The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"boom!"

A loud noise not far away was accompanied by a large amount of dust falling into the ditch, hitting Leo, pulling him out of the state of checking himself, and making him realize that this is not a good place to think about problems.

At this time, a figure suddenly rolled in from outside the ditch in a state of embarrassment, and when it fell to the ground, it cursed a few times in a native English language.

Although Leo was aware of this figure the moment it appeared, he didn't take defensive or attack actions, because he knew this figure, it was the bearded man who rescued him from the battlefield just now and dragged him to this bunker for treatment .

"Bless God, I knew that nothing would happen to you, Leo." The bearded man shook his head to shake off some of the dust on his head, and then saw Leo sitting on the dirt wall of the trench. A sincere smile appeared on his face in an instant, he stepped forward and hugged Leo, patted him on the back like an old friend, then let him go, and patted him on the shoulder equally, incomparably said happily.

Being treated so enthusiastically for the first time made Leo feel a little uncomfortable. He frowned, and secretly drove his sub-brain to search the memory fragments, and soon found the information about the bearded man.

This bearded man is Leo's comrade-in-arms, named Jason, because he is only a free citizen of the Kingdom of England, so he has no surname.

Just like Leo had to join the army in order to offset his debts, Jason also chose to join the army in order to offset his crime of robbery. As for the item he robbed was just a piece of bread.

Jason is a bit silly, with a single mind, and often does some inexplicable things, but his heart is not bad. Once he recognizes him as a friend, he will treat him sincerely, and even repay him with his life, just like him just now It was as if he ran to the battlefield to rescue Leo under the cannon fire all over the sky.

The reason why Leo was recognized as a friend by Jason was mainly because after Leo was assigned to a subordinate unit, he happened to see a few girls playing tricks on Jason. He is not a smart person himself, he has been bullied like this in the past, and he was deceived by others to end up in this situation, so after seeing this similar scene, a burst of resentment burst out, relying on his extraordinary physical fitness , stepped forward to teach those women a lesson, and was recognized by Jason as friends.

"Jason, you idiot, take it easy, my wound has just healed!" Leo said in the tone he remembered.

"Hehe!" Jason smirked, and his movements were much lighter.

"Thank you!" Leo thumped Jason's chest, and said sincerely, "If you hadn't taken the risk to get here, I might be dead by now."

"Hehe!" Jason had never heard anyone thank him before, and Jason didn't know how to respond for a while, so he could only pat the back of his head with a smirk.

Leo likes to get along with this kind of people who don't need any brains, because he doesn't have to worry about the knife coming from the back. In the past, most of the team members under his management were such people, so he also has the ability to get along with such people. Great experience in dealing with.

The most important thing to deal with this kind of people is to be straightforward, because if the words are too circumvented, the other party will find it difficult to understand, and even take some euphemistic words seriously, so after Leo said hello, he pointed to the outside of the trench and directly "What's the situation outside?" he asked.

"It's terrible." Jason put away the smile on his face, became serious, and said, "I heard from the guys from the Third Regiment that the First Army Command in Wine Barrel Town was taken away by the French hat Now, the blue hats have formed an encirclement circle to encircle this place, and the people of the third wing are preparing to break through and retreat, and I came to find you because I want to retreat together."

Hearing Jason's words, Leo just frowned slightly. Although it's not hard to hear that the situation here is tense from Jason's words, for someone like Leo who has experienced the interstellar battlefield, this kind of tension The current situation is nothing more than a trivial drizzle.

In this era where there is no technological means to assist in searching for the enemy, and one can only rely on the judgment of the eyes, no matter how tight the enemy's encirclement is, Leo can still easily find the loopholes in the encirclement and escape.

The problem now is that Leo doesn't know where to escape, because there is no knowledge related to geography in the memory fragments of the past, and he doesn't even know where the battlefield is located in the Faran Empire, so even if he escapes, he will not escape. You will be in a state of being lost, and maybe you will go in the wrong direction and throw yourself into a trap.

Thinking of this, Leo looked at Jason and shook his head. Obviously, with Jason's wisdom, it is impossible for him to know much about geography, so he shifted his gaze to the side and was still in a daze. on Dr. Nelson.

A well-educated Dr. Nelson should have a complete knowledge of geography, even if the knowledge is only on paper, but for Leo, it is enough to bring them out of the predicament.

Thinking of this, Leo moved to Dr. Nelson's side, stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder, trying to make his tone as sincere as possible, and comforted him: "Doctor, please be sorry! This is war, either you die or I die, everyone will die." It is possible to die in the next moment, all we can do is to live well."

"Huh! That's right, this is a damned war!" Dr. Nelson, who was depressed, recovered his breath, let out a breath of oppression in his chest, then gritted his teeth, and cursed fiercely.

"That's right, damn war!" Jason on the side also agreed and echoed loudly.

