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On the way to see His Royal Highness with the ore, Lucia's ears were still echoing with Nightingale's words.
She had to say, she was shocked by the other party's calm attitude.
Although she didn't understand the matter of feelings, but a witch and a prince … it was simply impossible for them to be together, right? In this way, shouldn't she carefully hide her own thoughts at the bottom of her heart, not letting the other party know?
Moreover, why did she, as the audience, feel so embarrassed and flushed?
Standing at the door of the office, Lucia took a deep breath, then pushed the door open and entered.
"Your Royal Highness, I brought the ore."
"Let me see," Roland said with a yawn.
The ruler of Border Town looked the same as usual, with sleepy eyes, he should have just woken up from a nap. He leaned against the back of the chair, with a natural expression and an easy-going tone, completely unlike the other nobles who were fierce.
Lucia's inexplicable nervousness also relaxed a lot. She took out the ore particles found in the North Slope Mine from her leather bag and placed them on the desk one by one.
After going through her ability to decompose, these particles looked almost the same, the color was either silver or gray, probably only the knowledgeable His Royal Highness would be able to distinguish what kind of ore they were.
She saw the Prince frowning for a long time, weighing each of them in his palm, then carefully looking at the sunlight behind him. Finally, he waved his hand and said, "Ahem, I will give these ores to Mr. Sichi to identify, you continue to go to the North Slope backyard to practice your ability, if you don't understand, you can ask Anna."
"…" Huh, even His Royal Highness doesn't know? Lucia quickly bowed her head and said, "Yes."
Just as she was about to leave the office, Roland stopped her again.
"Oh, right, your test results are good, you scored 68 points and ranked ninth. It's really not easy to have such a performance after learning with everyone for only a month, you have to keep it up. Also … "He paused," In the next test, I hope Bell can also participate with everyone. "
"Yes!" Lucia replied excitedly.
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After watching the little girl happily bow and leave, Roland looked at the metal particles on the table and sighed.
He was still too naive. He thought that by decomposing the rocks into elemental substances, he would be able to figure out what kind of mineral veins were hidden in the North Slope Mine. However, the facts made him understand the huge gap between mechanical engineering and geology. These rocks would eventually be separated into three or four types of metals, and the ones with the most amount could be considered as ores of this type of metal. But their color and shape were almost the same. For example, iron, aluminum, magnesium, and potassium were all silver-white metals in their high purity state. It was too difficult to distinguish them with the naked eye. 【Love ↑ Go △ Small ↓ Say △ Net
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It was better to leave this problem to the Chief Alchemist. After all, using chemical reactions to verify the characteristics of the materials was much more reliable than making wild guesses.
After dealing with this matter, Roland took out a piece of paper and began to plan how to deal with this year's Months of the Demons.
Seeing that the summer was coming to an end, the three months of autumn were his last preparation time. In addition to resisting the invasion of the demonic beasts from the west, he also had to pay attention to Timothy and the Church from the east. Compared to the previous year, when he was struggling to make ends meet, the population and income under his rule had increased significantly. The iron production was also gradually increasing, and there were more than a dozen witches. He was completely confident that he could turn the Western Region into an impassable iron wall.
According to last year's combat experience, the biggest threat to the city wall was undoubtedly the hybrid demonic beasts. Especially when the enemy had a thick carapace that was difficult for bullets to penetrate, he could either use explosives or send witches out of the city to fight. Either way, the danger would be greatly increased.
In addition, most of the enemies he faced were cavalry and infantry, so he had never seen the siege weapons of this era. If the other side could set up a torsion catapult, or a more advanced counterweight catapult, he was afraid that he would encounter a lot of trouble. After all, it was very inconvenient to load the cannon from the front and shoot downward. Every time he reloaded, he would need to raise the muzzle again, and the shells could easily roll out of the barrel.
It was imperative to develop a more powerful artillery.
Roland thought about it and listed the requirements he needed on the paper.
First of all, it should have enough range and power to penetrate the carapace of the hybrid demonic beasts from a kilometer away. Second, it must be rear-loaded, able to freely adjust the angle of elevation, and also have the ability to fire quickly. Finally, in order to reduce the time of repeated research and development, the design should consider that one cannon could be used for multiple purposes. It could be used as a fixed battery to suppress the enemy, or it could be directly pulled to the ship and used as the main weapon of the future shallow water heavy gunboat.
Therefore, it should be a heavy cannon with a large caliber and a long barrel.
The first thing that came to Roland's mind was the fifteen or sixteen inch behemoth on the battleship, with a range of up to ten kilometers, and a single shot could dig a few meters deep hole in the ground, but he quickly rejected this unrealistic idea. Although there was no problem with the processing, with the current level of materials in Border Town, at least nine out of ten cannons would explode. Even if the wall of the tube was thickened to more than one meter, it would still lose its practical value because it couldn't be moved.
At present, he could only produce high purity wrought iron and ordinary steel, so it was better to be conservative.
In the end, Roland set the caliber at the sacred number of 152 millimeters.
The cannon used a vertical wedge breech, similar to a sliding door. When it was lowered, the barrel was exposed, and the shell was loaded. When it was repositioned, it was locked, and the gunpowder gas erupted forward. Compared with the screw breech and the horizontal wedge breech, it had the fastest firing speed, and the principle was very simple. He had already memorized its mechanical structure.
However, in order to achieve a fast firing speed, the cannon had to be equipped with a recoil mechanism. Simply put, it was like two pumps, one filled with oil, and the other with a recoil spring or gas. When the muzzle was recoiled, the two connecting rods were pulled, and at the same time, the oil and the recoil spring were compressed. The oil was used to cushion the recoil, and the recoil spring was used to store power. After the firing, the barrel would be pushed back to its original position.
Finally, it was the cannonball.
Now that he had used the Sacred Cannon, he naturally couldn't be satisfied with the clumsy solid iron ball and paper-wrapped canister shooting. So, for the sake of security, Roland decided to develop two kinds of fixed shells at the same time. One was an enlarged version of the bullet, with a solid metal warhead, and the other was an explosive warhead with a trigger fuse, which was later known as the howitzer. After all, the latter had a certain technical difficulty. It was necessary to repeatedly test the reliability of the fuse, and it was impossible to guarantee that it would be ready for the army before the Months of the Demons. Therefore, it was necessary to first produce the former to solve the problem. Even if it was a solid warhead, it would be easy to deal with the slow-moving thick-armored demonic beasts and the stationary siege equipment.
Of course, no matter what kind of shell it was, it would consume a lot of smokeless gunpowder. Before the two acids could be mass-produced, the new cannon could only be used as a special weapon. It was impossible to achieve a hearty artillery coverage.
At this moment, a guard pushed open the door and came in.
"Your Highness, there is a secret letter from King's City."
Roland put down the quill and opened the envelope. From beginning to end, the letter had no signature, and the handwriting was very unfamiliar, but the content of the first sentence showed that this letter was undoubtedly sent by Theo.
Today, a team of about a thousand people will leave King's City, heading in the direction of the Western Territory. (To be continued. , Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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