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Chapter 163 Imitation Musket
The king spoke, regardless of whether Gehrig and others were willing or not, they were escorted to the royal blacksmith shop.

The Royal Blacksmith Shop was built in the northern area of ​​the palace hall, where there were many chimneys, and thick black smoke curled up.

Before Glick and the others approached the blacksmith shop, they saw small chimneys about one meter high, and there were ten columns of black smoke in ten chimneys.

The Templar who escorted them saw the complex expressions of the merchants and thought they were shocked. The Paladin said proudly:
"See the ten chimneys, right? That's the Royal Blacksmith Shop area, where iron, steel, and forging are integrated. The refined plate armor of the Royal City is produced here. There are absolutely no blacksmith shops on such a large scale in other towns."

The small businessman next to Glick shook his head and said in a dazed way: "What's the matter, the chimneys in Tomorrow Town are much taller than this, and they occupy a very large area."

"Nonsense, I have no experience." The Templar stared angrily, never believing that other towns are more powerful than Wangcheng.

The smithy here covers an area of ​​several hundred square meters, with ten large furnaces smelting at the same time, providing one-stop service for iron smelting and iron forging, which is much more efficient than other smithies.

"He really didn't lie. The chimneys in Tomorrow Town are more than [-] meters high, at least seven or eight stories high." Glick sighed slightly.

The guard of the Wang Ting opened his nostrils and blew his beard suddenly, feeling very angry.

"You guys save this and tell the blacksmith." The guard's lips were not strong enough, and he stopped arguing with them after roaring loudly.

"What are you talking about, the chimney in Tomorrow Town is seven stories high?"

A lion man ran out in front of him shirtless, with a surprised expression on his face, mostly suspicious.

Seeing the shirtless lion-bearded orc, the guards of the royal court immediately found a savior and shouted loudly: "Master Bru Blacksmith, come and judge. How can there be chimneys seven or eight stories high in this world, right?"

Bruce is the number one blacksmith in the Royal Blacksmith Shop. He is already 50 years old. His beard under his mouth is still black and thick, his arms are muscular, his face is red and his body is strong.

Glick was stunned. It was the first time he saw the first blacksmith in Lionheart City, and it turned out that Bruce was an awakened one.

If it weren't for the awakened ones, it would be impossible to maintain such a strong body at the age of 50.

"It's not that we can't build a seven or eight-story chimney in the royal city, it's just that it's very difficult to make. However, the function of the chimney is only to exhaust the smoke. This is not the point, the point is the stove."

As Bruce led Glick into the blacksmith shop, he said to himself: "Recently, I discussed with several old blacksmiths whether the vertical furnace is better or the horizontal furnace. There is an ironworks on the outskirts of Wangcheng. Blast furnaces make iron more efficiently and have more firepower."

Glick and the others couldn't understand at all. As for the imperial guards, they just rolled their eyes, turned and left, and stopped following up in the blacksmith shop to listen to Bruce's long speech.

After Bruce finished speaking, he asked again: "Have you entered the blacksmith shop in Tomorrow Town again? How high are their furnaces?"

Glick and the others shook their heads hastily. They had no chance to enter the ironworks at all. There were guards on the outside to prevent outsiders from entering.

Bruce didn't expect them to enter the secret place of Tomorrow Town, so he turned around and led people into the imitation workbench area, where a few awakened ones and more than two dozen ordinary lions worked together.

Dangdang.

In front of the workbench, the lions were shirtless, and they took a big hammer to hit the red-hot iron block, knocking it into its proper shape.

Bruce took the person to a forging table, and Bruce picked up a large iron pipe that had already been struck, and asked several lion men to look at it to see if the shape was correct.

Glick held the iron pipe in his hand. It felt heavy and textured. It should be good steel.

"Lord Bruce, a flintlock is a hollow tube that has been pierced through." Glick didn't know how to make a gun.

"Don't worry, His Majesty has allocated funds recently. The theoretical waterwheel boring machine has been built, and the gun barrel is being drilled now, but the drilling is a bit slow. Everyone needs to wait." Bruce turned around and took a few people out of the palace. The big river southwest of Lionheart City.

A large waterwheel house was erected on the bank of the river. There were complicated mechanical equipment in the room. When the waterwheel turned, the boring machine started to run, and the drilling tool was pushed through the mechanical movement to drill the gun barrel vigorously.

The water wheel grinds a bit slowly, and only half of the drill was drilled after a whole day. The drill bit was broken during the drill, and a new drill was replaced.

It was not until the next day that the barrel was drilled through. Glick put the barrel in front of his eyes, and saw some uneven holes in the round hole.

He didn't know what happened to the barrel of the gun in tomorrow's town. He saw the shooting process, but he couldn't see whether the inside of the barrel was round or not.

Next, we come to other counterfeit parts of the gun, such as the mechanical device for igniting the black powder. Based on the memories of several people, experienced craftsmen speculated that the firing device used the mechanism of flint friction to generate sparks to ignite the black powder.

The craftsmen in the Royal Blacksmith Shop basically have more than 20 years of forging experience, and they are proficient in designing various ironware and mechanisms, and they are proficient to the point of inferring other cases from one instance.

It is not difficult to turn the flint through mechanical motion to generate sparks, but the difficulty is to use something to accumulate thrust and use it to push the flint.

"I always feel that a certain key is missing..." The blacksmiths researched and studied, and got stuck.

In fact, they are short of springs. Springs are hard to say, but none of the craftsmen thought about elastic steel.

"Hey, even if we can't make a flintlock firing mechanism, we can use other methods to replace it. Anyway, its function is only to ignite gunpowder." The big blacksmith proposed a second-rate solution.

The rest of the orcs immediately got out of the misunderstanding of their thinking, and felt that their eyes suddenly became clear.

Yeah, there are other ways to ignite besides the flintlock mechanism.

In less than a few minutes, the clever blacksmiths in Wangcheng quickly came up with a matching fire rope to ignite the mechanical device.

Since the percussion device has been solved, the bullet problem is also easy to solve.

Blacksmiths with a lot of forging experience have research experience on the softness and hardness of various minerals. After the joint efforts of dozens of blacksmiths, they found that lead ore is very suitable for making round bullets.

Lead metal is soft and easy to process, and it has other insidious uses. The craftsmen smiled knowingly, feeling that they had found a treasure.

In less than a day, the round bullet cast from the lead solution was finished.

Through the efforts of all members of the Royal Blacksmith Shop, the Royal Blacksmiths worked together to make the matchlock gun and finally came out.

Glick had five days to forge it before returning to the royal city. After returning to the city, he stayed in the Royal Blacksmith's shop for four consecutive days. Using a lot of manpower and material resources, it took a total of nine days to quickly make a gun. The quality is naturally not much better.

But the emphasis is on imitation. If the first musket is successfully imitated, the king can use the power of the whole country to manufacture guns.

"The blacksmiths all over the country make guns for me. I don't believe that they are slower than Tomorrow Town." The king said.

Glick and other merchants also feel that the Lionheart Kingdom can still be saved after these days of joint efforts, and the weapons in Tomorrow Town are not terrible.

As long as they are given time, Wangcheng can also arm a musketeer team of hundreds of people.

(End of this chapter)