In the afternoon, Richard Nall arranged a shooting demonstration for Frederick on the shooting range of the military camp.
There was a burst of gunfire, and a row of straw figures a hundred meters away shook, and white smoke came out.
Flames quickly sprouted from the dry grass, and soon the target turned into a huge torch.
Several blue shadows fell from the sky, and the moment they landed on the ground, a blast of cold air erupted, freezing all the burning straw men around them into ice blocks, and the flames immediately disappeared.
Frederick was silent for a long time, then reached out to the shooter beside him to ask for the peashooter that officially finalized the Biography army.
Compared with the preliminary finalized model we saw last time, the biggest difference between the officially finalized pea gun is that the butt is changed from wood to iron.
A very counter-intuitive thing is that wooden stocks are more expensive than metal stocks.
Because the wood of the wooden gun stock is strong and good wood, the cost is not low, and processing it into the shape of the gun stock requires a lot of labor costs.
The metal gun stock is simple. The steel rolling mill rolls out the thin steel plate and then stamps it into shape, then blues it. When assembling, use screws and nuts to fix the two gun stock parts, and then drip molten glue into the screw hole to make it waterproof and waterproof.
Dust, the overall cost is cheaper than wood, and the time is shorter.
But this was not what Frederick cared about. After taking the gun, he took off a sleeve from the muzzle and studied it carefully.
This sleeve has a palm-long barrel and is fixed on the bayonet rest. After installation, one end is placed over the muzzle, and the bullet passes through the sleeve when shooting.
This is not a muffler, but has other uses.
"How about it?" Richard Nall said proudly, "The bullet enchanting device I invented can make the ordinary bullets of the pea gun have a flame effect."
Weapon enchanting has a long history. Magical crossbowmen will enchant arrows to increase speed or lethality.
Enchanting takes time. A rough magic crossbowman needs more than ten breaths to attach magic that can ignite firewood to an arrow. A sophisticated magic crossbowman can do it in the blink of an eye, while the more powerful explosion magic requires more time.
long time.
The muzzle velocity of the bullet is very high, leaving very little time for the enchanting device. It is not an easy task to enchant the bullet in such a short period of time.
Frederick studied the sleeve carefully and found that it was made of multi-layer metal, with several layers of magic circles inside. It seemed that miracles were achieved through strong force.
He frowned and asked: "The price is not low, right? It consumes a lot of magic crystals, right?"
Richard Nall was immediately discouraged and said helplessly: "Yes, production and use are not cheap, so it can only be equipped on a small scale."
Frederick nodded and said: "It can only be used by the elites in Heijiapu."
If you cannot equip a large number of enchanted attachments, it is better to use these resources to strengthen the grenade launcher.
As he said that, he took the blue grenade he had just fired. Inside was a frost magic array, which was quite expensive.
Richard Nall introduced: "This kind of warhead can freeze people instantly without much movement. It is very effective for quietly solving patrols."
This unit is required to operate behind enemy lines, and how to avoid patrols is a key research direction.
However, Frederick felt that there was something wrong with this "quietness".
He suddenly remembered something and said: "I think it's good for putting out fires. Later I... let people study it first and equip it for fire brigades in various places."
At this time, he discovered a problem. He did not have a secretary, so it was difficult to carry out tasks such as conveying orders and dealing with documents.
For example, the matter of arranging fire-extinguishing grenades this time can be arranged to the Executive Yuan and let them take the lead in handling it, but there are no full-time personnel around to send orders.
Although he has maids like Tarot around him, they can still take care of his life, forget about secretarial work.
Putting the maid's matter aside for now, Frederick and Richard Nall continued to watch the training at the edge of the shooting range.
Frederick said with some worry: "Master, I'm worried that someone will do something evil to you."
"As long as you are here, others will not dare to attack me easily. They must let you leave before starting a war with me."
Richard Nall nodded and said: "That's true, but what can they do? It's nothing more than assassination and poisoning, or at most, seduction."
"I raised my hand to kill a Dharma god in Constantbul. Who can guarantee that he can kill me now?"
"Poisoning is a bit troublesome, but there are not many poisons that are effective on people like us, and the effects are limited."
"As for seduction, I think the more the better."
When Frederick heard the last black line, he said with some worry: "I'm worried about sister Katie's mother. If someone kidnaps..."
He couldn't go on and found Richard Nall looking at him like he was a fool.
"You don't have to worry about this." Richard Nall shook his head and said, "Only Mafia kidnaps others, no one can kidnap her."
Frederick blinked and his wife looked very powerful.
"Think more about yourself." Richard Nall touched his head, "You and I are exactly the opposite. Seduction is useless for you, but assassination and poisoning are very effective."
Frederick curled his lips. In fact, it was not bad to seduce him. He could let the villains think about it.
"Ignore them." Frederick shook his head, "Will this force be available next year? I plan to let them help open the city gate when we start our counterattack."
Richard Nall looked at him in surprise and asked in disbelief: "What, you plan to occupy all the neighbor's land?"
Frederick said matter-of-factly: "That's natural, the Wesson Territory is still too small, only the Wesson State is enough."
This time it was Richard Nall's turn to be confused. He shook his head and sighed: "Your ambition is not small. I will have to call you Grand Duke Wesson."
"But how do you plan to expand? You won't be able to conquer the Principality of Mainz in the west. You won't be able to conquer the Principality of Byrne in the south for a while, so you can only go north to conquer it."
"The most important thing in the north is the Free City of Nuremberg. Taking up the area there and around it is barely enough, but you are about to run into the Osmaga Empire, and the surrounding area is their sphere of influence."
Frederick replied: "I am not in a hurry to expand. I will first swallow up the territory of several surrounding neighbors and then slowly digest it."
"I still owe the king 5,000 florins. There are still four years left before the deadline. I want to see if he dares to ask me for it by then."
"Why don't you dare?" Richard Nall sneered, "When the time comes, the king will find a royal woman to recognize his sister as your wife. Isn't it too much for the big brother to ask his brother-in-law for some money?"
Frederick blinked, jumped up in surprise, and shouted: "Can such an operation be possible?!"
Richard Nall said with a bad smile: "Why not? You should be the king's younger brother according to your seniority. What's wrong with your elder brother caring about your younger brother whose parents have both died?"
Frederick's eyes widened, and after taking a few deep breaths he said, "You can't be so shameless."
Richard Nar shrugged and said matter-of-factly: "That's the king. As long as there are enough benefits, there's no harm in being shameless."
"Besides, you can find a scapegoat for what happened in the past. Let's just say that the thing that framed your father was his slander. Now that the king has woken up and put aside all the past grudges with you, it will be a good story."
Several expressions on Frederick's face changed like a lantern. Based on his understanding of those political creatures, this kind of thing is very likely to happen.
"No!" He narrowed his eyes and said, "I can't let this happen."
Richard Nall asked him with some anticipation: "Then what are you going to do?"
"Hit!" Frederick said murderously, "Hit him with one punch to avoid hundreds of punches! Hit him hard, hit him until it hurts, hit him until he dares not think carefully! I want to expand the army.
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Richard Nall rolled his eyes at him and said helplessly: "Do you have that many people?"
The mobilization rate in agricultural societies is not high. If the standing army exceeds 5%, it will have an impact on production. The Wesenland, which has about 100,000 people, will have about 4,000 soldiers after completing its autumn recruitment this year, which is about to affect production.
Frederick said calmly: "What I want to expand is not the standing army, but the militia, and the 'one-minute men'!"