A weapon that allows ordinary people to defeat transcendent witches?

After Wendy left, Agatha had been thinking about it, did they really know what a transcendent person was?

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When she was about to get impatient, Nightingale appeared at the door of her room, "Your Highness has invited you to visit the test firing of the new weapon, if you don't want to—"

"I'll go," she said in a deep voice, "lead the way." ”

Seeing Prince Roland with a worried face and yawning, Agatha suddenly had the urge to throw him on the ice slag and let him sober up. However, this kind of behavior, which is easy to cause misunderstanding among other witches, can only be thought about in the end.

Outside the castle, she had seen the town for the first time during the day.

Against the backdrop of heavy snow, the first thing that catches my mind is the neatness of the neat two-storey houses, all of the same size, with their white silhouettes and red brick sloping roofs in perfect harmony. The black streets are all straight back, dividing the town into squares of similar size, and when you look at it from near to far, the scenery is completely a cycle of buildings, trees, streets, trees, and streets, as if they were layered on top of each other.

Even Tachira, the inner city can't be so neat and orderly!

However, she felt that there was no other building in the town other than the castle that was worth a second glance, and even the castle itself was nowhere near as grand as the tower of exploration in Tachira.

After all, it's just a small town, Agatha snorted disdainfully and turned her head to look at the nightingale, "How many people live here?"

"Hmm...... At the beginning, there were only about 2,000 people, but now there are nearly 30,000 displaced people from the north and south. ”

2,000 people dare to say that they want to defeat the devil, but they are simply fools - wait, three...... Thirty thousand?Agatha's eyes widened, Tachira could only accommodate 50,000 people at its peak, and this palm-sized place could have 30,000 inhabitants?

While these boxy brick houses do seem to be able to accommodate more residents than wooden bungalows, the increase in inhabitants is not simply a matter of numbers. Once the population exceeds a certain threshold, the demands placed on the city multiply. First, the demand for food and drinking water has increased dramatically, secondly, the deterioration of security caused by the sprawl of shacks and slums, and finally even the disposal of manure has become a problem.

In the latter part of the Second War of the Divine Will, Tachira encountered such a problem - as the major cities fell, the number of people pouring into the Holy City surged, and the overcrowded population not only did not strengthen its defenses, but almost paralyzed the entire city, until the Federation forcibly cleared out a group of refugees to stabilize the situation.

It was through her own experience that she knew the difficulties of expanding the population of a city. Seeing the other party's casual appearance, she was suspicious in her heart, maybe the nightingale didn't know the answer at all, but was just coaxing herself.

In the future, it would be better to ask Wendy for this kind of question, she thought, at least the latter's attitude seemed more sincere.

Passing through the crowded streets, Agatha followed the prince and the others up a section of the wall made of dirt. The low walls are completely unassailable, barbed, and surrounded by moats. The devil doesn't even need engineering equipment, he can climb up with his hands and feet alone.

The disappointment in her heart was only added to the point.

Every hundred paces or so, the walls of the city wall were provided with a relatively large platform protruding from the front and back, which seemed to have been left behind for the erection of bed crossbows. After walking along the top of the wall, Agatha quickly saw the subject of the test.

The weapon's shape is so special that it's hard to ignore its presence.

It was a long tubular object made of metal, a bit like an iron spear magnified several times, but it didn't have a spear tip. It is smooth all over, with a silvery-gray look that does not look like iron. The tail end of the long tube is more complex, with two shorter tubes attached to the main pipe in addition to the fixing bracket, with neither ropes nor arrow grooves, and it does not look like a large bed crossbow or trebuchet on the outside.

But she also didn't figure out how this thing was going to attack the enemy.

"This is the latest weapon developed in the border town, the 152-mm fortress standard gun that symbolizes justice and glory!" the prince raised his hand and said, "Compared with the twelve-pounder field gun, it has many improvements, and all kinds of indicators are outstanding, it can definitely be called an epoch-making weapon!"

Agatha couldn't help frowning, what justice and glory, fortress standard type, it sounds very frivolous. The series of introductions that follow are extremely awkward, and they are completely hard-spelled words. Is he really the erudite prince that Wendy calls and is trusted by witches?

"Bang bang," only the nightingale applauded, and the atmosphere seemed a little stiff for a while.

"Ahem," Roland cleared his throat, "so without further ado, let's test fire now." Iron axe, let's get started. ”

"Yes, Your Highness. The three men in uniform sprang into action.

Agatha stood aside, staring intently at the men's every movement, hoping to get a sense of how the weapon worked.

One person slid down the iron block at the end of the long pipe, and the other immediately shoved an orange-yellow pointed object into the pipe, and then closed the iron block.

"Report, ready to launch!"

"Cover your ears," said the prince, with a gesture of demonstration, "fire." ”

Wait...... Ready so soon?Agatha was about to open her mouth to ask, when a loud bang suddenly exploded in her ears! The front of the metal long pipe erupted in an orange-red flame, dazzling and short-lived, and at that moment, she felt the powerful power contained in the flames, and the city wall under her feet seemed to tremble, and a wave of heat rushed towards her, and her body almost couldn't stand and took two steps back. The cannon itself slammed backwards - but soon it was back in place smoothly.

The nightingale held her up from behind, as if to say something, but she could only faintly hear staccato whispers, as if they were coming from far away...... It wasn't until the humming subsided that the hearing returned to normal, "Are you alright?"

She shook her head and looked at the empty snow ahead, but saw no change.

Could it be that this flame is only meant to intimidate the enemy?

"Have you seen the spot?" the prince asked a green-haired witch beside him.

"After smashing on a hill, the closest is the red flag," the latter looked at for a moment, "but still a lot farther away." ”

Red Flag?Agatha looked at Roland suspiciously, what the hell were they talking about?

Fortunately, His Royal Highness the Prince quickly answered her doubts, "This weapon can be used to shoot cannonballs, which you can understand as crossbow arrows, and use them against enemies who are still far away. In order to observe the range of the shelling, I had the lightning drop the colored flags every kilometer, and the red flag was already the last one, standing five kilometers away. He explained, "According to the dimensions you are familiar with, one thousand meters is almost more than 300 zhang, which is close to the distance of two miles. ”

Agatha froze in place, could it be that the other party meant that it had just sent the crossbow bolt that had been stuffed in it ten miles away? How did it do this without a rope or a charging mechanism? You must know that even a siege beast powered by magic can only reach a distance of three or four miles at its farthest distance. If he hadn't lied, he would have built a tall and thick wall, which, combined with this weapon, would have been able to stop the devil's attack.

But...... With such an astonishing range, it's not easy to fire a weapon once.

"I always feel like something is missing when I can't see where the shells are landing," the prince said, touching his chin, "Let's test three rapid flat shots to attack targets at close range." ”

. (To be continued.) )