Lord of Rot

Li Qi also got the iron pipes he had ordered the blacksmiths to make before, as well as several iron cans.

The hollow iron pipe is made of two layers, one is tightly sealed, and the other is covered by the other, and the gaps are connected by forging and welding. However, Black Ear cannot do this with this craftsmanship.

It is not easy to make these hollow iron pipes with uniform thickness, strong and straight. The blacksmith also carved rifling according to Li Qi's description, and also made a batch of metal projectiles.

At this point, the preliminary preparations for the musket envisioned by Li Qi have been completed.

The next step is to go to the headland crypt and let Betty use these things to try to make muskets.

Soon, Reacher sent the barrel of the gun into the Jiaojiao crypt, and Betty immediately understood what he meant after getting the barrel.

The whole experiment is actually very simple. Block a mouth, pour magic gunpowder into it, and then insert the projectile from the tip of the gun. However, there is a small problem here. After the projectile is inserted, it will roll around in the iron pipe. The iron pipe must be kept tilted upward at all times, otherwise the projectile will roll out of the pipe and even carry the gunpowder with it.

"If you wrap the projectile with a thin layer of paper, the projectile can block the barrel of the gun and the gunpowder will not flow out easily. When the gunpowder is ignited, the flame will burn the paper to ashes."

Unfortunately, there is no systematic papermaking in this world. There is only paper tanned from parchment, cowhide, bark, or rag fragments. Stuffing it into the barrel of a gun will only explode the barrel.

Li Qi didn't care much about papermaking before. He didn't even have enough food in his territory. How could he think about papermaking? This craft was very easy to copy, and it was almost impossible to make money by selling paper.

Now, it seems that he has to bring over the great invention of the ancestors of the earth.

The size of the projectile is not very suitable, and it is still oval, so some projectiles are likely to get stuck in the middle, so you need to use a slender wooden stick to poke it in.

Fortunately this is just a preliminary test.

After everything was ready, Betty raised her hand, held the iron pipe with her bare hands, and recited the incantation.

"Bang!" The iron pipe shook slightly, and then a burst of smoke came out.

"puff!"

The body of the dead body controlled by Li Qi standing aside was instantly penetrated.

"It seems like too much magic gunpowder was put in." Betty stuck out her tongue, but her expression was very excited, which meant that the musket concept proposed by Li Qi was really feasible!

Li Qi lowered his head and touched the punctured area. A bone was broken, and the front and back of his body were transparent.

It's okay, it doesn't hurt.

It's just that the accuracy is very problematic and it's impossible to put it into use.

He took the barrel of the gun again. The tube that had just been fired was hot and might not move at all in Betty's hands, but in the hands of the dead body controlled by Reacher, it immediately started to smoke.

The forge welds of the iron pipes have cracked and have a tendency to turn into morning glory.

It means the strength is not enough.

It’s really bad in every aspect.

Li Qi was not satisfied with this result. Even if the magic gun could really be used, it involved problems that had to be solved. First of all, Betty can control the burning direction and intensity of magic gunpowder, but what Reach needs is that the magic gun can also be used in the hands of ordinary people. Ordinary people cannot control the direction of the explosion of magic gunpowder.

It's meaningless if it can't be used by ordinary people.

If you know magic, you can use more magical abilities. There is no need to carry a gun and fight on the front line.

Secondly, Betty can ignite magic gunpowder through a spell. It is absolutely impossible for ordinary people to use a spell to ignite the magic gunpowder through the barrel of a gun. This method of use cannot be replicated at all.

However, the second problem is not difficult to solve. As long as he can reproduce the famous "matchlock" in the history of the earth, he can solve the problem of being unable to ignite gunpowder.

Although Li Qi didn't know how to rub a rifle with his bare hands, he still knew the basic principles of the "matchlock". The specific manufacturing must be left to his subordinates to study. As for the "flintlock", the technology has not yet taken a big step forward. Come on.

The principle of use of a matchlock gun is similar to that of fireworks. A special rope burns very slowly after being ignited. Use the matchlock to ignite the gunpowder on the gun. The gunpowder burns and pushes out the projectile to complete the shooting.

Just trying to make the matchlock gun that Li Qi imagined requires too much front-end technology.

Stronger iron pipes, paper, long-burning matchlocks, and even firearms need to be designed, how to fill gunpowder more conveniently, how to aim, how to ignite and launch while aiming, etc., and these all need to be studied step by step.

The incident at Longship Castle also strengthened Li Qi's long-standing thinking that the war has never ended, so it is necessary to build walls high and store grain widely.

The Porcupine Territory does not have any long-range troops, but some soldiers can use bows and crossbows, which do not play much role in battle.

Let’s talk about bows and arrows first, unless you are an extraordinary person, like Stacey, otherwise, it is absolutely impossible to have a thin waist, long legs, white skin, and draw a big bow at will, even if you are a top archer, don’t die My archery is only a few hundred, and then my arm is useless.

Every archer must be the most elite soldier. He needs to be strong and strong, and he needs to train day after day.

Able to draw a bow and shoot arrows from a distance, and able to resist slashing with a sword at close range, this is an archer, one of the most elite arms.

If Li Qi traveled to Endor instead of the Porcupine Territory on the eastern coast, and had a group of people living on horseback under his command, he might try to train archers.

In fact, no one in the current Porcupine collar is equipped with a bow at all, and at most they are equipped with a crossbow.

Compared with the training difficulty of bow and arrow, crossbow is much simpler. As long as you can use your feet to open the string of the crossbow, press the arrow, and then aim and fire, you are qualified. It is simple and easy to use. A farmer can go to the battlefield after half a day of training.

But using a crossbow also has a problem similar to that of a bow. It is indeed easier to push the string with your feet than to draw the bow with your hands, but it is not much easier. Pushing the string dozens or hundreds of times will still make your legs weak. In today's war, crossbows The combat value of hands definitely exceeds that of archers, but in Li Qi's eyes, compared with these, thermal weapons and muskets are the ones that should be truly developed.

It's easy to change the bomb. It doesn't take much effort to pour some gunpowder and insert a projectile, but the steps are a little complicated.

But as long as you cooperate with the famous "three-stage strike" tactic of the matchlock gun, this problem can be avoided to a certain extent.

But these are just Li Qi's imagination, because the price of raw materials for magic gunpowder remains high now, and a large-scale musketeer team is simply burning gold.

There is no need to think too far ahead, let’s build the musket first and then talk about it.

Li Qi handed the tin can to Betty again. He planned to fill the tin can with gunpowder after Betty made a sufficient amount of magic gunpowder.

Those tied tightly with cloth are called explosive packs, which are incredibly powerful. Throwing them into iron cans and detonating them can be called magic grenades.

I believe that the magic grenade can give the hairy monster in the headland crypt castle a huge surprise.

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