In the twenty blacksmith shops, at least fifty people should be arranged in each blacksmith shop, which can only arrange 1,000 people to smelt metal, and make tools and ordnance at the same time, plus most of these people have not been exposed to smelting and forging work at all, so the work efficiency is very low, and the chief engineer Wu Kai needs to carry out hands-on training from scratch.

The reason why only a very limited number of 1,000 people can be selected is because the people in the Xingxing Gorge are still recovering their bodies, and most of the human body is not enough to support the strong body of striking iron, and this thousand people are still selected from the short ones, which is not easy.

Another important reason is that even if so many blacksmith shops are built, there may not be so much pig iron for them to smelt, so if you want to really run the blacksmith shop perfectly, you must find those ore veins in the Star Gorge.

Lin Tianxuan himself still accompanied Huang Tianba and Huang Ling'er into the most lively blacksmith shop.

As soon as I opened the door, there was a heat wave in full swing, and a very pungent smell of sulfur.

"Musketeers...... Well...... It's an unbelievable design...... This kind of gunpowder is also very amazing!" Lin Tianxuan took a closer look and found that the puppeteer Wu Kai was squatting in the blacksmith shop and was very devoted to studying the new scientific and technological gunpowder!

It was only after the reincarnation that the Three-Legged Fire Raven Northern Stygian Iron began to become particularly interested in the power of the fire system, and asked in a rather disdainful tone, "Isn't this kind of thing amazing?"

Wu Kai muttered: "Actually, gunpowder has already been invented, but this thing is very powerful, it is quite effective against mortals, but it is completely useless against cultivators, and cultivators have more powerful burst charms to use." That's why gunpowder has never been taken seriously! I didn't expect the city lord to be so careful...... If gunpowder is combined with this tubular ejector, all the power can be concentrated in one direction, and this iron projectile can be sprayed out, which can penetrate three layers of cowhide armor, and all-iron armor under half an inch can also penetrate if the angle is right. It's like a martial artist in a small Zhou Tian cycle with all his strength! It's really too powerful a weapon!"

Lin Tianxuan stood behind him and said, "This technique is very important to our Xingxingxia army, because our people's qualifications are too poor, and it is impossible to improve their physical quality in a short period of time and form an army worthy of a war. On the contrary, if we develop enough muskets, even children can shoot and kill, and our combat effectiveness will be increased in the first place. ”

Wu Kai was taken aback and even jumped up, and turned his head to see that it was Lin Tianxuan and his wife. Scratching his head a little embarrassed, he bowed to Lin Tianxuan and his wife together with the Northern Underworld, nodded heavily, and said: "Not bad! The range of this ordinary musketeer has been higher than that of a strong bow shooter who has received at least three years of professional training, although the accuracy still needs special training, but compared to an archer, it is not too easy to train a musketeer! It only takes one month to be able to train a team of strong archers that can be compared to three years of training! It's just that the only problem is that it is too costly!" More gunpowder and projectiles need to be produced continuously!"

Seeing Wu Kai's excited and crazy appearance. Lin Tianxuan also smiled and said, "If these muskets and gunpowder can be manufactured in large quantities with a continuous source of machinery. Then the cost will drop significantly.

If you take into account the cost of training a truly powerful soldier and the cost of victory or defeat, in fact, the cost of muskets is much lower than that of cold weapons. After all, as long as you win, you can get all the principal and interest back. ”

Lin Tianxuan sighed lightly, picked up the test musket that he tried to make next to him, and carefully observed it. He continued: "This is only the use of small-caliber muskets, if you think about it, if you expand the caliber and increase the amount of ammunition, it will become a more powerful cannon." Add to that the powerful power settings that allow the cannon to move on its own, and some armor that makes it impossible for ordinary attacks to damage it at all, and this will be something that can definitely turn the war around. ”

As he spoke, he handed the musket to Huang Ling'er, who was very curious, and picked up a musket pellet and looked at it.

Wu Kai suddenly patted his head and jumped up happily! He shouted loudly: "Yes, yes, yes!! this is too correct! If this kind of musket is a dense accumulation of fire, it can casually kill a second-rate master wearing heavy armor, if it is really like the cannon that the city lord said, it is easy to kill the master of the Great Zhou Tian Cycle!! really with this set of equipment, a new type of armored self-propelled cannon can be worth at least a master of the Great Zhou Tian Cycle!"

