Black Iron’s Glory

The 261th chapter of the shell that will explode

When Claude woke up, he felt his head hurt. This is the aftereffect of hangover. Last night with Verizolo, and the monk of the Gatesker, who drank a box of good wine, everyone was drunk, and Claude remembered that Captain Gates was first planted, but he lost consciousness. Former Vericro seems to be very clear. This guy, the amount of alcohol seems to be more advanced...

"What time is it?" Crowder asked. There is a strong smell of alcohol in the camp, which should be due to the lack of ventilation in the tent. After being drunk, Mai Jieke and the big man Ge Mi were afraid of catching a cold. They didn't open the windows and the curtains were ventilated, so the wine smells very flustery, and it smells a bit stinky.

"It's already four o'clock in the afternoon." McJack replied, he gave Claude a sobering soup, which was made with the orange peel and other herbs. It tastes strange, but it is very painful after treating hangovers. effective.

"Right, sir, the Lieutenant Colonel Lederfontein came. I saw you go to sleep and he left, but he told me to tell you that he decided to go back the next morning, because tomorrow he is going to visit a very important friend." McJack said.

Claude remembered that he saw Lieutenant Colonel Lederfontein and a woman playing hot before leaving the dance. It seems that Lieutenant Colonel Ledecak has found the object of his marriage. Tomorrow he should visit the woman's home. If this is the case, then go back together the next morning, anyway, you can catch up with the welcome night. I just have to be free tomorrow, buy more things and bring them back.

"Open the window and the curtain, and ventilate." Claude said that he had picked up the towel that Mai Jieke had handed over and wiped his face: "Is there a bathroom in the city? Go to take a shower at night."

"Yes, sir, not far from the military camp, there is a good bathroom after two streets, but I heard that the price is a bit expensive." Mai Jieke opened the window and rolled up the curtain again.

The fresh and cold air made Claude unable to fight a cold war, and the whole person was much more awake. I took the military uniform stacked on the bed and wore it and said, "It doesn't matter if you are expensive. Just keep it comfortable, it's better than staying in a military camp for a cold shower."

There will also be a bathhouse in the military camp, but it is not a bath but a flush. Although the bath water is not ice, it is also a cold for a while, and the hot bath is not necessary, and it is still possible to barely wash it. Claude decided to take a bath in the bathroom, at least the body would feel more comfortable.

"Right, Mai Jack, you called the big man Gemi to go to the camp of the Guards Corps to find Captain Verricko and Captain Gates, and said that I would invite them to dinner at night, and then ask them to go after dinner. Take a shower. This will make me think that both of them should have gotten up," Claude said.

There is no curfew in the city tonight, and I can play back later. After an hour or so, Verizro and Captain Mentask came. Verricko is still very spirited and can't see any drunkenness. Instead, Gatesker’s face was pale, and he walked a little bit, shaking his head and saying that he had drunk too much last night, and his head seemed to be very heavy.

However, his mind is still very clear: "Sorry, I have already let you pay for it last night. I still want to ask for it this evening. But let's say first, we can't drink any more at this dinner."

"Mc Jack, give Mentask a bowl of hangover soup," Claude said.

"Yes, sir, just fine, please wait." Mai Jieke went out.

Verricko laughed: "Nothing, let him ask, this guy is a big rich, there is money around. I have a hard time meeting him, this time must kill him."

Hey, how does this guy in Verricko know that he has money? When Claude remembers that he had not used real estate to make money in the town, Verizro had already left White Hare Town with his father and sister, and both went to Wangdu.

Verricko seems to know Claude's question: "Boa told me that he received a letter from his father, knowing that you made a lot of money in the town to buy land and build a house. He was very annoyed and said that he should not be so early. Leave Bailu Town, otherwise you will be able to make a big deal with you."

So, Crowder laughed: "Some things may be wrong, perhaps because he joined the Bungagar Police Camp, so he can now be stationed in the rear. If you stay in Bailu Town, maybe like our classmates, Being conscripted into the second-line legion, security cannot be guaranteed. This is a mistake."

