"Is it already made?

That's right, Master Faun, this is Her Royal Highness Dorothea Ahlica, the Second Empress of the Empire, and these two are the Empire's Chancellor of the Exchequer, His Excellency Count Stuart Lawrence, and the Minister of Commerce, His Excellency Count Karen Hozia.

They are all big directors of the industrial park and the top of the business alliance, and they are here today to see the power of the new weapons.

Master Faun, you have the boys bring three Type 1391 Type 1 rifles and three Type 1391 Type 2 rifles, as well as the 80-caliber gun, to the shooting range to practice these new weapons!"

Xia Lin glanced at Master Faun in surprise and arranged.

The structure of the Type 1391 Type 2 rifle designed by him is several times more complex than that of the Type 1 rifle, which is equivalent to a direct leap from the era of breech guns to the era of breech guns.

In order to give full play to the advantages of the fixed paper shell bullets, Xia Lin designed an eight-round magazine and a yellow ammunition feeding device in the Type 2 rifle, hoping to achieve a similar rate of fire to the famous Water Lianzhu M1 Garand.

Of course, these are the effects that Xia Lin, a semi-military blind himself, expected to achieve when he designed them, and it is still questionable whether these Type 2 rifles can be achieved after they are produced.

"Sir Charlin, these machines look very different from the ones you showed us around the Industrial Park last time, what is the use of them?"

In the leisure time of Master Faun's gathering of men, the Dorothea princess asked with some curiosity as she looked around at the machines and equipment that were placed in this humble factory.

"Your Royal Highness, these machines are all necessary equipment for the production of rifles and artillery, and they are all processed using the upgraded machine tools and equipment of the machine tool factory, and the production capacity is several times stronger than the last time you saw those simple machines.

For example, this boring machine is used to bore steel into the inner circle to form a barrel, and this friction press is capable of punching 600 lead bullets at a time.

There is also this automatic paper cutter, which can cut a special kind of paper into squares of a specified size, and then roll these small pieces of paper into cylinders with these small sticks.

In this way, our workers only need to dip glue on the edge of the cylinder, and they can quickly make the paper casing needed for the bullet.

As for the huge furnace and the two pools, they are used for heat treatment of the machined cannon barrels."

"Sir Charlin, can this friction press of yours punch out many arrows at once?"

Listening to Xia Lin's explanation, Earl Stewart leaned forward to carefully observe the principle of the press's operation, thoughtfully touched the iron shell of the press, and turned back to ask.

"Of course, that's possible, but our cattle don't have enough power, and it can be more difficult to punch steel and pig iron with this machine.

If we could build a dam and use the water power provided by the dam to power this machine, we should be able to produce tens of thousands of arrowheads a day."

Charling didn't expect Earl Stewart to see the usefulness of the friction press so quickly, and explained unexpectedly.

"Dams? I'm afraid it's a bit expensive! And it will also have a big impact on shipping."

Hearing Xia Lin's explanation, Earl Stewart shook his head and did not continue to mention this matter.

As the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the Empire, he was not very interested in things like dams that affected economic development, and anyway, the matter of supplying arrows to the army had nothing to do with the Treasury under his command, and he just asked about it out of curiosity.

While a few people were talking, Master Faun also quickly arranged the candidates for the drill, and a total of ten people used a carriage to pull the rifles and artillery in the warehouse to the shooting range, and began to skillfully arrange these weapons on the wooden frame and gun emplacement.

Xia Lin and the others followed closely behind, coming to the observation area planned with lime on the test site, waiting for the start of the drill.

Seeing that the huge cannon with a caliber of 80 caliber and a barrel of 1.5 and a wall thick of 50 was painstakingly mounted to the gun emplacement by ten strong men with wooden sticks and carried on their shoulders, the princess Dorothea and the two counts were very concerned about this kind of war, which was known as "war" in Charlin's plan

The king's artillery generated strong expectations.

However, the first to practice were the Type 1391 Type 1 and Type 2 rifles.

"Reload! …… Ready! …… Fire!"

When weapons and equipment are ready, a commander assumes the duties of an officer on the battlefield and wakes the flag and asks the operator to perform a series of firing steps.

The Type 1391 Type 1 rifle, which was loaded with paper-shelled bullets, fired at a very fast speed, and soon the steel plate target in the distance shook with a puff of smoke and gunfire.

Charlin asked the steel plate on the target to be taken off the observation seat to show the princess Dorothea and the two counts:

"Your Royal Highness, two Earls, this is the 3 thin steel plates produced by our steel processing factory, 3 is about the average thickness of the plate armor on the knights.

As you can see, the lead bullet fired from our Type 1391 rifle easily pierced through the plate at a distance of 100, which is almost 80 long bini.

Only enchanted plate armor, or Mithril and Adamantite armor, can fully defend against the power of this musket.

Next, we will demonstrate the power of our newly developed Type 1391 Type 2 rifle.

This rifle is fed by magazines, and the paper shell bullets are automatically loaded by applying pressure through the yellow bullets, and my hope is that the rate of fire can be increased to four seconds and eight rounds, so that the soldiers of the New Army can form a barrage and stop the charge of the knights on the battlefield!"

After the explanation, Xia Lin waved his hand to the operator to continue demonstrating the power of the Type 1391 Type 2 rifle that had just been produced, amid the exclamatory admiration of Her Royal Highness the Empress and the two counts.

"Reload! …… Ready! …… Fire!"

"Bang bang bang!"

This time, the gunshots were fired no more, but four in a row, but after four rounds, the Type 2 rifle stopped firing, no matter how much the operator pulled the rope attached to the trigger.

Of the three Type 2 rifles, only one successfully fired seven rounds in a row, while the remaining two fired four and six rounds respectively.

However, it is understandable that the rifles that have just been successfully produced have this problem, after all, the Type 2 rifle with breech self-loading is much more complex than the Type 1 rifle with breech loading.

Xia Lin asked a jammed Type 2 rifle to be brought to the observation area, opened the chamber, looked at the paper bullet stuck in the inlet, thought for a moment to Master Faun on the side, and explained to Her Royal Highness the Imperial Daughter:

"Hmm...... I think this may be due to the lack of elasticity of the yellow mechanism, and when you encounter this kind of problem, you only need to replace the yellow with more elastic force, and I think it can be easily solved."

"I think that's enough, it's enough to be able to penetrate the plate armor of the knights at a distance of 80 long bini, such a weapon has been very useful on the battlefield, but I don't know how much these two rifles cost?"

Although the Type 2 rifle did not fully achieve the effect that Charin said, she was satisfied with the power, range and rate of fire of the Dorothea princess.

Seeing the Type 2 rifle fire, she could easily imagine a heavily armed knight charging at a New Army soldier, only to be knocked off his horse by a barrage of water.

"A Type 1 rifle costs about 92 silver mar, and a Type 2 rifle costs 1 gold lunt and 8 silver mar."

After asking Master Faun, Xia Lin quoted the price of the two rifles.

"Is that so? Won't our soldiers be left to wear leather armor?"

Hearing this price, the princess Dorothea thought about it and said with some concern.