Chapter 9: The Big Kill
Chapter 9: The Big Kill
After sending his servant Ron away, Paul happily examined the “goods” on the ground once again.
“Haha, how can we live up to our identity as a traveler if we don’t get some big killers.”
That’s right, these things on the ground are sulfur, charcoal and saltpeter, the raw materials for making black powder. Speaking of black gunpowder, this is really a good thing that is necessary for home travel and looting.
What broke the strong armor of the western feudal knights? Gunpowder. What helped Pizarro conquer the vast Inca Empire? Gunpowder.
“And this time, gunpowder will help me, Paul Graiman, to ‘enlighten’ this alien world.”
According to his original idea, he wanted to directly build fire rope guns or flintlock rifles in large quantities, so he asked Philip to gather a large group of blacksmiths, but because it was close to the spring plowing, it was the time for farmers to make and repair agricultural tools, and it was not done under the strong opposition of the steward.
In can’t prove their own “transgenerational invention” of the “great significance” before, had to find one or two blacksmiths to experimentally build two guns to this group of otherworldly natives to open their eyes, as for the collection of gunpowder raw materials, it is the first to build some ” As for the collected gunpowder raw materials, they will first build some ” cannonballs ” and arm a group of bombardiers.
He immediately went to the next tent to see the servant who had just arrived.
“I think Ron has already told you, anything that happens here is not allowed to leak a word to the outside, or else ……” he gestured and wiped his hand on his neck.
The crowd said yes.
“Okay, the reason for having everyone here is to create a secret weapon that will be our weapon of victory over the enemy, I will reward you all heavily if you do a good job.”
He pointed to one of the familiar looking servants, “Kelly, from now on these people will be under your control.”
Then he took out the raw materials for gunpowder that he had brought with him and said, “This is what you have brought over, saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal. In the eyes of the world, these are nothing more than ordinary things, but I inadvertently realized that by mixing them in a certain proportion, I can create a mixture that can burn violently.”
Without blushing, he took the credit for it.
Then he mixed the three ingredients, which had long been powdered, according to the ratio of one nitrate, two sulfur, and three charcoal, and told the crowd to hide far away, took out a long fire rope, lit it with a fire tube (a tool similar to the one used to keep fire in the fire folders), and lightly touched the mixture from afar.
“Ah!” The crowd exclaimed.
Only to see the small pile of powder violently burst into dazzling flames, followed by a burst of thick smoke rising, along with the spread of thick smoke, an indescribable odor filled the tent.
“See? It burned so violently that it burned away almost instantly.”
Indeed, the previous mixture was now a pile of slag.
“Lord Lord is trying to make a weapon out of this?” Some resourceful people had already understood his intentions.
“Yes, I will call this mixture of powder gunpowder, and it will become a powerful weapon in our crusade against pirates. But just burning it is not enough to create any substantial threat to the pirates, so I intend to pack them into containers that can be sealed so that when burned they can create a strong explosion that will kill the enemy.”
“This is just a general idea of mine, this kind of weapon is still only in the stage of envisioning, the specific best gunpowder formula, the production process, as well as the shape of the container and made into how big is more appropriate, but also need to be brainstormed. I hereby announce that in the future, every good idea that passes my approval in terms of weapon making will be rewarded with at least one silver coin, the greater the value, the greater the reward.”
When the crowd heard that there was money to be gained, each of them had glowing eyes and patted their chests to ensure that they wouldn’t let the lord lord down.
“However, as you all saw from the experiment just now, this kind of thing is very dangerous, a single improper operation will not only hurt yourself, but also endanger others, so be careful. Later I will write a safety regulation, each of you should give me a word for word to memorize it for me, in the future I will irregularly spot check, those who can’t remember it immediately give me a roll, humph …… in order to prevent leakage, I’m afraid that the people who leave from here can’t live a normal life.”
A bunch of people were even coaxed and scared, and they swore to complete the Lord Lord’s task.
Paul summoned in an interior soldier and asked him to lead these people to familiarize themselves with the camp environment. Only a few of the blacksmiths among them were left behind.
He said to one of the older ones, “I remember your name is Herman right, the blacksmith in the castle.”
“Yes, my lord, my family has been working for Lord Earl’s house for generations, and the old earl’s armor was built by my youngest.”
“Well, good. Just now you also saw the power of gunpowder, how does it feel?”
“Lord Earl is truly a genius, if I hadn’t seen its ingredients and production method with my own eyes, I would have suspected that it was legendary magic.”
“Hmmmmm ……” nodded complacently, the admiration of the otherworldly natives made someone’s vanity MAX.
“Haha, in fact, the weapon idea I just mentioned is merely a crude way of using gunpowder. There are other, more subtle, more awesome ways to use it.”
“Oh? That’s the reason for leaving the little ones behind, isn’t it? I would also like to ask Lord Lord to clarify.”
Paul pulled out a piece of parchment and slowly unfolded it, “Look at this piece of paper, it goes like this, I need you to build a tubular weapon like what is drawn on it ……”
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From then on, not far from the training camp there is a piece of ordinary soldiers are prohibited from entering the area, the internal affairs of the soldiers day and night patrol guard. However, inside often wear out the strange sound of explosions, or attracted some curious people to explore the mystery, and these people are invariably the newly established “picket” invited to “drink tea”.
But just making some explosive devices and small thin iron pipe how can satisfy the Earl Lord it, he urgently needed a “bigger, thicker, longer” things, so wrote to the butler and Bryce, urging them to step up the search for proficient metal casting talent, have experience in casting bells better, as well as a large number of bronze.
In addition to the pickets, another party was soon afterward selected, consisting of large, tough men.
Makarov was among them, and in addition to performing their regular training, they set aside a special time each day for another kind of training: throwing a large pile of slightly polished stones, and doing so into a circle pre-drawn on the ground.
The name of the new team was: Bombardiers.
Many people were muttering in their hearts: it looked like the training expenses were too high a while ago, and the lord was already too poor to buy a bow and arrow, but if you want to use stones to hit the enemy, can’t you use a catapult that has a much longer throwing distance?
Although the throw can not be too big stone, but the distance is far enough ah, with the arm to throw this kind of big and round stone, the distance is close not to say, a few times down the arm are not strong ah.
(End of chapter)