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 had no 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 lamented that his daughter did not have a good home. However, he also knew that there was no way Sonia and Claude would get along. First, Sonia was a widow, and second, Sonia was eight years older than Claude.
Maybe everything remains as it is, and the best result is to understand what is unspeakable. What gave the old man a headache was that he didn't know what to call Claude. Although little Mark is Claude's child, if little Mark directly calls Claude his father, then others will know that little Mark is an illegitimate child. Even if little Mark inherits Milosky's family name, the illegitimate child's The identity will still be with him for the rest of his life.
As a commoner, it doesn't matter if he is an illegitimate child, but if you are hanging around in aristocratic circles, you still have to avoid calling him an illegitimate child, so as not to create a scandal. In the end, Sonia made up her mind and asked little Mark to call Claude his godfather, so that the closer relationship between the two would not arouse suspicion in the future
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 ruined more than 800 gun barrels in just six months. The reason is simple. Sonia has been doing gun barrel experiments. Because the range of the breech-loading mode she designed was not far enough, she decided to increase the amount of gunpowder fired by the bullet to increase the range. But too many bullets fired gunpowder and 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 muzzleloading and powdering mode can withstand three thousand shots without major damage. But in order to increase the range, Sonia increased the amount of gunpowder charged, so that a good barrel could only be fired a maximum of four hundred times before 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 make trouble in anger because he didn't play with him and focused on doing experiments. , mixed various potions and powders together, and as a result, she accidentally discovered the most sensitive gunpowder.
With this kind of gunpowder, the success rate of firing bullets by striking the firing pin can reach about 97% to 100%. 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 ten shots can at most succeed in setting off half of the fire. In addition, she also found a way to passivate this kind of igniting powder. She only needed to apply a layer of wax on top of the igniting powder, so that the igniting powder would not be too sensitive and could catch fire due to contact and friction.
Just when Sonia complained that there was no better barrel and could not withstand more bullets and gunpowder charges, Claude went to look at her and laughed. He only asked one question: "You are magic Teacher?"
Sonia's face suddenly turned pale, but she still answered honestly, she was, and so was her father. However, they are not the kind of evil magicians recorded in the books, but the kind that specialize in experiments. They are also registered in the Kingdom of Orvelas. 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 Farea continent. Claude just nodded. He knew what he knew. Master Bird was a well-known firearms master in the eastern part of the continent. If he didn't know magic and couldn't use alchemy magic arrays, it would be difficult for him to start his own business with the current level of mechanical craftsmanship. Various qualified musket accessories are manufactured in the firearms laboratory, but it is not possible to customize muskets for people.
So when he saw the alchemical 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 rune mages. My father's little When I was young, I was valued by an old magician and accepted him as his disciple because of my talent for magic. The old magician passed away within two years, and my father married his granddaughter, my mother, and they lived together.
At that time, my father was only a first-level mage, and my mother had no magical talent. Life was very hard, and his father could only go out to work, and he did not dare to let others know that he was a magician. Two years later, my father worked as a laborer in the gun-making workshop of the Eskiline Principality. With a fixed income, my life settled down, and my mother became pregnant. I was born a year later, but my mother soon became seriously ill due to overwork after giving birth, and she left us father and daughter four years later. 35xs
My father had to go to work at that time and could not 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 a sum of money and sent me to the Temple of the Moon to be taken care of by the nuns. I lived in the Temple of the Moon for ten years and didn't return 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 to customize personal firearms for people. Then my father discovered that I also had a talent for magic, so he taught me everything he knew. We used the alchemy magic talisman left by my grandfather to make matching parts for the musket, and we rarely interacted with other magicians."
This is true. Generally speaking, magicians are taboo about firearms. The magicians on Shigros Island call guns the devil's weapon. Master Bird is one of a kind. He is obviously a magician, but he designs and makes muskets. He is an outlier among magicians.
Claude pondered: "I have to think about whether I need to take you to see 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 continue. 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.
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 and his family to his 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, sister Anna's laboratory is set up next to a remote hill an hour away from Lanhu Town. The main reason is that this place is desolate and uninhabited, so no matter how big the noise is, it will not matter. relation. Moreover, Claude has spent money to acquire a large area of surrounding land in the name of building a ranch, and it has become his sister Anna's private property.
