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Hearing that Duke really knew about the dwarven gunner, the adoration on Brasbeard's face was even more overflowing. Because compared to the name of the dwarven musketeer, the dwarven gunner is much more mysterious, and even many dwarves in remote areas do not know that their race and the dwarf gunner are the class.

Legend has it that when the Dwarven Empire was at its strongest, humans, dwarves and elves were allies against invading races such as orcs and hell legions. At that time, the dwarves also faced the same situation as the current storm fort, that is, the simple musket was not powerful, and the orcs and the hell legions, they were even more physical and powerful than the dwarves.

The War Sheep Cavalry did not have any advantage in the face of the Beast Clan Wolf Cavalry, which caused the dwarves to need another powerful weapon to open their passive moves. And the talent of magic is also a flaw of the dwarves, and the only direction they can develop is firearms.

It is said that the dwarves invented artillery back then, and later developed curved mortars and magic shells, and at the most exaggerated time, they even developed steam tanks with goblin engineers, and they relied on this half-mechanical and half-magic equipment to become the main combat power of the war of the five races, and finally together with the human alliance, the orcs were driven to the dark forests and bloody wastelands in the north.

However, with the outbreak of civil war, the gunpowder technology of the dwarves was far inferior to the magic level of humans and elves. In the end, the entire dwarven empire collapsed, and the other dwarves either hid in the mountains, or like goblin goblins, they chose caves or underground, completely withdrawing from the struggle for continental supremacy.

Finally, there is a decisive battle between humans and elves, due to the strong combat power of human beings, and the omnipotence of almost no shortcomings. In the end, the elves with extremely low fertility finally gave up the struggle for hegemony with humans, and retreated to the dark night forest, which led to the pattern on the continent today.

"My lord, I don't know much about dwarven mortars and magic cannonballs, and you know that dwarves have little magical talent, and only a few sub-races may master a little. Therefore, dwarven mortars and magic cannonballs were only understood by the high-level dwarves back then. But now that so many years have passed, and all the high-ranking dwarves of the year have passed away, it is difficult to find any more dwarves who know about high artillery. ”

"But I don't have any problems with normal artillery. Because the barrel is comparatively even a little simpler than the barrel. As long as you don't care about the weight, the barrel manufacturing process and accuracy can be much relaxed, because as long as the barrel is thickened, it won't explode. My lord, if you give me a little time, I'm sure I can build a cannon!"

Duke didn't have much doubt about Copperbeard's confident reply, because the artillery was really not difficult. Especially now that Stormfort has a hydraulic boring machine, it is very simple to bore out a rough barrel as long as the machine tool is stabilized.

But Duke's requirements for artillery are not just so low, because he wants to directly transition to the planned production of artillery, and directly use modern imperial caliber as the norm, laying a good foundation for future artillery mass production.

Duke didn't want the future of Storm Fort's artillery to have the disadvantage of being produced casually, with either a larger or smaller barrel, which would lead to problems in the matching production of shells.

In addition to this, Duke had an even greater ambition, which was that he intended to bore rifling inside the barrel. You must know that with the current level of technology, it is almost impossible to create the kind of reloading conical shell that will be used in the future, but the range of ordinary smoothbore guns is too close, and the accuracy is completely unlucky.

Although artillery is such a thing, it itself relies on artillery clusters to achieve the effect of artillery washing. But the magic is so strong these days, if all the artillery is concentrated in one position, it is equivalent to putting all the eggs in one basket, in case the other party has some strange spell, this time it is equivalent to reimbursing the Storm Castle artillery.

To understand that a professional gunner is much more difficult to train than a musketeer, the cannon can be rebuilt, but the gunner's loss Storm Fort can't afford it. If you can disperse the artillery positions as much as possible and have little shelling effect, then Duke will definitely choose to disperse the artillery.

Therefore, rifling is very important, because the average small smoothbore gun has an effective range of up to 300 meters. If you get something like rifling, you can at least increase the firing range to 500 meters, and it will be of great help to accurate fire at close targets.

Then there is Duke's greater ambition, whether it is used in naval battles or attacking other castles in the future, rifling is an indispensable thing. You must know that the medieval city may be far less huge than that of ancient China, but in terms of defensive power, the structural design of the fortress fortress with multi-faceted firepower is in a sense the pinnacle of defensive architecture in the Cold Weapon Age.

It is too difficult and very expensive to break through a fortress, there are so many empires on the continent of Europa, and there is no unified emperor. A big part of the reason is also because the defense side is much stronger than the offensive side. Even if the Francois Empire was embattled at the most critical time, it could rely on the defense of the city to hold on.

If Duke wants to expand his territory in the future, the period of capturing fortresses cannot be bypassed, and once rifled heavy artillery appears, then the castles of the Cold Weapon Age will be a thing of the past, and the entire history of world warfare will also turn a new chapter.

"Copperbeard, I know that ordinary artillery is not difficult for you, but my requirements for artillery are not so simple. These design drawings give you that any artillery production must be carried out according to this standard, and as well as try to bore rifling on the inner wall of the barrel. ”

After saying that, Duke handed a roll of design drawings to Copperbeard, which is basically some unit calculation standards, in fact, the world already has an imperial standard, Duke is nothing more than telling Copperbeard that a few inches of barrels should be produced at present.

Of course, in addition to these own units of measurement, Duke's design drawings are mainly to tell the production method of copper whisker rifling.

Rifling was seriously recorded in the fifteenth century, but it was really used on a large scale, because of the difficulty of production, it was not popularized on a large scale until the nineteenth century, and it can be said that throughout the Middle Ages, there were basically no rifled guns. From the previous conversation with Copperbeard and Bluru, they didn't seem to understand rifling, which was the main reason why Duke was preparing the shooting artwork.

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