Successfully capturing Lion's Roar City and capturing Duke Connie alive can be said to be a great victory.

However, White was not very satisfied with the result of this battle, because his second princess, Trieste, fled to Bibo County by boat.

Bibo County is located at the mouth of the Weishui River. It is the largest port city in the Morning Light Kingdom and is currently the place with the most prosperous business activities.

Right now is not the time to continue marching to attack Bibo County.

There are many reasons, the most important of which is that the black powder was almost consumed in two consecutive battles. It may not be possible to capture Bibo County as easily as this time.

The Magic Stone Research Association consumes a large amount of raw materials and often conducts research day and night. It was only two weeks ago that they figured out the composition and proportion of black gunpowder. It can be considered that the large amount of research funds invested every year has not been in vain.

In addition, it will take a lot of time to take over Lion's Roar City and the surrounding areas, as well as judge those southern nobles who failed to escape, assign other nobles to take over management, etc.

By the time these things are taken care of and enough black powder is produced and stored, winter will almost come.

According to past war practices, winter is a truce period. After all, the army is not suitable for fighting in severe cold weather.

Therefore, after White finished judging the guilty southern nobles and handed over the management of Lion's Roar City to the newly appointed Duke, he led the army back to the royal capital.

If you want to capture Bibo County and completely end the crisis of the kingdom's division, you can only wait until next spring, when the snow has almost melted, and then lead the army to the expedition.

White is not in a hurry. Lion's Roar City has been captured, and the second princess, Trisette, can't make any waves now.

What's more, the Kingdom of Dawn has to deal with another crisis in winter - the southern invasion of undead monsters.

Crimson Sand Fortress is the main battlefield to deal with undead monsters, and support must be provided. The other battlefield is Border Guard Town.

Border Guard Town...

White's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and he couldn't help but reveal a wicked smile. He would definitely create some trouble for Marquis Aisen this winter.

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Border Guard Town.

The day after the plenary meeting, the artillery team conducted a test firing experiment of the new artillery on the northern city wall.

The heavy artillery was manufactured in strict accordance with the design drawings, and there was no problem with its quality. It was mainly used to test two new artillery shells.

One is a solid cannonball, which can be regarded as an enlarged version of the new bullet.

The technical difficulty is not high. At this stage, this kind of artillery shells will be mass-produced.

The other is a howitzer shell with a trigger fuse inside the warhead.

Once successfully triggered, the warhead will be detonated immediately, using explosion and combustion to produce fragments, metal jets, shock waves, smoke, etc. to damage targets around the impact point of the projectile.

Since there are design drawings of howitzer shells, they can be made, but it is still difficult to mass-produce them, so I made a few of them first and prepared them.

After a test firing by the artillery team, the effect was unexpectedly good.

The new artillery can be rear-loaded with shells, which makes it easier to use than the old artillery, and the time interval between two firings is much shortened.

Moreover, the range of the new artillery can easily exceed the limit of visual observation. Even with a telescope, it is difficult to see the impact point of the shell at the maximum shooting angle.

This amazed Viscount Jarvis. He said that if the enemy's position could be detected in advance, he could launch a round of ultra-long-distance artillery fire when the opponent was unprepared and defeat the enemy's confidence on the spot.

Irving was quite satisfied with the test results and ordered Blue to make the artillerymen proficient in the operation of the new artillery as soon as possible.

Considering that the People's Army would definitely be equipped with more such heavy artillery in the future, Owen felt it was necessary to expand the number of artillery personnel and form a separate artillery battalion.

A few days later, Owen took Marpel and Angelica to the training ground on the northern city wall.

"Mabel, I have a gift for you."

As he spoke, Owen took out a wooden box and opened it in front of Mapel. Inside was a shining silver pistol and more than ten bullets.

"This is?"

Seeing the contents inside the wooden box, Mapel showed a puzzled expression.

She knew it must be a gun, but it was too short compared to the bolt-action rifles equipped by the People's Army.

"This is a revolver. I ordered Gita to make it specially."

Owen explained: "Compared to a bolt-action rifle, its effective range is not far, but it is suitable for use in close combat. As my chief knight, I think you are worthy of this pistol."

Picking up the revolver and observing it carefully, Mapel found that there was a text engraved on the handle of the gun - Presented to Mapel Jarvis.

"I had this text engraved on it specially, and it is now your exclusive weapon." Owen said with a smile.

"Thank you, Sir Owen!"

Showing a bright smile, Mapel was extremely happy now and couldn't put it down for the revolver.

"Oh - you are quite good at making women happy, Marquis Essen." Angelica on the side couldn't help but teased.

"Ahem."

With a fake cough, Owen quickly changed the subject: "Mabel, the pistol is already loaded with bullets. Can you try to take advantage of it?"

"Yeah." Mapel nodded.

However, she has only used rifles equipped by the People's Army. This revolver is so short that it seems to be used with one hand.

Then, Mapel raised his pistol with one hand and aimed at the target in the distance.

"Wait."

Seeing this, Owen stepped forward and taught: "Although you can shoot with one hand, the accuracy is not high. It is best to hold the bottom of the gun handle with your left hand..."

While teaching, Owen grabbed Marpel's left hand and personally taught her the correct posture to hold the pistol.

Because the two of them were so close, Mapel couldn't help but blush on her face, as if a deer was beating wildly in her heart.

There was a bang and the bullet fired accurately hit the target.

Then, Mapel fired several more shots one after another. Only one shot missed the target, and all the other bullets hit the target.

"The accuracy is not bad." Owen praised.

"That's all taught well by Mr. Owen."

Mapel was very happy because she was finally praised.

"Then, let's proceed to the next test."

Owen took out a bullet from the wooden box and handed it to Mapel, and explained: "This is a special bullet, with small high-quality water-wet magic stones embedded inside the bullet. When you test it later, you try to

Inject magic into the pistol and pull the trigger."

Not only that, the revolver given to Mapel was also made by Gita using the technology learned from the dwarf craftsmen.

The metal part of the pistol has been quenched with dragon's blood, and its magic conductivity is extremely high.

"Oh?" Angelica understood instantly, "Marquis Essen, this is your real purpose, right? You want to apply magic power to the gun."

"Roughly the same."

Irving did not deny it and continued: "I have wanted to conduct such a test for a long time, but I was too busy and lacked enough raw materials and related technical processes, so I never put it into practice."

It was really hard to do anything when I was busy before. At that time, the city hall had not yet formed its current scale, and many things required Owen to do it himself.

Most of the high-quality magic stones required were obtained when Duke Eddie's property was confiscated.
Chapter completed!