Chapter 15 Firearms demonstration
Chapter 15 Firearms Demonstration
“How many years has it been since I’ve been back? More than ten years, right?” Borrowing from the dying sunset, the old knight looked out over his hometown, Lakeside Town.
The squire beside him laughed: “Haha, Lord Schroeder must have been impatient, right?”
“Just now, I was very excited, and it suddenly occurred to me that apart from those old people who occasionally corresponded, I wonder if there are any other neighborhoods that remember me.” An inexplicable sadness suddenly welled up inside the knight’s heart, and as if the horse under his seat felt his master’s thoughts, his speed gradually slowed down.
The young squire consoled, “After all, it’s been more than ten years, even if you don’t remember, there’s no way around it. Anyway, you won’t be leaving in the future, there is plenty of time, they will accept you again.”
“You’re right, Joyce, there’s no use getting all sentimental, just face it. Giddy up-” The knight dispelled his inner melancholy, and with a shake of the reins, the horse trotted merrily once more.
“On the contrary, are you really not sorry for following an old man like me to such a country place?”
“Not at all, I still have a lot to learn from you! I won’t leave before completely emptying you of all that crushing knowledge.”
“Oh? Well, that depends on your skills. ……”
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“Knight Bryce, oh no, it should be Battalion Commander Bryce, went to conquer the pirates with Lord Lord, and hasn’t returned yet.” Bryce’s neighbor said as such.
“Thanks.”
After thanking him, Schroeder turned to his squire and said, “It looks like the pirate trouble here has resurfaced! Just as well, let’s go back to the old mansion and clean up a bit, and then we’ll come back to visit when Bryce returns.”
And so they headed for the Schroeder’s old mansion.
Along the way, Schroeder surveyed the streets of his hometown, just now in a hurry did not look carefully, now look carefully, although the basic pattern has not changed much, but it has become quite neat, every distance there is a sign for the “garbage cans” things, presumably used to shelter public garbage it.
No matter what else, even the royal street of the royal capital is not as clean as this.
“Huh? What’s that? ‘Kaisui Shop’, what’s it for? Is it a store unique to this place?” The squire Joyce spotted a store she had never seen before.
“I don’t know, there’s never been a store like that in my memory.” The old knight was also wondering.
Just then, they noticed a party coming over the pontoon bridge, and when they got to the lake island they didn’t come up towards the town street either, and disappeared as soon as they turned to take another path.
“Well …… it seems that the result of the crusade against the pirates is not optimistic ah.” Knights and squires looked at each other, coincidentally thought.
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“Just like that, your grandfather paid off the arrears for my family, and also funded me to go to the royal capital to further my education, and after that, he even recommended that I join the Northern Legion at the Long Ridge Fortress.”
In the castle hall, Knight Schroeder ended his introduction.
“Then you returned to Lakewood for ……?”
“Once people get older, they think about returning to their roots, so I resigned from my position in the army and came home to settle down.”
Schroeder knight’s words let Paul small touched a little, yesterday’s failure to let him as a traveler’s excitement a drop half, before that “hometown”, also do not know can still go back.
“Your family to me have re-creation of grace, I heard of your father’s encounter, heart deeply distressed, but also allow me to join your team, for the old earl’s revenge, but also for the peace of the hometown to make a contribution.”
Speaking of the old earl, the old knight’s face showed the color of grief and anger, before the old earl also boasted in the letter that his body was twice as good, now all of a sudden the person is gone, damn pirates.
Bryce said happily, “Lord Schroeder has rich military experience, his joining will surely let us come out from yesterday’s defeat.”
Disgruntledly, he glanced at Bryce, not alert at all, how can military secrets be casually revealed in front of outsiders? It seems like the education of secrecy needs to be strengthened in the military.
But then again, he did desperately need a general who was familiar with the military system of the current era, and although Bryce’s gang was loyal to a fault, it was clear that dealing with pirates was already the limit of their abilities at the moment.
“Knight Schroeder, welcome to my army.” He stood up and extended his hand to the old knight.
Schroeder shook the young earl’s hand and said, “Due to some reasons that you should already know, I am unable to swear my allegiance to you in plain sight, but time will prove my heart.”
Paul expressed his understanding, and he had no desire to secure the loyalty of his army with the kind of personal attachment that characterized feudal times.
The Knight Schroeder, accompanied by the crowd, visited the long-sleeping old count in the family cemetery, after which he made a request for a review of the territorial army of the moment. In the afternoon, four companies were assembled in the barracks playground, and the Knight Schroeder was greatly astonished to see the speed with which the soldiers were assembled and the manner in which they stood.
“The soldiers are good soldiers. Even His Majesty’s army can’t do such a fast formation and such a flush pace.”
Hearing the old knight say this, the young earl puffed out his chest and was very proud in his heart, as if he had forgotten about the defeat he had just suffered.
“But the momentum is much worse.”
“Uh …… after all, most of them are new recruits and out of their depth. However, we have a powerful secret weapon, let’s demonstrate it in front of the whole army now, this is the first time.”
