By the time Lanlos and the others successfully boarded the ship, Lao Chen had been waiting on the deck for a long time.

"Master Chen is truly an eye-opener. As soon as he got on the ship, Lanlos seemed to have forgotten his previous interest in the ship's firepower configuration, and walked up to the panda man with an excited face.

Nonsense, this is a real light work. And in addition to the compelling feature of water floating, there is nothing to say about speed. On the dinghy, Lanlos continued to accelerate with a force field impact, but was still thrown away in an instant.

If only I could learn ......

Lao Chen has a wide range of knowledge, and in just a few days, he has also become familiar with Lan Luos, and he rolled his eyes before he continued to speak: "Give up, this is to use true qi." ”

"That's right. Knowing that he didn't have the talent to cultivate true qi, the elf could only sigh silently and didn't continue to entangle.

During this time, he tied Lao Chen to his side with a bun of food, and he learned a lot of fist and foot kung fu by knocking on the side, and also tried to do some basic exercises of true qi, which made him intuitively feel the gap between his body and soul. At the same time, he also understood that many of the warrior monks' moves, without the assistance of true qi, they were like flowers, and there was no need to learn them at all.

"Hey, didn't you say you wanted to visit?" On the other side, calming the nervous crew from the shocking scene, Catelyn shouted at Lanros.

The latter regained his mind and hurriedly walked over. Looking at the guns and shells on the deck, he could see the clue at the first glance.

Unlike what had been seen on the Red Mist of the Bloodsail Fleet last night, the deck guns on the Bride of Neptulon were significantly smaller in caliber. The cannonballs stacked on the side are not conventional round spheres, but rugby-like ovals, and if you add the tail fin, they are quite close to the shells of the previous and modern eras.

This type of projectile will form a more stable and rapid rotation when ejected, have a longer range, and will be much more accurate and accurate than a spherical projectile.

Crucially, even with the same amount of gunpowder, the caliber of the guns relied on by such shells would be much smaller than that of spherical shells.

But it is obvious that the production process requirements of oval shells are much higher than those of spherical shells.

Lanros retracted his attention and looked at Caitlyn, "Your ships are equipped with this kind of artillery?"

"I think. Caitlyn shook her head, "At the moment, only the eight guns on the deck have been replaced with this, although the caliber is smaller, but the hull weight is much lighter. It is a pity that the price of shells for this artillery is too high, and it is still at the R&D stage, which did not form mass production. ”

"It was I who dealt with those gnomes in Dalaran that I got these samples at a high price. If you were someone else, you wouldn't be able to do it. ”

"Gnomes?" ignoring Caitlyn's pride, Lanlos's brow furrowed slightly, "You mean this cannon and cannonball are produced by gnomes?"

"The shells are fine, but no matter how soft and hard the artillery is, the little men who pick the door only give me this one. Catelyn's face turned with regret, and she patted the cannon beside her indignantly, "For these shells, I also specially ordered the same caliber cannon at the Rivigaz, but this cannon can't hit far." ”

Isn't this nonsense? People are rifled guns, how can you compare how many smoothbore guns you make?

Stroking the muzzle of the cannon beside Caitlyn, and feeling the even, smooth rifling of the threads, Lanros felt a growing sense of surprise in his heart.

He doesn't know much about the gnomes of this world, and when he fought the orcs and the allies marched south to free Ironforge and the gnomes from Nomreligan, he missed them because he went to Broken Beach.

Back on the battlefield, it's already a decisive battle in front of the Dark Gate. Although there were gnomes in the alliance forces at that time, because of the small number, it did not have much impact on the changes in the battle situation, and Lan Los naturally did not notice it.

Unexpectedly, the dwarf, who was ignored by him, had developed rifled artillery that could be used in actual combat.

Of course, the superiority or inferiority of rifled guns and smoothbore guns cannot be compared separately. During World War II, rifled guns were used on a large scale because of their long range, high accuracy, and strong armor-piercing ability, but since the shells had stabilized wings and various composite metal armor-piercing shells, the main battle tanks of most countries have been replaced with smoothbore guns.

After all, the rifling wears out too quickly, and dozens or hundreds of cannons are fired one after another, and the original accuracy and firing range are prone to large errors. Smoothbore guns, on the other hand, do not need to worry about this, and the production process of smoothbore guns is more simplified, more durable, and easier to clean.

However, in Azeroth, where military technology is relatively backward, the increase in firepower brought by rifled guns is far more important than any attrition.

Besides, Azeroth's metal output is very different from that of previous lives, not to mention those ancient artifacts that have not been rusted or damaged for thousands of years, and the armor that can perfectly defend against bullets is not comparable to that of previous lives.

With the help of such materials, the history of Azeroth's rifled guns will inevitably go further and higher.

The dwarf kingdom of Nomorigen was surrounded by orcs a few years ago, and although it resisted waves of orcs with the help of technology, Orgrim besieged it in the later period and almost killed the dwarfs alive.

Now these little men have endured humiliation and burdens, and they have quietly advanced by leaps and bounds in military strength, which is really not to be underestimated.

Although he already has two goblin engineers in his hands, Lanlos knows that the engineering knowledge of goblins and gnomes is completely different, and if he can have a chance to catch a few dwarf engineers, then the future development of Shui Duoduo is too much to look forward to.

"These ammunition are consumables after all, and they are gone when they are used up, how do you resupply them?" Pressing the excitement in his heart, Lanlos continued to ask, "Do you want to do it with Rivigaz?"

"How is that possible?" Caitlyn gave him a blank look, her face full of ridiculousness, "I can't afford that black-hearted goblin's charge, I have a fixed quota every month for the little man, and I don't spend much money, just to provide a hit report for each shot, and I'm in trouble." ”

"And how do you usually trade with gnomes?" Ranros's eyes flickered faintly at the question he was most interested in.

Caitlin was also very proficient, and she could see through his intentions at a glance: "You also want to build a batch of artillery? Aren't you a mage of the Arcane Order? Why are you still interested in engineering things?"

"As long as it's useful, I'm interested. Touching the few rifling wires that did not feel the difference at all, Lanlos was more and more surprised by the dwarf's precision workmanship.

With his extraordinary perception and concentration, even flies flying in the air can be exposed in his eyes. But even so, he was unable to identify obvious flaws in the craftsmanship of the rifled gun.

"If you had asked me last month, I wouldn't have been able to tell you even if Gianna was there. Caitlin thought for a moment, and didn't shirk it too much, "But during this time, because the Bloodsail Pirates are fighting with Treasure Bay, they are also ready to start actively selling out, well, this is the business card of one of the people in charge, just take it and go directly to Nomorigen or Ironforge Castle." ”

Taking the card that Catelyn had handed her, Lanros looked at it with black lines all over his head.

The cardboard, the size of half a palm, is densely packed with holes. Thanks to the small print on the head, otherwise the hell knows what it is?

ID identification card

Master craftsman Owersback

01001101 01100101......

The whole card is covered with perforations of the same size according to a certain rule, and according to the hole is 1 and the hole is 0, it is a line of binary encoding. If you have some knowledge of binary algorithms, you can directly decipher the information in them based on these codecs, but unfortunately, Lanlos does not understand.

Fortunately, he didn't care about these details at this time, he was more concerned about whether the emergence of binary meant that the dwarf had mastered computing technology, and had developed a computer?

Playing World of Warcraft in Azeroth?

Lanlos felt like his heart was about to stop.