Guns! Duke was extremely sure that what was placed in front of him was definitely a musket! The barrel, the trigger, the door, the flint, and so on, he was extremely familiar, perhaps it was so sudden and unexpected that Duke couldn't believe his eyes.

"Lord Lord, is there a problem with these weapons?" Iron Hammer didn't know why Duke was stunned, but he was very confident in his tribe's dwarven master, and the weapons he created were definitely the best weapons in the world!

The shout of the hammer woke up Duke suddenly, and he rushed directly to the dwarven craftsman's side and picked up the musket, regardless of the surprise of others. It wasn't until he actually held it in his hands that Duke was sure that none of this was a dream, and that he had really seen a hot weapon in this world!

"What's your name, and how did this thing come about?" said Duke, excitedly pressing towards the dwarven craftsman.

The dwarven craftsman was obviously also shocked by Duke's excited action, and was stunned for a moment before replying: "Lord Lord, my name is Furnace, are you talking about this musket?"

"That's right, this is the musket, did you build it?"

Hearing this, the furnace nodded and replied, "That's right, I forged this musket a long time ago, because I used to be a dwarven musketeer. ”

When he heard the words dwarven musketeer, Duke almost had the feeling that he had no place to find his iron shoes, and it took no effort to get them. In the information given by Jena, the dwarves once had a ranged unit to compete with the human bows and arrows and the orcs' spears, and they were the dwarven musketeers.

It's just that the dwarven musketeers don't have an advantage in the face of strong bows and throwing guns because of the difference in range, and they have more powerful magic. Eventually, the dwarven transformation was forced by heavy armored infantry, and slowly the dwarven musketeers became more and more difficult to see, and only existed in a few dwarven tribes and literature!

Duke carefully examined the musket, which had surpassed the original arquebus stage and reached the level of a medieval flintlock musket. However, it was still a breech-loading musket, and it was still smoothbore, and there was no rifling of the barrel.

But even so, this has reached the point where it can be used, as long as the linear standing line and the three-stage array are adopted, it can still hit enough firepower, and the style of war since the cold weapon will be completely changed, which is a firearm that surpasses the times.

Hammer saw that Duke was interested in muskets, but he didn't have the slightest affection for them, the firing speed was slow, the accuracy was poor, and the range was not much better than that of bows and arrows. The advantage that can be said is that the power is not bad, and the training cost of musketeers is much lower than that of archers, and they can crush opponents by relying on a large number of them.

However, this is not an advantage for the dwarves, because the number of dwarves is too small to experience any attrition, so the dwarven musketeer class is slowly eliminated.

So Hammer stepped forward and persuaded him: "My lord, muskets are not practical on the battlefield, if you are interested in this, you might as well study more powerful bows." ”

"No, the hammer will be the weapon that will change the war in the future, after all, there is one point that it will replace the entire era of cold weapons!"

After saying this, Duke ignored the stunned hammer, turned to the furnace and said, "Furnace, can you still forge this kind of musket, if I give you support, how long will it take to produce one?"

When Duke said he supported the production, the furnace instantly became excited, as a dwarven musketeer, he had always thought that his beloved musket could be restored, and now it was finally time for this day!

"My lord, I can forge a musket like this in three days, and I guarantee that it will not be much worse than a bow and arrow!"

One in three days? Duke was a little speechless about this kind of efficiency, just this kind of front-loading smoothbore gun still needs three days, then it will take ten years to equip thousands of people, which is really too slow.

Perhaps he was a little disappointed to see Duke, and the stove was afraid that Duke would not understand, so he quickly explained: "Lord Lord, the musket has high requirements for the barrel, if there are any cavities or uneven places on the pipe wall, it will easily lead to an explosion, and the barrel must be bored out little by little with a boring knife, which is very time-consuming." ”

"If you want to be faster, you have to thicken the barrel to disguise the roughness of the process. However, thickening the barrel will cause the musket to be overweight and unable to operate flexibly. At the same time, as a dwarven craftsman, I can't tolerate the flaws in my work, and three days is already the fastest time!"

After listening to the description of the stove, Duke nodded, probably he understood that the key point of difficulty in making it was the barrel. However, Duke asked without any concern about this: "Stove, if you can solve the output of the barrel, then how long is the time to make a musket?"

The stove was very surprising to Duke's words, the barrel was the most critical part of the musket, and there was no other way than to rely on the number of craftsmen to pile up. The reason why the dwarves were able to lead the other races on the continent in the emergence of hot weapons and muskets was because the dwarves had a large number of craftsmen, and even if they had a barrel for three days, they could meet the output.

"If the barrel problem can be solved, the other accessories of the musket will be much easier, and I can assemble three muskets in one day!"

Three guns a day for one person, and three hundred dwarven craftsmen for a day. Of course, although the dwarves are a race of craftsmen, it is not possible for everyone to be at the master level. The accuracy of muskets is more demanding than weapons, and there are few craftsmen who know about them, so it would be good to find ten musket craftsmen in the Hammer Tribe.

But even so, the output of 30 pieces a day is enough to meet the needs of preliminary experiments and tests. After all, the advantages of this front-loading smoothbore gun are really not large, and Duke just uses it as a test product for the production line, as a basis for future production improvements.

"Lord Lord, I don't know what method you plan to use to solve the barrel production?" Furnace finally asked, he was puzzled by Duke's mysterious self-confidence, and Duke had a way to solve the problem that the dwarves couldn't solve?

Faced with the question of the furnace, Duke said with a faint smile on his face: "Furnace, manpower has a limit after all, and if you want to surpass this limit, you need mechanical power based on science! You should have seen the hydraulic hammer forging machine of Storm Castle, its power and speed show the power of mechanical power." ”

"If you open your mind and imagine a machine like a hydraulic hammer forging machine to make a gun barrel, what do you think the problem of barrel production is in terms of mechanical efficiency?"

Hearing Duke's answer, the furnace froze in place, he had seen a hydraulic hammer forging machine, and he couldn't believe his eyes at the time. The efficiency of the dwarven craftsman is hardly worth mentioning in front of this machine, and if there is a hydraulic machine similar to making the barrel of a gun, then the output is unimaginable!

"My lord, you mean there is a machine for making gun barrels?"

"That's right, the name of this machine is called Hydraulic Boring Machine!"