Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 48 Purchase of Guns and Supporting Powder

When Claude and Boquer both said they were going to buy Obash 2 type rope guns and matching gunpowder, Vakuri blew the whistle very rarely: "Your father was so fond of you that he would buy you the Kingdom's newest army gun. The Obash Type 2 fireline gun is already one of the most advanced firearms on the entire continent. It has a range of 380 meters and an effective damage distance of 240 meters. It is said that within 150 meters, a wild boar can be put on hold for 300 to 400 kg each shot...”

Looks like Waqouri is also a firearm enthusiast and has a good understanding of some of the performance data of the latest made firearms in the kingdom.

“Uncle Vakuri, do you think the latest type of gun is an increase in range and effective damage distance?” Claude has always felt that firearms research in the world has gone astray, and there's no use in not improving the way it launches and increasing the range of light research! No wonder there was a fireline gun five or six hundred years ago, and it is still being used.

“Of course, the earliest old-fashioned fire rope guns had a range of less than 200 meters, and the effective killing distance was only about 80 meters, and the range that could be raised to 380 meters over the last 500 years was already at the limit of the range. You know that the Obash Type 1 fireline gun has also reached 360 meters, and in order to increase the range of these 20 meters, the Royal Musket Research Institute has spent more than a decade and countless dollars…” Wakuri said with great emotion.

Claude thought he was listening: "No, Uncle Waqouri, I don't understand why you need to increase the range of the torch gun. In fact, this torch gun fires slowly, and it's inaccurate. Why is it so far away? Besides, the distance of more than 300 meters can't even be seen across the street. No one knows where the gun went. It's better to fire faster than close range...”

Wakuri looked at Claude and laughed: "Boy, when you hear this, you know you don't know much. Range is the king's way to a fireline gun. If you go to war, you'll understand that a range of 380 meters is enough to fire five or six more shots at the enemy. It doesn't matter if the target can be accurately fired. It's normal for a fireline gun to fire without hitting the target, but if a thousand firelines are fired together, think about it. Is there any chance that the target could escape?

The battlefield relies on covered fire, firing a full array of firearms at the enemy. If one of the opposing parties is armed with a 380-metre range of fire rope and the other is armed with a 280-metre range of fire rope gun, you can see for yourself that one of the far ranges is perfectly capable of multiple bursts of fire outside the range of the enemy, who can only stand and endure the beatings. If this happens, without three rounds of shooting together, the party being shot together will collapse so that it loses... ”

Vakuri seems to be right, but Claude always feels like something's wrong: “Why didn't the short-range party stand and get shot? Why didn't you spread out and take over quickly? When you reach the range, you'll be able to connect shorthanded, so you might have a chance to win. ”

“That's why I said you didn't see it.” Waqouri shook his head: “Don't you know that the power of a fire rope gun lies in the firing of fire? Only by queuing up in battle and waiting for orders to fire together can maximum fire coverage be formed, inflicting the greatest damage to the enemy. It is easy to spread the queues on the battlefield, but it is difficult to line up again after taking over the enemy, who will not give you time from the formation.

A fire rope gun cannot even pose a single threat to the enemy on the battlefield. This has been proven on the battlefield by the well-fired guerrilla gunmen, who roam the battlefield in 35% of the way, taking the opportunity to shoot the enemy's scouts and messengers, but they have also found that hitting the enemy three or four times out of 10 shots is already the best result because the enemy is in motion, not those fixed targets standing on the training field... ”

Claude doesn't want to talk to Vakuri anymore, which is almost a chicken duck. At this moment, he suddenly realizes something. No wonder the countries of the Farea continent have so strict restrictions on civilians that these are the ashes that can be pulled to war. I don't quite understand why my father was so sure in his conversation last night that even winning a war between the kingdom and the Anti-Olympic Five Alliance would cause heavy casualties. According to what happened here, this is a time of line-up shooting...

In the history of the past life of the crosser, in the era of fire rope guns and firing guns, in order to play the advantage of fire power, both opposing parties on the battlefield were lined up nearer each other, and then fired together, falling back in the front row to keep up, so much more than courage and guts, who died until one side collapsed and escaped or surrendered.

The crosser had seen a film on the Internet describing this queue of shooting wars, and the Redwoods soldier, the world dominant, was wearing a red uniform and listening to the band play loud music in rows of four or five rows approaching the enemy's line. At the range of the gun, the officers did not order the shooting. The soldiers had to move forward step by step with all the enemies. From time to time, their comrades who had been shot fell to the ground. At this point, the soldiers in the rear row would step up and fill the void automatically...

Despite the heavy losses, this approach to the enemy, which ignores the soldiers' casualties step by step, puts unprecedented pressure on the enemy to the point that their last two shots were never ready, causing only a few casualties. At this time, the Red Cedar Army was approaching about 30 meters from the enemy. The officers only ordered the firing. Almost all the soldiers in the front row of the enemy fell on the first shooting. Immediately after the assault, the soldiers who had fired stopped loading and pulled out the bayonet to attack the enemy on the barrel of the gun, which was a great victory.

