Chapter 34 (1/2)
Chapter 34 Trial explosion
At the beginning, when Roland started to build the cement creation house, he had already created a follow-up plan for future building projects They werearea so that they could be easily guarded together – the construction of the brick cottage with a wooden ceiling was very fast, and didn’t affect the building of the city wall
The vast amount of purchased saltpeter froe, and only helpers for grinding or weighing the saltpeter were allowed to enter the warehouse The same procedure was implemented for the charcoal and sulfur as well, and theentire handling process for each of the roup so that the risk of leaks was as minimized as possible
Roland weighed out twenty pounds of already produced gunpowder and slowly poured it into a good cut-out bag of sheepskin
This gunpowder had to go through a strict processing plan It had to be compacted, air dried, broken doith a hammer, screened, and filtered If all of the poas a uniforuaranteed to have an outstanding combustion performance To prevent accidents produced by static, the entire production process was done without any metal products Instead, they used ceramic and wood products
After pouring all of the gunpowder into the sheepskin, Roland stacked threeand then tied theether with a rope
“That’s all?” asked Carter Can this packet in front of hih it’s a modified snoder product, with sound alone, you can only scare soht? A peasant who has never been on a battlefield can affect a battle too, even if only a little However, any trained soldier or mercenary would never look at theht carefully reconsidered once ly had no reason at all, but the effects were always very alarence to that of an average animal, maybe this stuff can be unexpectedly useful? For exahten ani the pressure on the defender’s side
Roland gave the wrapped-up gunpowder to Carter, and then he took a pouch with tools to burn the powder, “All right, we have to go outside of the city wall Iron Axe should already be waiting for us”
To the west, about two miles from the city walls and located between the forest and thearea
Iron Axe and several other hunters had been waiting here for a long time In addition to Iron Axe himself, the others were the best local archers When they had heard that the tasks given to thehness, they couldn’t wait and immediately followed Iron Axe
At present, everyone knew that the new lord of Border Toas never stingy regarding the remuneration of his employees
According to Roland’s orders, they built a fence out of wooden poles and ropes, which were surrounded the whole testing area so that no one would trespass it In the direction of the city wall, he had arranged his knights to prevent anyone fro
Roland checked all the preparations once ht the prey with you?”
“Your Highness, it is here,” Iron Axe dragged a cage with hie, noted that it was filled with a few pheasants and rabbits
“Good, put a tied-up animal every five steps away from the center, until you reach thirty steps from the center “
Carter unnoticedly shook his head and tried to propose an ihness, I a animals You can’t test the effect with them, they are very timid and only a little sound needed before will flee So if you can scare them, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you will be able to scare the demonic beasts”
“Scare away dehtly hesitated and answered, “I do not intend to frighten the thing”
He took the bag with the gunpowder from his chief, went to the center, and put it down Then he cuta ser and let some powder leak out With that done, he took out bottles containing gunpowder and sprinkled a s while continually stepping backwards
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