Bang... Bang... Bang!

Mister, in the city of oil, bursts of thunderous explosions continued to echo in the training ground.

More than a dozen Imperial soldiers lined up in a long line, pulling the trigger in a rustic manner, and lead pellets flew out from the muzzles of the flaming guns, hitting the target fifty meters away, the solid armor was instantly pierced through a large hole, and the wooden piers behind were also beaten to pieces.

"Not a bad power, no wonder the Imperial Crusade led by Edwell will suffer a crushing defeat at the hands of these people." Joshua looked at the muskets in the hands of the soldiers and spoke in a low tone.

"Have you already shown it to the craftsmen? Is there a way to make an imitation? Lucia said with interest.

"It's not a problem to imitate other parts of this weapon, but this steel pipe is very special." Joshua took a musket and, with a shake of his wrist, dismembered it with a divine spell, leaving only the barrel behind.

Lucia stretched out her hand to take it, looked at it carefully for a while, and found nothing wrong, it was an ordinary steel object, and there was no trace of magic and magic.

"It has no cracks, no traces of articulation!" Joshua reminded softly.

Lucia paused for a moment, and then came to her senses.

Ordinary craftsmen who want to turn iron ore into hard steel must melt it at high temperatures and temper it a lot.

The steel pipe in front of him is one meter long, but its diameter is only a few tens of millimeters, which looks like a whole, and there is even a thread-like structure inside, which is indeed very magical.

"Could it be magic?" Cardinal Sirid on the side reminded.

"Unlikely!" Lucia shook her head.

Only the Grand Wizard has the ability to manipulate the metal element, and although there is no problem in making such a steel pipe, as far as she knows, there are only thirty Grand Wizards in the entire Council, and the Musket Team is tens of thousands, so how long does it take to make it with dozens of Great Wizards?

Then you don't have to do anything else every day, just rubbing the steel pipe there, you know it's impossible when you think about it, it's really a bit overkill......

Lucia pondered for a moment and felt that there were two possible solutions.

For example, find an incomparably hard substance, put it in the middle of the molten iron, and then forge it, or prepare a mold and pour the molten iron into it.

After Lucia finished speaking, Joshua tactfully told her that similar methods had already been tried by the craftsmen!

As a result, the manufactured steel pipes were not up to standard at all, and when they were reinstalled on the tempering guns, the accuracy would become very poor, and one of the muskets would explode directly.

Lucia was surprised, it seemed that the wizards had made something interesting. "What about the captives? Don't they know either? ”

In addition to the capture of a large number of muskets, hundreds of musketeers were captured, and the use of muskets was also searched from the minds of these people.

"They used to be poor people hoeing and fishing, and they could only use it, and they didn't know how to make this kind of weapon."

At this, Joshua paused, then spoke again. "These people have been corrupted by demons, and unless they use coercive means, they can't ask for any information......"

"Isn't there no exception?" Lucia raised an eyebrow, it stands to reason that there must be a few soft bones among these hundreds of people.

"No exceptions!" Joshua said solemnly.

He searched the memories of these people, and probably found the reason.

These musketeers used to be a group of hungry and cold poor people, most of them had families, and joining the musketeers can only be described as one step to the sky!

The price offered by the council was very high, and as long as you became a musketeer, you could get fifteen to twenty silver coins a month and live a life of eating meat.

If you die on the battlefield, you can also get a generous pension, and your family will be properly resettled and arranged to work in the workshop.

This is more than the most elite guards of the Empire, and they are almost catching up with the Divine Punishment Army, so most of the musketeers are in a state of frenzy similar to faith, and their hearts are corrupted by money.

It can only be said that those wizards also made a bloody investment in order to deal with the crusade of the empire.

While the two were talking, the Imperial soldiers who demonstrated the muskets reloaded the projectiles with difficulty, and fired another volley, directly smashing the target in front of them.

"It takes more than a minute to reload the projectile, and in my opinion, the weapons of these wizards are no more than that...... Not as useful on the battlefield as an archer. Seeing that the two adults were so interested in this demonic creature called the musket, Sirid couldn't help but speak.

As a conservative bishop, Sirid has always been wary of these witchcraft weapons, and according to the church's constitution, destroying them is the most important thing to do.

And it takes a full minute to shoot a projectile, which is fatal, as long as a blow misses, then there is no ability to resist.

Syrid has a hundred ways to kill a whole team of musketeers, or even toy with them.

Joshua was well aware of the shortcomings of this thing, but it still couldn't hide the advantages of the musket. "Do you know how long it takes to train a good Imperial archer?"

"Probably...... Half a year? Sirid said hesitantly.

"It's three to five years!" Joshua corrected. "The requirements for personnel are also very demanding, and we need to choose from strong soldiers."

"And it only took them two or three hours to learn how to operate the musket!" Joshua gestured to the Imperial soldiers who were testing weapons.

The most important thing is that the musket has a strong armor-piercing ability, which is incomparable to the bow and crossbow.

In previous battles, a knight in fine armor could charge and kill at will on the battlefield, and a few stray arrows could not break through the defense at all.

Now the form is different, I'm afraid a single musket can kill him!

This ascension is undoubtedly terrifying!

In other words, those wizards only need to catch a random pauper on the street and train for a few hours, so that they can kill a knight who has been practicing his skills for decades on the battlefield!

"According to the reports of several Divine Punishment Knights, the wizards loaded a special musket on a running iron box, capable of firing dozens of projectiles in a second, and even a single bishop would be torn apart on the spot." Joshua said with a solemn expression.

Apparently the wizards had found a way to overcome the shortcomings of the muskets, but they had not been installed on a large scale.

(PS: The second chapter is still around two or three o'clock, and there are many things to do this week, and it is a little unstable, so please forgive me.) ）