Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 455 Development of new projects

Claude was not home for a few more days with his wife and children, and two days after he had brought in Mr. Viberon to negotiate, a workshop called Langhu Military Industries was set up, and the main products produced were projectiles and revolvers. Mr. Viberon is grateful to Claude for putting him in the military industry, which means that his family and the five giants of the war zone have been hooked up and have since joined the upper classes and most influential local families of the Overseas Territories.

Mr. Viberon was originally just an ordinary member of the Mining and Commerce Association, a small mineral owner. But knowing Claude, especially after he rented his estate to Claude for his family, he became Claude's friend. Soon into Claude's eyes, he partnered with Claude to set up an iron mine factory, ranging from mining iron to making fires and steam engines, producing projectiles and raising the boat's height in identity and assets.

It was in the Minerals and Commerce Association that his words also began to take on a heavy weight, as he represented General Claude, one of the five giants of the war zone. Now Claude put him back in the new military industry he was going to build, and when he learned that four other generals had taken 10 percent of the shares in the war zone, he was thrilled to slap his chest and promise to do everything perfectly and reassure Claude.

After leaving the opening of the new military industry to Mr. Viberon and giving General Albert the Thunder Regiment's supplementary strength, Claude went to the iron ore factory and began to develop improvements to the throwers and projectiles. This time he was going to build three kinds of projectiles, two kinds of projectiles, one for offense and one for defense.

The three projectiles are classified as light, medium and heavy, numbered A, B and C. Light is the projectile that is now being used by units in theatre, and medium is to double the amount of black powder contained in it to a larger size. Heavy-duty projectiles are equivalent to iron pumpkins produced by the Kingdom of Hicks, even heavier in weight and more powerful in explosions. These three types of projectiles will soon be shaped and ready for mass production.

The development of the projectile was quick and took only three days to complete, but the problem was to throw the three projectiles out and to reach the distance required by Claude, which made the development of the projectile somewhat difficult. A defensive thrower can imitate the style of a stone thrower in the Kingdom of Hicks. It doesn't matter if it's a little heavy, which is a better solution.

A defensive thrower requirement is a projectile A, which is thrown at a distance of more than 250 metres and a projectile B at a distance of 200 metres. The heaviest part of the C projectile can be thrown 150 meters away. Use as little personnel as possible, the distance can be adjusted, and the throwing direction can be changed freely.

But the difficulty is that offensive throwers make Claude's demands seem more demanding. The first is the personnel requirement, which should not exceed four persons at most, with three being the optimal quota. Secondly, the distance is thrown. The requirement for projectiles A is 200 meters, B is 150 meters and C is 100 meters. Throwers do not require fixed styles, or split styles, and can be assembled on-site during throwing, mainly because of their lightness, flexibility and rapid movement on the battlefield.

The iron ore workshop run by Mr. Viberon is now centred on the power-division workshop for the production of fires and steam engines, thanks to the heating of the start-up workshop, which was created by the power-division workshop and the steam engines were the biggest hot goods, and the orders were dispatched six months later. Overall, however, the earnings from the power division workshop are still overwhelming. This is mainly due to the investment of too much research money on the locomotive that Master Byrd is responsible for, which can be a little less than the total success.

If the locomotive can be successfully developed, the railway company will be able to organize it. But in more than a year, the iron ore factory produced seven of its own locomotives, and only for a short period of time will there be a variety of problems and problems, the longest of which lasted 11 hours, and now six locomotives have been scrapped. The development team, headed by Master Byrd, could only improve a little bit, and he estimated that it would take at least a year to really produce a functioning steam engine locomotive.

In the aftermath of the "Grey Tower Mage Assassination" in the theatre, the theatre carried out a search of the direct jurisdictions and identified seventeen magicians hiding in the respective jurisdictions. It's just that the war zone is not as good as the kingdom itself, will care to control the magicians, check that they did not violate the laws of the war zone, usually keep their own peace, and did not collaborate with the Grey Tower magician before registering and releasing them.

