Chapter 247 Testing the Gun

The sabotage mission behind enemy lines lasted for more than ten days. Luo Feng, who had a very keen sense of smell, sensed a hint of danger, so he stopped as soon as possible and returned to Luoshi Village with Akanis who was satisfied but still had some unfinished things.

The city of Menzoberranzan could not be destroyed by just a small amount of damage done by him and Arkanis. Only the awakened people would eventually overthrow the feudal ruling class.

After returning to Falling Stone Village, he began to check the previously assigned tasks. The first stop was to check the military factory established by Yao En, Ao En, and Bruno.

The military factory is located in the original blacksmith hall of Luoshi Village. It is a huge stone chamber dug by hand. There is a ventilation hole above the stone chamber. Anvils, sinks, furnaces, grinding wheels and other blacksmithing tools are all available. There is also a nearby A large warehouse where ores and metal ingots are stored.

A total of fifty gray dwarf blacksmiths were selected as workers in the arsenal. When Luo Feng walked into the arsenal, they were bare-armed and hammering red-hot metal ingots, and the sound of clanking could be heard.

Yao En and Bruno were discussing at the top of their voices in front of a huge blacksmith's workbench, while Io was held on the head by Yao En.

Io is a ball. Yao En respects this ball master very much and thinks that hanging it on his belt is an insult. So he made a hat, embedded Io on the tip of the hat, and wears the Io hat to work every day. .

Luo Feng was very dissatisfied with Yao En's new image and thought it had a bad connotation, but he held back his complaints so as not to waste time by arguing with the blasphemous old lunatic.

"Old... Comrade Bredlow, are you back?"

Yao En saw Luo Feng coming in and greeted him. He seemed to be in great condition, with a smile on his face, as if he had just encountered something good. Being able to swagger around wearing an Io hat is a great enjoyment for him.

Yao En picked up the freshly baked Faerun Continental version of the Minie rifle from the workbench as if it was a treasure, handed it to Luo Feng, and said: "Under the guidance of Master Qiu, the gun you mentioned has finally been made. The gun is Although it was built by Comrade Bruno, the receiver is my work, please check it out."

Luo Feng took over the hand-made Minie rifle. This gun is 55 inches (1.39 meters) long, has a 40-inch barrel, and weighs about 5 kilograms. The barrel is made of dwarf steel, and the receiver is made of ordinary steel.

It is a pity that this sample gun did not meet the design requirements. The manufacturing accuracy was not enough to ensure the airtightness of the breech loading. It still used the front loading mode and was a standard Miné rifle.

To shoot with this rifle, the loading method is to pour a certain amount of gunpowder from the paper bag into the barrel, use the ejector rod to push the bullet into the muzzle, put the flash cap on the anvil, move the hammer to the firing position, and finally Pull the trigger to fire.

This rifle uses gunpowder. Charcoal, sulfur and saltpeter are all very common mineral veins underground in the Underdark. Especially sulfur ore has huge reserves in the deeper strata, close to the lava channels of dormant and extinct volcanoes.

Saltpeter ore is not uncommon either. After mining, it can be purified and crystallized using alchemical purification methods to obtain fire saltpeter with higher purity.

The proportioning and granulation methods were stored in Io's database. Yao En easily mastered the entire process, opened a gunpowder manufacturing factory in a cave far away from the military factory, and recruited some dwarf women and children to make gunpowder.

The manufacture of flash caps is more complicated than gunpowder, but Faerûn's alchemical acid pre-technology is very complete. The preparation of triacids is no longer a secret. The hydrochloric acid and nitric acid required for the manufacture of mercury fulminate can be prepared. Mercury is an alchemist. One of the essential raw materials.

Under Ao's guidance, Yao En used alchemy tools to create mercury fulminate and then a fire hat without much effort.

Mini bullets are also hand-made and made of lead. After the lead is melted, it is shaped in a grinding tool and polished by hand to remove the stubble.

"It took ten days to make this gun." Yao En explained: "It was the barrel that slowed down the progress. Bruno drilled and polished a qualified rifled barrel by hand, which would have taken at least five days. If he replaced it with another The gray dwarf blacksmith's efficiency and craftsmanship accuracy are far inferior to him, so it will not be easy to mass-produce this gun."

"Let's try the power first."

Luo Feng took Yao En and Bruno out of the blacksmith workshop and went to the conference hall of Luoshi Village. This stone hall had the largest space and was suitable for testing guns.

The gun target is a piece of dwarf full-body armor. The armor is made of dwarven steel and is a +1 sophisticated equipment.

After fixing the armor on the armor stand, Luo Feng took the rifle and walked fifty steps away, more than 60 meters away from the target. He loaded the rifle with ammunition according to the standard loading process, cocked the hammer, and installed the hammer on the anvil. Put on the flash cap.

Raising his rifle, aiming at the dwarf's armored chest, Luo Feng pulled the trigger.

"boom--"

A loud bang echoed in the stone chamber, making an ear-splitting buzz.

The thick smoke from the gunpowder explosion dissipated, and several people looked at the dwarf armor intently. They saw that the projectile hit the dwarf's chest. The lead bullet hit the dwarf steel and was completely shattered by the huge impact. Although the dwarf steel armor was not penetrated, it was still in the chest. The bullet point was dented, and cracks appeared at the bottom of the dent.

Even if this shot cannot penetrate the dwarf steel armor, it will still cause some damage to the target. If the second shot can hit the same location, it can completely penetrate it and kill the armored person.

The armor of the dark elves is not as protective or armor-covering as the dwarven steel armor. Mail armor is the mainstream armor of the dark elves. The drow have high agility attributes, but poor strength attributes and cannot wear heavy armor. Dwarves cannot wear heavy armor. Steel armor is the heavy armor with the highest thickness and weight in Faerûn.

This shot seems to have average effect, but for dark elf warriors, it can definitely break through the defense. If it hits a location not covered by armor, such as the cheek, it can be killed with even one shot.

The power of the Migne rifle is far greater than that of Faerun's slings, crossbows, bows and other long-range weapons, and its accuracy is not comparable to the three. Luo Feng nodded with satisfaction.

But now we still face several problems that need to be solved.

The first is the problem of standardized mass production. Only when the quantity is established, the combat effectiveness of the army equipped with Miné rifles will surpass the traditional army of Faerûn.

The second is that it cannot effectively resist protective magic or divine spells.

The continent of Faerûn is a magical world where magic and divine spells can form a force field to resist physical attacks. For example, the mage's stone skin, deflection, mage armor, obscurity, protection from long-range attacks, protection from ordinary weapon attacks, magic weapon attacks, barrier, ultimate barrier...the priest's divine armor, bark The druid's iron skin technique can easily block bullets or prevent bullets from hitting.

If these two problems cannot be solved, armies using firearms will suffer heavy losses when encountering enemies assisted by mages and priests, and the weapons in their hands will be worse than fire sticks.