The Wehrmacht's camp in Ajaccio was located on the outskirts of Ajaccio, and with the exception of the Northern Legion, which was used to defend against the Genoese counterattack, the garrison was the largest in Corsica.

Even so, according to Major Trevary, the army stationed in Ajaccio, excluding men and miscellaneous servants, was no more than five hundred soldiers.

The entire Wehrmacht was massed in the northeast, with more than 2,000 men, stationed in the port city of Bastia, where Lawrence and Trefary were about to depart.

As soon as the two arrived at the gate of the camp, six horsemen led eight tall horses with black coats and walked out of the camp quickly.

Lawrence looked at the cavalrymen, who had all the same chests, polished cuirass, iron helmets on their heads, two white feathers stuck in their helmets, and even their legs had shins made of pure iron.

He also carried a leather backpack with a rolled futon tied to it, the same backpack that Lawrence had seen behind the line privates in the movies.

Lawrence weighed an estimated twenty kilograms for this armor and outfit alone, not to mention the sharp saber and a finely crafted flintlock pistol around their waists.

"This is the cavalry escorting us to Bastia." Major Trefali explained.

"How many cuirassiers are there?" Lawrence asked with interest as he looked at their equipment.

Major Trefali took the reins from the cavalry at the head of the group, led the two black horses behind him, and replied:

"Not much, about fifty people, you have also seen, these equipment, including horses, at least five hundred gold. Not to mention the cost of training and daily expenses. ”

Lawrence nodded to understand that in all eras, cavalry was a huge expense. Especially for such a heavy cavalry, the war horse under the crotch alone must be a good horse of the first class, otherwise it will not be able to bear the weight of the cavalry's armor.

Major Trefali handed over the reins of a horse and asked:

"Do you know how to ride a horse?"

Lawrence shook his head slightly embarrassed, he was an ordinary working family in his previous life, and he had nothing to do with equestrianism, and at most he spent ten dollars on horseback at the zoo to take pictures.

Major Trevary had no choice but to help Lawrence straddle his horse, and then have a cuirassier hold the reins for him next to him.

Ajaccio is located in the southwest of Corsica, and to reach Bastia in the northeast you have to go around the mountains in the center of Corsica, passing through the coastal plains. According to Major Trefali, it will take about two days and one night to arrive.

Since the population of Corsica was mostly concentrated in Ajaccio and the alluvial plains to the south, Lawrence and his party did not see even a few villages or settlements as they marched north.

During the boring long journey, Lawrence had to chat with Major Trevary to resolve his boredom:

"By the way, Major Trefali, you used to be a blacksmith?"

"Huh? How do you know? Major Trefali asked, somewhat surprised.

Lawrence smiled, pointed to his slightly deformed and calloused hands, and said:

"Your hands are strong, and the cocoon in the tiger's mouth is especially thick."

"I see." Major Trevary nodded, touched the tiger's mouth on his right hand, and explained:

"I worked for seven years, and after joining the army, I also worked as a quartermaster in the army for quite a long time, responsible for supervising the production of weapons and equipment."

Lawrence nodded, pointed to the short knife at his waist and said casually:

"I wonder when I can trouble Major Trefali to forge a knife for me?"

The sailor's dagger had been notched by the time Grosso was given to Lawrence, and the handle was loose. After fighting with the Sea Serpent Gang a few days ago, it became even more scarred.

Major Trefarli glanced at Lawrence's knife, shook his head slowly, and said, "I'm not good at forging knives, I'm a firearm maker." ”

Firearm? Lawrence was stunned, and then his eyes lit up.

As a mechanical engineer from later generations, he wanted to improve on the 18th-century smoothbore gun, but Lawrence, who left CNC machines and precision machining equipment, found that his hands-on skills were not as good as a blacksmith's apprentice.

Today's knowledge that Major Trefali was a skilled craftsman skilled in the manufacture of firearms made it possible for Lawrence's idea to come true.

"Major Trefali, have you ever thought about how to improve the accuracy of your musket?" Lawrence asked suddenly.

"Improving accuracy?"

Major Trevary frowned slightly, although he knew the mechanics of the musket well, but he had not received an education in natural philosophy, so he naturally did not understand what Lawrence meant.

The reason why the accuracy of the smoothbore flintlock gun is very poor is that the bullet is not in close contact with the chamber in the smooth chamber, but leaves a certain gap.

This makes the bullet continue to collide in the chamber after being excited, and at the moment it leaves the muzzle, it will also have a large partial velocity, perpendicular to the direction of the alignment, so that the bullet will have a large scattering range.

Although Major Trevary had not studied physics, Lawrence, after much talking, understood the principle of the deviation of the shotgun bullet from the ballistic, so he said:

"If that's the case, if you want to improve accuracy, wouldn't you want to close the gap between the barrel and the bullet so that they fit snugly?"

Major Trefali was already very interested in firearms, and after listening to Lawrence's explanation, he immediately thought about it, but he immediately rejected this plan:

"This is not possible, if the lead bullet and the inner diameter of the barrel are exactly the same, then it is easy to explode. Moreover, muskets and lead bullets are both hand-made, and it is impossible to make the caliber of the two the same without error. ”

In fact, Major Trefarly's idea was not wrong, the barrel of the tank in later generations was a smoothbore gun, and in order to improve the accuracy, the method of increasing the initial velocity of the shell and reducing the gap between the shell and the barrel was adopted, but this fine process could not have been realized in the eighteenth century.

Seeing that Major Trevary understood what he meant so quickly, Lawrence couldn't help but nod his head in surprise, and reminded him with a smile:

"There's actually another way, if the bullet is spinning in the chamber, then it's going to go almost exactly in a straight line, so the scattering range is very small."

"Spinning forward? What do you mean? Why? Major Trevary scratched his head in bewilderment, for he had no idea why the spinning bullet was moving in a straight line, nor how to make the bullet spin in the barrel.

Lawrence, of course, couldn't say that this was the effect of angular momentum and moment, so he laughed and made an analogy:

"Has Major Trefali ever seen a child's toy called a spinning top?"

"Top? I've seen it. Major Trefali touched his chin, wondering what the top had to do with bullets.

"It's hard for a stationary spinning top to stand on the ground, but a spinning top can't fall over no matter how you pull it."

Major Trifali furrowed his brows, and stroked his beard on his chin in contemplation for a few moments, with a few distinct inhalations in between.

"That seems to be the case, but how do you make the bullet spin and shoot?" Major Trefalli finally understood the principle and continued to think about it.

Lawrence smiled and waved his hand, and said that there was a chance to discuss it together in the future.

The first is that Lawrence also wants to establish a friendship with Trivary on this opportunity, and the second is that in this wilderness place, there are no tools, and Lawrence does not know how to explain the principle of engraving rifling to Travary with a mouth.

However, Lawrence himself knew that although he understood the principle, when the time came, it would be the skilled craftsman of Major Trefali who would have to make the process and experiment and improve.