Chapter 118: The Black Iron Army is Established!
The farther you run, the better your performance becomes, which shows that in addition to the increase in speed, the endurance of the transformed soldier is not the same. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
After coming down five thousand meters, the five people only gasped slightly, and joked with the ordinary guards, quite proudly, and under Renault's order, they climbed with their bare hands like five apes to conduct a test.
"Whether it's strength, speed or flexibility, it's a lot better than Lauren. Badge looked at the data recorded in the notebook and said in a summary manner, "If they attack Miley at the same time, it is estimated that they will have the upper hand." β
"Am I that weak?" Miley was unconvinced, "Why don't you let them come down and try it now?"
"Don't mess around," Renault shook his head, "you're no match for them right now." β
"Humph!" Miley snorted unhappily, her eyes on fire.
"If you are alone, you can indeed easily kill any of them with your abilities, but it is not the same when you are under siege. Renault said, Miley now purely relies on the demon spirit and her own agile reflexes, for a hand-to-hand combat system, the skills and experience of fighting are not achieved overnight, and she now spends all her time cultivating the level of the demon spirit.
"To transform the Soldier against the Awakened, you must act as a group. β
"Then what should I do?" Miley said angrily, "If you don't have enough people, you can't do anything, what's the use of this, Lord Renault, you don't know how much they can eat, four or five ...... a person"
Renault and Bageton were amused, and Miley was so childish that she was fighting with a few reformed soldiers.
The transformed soldiers were separated from the Guardian Army, and the name of the new team was the Black Iron Army, which was directly under Renault.
His plan was that the Black Iron Army would be mainly responsible for attacking fortifications in the future, which was equivalent to special forces. Before the tank can be built, important weapons must be in the hands of the Black Iron Army, so as to reduce the possibility of weapons leaking.
In particular, the mortar, a simple and easy-to-imitate weapon, can be easily imitated once it falls into the hands of the enemy, and a few experienced blacksmiths are found. If the enemy were to attack Black Iron Town with mortars, it would not be a beautiful scene.
"When you say weapons of mass destruction, are you referring to this steel pipe?"
Having seen the effects of a mortar once, Miley has little interest in it. Not to mention that the power is too small and not accurate enough, it takes half a day for a single shell to explode, which makes her feel that it is better to rush forward and kill the enemy.
Renaud knew what she was thinking and smiled noncommittally. In the past two days, he has asked Baji to train a group of guards with empty ammunition, and now it is time to send them on the field.
Ten mortars were quickly installed, and the angles were adjusted and aimed in one direction.
The refined mortar of Ferre, with a caliber of 60 mm, a barrel length of only 70 cm, two 40 cm brackets and a base of 15 cm square, the total volume is 35 kg.
Since there is only black powder at present, in order to achieve a sufficient range, Renault reduced the weight of the shell when it was designed, and now an ordinary shell is only 3 kg, which is destined to not be too powerful.
However, this is not a problem, the power of the explosion can be solved by adding a small amount of digested glycerin, or by firing intensively, and now the focus is on range and accuracy.
"Target, 1,000 meters ahead of the cliff, continuous launch!"
With Badge's order, there was a muffled thud, and huge black smoke rose around the mortar.
Then, like a huge thunderclap, the smoke of gunpowder rose from the cliff in the distance, and the continuous explosion lifted the debris and shrapnel into the sky, and the smoke quickly spread to the entire mountain.
100 shells, all fired in less than half a minute.
Everyone was dumbfounded and secretly swallowed their saliva.
Almost everyone wondered what were the chances of surviving if they were in this constant explosion?
The answer is that there is no chance.
Even the five reformed soldiers could not have escaped without prior warning.
Renault inspected the base and barrel and found that the dirt underneath the base had collapsed into a shallow crater due to the huge recoil, and the bottom of the barrel was slightly reddened.
It is estimated that after a few more shots, the barrel will be scrapped, and there may be a serious accident such as exploding.
This is also a major reason for the large deviation of the landing point of the shells.
"Felie, the base should be enlarged, the barrel should be lengthened by thirty centimeters, and the bottom should be thickened by half a centimeter. β
"But then it will add a lot of weight. β
"It's okay," Renault pointed to the five modified soldiers, "the mortar will be specially configured for them in the future, and this weight is nothing to them." β
Fei Lie realized that when he made the cannon barrel before, it was for the use of ordinary guards, and he didn't think of the Black Iron Army at all.
Then Renault asked people to check the landing point of the shell, and the error was still very large, and the difference between the two farthest landing points was still 70 meters.
Renault can't solve this problem, and only the principle and approximate structure of the mortar can be found out on a thousand degrees, and how to improve the accuracy and range still needs to be explored from non-stop experiments.
Time and manpower are indispensable, but the problem is that he is short of them now, and he is really anxious.
Renault walked to the side alone and pulled out his phone, and after the mortar was successfully built, the app did not update the relevant manufacturing options.
This couldn't help but make him feel depressed, after all, the era of artillery was far earlier than the steam engine!
Could it be that after he built the internal combustion engine, all kinds of advanced thermal weapons would appear?
Renault knew that he couldn't be in a hurry, and with these mortars, he had already raised the combat effectiveness of the escort army by several notches.
He asked FerrΓ© to develop a heavier mortar with a larger caliber and longer range while copying a steam turbine. These mortars were to be mounted on wagons to form active fire fortresses. The five reformed warriors were separated from the Guardian and led by Renaud himself, with the position equivalent to the squad leader of the Escort Army, and their remuneration was also greatly increased.
This made many of the guards, especially the old miners before Renault, very envious, so much so that they quarreled over the twenty places for the second phase of the experiment.
The first five were all seriously wounded soldiers, but it would be too unfair to select only these people to healthy soldiers who were eager to reform.
Charlotte kept the success rate at 90%, which means that 10 out of 100 people will still die in failure.
Although it is all voluntary, it is something that needs to be approached with caution.
Therefore, among the single and married, try to choose single, and among the injured and able-bodied, try to choose the injured.
Speaking of singleness, there is another question that Sherlock raises.
There are too few girls in Black Iron Town!
Black Iron Town has been washed by the blood of Warcraft, and most of the current townspeople are miners and their families in the past, as well as workers and craftsmen recruited from outside, and the ratio of men and women is seriously imbalanced.
As a lord, Renault also felt that the demographic structure should be adjusted to solve all these personal problems for the townspeople. And letting them get married in Black Iron Town will help reduce population movement and increase the sense of belonging of the townspeople.
A job posting for young, unmarried women was soon posted all over the Nibel River Valley.