Every day this training lasted two to three hours, and when it was over, he would return to the walls and continue his old job. The guys in the same dormitory signed up for the musket team, and now they are carrying brand new muskets, standing behind themselves and showing off. If it weren't for the discipline that forbids fighting, Vanna would have sewed his mouth shut.

But he also saw that something was wrong.

The villagers who joined the musket team had only been training for a few days and had begun to hone their shooting skills in battle with the evil beasts, but the artillery team had not fired a single shell. Moreover, it is impossible to transport such heavy artillery to the city wall.

Look at the top of this wall, two people standing side by side almost blocked the aisle, usually everyone is used to running on the slope on the inside of the wall, even if it is a little steeper, it is better than hindering teammates from doing stabbing guns. As for the artillery...... The two wheels alone are wider than the top of the wall, and with the need to shoot downwards, it doesn't seem very practical no matter how you look at it.

Could it be ...... This thing isn't used against evil beasts?

The ensuing exercise confirmed Vanna's conjecture.

Four artillery groups were taken to the river by iron axes. He found that at some point, there was a huge "boat" in the Chishui River! No, ...... He wasn't sure if it was a ship, the outer shell looked like the stone on which the walls were built, wide and short, and where could it look like a ship except for two bare masts?

"This is obviously a pontoon bridge," the first to make up his mind was Yuzupi, who had followed the sailing ship carrying mines to the Changge Fortress, and often boasted of being well-informed, "The deck is a few feet wide, obviously for stability! I have seen a lot from south to north, and if it is a boat, how can it move without wind? In the past, this river had been flooded so much that it had washed away all the wooden bridges in the fortress for more than ten years. The people in the city replaced it with pontoon bridges, nailed a bunch of wide wooden planks to the flat boats, and then pulled up the iron cables to connect them in a row, how to walk and how to walk steadily!"

"The farthest I've ever been is the Changge Fortress, and I've traveled north and south," Rodney sneered, "If you need to build two masts on the pontoon bridge, you don't want to be blown away by the wind?"

"And if you look at the tail end, isn't it the steering wheel that is lying horizontally? Nelson said that the two brothers had always been out of one nostril, "and the wooden frame in the middle looks like a shed is going to be built, but it is not finished yet." It's a ship, there's no doubt about it. ”

Vanna wasn't interested in whether it was a ship or not, he only cared about the rest of the training. The answer was soon revealed, and Iron Axe asked them to catch the horses towing the gun wagons to the Town—yes, the name of the ship, and it was His Royal Highness the Prince himself. After listening to the introduction of the iron axe, Yuzupi's face suddenly stiffened, and the two brothers triumphantly tied the cannon wheels to the reserved barricade.

There are two sets of four such bars, located on the centerline of the deck, arranged one in front of the other. It is apparently possible to load two guns at once.

Well, Fanner thought, now they were sure that they weren't dealing with the Evil Beast - the Chishui River flowed from north to south, and there was no river so wide in the Hidden Forest.

The first time he stepped onto the deck, Vanna immediately felt its outstanding stability. The river flows along with the hull of the boat, and the stone boat does not move, as if it were standing on the ground. Only when the horses are caught up will they feel a slight swing.

He also noticed that whenever a group of artillerymen completed a round of embarkation and disembarkation exercises, the iron axe would record the time on the side. Linked to the barricade on the deck, it seems that only two of the four groups will come in handy. Vanna secretly told the group the news, and everyone immediately held their breath, using ten percent of their strength in each step. If you can't be kicked back into the pikee, it's still a trivial matter to lose face, and it's a big deal that the increased salary is gone!

On the seventh day, Vanna finally had the long-awaited live-fire training.

And on this day, His Royal Highness the Prince also came to the scene to watch the artillery exercises. The people in the four groups all held their chests high and walked with vigor.

Since everyone was familiar with the ammunition loading set, the first shot was soon fired by the Fanner team.

It was also the first time he had witnessed the power of artillery. With a deafening roar, a ball of iron twice as large as a fist landed in the snow a mile away, kicking up a large cloud of snow and mud, and bouncing forward and flying far away. And his naked eye could not catch the trajectory of the iron ball at all.

This made Vanna a little frightened in addition to excitement, how did His Royal Highness the Prince make such a terrible weapon? If he faced an artillery attack, even if he was wrapped in full body armor, it would probably be useless.

After each group fired a round, His Royal Highness ordered a flag to be planted at the first point of the cannonball, and a piece of hemp rope was intercepted from the flag to the muzzle. After four rounds, when it was the turn of the Vanna group again, he heard the command to change the muzzle angle of fire.

There is a turntable engraved with scales at the part where the two ends of the barrel are connected to the gun carriage, and the five scales of 0, 5, 10, 25, and 30 are marked on it, although I don't understand what this means, but just follow the instructions. The iron axe shouted, "Shoot the angle five!" The most powerful pomelo peel immediately pushed the cannon brush rod under the barrel chamber, pry the cannon from the tail end, and Fanner twisted the screw on the gun carriage until the first white carved line sank into the hole, and the pomelo peel released the cannon brush.

When the tail end of the barrel is withdrawn, it is slightly shorter than the original position, and the muzzle of the gun is raised upwards, indicating that the scale falls exactly on the figure 5.

This was followed by four rounds of shooting, planting flagpoles, intercepting ropes, and adjusting the angle of fire.

Vanner gradually understood what His Royal Highness was doing.

He was collecting the distance of each iron ball, and the greater the angle of the muzzle rise, the farther the iron ball landed.

Vanna knew this when he used his bow, and when he threw it upwards, he could shoot far away, and if he shot it flat, it would soon hit the ground. I didn't expect the same with artillery, it's just that because of its speed, it flies much farther. He couldn't help but wonder if the iron ball was fast enough to reach a certain level, would it never hit the ground?

On the banks of the Chishui River, the trial voyage of the town is also in full swing.

Considering that to use Wendy as a power, the personnel on board must be absolutely reliable. So Roland selected a group of politically competent men to be the first crew members of the town. The captain was Chief Knight Carter, the helmsman was Brian, Carter's attendants were responsible for raising and lowering the sails, and the messenger was Tiago Pine. These people often come into contact with witches, coupled with their own subtle and silent ideological transformation, they no longer have any prejudice against witches, and Tigu loves the house and Wu, and spreads his love for his daughter to the entire witch community.