With Lauren's "mobile turret" and seven Patronus Heavy Balbows to start firing mechanically, the Great Iron Barrel established a simple line of defense. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Inspired by the blood of their companions, the demon rats outside the walls kept trying to jump up the walls, like a school of fish jumping out of the tide.

There are still too few weapons, and the miners who have just learned to use heavy crossbows are inevitably a little panicked in the face of so many demon rats, and there are big problems with both reloading speed and aiming, and it took a busy day to shoot more than a dozen of them.

And with just a dozen torches, it is simply not enough to illuminate all the battlefields.

Renault stood on the wall with a grim expression, but he was thinking about how to increase the attack power of the big iron bucket.

"Lord Renault," Vivi asked timidly, cowering behind him, "why don't the two big crossbows get up?"

"That's going to be used against the big guys. ”

Being reminded by Vivi of this, Renaud suddenly thought about whether he could make a miniature version of the three-bow bed crossbow, that is, the three-bow crossbow. The crossbow is small, and if the crossbow arm is made of wood, it can be light enough for a single person to use it flexibly, and it should be powerful enough to shoot through the fur of a demon rat.

As soon as he thought of it, Renault immediately rushed to the laboratory and made three bows according to the proportions and made a crossbow arm out of wood. But here comes the problem, the pulley needed for the bow is a big problem. The pulleys on the bed crossbow were relatively large, so it was easy to do, but now what was needed were small pulleys, not much bigger than a thumb, and the miners, who had been pulled by Reynolds to act as blacksmiths, were so anxious that they couldn't get a rough shape out of their heads.

Three bows have been mounted on the crossbow arms, and the keyway has been opened, and now they are stuck on this small part.

"No, that's not the case," Renault sighed, "I need to be round, not flat, and this one is too big for me to fit it on." ”

"Why don't you let me try. ”

At this moment, a lean old man walked from the resting crowd, his hair and beard had turned gray, and the skin on his face and arms was as dry as tree bark.

"You ......"

The old man bowed deeply to Renault: "Dear Lord Renault, my name is Fei Lie, and I am the old blacksmith of Black Iron Town. ”

"Blacksmith!" Renault was overjoyed, this is really a long drought or something, "Are you really a blacksmith?"

"Yes, my lord, your grandfather, Mistress Michel Sr., was already a qualified blacksmith when he was still ruling Black Iron Town. ”

It's also considered lucky, not only does there have a ready-made blacksmith, but he is also quite senior.

Renaud gave him a detailed account of what he needed, and the Ferré blacksmith silently pulled out a piece of red-hot iron from the stove and struck it in a ping-pong manner.

Renault watched from the sidelines, and it felt like he was watching a gorgeous art show. The pieces of iron that others had fought so hard became a lump of plasticine in the hands of Ferres. And his comprehension is not known how many times higher than the guy just now, and soon the pulley has a prototype, which is ten times better than Renault's expectation.

When the final product came out, Renault was already shocked by the exquisite skills of the Ferre blacksmiths, and his contempt for the craftsmen of this era was solemnly put away.

Except for the fine hammer pattern that can be seen on the surface, this pulley is not much different from the cast.

"Well done!"

There was a hint of worry on the face of the blacksmith of Ferre: "It is my pleasure, Lord Renault, that I hope you can get rid of the demon rat as soon as possible." ”

Renaud went up to the wall with a lightweight three-bow crossbow, and he used Lauren as a test shooter.

The three-bow crossbow is lightweight, but because it has three bows, it is more laborious to reload than the Patronus Heavy Crossbow. Moreover, the bowstring pull distance is long, and the length of the crossbow arrows required should be increased accordingly.

Whoosh -

The crossbow bolt came out in response, directly nailing a demon rat to the ground.

The power is enough, but it is too laborious to load, and it is estimated that it is difficult for two ordinary people to operate.

What if you change it to two bows, which are a little less powerful, but will be lighter and easier to load.

When Renault arrived at the wall with a modified double-bowed crossbow, half of the demon rats outside had already been wiped out. Lauren held his light twin crossbows, constantly loading and firing, and it didn't take him a minute to shoot twenty arrows, and each arrow was deeply pierced into the body of the demon rat.

