Spellcaster of Azeroth

Chapter 46 Walker's Musket

Chapter 46 Walker's Musket
Early the next morning, Wayne, Balka, and Kalia came out of the room and went down to the first floor.At this time Walker was already waiting for the three of them.This situation has been going on for half a year, and Walker will always come earlier than the three of them, and then wait for them while helping in the hotel.

In the past, Kalia came down with Wayne only when he first learned warrior fighting skills. Later, he occasionally went back there to check on Wayne's learning, and basically communicated with Shengguang at other times, so this Walker was a little surprised that Kalia went downstairs with her.It's just a surprise, after all, it doesn't have much to do with Walker whether Kalia follows or not, doesn't it?

The four of them came to the training ground together, and Wayne picked up the shield and weapon and started practicing.At this time, Walker took off the musket on his back and handed it to Balka, "Here you are, Boy Balka. This is a work that I carefully forged and passed the coming-of-age ceremony."

"Give it to me?" Balka took the musket and looked at it.

Walker snatched the musket back from Balka's hand and said, "What a sweet dream, I lent you this for use. Remember to return it to me when you're done using it."

After finishing speaking, he began to fiddle with the musket to show Balka, at this time Kalia also surrounded him curiously.Wayne ignored it, because he had already seen the musket on the way to the training ground.

how to say?This musket is an ancient matchlock gun that relies on a lit match to ignite gunpowder and fire bullets.This gun fires very infrequently.The bell-shaped muzzle makes it easy to pour gunpowder into the barrel, and then tightly stuff a projectile at the muzzle. When using, light the match and wait for the match to ignite the gunpowder.Finally, the projectiles from the muzzle of the expanding gas chin are ejected.This is the process of shooting this gun.

And if you want to shoot again, you have to use a stick with a cloth strip on the end to clean the barrel of the gun.Otherwise, it is very likely that the newly poured gunpowder will ignite due to the unburnt gunpowder inside.

Since the projectile is inserted into the muzzle, the hit rate of this gun is really impressive. You can't even think of hitting anything from ten meters away.It’s completely the type where fate depends on faith.Of course, it is not impossible to hit 100% of the time, as long as you can put this gun in the enemy's face and shoot.

Although it has basically no shooting hit rate, the shooting speed has shortcomings such as being very slow.But the power of this gun is really strong. First, the bullets stuffed into the muzzle are extremely tight under the strength of the dwarf, and then the amount of gunpowder poured into the gun chamber is not ordinary.The result is that once launched, the kinetic energy carried by the projectile is not generally large.

"I said Walker, is this a musket?" Barka asked after watching me perform a demonstration operation.

"That's right, how about it? It's powerful enough." Walker said to Balka with a proud look on his face.

"The power is indeed not small, but the shooting speed is too slow." Balka frowned unwillingly.As a result, Walker handed it over and said the gun turned to Wayne and said, "Winn, come and take a look, this musket is really inconvenient to use."

Wayne heard Balka's complaint, stopped his practice and walked over.He has known for a long time that the use of matchlock guns is very troublesome, but there is nothing he can do.He knew that the arquebus was followed by the flintlock, but he only knew that the flintlock was to ignite the gunpowder by striking the flint to emit sparks. How about studying the structural principle of the flintlock?Moreover, in his opinion, the flintlock only reduced the step of matchlock, and there was not much improvement in other aspects, so he didn't intend to open his mouth at first.It wasn't until Balka's complaint came that Wayne stopped practicing and walked over.

To be honest, in fact, Wayne thinks it is good to use muskets. If his memory is not wrong, when World of Warcraft first started, that is, in the 60s, flintlock guns were also used at that time.Now, when Kael'thas was still a high elf child like the three of them, it would have been good to have an arquebus.

Walking in front of Balka, Walker, and Kalia, he stretched out his hand and said to Balka, "Let me have a look."

"Here you are." Balka handed the matchlock gun to Wayne, and then complained: "This thing is very troublesome to use, and I tried two shots just now, but I couldn't hit it at all."

Wayne took over the matchlock gun, put it in front of his eyes, looked at it carefully, then thought for a while, and then reminded Walker: "Can you use flint to ignite the gunpowder by tapping on the flint, so that it will save money. Went to a troublesome step?"

"What? By striking flint?" After listening to Wayne's words, Walker thought carefully for a while, then turned around and ran towards the blacksmith shop without saying a word.He felt that there were really not many ways to do this, and maybe it could be achieved.At this moment, Walker ran to find old Todd to study together. Maybe a dwarf technician would come to study together earlier.

Seeing Walker running towards the blacksmith shop, Wayne didn't say much, just threw the arquebus in his hand to Balka and said, "You should use this practice first, the purpose of giving you the musket is not for you to carry out long-range Attack, but to have a chance to counterattack when you are approached by the enemy. This is much better than no means of resistance. Of course, in order to ensure a hit, you'd better wait for the enemy to be close enough to shoot before shooting. So, Practice well."

After speaking, Wayne went back to his practice.Doesn't he want to tell Walker about the more advanced firearms, but now is an era where everything is done by hand, and the accuracy cannot be guaranteed at all, so what if he said it?Take bullets as an example, propellant powder, bullet case, bullet head and many other things must be processed with sufficient precision. In this era when gun barrels have to be hammered out, how to ensure the processing precision?Although the craftsmanship of the dwarves is good, it is only in terms of weapons and armor such as swords, hammers and axes.As for those things that require high precision, shouldn't they wait until the gnomes enter industrial production before they can be produced.

In fact, it is not impossible to produce now, but to produce something with this precision requires a high elf mage, using the method of making jewelry to constantly use spells to change the shape of the material, and it takes at least seven days to produce a bullet Time, the cost is too high, who can bear it.

(End of this chapter)