The brave man opened the coffin and rose

Chapter 161 Guns and Cannons

Words can’t persuade them to surrender, but maybe some other methods can.

For example, guns and cannons.

In order to safely capture Mud City and Raven Castle, Abes began to devote himself to the research of guns and artillery.

Currently, those responsible for this aspect include Kronos, several old blacksmiths from Sweetleaf Town who participated in the design of the magic blast furnace, and Wilford who manages the assembly line.

In addition, after taking over the royal capital, arrangements had already been made for the combination of powerful technologies.

Wilford witnessed the magic blast furnace once when he came to the capital to do business, which led to the successful design of Sweetleaf Town.

And when it comes to weapons production, who has more say than the steel mills in the royal capital?

Other places do not have so much authority to forge weapons, have so much loss allowance, and have all the supplies they want.

This technical exchange surprised both parties.

First of all, the blast furnace itself is the result of a long period of research by the Royal Capital Steel Plant.

In Sweetleaf Town, it was only Wilford who knew the appearance, Abes who had some knowledge of science and engineering, and several old blacksmiths who worked together to research it.

There is no problem in coping with the project in the next few days, but many problems have already emerged.

For example, how to clean up the accumulated dust, how to control the feed ratio, and the time for ventilation and combustion.

There are no problems with the feeding and discharging of molten iron, but the reducing agent, the iron-carbon ratio, and the timing and effectiveness of each project are all problems for the magic blast furnace designed in Tianye Town.

After all, Abesi was under time pressure, so after making the second model, it rushed into production to supply iron vests and grenade shells for the war.

Although this Wangdu model is a new technology that has only come out in recent years, it has been honed for a long time.

In terms of various details, it is naturally much more mature.

However, Tianye Town has gained the opportunity to improve its technology and make up for its shortcomings. Is the Royal Capital perfect?

People in the royal capital naturally envied the convenience of the magic blast furnace in Sweet Leaf Town, which could produce molten iron continuously without the need for mages to charge it.

More importantly, after Sister Agatha completed the design of engines, assembly lines and other products, the magic blast furnace can be said to have now achieved the level of feeding, unloading and making products, and it can be done without any labor as long as they want.

The new technologies they need to learn on the magic blast furnace are far more than the blast furnace itself, but a series of production lines generated around the blast furnace.

Therefore, as the technologies of both sides were exchanged, a batch of new and improved magic blast furnaces were rebuilt in Tianye Town.

Meanwhile, the newly built blast furnaces in the Wangdu Steel Plant were also put into an intensive period of renovation.

As for the idea proposed by Abes, to create magic guns and magic cannons based on magic grenades, it was also put in front of several technically savvy people.

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Seeing the rather serious expressions of Hiiragi and Sister Agatha, and the puffy and slightly red face of Kronos, Abes scratched his head.

Is my suggestion really stupid?

For people with knowledge of the real world, it seems natural to develop gunpowder, one of the four great inventions, and then continuously develop the subsequent technology tree to open up the opportunity to replace cold weapons with hot weapons.

Therefore, when Abes put forward the principle of the musket and hoped that several of their technicians could apply the principle of the grenade more stably and create the firearms that Abes had in mind, he did not expect to suffer such treatment.

The essence of firearms has remained the same since their inception, with propellants propelling bullets to hit targets.

The most basic model is that the expansion work of burning gunpowder pushes the ammunition out and moves along a narrow tube.

In order to ensure that the pneumatic work was not wasted, the original muskets were muzzle-loading guns with a closed rear.

The user needs to put the ignition powder and bullet in order, and then use the primer to ignite the gunpowder inside through the small hole at the end of the barrel.

This is the principle of the matchlock gun.

As for the matchlock gun, the improvement actually lies in the fact that people no longer need to hold the fuse in one hand to light it themselves, but there is a continuously burning match that will automatically ignite when the trigger is pulled.