Unlike his sister Anna, who only cares about doing experiments, Mike really wants to turn this land into a pasture. He even took the officers and soldiers of his 131st Battalion here in the name of training, and spent a week erecting a row of one-and-a-half-meter-high wooden fences around the border of the ranch. Surrounded by a barbed wire fence, a ranch gate and a row of log houses were also built, ready to be a love nest for himself and Anna.
The name of the ranch was Anna Ranch. When Claude's carriage and guards arrived at the row of log houses on the ranch, they saw McJack riding over with three or four subordinates on horseback. Claude's face elongated as soon as he got out of the carriage. Seeing Michael and his men uneasily dismounting and saluting in front of him, Claude angrily scolded: "Why are you here?"
Yes, Mike should be supervising the hard work of the captives at Wickham Castle at this time. 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 off 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. Replenish troops. I was on my way back at that time and happened to miss it. Unexpectedly, General Albert sent out McJack's Thunder 131 Regiment 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. Chores. So he waved his hand to let them do what they wanted, and 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 on Mrs. Sonia and little Mark. Obviously, he recognized Lady Sonia. He was the orderly who followed Claude back then, so he naturally knew the Baroness. As for little Mark, he found that his face was somewhat similar to Claude, 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 sister Anna is currently experimenting with is a new topic given by Claude, which is how to improve the throwing device to a longer throw distance without increasing the load-bearing area and manpower. The maximum throwing distance of the throwing device is now only more than 70 meters, which is still dangerous for the soldiers who use it. They are within the range of the enemy's precise aiming and shooting.
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, two or three hundred meters, but It can make the anti-Japanese troops pay heavy casualties. Now that Claude already had a grenade, he wanted to create a long-range grenade, so that he could defeat all enemies in this era. Even if the enemy is hiding in a solid defense facility, he will be blown away by the bombs falling from the sky.
It's just that Claude was not a military fan in his previous life, so he didn't know what the structure of a grenade was. The drawing he drew for his sister Anna was actually what a mortar looked like. A metal round pipe with two brackets on the front and a square iron plate on the bottom. 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, then turn the propellant barrel downwards, and release it from the grenade barrel. of top loading. The grenade and the propellant cartridge fall into the gun barrel, the firing pin at the bottom pierces the propellant cartridge, ignites, and the grenade on top is thrown two hundred meters away
Claude felt that this grenade barrel was very simple. Now that he had a grenade, he only needed to make a barrel that was 70 or 80 centimeters long based on the diameter of the grenade. The propellant cartridge can actually be made separately, or it can be directly connected to the projectile. The problem is that the length of the ignition cable of the projectile 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 a firing pin to ignite and throw the projectile out of the barrel.
It's just that my sister Anna was a monk halfway through these weapon experiments. For her, everything that Claude thought was simple became a problem for her. Even Mike sometimes thinks that Claude's idea is very unreliable. For example, with the current throwing device, if there is a problem when throwing, at least you can throw it farther by hand to avoid accidental injury. But if you get a metal barrel like Claude said, then the grenade cannot be thrown, and the entire barrel becomes an explosive barrel, which will pose a great danger to the lives of the soldiers operating it.
So so far, the progress of sister Anna's experiment is very slow, or there is no clue. This is why Claude planned to bring Sonia to his sister Anna's laboratory to have a look after he discovered that both his father and daughter were rune mages. Maybe the two of them together would speed up the progress of the experiment.
I don’t know if it’s because they are both rune mages, or because I can see the relationship between Mrs. Sonia and Claude from the appearance of little Mark. In short, the younger sisters Anna and Sonia hit it off immediately, and they had a very happy and interesting chat. Sister Anna took out the safe explosive she tried to make using nitroglycerine as raw material, while Mrs. Sonia took out the pyrotechnic powder she invented.
My sister Anna was very happy after testing this explosive. She dragged out a large box and took out various strange parts and accessories. Sonia asked her strangely what she was doing, and Anna replied that with her gunpowder, the revolver that Claude asked her to trial-produce before could be completed.