It is true that magicians in battle zones are rarely regarded as enemies of prevention, and the reason they are found in them is related to the sale of magical objects and the use of magic to improve living conditions. Several of these magicians were seated by powerful families in some parts of the direct jurisdiction. After the time of the assassination, in order to avoid being implicated, the families in those areas reported to the theatre for the first time, and the theatre was therefore scrutinized.

But no one knows what to do after finding out the seventeen magicians in the wild, and General Bolognick is more aware of some of them, as several of them were once registered magicians of the kingdom, because they wanted to study magic freely, without being restricted by the kingdom's special services, in order to hide under the direct jurisdiction of the overseas. So after half a day of reflection, General Bolognick ordered them to check if they had a record of any illegal crimes, and they were not registered to release the Wizards.

But when Claude found out about it after he was wounded, he got this registration list of the Wizard and copied it to his sister Anna. Sister Anna then asked her brother Browick to conduct an in-depth investigation of the seventeen magicians, six of whom were magicians in the field, all of whom were magicians, as assistants in the Black Stone Firearms Manufacturing Laboratory. Twenty years of working contracts were signed with them, while keeping their families under control.

Master Byrd, as Mrs. Sonia's father, knew all about the Blackstone Firearms Manufacturing Factory and all about the Wizards. He thought it was a good idea, so he told Mr. Viberon, and Mr. Viberon went to ask Claude for help and got the list of the 11 remaining magicians in the wild. After studying the record of the investigation, three magicians from Wild Wizards were hired to work on steam engine locomotives together.

Claude would develop this thrower at the iron ore mill, naturally with the help of Master Byrd and the three magicians, and after more than a decade of experimentation, he would finally be given the offensive and defensive throwers, and Claude would hand them over to Mr. Viberon to arrange for their production as soon as possible. The most important thing is the production of defensive throwers, which can be deployed immediately to positions in the mountainous areas of the front line.

After a two-day break home, Claude set out again to visit the Blackstone Firearms Manufacturing Workshop under the direct authority of Port Vibato. Sometimes Claude feels sad that he can throw more than two hundred meters of projectiles, but the development of the projectiles and mortars he wants has been delayed. If you knew you were going to cross, you should have paid more attention to military forums and learned about the construction of those weapons yourself, so that you wouldn't be bothered by the simple manufacture of those weapons all your life.

In fact, Claude's weapon development today is similar to that of a blind man. He only knows what it looks like, and he doesn't know what it's made of. Not an army fan, not a science and engineering major, but a new type of rifle can be developed thanks to Mrs. Sonia's passion and research on the mechanical structure of firearms from an early age. It's going to go from guns to projectiles and mortars, the type of light artillery weapon we've never heard of, and it's going to be quick.

Unexpectedly, the development of sister Anna and Mrs. Sonia had no clue, and it was not too urgent that Claude already had new throwers and projectiles to replace them. He came this time mainly to urge his sister Anna and Mrs. Sonia to accelerate the production of two new types of weapons, sniper rifles and landmines.

A thousand sniper rifles were ordered from the Black Stone Firearms Manufacturing Workshop in the pre-war war battlefield, but the sniper rifles could not be mechanized and were all manufactured in the alchemy spell array. Sister Anna was bored after refining 10 sniper rifles herself and delayed, and Claude could only carry 10 sniper rifles to the battlefield.

Claude understands the irritability of refining a thousand sniper rifles in the Alchemy Magic Array, and none of the grammars can tolerate this boring and odorless work. After all, a great deal of energy needs to be invested in the alchemy spell array in order to produce fine, almost identical, qualified accessories. Mechanized production is not yet able to achieve this precision, and the production of new rifles is barely qualified, but the sniper rifles with higher accessory precision requirements are impossible.

Because of the need for confidentiality, sister Anna and Mrs. Sonia did not arrange for the involvement of the six scribes who had joined the Blackstone Firearms Manufacturing Workshop in the refining of sniper rifles. If they had been refined alone in the Alchemy Charm Array, the production of this thousand sniper rifles would not have been completed until the monkey months.

