Chapter 276 (2/2)

Seeing that summer was about to end, these three months of fall were his final preparation ti the invasion of the demonic beasts from the West, he had also had to keep an eye on Tiht come from the Eastern side Unlike last year where he had to pull on his lapels exposing the elbows, Border Town's population and incorowth They had also gradually increased the iron production, and with the help of more than a dozen witches, he was sure that he would be able to turn the Western Territory into an impassable iron bastion

Based on to the previous year’s coreatest threat to the ithout a doubt the mixed demonic beasts Especially so when the ene bullets, and thus could only be killed by explosion at a close proxi witches out of the city However, no h risks

Also, until now he had only faced attacks from the enee weaponry If the other side could construct a torsion catapult, or the ht trebuchets, he feared that he would encounter a lot of troubleAfter all, the process of loading a cannon so that it could fire was very inconvenient Not only did they have to to raise the cannon chamber each time they loaded , it was also easy for the cannon ball to roll out of it

These circumstances all meant it was inevitable that he would have to develop a new cannon

After thoughtfully thinking about it, Roland began to list all of the requirements he had onto a piece of paper

First of all, it had to have a sufficient shooting distance and force; enough that it could break through the shell of a mixed species that was a thousand meters away Secondly, it had to be rear loaded, this way the head could freely be lowered or raised, while still preserving its ability to shoot quickly Finally, in order to reduce the time of repeated research and developned to fulfill several purposes Meaning that in addition to being used to defend a stronghold and suppress the enemy, it could also be directly pulled onto a shi+p and be eunboats

Because of this it would have to be a large caliber with a long barrel type of heavy artillery

Roland first thought of those 15-16 cun (25ce e of several scores of kilo several round, only to quickly reject an unrealistic idea such as this Although there shouldn't be any proble side, but with Border Town's current level of materials, it meant that at least nine out of ten cannons would be explode And if he thickened the cannon's wall to more than one meter, they would lose their practical value since he would be no longer able to move them

By now he could only give birth to high-purity wrought iron that had the performance of ordinary steel So the plan still had to be on the conservative side

Roland finally set the caliber to the sacred number of 152 millimeters

The cannon used a vertical wedge breechblock, which was upwards and doards sliding doorWhen it was pulled down it exposed the cannon's cha it with an artillery shell, the block could be unpowder could only erupt forward Coe breechblock, its speed was faster, and its principle was also very simple and was a blueprint he already knew by heart

However, if he wanted to i, the artillery had to be equipped with a recoil mechanism, which in simple terms rese of oil and the other with a spring or gas Due to the recoil the ainst the two tubes, and would si The oil was used to buffer the recoil, while the spring would store the power and push the canon back into its original position after the shell left

Lastly the shell

Since he was already using the sacred cannon, there was no way he could be satisfied with using clumsy iron balls and paper wrapped canister shot anymore But Roland decided to develop two sets of artillery shells just to be safe, one would be the enlarged version of a bullet, with a warhead made out of solid metal; and another kind, one that had an explosive warhead and using an ienerations After all, he would surely co the explosive warheads, things like the develop Because of this he couldn't guarantee that he could achieve it before the begin of the Months of Demons, therefore they had to first produce the former before they could resolve the problems of the latter Even with a solid warhead, it should still be possible to easily deal with the slow-e equipment

Of course, no matter which kind of shells he used in the end, both would still consuunpowder In case they weren't able to start large-scale production of the two acids, the new guns could only be used as special weapons, which would e would be impossible to realize despite how much he wanted to do so

At this uards pushed open the door and entered the office

“Your Highness, a secret letter fro's City has arrived”

Roland put down the quill and opened the envelope Fronature, and its handwriting was also very unfamiliar, but its short sentence made it clear that Theo was undoubtedly the one who had sent it

”Today a group of about a thousand people left King's City, while heading toward the Western Border”