General Skerry had other business matters and quickly left the gun repair shop with his guards.
Claude stayed with Baroness Sonia.
Master Bird was very open-minded and did not have any other opinions about Claude because of his daughter and grandson. After all, it was the war years, and it was normal for some unspeakable things to happen between two young men and women. He just
He lamented that his daughter did not have a good ending. But he also knew that there was no way that Sonia and Claude would have a relationship. First, Sonia was a widow, and second, Sonia was eight years older than Claude.
Perhaps the best result would be to keep everything as it is, but to understand what is unspeakable. What troubles the old man is that he doesn’t know what to call Claude. Although Mark is Claude’s child
, but if little Mark directly calls Claude his father, then others will know that little Mark is an illegitimate son. Even if little Mark inherits Milosky's family name, the identity of this illegitimate son will still accompany him throughout his life.
As a commoner, it doesn't matter if he is an illegitimate child, but if you hang out in the aristocratic circle, you still have to avoid calling him an illegitimate child, so as not to leave a trail to others. In the end, Sonia made up her mind and asked little Mark to call Claude "
Godfather, this way the closer relationship between the two will not arouse suspicion from others...
Early the next morning, Claude felt very tired after working hard all night, but he was dragged out of bed by the radiant Baroness Sonia, because Lady Sonia couldn't wait to take Claude.
De went to see her latest experimental results.
Claude now finally understands why Sonia destroyed more than 800 gun barrels in just six months. The reason is simple. Sonia has been doing gun barrel experiments. The breech loading mode she designed has insufficient range.
However, too much bullet propellant exploded in the barrel, causing great damage to the barrel.
Sonia tried various gunpowder formulas, but unfortunately, the most successful gunpowder formula could only reach a range of about three hundred meters. The barrel of a standard Obash Type III matchlock gun, according to normal
The muzzle loading mode can withstand three thousand shots without major damage. However, in order to increase the range, Sonia increased the amount of gunpowder charged, so that a good barrel can only reach a maximum of four
After a hundred firings, the barrel was damaged...
In the laboratory, Claude saw the familiar alchemy magic talisman array, and at this time Sonia was chattering about how little Mark started to cause trouble because she was not playing with him and focused on the experiment.
, mixed various potions and powders together, and she accidentally discovered the most sensitive gunpowder.
With this kind of gunpowder, the success rate of bullets launched by striking the firing pin can reach about 97% to 100%, and it becomes possible to load the bullet into the breech without worrying about the misfire rate and avoid flint fire.
It's a pity that at most half of ten shots can successfully ignite. In addition, she also found a way to passivate the explosive. She only needs to apply a layer of wax on the explosive, so that the explosive will not be too sensitive and even touch.
The disadvantage is that it can catch fire due to friction.
Just when Sonia complained that there was no better barrel and could not withstand more bullets and gunpowder charges, Claude looked at her and laughed. He only asked one question: "You are magic
division?"
Sonia's face suddenly turned pale, but she still answered honestly, she is, and so is her father. But they are not the evil magicians recorded in the books, but the ones who specialize in experiments.
The Kingdom of Orvelas has also been registered, and neither father nor daughter knows those harmful magics...
Perhaps this is because Sonia is worried that Claude will alienate them after knowing that they are magicians. After all, the reputation of magicians is not very good in the continent of Farea. Claude just nodded, he knew in his heart that Master Bird is the master of magic in the eastern part of the continent.
If a well-known firearms master in the region does not know magic or how to use alchemical magic talismans, then with the current level of mechanical technology, it will be difficult to manufacture various qualified firearm accessories in his own firearms laboratory, and he will not be able to give people
Customized musket.
So when he saw the alchemy magic talisman array displayed in the laboratory, Claude knew that one of Master Bird and Sonia must be a magician. Unexpectedly, Sonia gave him a surprise. Father
Both women are magicians.
"Then you are all rune mages?" Claude asked again.
Sonia was stunned: "How do you know the Rune Mage?"
Claude pointed to the alchemy magic talisman array: "My sister also has such an alchemy magic talisman array. She is engaged in pharmaceutical experiments. She said she is a rune mage."
"That's it..." Sonia breathed a sigh of relief: "I was worried that you would be afraid of us and alienate us if you knew that our father and daughter were both magicians. Now I'm relieved. In fact, we don't know whether we are magicians or not.
Grammar Master, when my father was young, he was valued by an old magician and accepted him as his disciple because of his talent for magic. Within two years, the old magician passed away, and my father married his granddaughter, my mother.
