In fact, in this world, before there was artillery, there was also an engineering device that could destroy the city wall, and that was to use something similar to the medieval one called the return cannon on the earth.

Saying that they are cannons is actually a kind of stone throwing machine, using huge stones weighing up to a white pound, stone by stone to smash down the city wall. After all, the walls of the era did not have the strength of reinforced concrete, and the adhesive between the stone strips began to lose its effect over time, relying more on the accumulation effect of its own gravity.

But the financial and material resources consumed to build such a thing are too great, and the time to break through a city is also very painful. Now Duke already has such a thing as artillery, which is nothing more than to make the caliber as large as possible, and Duke thinks that it is not much more difficult, after all, he has given up all the lightness, and it is no problem for them to make two iron lumps, right?

Alan heard Duke's order and knew that the lord was preparing for the attack on Andorra City, and it can be said that the entire Storm Army has now formed a belief that Andorra City will inevitably become part of the Storm Territory, and they have been waiting for this day for a long time.

So Alan nodded very simply and replied, "Yes, Lord Lord." ”

Now that things have been deployed to this point, combat readiness is naturally a must-do.

Copperbeard in the firearms lab soon received orders from Duke, and for several months, Copperbeard and the dwarven craftsmen were basically dealing with the production process of the storm musket. Because Duke has already released his words, if the Storm Army expands and develops again in the future, it will basically be a leisurely musket team, and at the same time, the current Storm Musket Army will also conduct combat training, and the arsenal will begin to study the bayonets that match the muskets, which will be able to more perfectly solve the combat problem of the range gap of the Storm Musket Army.

In fact, there is no need for Duke's special order now, the muskets of Storm Fort are enough for future army expansion, you must know that when Duke led the army on an expedition before, the Storm Arsenal has always been producing muskets, but later with the defeat of Alpine City, after the new Storm Cavalry and the absorption of Alpine Army, weapons and armor are more tight, so the production capacity is transferred to the production of storm armor and cold weapons.

However, the previous combat readiness storage, the Storm Musket has now exceeded tens of thousands, which is enough to maintain the consumption of the Storm Army in a large-scale operation. And with the increase in the number of muskets made, the operation of the boring machine is now more accurate, and the efficiency is also greatly improved, once again reducing the labor time.

As long as the steam engine is fully practical in the future, and the hydraulic power will be supported by more stable and convenient mechanical power, then the storm gun will basically be able to enter the stage of mechanized production, at least in terms of the barrel. It can be said that at that time, the Storm Musket will not have to worry about the production problem at all, as long as there are enough soldiers, and the Storm Musket will be as many as there are.

It's just that this time after receiving Duke's artillery order, Copperbeard still felt a headache, because the time given by the lord was very short, basically only one month of combat preparation, and it was very difficult to even finalize the basic shape in this month, let alone directly develop a new type of artillery. In this case, even the bronze beard felt that the lord had suddenly become like this, and really thought that the caliber of the artillery was so simple as increasing according to the proportion?

In fact, this is really not a Duke layman, but he thinks in his heart that the production of front-loading cannons is not very difficult, and his requirements for these cannons are not very high, as long as they can fire solid cannonballs with large mouths, it is very good to be able to slowly collapse the city wall one cannon at a time, so he will only give a month.

Moreover, Storm Fort is actually equipped with infantry cannons and has accumulated a certain amount of experience in making artillery, which in a sense can be regarded as reducing the burden on Copperbeard, so this time Duke did not come to guide in person, but gave full authority to Copperbeard and they were responsible, after all, Duke is a lord, and as the stall in Storm Territory gets bigger and bigger in the future, he can't do everything, after all, he has to rely on the people below to figure it out by himself.

Copperbeard frowned in the face of such a situation, and he went to the hydraulic factory to find Bruro as soon as possible, because whether it was a storm musket or a storm cannon before, it was actually related to Bruru, a construction mechanic, and all the production machinery needed to be studied by both parties.

"Bluru, Lord Lord gave me a request to make a large-caliber heavy cannon, this kind of artillery we dwarves are not surprised, you know that the pinnacle achievement of dwarf artillery is the dwarf mortar, but those forging techniques have now been sealed in the confidential files of the dwarf kingdom, and the dwarf mortars outside have basically been lost, so if you want to forge this kind of cannon, I think it is a bit difficult to cast the mold directly, and we don't have enough time to conduct artillery experiments, I plan to follow the previous way of making muskets and cannons, and still use a boring machine to boring out the barrel。 ”

When Bruru heard the request of the copper whisker, he directly shook his head and objected: "The hydraulic boring machine is not omnipotent, whether it is hydraulic impact or the strength of the boring machine itself, it is already very difficult to bore out small cannons before, if you want to make the cannon that the lord needs, the hydraulic boring machine is very likely to be boring different, even if it can punch holes, it takes a long time to do it, I don't agree with this suggestion." ”

In the face of Bluru's refusal, Copper Whisker was a little anxious, which is also the common hot temper of dwarves, I saw him directly say in a loud voice: "If you can't do it, you have to find a way, this is an order issued by the lord, I estimate that the lord just wants to use this kind of large-caliber artillery to attack Andorra City, do you want to delay the lord's strategic plan?"

As soon as he heard this, Blue Row instantly replied unhappily: "What do you mean that I want to delay the strategic plan of Lord Lord, as a member of Storm Castle, Lord Lord's most loyal courtier, I can sacrifice my life for Lord Storm Castle and Lord Lord, I will delay Lord Lord's plan?"

"Also, has the news that the lord is going to attack Andorra City public, and has this artillery development plan been made public?

Originally, the big boss of Copper Whisker was actually a bit of a cultural person, but now when he heard that he was talking about the leaked military aircraft, Copper Whisker instantly covered his mouth and didn't dare to speak.