When Lear returned to the gun field, it was already the morning of the third day, and Jeremy was sitting unkempt and red-eyed next to a bronze cannon barrel, intently pouring a black stick.

"What are you doing?"

Lear poked his head out of his back curiously, only to find a thick wooden stick in Jeremy's hand, along with a ruler, a tin sheet, a carving knife, and a large pair of pliers scattered around his feet.

What is this for?

"My lord, I have been pondering since you left, because I think your train of thought must be correct, and the reason why we can't succeed must be something wrong in the details, I thought about it for three days, and it wasn't until this morning that I had some bold ideas. ”

Jeremy's eyes lit up with excitement when he saw Lear, although Lear said that he would continue to research, but he was really worried that he would be given up like this, so he was actually a little uneasy when he was thinking about the problem, and he was finally relieved until now.

"How bold?"

Lear was also intrigued by him.

"First of all, the rifling we depicted is too simple, although two rifling can increase the accuracy and range of the shell, but at the same time it also causes the instability of the shell, if we carve a few more or even the entire inner wall of the barrel?

Jeremy excitedly speaks his thoughts, and Lear is also amazed at what he hears.

That's right, although the two rifling wires play a guiding role, but they will also make the shell have more micro-momentum before leaving the chamber, so adding two more to the left and right will not stabilize it, if it is engraved with a circle, isn't it a dead death?

How did you not think of such a simple truth before?

"Go on. ”

Lear was also energizing, and he felt that a whole new world was beckoning to him.

"The other is that the purity of the gunpowder we use is very low, and there are problems with the previous preservation method, I have carefully analyzed the composition of gunpowder, and found that it is composed of sulfur, toner and a black crystal, the black crystal is no problem, but the quality of sulfur and toner is too poor, which causes our gunpowder to be extremely unstable, so we can replace sulfur and toner and reconfigure gunpowder? The dwarves say the quality of the sulphur ore on the island is the best they've ever seen, and we don't lack trees at all!"

Jeremy's eyes were already shining.

"Anything else?"

Lear was also excited.

"I have a preliminary idea, although the scattered bullets we have experimented with before have a wide range of damage, but there are two disadvantages, the first is that the range is too short, when we improve the gunpowder, this may be improved, the second is actually not a disadvantage, but we can enhance its power again, if the inside of our shells is filled with gunpowder? And this practice is also applicable to solid bullets, we only need to hollow out the solid bullets and fill them with gunpowder, is it the same to achieve the effect of scattered bullets? And the range and accuracy are solved. ”

Jeremy loudly announced his discovery, he was already in a state of madness, for more than ten years, he had been addicted to artillery for a long time but had not achieved anything, and he was alienated and despised by everyone, even his own brother no longer trusted him, and this moment dream was so close, how could he not be ecstatic?

"Hmm......"

Lear grinded the beard that didn't exist on his smooth chin, and he was thinking about this question in his head, of course he knew that Jeremy was right, this is what the bomb looks like in the afterlife, according to Jeremy's idea, he would not be surprised to build a high-energy cluster bomb Lear in the future, but there is a problem that must be solved, and this problem is something that even he did not know in his previous life.

"How to solve the detonation problem?"

Although he didn't want to do this, he still had to splash Jeremy with a small scoop of cold water, but what he didn't expect was that Jeremy looked at him like a fool after hearing this question.

"What's wrong?"

Lear is a little confused, so isn't the question I'm talking about important?

"Your Excellency...... You wouldn't have heard of leads, would you?"

The authorities are obsessed, and this embarrassment is a big one.

"Huh... Ha ha... How is it possible, I just didn't think about it at once, and if there were any other ideas, what you said before was very right, let's do it later. ”

After laughing dryly, Lear quickly pulled away from the topic, it was so embarrassing.

"The dwarves said that if they could use sulfur as fuel, they would be able to build a high-temperature furnace, so that they could forge steel and even wrought iron, and if we could use these two metals to make barrels and ammunition, we would at least be able to improve our stability and power for at least one era!"

Jeremy was already irrepressibly hilarious, the pioneer of the times, the father of artillery, as if he saw his enemies trembling under his crotch, and those who had insulted him in the past were lining up to sing praises to him.

Lear also felt a surge of desolate power in his body, no, he had to shoot something.

"So you are now?"

Finally, he still kept a little sane, and after noticing the long black straight wooden stick that Jeremy was holding in his hand, he asked curiously.

"That's what I just thought, I've been waiting for you to come, I've wrapped this piece of wood in a piece of iron, and then carved equidistant grooves into the iron, as long as I poke this stick into the barrel and pull it out, won't the simple rifling be formed? ”

"So what are you waiting for?"

Lear was already a little impatient.

"That's... I couldn't find a suitable stick, so it's a bit thick after wrapping it in the tin sheet, and I need you to cast a spell to make it a little thinner, so I can stuff it in..."

Jeremy said sneeringly, it was the first time he had driven a high-ranking mage to do this kind of work, and in the past, he had even coaxed and intimidated those witches to depict magic circles in his artillery, and even sacrificed hue several times.

Lear: "......"

............

A month later, on the calm waters of the ten-day voyage from Misty Island, several tired seagulls landed on top of a huge mast after a brief hover.

A huge fleet of ten ships is cleaving the waves.

Lear stood on the deck of the lead ship and looked into the distance, but he didn't see the island of gold and diamonds that Jerry was referring to.

"How long will it take?"

He turned his head to look at the artillery pioneer beside him, whose eyes shone with confidence that he had never seen before.

"Soon, my lord, you can see Annabelle's lair in ten nautical miles, that woman has never looked down on me, this time I must let her know how good I am!"

Jeremy raised his fist hard, but quickly withdrew it after meeting Lear's indifferent gaze.

Lear's flagship at this time was the main pirate ship of Jerry that day, and a month was too hasty to build a steel cannon, and even a cast iron furnace could not be raised, but he couldn't wait.

Misty Island is changing every day, but one of the problems it also creates is the huge shortage of gold coins, not to mention, the daily salary of those craftsmen who have escaped slavery is a huge number, although most of the materials are self-fetched, but with the improvement of the building level, self-sufficiency can no longer meet the needs of construction, so Lear has to return to his old business.

He's here to rob.

The power of the guns had been greatly improved by Jeremy's improvements, but due to the failure of their previous operations, including the ones that Lear had acquired later, they were so badly damaged that there were only ten of them that could be used now, all of which he had installed on the ship at his feet.

As for why such a large fleet was driven, in addition to scaring people, the greater role was to move the spoils of war.

According to Jeremy's information, the island's silver was piled up as high as a hill, and the gold-paved pools could even swim in it, and Lear couldn't imagine what it would take for a woman to be so powerful to amass such a huge fortune.

But it doesn't matter, those things will be his.

This time he brought a thousand slave warriors, including sailors, a team of nearly 2,000 people, this is to facilitate the future landing operations and robbery of the human resources, otherwise he can come out alone and destroy the Annabelle Pirates, but he can't bring things back.

As for the success rate and danger index, it was not in his consideration at all, the Holy Dragon Soul could still be used once, and after seeing the power of the new artillery, he didn't think he would have a chance to use this ability.

Ambition is bound to win.

The sea breeze blows and the sun shines on the water, after avoiding a huge whirlpool and the temptation of a female siren on the reef.

Treasure Island has arrived.

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