Seeing that Dr. Nelson had recovered, Leo directly repeated to him the current situation that Jason said just now, and asked, "Dr. Nelson, what do you think we should do now?"

Dr. Nelson was silent for a while, and asked Leo, "What are you going to do?"

Leo said directly: "If we continue to stay here, we will definitely be captured. I don't want to be a prisoner."

"I don't want to be a prisoner either." Jason shouted from the side.

Dr. Nelson remained silent for a while, when the artillery fire outside the trench suddenly stopped, only sporadic gunshots sounded from time to time.

Leo quickly made a judgment: "Their encirclement has been arranged, and the next step is that they will advance to the battlefield and tighten the encirclement."

Jason didn't feel anything about what Leo said, but Dr. Nelson looked at Leo in surprise. If Leo's method of treating trauma just now made him look at this young country boy with new eyes If so, then now Leo's analysis of the battlefield situation and the inference of the enemy's use of troops have shocked him, and he can't help but wonder about Leo's identity.

Judging from the ID card on Leo's military uniform, Leo should be just an ordinary person in Yorkshire in the countryside, but Leo's knowledge is no worse than those of the National Academy's associate bachelors, which is really hard to understand.

Leo asked urgently: "Dr. Nelson, have you made a decision? Should you stay or leave with us?"

A look of hesitation flashed across Dr. Nelson's face. Although he was a military doctor in the Kingdom of England, he himself was a registered doctor at the Villen School of Medicine. This status ensured that even if he was captured, he would not suffer any harm. He needs to wait until the war is over before he will be released back to China, so staying and not running around is his best choice now.

But for some reason, he felt that if he chose to flee the battlefield with Leo and the others, he might encounter some interesting things.

"Let's leave together! I don't like being a prisoner." Doctor Nelson had an inexplicable sense of trust in his intuition, coupled with his own adventurous character, which made him make an immediate decision.

"Well, now organize your belongings and search for all the things you can use. We don't know what we will need and what we will encounter on the way to escape, so it is best to make more preparations." See Dr. Nelson making a decision , Leo immediately arranged things, then took out a very old mechanical watch from his arms, looked at the time on it, and said: "Twenty minutes to prepare, when the time is up, whether you are ready or not, you must Leave immediately. Now, act!"

Dr. Nelson and Jason, who had never received such an order, were a little overwhelmed and didn't know what to do after hearing the order. Leo immediately set an example, resisting the pain from the abdominal wound, and walked quickly to the In the collapsed ruins bunker, look for all the things that can be used on the corpses.

Seeing the demonstration made by Leo, although the two were not used to picking things from the dead, they also felt that Leo was doing the right thing, so they stepped forward one after another, following Leo's way, looking for all the things that could be used. on something.

Perhaps the sealed medical gown and mask on his body were too much of a hindrance, and Nelson took off his clothes and mask, regardless of the possibility of infection, folded them carefully, and put them in the portable medicine he had just found. inside the bag.

Leo was a little surprised by Dr. Nelson showing his true face.

Nelson's slightly hoarse voice and his status as a medical school tutor made Leo feel that the other party should be very old, but in fact Nelson was very young, and he seemed to be only about 30 years old.

Although Leo is not very clear about how difficult it is to obtain the status of a tutor of Vinylon School of Medicine, judging from the special status of Vinylon School of Medicine in the world of Vinylon, it is obvious that it is definitely not an easy thing to become a tutor of a medical school.

Not only does it require extremely high medical skills, but it may also require a certain status.

At this time, Leo noticed an obvious scar on Nelson's neck. Judging from the scar, it should be an old wound, which is also the reason for his hoarseness.

Nelson seemed to be particularly sensitive to sight. Leo's gaze only rested on his neck for a while, and he was also sensed. In this regard, he just frowned, pulled up his collar to cover the scar on his neck, didn't say much, and continued to search for useful items.

Leo didn't ask either. After all, the relationship between the two parties is not good enough to interfere in each other's private affairs, and now is not a good time to discuss private affairs.

Leo, who returned his attention to the ruins of the bunker in front of him, quickly found a lot of useful things, such as unopened cans, intact medical kits, some coins of the Kingdom of Farland, a few daggers and sharp swords, and so on.

However, the most valuable thing he found was a set of mechanical repeaters with ten magazines from the corpse of an officer.

This set of mechanical crossbows is very precise, a large number of gears are meshed together, and some special devices that Leo can't understand the principle form a gorgeous killing weapon.

The continuous crossbow is not big, and can be picked up with one hand. After Leo found it, he adjusted it to a single-shot state and tested its power.

The palm-sized steel arrow shot from the crossbow easily pierced through a steel plate used for defense not far away, and with the remaining force, it could penetrate deeply into the soil.

"The power of this thing is much better than those shit guns!" Jason couldn't help showing envy after seeing the results of the experiment, and looked at the breech-loading gun in his hand with disgust.

Gunpowder weapons have been around for more than 300 years, and have been improving since the moment they appeared. Those in power hope to make this weapon a sharp weapon for siege.