Claude had no choice but to tell them that most of the accessories could be handed over to the six magicians for refining, and that the two of them were only responsible for the final assembly. As long as the various accessories are qualified, it is equally confidential, and even a few extra irrelevant accessories can be added to confuse audio-visual viewing, not requiring a person to refine a sniper rifle from beginning to end...

Finally, the production arrangements for sniper rifles are in place. Claude sometimes doesn't understand what is in the minds of his sister Anna and Lady Sonia. The new rifles have been produced mechanized on a large scale. What can be kept secret about this sniper rifle is that it is merely refined from the Alchemy Charm Array. It is a weapon of murder. It is true in Claude's eyes that there is no difference.

In addition, Claude needs Mrs. Sonia to add another line of bullets. The new rifle is too expensive on the battlefield, and this requires Mrs. Sonia to make an integrated arrangement. The bullets of the sniper rifle are also specially designed and require a separate production team. Unlike the new rifle, snipers need to be able to hit an enemy with every shot, rather than wasting bullets as casually as soldiers equipped with the new rifle.

But when Claude and her sister Anna, Lady Sonia, talked about accelerating the production of landmines, Lady Sonia came across as challenging. She told Claude that the Blackstone Firearms Manufacturing Workshop was running out of time to produce mines, mostly without manpower. Most of the 1,000 landmines sent to the front in the first half of the year were thanks to the six newly added magicians, and the firearms factory is now truly unable to arrange a mine production line.

In fact, landmines are profitable, war zones are now rich and lazy to bargain, placing orders for 10,000 mines and preparing a mine defense line in some landable areas off the coast of the direct jurisdiction in order to ease the pressure on manpower. In total, 10,000 gold kroner can be generated from this 10,000 mines. Claude gave the war zone two gold kroner a mine at less than three silver tall.

Claude thought about it and asked his guards to send a letter to Mr. Viberon, ready to hand over the production of mines to the newly established Langhu Military Manufacturing in exchange for a production licence transfer fee of 10,000 gold kroner and 10 parts per cent of the shares, which were naturally divided equally between his sister Anna and Mrs. Sonilla, at 5 per cent each. He wrote to Mr. Viberon to tell General Bolognick and others to get their signature consent.

This is business, and it needs to be public-private, so that Mr. Viberon can tell General Bolognick and others about it, and so that Mr. Viberon can win the favor of the remaining four shareholders. After all, it was taken from Claude's arms, and the Blackstone Firearms Manufacturing Workshop belonged to the Fields family, arguably Claude's private property.

And Lanhu military manufacturing belongs to everyone, and the benefits are shared by everyone. General Bolognick, naturally they are unaware that the Blackstone Firearms Manufacturing Workshop is simply unable to arrange a mine production line and are doing their utmost to produce new rifles. So having Mr. Viberon tell them that they took mine production from the Blackstone Firearms Manufacturing Workshop would naturally have him score in front of the other four generals, instead of seeing Mr. Viberon as Claude's agent...

The development of projectiles and mortars has not yet been completed, and the production of sniper rifles has been assigned to the six newly allied magicians. There is no production of mines on this side, and the sisters Anna and Mrs. Sonia feel much more relaxed for a while. Sister Anna can teach the students and stuff, she's not usually free. But Lady Sonia and Claude were involved for two days, finding it boring not to study anything new, so Claude thought of a few new projects.

The new project Claude had, this time, prepared Mrs. Sonia and her sister Anna to study three new projects, two military and one civilian. The two for military use are flower bombs and long-barrelled rockets. Claude's biggest feeling from this war was the loss of light infantry field artillery in front of a bomb thrower. In addition to shotguns fired at close range of 100 metres, solid iron balls with a range of 7,800 metres have lost their threat on the battlefield.