Lin Tianxuan frowned, as if he was not very satisfied with the name of the "new armored self-propelled cannon", and said with a smile: "We can call this armored self-propelled cannon a tank." ”

Wu Kai nodded and said excitedly: "Yes, yes, tank, this is a good name, as long as this thing comes out, any enemy will be overcome, and no matter how difficult the hardship will be, it will become a smooth road!"

Bei Ying Tie flew down, looked carefully at the muskets and projectiles, as well as the pierced experimental armor next to it, and said with a sneer: "Since this gunpowder has been invented a long time ago, as for not developing into a weapon, I think it should be this powerful lethality, and the more powerful tank that the city lord said just now can be said to be so strong that it is against the sky." ”

Wu Kai was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Why is this thing so powerful but not researched and developed? If it had been developed earlier, I am afraid that it would have unified the human race long ago!"

Bei Ying Tie actually put on a mocking look with a crow bird face, and said with a sneer: "Isn't this a very obvious thing? Although the cost of gunpowder is very high, it is not unattainable, especially compared to various cultivation resources, it can be said that it is cheap and cannot be cheaper.

If this thing is really invented, and even the lowly poor can grasp it, then what is the significance of the family's superior resources? How to maintain the family's dominant position? To put it simply, if the poor people have no muskets, no kung fu, and even the armor cannot be broken, the safety of the family can be guaranteed to the greatest extent. But if after three months of training, with a musket in hand, a poor man can ignore the defense of the armor and kill a nobleman at will, then the world will be chaotic? Moreover, this thing may be of some use against the low-level demon clan, but against the high-level demon clan, it is a tickling thing, as for the ghost clan, hum, joke, they don't even have a physical body, and they can restrain a fart with this gunpowder!"

Wu Kai's face was a little ugly, and he was also very uncomfortable in his heart, and argued: "How do you know what the family thinks? You are just a bird!"

Bei Yingtie glanced at him coldly, and Wu Kai was chilled all over, as if there was a strong murderous aura that was several times stronger than himself locking on him, and he couldn't afford to resist at all!

This strange bird is actually so powerful! It's really terrifying! Isn't it just a little pet of the city lord? How can it have such a terrifying murderous aura!!

Bei Ying Tie said lightly: "Because I used to be the core disciple of the Northern Netherworld family, I know very well what the nobles of the high-ranking family think in their hearts. ”

Wu Kai exclaimed in surprise: "The Northern Underworld Family! One of the four great families in the world who have guarded the Northern Military Town for generations......! This...... I'm so abrupt...... Excuse me. ”

There is a huge military town around the Terrans, which are stationed in four directions: southeast, northwest, and north.

It is said that it is a military town, but in fact it is already larger than the vassal states, and its strength is even more powerful I don't know how many times! In addition to the regular supply of food and materials from the ten major countries, the manpower adjustment of these four major military towns is directly deployed by the seven major sects that are high above Guò, and there is not much exchange with the ten countries of the Central Plains. In addition, they were stationed outside the Central Plains and never participated in the disputes of the princes in the Central Plains, so the Central Plains did not know much about and pay attention to the four major military towns.

But as the largest family in the northern military town and the uncrowned king of the Northern Underworld, anyone who has been in the rivers and lakes should know it!

Speaking of which, Wu Kai didn't dare to complain about the burial of gunpowder technology anymore, and Bei Ying Tie was obviously not in a particularly good mood, so he didn't bother to discuss this issue anymore.

Lin Tianxuan smiled, remembering that in his original world, the invention of gunpowder and muskets completely overthrew the feudal aristocratic hierarchy based on the knightly class in medieval Europe, and pushed the blinded and backward Europe to a new peak of industrialization.

At that moment, Lin Tianxuan was even more determined in his previous idea, and broke the embarrassment with the idea of industrializing the production of muskets and said: "Very good, then the development of this tank will be handed over to Wu Kai, Bei Ying Tie and Dr. Lich, his heavy dreadnought is a very good prototype, as long as these heavy cannons can be loaded on it and successfully copied as a whole, it will be considered a great progress." I hope that you can build an engine powered by the earth evil gas first, and use it as a power source, so that more tools can be used to save labor. ”

As he spoke, he issued a one-way mission to Doctor Lich, Northern Stygian Iron, and Wu Kai: "Research a heavy tank that can be mass-produced in actual combat and can be mass-produced with the power and vitality of the Earth Evil Qi." Task type: long-term. Credits: 100,000 credits. (To be continued......)