Chapter 299 Order for Clockwork Guns
After staying at Fort Joan for a week and arranging all the affairs here, Horn and the officers prepared to return to Fort Joan.
But before that, he went to see Shilov to say goodbye.
Under the gable of the Mechanical Palace, hiding behind the gate, Shilov quietly listened to Horn's decision to leave.
Although Shilov didn't say anything, Horn could still see her loss from her tail dragging the ground.
"You have a lot of friends here." Horn squatted down and held Shilov's hand, "You will definitely be able to go out on your own one day."
Raising his head, Shilov looked at Horn's face , turn the wheelchair forward.
Horn took a few steps back for no apparent reason.
Parking the wheelchair in front of the door, Shilov opened her arms towards Horn and stretched out her hands.
Horn was stunned, but walked over generously and gave Shilov a heavy hug.
But what he didn't see was that Shilov's tail and ears suddenly stood upright, and his eyes, which had rarely changed, unconsciously widened.
Letting go of Shilov, Horn felt her astonishment: "Didn't you want a hug just now?"
"I just wanted to show you that I can put my hand out the door. Out." Shilov's human ears gradually turned red, while her animal ears drooped softly.
"Then do you want me to hug you?"
"Actually, I don't really want you to hug me." Shilov turned her head away stiffly.
"Okay, I get it. If you want to hug me again, you have to wait until next time." Seeing Haierjun bring the horse over, Horn patted the back of Shilov's hand twice, "Goodbye."
< br>"Goodbye." Shilov reluctantly resumed her previous elegant posture, waving her arms toward Horn in a ladylike manner.
She leaned against the door and watched the back of Horn's horse gradually disappearing from sight.
Looking down at the mark pressed by the door panel, Shilov once again stretched out her hand from the door.
She was able to accurately judge that from a physiological point of view, her hand had not been harmed in any way.
But the pain and fear of her legs being chopped off by her grandmother more than ten years ago flowed through her fingertips again.
His body was trembling slightly, but Shilov still stretched his hand out of the door.
“Huh——” He let out a big breath. After holding on for five minutes, Shilov withdrew his hand like an electric shock.
She turned to look at the clock behind her, as if muttering to herself: "I lasted one minute longer than yesterday..."
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Thanks to the research on the dragon bone flute, Horn's journey back to Castle Joan from the Wild Spider Forest was extremely smooth.
Every military station in the Wild Spider Forest has people who play the dragon bone flute.
This time Horn and the others rode on horseback, much faster than before, and arrived in Mayo Town in a day and a half.
Changing horses in the town of Mayo, Horn set off again without stopping.
When they reached Ashheard Town, Horn stopped.
After dismounting with his guards, Horn greeted the leader of the local guild and walked directly towards the inner room of the blacksmith shop on the west side of the town.
Ashefurnace Town makes a living from the metal processing industry, and there are a large number of craftsmen, the largest of which is the blacksmith industry.
Standing at the door of the big blacksmith shop, Horn looked in.
A variety of tools are hung neatly on the wall, including hammers, pliers, chisels, etc., and the arc-shaped openings shine with a metallic luster.
Beside the medicine vat, several blacksmith apprentices were sweating, pulling huge bellows to stir up the fire, making the hot peat dance with a strong fire.
In the flames, gurgling foam emerged from the medicine vat, and the iron ingots in the medicine gradually began to glow with bright white spots.
When the light spot evenly covers the surface of the iron material, the blacksmith master lifts it from the medicine vat.
On the anvil, the iron ingot glowing with white light was hammered repeatedly, and the fluorescence splashed everywhere.
These iron ingots that are hammered into iron sheets will eventually be gathered on a steel core, and through continuous hammering, they will gradually turn into iron pipes.
Different from the craftsmanship of Horn Autumn Island, the blacksmiths here do not have electric welding, so naturally they cannot use the spirally rolled gun tube craft.
However, as old craftsmen, they still have a clever trick.
The process they use is to wrap softened thin iron on a steel core to form an iron pipe. The joints of iron pipes are naturally not as strong as electric welding, so they wrapped a layer of iron outside the inner pipe.
In this case, the joint of the inner tube is wrapped by the outer tube, and with the hammering process, a gun tube that meets Horn's requirements can actually be created.
The price is that the yield is not high and it needs to be re-melted repeatedly. Only one of the five pieces meets the requirements.
