Outworld: Rise of an Industrial Empire

Su Xincheng,

the city lord's mansion After getting the hint of thunder, Su Zheng quickly returned to the city and locked himself in the study.

"How did I forget about such a grenadier..."

Su Zheng rummaged through the paper while checking the information displayed by the bracelet.

"Grenades, that's a good thing!" "Grenades

can be said to be the simplest to make, the least material required, and the most powerful thermal weapon in firearms.

For example, the earliest gourd flying thunder is to hollow out the inside of the gourd and add black powder and stones, which is the most primitive fragment grenade.

This almost does not require any craftsmanship at all, as long as the materials are ready, they can be rubbed out with bare hands.

Therefore, in the early days, grenadiers played an important role in firearms units, and it was not until later that grenadiers gradually changed their weapons from grenades to rifles, but they still retained the title of grenadiers, and even became synonymous with infantry combat units.

Su Zheng remembered that the ancient grenadiers in the movie used a kind of iron ball, which could be used as a flowering bullet for a cannon and thrown at it.

Su Zheng did not intend to design it like this, but wrapped it in coarse cloth and clay paper, and then used something to prop it into a ball, such as iron wire, to minimize the cost. It contained gunpowder and iron filings, exposing the lead and leaving a long rope.

The design work of the grenade was very simple, and Su Zheng only took ten minutes to complete it.

Then Su Zheng began to do 'radio gymnastics'.

Su Zheng made a model of the same quality of sand, went to the backyard of the city lord's mansion, and threw the grenade model in various poses, trying to find a way to throw it, which could not only be learned quickly, but also not easy to make mistakes, and could also throw farther postures and movements.

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"Hey, Chris, I'm looking for you, come with me. Su

Zheng, who was sweating profusely, returned to the mansion and was about to have someone call Chris, when he happened to meet Chris who was in a hurry.

"Your Highness, the lord of Ted City is dead!"

"Dead? yes, I lost an arm and lost too much blood... Wait a minute... Who's dead?"

Su Zheng stopped and looked at Chris and asked, and Chris repeated again,

"The Lord of Ted City is dead.

After making sure that he heard correctly, Su Zheng was stunned for a moment, and then hugged his hands to his chest and asked with a smile:

"Hey, hey, how did he die?"

"It is said that when he fled in a panic, he accidentally fell off his horse and was trampled to death by the panicked cavalry guards. Hearing

this, Su Zheng laughed:

"Hahahaha, this... The way to die is too funny, isn't it!Oh, it's okay now, Ted City is going to be messed up!

" Chris nodded in agreement

, "Yes, the lord of Ted City has four sons, and they are not on good terms with each other, and as soon as the lord of Ted dies, they will immediately fight among themselves."

Su Zheng crossed his hands on his hips, thought for a moment and said

, "Okay, let Thunder move forward and be stationed in the territory of Ted City, we will collect their grain and grass on our behalf, and when we have the opportunity, we can capture Ted City!

"Look, how about it, I tried it, I can throw it out at most twenty or thirty meters! If I have received enough physical training, I can even throw forty or fifty meters!"

Chris took the drawing and looked at it, the process of the grenade is very simple, there are only a few schematic diagrams and a few lines of text on the drawing.

Unlike in the past, this time the entire production process only needs one person to complete, and Su Zheng did not add any security process, seeing this, Chris asked suspiciously:

"Is this ..... Let a person know the whole production process? Don't you need some secrecy measures?"

Su Zheng waved his hand and said:

"No, this grenade is just a bag of gunpowder and stones made of paper and cloth, and a person can figure it out when he sees the finished product, so why bother with increasing the workload." By the way, remember, when making it, the craftsmen have to touch the iron rod inserted in the soil every step of the way!" This

simple grenade is made in a simple way, first with coarse cloth and paper wrapped in gunpowder, and then with cloth to wrap the stone.

"Okay, I see!"

Chris retired after putting the drawings away.