He then shouted to the soldiers, “On command, the entire army, at ease. “
“Soldiers, do not be discouraged by yesterday’s defeat! I have ordered people to fetch the secret weapons that we have developed for our assault, so we will now show their power, and with them, we will definitely be able to wipe the slate clean. First of all, I will show you the grenades, the bomb throwers will come out of the line.”
As soon as the words fell, then a group of soldiers carrying packages ran to a place far enough in front of the crowd to line up in a horizontal line, facing some thick wooden stakes that had long been inserted into the ground, these soldiers were wrapped in thick cotton clothes from head to toe.
They first took out the bamboo fire tube (a kind of thing similar to the ancient Chinese fire folders) that they had brought with them, opened the lid and blew up the fire, and then they took out a strange cylinder from their respective backpacks, which the people guessed to be the hand grenade that the Count’s adults had mentioned, and a wooden handle could be seen protruding from the bottom, wrapped around a thin rope, which was held tightly after the soldiers had unwrapped the rope.
Only heard the little count gave the order: “drop the bomb”.
Demonstrate the soldiers immediately with a bamboo fire tube ignited in the hands of things on the line, to be burned for a period of time, have riveted the hands of the object to the stake side thrown over.
Just see was thrown over the “grenade” in the stake between have exploded, issued a loud sound, some fall to the ground after the explosion, some have not yet fallen to the ground on the explosion, after the explosion of the debris scattered and shot, stake from which rose a large amount of white smoke.
Those who had not participated in the development of new weapons were startled by the explosions, and then reacted to the fact that the explosions often heard during the training of new recruits were caused by this kind of thing.
A soldier in heavy armor went to the wood pile bush and checked to make sure there were no unexploded bombs, and after making a gesture to indicate safety, Paul ordered the formation to be disbanded, allowing the officers and soldiers to come over to see the effect of the new weapon.
The crowd covered their noses, endured a pungent odor to the stake, found as if there is a huge force will be after the explosion of the debris (mainly grenades on the inlaid nails) ruthlessly embedded in the stake, have issued a gasp of amazement, which if thrown into the crowd, wearing less people to get hit by the layer of skin will not die, if any of the unlucky to be all of a sudden pasted in the face, the picture is too beautiful not to imagine ah.
Knight Schroeder praised from the bottom of his heart: “It will be very useful to deal with those soldiers who were recruited temporarily, throwing a few of them will make them scatter.”
“The second weapon is shown next, as long as you hold it, even a farmer who has just put down his hoe will be able to kill a well-trained warrior effortlessly.” Paul clapped his hands loudly to draw the crowd’s attention to him, and not without amusement let loose an extremely appetizing remark.
Two thick iron plates were fastened to the ground, and then up came two soldiers armed with fire-rope rifles, and the crowd was quickly attracted by the strange weapons in the soldiers’ hands.
The two soldiers stood at a distance of 10 meters from the steel plates, and according to the steps they had practiced long ago, they took out a vial for storing gunpowder, opened it, and then filled up the medicine pool at the back of the barrel with some gunpowder and closed the cover of the medicine pool.
Then stand up the gun, pour all the remaining gunpowder in the vial through the muzzle into the barrel, then take out a projectile made of lead and load it into the barrel, pull out the through bar from under the barrel, and stick it into the barrel to mash the gunpowder and the projectile tightly.
Finally, the burning end of the cord is fastened to the cord clip on the head of the serpentine rod of the gun. The presence of the lid of the powder pool effectively prevents the cord from accidentally touching the primer in the pool and causing it to go off.
“Aim!!!”
Upon hearing the order, the two soldiers pointed their guns at the iron plates in front of each of them, making a stance that in the eyes of the crowd resembled that of a crossbowman when aiming.
“Fire!!!”
The soldiers closed their eyes and pulled the triggers, with the push of the triggers, the lid of the medicine pool opened while the head of the serpentine rod quickly fell towards the pool of medicine, causing the fire rope to ignite the primer, which quickly burned and in turn ignited the firing charge inside the barrel of the gun.
“With a bang, the barrels erupted in a burst of fire and smoke, and the crowd looked in the direction of the musket’s aim to see a terrifyingly large hole in the two iron plates.
“Oh ……!!!” People who have not been involved in the development of new weapons have been dumbfounded, and some people said numbly, “Is …… this is magic?” Then a tiny projectile had penetrated a piece of iron plate.
The terrible power of the musket set off a huge wave in everyone’s heart, especially the Schroeder Knight, who has decades of military career, just saw the power of the “grenade” is only a little bit of admiration, but the musket gave him a feeling that can be used to describe the horror.
His own exercise for decades of martial arts, in the case of the same weapons, ask yourself close to single combat a dozen ordinary people is not a problem, but if the other side has a musket this kind of weapon, even a little bit of strength of the children are easy to kill themselves.
He suddenly thought of something, turned around and asked, “Lord Earl, please make sure to strictly control the use of this kind of weapon, otherwise it won’t necessarily cause any chaos.”
Only to hear the young earl smilingly say, “This of course, Knight Schroeder, I don’t want to have a big hole suddenly opened in my chest by someone else.”
(End of chapter)