Taking advantage of the iron ore smelting time in Mayo Town, it would take an average of ten days for a blacksmith to produce a finished gun barrel.
With the addition of small parts such as the firing rod, it takes almost 15 days to use one rod.
However, the head of the blacksmith guild in Ashheard Town swore on the whole family that this was just because the blacksmiths were skilled.
Give him some time, and he can definitely shorten the time to less than ten days.
Horn finally decided the day before yesterday to place an order for 1,000 clockwork gun tubes to these blacksmith shops.
In addition, he also placed an order for 500 clockwork gun tubes to the welding wizards on Qiumu Island.
Despite losing Jeanna, the most powerful welding machine, the remaining five welding wizards can still produce 2-3 gun tubes per person per day.
According to the output of the Qiumu Island Holy Gun Workshop, it is not a problem to produce 500-600 gun tubes in 50 days.
Without the help of the welding wizard in Ashheard Town, it would take about ten days for a blacksmith and their apprentice to build a blunderbuss tube.
Although their production efficiency is not high, they have a large number of people. It takes 200 blacksmiths 50 days to build 1,000 spring-loaded guns, which is still acceptable.
Based on the current progress, Horn will be able to collect 1,200 to 1,500 wind-up guns by the end of May.
According to Horn's precise calculations, each spring gun uses 20 pounds of iron. Taking into account labor, material and other costs, the total price is around 25 dinars to 30 dinars.
The pricing profit of weapons in the imperial market is 50% to 70%.
The Salvation Army purchased them from them at a price of 45 dinars each, costing a total of 375 gold pounds.
This price does not include the orichalcum spring.
The cost price of an orichalcum barrel is 90 dinars, which translates into a purchase price of 1 gold pound.
So in fact, the total price of a clockwork gun is about 1.5 gold pounds, which is about the same price as a knight's sword.
With the current number of The Salvation Army Chapter, there are only 1,000 Holy Gunners out of 4,500 people.
Even if the two legions are expanded again as planned, the number will be 5,500.
Based on the current organization, there are at most 1,200 holy gunmen. Counting those damaged in the war, there is not a gap as big as 1,500 guns.
In addition to supporting these blacksmith shops and preventing them from going bankrupt, the most important thing about Horn's actions is that he does have a gap of 1,300 spring-loaded muskets.
While on Autumn Island, Madeleine sent a letter from Fort Joan of Arc. The data attached to the letter showed:
In the month after the war, the extraordinary performance of the Salvation Army soldiers The rate suddenly soared from 3% to 10%, and is even rising gradually.
The rate of holy favors has soared from 25% to 52%. Among the active war monks in the Salvation Army, there are more than 2,000 holy favored ones.
But the strange thing is that this time the disease of the Holy Family is more serious than before, and there are even many cases of war monks who died because of the Holy Family.
Madeleine is currently unsure whether the war monks who died of the Holy Favorite Disease were injured or weak or for other reasons.
This really confused Horn. I am not here at Castle Joan of Arc. How did you get the Holy Favorite Syndrome?
Holy Favorite Disease does not have the property of being passed from person to person. Only Horn can pass it from person to person.
If the Holy Familiar Disease could be transmitted from person to person, the empire would have been captured by the army of Witch Familiar, okay?
With this question in mind, Horn set out on the road again. Since he couldn’t figure it out, he shouldn’t think about it for the time being.
The group of people set out on the road again, and Horn still stopped to observe and inquire wherever they went.
They passed by farmers weeding and learned that the field division team had advanced to the vicinity of Ashheard Town.
They passed by the priest who was hanged at the entrance of the village, and learned that the knights and armed farmers colluded to assassinate the field division team that happened a few days ago, but were defeated by the black hat army.
Passing by workers carrying soil to build water conservancy and reclaiming wasteland, I learned that the two monasteries of Holy Hoe and Holy Scythe were officially opened.
As noon approached, looking at the smoke rising from the castle of Joan of Arc, Horn unconsciously put a smile on his face.
"Your Majesty, you are in a very happy mood." Martin asked.
"Of course! The grain to survive the spring famine has been found, the field division is going smoothly, and the craftsmen are working so hard." Horn pointed to the winding road in the distance, "Although the future is not We know where to go, but as long as we don’t stop, our road will continue to stretch.”
(End of this chapter)