Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 233 Discussion and Inspiration

To some extent, women are indeed the best objects for men to vent their desires and relax. Especially if this line of soldiers of the time of shooting, after the war, there is no woman to give them the psychological pressure of panic on the battlefield, but to strictly observe the military order in the face of death, it is easily mentally problematic.

Claude finally figured out why those aristocratic sons of Berklin went to Amis City bars every time they followed themselves on a mission to find a woman to accompany them. Faced with the threat to their lives and the casualties of their comrades, every soldier returning from the battlefield is really nervous, and only good wine and women can let them relax and experience the beauty of survival from the battlefield.

Claude's self-restraint has been strong for more than two years now, and fighting on the battlefield has been an unusual thing for him. But the war was going on, and Claude didn't know if he could survive, so he could go home and visit his loved ones. Spiritual stress accumulated a little bit. Although he was very confident and trustworthy in front of others, his mind was a little depressed. During this time of night, he often dreamed about his experiences of adventurous games with Bok Al, Velikro...

It wasn't until this evening that Claude finally understood the beauty of the woman, who was tired yesterday and slept very well, without any dreams. I woke up in the morning for three more morning exercises with the beautiful lady and was obsessed with getting up until noon. The body is tired but relaxed. The spirit is also unusually enriching and exciting, as if removing a heavy burden, and the thinking is particularly clear. In the past, the depression at the bottom of my heart swept away, and there was no more occasional feeling of decadence and frustration.

“Sir, this is a pigeon response from the battalion that the correspondent received this morning.” McJackie waited outside the door, handing over a sheet of paper as soon as he saw Claude come out.

Claude then took a look. It says here that the situation is already known. A decent man is sent to the city of Pacacia to investigate the relationship between Baroness Vacoussili and Master Byrd. It will take roughly three days. Please entertain the Baroness and do not offend the noble lady until the situation is clear. Signed by the battalion commander, Major Ledfank.

Well, I'll treat her well, and this will be in bed, with no more dedicated and hard-working subordinates.

“Mike, you take the Big Guy Gemmy riding to the village along the way, buy me some top-top ingredients, and if you have some good wine, I'll be back by 5pm, and I need to make a delicious dinner for the Baroness.” Claude dumps McJackie a purse with six or seven gold crowns in it.

“Aye, sir.” McJackie turned to find the big Grimes.

At noon Claude and Lady Beauty just handled a casual meal. Claude had a good appetite and ate seven fried eggs in one breath. After all, the energy consumed last night and morning was a little too much and needed to be refilled.

In the afternoon, the beautiful lady went back to take a nap and, of course, Claude's bedroom. The little suite she had been given had become the residence of her two maids. Claude, for his part, was going to patrol checkpoints on the highway to deal with some unexpected events. As the chief responsible officer here, he can't stay in bed with the beautiful lady...

Mark, the veteran oil, saw Claude patrolling and looked jealous and raised his thumb to admire him. One dinner and a few bottles of good wine, and a whole night of chatting, tricked the Baroness of Vacoussili into bed. And Claude, the little white-faced officer, had the ability to do that, and Marquette, who lived downstairs last night, was listening very clearly, and he was thinking about whether to hit the Baroness' two waitresses, and he had to find a chance to try it, and maybe they were bored and lonely.

Claude pretended he didn't see Markena holding his thumb up high, asking first how many people passed today, then asking about the squad scout cavalry that came back last night. The squad, composed of three horsemen, each went in four groups to reconnaissance the two highways leading to the Kanas Prairie and the eastern part of the Principality of Eskirin, leaving early and late, as Claude was chatting with Lady Beauty when they returned, so it was Markzi who received the report.

“Nothing unusual.” Seeing Claude wasn't interested in his thumb, McGee had to retrieve it: “Yesterday's last group of scouts came back to report that they had also entered the Kanas Prairie in the afternoon, ran for more than 20 years, walked around a large circle, and found no sign of a gathering of horses, so they returned a little late. ”

“This is normal.” Claude nodded: "Unlike our kingdom, the Duchy of Kanas and the Principality of Eskirin are still under territorial sovereignty. For example, our two highways lead to the private territories of both principalities, through which the military forces of the two principalities, if they wish to contribute, must seek the consent of their lords and compensate us. If the compensation is not well negotiated, those lords will not allow the army to pass through their private territories...”

“How is that possible?” Marky opened his mouth in amazement: "This is a war of nations. Can those lords still do that? ”

Claude laughed: "It's no surprise that they fought our kingdom and that the nobles of these territories paid to do their duty. Their territories are handed down from one generation to the next, so they attach great importance to the sovereignty of their territories, as their kingdoms march along national paths and do not easily enter private territories. Unless their territory is invaded, those lords will invite their own troops to enter, otherwise they will resolutely refuse them entry and even use force to resist..."

In the next few days, in addition to the frequent sex action scenarios with the beautiful lady every night, the two of them mostly ate, drank and chatted together, and soon found a common hobby between them, which was research on firearms. First, the beautiful lady drew a sketch showing the idea of a dense array of guns that she envisioned, with twelve guns in a row and four rows of forty-eight guns welded together on a rotatable iron shelf, which can also be mounted on a carriage for easy movement.

