Duke's answer, Copperbeard's face instantly showed a look of disappointment, as a dwarven fallen musketeer, his greatest wish was to be able to revive the prestige of the dwarven musketeer. As a result, even in places where Stormcastle takes so much importance, the Musketeers are still only supporting characters, not protagonists.

Seeing Copperbeard's undisguised disappointment, Duke just tapped him on the shoulder. This is also one of the things that Duke admires dwarves very much. That is, their hearts and eyes are more sincere, and many joys, sorrows, and sorrows are written on their faces.

"Don't worry, Copperbeard, the limited development of the musket team does not mean that the musket has no future. I can assure you that the musket will rule the battlefield of the future!"

"Really, Lord?" Copperbeard asked uncertainly, although he also attached great importance to the musket, but he really said that the musket could dominate the battlefield in the future, and he himself had no confidence.

"Really, will I, as a lord, deceive you? Okay, the musket will continue to be produced at this scale for the time being, and now I want to tell you another thing, have you studied such things as artillery?"

Duke finally said the purpose of this conversation with Copperbeard, that is, he wanted to build the cannon of this era. After experiencing the battle with the Sea Clan and the Ice Demon, Duke deeply realized that although the magic in this world is very strong, not all races have strong magic.

For example, unless the average Sea Clan sends Naga mages, their fish-man warriors can't do magic. Although the Ice Demon is known as a magical creature, it is just that in addition to the magic ice spear attack, they do not have that kind of large-scale magic face type killing, and they still rely on close combat.

And in the face of this hand-to-hand combat, firearms will exert unexpected power, especially artillery. If Stormfort had enough artillery, then there was a good chance that the Battle of Beach and Stormcastle would have had a better outcome, at least not so many casualties.

Taking a step back, even if the opponent has a magic attack, Storm Castle itself is not weak in magic, but it has the Great Magus Gandalf, the high-level magician Hera, and a group of low-level witches and dark mages.

Therefore, Storm Castle can completely resist or dispel the opponent's magic, and then use hand-to-hand combat and other hand-to-hand combat to determine the victory, so that firearms can exert great effects, and I believe that crushing the same number of enemy troops should not be a problem.

Faced with Duke's inquiry, Brass Whisker's face was shocked, he looked at Duke and said, "Lord Lord, it turns out that you not only know about the dwarven musketeers, but even the dwarven gunners?"

It was Duke's turn to be surprised, he hadn't heard of any dwarven gunners, and he didn't even know if humans had artillery. After all, compared to the dwarves, humans gave up firearms hundreds of years ago, but in a few places, the primitive firearms are still retained.

For example, the northern frontier of the French Empire, in order to cope with the attack of the orcs, these things were retained. Because in addition to armor, the skin and muscles of orcs are so tight that ordinary cold weapons can't cut into them!

Although Duke didn't know what a dwarven gunner fight was, he naturally wouldn't express it, but replied with a pretended face: "Lord Lord, I am well-read, so naturally I know about dwarf gunners, so you can go on." ”