Chapter 116

The square of the experiment was full of the smell of fire powder, and members of the powder research department and the military Design Institute gathered together. Mr. Raul, whose coat was wrinkled, was sweating and staring nervously at the middle of the square, holding a flag in his hand:

"group one! Good! 3、 Two, one! "

He waved the flag.

Bang -

there was an explosion that was many times smaller than the sound of the cannon when it was launched, and a birch target standing on the square broke to pieces.

"Yes! sure! It's a success

Mr. Raul gave a loud drink and a strong wave of his arm. The crowd cheered and turned to the king accompanied by the devil.

"Your majesty! We made it

"Yes, it did."

The king replied. He looked at the center of the experimental field and put his fingertips against each other. Raul, in order to show their respect for the king, specially moved a group of clean tables and chairs, arranged in a safe place outside the experimental area.

Now it is the first military heavy industry department of Legrand that is jointly demonstrating to the king the results of their "super firepower military artillery" program.

The king knows what plans his lunatic scientists are working on -

in the center of the experimental area, a skeleton is half kneeling, with a cylindrical iron pipe nearly two meters on its shoulder. The iron tube looks like a miniaturized version of the gun, or it's an enlarged hand gun. It was this skeleton that just shot the birch target.

This is the "super firepower military gun" project jointly completed by Raul and the Rogers brothers.

This group of neuropathies in the "explosion is the truth" on the road all the way running away, almost insane.

In the words of the Rogers brothers, "gunpowder weapons should be paid attention to in all aspects of the battlefield. No matter at sea or on land, they should not only be used as siege weapons, We should not sit on the sidelines most of the time in the war. "

This statement full of "explosion is the truth" is rarely recognized by military designers.

Originally, the king only asked them to improve the artillery, but they put aside their enmity and thought about how to let the gunpowder weapons usurp the dominant position of the heavy cavalry in the battlefield.

In the end, they set their eyes on something they didn't want to see.

As early as the late 14th century, iron tube firearms with gunpowder had appeared in the hopeless inland sea area, known as "firestick" or "handgun". Before the outbreak of the black death, this strange thing had been introduced into Legrand through ships between the abyss channel and the inland sea.

But the hand guns at this time are the same as the guns before. Although the military experts know this kind of thing, they are still not reused in the battlefield. They are far less powerful than longbows and crossbows on the battlefield, and even it is considered a shame to die under handguns at this time.

As we all know, handguns are good for nothing but scaring the enemy. If they are hit, either he is a bad luck or he is a coward. [2]

minister Raul thinks that handguns are an important direction in the use of gunpowder. He specially asked the oath knights in charge of the order of the industrial base why handguns are not popular on the frontal battlefield.

At the beginning, the oath knights were still a little unconvinced by the king's attention to the cannon, but these unconvinced soon disappeared in the "rumbling" explosions of the Rogers brothers and Mr. Raul. Even, when Mr. Raul, a gentle looking man, came to inquire, the oath Knight subconsciously stepped back and had some inexplicable fear of Mr. designer, who knew he could beat down with one blow.

Finally, an oath knight who had seen mercenaries use handguns gave the answer:

handguns and short wooden sleeves used to support are generally more than one meter long. The gun body is too heavy and the recoil force is too strong. It is difficult for ordinary soldiers to use handguns in mobile operations. Moreover, the accuracy of handguns is too poor, which has no other effect except to create chaos. However, the slow loading hand gun can not match the fast and powerful long bow when guarding the city.

In order to solve these problems, the gunpowder research department and the military design department joined hands for the first time.

The Rogers brothers, based on their previous experience of learning from fireworks craftsmen, put forward the idea of fuse. Military designers thought about combining the fuse with the handgun. Although the progress of fire rope and handgun is slow, these guys are not determined to let the handgun play a role in the frontal battlefield.

In the end, they turned to

Well

On the skeletons.

"It's like this." Mr. Raul explained carefully, "we made an enlarged version of the cannon - it can be seen as a reduced version of the cannon. Before the fire rope device is solved, there is little difference between the two. Skeletons have great strength and can easily carry heavy handguns. Recoil force has little effect on them. In addition, an important drawback of the hand gun is that it is necessary to ignite the powder in the chamber with red iron. The shooter must grasp the barrel and ignite at the same time when firing. It is not only slow, but also difficult to aim accurately. But! [2]。”Mr. Raul's voice rose.

He pulled Mr. skeleton, who had come down from the experimental field, and patted his shoulder blade excitedly.

"But! Your majesty! Our skeletons are different! " Mr. Raul went on and on, "Mr. skeletons, aiming is not by eyes, but by sensing the fire of the soul! Skeletons are able to take apart their bones for a while - yes! They can bite the ignition rod with their teeth, then aim and shoot at the same time! Even their fingers are extremely flexible, not afraid of high temperature, they can accurately complete this series of movements

The skeleton shooter, who was slapped on the shoulder by him, split the upper and lower rows of teeth toward the king, showing a shy smile.

The king looked at his fresh Musketeer in silence, and saw that the skull was covered with black smoke, half white and half black because of the experiment.

"So..." The king looked at the skull smiling at him and carefully considered his words. "When the improvement of the fire rope device is finished?"

The happy smiling skull stopped laughing, and the skull fell down in frustration.