The flintlock replaced the tinderbox with flint, and the tinderbox changed from the tinderbox that burned slowly and continuously to the sparks that were produced by the flint at the moment of friction and impact.

In essence, the internal principles themselves have not changed at all, the ignition valve, fuse and flint, what has changed are the external ignition materials.

Now, although the ignition method has been placed internally, the filling has changed from front loading to rear loading and even automatic feeding from magazines, and it has become a hammer igniting the primer, but what are the completely different technical differences?

It is precisely because of this series of rich historical materials and technical support that Abesi would naturally promote the new toy of the matchlock gun in the current world.

Such a self-evident proposal was, of course, met with contempt from the three technicians.

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"Pneumatic? Forgive me for not being able to help myself, this is totally unnecessary waste."

The person who has the most say on this issue is Sister Agatha.

"The engine design drawings passed down by the [Abyss Alliance] have indeed always retained a cylindrical design with good airtightness, hoping to complete the two strokes of suction and propulsion in it."

“But guess why, I made the change?”

Abes blinked, recalling what Sister Agatha had reported to him.

The principle of the magic engine... seems to be to use the universal rectifier to adjust the parameters to the ultimate conversion, so that the energy of the magic crystal can be output to a rune group with the function of rotation.

As for why the cylinder system mentioned in the pictures and texts passed down for 333 years was abandoned?

On the one hand, with their current technology, making a set of equipment that is airtight to each other is difficult, if not impossible;

On the other hand, it is naturally because the rotating rune group driven by the magic crystal is more efficient.

If, in the real world, the energy conversion of an engine is the chemical energy of a chemical fuel being converted into internal energy heat, which drives the mechanical operation into mechanical energy, and then triggers a series of subsequent changes;

So in the current world, the engine's energy conversion method is actually to directly convert the energy in the magic crystal into mechanical energy through the design of a rotating rune group.

In the real world, there are two types of such high-speed rotating devices. One is a generator that generates electricity by cutting magnetic lines of flux, and its rotation requires human or mechanical drive; the other is an electric motor that twists electrical energy under the action of a magnetic field, similar to fans or small motors.

In the current world, this construct, designed by the [Covenant under the Abyss] after 333 years of hard work, and improved by Sister Agatha for practical application, is the engine that is the core of all mechanical sources rotating at high speed.

In Abe's opinion, this design is clearly an energy source, but it has the shape of an output end such as a fan. He naturally feels very uncomfortable.

After understanding the core principles of the magic engine, Abes also realized the stupidity of the schematic diagram he proposed.

Seamless steel pipe with good airtightness?

Sorry, can't do it.

The Seres gradually acquired iron tools during the Han Dynasty, but the use of muskets and artillery did not begin until the Song and Ming Dynasties.

This is the current situation in Tianye Town. Having just reached the threshold for a surge in steel production, they are already thinking about making seamless steel pipes? The gap is too big.

Although it may take some time or some time to rub out by hand.

But this brings up another reason.

On the other hand, pneumatic devices are definitely an extremely inefficient choice for the current world.

"Regarding the subject of firearms, Lord Abeth, I think we have some better options."

Kronos held his forehead and interrupted Abe's conception and description of the musket.

This silver-haired girl was probably the one who respected Abes the most on normal days, but at this moment, she had to stand up and interrupt Abes's grand plan.

"Look, what is this?"

Abes glanced at the drawing handed over by the silver-haired girl. What was drawn on it was naturally the rune group of the front part of the magic blast furnace.

"The heating part of the magic blast furnace?"

Kronos shook his head, then drew a circle on it with his finger.

"It's the charging part. The area after the casting determines what it releases. The flaming orb used to heat the magic blast furnace. What if we replace this part with something else?"

As he spoke, the wizard Bing Nagi beside him handed over a list of classic but useful low-level spells.

At this point, Abess didn't understand why the matchlock rifle he proposed was despised by the three men.

Man, there is magic!

Are you still thinking about your gun every day?