Claude had previously read in the newspaper that there had been nearly a thousand casualties in a border conflict, and now he finally understood. Without trenches and fortresses, without a barrage of artillery, soldiers on both sides lined up to die, killing 10,000 enemies and damaging 3,000 themselves, even if they won the war all the time, they could not bear as much of their own losses.

Last night, my father also said that if this war between the kingdom and the anti-Olympic alliance did not strike so hard that it would be difficult to stop negotiating an armistice without the casualties and draining so much armament power, such a war could indeed not be consumed by any country for long. Countless young people were consumed in such queues as cannon ash, no wonder their father said that there would be twenty or thirty years of peace at the end of the war. Ni Yao's bullshit peace, this is when the next generation grows up and has cannon ash, it can be sent to the battlefield again...

Clothes were pulled a few times, and Claude returned to God and saw Bok Al.

“What are you doing, thinking about not buying too much? ”

“Oh, I'm sorry, I just remembered something else.” Claude turns to Waqouri: “What is the price of this Obash Type 2 flare rope gun and the accompanying powder? ”

“Guns are cheap, this is a standard generic, one gun, two black pennies.” Vakuri looked out a ledger and looked at it a few times: "But there are three kinds of powder in this kit, the Obash Type II flare rope gun actually has three kinds of firing powder, the shortest range of standard dry powder No. 1, the shortest range of standard general dry powder No. 2, the range of about 300 meters, and the longest range of particle type standard No. 3. What kind of powder do you need? ”

Claude was in shock. Did you get the particle powder?

“What are the prices, respectively?” Asked Bok Al next to him.

“Standard dry powder number one is the cheapest, but it can only reach 200 meters, effective kill distance is about 120 meters, that's what you bought last time, one sonar per unit. Standard General Dry Powder No. 2 is twice as expensive, with two sonars per unit. The granular standard number three is the most expensive, five Sonar units, but with this powder, it reaches the limit range of the gun, three hundred and eighty meters. ”

One unit here refers to the amount of powder required for 10 firings of a firearm.

“Then granules…” Bork Al Cai is generous and coarse, and open-mouth is ready to buy the most expensive granular standard No. 3 matching powder.

Claude rushed to cover his mouth, joking, ten shots took five sonars, twenty shots took one riazo, then a silver taller shot about 200 times. Father said that guns and gunpowder had to be bought for themselves. If the rest of the silver towers around you are going to buy this particle size standard No. 3 companion powder, it may not last a month, but Verricolo has said that to familiarize yourself with the habits of the firewire gun in your hand, 30 shooting exercises a day is the least.

“Just buy standard dry powder number one, first ten units, Uncle Waqouri.” Claude said, then let go of the hand that covered Bok Al's mouth and explained to him, "This is a new gun, and we're new, and we bought gunpowder and guns to practice first. As Vero said, we need to get familiar with the firearm's habits first, so there's no need to buy the best matching gunpowder at the start of the shooting exercise. Because for us, there's no difference between a range of 380 meters and 200 meters, and familiarity with gunnery is the most important thing right now. ”

Waqouri nodded with a smile: "Claude's right, you just started firearm training. You don't have to buy that kind of expensive matching powder, you can't hit the target anyway. Just be familiar with the firing steps of the gun and don't get too busy. When you have mastered the performance of the gun, buy a few more units of granular standard No. 3 matching gunpowder around you when you go hunting, just in case you run into those big beasts. ”

Bok Al thought, "Well, I'll have ten units of standard dry powder number one, and I've got the guns. ”

Gunpowder in this era was all bulk, Wakuri went to the warehouse to move out a small barrel, and the barrel had four words on it, Dry Powder No. 1. Taking a balance and putting it on the counter, Waqouri started pouring powder powder out of a small wooden spoon into a copper plate on the balance.

The world's important unit of measure is somewhat similar to the past life of the passers-by, and some are a mixture of Chinese and Western, for example, the most basic unit of weight is a kilogram, and the bottom two are also two, but the bottom two are not money, but are called grams, and one kilogram equals ten taels equals one hundred grams, and one taels equals ten grams. It's 10 kilos, 100 kilos, no kilos, because kilos are a ton. Like a marine vessel, the weight is calculated in tons.

The powder component of the ten gun launches is called a unit, which is also the basic configuration of a musketeer. It is required to have three units of powder next to a musketeer officially on the battlefield, that is, it can be fired thirty times with a musket in its hand. Few soldiers could actually shoot 30 times on the battlefield, and many more were killed without being shot in the battlefield.

With standard dry powder No. 1 matching powder, the design takes about one or two grams at a time, and one unit weighs about one kilo, one or two, seven or eight grams. Wakuri weighed the gunpowder and poured it onto a sheet of oil paper spread out on the counter, then wrapped it in a bag of linen cloth. Ten units of standard dry powder No. 1 wrapped a total of ten bags of oil paper, and hundreds of lead guns were similarly contained.

Claude paid Riasso and Sooner's bills, put the bags on the counter, and turned around to the wooden racks with the groceries. He wanted to take a closer look at whether there were magical objects like that recipe.