Su Zheng stretched his waist, a wave of sleepiness hit, he was running around all day today, and he lost a grenade for a while, Su Zheng felt a little tired for the first time.

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The news of the death of the lord of Ted City immediately spread throughout the surrounding city-states, and for a while, the surrounding city-states were eyeing Ted City.

And the news that Su Zheng had invited more than a dozen magicians also spread all around, and even spread to the nearby Clair Kingdom, and the king of the Clar Kingdom immediately sent it to the imperial court.

On the eighth day after the end of the Battle of Dongzhai, the Imperial Court sent news to Suxincheng and the surrounding city-states that the Imperial would send cabinet ministers to investigate the situation and mediate the dispute.

When the city-states learned the news, they immediately put away their thoughts about Ted City, and originally both Lingfeng City and Duotu Port sent soldiers to occupy several outlying villages in Ted City, and as soon as they heard the mediation of the Imperial Cabinet, they immediately withdrew their soldiers.

But Su Zheng was the only one who did not order the withdrawal of the troops, and not only that, but pushed the team all the way to the village only 3 kilometers away from Teide City.

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In the past week or so, Su Zheng has reintegrated the team.

First of all, the cavalry brigade expanded to 200 people, and Su Zheng canceled his elite guards, and with He Jing here, there was no need for the guards to exist.

The captain of the cavalry brigade was Li Zhen.

The infantry expanded to 1,500 men, and Su Zheng planned to train all of them as grenadiers.

Su Zheng planned to remove all the armor of the cavalry and infantry, and pull all the chain mail and heavy armor, Pu knives and heavy guns back to the furnace and smelt them to make cannons.

Until the new uniforms are designed, leather armor will be used as the team's equipment, and weapons will be partially iron-sworded, except for grenades.

However, these actions have to be coordinated by the ministers sent above. Now it is also necessary to make these equipment covered.

This also gave Su Zheng a bit of a headache, sending people from above, this grind and that grind, it would take two or three months to solve the problem, which seriously hindered the development of Su Zheng.

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Nine days after the news came from the Empire, 17 days after the end of the battle, the Cabinet Ministers arrived at Teide.

When the news spread to the surrounding city-states, everyone was surprised, you must know that the imperial capital is 600 kilometers away from here, according to the past, just the mediation ministers have to grind on the road for more than 20 days, but this time it contains the news to the imperial capital, and the cabinet ministers came from the imperial capital, it took less than 20 days in total.

And what shocked everyone even more was that it was the prime minister of the empire who came over this time, and it was the existence of this country above 10,000 people under one person!

. In the city lord's mansion and in the council chamber, after receiving the news that the prime minister had personally arrived in Tide City, Su Zheng immediately summoned his henchmen to discuss.

Su Zheng paced back and forth in the hall, and Su Zheng was quite shocked and worried that the prime minister came in person.

"Why did the Prime Minister come here in person, could it be that we have more than a dozen magicians?"

In response to Su Zheng's question, Chris shook his head and said

, "Unlikely, Your Highness, if there are so many magicians stationed in our territory for a long time, this can attract the attention of the Empire, after all, it may threaten their dominance." But if you just help a campaign, you won't pay attention to it.

"Could it be that the firearms were exposed? No one, except for a few of us, no one knew about the gunpowder, and everyone thought it was a magician's magic weapon. "

Chris and Lei Ming Su Zheng absolutely believe it, it must not be them, and apart from them, only He Jing knows about gunpowder.

Thinking of He Jing, Su Zheng stopped, glanced at He Jing, and then pondered.

He Jing was stunned by Su Zheng's glance, she understood that Su Zheng was doubting herself, even if she didn't suspect that she had revealed the news of gunpowder, she also suspected that the imperial prime minister came over in person and had something to do with her, but He Jing knew very well that the imperial prime minister came in person and had nothing to do with herself.

He Jing wanted to say that this matter really had nothing to do with him, but this initiative seemed to be quibbling.