But contrary to expectations, due to the shortage of gunpowder itself, gunpowder weapons have never been able to become the mainstream of weapons.

I don't know if it's because of the basic elements of this world, or because of other unknown mysterious forces. All in all, the gunpowder in this world is very unstable. The gunpowder with the same ratio sometimes fails to ignite, and sometimes the power of the explosion is far greater. in the quality of the gunpowder itself.

After quite a long period of research, finally someone was able to use an inhibitory additive to keep gunpowder, which often exhibits super-powerful power, within a relatively small range after erupting, solving this problem that often threatens gunpowder users and the surroundings. The big question of other people's lives.

It's just that, while solving a big problem, another problem of gunpowder stimulating disorder has never been able to find a solution, which makes gunpowder weapons often appear duds and the like.

For this reason, the armies of various countries can only use various off-the-board tricks to solve this problem.

In the early days, the armies of various countries simply asked soldiers to bring a few more guns. Once there were duds, they would change to another gun. When all the guns were used up, the enemy should not be far away.

Later, after someone invented the breech-loading gun and the magazine, the armies of various countries created another device. This device will allow the firearm to eject the impacted ammunition after it hits the ammunition, regardless of whether the ammunition is triggered. The next ammo comes up.

Usually a ten-round magazine can trigger at least one, two or even multiple bullets. Although the number of triggers is small, if there are a large number of firearms and equipment and large-scale concentrated shooting, it can still have considerable lethality, so now the armies of various countries will Equip this extremely unstable weapon.

In addition to these two methods, a few countries with highly developed civilizations on the three continents, such as the Kingdom of England and the Empire of France, also invented a special stabilizer.

This stabilizer can not only stabilize the power of gunpowder weapons, but also stabilize the triggering of gunpowder, so that the use of firearms is not much different from the use of gunpowder weapons in the old age of the earth.

However, the production of this stabilizer is not only complicated, but also the materials used are very rare, so the price is extremely expensive.

Due to the price problem, this kind of ammunition can only be equipped in a small amount, and most of them are supplied to the nobles of the kingdom and the high-level military.

In addition, strategic weapons such as steam tanks and steam warships in various countries will also be equipped with a special bomb with added stabilizers. For example, the shell that blew up the bunker just now is such a special ammunition.

Compared with firearms limited by gunpowder, the mechanical crossbow, which still uses mechanical principles to fire arrows, is the main weapon of the armies of various countries.

For example, the exquisite Locke crossbow that Leo is holding now.

The mechanics of the Rock Mechanics Academy in the Kingdom of England, who have brought mechanical gears to the extreme, miniaturized the powerful crossbows used for siege in ancient times, and equipped them with arrow boxes, which can shoot fifty arrow boxes in three minutes. It can penetrate steel plates within 200 meters and effectively kill within 500 meters. It was finally named the Locke Crossbow.

The repeating crossbow in Leo's hand is the Locke Type III repeating crossbow specially customized by the Locke Mechanics Institute for the British army. This type of crossbow is mainly based on range and lethality. There are also more advanced Locke II and Locke type one.

Even the hostile French Empire had to admit that the Locke Crossbow was one of the most lethal weapons in the entire Vinylon world.

However, this kind of crossbow also has disadvantages. The biggest disadvantage is that some precision gear parts are easily damaged if it is used continuously, and maintenance and replacement will be very troublesome. Only formal mechanics graduated from the School of Mechanical Engineering are able to replace and repair. In addition, the cost is expensive Also a disadvantage.

Therefore, the Kingdom of England does not purchase a large number of such crossbows, and distributes about ten sets to the first-level combat teams under each legion.

Compared with this kind of precision continuous crossbow, which is only a small amount of equipment, the armies of various countries are most often equipped with that kind of steam continuous crossbow.

This kind of steam crossbow first appeared in a naval battle between the Kingdom of England and the kingdom of Sigmar, the overlord of the ocean, more than two hundred years ago. The ship's steam crossbow, and designed a set of special naval warfare tactics for this purpose.

In the naval battle that controlled the world situation, the Marquis Grant relied on this set of steam crossbows and unique tactics to easily annihilate the first fleet of the Kingdom of Sigmar, which dominated the sea, thus making the Kingdom of England replace the Kingdom of Sigmar as the new sea ​​supremacy.

With the brilliant victory of this naval battle, the steam crossbow quickly came into the sight of all countries, and gradually moved from the sea to the land, and continued to be miniaturized. Now this steam crossbow has become a routine equipment for the army, almost All armies will be equipped with a lot of equipment, and they will be equipped with different arrows for different terrains and tactics.

For example, now that the battlefield has begun to enter the stage of harvesting and sweeping, in order to clear the resistance forces in the trenches, the steam crossbow troops of the Faran Empire will be specially equipped with a kind of burning arrows aimed at the trenches.