People depend on each other for life.
At that time, my father was only a first-level mage, and my mother had no magic talent. Life was very hard, and my father could only go out to work, and he did not dare to let others know that he was a magician. After two years, my father
I worked as a part-time worker in a gun-making workshop in the Eskiline Principality. With a fixed income, my life became stable and my mother became pregnant. I was born a year later, but my mother soon fell ill due to overwork after giving birth.
He became seriously ill and left our father and daughter behind four years later.
My father had to go to work at that time and had no way to take care of me. He could only lock me in the house alone and go out in the morning and come back at night. It wasn’t until I was six years old that my father saved up a sum of money and sent me to the Temple of the Moon to be cared for by the nuns.
Take care of me. I lived in the Moon Temple for ten years and didn't go home until I was sixteen.
At that time, my father had become a well-known expert in firearms design and production. He opened a firearms laboratory and customized personal firearms for people. Then my father discovered that I also had magical talents, so he taught me everything he knew.
They all use the alchemy magic talisman array left behind by my grandfather to make matching parts for the musket, and there is very little communication with other magicians..."
This is true. Generally speaking, magicians are taboo about firearms. The magicians on Shigros Island all call guns the devil's weapon. Master Bird is one of a kind. He is obviously a magician, but why?
To design and make muskets, he is considered an outlier among magicians.
Claude pondered: "I have to think about whether I need to take you to meet my sister. In fact, I think your breech loading method is a detour. The range of a musket does not depend on the amount of gunpowder loaded.
It doesn’t matter whether the barrel is good or bad. I once entrusted my sister to help me trial-produce a new type of musket, but because of the gunpowder, the research could not proceed. In addition, my sister also researched and invented a new type of gunpowder, which is the current granular gunpowder.
Black powder is more than ten times more powerful, but unfortunately it cannot be mass-produced..."
"What are you talking about? Your sister has a new type of gunpowder, which is more than ten times more powerful than this black gunpowder granule? I don't believe it. You have to take me to see it. Let's go right away!" Sonia jumped over and grabbed it.
Claude's collar shouted.
"You, please let go first..." Claude didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He didn't expect that his lover, whom he hadn't seen for ten years, was still an experimental maniac. He didn't care about anything when he heard about a new type of gunpowder.
However, it was difficult for Claude to get rid of Sonia's entanglement. In order to give his waist time to rest, he had to agree to take Sonia to his sister Anna's laboratory after lunch to avoid being beaten again during the lunch break.
Sonia squeezed her.
However, during lunch, Master Bird heard about Claude's sister Anna's laboratory and expressed that he was also very interested in visiting it. So after lunch, Claude ordered the carriage to be prepared and took Master Bird with him
The whole family of three went to my sister Anna's laboratory.
It only takes about two hours to get from the gun repair workshop to my sister Anna's laboratory. Unlike the gun repair workshop in the mountains, my sister Anna's laboratory is located on a remote hill an hour away from Lanhu Town.
Next to it, the main reason is that it is desolate and uninhabited. No matter how big the noise is, it doesn't matter. Moreover, Claude has spent money to acquire a large area of land around him in the name of building a ranch, and it has become the private property of his sister Anna.
industry.
Unlike his sister Anna, who only focused on doing experiments, Michael really wanted to turn this land into a pasture. He even used the name of training for public benefit and brought the officers and soldiers of his 131st Battalion to come here and spent an hour.
In a matter of weeks, a row of one-and-a-half-meter-high wooden fences was erected around the border of the ranch, surrounded by barbed wire. At the same time, the ranch gate and a row of log houses were built, preparing to become a love nest for himself and Anna.
The name of the ranch is Anna Ranch. When Claude's carriage and guards arrived at the row of log houses on the ranch, they saw McJack riding a horse and driving over with three or four subordinates. As soon as Claude got out of the carriage, he
His face became elongated. Seeing Michael and his subordinates uneasily dismounting and saluting in front of him, Claude scolded angrily: "Why are you here?"
Yes, at this time, McJack should be supervising the hard work of the prisoners at Wickham Castle. Why did he return to the ranch?
McJack stood at attention and reported: "General, on the order of General Albert, I took the Thunder 131st Battalion back to the theater headquarters to select new recruits to replenish the troops. I reported to General Skerry this morning, and General Skerry gave us three
It’s a day’s holiday for us to take a rest first, so I took them back to the ranch to have a look.”
