Chapter 248 The Weapon of Theory

The loud noise made by the test gun alarmed the gray dwarves in the village. They followed the sound. The patriarch Silver Shield ran into the meeting hall with a large group of people.

As soon as they rushed into the hall, the gray dwarves smelled the strange smell of burning saltpeter and sulfur. The Silver Shield clan leader came to Luo Feng, looked at the strange weapon in his hand, and guessed that it was the so-called "gun".

"Mr. Bredlow, what are you doing?"

He raised the question on behalf of a group of curious gray dwarves.

"Call me comrade." Luo Feng smiled at him and did not answer his question. He quickly completed the loading at the speed of an Indian, quickly took aim, and pulled the trigger.

"boom--"

Another shot!

This shot hit the dent where it was hit before, making a metallic clang, and a small hole burst open where it hit, and the fine dwarf steel armor was shot through.

"Wow..."

"What's going on? I didn't see clearly!"

"Is this a gun? What a terrible weapon!"

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The gray dwarves who were watching were startled and started talking at once. Silver Shield, the dwarf leader, opened his eyes wide and said in disbelief: "Ladugue's hammer! This is much more powerful than the crossbow!"

Of course, firearms are more powerful than crossbows. Even in a magical world like Faerûn, a magically blessed crossbow cannot reach the range of a Miné rifle.

The Migne rifle has a killing range of up to 918 meters and can guarantee accurate hits within 550 meters. The most powerful crossbow of the Song Dynasty infantry, the "God's Arm Bow", has an effective killing range of only 370 meters.

The materials used to make crossbows in Faerûn may be better than those in ancient times in the real world. Materials such as dragon tendons, fine gold, mithril, etc. can be used on crossbows to greatly increase the pulling force, thereby increasing the range and lethality.

However, if the pulling force is too large, the shooter may not have enough strength to pull the crossbow string. Installing a stringing machine on the crossbow arm can assist in stringing, but this will greatly affect the stringing speed, resulting in a reduction in the shooting frequency.

There is a magic crossbow in Faerûn, which uses magic to assist in winding, and even has incredible functions such as automatic and rapid winding, firing rays of light, explosive crossbows, etc.

Such a weapon cannot be installed in the army. It uses rare magic materials and the master spends a lot of energy to carve the magic circle. The price of a magic crossbow can easily reach thousands or tens of thousands of gold coins. If you want to equip every soldier with a magic crossbow, even if Even the richest country in Faerûn cannot afford the equipment.

Luo Feng handed the rifle to Silver Shield and taught him a set of procedures for loading bullets and shooting. The old dwarf probably still had the genes of the ancient dwarf mechanic in his blood, and he quickly got started. He raised the gun and aimed at the target button. The trigger was pulled.

After the loud noise, Silver Shield's first shot missed the target and hit the armored helmet, sending the helmet flying high into the air.

The old patriarch lost his temper and loaded and fired five shots in succession before he was satisfied. The gray dwarves who came in with him also took turns to test-fire this magical weapon.

The dwarves were noisily shooting guns. Luo Feng turned to Yao En and said, "Let's name this gun 'Yao En 1372 Rifle'."

Yao En quickly shook his head and said: "This is disrespectful to Master Qiu. Without the guidance of Master Qiu, it would be impossible for me to invent a weapon like a gun. I simply could not imagine that it would be possible to invent gunpowder-driven projectiles." Where are the long-range weapons for shooting!”

Hearing what he said, Luo Feng's conspiracy theory mentality became even more serious. Yao En was obviously a psychotic engineer with extremely broad ideas. He created a sophisticated mechanical crossbow and also developed a special flash shock bomb for mechanical crossbows.

He obviously knew how to play with gunpowder to make bombs, but he never expected to invent a "firearm" with a simpler mechanism than his mechanical crossbow, and with higher power and accuracy.

In front of the gun, the "cannon" with a simpler structure is not common on the continent of Faerûn. After the plot of Shadow of Amn ended, Chanem teleported into a besieged city, and the siege equipment used by the siege army actually It's a trebuchet! Even if the siege army is an army formed by monsters, its technological content is too low.

Amn is the most economically developed country in the continent of Faerûn. The siege engines equipped in the army are also trebuchets. What is better than that backward monster army is that the trebuchets have more types of ammunition and can throw alchemical bombs.

Luo Feng suspected that the gods had united to modify the collective unconsciousness of all intelligent creatures in Faerun, erasing the memory of making firearms, prohibiting Faerun from making guns, and not even allowing them to think about the feasibility of weapons like firearms.

The Lord of the Morning's killing of the God of Reason and Pragmatism was also part of this conspiracy.

"Don't worry about that ball, just call it this name." Luo Feng waved his hands impatiently: "We can not rush to develop the subsequent improved models, and the manufacturing process is not optimized. Just rely on Bruno to knock the barrel manually, and the output will definitely be the same. Not on."

Luo Feng ignored Yao En, who was arguing for Io En, and said to the ball on his head: "Ai Ou, I will give you a new task. You will guide Yao En and Bruno to develop steam-powered drilling machines, milling machines and boring machines. , Faerûn has no shortage of coal, and also has huge oil reserves. You must first solve the power problem and take charge of the research and development of steam engines. Steam engines are also very helpful for mining and water extraction. After building the steam engine, you can then develop various steam-powered machine tools."

After explaining the task, Luo Feng turned around and left the gray dwarf meeting hall where there was constant noise and gunshots, and went to find Drizzt.