Flame Arrows, Scorching Rays, which one is not better than your pneumatically launched physical damage?

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Packing magic into a device that everyone has, this is what a magic gun should truly be.

It’s not that Abes hasn’t fantasized about it, but he feels that this level is a bit far-fetched.

What I never expected was that the so-called far was only what Abes understood in his heart.

Kronos, Hyogi, and Sister Agatha can lead the entire army across the threshold of combat power improvement at any time.

A few days ago, we were charging towards the city walls wearing iron vests, and now you tell me that once the research is successful, flamethrowers (firearms that fire magical flaming arrows) and laser guns (firearms that fire magical scorching rays) will be developed in the next second?

After all, in a world with corresponding technological lines and corresponding technologies that have grown for thousands of years, there is no such thing as far or near; all that is lacking is the finishing touch.

However, choosing which spells to encapsulate and how to encapsulate them is also a big problem.

Due to the three principles of spellcasting, words, gestures, and materials, the first things that need to be excluded are spells that require spellcasting materials.

Individual spellcasters can usually use material packs to meet most of their needs; or they can directly use arcane implements to cast spells without materials.

But magic firearms definitely cannot be arranged in this way. Abes wants to use these things to arm every citizen. If each person needs a material package, the cost will not be enough even if he seizes the treasury of the king of the small kingdom.

Not to mention how much financial resources are needed to prepare a material package, just collecting, preparing and processing these materials also takes a long time.

After one round of arming, it may be ten years before some materials can be processed again.

Therefore, before those expensive spellcasting materials, such as five-colored sand, owl feathers, giant nails and other strange things can be mass-produced, the choice of spells can only be concentrated on those spells that do not require spellcasting materials.

As for magic firearms, Abes soon discovered that another difficulty was how to successfully apply different spells one by one.

Abes originally thought of designing universal rune sets such as activation and charging for the common parts, and designing the functional parts that take effect into modules that can be disassembled and replaced.

And the things that soldiers needed to carry changed from bullet chains to magic crystals.

Because the magic crystal will disappear directly after being consumed, unlike bullets which will leave behind shells, the design of the magic gun does not even require consideration of how to eject the bullet.

But while Abes was still fantasizing, he was later told by Kronos and Hibiki, "As of now, the rune group cannot be separated or isolated, it must be integrated."

"Of course, we are also studying how to make the rune group work again after being disconnected and reconnected."

Can't hot-swap?

Each weapon can only lock on to the effect currently produced?

At the beginning, Abes felt a little frustrated. In order to achieve mass production and universalization, he had specified that there would be no visible spell effects, and in the end, it would only become a uniform low-level spell.

However, only after participating in the practice of selecting spells did Abes feel a little relieved.

There are quite a few spells to choose from that do not require spell materials.

The power is definitely not low.

If he wants something special, he can just ask for it to be customized.

What's more, even if it is only simple spells like fire arrows or scorching rays, as long as it can be mass-produced, he can quickly arm a group of fire-breathing magic soldiers. Who is afraid of whom?

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When the research and development of magic guns began to get on track, the research and development of magic cannons had already taken the lead.

After all, after giving up on pneumatics, a way of thinking that was considered ridiculous by Hirayama and Sister Agatha, Abes no longer had to go to the trouble of thinking about seamless gun barrels.

Based on the current production level of Tianye Town and the Royal Capital, the simplest magic cannon is to enlarge the grenade, increase the amount of explosives, and then throw it out with a catapult.

It can be said that after abandoning the ideas of pneumatics and gun barrels, there is naturally no need to think about how to create rifling, so that bullets or shells can rotate and move along a stable trajectory.

Although, choosing the method of catapult plus super-large-yield grenade means giving up the accuracy of hitting.

But it doesn’t matter, just increase the dosage and keep it from exploding.

Since there is no gun barrel, there is no need to worry about adding too many guns and causing the barrel to explode.

And these are the guns and cannons that Abesi participated in researching.