The projectile fired by the musket left a conical penetrating wound on the chest of the first officer. From the side of the body, one can even see the scenery behind.

　　 With a surprised expression, Jin Ya looked down at the wound on his chest. Before he could say a word, he fell down and lost his breath.

Holding on to the edge of the wooden table, Aisha struggling to get up, lifted the short sword to protect her chest, and shouted loudly: "If there is still a badass bastard, I don't mind having such one on him. hole!"

　　The rebelling pirates witnessed the death of the first officer with their own eyes. They suddenly lost their fighting spirit to resist. They lost their backbone, and they were captured by the captain's cronies and tied to the mast.

　　 Ten minutes later, the armed Clippers under the curtain of night restored their former calm.

　　Those who died in battle were first cut through the pipes with a knife, and then thrown into the sea. The bodies were instantly buried by waves and storms.

　　 The blood stains on the deck were washed away, but the strong smell of blood in the air remained for a long time.

　　 instructed the cronies to watch the rebels, Aisha invited Todd and Rachel to return to the captain's room together. Entering the room, she lifted her trouser legs unscrupulously, and slowly cut the skin at the wound with a hot knife.

　　 An inaudible hissing sound, a whiff of white smoke, and the faint smell of burnt meat in his nose, Todd frowned in discomfort.

Large drops of sweat rolled down her forehead, Aisha clenched her teeth, gently separated the **** wound with one hand, picked up needle-nose pliers with the other hand, clamped the tail of the crossbow, and pulled it hard. Came out.

　　 The blood-stained crossbow bolt fell on the floor, making a dull sound.

　　 Taking a closer look at the **** wound, Aisha's pale face finally felt a little relaxed. She let out a long sigh of relief, threw the tool back on the table, and after a brief dressing, she looked at the two guests in the room: "Why help me?"

　　 Hearing the other party’s question, Todd shrugged his shoulders with some incomprehension, and replied: "Why didn't you help you?"

　　 "I have brought a lot of "cargo", they encountered something on the voyage, but never thought of helping."

　　 Todd glanced at the musket on the desktop and said with a smile: "If something happens to you, I don't believe that those guys will continue to fulfill the delivery agreement you promised before."

　　 Aisha nodded, she recognized the answer.

　　 Later, she noticed Todd's observation, followed his gaze to the musket in front of her, and asked, "Are you interested in this?"

　　 The latter smiled and stretched out his right hand: "If you can get your permission..."

　　 Aisha thought for a moment, picked up the musket and handed it to Todd, and said in her mouth: "Mr. Derek, be careful, don't break it!"

　　 Nodding repeatedly, Todd picked up the musket and looked at it repeatedly.

　　 This weapon is heavy in hand and exquisite materials. It is designed with a single-shot front chamber and a double-drum at the tail.

He sniffed it with his nose. In addition to the smell of gunpowder, Todd vaguely smelled a scent of castor oil. Then he took a closer look at the fire, and the burnt linen was placed on the fire mouth. It looked like a piece of black. Ashes.

　　 Aisha watched Todd's movements, the eyes of Aqua and Amber flowed gently, keeping silent from beginning to end.

　　 Todd held the musket and sat there thinking hard for a while.

　　When he was in college, he and the boys of the same major often discussed military and weapons. Although he is not his profession, he still knows a little about firearms.

　　 The evolutionary history of early firearms development can be roughly divided into matchlock, tinder, reed and flintlock.

　　 And the musketeer in this different world, technically, should be somewhere between the tinder and flintlock; chronologically, it came out at about the end of the 15th century in previous Europe.

Speaking of the history of the musket, it can be traced back to the end of the 10th century. The Northern Song Dynasty invented the world’s earliest arquebus, the bamboo musket (later evolved into the musket in the Southern Song Dynasty); after that, in the 1430s, the Middle Ages The earliest prototype of Western arquebus was born in Europe.

After the rise of the Mongols in 1206 AD, not only did the Mongols destroy the Xixia, the Liao and the Jin in a short period of time, they also went south to cover the Song Dynasty, causing the research and development of eastern gunpowder weapons to plummet and fail; on the other hand, in the Middle Ages in Europe, due to gunpowder The introduction of weapons was late, coupled with the suppression of church forces, until the early 16th century, Europe began to upgrade the matchlock gun.

