Chapter 498: A Few Rounds

"It's beautiful. This was the first thought of the officers and men of the 1st Artillery Division after seeing these four guns.

The magical flesh and blood furnace in the brood's body, the cannon barrel is now shaped into an indescribable smooth streamline, and I don't know what the brood has added to the bronze, but the barrel is exuding a charming bright yellow color

Coupled with the swarthy steel gun carriage and a pair of wheels painted in the same black paint, the whole gun looks full of icy killing beauty.

But in the minds of all the officers and men of the 1st Artillery Division, this was the case; after all, compared with the heavy trebuchets and ballistae they had operated before, these guns were too small, and in their minds, the bigger the head, the more powerful it was.

The little dwarf looked at the orcs under his command, although he didn't say it explicitly, but the look on his face was so obvious.

He smiled in his heart: "It's a mule or a horse, pull it out for a walk, boys, wait for Lao Tzu to give you a few shots, and you will know that this is a good thing." ”

With his beckoning, a jungle monitor lizard that was more than ten meters long and more than three meters high, under the traction of several elven warriors, slowly came to the open space two miles away from the first artillery division.

The huge jungle monitor lizard raised its head, glanced at the strange crowd in the distance with some curiosity, and after seeing that there was no threat, it lowered its head again and began to eat.

The jungle monitor lizard is like this, relying on its huge body and good strength, it has few natural enemies in the jungle at all, and it is not afraid of strangers at all; although it is a miscellaneous animal, it is more likely to eat leaves and weeds and other plants, as long as it is not provoked, it is generally very tame.

"The artillery operator is in position. Following Lord Modo's order, more than a dozen elven warriors trotted behind the four cannons, and suddenly the sheep-headed Setters vaguely understood what Lord Modo meant, this was to show the power of the cannons to the jungle monitor lizards in the distance.

More doubts came to Seiters's mind: at such a long distance, the heavy trebuchet installed at the head of the city could also do it, but after the stone was thrown out, the specific accuracy could only depend on luck, and such a huge jungle monitor lizard, with these magnified muskets, could it be killed?

As for the problem that the jungle monitor lizard will launch a madness to hurt people after being provoked, Setus is not worried at all, with the invincible Lord Modo, it is not a simple matter to deal with a crazy jungle monitor lizard.

"Start reloading. Master Modo issued the order to reload again, and immediately more than a dozen temporary elf operators were in a hurry.

In the eyes of the sheep-headed Seiters, the way these cannons were loaded was also like a musket, and he saw an elf holding a wet mane mop, reaching into the barrel of the cannon and cleaning it back and forth a few times, and then quickly retreated to the side.

Then another operator stuffed a cloth bag weighing several pounds into the barrel, and then took a wooden pole to stab the cloth bag towards the bottom of the barrel, and stabbed it down; this step Setters also understood, this is the gunpowder that is loaded and fired, but he clearly saw that the cloth used to wrap the gunpowder is actually expensive and terrifying oriental silk.

The unique silk from the Oriental Continent, light and thin like a cloud in the sky, is very sought after by the nobles of the Fila Continent, and the only thing that makes people dissatisfied is its astonishing high price, which really makes many nobles and lords very painful.

Even the amount of silk wrapped in a few catties of gunpowder just now is estimated to cost Setters half a month's salary, which is a lot of gold coins;

"Where this is firing artillery, it is simply firing gold coins. Setus complained in his heart, he really didn't think much about the weapons that Master Modo changed this time: "It's better to use heavy ballistas, even the most expensive armor-piercing ballistas, the cost of one shot is less than one-tenth of these silks." ”

He muttered in his heart, but Seitz didn't dare to let go of every movement of those operators, after all, these cannons were their closest companions in the future.

After stabbing the gunpowder, the elf operator stuffed a round iron ball into the barrel of the cannon in the same way, and then stabbed the iron ball with a wooden rod;

Then an elf used the sharp cone in his hand to puncture the gunpowder wrapped in silk in the barrel through a small hole in the bottom of the barrel, and then carefully stuffed a fuse into it;

"It's a nuisance. The adjustment took a long time, and Setters was so bored that he couldn't help but yawn, but when he realized that the occasion was wrong, he quickly covered his mouth.

At the same time, he missed the original ones, the heavy trebuchets and ballistas, although they were a little heavier, but they looked much easier to use.

Finally, after those elves were busy for a while, they finally stopped what they were doing, and the elves in charge of aiming saluted Modo with some embarrassment, and reported loudly: "The cannon is loaded and aimed, please ask the lord for instructions." ”

The little dwarf's face became serious, and he replied with the same salute: "The jungle monitor lizard in front of the target, the twelve-pounder cannon and the six-pounder cannon fire in turn." ”

"Ready, light. "After the order was given, the fuses at the bottom of the barrels of the two twelve-pounder guns were ignited almost simultaneously, and after nearly ten breaths, two loud bangs rang out almost simultaneously.

Setus, who was originally standing at the forefront of the team and was more than ten meters away from the artillery, was almost frightened by the huge sound at the moment when the cannon sounded, and the movement was too big.

At the same time as the cannon sounded, the two twelve-pounder cannons seemed to be pushed violently, retreating several meters backwards before stopping, and the two iron balls smashed towards the jungle monitor lizard two miles away with a speed that made Setters smack.

Several operators didn't care to watch the results of the battle, hurriedly pushed the gun back to its position, repeated the procedure just now, and began to reload.

"It's amazing! so fast, so accurate. Two miles away, the iron balls flew for a few breaths before smashing into the front of the jungle monitor lizard, one of them flew away, and the other hit the waist of the jungle monitor lizard, which immediately made Setus, who had just stood firm, let out this kind of exclamation.

The thick skin of the jungle monitor lizard, which was difficult to break through in the face of ordinary swords, was simply vulnerable in front of the iron ball, but the iron ball the size of a vegetable bowl tore a basin-sized wound directly on the waist of the jungle monitor lizard.

The huge wound immediately made the jungle monitor lizard fall into madness, and its red eyes rushed wildly towards the artillery position, and the terrible wound on his body stained a clear trail of blood on the way he charged.

At a distance from the Jungle Lizard's charge, the two six-pounder guns finally opened fire, and at this distance, the two trumpet iron bullets hit the target, and even the obviously much smaller iron bullets still opened two small wounds on the Jungle Monitor Lizard's body.

Finally, when the jungle monitor lizard rushed to a distance of 100 meters, the scrambled improvised second knife operators reloaded the two twelve-pounder guns, and after the two twelve-pounder guns were fired, the entire head of the jungle monitor lizard was smashed and fell with a bang.

It was from this moment that Seitz and his men looked at the few cannons in front of them as if they were looking at the most precious and rare treasures in the world.