After the molten steel solidified and cooled in the clay mold, the dwarven brothers, under Donner's command, broke the clay mold.

After cleaning up the dust, the entire gun body was presented to several people.

The barrel of the cannon is dark and shimmers with a metallic luster. The gun body is thin in front and thick in the back, with anti-slip patterns on it, and gun lugs on both sides to install the gun carriage to adjust the firing angle.

The cast gun belongs to the front-loading smoothbore gun, the whole gun body is 1.5 meters long, weighs nearly 1,000 catties, has a caliber of 55 millimeters, and can fire a projectile weighing four catties.

According to the caliber of the original artillery, this artillery can only be considered a light artillery for field operations.

Urus carefully inspected one side of the gun as required by Donner, and after confirming that it was qualified, he began the next step of processing.

The firing of the gun requires a fuse port, and since the gun is cast as a whole, the next step in processing is to drill a small hole in the rear of the gun.

The walls of the rear half of the gun were ten centimeters thick, and it was almost impossible to drill a small hole in such a thick steel by hand, so a boring machine was required.

However, in this era, craftsmen are all handmade, there are no industrial machine tools at all, there is no way, Donner has to make a simple boring machine with animal power, for the time being, there is no need for precision, as long as the hole can be drilled, anyway, it will be manually polished and calibrated later.

A few guards were summoned, several of them fixed the barrels of the guns to the improvised boring machine, and the short apprentice drove the wildebeest to run in small steps.

The wildebeest has a docile personality and excellent endurance, and it spins around in small circles, driving the boring machine to start squeaking and turning.

The drill bit on the boring machine is forged from harder, high-carbon steel, and the tall blacksmith pushes the control lever, and the high-speed rotation of the drill bit begins to break through the cannon wall.

Donner pulled Anderson and the dwarven brothers to the side and spoke, "Uncle Anderson, the casting of the iron pipe will be handed over to you. ”

As he spoke, he took out a few more drawings and handed them to the dwarf brothers: "In addition, please trouble the two masters to cast one of the iron pipes on these drawings first." ”

The three drawings in Donner's hand were a six-pound medium gun, an eight-pound large ship gun, and a twelve-pound castle shore defense heavy gun.

The dwarf brothers looked at the drawings and found that in addition to the difference in size, weight, and style, the structure and shape of these iron pipes that needed to be cast were basically the same, so he patted his chest and promised: "Don't worry, the head of the regiment, there is absolutely no problem in handing it over to the dwarf brothers." ”

Donner smiled: "That's good, after it's all cast, I'll celebrate you with enough wine, how about it?"

The two dwarf brothers' eyes lit up, and they nodded again and again: "Then let's say so, the head of the regiment is not allowed to lie to us." ”

"I mean what I say!" laughed Donald.

It takes a lot of time to drill a hole in the barrel with this simple boring machine.

Moreover, in order to reduce the resistance of projectile boring when the gun is fired, it is necessary to manually polish, calibrate, and polish the barrel later, and more processing is required.

So after explaining all the matters of the dwarven brothers, especially the safety of production, Donner left the artillery casting office.

In the afternoon, a guard informed Donner that Theodore had once again arrived at Cancer Island.

Donner put down what he was doing and went to the docks to greet him.

The ship lowered its sails, dropped its anchor, and saw Theodore walking out of the ship with a tired face.

Donner stepped forward and hugged his old friend, and said with a smile, "Lord Sir, welcome to Cancer Island again." ”

This time Theodore came with two sea-going ships, which were crowded with people, and it seemed that they had hired a lot of sailors and mercenaries.

However, there seems to have been a fierce battle between the two ships, with two broken sails on the masts and a few arrows stuck in the crooked hull.

There were marks of slashing and axes on the ship's helm tower and even on the deck, and many sailors had scars on their bodies, and the breeze was blowing, and the smell of blood wafted from the ship.

Donner looked at him casually and asked Theodore, "Lord Sir, did you have a battle at sea?"

Theodore nodded: "Yes, the two pirate ships tried to loot us, but fortunately, after a fierce battle, the brave sailors finally defeated the damned pirates, otherwise, I am afraid that I would not have been able to see the captain of the regiment." ”

Donner comforted: "Lady luck will favor the adults, you see, didn't you arrive at Cancer Island smoothly?"

Later, Donner asked, "I don't know what good news Lord Theodore has brought me this time." ”

Theodore's face seemed a little heavy, he looked around the dock, sighed, and said, "Commander, let's talk as we go." ”

Donner bowed his head slightly, made a gesture of please, and led Theodore to the island.

"Saltpeter, sulfur, seeds, cloth, and the ...... that the regimental commander needs I bought you all the money, but the grain and iron ingots were only half of the original amount. ”

Donner frowned, the cannon was just in time to be out, just in time to need the iron ingot, but he didn't expect Theodore to bring him such bad news.

Donner was silent: "Why is that? Is it because the porcelain doesn't sell enough silver coins?"

Theodore shook his head: "No, the head of the regiment, please listen to my explanation slowly." ”

"The war in the north of the kingdom is stalemate, and although the Marquis of Mesfield has recaptured Hurricane Castle, the armies of the Eternal Winter Kingdom are still ravaging the kingdom's territory. ”

"The war consumed a great deal of grain and weapons, so the king decreed that all the kingdom's realms must first supply grain and iron ingots to the armies of the north, so that the things needed by the commanders of these two regiments were now in short supply in the kingdom, and the price was raised at a very high price by some merchants. ”

Donner's brow furrowed, "It's come to this?"

"Yes!" Lord Theodore sighed, "The army of the Kingdom of Eternal Winter has besieged the Hurricane Fort, they have burned and looted around the Hurricane Fort, and some legions have begun to prepare to cross the Onyx River. ”

"In order to prevent the army of the Eternal Winter Kingdom from continuing to grow, under the orders of the king, General Mesfil has begun to clear the walls on both sides of the Onyx River, and it is rumored that a large number of refugees have been generated in various territories, and these refugees have begun to pour all of them to the south. ”

The mighty kingdom of Augustos was beaten and had no power to fight back.

This caused the nobles of the south to protest en masse, slandering the Marquis of Mesfil for his ineffective supervision of the war, and demanding that the king revoke the marquis's military position and title. ”

Donner was surprised and asked, "With so many refugees, isn't it just right for the southern nobles to have more slaves to drive?"

Theodore smiled bitterly: "Then there must be enough food, you may not have seen the flow of refugees, it is a disaster, the hungry people are all over the mountains, and everywhere they go, there is not even the bark left! No nobleman can take in so many slaves." ”

"His Majesty also issued an edict ordering the territories to accept a certain number of refugees! As the sister of General Mesfield, the Countess of Elinor allowed the territories to take in many refugees in excess of their quotas. Theodore frowned: "If it weren't for the porcelain trade with the head of the regiment after so many times, I'm afraid the Earl of Elinor's Mansion wouldn't be able to support it." ”

Speaking of this, Theodore turned to Donner and said, "I heard that the head of the regiment said last time that Cancer Island lacks population, and this time I can bring you three hundred refugees, how about it?"

I...... My day your mother!

Donner was dumbfounded, bringing such a small amount of food, but turned around and stuffed me with hundreds of refugees.

This...... What do I feed them with?