Mr. Raul felt that he had been condemned by his conscience - as if he were an unscrupulous prostitute in a brothel. He shook his hand and quickly dispersed the confused Association: "cough! in fact! We have a new idea. Our Mr. skeleton has played an important role in this plan. "

"We believe that there are two ways to develop the hand-held gun: first, completely get rid of the influence of the prototype of artillery, reduce the size, improve the accuracy and portability, and make it suitable for ordinary soldiers to operate. 2、 For human soldiers, guns can only be used by soldiers with strong physique and well-developed chest muscles, but this is not a problem for skeletons. This is the future development goal of super firepower military artillery. "

Hearing his words, the skull on the ground "dada dada" happily collapsed.

Obviously, these skeletons are more willing to serve their king on the battlefield than mining and building houses.

The devil sighed, unwilling to see the picture.

What a fool! These skeletons are so stupid!!

The king looked at Mr. Raul, and then at the skeleton, who was obviously very happy: "well, it's time for me to have a new batch of badges - for my skeleton Gunners?"

The skeleton Musketeer happily threw his skull into the sky. Not far away, the skeleton carrying the ore looked at this side enviously.

"Well..." The devil compromise, "I will choose a group of suitable skeletons for you."

The king gave a soft smile.

All right.

The devil thought, when hell threw away his face to please the king.

Just as Mr. Raul wanted to explain to the king, a messenger crow flew down from the sky and gently put a letter to the king's desk.

The King opened the letter.

He restrained his rare light smile and became serious.

"The hall of truth?"

He said to himself.

………………

City of art, will city.

Sunny, church bells, a group of symbols of peace and happiness dove wings fly, winter has gone, the weather is getting warmer. While TYA sat at the table by the window, she felt a chill in her bones.

"Father, think clearly!"

The soon to be married daughter was crying to persuade him with red eyes.

"Just say tomorrow that heliocentric is wrong. Can't our family's life match your figures that no one cares about?"

"But math doesn't cheat..."

The inarticulate TIA wants to explain to her daughter.

Tomorrow, there will be a debate in the city of will, the "city of art". The object of the debate is some ideas put forward by heretics. This is a large-scale debate presided over by the Holy See, which invited many well-known scholars. In order to show its broad mind, the holy Empire specially arranged this performance to solemnly announce that God's saying is the truth.

The emperor of the holy Empire declared that God is just and merciful. He is willing to give heretics a chance to teach them what is right with truth. At the meeting, the Holy See allowed all scholars to put forward their own views and answer them one by one. God will forgive the world with his wisdom.

TIA was an invited astronomer.

After accepting the invitation, TIA was proud at first, until a few days ago, a bishop came to the door and hinted that if he opposed heliocentrism in the debate, his wife and daughters would get the jewelry they wanted, and he would become a clergyman of the Holy See.

"What the hell with math." TYA's wife coldly dropped his manuscript into the fireplace, looked at him, and said, "do you know the witch's hammer, which has just been published? The judge has asked Bella and I once. "

TYA was speechless, leaning wearily against the back of her chair.

"I I see

He whispered.The wife and daughter went out and left the door open.

TIA watched the manuscript burning rapidly in the fireplace.

It's getting dark. It's evening.

TIA's daughter went up to her father for dinner. Knock on the door several times, no response.

She pushed the door open and froze.

The room was quiet, there were no candles, and the fire in the fireplace had already gone out. Her father's hand hung over the edge of the chair, dead and pale. There was a strong smell of blood in the room.

With a scream, the soon to be married girl rushed downstairs.

The dusk sun sets in the sky in the west, and the glow is like blood.

The sun shines on the earth quietly.

Once upon a time, there was a little boy who was chasing the setting sun in his childhood. Over and over again, he thought that he would catch up with the sunset one day. Later, when the boy grew up, he began to calculate the angle of the sun, the moon and the stars over and over again. He thought, ah, if he can't go to the sunset, he will calculate the angle of the sun and the stars.

He wanted to reach out and touch the sun.

Eyes can cheat, legends can cheat, but numbers don't. The grown-up boy calculated those complicated and huge degrees countless times. Finally, as soon as he reached out, he could pick the sun.

However, the Holy See said that the father is everywhere, the stars circle the earth, and the sky is the realm of angels and the Holy Spirit.

In the tears of his wife and daughter, the growing up boy, he gave up.

Holy Empire 1, February 2.

The debate on truth opened in will, the city of art. Before this unprecedented debate on truth, no one cared. A silent astronomer chose to sleep in the long dark night. He left a final question:

Where will the flower of technology be born?

Will truth become mud with false name and evil?

The author has something to say: (1) the killing power of the early muskets was far less than that of the longbows and crossbows of the same era. See Du Pui's evolution of weapons and war

[2] "it's not exact when handguns appeared. It may be in the 1430s, but it won't be later than the early 15th century at the latest. For a long time, the main function of handguns was to frighten the enemy. If they hit the enemy, it can only be said that the enemy was out of luck. "-" medieval war: European war theory and practice: 300-1500 "

[3] in the early 15th century, the early muskets used red iron to ignite the powder in the medicine room, and then fired the bullets. Therefore, the early hand gun firing speed is slow, the accuracy is poor, the actual effect is very limited. It was not until the late 15th century, when the firing device of the firearm was improved, that the armed forces began to use hand-held guns to equip the army.

[4] When you see some readers wondering, please explain. For theological reasons, the holy see in the Middle Ages held the geocentric view and attacked the heliocentric view. The Bishop's visit here is to make astronomers give up heliocentrism and support geocentrism.