The second time she fired, Agatha gagged her ears in advance. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Then she saw the unbelievable.

Without the long hours of accumulation work expected, the seemingly massive metal tube showed a lightness that was completely out of the way, and each shot seemed to shake the earth, but the base did not move, as if the two had nothing to do with each other. The long tube retracts and resets quickly and precisely, and the process doesn't even require human control – only three of the four operators are busy, and the commander, known as the Iron Axe, simply stands by and gives orders.

Pull back the metal stop, slide off the copper case, stuff in a new bolt, and fire again...... In this cycle, Agatha could feel the earth-shattering thunderous fury almost every ten breaths, and the close-range flat fire allowed her to witness a succession of snow pillars and dirt lifted two miles away—the prince was not fooled, the weapon did fire the bolts at a speed that was too fast to catch with the naked eye. Judging by the time between the firing and the raising of the snow pillar, even the transcendent will never be able to avoid its attack!

Agatha looked at the silver-white long-barreled weapon, and couldn't help but be a little stupid.

If...... If Tachira had possessed such powerful weapons at that time, perhaps he would have been able to keep all the terrible demons under the city walls, so as to avoid falling into the quagmire of a war of attrition after the walls were destroyed, and the war might not have turned out so badly.

"Is this a weapon made by a witch?" she asked in a low voice, swallowing her saliva for a while. Judging by its smooth and shiny appearance, it is by no means what an ordinary person can strike with his hands and a hammer.

But the prince's answer surprised her.

"A masterpiece of witches and mortals," he laughed, "the smelting and casting of the fortress cannons were done by the witches, and the cannonballs used for firing were the work of the alchemists." By the way, all the witches involved in the creation are what you call auxiliary witches, except for Anna. ”

Agatha suddenly felt a crack in the long-formed concept. She thought she was tolerant enough of mortals, and she was even ostracized by the Secret Society because of this. But now it seems that I haven't done enough?

Was the Federation wrong all along? Is the prince right...... Mortals can defeat the devil.

But if the collaboration between witches and mortals can burst out with such great power, why did the first battle of divine will still end in a fiasco?

Questions kept popping up in her mind, and Agatha felt extremely confused.

......

When the fortress cannon spewed flames continuously, Tilly felt a strong shock.

Although she had witnessed the artillery bombardment of the beasts from the city walls, the shortcomings of those firearms were also obvious - they were difficult to hit at long range, they could not attack downward when they were close, and they were only best used at medium range. However, the reload speed is slow, and when dealing with agile hybrids, it is likely that the enemy will be at the foot of the city wall before the fire is ignited.

In addition, in order to quickly charge fire, a gun crew needs five to ten people to operate, as long as one link goes wrong, it will affect the operation of the weapon. Moreover, when igniting, someone needs to take care of the fire source, and when the heavy rain comes, the field artillery may not be able to play any role.

However, Roland's newly developed fortress gun completely lost these shortcomings.

The charge from the rear made it possible to lower the muzzle of the gun than the tail of the gun, the range of fire at close range was greatly increased, the rate of fire was increased several times, and the personnel was reduced to three people. At the same time, it does not need to be ignited by open flames, which means that it can be fought in bad weather, and the attack range is far superior to that of trebuchets, which is fully worthy of the epoch-making weapon in Roland's mouth.

Although it currently requires the power of a witch to craft, Tilly believes that this is only a temporary situation - Sylvie's observations can prove that the burst weapons that were once only available to the chief knight are now distributed to every soldier, and Anna only needs to make a batch of equipment dedicated to the production of this weapon, and the specific casting and assembly can be done by the workers themselves.

Seeing Ash and Andrea's expressions, they knew that the fortress cannon was also unimaginable for them.

It's nice to have such allies, but the feeling of being an older brother has become even more distant.

She even felt that the other party was far ahead of her.

This feeling made Tilly slightly disappointed.

If only he could have been more honest.

......

Roland saw that the cannonballs that he had managed to make up were consumed in the blink of an eye, and his heart ached. Even so, he still had to pretend to be unfathomable to hide the reluctance in his heart.

This was not a test firing of the new artillery in the true sense of the word.

In order to achieve the effect of the demonstration, he had Iron Axe transfer a team of elite artillery from the artillery battalion, and began a simulated shooting practice a few days in advance, during which two rounds of live ammunition were fired. This time it's just a show of power for witches to watch.

The shooting went smoothly and the results were satisfactory - at least from the shocked look on Agatha's face, the artillery performed beyond her expectations.

However, for Roland, the actual firing effect of this fortress cannon is far from qualified.

Except for the sacred caliber of 152 mm, all other parts of it are far from the 152 in reality. With Anna's precision machining capabilities, combined with Lucia's elemental purification, and finally Sylvie to supplement the metal flaw detection link, he could theoretically create a modern mature artillery in the true sense of the word, rather than an imitation with a range of only seven or eight kilometers.

It's all about the details.

At the moment, its medicine room is too small.

Considering the weight of the fixed ammunition, Roland deliberately reduced the volume of the chamber, resulting in an insufficient charge of the shells. Despite its slender barrel of forty times diameter, the range is not ideal.

The other point is to launch * drugs.

Since nitrocell* glycerin was still being tested, the shells were all nitrocellulose, which was why Roland was distressed - a few shells consumed enough nitrocellulose to fill thousands of rounds. In addition, these smokeless propellants* are not gelled, which is equivalent to a further reduction in charge.

In the end, the shell itself is still an enlarged version of the bullet, the warhead has no charge, the lethality depends on kinetic energy, and missing the target means zero damage, and at this stage it can only be used to attack some slow-moving enemies.

In short, there is still a long way to go if you want to achieve barrage coverage and artillery washing.

However, Roland felt that time might not be as abundant as he had originally hoped.

Ever since he learned that the transformation of the magic stone actually originated from the devil, the warning in his heart has become stronger and stronger.

If the devil also has his own technology, will it also appear in a certain period of time when the level of technology has advanced by leaps and bounds?

. (To be continued.) )