Chapter 412 They have all been corrupted by money!

   Bang... bang... bang!

  Misterland, in the City of Fire Oil, bursts of thunderous explosions echoed continuously on the training ground.

More than a dozen imperial soldiers lined up in a long line, pulling the trigger in a strange way, and lead pellets flew out from the flaming muzzle, and hit the target fifty meters away. A big hole pierced through in an instant, and the wooden pier behind was also smashed to pieces.

   "Not bad power, no wonder the empire crusade army led by Adwell suffered a disastrous defeat at the hands of these people." Joshua looked at the muskets in the hands of these soldiers, and said in a low tone.

   "Have you shown it to the craftsmen? Is there a way to imitate it?" Lucia said with great interest.

"It's not a problem to imitate other parts of this kind of weapon, but this kind of steel pipe is very special." Joshua took a musket, and while shaking his wrist, he dismembered it with divine magic, leaving only the barrel.

  Lucia reached out to take it, and looked at it carefully for a while, but found nothing wrong. This is an ordinary steel object, and there is no trace of magic or magic.

   "It has no cracks, and no traces of connection!" Joshua reminded softly.

   Lucia paused for a moment before she woke up.

  Ordinary craftsmen want to turn iron ore into hard steel, they must use high temperature to melt it, and then go through a lot of tempering.

  The steel pipe in front of it is one meter long, but its diameter is only a few tens of millimeters. It looks like a whole, and there is even a thread-like structure inside, which is really amazing.

   "Could it be the use of magic?" Cardinal Siride reminded.

   "Impossible!" Lucia shook her head.

Only great wizards have the ability to manipulate metal elements. Although there is no problem in making such a steel pipe, as far as she knows, there are only thirty great wizards in the entire council, and tens of thousands of Musketeers. How long does it take to make the ten great wizards?

   Then you don’t have to do other things every day, just rubbing steel pipes there. Thinking about it, I know it’s impossible. That’s really overkill...

  Lucia thought for a while, and felt that there were two feasible solutions.

  For example, find an extremely hard substance, place it in the middle of molten iron, and then forge it, or prepare a mold and pour the molten iron into it.

   After Lucia finished speaking, Joshua tactfully told her that those craftsmen had already tried similar methods!

   As a result, the manufactured steel pipes were not up to standard at all. When they were reinstalled on the muskets, the accuracy would become very poor, and one of the muskets even exploded.

  Lucia was quite surprised. It seems that the wizards really made some interesting things. "What about the captives? Don't they know?"

  In addition to capturing a large number of muskets in this battle, hundreds of musketeers were also captured. The method of using muskets was also searched from the minds of these people.

   "They were all poor people who were hoeing and fishing before. They could only use it, and they didn't know how to make this kind of weapon at all."

   Speaking of this, Joshua paused, and then spoke again. "These people have been corrupted by evil spirits. Unless you use coercive means, you won't be able to get any information from them..."

   "Are there no exceptions?" Lucia raised her eyebrows. It stands to reason that among the hundreds of people, there must be a few weak bones.

   "No exception!" Joshua said solemnly.

  He searched the memories of these people, and probably found the reason.

  These Musketeers used to be a group of poor people who were starving and freezing. They basically had families. Joining the Musketeers can only be described as reaching the sky in one step!

  The price offered by the council is very high. As long as you become a musketeer team, you can get fifteen to twenty silver coins every month and live a life of eating meat.

  If you die on the battlefield, you can still get a generous pension, and your family members will be properly resettled and assigned to work in the workshop.

   This treatment is higher than that of the most elite guards in the empire, and it is almost catching up with the God's Punishment Army, so most of the musketeers are in a state of fanaticism similar to faith, and their hearts are corrupted by money.

   It can only be said that in order to cope with the crusade of the empire, those wizards also spent a lot of money.

  During the discussion between the two, the imperial soldiers who demonstrated the muskets loaded the projectiles with difficulty, and fired another round of volley, directly smashing the target in front of them.

"It takes more than a minute to reload the projectile. In my opinion, the weapons of these wizards are nothing more than that...It is not as useful as an archer on the battlefield." Siride saw that the two adults were so fond of this demonic creation called musket. He couldn't help but speak out.

  As a conservative bishop, Siride has always been very vigilant about these witchcraft weapons. According to the church's constitution, once they are discovered, destroying them is the most important thing to do.

   And it takes more than a minute to fire a projectile. This shortcoming is fatal. Once a blow misses, then there is no ability to resist.

  Sylides believes that even if he encounters a whole team of musketeers, he still has a hundred ways to put the opponent to death, and he can even play with it.

  Joshua is naturally aware of the shortcomings of this thing, but this still cannot conceal the advantages of the musket. "Do you know how long it takes to train a qualified imperial archer?"

   "About... half a year?" Syrid said hesitantly.

   "Three to five years!" Joshua corrected. "The requirements for personnel are also very strict, and they need to be selected from strong soldiers."

   "And it only took them two or three hours to learn to operate the gun!" Joshua pointed to the imperial soldiers who were experimenting with weapons.

  The most important thing is that muskets have a strong armor-piercing ability, which is unmatched by bows and crossbows.

  In previous battles, a knight in excellent armor could charge and kill at will on the battlefield, and a few arrows could not break through the protection at all.

   Now the form is different, I am afraid that one shot of a musket can kill him!

   This promotion is undoubtedly terrifying!

   That is to say, those wizards only need to randomly catch a poor man on the street, train for a few hours, and they may kill a knight who has practiced his skills for decades on the battlefield conveniently!

"According to the reports of several God's Punishment Army knights, the wizards loaded a special musket on a running iron box, which can fire dozens of bullets in a second, and even a bishop would be killed on the spot. Shred." Joshua said solemnly.

   Obviously wizards have found a way to overcome the shortcomings of muskets, but they have not been deployed on a large scale.

   (PS: The second chapter is still around two or three o'clock, and there are too many things to do this week, so it's a little unstable, please forgive me.)

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