General Bitchklin mentioned in his post-war wrap-up that light infantry field artillery could have been used to attack enemy throwers and personnel, but the Hicks blocked the bombardment of light infantry field artillery just a few wooden platoons in front of the throwers. A solid iron bullet with a big fist broke a wooden row faster than the enemy had stabbed a few more woods in front of it, and the Hicks' momentum to throw iron pumpkins was suppressed only at the end of the day when the projectiles were thrown against the projectiles, combined with the nominal killing of the operators of the projectiles by a new rifle.

The same was true when Claude attacked the Hicks camp on the northern mountain border, where, in addition to being shaded by the Hicks at first, Claude later allowed those Hicks prisoners to build a half-human high mud wall barrier over the trenches. So the Hicks laid light infantry field artillery on the second defensive wall, it was no longer possible to attack the Thunder Regiment officers and soldiers with solid artillery shells fired by light infantry field artillery. In the end, they were thrown bombs and almost completely destroyed. It was easy for the Thunder Regiment officers and soldiers to take up positions...

It appears that Claude invented the projectiles that set the world on a slope of war and that the artillery has not yet thrown a projectile with great power. Artillery without firecrackers is indeed less threatening on the battlefield than projectiles, and centuries of war history have taught military personnel how to deal with artillery, earthwall sandbags and wooden platoon shield vehicles, all of which resist the bombardment of medium- and light artillery. Instead, they descend from the sky, and the projectiles that explode on the ground are more threatening and lethal.

Claude was ready to redevelop the shrapnel, remembering that it had existed in the Ming dynasty of previous life, and he didn't believe he could do it. He thinks the difficulty in developing the bomb lies in the composition of the shell. As a poor weapon idiot, he drew Mrs. Sonia a modern shell structure, a bullet with a cannon, a cannon that would fall out after firing, a bullet would land or explode if it touched the target, and he knew nothing about why it exploded or what it was made of...

As a result, the more artillery he gave Mrs. Sonia, the more confused Mrs. Sonia was. Because Claude paints artillery like the modern howitzer cannons he saw in those anti-Japanese dramas in his past life, which is completely different from the lightweight infantry field cannons that are now used in theater equipment. Finally, when Mrs. Sonia was angry, she threw Claude out of the lab and thought he was completely bullshit.

The second military research project was a long-barrel rocket, which Claude remembered in detail in an online novel he'd read in his previous life. The protagonist crossed to the end of the Ming Dynasty, then the grand exhibition of the grand picture, the name of the famous, the beautiful woman spread the rear palace, the gun-making rehearsal party painfully slaughtered the tar, and finally, the plain thief sat on the throne for a generation, the plot was very vulgar, even the book name and the protagonist's name were forgotten by Claude.

However, the long-barreled rockets mentioned in the book were not surprising, and the protagonist had just begun to pull troops limited to insufficiency of funds and equipment to resist the Tatar's stronghold. So this long-barrel rocket was rolled up, loaded with powder white phosphorus, the tip of the long-barrel, three tail wings on the back of the tail, placed on a wire rack, ignited and fired.

Like a two-kick, this iron-skinned longbarrel rocket can fly a mile away, explode in a military camp in Tatar, and white phosphorus splashes all over the fire. The protagonist relied on this rudimentary long-barreled rocket to resist the two attacks of Tatar. The promotion was also favoured by the beautiful women of Qinglou. The only downside to this long-barrel rocket is said to be its inability to accurately control the target of the shooting, and sometimes the Brown movement poses a life-threatening threat to the launcher...

Mrs. Sonia was interested in this long-line rocket and decided to study the project first. But she didn't want to hear Claude's details in order not to disturb her thinking.

The last civilian project was simple, and Claude was ready to hand it over to her sister Anna for completion. The project was to make cigarettes, and Claude rolled a cigarette with thin white paper in front of her sister Anna, and instead of a filter, she made an ivory cigarette nozzle. Claude needs her sister Anna to develop an auxiliary machine for hand-rolled cigarettes to produce large quantities of cigarettes...

Claude believes that as long as the cigarettes are promoted, the Fields will no longer be short of money...