"Haha, it's so enjoyable! Lord Renault, you're a genius!"

Looking at Lauren's unfulfilled look, Renault knew he had succeeded. Compared to the bulky Patronus Heavy Crossbow, the Double Bow Crossbow is not only lightweight, but also nearly as powerful. As long as there are enough pulleys, mass production will be possible in no time. Only in this way, the demand for crossbow arrows will increase greatly, and he will not have much ore stored in the big iron barrel.

Until the last demon rat was eliminated, it was already early in the morning, and everyone was so tired that they almost collapsed on the ground. This is more of a psychological exhaustion, most miners have only dealt with ore all their lives, and their psychological quality is not strong enough.

So Renault demanded that even those who did not have weapons should stand on the fence as a way to exercise their nerves.

When they see more and become numb, they will greatly reduce their fear of the demon rat, and the battle will be much easier at that time.

The blacksmith Fei Li was able to end the battle tonight in time, and the small hammer in his hand barely stopped, and in the end Renault made a total of twenty double-bowed crossbows.

"Take a break. ”

Renaud came to the fire, he was the busiest all night, although the double bow crossbow was made, but there were still many problems in the process of use, and it needed further improvement and adjustment.

He sat casually on the carpet, sipping on the hot soup that had been brought to him, and playing with a bunch of delicate pulleys with one hand, but he was thinking of another, more powerful weapon in his mind.

At first, due to the misestimation of the number of demon rats, it led to the chaos tonight.

He decided that whether he could use it or not, he had to arm all two hundred men as soon as possible. And with such a large swarm of demon rats, there will definitely be a rat king.

How powerful is the Rat King? Can the three-bow bed crossbow on the wall be able to deal with them? These are the questions that Renault must prepare for the worst in advance.

"I'm not tired, Lord Renault, and I can get on working. ”

"No, Fere, everyone gets tired. And you can work better when you are well-rested. Come and sit with me, and maybe we can talk about something else, like my grandfather, and I want to know what kind of person he is. ”

This was the lord's order, and Ferré could only obey it, and he hesitantly put down the hammer in his hand and sat down on the ground like Renault. Renaud noticed that his eyes had been casually looking in the direction of Black Iron Town, probably worried about his family.

But in this case, can anyone survive in Black Iron Town?

"Your grandfather, old Mistress Michelle was a great man. "I was a hairy boy when I came to Black Iron Town, and Lord Michelle hired me into the workshop of the Lord's Palace, but instead of letting me learn how to use a hammer, he took out a thick parchment scroll and taught me how to read and write, and told me what iron was.

"I can swear to God, I never thought that striking iron would be such a complicated thing, and I didn't think what he taught me could do anything. ”

"And now?" asked Renaud with a smile, his grandfather seemed to be a knowledgeable and long-term man, otherwise he wouldn't have made the little Black Iron Town famous all over the country.

"Now I understand, what Mistress Michelle taught me is the soul of iron. "Not only that, but Mistress Michel always had a lot of ideas, and he designed a blast furnace that made smelting easier and made the refined iron even purer. He even told me that he wanted to build a steel track to send ore directly from the mine to the blast furnace. I'm glad you got his perfect genetics, which is a blessing for Black Iron Town!"

Renault was interested, wasn't this talking about railroad tracks?

I'll do it for him, he thought, and it had to be done.

Once, under the rule of the Franklin family, Black Iron Town had a most glorious era, and if it weren't for that ruined father, who lost Black Iron Town to the Deer family in Red Pine Ridge, it would have been better now.

"Want to go back?" Renault asked, "I mean, back to Black Iron Town." ”

"Of course, that's my home, and my daughter is still waiting for me there. Speaking of this, the gloom in Fei Lie's eyes became heavier, and everyone knew in their hearts that there were probably no living people in Black Iron Town.

"Then let's do it, I need you to help me build two sets of wheels for two steel chariots. At dawn, we'll go to Black Iron Town and look for your daughter!"