Chapter 2553 Duke's Legacy
As the former northern commander of Saint Vicoia, Fried certainly knew about the Gear Building in Hamey City, and also knew that there were two huge cannons hidden in the Gear Building. Those two giant cannons had long been in disrepair and could no longer be used. He once entered Gear City for on-site inspection and found that there were indeed many rusty and necrotic mechanism wheels inside. For this reason, he proposed to the central government of the empire to allocate funds to repair the Gear City giant cannons. , then Prime Minister Zalberg rejected his proposal on the grounds that the military budget was insufficient and the cannon blueprints were lost.
So, when Fried, who was lying on the back of the pseudo-dragon, saw the gears of Hamey City turning, he immediately became alert.
The gears rotated very slowly at first, but as the magic energy of the whole city was mobilized, the huge gears rotated faster and faster. The huge tall buildings connected to them were also deformed in some places due to the activation of the mechanism. Opening, the building city separated from the middle to the two sides in steps. In the deep cave inside the giant building, there were two large cannons, one small and one big. The overlapping cannons raised their muzzles.
At this time, the building of Jilou City was completely opened like an open-air theater. There were two huge cannons, the small cannon on the top and the big cannon on the bottom. The diameter of one cannon was 460 meters and the other was 1,700 meters. There are various pipes under the gun mount, and dozens of giant jar-like objects are connected behind the pipes. Although these two cannons are huge and bulky, in fact the muzzle rotation is not slow. The elevation angle of the large-caliber gun is limited, but the 460-meter small giant cannon can shoot into the air at an elevation angle, and is already adjusting the direction of the gunfire.
It turned out that during Purcell's battle, the city defense chief realized that the city defenders were unable to resist the opponent, and immediately entered the Gear City building with his cronies to accumulate energy for Gear City to pre-start.
Gear City was built by Duke, who designed the Duke Cannon to fight the threat from the Northern Republic. Later, the city of Hamei was rebuilt after many battles, and the Duke's cannon was also improved and turned into a double-deck cannon. Later, when the republican regime collapsed and the Demon Moon was established, St. Bikoya moved northward to seize a large area of territory and the southern Vulcan region, causing the threat to Hamel City to disappear, and it was gradually forgotten and no longer maintained.
When the Empire once again thought of the Duke Cannon in Hamey City, the cannon had already malfunctioned, and due to various reasons, it took nearly a thousand years to start the repair plan. However, the drawings were lost at that time, and those who knew how to maintain the cannon had long ago It’s all gone and can no longer be repaired.
So this time the gear city's mechanism was activated, everyone in the city was surprised. Some residents had lived here for generations and had no idea that the gear city building could be opened and that there were two such huge cannons inside.
Fried, who was swooping down with the pseudo-dragon, sneered solemnly: "It's interesting, we've forced out something interesting. Gorinich, stop rushing, stay away from here!"
The pseudo-dragon immediately turned around and tried to fly away from the city. The sub-cannon of the Duke cannon in Hamei City followed the deflection of the muzzle angle, and then there was a blast of cannon that destroyed the world!
The huge bombardment left no one with time to hear the sound of the bombardment. People in the city just felt their chests were tight, their hearts were beating in panic, and their eardrums suddenly buzzed, as if they were being seized from the body. With all the strength, he fell to the ground and heard nothing.
Of course Duke's cannon did not take away the strength of the residents, but the huge earthquake knocked them out of power. It took a while for the heart to beat again and its strength to return.
After the bombardment of the giant cannon, it left a thick energy trace as straight as a sword in the sky. Such a large muzzle does not require too high accuracy, and it can also blast everything in the place it passes and the surrounding area. Objects were reduced to ashes.
The pseudo-dragons Gorinich and Fried who originally flew in this direction disappeared. Calasias, Veronica and others nervously searched for the marshal in the sky, with expressions on their faces. The mood gradually faded over time.
"F...Little Marshal Fried was evaporated? Along with his guardian..." Polly looked at the sky in surprise and fear. In such a good weather, it shouldn't be difficult to find a person and a giant dragon. .
In Hamei City, the generals and officers on the terrace of the Gear Building were shocked to the point that their brains were torn apart. They were so dizzy that they could not stand still. They saw the garrison chief coming out of the building and staggering to the front fence. Looking at him, I wanted to speak but couldn't. My chest felt tight and blocked, and I just wanted to vomit.
Not many people know that there are Duke cannons in Hamey City, and the commander of the Northern Territory is one of them. Although Artimit was the temporary acting commander before, he also knew after coming to Hamey City. After talking about Duke's cannon, he calmed down for a while and asked: "Pump, what can Duke's cannon do?" Use it! When was it repaired?" Defender Pump's mind was also buzzing. He retched and shook his head and said: "Of course it is broken, and it can be used."
“What do you mean?”
The dark-skinned Pump said: "Sir Artimite, what do you think the successive garrison officers of Hamey City are doing? As an imperial soldier, how can you allow such good ordnance and artillery to be abandoned? Since a long time ago, all the garrison officers have been I am thinking about how to repair it. The central government of the empire refuses to allocate money. We are raising our own funds, and after years of redrawing the drawings and doing reverse research, we have finally repaired some parts."
"Since it has been repaired, why do you want to hide it from the empire? What the hell are you doing?" Artimite asked.
Pump pulled him aside to a deserted place and said: "Do you think I want to rebel against the empire? Oh, I'm crazy. I'm not hiding anything, and Duke Tulip knows this. Things are not repaired. It's just not repaired. Tell His Majesty the King, what should I do if the basket comes out? Now, only the small cannon of Duke's cannon can be used. I didn't know whether it could be used until I tried it. In fact, the small cannon was not repaired just now. start When I moved it, some parts inside had problems again. Two 230-meter gears fell off and a long shaft was broken. Fortunately, the pressure furnace did not explode, but I don’t know whether it can fire the second shot. "
Artimit probably understood what was going on, and immediately said to him: "Don't tell anyone else about this. Can the cannon still move?"
"It should be fine to rotate. The furnace pressure is still there.”
Artimite nodded: "Okay, if the enemy does it again, turn the barrel to scare them, but don't fire again unless you have to."
"Don't worry." Pump said, "The cannon is repaired. Only a few people are willing to do something about it, and the others don’t know much about it. , I don’t know the true condition of the Duke cannon. Alas, if the situation was not too tight just now, I would not have started the test cannon. I don’t know how long it will take to repair the mechanical damage caused by this shot.”
F. Reed was not dead, but the shot just now scared him and turned pale. The power of that bombardment, not to mention his first level of blood-condensed gold body, would be blasted to smithereens even if it resisted the Holy Eye's golden shield.
The three-headed pseudo-dragon was seriously injured, and half of its body was burned and deformed. It was hiding on the back of a slope and shivering, making whining sounds from time to time.
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(Take a break tonight, continue tomorrow)
(End of this chapter)