Lady Beauty means that when confronted with a large group of light cavalry attacks, such a dense array of guns can be placed in front of the position and fired simultaneously, killing and injuring the attacking cavalry with intense fire. Claude looked at the sketch and shook his head, pointing out that such a gun-intensive array was actually a one-time fire, and that it was too time-consuming and cumbersome to reload after firing, which was not practical on the battlefield. Even less lethal than shotguns fired by light infantry artillery, the only advantage is that they strike further than the shotguns fired.

The beautiful lady had to admit that Claude was right, and in fact she was unable to translate it into reality because of the fire-intensive array loading problem she had conceived. Her father, Master Byrd, likewise shared Claude's belief that the intensity and continuity of fire prevented the rapid assault of the light cavalry. Unfortunately, her idea achieved a density of fire and did not sustain it...

The problem is that hundreds of years of firearms production in the Farea continent have almost reached the point where such front-loaded firerope guns have been studied. Even the kingdom of Ovilas, which arrogated to all countries in the eastern part of the continent for its military qualities, had studied it painstakingly for almost two decades in order to raise the limit range of firearms to 350 metres. Knowing that the Obash 2 rifles equipped by the Royal Oberas Army have always gained a reputation on the continent, in terms of weight, range, durability, quality and reliability, is a tempo.

This is also the true reason why the Obash III firearms, which are mainly precisely targeted, appeared on the battlefield and were imitated shortly after capture by anti-Olympic forces. Simply put, the production of firearms in the Kingdom of Orvillas adds another advantage of precise targeting while maintaining the above advantages. Even if anti-Olympic alliance countries are unable to grasp the operational efficacy of such precisely targeted guns in their attacks as the Australian Army does, the performance of the counterfeit guns varies considerably, and anti-Olympic alliance soldiers can still use such precisely targeted guns in their defensive warfare to inflict heavy casualties on the attacking Austrian Army.

The beautiful lady bought two captured Obash 3 guns on the black market at a high price to see if she could be inspired in that regard. In her view, precise targeting of such guns was indeed very effective against a small number of nomadic cavalry members, although the same front-loaded pattern was very disappointing to her. No matter how quickly a skilled soldier fills, he can shoot up to three times in a minute, which also requires no operational errors.

So when Lady Beauty jokingly asked Claude if there was a better and faster way to fill it, Claude stared at her for a while and shook her head and said, “I really don't understand why you gun designers have to go through with guns, you know to pull the barrel to change the appearance of the accessories, reduce the weight or something, why don't you consider the next method of ignition and the gun change? If you want to increase the speed at which a gun fires and can even be fired in a row, you might imagine changing the gun and powder from a front loading type to a rear loading type...”

The beautiful lady had not noticed Claude's last sentence at first, and she countered: “The way the guns were ignited and the changes in the way they were fired had already been considered by many designers, but the guns they had tried out were far less lethal and far-reaching than the manufactured guns now equipped by national armies, even less than hunting guns, and there was no future for such guns...”

Claude sighed: "That's what you gun designers think, so now the design of the firearms is dead and the horn is pointing back. Think for yourself, the first musket made hundreds of years ago is definitely not as powerful as it is now, but it is only with a step by step improvement and improvement that we now have such a mature model musket.

Probably unreliable performance of the tested guns is very short range, but it will take time to figure out how to improve them and slowly upgrade their performance to the same level as the current guns. Perhaps that will be a page to remember in the history of firearms, as you have embarked on a new path entirely different from that of firearms. ”

The beautiful lady stood there, and she thought Claude's words were in her heart, and then she remembered the last thing Claude had just said: "Is it possible that you said earlier that the front loading type should be replaced by the rear loading type? ”

“Why not?” Claude asks back, "I often wonder if there's a hole in the barrel. How convenient would it be to open a hole each time you fill it, put guns and gunpowder in it, and then put a hole over it for shooting? Besides, don't you have that kind of stationary cartridge bullet now? It would be more convenient to load this cartridge bullet directly behind the barrel...”

“You go out and let me think about it...” The beautiful lady seems to have been opened by Claude. Outside the door is a brand new world, with thoughts and inspiration for a moment. Afraid Claude would touch her and influence her thinking, she kicked Claude out of the room.

Good times always go by very quickly. Four days later, Claude receives a pigeon communication from the battalion again. The beautiful lady's identity has been confirmed. She is indeed Master Byrd's beloved daughter, Baroness Vacoussili. Major Ledfank ordered Claude to apologize to the beautiful lady and release her, while extending an invitation to her and her father, Master Byrd, on behalf of the Army Department, in the hope that they would have time to travel to Wangdu, where they would be scheduled to visit the Gun Research Institute.

One evening before, the beautiful lady and Claude died, and she told Claude that she would go to the kingdom of Orvillas with her father, only to need her father to be better. In addition, she got some inspiration and ideas from Claude. She will go to her father this time to study it carefully...

On the third day of sending goodbye to the beautiful lady, Major Ledfank came to visit.