McJack quickly sent a bowl of hangover soup, and Mentask yelled and blew, and sipped hot. Then he complained: "Or you are a hard-working fighter. You don't know. The hard-working soldier who gave me the camp is too lazy. If he didn't tell him, he will not do it. He told him to do something and always lose three. Pull four, perfunctory in the past. Often I wait until I have no clothes to wear, I found that he has hidden all the clothes I have replaced, to avoid being seen by me to urge him to wash.

And greedy, often go to give me a meal when I am going to eat, and then I left two pieces of bread, and also lied to me that what the canteen did not make a side dish today, gas is mad at me. Repeatedly teaching does not change, the whip is useless, and the dead skin is resistant to fight. I asked the battalion to change me. The battalion said that he was not suitable for being a soldier, so he became my serviceman. I think I should be able to change one for me this time..."

Claude smiled, this is a very normal thing. The army often assigns those who are out of the army who are not suitable for being soldiers to serve as officers. At the beginning of the Blue Feather Legion, the squadron of the treatment facility of Claude was all the recruits who were eliminated. In other legions, those people are also playing the role of hard work in the army. It is not uncommon for Captain Mentask to say such a serviceman. Many officers simply do not need any servicemen, and any trivial things are handled by themselves. .

"I was lucky. When he was pulled to be a soldier, Mai Jieke was not ready for the age, so he was sent to my men. Later I became a lieutenant and I was recruited to be my serviceman. Now he is not around for a long time. Leaving. If I can be promoted to a major in the future, I can make him my adjutant.” Claude said modestly: “Right, Vero, do you have a serviceman and a guard?”

"No." Verricko shook his head. "I am used to doing everything myself. I don't like other people's personal things. I don't have any guards, but I have deputies when I am on the battlefield. The guys look good. The shooting method is not bad, I didn’t come over with me this time."

In fact, the current rank of Mai Jieke is already a non-commissioned officer. The last time Lieutenant Colonel Lederfang also asked him, would rather not go to another squadron as a small captain, but McJean said that he would rather be a part of Crowder’s side. I am used to being together and really not willing to separate. However, Claude has been promoted to the rank of captain. If he becomes the acting battalion commander, he can bring a small team of guards nearby, and then he can let McJeke be the captain of the guard team.

The trio talked for a while, and McGee came in and reported that the carriage of the best blue ice sea hotel in Pacasia City had sent the shuttle bus. This is Claude to let the big man Gemi go to Verigro and Mentask to go to the banquet to get a definite reply, then let Jackie take a carriage to the Blue Ice Hotel, book a box. Now the time is almost up, the Blue Ice Hotel has sent a carriage to meet, this service is really good.

McJack followed Claude into the carriage of the carriage, while the big man Gemi was sitting next to the coachman. After arriving at the blue ice sea, Claude and Verizro, Mentask smashed into the private room on the second floor, and Mai Jack and the big man, Gemi, had a table downstairs, and Claude did not treat him. I will forget both of them. In the evening, the big man has a good taste.

The three of them talked while eating, and somehow talked about the weapons and equipment of the kingdom army. Captain Mentask made a big complaint in this regard. He believed that the former kingdom had gone a long way in the study of armaments. Fortunately, it has finally changed. He refers to the emergence of the Obash three-type arquebus. In the previous kingdom, the study of the munitions was how the muskets were shot farther, the coverage was larger, and the barrels were used more completely, completely neglecting the real needs of frontline officers and men.

The artillery research is the same. It only knows that it can make a cannon that can fire bigger and heavier real-fired artillery shells, and strives to destroy the enemy's defense facilities, but forgets to reduce the weight of the artillery. In order to withstand a larger amount of gunpowder explosion, the result is that the gun is getting thicker and heavier, and the maneuverability of the artillery is getting worse. The current siege gun is really powerful, but because it is too heavy, the speed is very slow, sixteen horses. The horse can barely pull, and it can only move up to seven or eight miles a day. It also needs to be flat, and several batches of horses are needed for hauling.

Captain Mentask complained, why can't he think of a way to shoot on a shell, and can't make a bomb that can explode, except for live ammunition and shots? If the shells can explode, the power of the artillery can be increased by countless times, and the siege will become very easy, without the need to use the soldiers' lives and blood to fight to capture the enemy's position...