Claude understood. General Skerry mentioned this to him yesterday when he went to the gun repair shop. He sent a Falcon message to Wickham Castle three days ago in the morning, asking the Thunder Division to send someone to accept new recruits.
Replenishing the troops. I was on my way back at that time and happened to miss it. Unexpectedly, General Albert sent out the Thunder 131st Regiment of McJack after receiving the message from the Falcon Eagle.
Since Mai Jack didn't come back privately, Claude didn't bother to mind other business. Anyway, Mai Jack brought his subordinates here to figure out what kind of grass to plant on the pasture land next year, how many cattle and sheep to raise, etc.
There were chores. So he waved his hand and told them to do what they wanted. He reached out and took out Lady Sonia, Master Bird, and little Mark from the carriage.
When Claude turned around again, he saw that Michael was covering his mouth tightly to prevent him from screaming, but his eyes were rolling around Mrs. Sonia and little Mark. It was obvious that he recognized them.
Madam Sonia, she was an orderly who followed Claude back then, so she naturally knew the Baroness. As for little Mark, he found that his face was somewhat similar to Claude's, so he was probably making random guesses in his mind...
..
"Watch your mouth." Claude warned his brother-in-law, and then led Master Bird and his family to his sister Anna's laboratory.
What my sister Anna is currently experimenting with is a new topic given by Claude, which is how to improve the throwing distance of the throwing device to a longer distance without increasing the load-bearing area and manpower. The maximum throwing distance of the throwing device is now
It is only more than seventy meters away, which is still a bit dangerous for the soldiers who use it. They are within the enemy's precise aiming and shooting range.
Claude actually wanted to make a grenade. Among other things, everyone who had watched those anti-war dramas in his previous life was extremely impressed by the little devil's accurate grenade. The distance was not far away, only two or three hundred meters, but
It can make the anti-Japanese team pay heavy casualties. Now that Claude has a grenade, he really wants to create a long-distance grenade, so that he can defeat all enemies in this era. Even if the enemy is hiding in a solid
Defense facilities will also be bombarded by projectiles falling from the sky, leaving them unable to escape.
It's just that Claude was not a military fan in his previous life and didn't know what the structure of a grenade was. The drawing he drew for his sister Anna actually looked like a mortar. A metal round tube with two brackets on the front and a bottom
It was a square iron plate. I don’t know where Claude saw it from. He remembered that there was a big firing pin at the bottom of the barrel. When throwing a grenade, first put a propellant barrel on the grenade, and then turn the position of the propellant barrel toward
It is loaded from the top of the grenade barrel. The grenade and the propellant cartridge fall into the barrel. The firing pin at the bottom pierces the propellant cartridge, ignites, and throws the grenade above two hundred meters away...
Claude feels that this grenade barrel is very simple. Now that he has a grenade, he only needs to make a barrel that is 70 or 80 centimeters long based on the diameter of the grenade. The propellant barrel can actually be made separately.
It can also be directly connected to the grenade. The problem is that the ignition length of the grenade needs to be recalculated to ensure that it will not explode until it is thrown two hundred meters away, instead of exploding in the air. The only difficulty is the ignition device. How to get one?
The firing pin fires and throws the projectile out of the barrel.
It’s just that her younger sister Anna became a monk halfway through these weapon experiments. For her, what Claude thought was very simple became a problem for her. Even Mike sometimes thought that Claude’s ideas were very unreliable, such as using
With the current throwing device, if there is a problem with the throwing projectile, at least you can throw it farther by hand to avoid accidental injuries. But if you get a metal barrel like Claude said, then the throwing bomb cannot be thrown out, and the entire barrel becomes
Explosive canisters pose a great danger to the lives of soldiers operating them.
So so far, the progress of sister Anna's experiments has been very slow, or there is no clue. This is why Claude planned to take Sonia to her sister Anna's laboratory to have a look after discovering that her father and daughter were both rune mages.
, maybe the two of them together will speed up the progress of the experiment.
I don’t know whether it’s because they are both rune mages, or because I saw the relationship between Mrs. Sonia and Claude from the appearance of little Mark. In short, the younger sister Anna and Sonia hit it off immediately, and they had a very happy and interesting chat. The younger sister Anna
She took out the safe explosive made from nitroglycerin that she had tried out, and Mrs. Sonia took out the pyrotechnic powder she invented.
My sister Anna was very happy after testing this explosive. She dragged out a big box and took out various strange parts and accessories. Sonia asked her strangely what she was doing, and Anna replied
Said that with her explosive powder, the revolver that Claude asked her to trial-produce before can be completed...