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The second recruitment in the border town went much more smoothly than the first, thanks to the fact that the militia was able to distribute more and better food after the winter food ration. Every week, many team members secretly pass on the bread and jerky they saved on weekdays to their loved ones. Roland instructed Carter and the Iron Axe not to interfere in the matter, while the relatives happily brought the food home and spread the word to the neighbors.

A force made up of the people is an excellent propaganda example in itself. Neighbors talk to each other much more effectively than the town hall deliberately advertises. Most of the people in the old part of the town now knew about this - not only did the militia team formed by His Highness pay well, but they could eat three meals a day, and the battle against the evil beasts did not look so dangerous. Therefore, during the second recruitment, the number of people in the old district increased greatly, and even residents of the new district came to sign up.

The number of people who met the requirements was much higher than Roland's expectations, so the Second Militia expanded to 200 men, and Carter led the team in training on weekdays. When the trumpet sounded, they went to the city walls and stood by as auxiliaries.

Both the chief knight and the assistant minister had raised objections to this, and it seemed that the first militia was now capable of fighting against the evil beasts, and it was unnecessary to recruit a second team at this time, and the number of the first team was more than twice that of the first team. Food and salaries that are higher than the general population's ration will lead to an increase in the burden of fiscal expenditure, and the extra cost of the golden dragon will not have a significant effect.

But Roland stuck to his decision.

Because these people are not prepared to deal with evil beasts.

For the time being, he didn't dare to tell his subordinates about the plan he had in mind. Before the Duke could do anything, he had planned to attack the fortress - a thought that Carter and Barov would not be able to accept at all.

Unlike the Frontier Town, Changge Fortress is the official border of the Grey Keep Kingdom, and its walls are ten meters high, made of bricks and stones. The Duke and the six members of the Western Frontier were stationed in the inner city, and the number of troops that could be mobilized was estimated to be about 1,000. Theoretically, it was impossible to take a fortress in a siege by relying on a militia of less than 300 men on its own - even if it was armed with epochal muskets.

Due to the existence of the Divine Punishment Stone, the witch could not be used as a decapitation weapon, as Roland had repeatedly confirmed to the Nightingale. Prominent nobles such as Duke Ryan and the Six Families would certainly spare no effort when purchasing the Divine Punishment Stone—of course, to the outside world, it is called a donation. This kind of stone, which can only be obtained by donating a few to dozens of golden dragons, can ban the ability of witches within a certain range, and is the most powerful weapon that the church claims to have against the devil, and it is also where their biggest income is every year.

Roland's only chance was in the field.

Due to this era, wars between lords are mostly in the form of conscription. The subordinates who want to be gathered will not slip away halfway, and the lords will basically accompany the team to fight in person, which gives Roland the opportunity to carry out a war of annihilation. But how to seize this opportunity, he is still at a loss. After all, his experience in luring the enemy is all from film and television works or historical stories, and has never actually operated it.

Since he can't figure it out, it's better to do what he's good at first, he thought.

Roland stretched and walked out of the office, alone in the backyard wooden shed.

The assembled Steam No. 2 stood quietly in the center of the field. At first glance, it has a much smoother appearance than the first steamer, and the welds on the large parts are no longer as uneven as before. This is the work of Anna's new ability, her green fire can burrow into small crevices for welding, and the large pieces that are put together are more integral than ever.

In line with the R&D spirit that the follow-up model is stronger than the initial model and the magic model is stronger than the follow-up model, the second steam machine has been equipped with a centrifugal governor. As the first set of automatic control system and feedback system in human history, its emergence can be called of great significance. The structure of the governor is very simple, the main body is composed of two hinged rods with iron balls welded at the end and a rotating main rod, at first glance it looks like a bamboo dragonfly that I used to play with when I was a child. As long as the bamboo pole is rubbed quickly, the two rotating fan blades will automatically rise due to centrifugal force.

For the governor, the two iron balls are equivalent to the fan blades - the steam engine drives the main rod to rotate when it is working, and when the output is too high, the speed of the small ball accelerates, and gradually rises under the influence of centrifugal force, driving the pull rod to close the small valve. When the output becomes low, the ball speed slows down and the position is lowered under the influence of gravity, which increases the valve. Keep the steam engine running at a relatively constant power at all times.

Thanks to the speed controller, Steam 2 is now able to take on some of the more delicate machining tasks.

The gears that had been delivered to the blacksmiths were all completed and are now neatly placed in a corner of the shed.

If you want to look at it from the perspective of industrial assembly line production, none of these gears can be called qualified, and all of them are thrown into the defective product box and waiting to be returned to the furnace. But for this era, they are rare works of art – gears designed according to involutes are inherently harmonious, and the roulette wheel is soaked in lard and exudes a metallic sheen.

In addition to the gear set, the base and cushion cap for the carpenters are already in place, as well as other components. He asked the guards outside the door to summon Anna and begin assembling the first steam-powered boring machine.

In Roland's plan, this was the quickest way to mass-produce muskets.

Relying on a blacksmith to knock out a barrel by hand is extremely time-consuming and laborious, but with a boring machine, he can produce more than a dozen barrels a day by pouring iron rods and drilling them directly with a boring knife.

At the same time, by replacing the cutter head, the boring machine can also be used to cut rifling, and the shooting accuracy of flintlock guns with rifling will be further improved.

In this way, he was sure that he would be armed with two militia groups of nearly 300 men before the end of winter.

But Roland still couldn't guarantee that his people would be able to calmly reload and aim in the face of the knight's charge, rather than dropping their weapons and turning around. After all, these two teams have been established for too short a time, and they don't have any experience fighting others.

Therefore, he must put more firepower on the stage and completely crush the enemy before he can form a charge.

That's artillery.

As the god of war in the history of human warfare, the lethality and deterrence brought by artillery are not comparable to firearms. A six-pounder field gun with a range sufficient to attack while the opposing side is massing. It was impossible for a mixed army of this era to maintain discipline under artillery fire, and as long as it was armed with three or four field guns, the opposing side did not even have a chance to charge.

He had already planned step by step – with a manual milling machine, he would be able to produce a working gear, and with a gear and a controllable speed steam machine No. 2, he would be able to get a steam-powered boring machine. And with a steam boring machine, he was able to process all kinds of barrels and barrels.

There are at least two months left until the end of the Demon Moon, and as long as the plan goes well, the militia in Frontier Town will have the strength to compete with the Duke's army.

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