Claude also did not understand how the world's firearms research went astray. The musket has always been a fire rope ignition device, studying how the range is played the farthest, ignoring the precise aiming shot. The artillery research is how to launch bigger and heavier solid iron pellets, but forget to work **** the shells. Captain Mentask said that he had written two letters to the artillery research department of the kingdom, and stated his ideas in the letter, hoping to create a bomb that could explode. But I have not received a reply, it is likely that his letter was thrown in the trash can...

Unfortunately, I don't know how to study it, otherwise I will also research out a kind of explosive cannon popping out at my own expense... Mentask captain said that he was forced to create a simple stone throwing device that throws a gunpowder barrel. Then ignite the fire rope above the gunpowder barrel and throw the gunpowder barrel out. I did not expect to get the Knight Medal. Because the distance is too close, the soldiers and casualties of his knees are very big when he attacks each time. When he thinks of the soldiers who have suffered casualties, he feels that it is very difficult for him to wear this Knight's medal on his chest.

Perhaps because of the monopoly of knowledge, Claude remembered the two basic courses, physics and chemistry that were not available in the country. Even if people have ideas in their minds, they don’t understand their basic principles, and they can’t turn their whimsy into reality. Just like Captain Gatessk, he wanted to make a shell that could explode, but he didn't have the relevant knowledge. He couldn't start with research.

I have an idea now... Captain Gatessk said that if the solid cannonball is changed to hollow, it is filled with artillery, revealing a fire rope, first igniting the fire rope, then stuffing it into the barrel and launching it, then hit the target. I don’t know if I can explode...

This is a good idea. Maybe the flowering bomb was invented like this. In Claude’s mind, there are countless artillery pieces in the past, but now the world is still the kind of front-end artillery. He just wants to talk to people and then pretend. No one believes in the bombs, let alone any howitzer rockets. If you say more, you may be treated as a madman.

It’s just that Claude doesn’t understand how the previous artillery shells were made. He didn’t look up on the whiteness, and no one told you how to make a qualified shell. He knew that Captain Mentask was right, but unfortunately his principle of the flowering bomb was not clear, and it would be impossible to start research. However, he encouraged Ms. Mentask to go back and do more research. Previously, many scientific inventions and creations were related to war. It was the war that promoted the advancement of human science and technology.

After spending two hours eating the meal, Claude took Verizolo and Captain Mentask to the bath in the expensive bathroom. Soon he understood why this bathroom is more expensive, because when you are in the steaming bath, you will be surrounded by a cool and beautiful maid to help you clean and massage, and will also give you each Fruit snacks snacks and fine wines. If you need to relax, you can take your favorite maid to take a break in the small room next to it. Of course, this cost needs to be settled with the maid.

Claude refused the request of the maid around him to take him to the small room to rest, but Captain Mentas couldn't stand it and took the two maids to the small room. Verricko was lying in the bath with his arms wide open, allowing the maid to massage him on him.

"You don't take a break?" Crowder asked.

"No." Verricko snorted and replied: "There is no point. If you don't go to bed, you are full of women. After that, the whole person is empty and regrets. It can't lift the spirit. It is easy to shoot. It took two or three days to make a mistake, so I didn't like to touch a woman before I went to the battlefield."

"I found that you have changed a lot this time. The whole person has become a bit cold and looks very grim. It seems that he doesn't like talking more than he was when he was a child," Claude said.

"There is no way, you don't know. If you are on the battlefield and find it easier to shoot the enemy than to kill the pheasant when you are young, you will become like this. The enemy I am aiming at now is only in my eyes. A target that will be active, I don't think he is a living person like us. More than four hundred enemies are just a number that I killed."

Verricro's words made him laugh at the maid who was giving him a massage. Perhaps she thought that Verikoro was just bragging. How could she kill more than 400 enemies at a young age?

"You are too nervous, I think you should relax, now is the end of the year, you do not need to go to the battlefield." Claude shook his head slightly, he felt that Verricko should have got what battlefield syndrome.

Verricko did not answer, and after a while he said: "Claude, we will go back tomorrow. The order has been ordered. Let the officers of the Guards Corps all come to participate in the celebration to start the meeting at 9:00 tomorrow morning. Go back to camp."