　　 But in the long history of past lives, there is a country that has been selectively forgotten by the world regarding the research and application of gunpowder weapons.

　　That is the Arab Empire.

　　 Through trade and mission, gunpowder technology from the Northern Song Dynasty was introduced to the Arab Empire as early as the end of the 11th century.

　　 Compared with the turbulent situation in the East and the suppressed religions in the West, the relatively stable political situation of the Arab Empire, the more enlightened religious tolerance, and the advocacy of advanced scientific concepts have created an unparalleled "golden age" for the development of gunpowder.

　　 In the *** army at that time, there were some incredible gunpowder weapons, which are now regarded as "black technology" and left in the history books. For example, the Syrians in the 13th century created a powerful torpedo against a ship. The famous channel program "Mythbusters" had a special program for this.

　　 However, the later generations of academia held a negative and questionable attitude towards the gunpowder weapons of the Arab Empire, whether in the East or the West. The reason is simple. Because of years of wars and divisions, and wanton destruction by man, there are no relics and antiques in the area. The lack of evidence has caused the gunpowder history of the empire to gradually disappear in history.

　　 Aisha interrupted Todd's thinking: "You seem to be no stranger to this gun."

　　The latter avoids this question: "Captain, can you tell me how you got this weapon? Of course, if it's not convenient, just treat it like I didn't say it."

　　 Aisha raised one eyebrow: "There is no inconvenience. About a year ago, I looted a messenger ship of the Abbasid Empire. This gun came from an officer on the ship."

　　 "A year ago?" Todd turned the gun over and looked at it several times, and found a line of fine print under the base of the handle.

　　『Only the shooting stars in the night sky can keep up with the steps of God』

　　 "Aisha, I'm very interested in things in the south, can you please introduce me?"

　　 Hearing Todd's words, Aisha laughed: "Finally, there is a church member who is willing to listen to God's deeds instead of indiscriminately slandering."

Aisha retrieved the musket, put it on the shelf and fixed it, then limped to the bedside, and said loudly, "The South in your mouth is actually made up of two big empires and many small countries. These two big empires and many small countries. The empires are Abbas and Ayub, and they have been at war since the end of last year."

　　 "Ayub? I heard people say, aren’t the two empires in the south, Abbas and Fatima?"

　　 "The Fatima Empire is dead...Just last year, Saladin, the original Prime Minister of the Fatima Empire, overthrew its last caliph and established a new empire, Ayub."

　　 "It turns out that this is the case, so in your opinion, who can win this war?"

Aisha tilted her head and pondered for a moment, and said uncertainly: "I am optimistic about the Abbasid Empire. It has more soldiers, a wider territory, and more wealth... But ~lightnovelpub.net~ Ah The Ub Empire has a wise Caliph Saladin..."

　　 Todd nodded and returned the topic to the musket: "So, in the Southern Empire, how many such weapons are there, and how are they made?"

Aisha did not speak, looked at the man in front of her vigilantly, and finally smiled self-deprecatingly, and said nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter if I tell you anyway. As far as I know, as early as a hundred years ago, the technology of muskets It has already been introduced into the territory of God. I don’t know the specific number of firearms, but unlike your cowards who are afraid of new things, the Abbasid Empire specifically regards gunpowder as the focus of military research."

　　 Rachel, who was sitting next to him, couldn't help but interject: "It's just a hundred years of research, how far can it be."

　　 Aisha laughed: "So I said, the people in the north are strange! I have heard the sound of the progress of the times, but I have to bury my head in the sand and pretend that nothing happened!"

"The Abbasid Empire has 19 provinces, and the capital of each province is no less than 500,000 people. There are no less than 100 well-known universities and colleges across the country. The Maryan University in the capital of the empire has gathered thousands of scholars. In the empire’s harbor, hundreds of three-masted battleships of the Antora class were parked..." Aisha cast her gaze to Todd, whose face was getting darker: "It's just the Caliphate Guards of the Abbasid Empire. , Do you know how many people there are?"

"100,000!"

　　

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