The most lethal thing for Wayne at the moment is that there is no artillery support in the field.

Many cities in this world do not have walls, and only those that are prosperous or strategically located have walls. Helan, Black, Vasser, Nolan are like this.

As for other cities, how can they afford to build city walls, and it will be a showmanship to build them.

Wayne is also a special case, and he has experienced two consecutive months of defending the city.

So Wayne later faced probably more war on the wild, wide flat land. The number of his own army is insufficient, and the cavalry is also small, so it is difficult to take advantage of anything in the era of cold weapons.

At this time, continued fire support, flintlock guns, field artillery are needed.

Both Wayne had to be figured out, and it really didn't matter who came first. Wayne really doesn't have any war going to break out anytime soon.

The choice of artillery is also the same, their own artillery craftsmanship is proficient, and now that they are engaged, they will be able to see results immediately.

There is no hurry to wait for the flintlock pistol.

As for artillery, it is definitely necessary to develop field artillery. Wayne searched the memory palace for a while, and decided that the Napoleon cannon was still appropriate.

This gun was also a front-loading smoothbore gun, which was mainly made of bronze. Length 1.52 meters, caliber 117 mm. The weight also reached the maximum weight of 12 pounds allowed by field troops during the Cold Weapons period. No matter how big it is, it will take more manpower and horsepower. Pay for one's whistle.

Originally, Wayne planned to go directly to the rifled gun, after all, he already had a rifled bed. Drilling threads is not a problem.

But the workers' knowledge poured cold water on him, and the new measure that he had just popularized made them miserable.

Smoothbore guns, in order to ensure airtightness. The shell must fit tightly to the muzzle, leaving only one slit.

The threads are more complex, and the depth of the thread spacing needs to be strictly controlled. And with the thread, the error between the shell and the muzzle needs to be smaller. The current level of processing is really difficult to achieve.

Maybe one or two skilled craftsmen can make it, and as long as it is not mass-produced, it doesn't make any sense.

Now let's be honest about smoothbore guns.

Compared with rifled guns, smoothbore guns are heavier, less accurate, and have a lower firing range.

But even this is a black technology in this world, with the right angle, and the Napoleonic cannon can even shoot up to two kilometers.

It is impossible to compare with its own city defense artillery, the city defense gun has a large mass and a large charge, and it is no problem to use a projectile range of four or five kilometers.

Field guns mostly use the angle of flat fire, and at the same time sacrificing range for the rate of fire is also the right choice.

After that, you have to make shotshots, and the shotshots plus artillery are the end of the knightly era.

Wayne began to dip his quills in ink and draw drawings of the artillery on yellow paper.

As for Reynolds, he had already called some of the skilled people in the artillery workshop and was ready to go.

During Wayne's absence, he studied ceramics while giving lessons to the military.

At Nolan's only school, math classes were introduced. At first, this was clearly opposed by the school, after all, etiquette, history, and riding skills are the most important. Learn these things well in order to deal well with the aristocracy.

Later, Evans intervened, and together with the student's parents, the school agreed to add a math course.

After all, here in Wayne, these parents who are businessmen think that what Reynolds teaches is useful. After all, it seems that the artillery is in dire need of such students.

And Reynolds also guided the students in this direction, intentionally or unintentionally.

There are also many teachers who have some news and come to audit Reynolds's classes, taking notes from time to time.

This made Reynolds proud for a while, and his motivation to learn couldn't help but increase a little.

Reynolds set off along the newly built concrete road towards Vasser.

I really can't help but sigh, the cement road is still good. In the past, only a small part of the roads could be made of bricks, but now cement has been used where Nolan can use horse-drawn carriages.

There was no more dusty horse-drawn carriage as soon as it passed, and Evans cleaned up the streets, with a dedicated garbage dump and a septic tank.

Evans also learned from Wayne's night classes in the army, holding night classes for some of the citizens of Wasser, and paying those who were literate. Audits are free of charge.

It's just that there are not many people at present, after all, as the main force of learning, children and children are still a labor force in this era. Wealthier families don't need to take night classes.

Evans is not in a hurry, as Wayne said, now the citizens have not realized the importance of literacy, and wait until Nolan develops later. When they find out that literacy can increase their income and change their future, night classes will have people slowly. Let's do it now, it doesn't cost much anyway.

As for the workshop, Hiss has caught a lot of sneaky people in the workshop, and these are all here to inquire about technology.

Hiss was feeling quite struggling now, after all, some people could go to the workers' homes, and he couldn't help it.

Now Nolan has a full 50,000 workers, how can he keep an eye on it. can only barely keep an eye on those technical backbones.

It looks like the situation here needs to be reported to Wayne.

Now that Nolan's Workshop has expanded so much, Evans has had to build it outside the city walls. Ever since they had received a huge amount of gold in the steel trade, the merchants had become more and more eager for the expansion of the workshop.

A huge influx of gold was pouring in, and now Evans felt like he was about to build a quarter of Nolan City. Glass too, Nolan's glass cost is terrible at a low cost, and a large number of merchants are pouring in.

You can even see the elven merchant who is very well dressed, but when he is caught by Hiss, and when he learns that he is sincere in business, Evans decisively lets him go.

Now Nolan wants the mustang without the reins, and Evans feels dangerous, and he needs to stop and digest it.

A lot of sorrow, trouble, joy, and busyness were drowned in a heavy rain.

Some poets describe this heavy rain as a father's cry for the 400,000 people who died, and this heavy rain is an extradition to the souls of Pan Huan who refused to leave on the battlefield for a long time.

As for the people of Vasser, they were glad that the heavy rain had washed away the smell of blood that had permeated the air in the past few days, and they were also annoyed that they had probably not had much to live these days, and they had lost a little income.

As for Wayne, he felt that this rain was good, and all the schemes and transactions could be stopped.

It doesn't seem good to sit inside and listen to the cold rain outside.

Outside the door, the raindrops the size of beans hit the ground and made a rattling sound, and the surroundings were quiet at the moment, without the noise of human voices or the chirping of animals. There was only the sound of rain.

Wayne enjoyed the moment, and the natural feeling was pleasant.

All this beauty was ruined by a carriage that came to a halt at the door.

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The rain splashed from the horses' hooves, and the groom in his coat was miserable.

Wayne really couldn't figure out who else would be coming at this time.

Then a graceful figure, Wayne saw it, and his heart warmed first. Randomly thinking of the ear he had injured a lot last time, he quickly hid.