Donghai County Prefect’s Mansion. “My lord, we have already built what you said.”
In the government office, a middle-aged man with a slovenly beard, carrying something like a long stick, hurriedly walked into the door and shouted with a joyful face.
Su Fan, who was discussing countermeasures with many scribes and generals in the government hall, suddenly heard a familiar voice and stood up immediately.
"Master Lu, it's really created."
As if in a blink of an eye, Su Fan left the government hall and his face lit up when he saw the 'spear' in Master Lu's hand.
"Yes, my lord, this is the musket you mentioned before. The flame gun we created using rune secrets is a bit more powerful than the musket."
The jet-black barrel is engraved with flowing runes. The body of the gun is like a shotgun from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but it is a bit larger than the other one.
Su Fan took it in his hand and weighed it. It weighed about fifty kilograms. This weight would be impossible in future generations. Not many people could afford it.
But things are different in this world. Even for ordinary middle-aged men, as long as they are fed and drank enough and exercised for a few months, it is enough.
Rune Flame Gun.
"Can you try it now?"
"Yes, lord, you give it a try," Master Lu said with excitement after hearing this. He followed Su Fan from Luoyang to the East China Sea, but he was still very nervous at first.
But after arriving in Donghai County, he discovered that what his lord told him before was true. Here in Donghai County, they are very important to ink craftsmen like them, and they can also serve as officials.
Just like now, he controls tens of thousands of people in the Mo Industry Department.
Something he had never imagined before.
And it was the man in front of me who caused all this, and he was sincerely grateful.
"Lord, this rune flame gun is the same as the musket you told us, except that we use runes instead of gunpowder,"
"However, due to energy reasons, this rune flame gun can only be fired ten times at a time. After ten times, the energy must be slowly restored. With the rune source gathering array we built, it will take a day to be able to fire it.
This flame gun is full of energy."
"Ten times a day?"
When Su Fan heard this, he wasn't too disappointed. After all, it was pretty good to be able to do it.
Su Fan faced the rockery in the garden not far away and pulled the trigger. Suddenly the barrel of the gun fired a red light, like a laser.
boom!
Hearing an explosion, Su Fan saw a hole about the width of a fist appearing in the rockery.
This power is indeed a little stronger than the musket they were asked to build before.
However, the musket technology that Su Fan knew, that is, the shotgun, was quite good in the Xiaoao world to be honest, but in this world, it was really difficult.
It's very difficult to break through armor.
Of course, it would be possible if we could research firearms from later generations, but gunpowder would be very difficult.
So Su Fan mentioned to these ink workers the use of rune secrets to replace gunpowder.
Unexpectedly, they actually researched it in the past few years.
This power should be able to break through a layer of iron armor at a hundred meters. As for whether it can break through the stomach of three layers of armor, Su Fan certainly doesn't care.
After all, if you can wear armor and stomach, you are no longer an ordinary army.
Even in the Imperial Guards of the Divine Han, not everyone wears armor, and most of them are not iron armor, but armor made of wood pieces.
In an era when productivity has not improved significantly, iron armor is still only owned by officers.
After all, a pair of iron armor is the cheapest and costs tens of thousands or even one hundred thousand dollars. No ordinary person can afford it.
So the power of this rune flame gun is almost enough.
"Master Lu, what is the maximum range of this gun?"
A musket is not only about its power, but also its range.
If it has no range, then this gun is useless. Wouldn't a crossbow be better?
"My lord, the maximum range of this rune flame gun can reach one hundred feet, but as my lord said, the effective range is about fifty feet."
"Fifty feet? It's still a bit low. It would be better to reach one hundred feet, or even further."
When Su Fan heard this, he shook his head and said.
Fifty feet, if placed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, was indeed not bad, but in this era, the effective range of common archers was more than a hundred feet away.
After all, because of the vitality of heaven and earth, as long as they are well fed and exercised, each one will be very strong and the range will be further.
Therefore, this rune flame gun does not have an advantage when facing archers. The only advantage is that archers take a long time to take shape, but this musketeer does not take too long, just one or two months is enough.
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"We have also started to improve"
Master Lu naturally understands.
"So can this rune flame gun be productive?" This is the most important thing. If it is not productive, it will not have any effect at all.
"Because of manpower, now we can only make three hundred per month." At this point, Master Lu felt a little guilty.
This is indeed a very low yield.
Three hundred guns per month is only more than three thousand guns a year. Not counting the losses caused by training, the three thousand guns alone only serve to arm 3,000 people.
For the lord's 300,000-strong army, that's really a drop in the bucket.
"The output is too low. Can it be increased? At least 3,000 pieces per month."
Su Fan also knew that this thing must not be that simple to make. The barrel alone cannot be made of ordinary steel. It must be mixed with some fine iron or something, and coupled with the secret skills of runes, it is not ordinary.
Craftsmen can do it.
"this"
"Difficulties?"
"Lord, the main reason is that we have too few ink workers who know the secrets of runes." Master Lu's face was full of bitterness.
"In this way, I will give you fifty people from the school, and they will almost graduate."
Su Fan thought for a while and said.
"Really, that's great." Master Lu's face was filled with joy when he heard this.
Su Fan instantly understood that this old fox might have had his mind set on him a long time ago.
The school was founded by him in the East China Sea Territory and has been around for six years. Almost all of the students from that year have graduated.
Although most of the cultivation levels are very low, only around the fourth or fifth level of Soul Cultivation, these students are quite powerful in carving runes.
After all, those who teach them ideas in the school are all ink masters, and their professionalism is quite strong.
"You, you, you are playing tricks with me now." Su Fan smiled and shook his head.
This guy was so honest and honest in the beginning, but over the course of a few years, he started to play tricks on him.
Of course Su Fan wasn't angry either.
"I gave you these fifty people, so you must increase the output for me. Since the rune flame gun can be researched, the thunder talisman should also be able to be researched."
"The power of the thunder gun should be more powerful"
"Yeah! The thunder gun is somewhat possible, but the material of the barrel is still being studied."
"That's right! As long as I study it, I won't be stingy."
"There are also rune cannons. Since guns can be researched, it won't be difficult to get the rune cannon."
Su Fan's words immediately made Master Lu's face turn bitter.
"Lord, this rune cannon is more difficult than a musket, and we don't have enough manpower at all."
He really wasn't lying about this. They had also studied the rune cannon, but the number of people was too small, and now they were only scratching the surface.
"It doesn't matter. We will fully produce the Rune Flame Gun for the time being. Once the fifty students have grown up and they are able to take on the responsibility, you will not be short of manpower."