Warlord: King of All Clans

The heavy flintlock rifles equipped by the Riverbend Musketeers were developed according to the performance requirements set by Rio.

Leo required that this standard musket be able to penetrate the plate armor of the knights of this world within a distance of one hundred meters.

In order to meet this requirement, and given the low craftsmanship of the Hewan gunsmiths, the caliber of this heavy flintlock rifle is close to two centimeters and the weight of the lead bullet is close to fifty grams.

The weight of the round lead bullets handmade by the die-stamping pliers is not exactly the same, but bullets between 45 grams and 50 grams are all qualified products.

However, the large caliber and uneven weight of lead bullets also reduced the effective range of the musket. Its maximum range was 300 meters, but its effective range was only 100 meters.

In contrast to its low effective range is its terrifying lethality.

What does it feel like to be hit by a 50-gram lead bullet flying at nearly the speed of sound?

Simply put, it is more lethal to unarmored targets than modern rifle bullets.

Basically, if you hit the limbs, they will break directly, and if you hit the trunk, a cavity will be pierced through the trunk, leaving a cavity large enough to fit a fist.

If it hits the head, the lead bullet will explode the skull like smashing an eggshell, and brain matter and bone fragments will splash several meters away.

The heavy armor worn by the veterans and corner flags of the Abros Legion changed from precious armor that protected their lives to iron coffins that slowed down their escape.

There was a mid-level extraordinary shooter hidden in the Arbroath Legion, who luckily managed to cross the shotgun coverage area.

Hiding behind a shattered siege tower, the extraordinary archer drew his bow and shot three arrows in succession, successfully piercing the eyebrows of the three musketeers.

This place is two hundred meters away from the city wall, which is beyond the effective range of the Hewan muskets. If they want to hit him, they can only mobilize dozens of muskets for concentrated fire.

However, after three rounds of musket and artillery fire, the city walls were filled with smoke, making it almost impossible to aim at the enemy. Even if some of their companions were killed by arrows, the remaining musketeers could not find the extraordinary archer.

In addition, the veterans of the Abros Legion had already gathered at the foot of the city, and the musketeers on the city walls were frantically shooting the enemies, so they had no attention to look for the shooters in the distance.

The mid-level extraordinary shooter has amazing vision and an eagle eye skill. His eyes can see through the smoke and judge the target's position through vague movements.

The shooting distance of two hundred meters is not too far for him. With the help of the enchanted longbow, he can always hit the target.

After sniping ten musketeers from a long distance in a row, the extraordinary shooter suddenly became alert and tilted his head abruptly.

A violent wave flashed past his forehead.

"What flew by just now?"

The extraordinary archer was so terrified that he dared not stick his head out.

Two stray bullets landed on the wreckage of the siege tower in front of him. Even though they were beyond the effective range, they were still powerful enough to send wood chips flying on the wooden baffles of the siege tower.

But the extraordinary shooter's intuition told him that it was not this kind of bullet!

Although these round lead bullets are extremely powerful, they pose little threat to a mid-level transcendent like him after flying two hundred meters. As long as they don't hit the vital points, two hits will not be fatal.

The body of a mid-level extraordinary being is as strong as hardwood, not to mention the protection of enchanted light armor.

On a tower behind the city wall, Bjorn knelt on one knee, staring at the ruins of the siege tower four hundred meters away, without stopping his hands.

He was following the standard procedure in the musketeer training manual, using a cleaning rod to pound a lead bullet into the chamber of the gun.

The musket in his hand looked no different from the standard muzzle-loading smoothbore musket of the River Bend Musketeers.

The only difference is that the inside of his gun barrel is not smooth and straight, but has circles of rifling.

This is the latest masterpiece from the goblin master craftsman!

Virgil rifle!

This was RiverBend’s first muzzle-loading, rifled flintlock rifle.

To go with it are the paper-wrapped, custom-made pointed bullets that Virgil hand-made.

This is a conical bottom expansion bullet. A groove is dug at the tail end of the conical lead bullet and a wooden plug is inserted.

During firing, the gunpowder gas presses the wooden plug into the hole, forcing the base of the bullet to expand, making the bullet close to the rifling, closing the gap between the bullet and the barrel, preventing the gas from leaking out, and allowing the bullet to rotate at high speed under the pressure of the rifling.

Leo swore that this was definitely not the idea he provided. Master Virgil told him that this was just the blowgun technique that the goblin natives of the Free State of the Islands had mastered thousands of years ago.

The reason why a master is a master is that he can connect the present and the past, apply what he has learned flexibly, and show magic in the ordinary.

In the eyes of the goblin master craftsman who can rub circuit boards from other worlds with his hands, these gadgets are entry-level and can be made with just hands.

As for the rifling technology, it was a project that Leo had the gunsmiths start researching as soon as the Riverbend musket came out.

However, due to the limitations of metallurgical technology, the wrought iron barrels made by gunsmiths cannot guarantee safety after rifling.

However, the gunsmiths in the imperial capital do not have the ability to further perform precision processing on the alloy steel pipes imported from the imperial capital.

It was not until Master Virgil came to Riverbend and used the sophisticated alchemy table in the Mage Tower to make several alloy rifled gun barrels by hand that the rifling technology could be further studied.

However, rifled guns cannot be mass-produced yet. They are only the product of individual laboratories. The gun workshop in Hewan still produces large quantities of full-barreled muzzle-loading smoothbore flintlock rifles.

The Virgil rifle in Bjorn's hand has an effective range of 500 meters and a killing range of nearly 1,000 meters, which is enough for him to squat on a tower dozens of meters high and dominate the battlefield outside the city.

A distance of four hundred meters is already blurry in the vision of ordinary people and requires the assistance of a scope.

But Bjorn is an extraordinary shooter, and he can still aim at this distance using the gun's built-in crosshairs.

The precise archery skills he had acquired since childhood, his extraordinary hand-eye coordination, and his unparalleled intuitive senses all made this new weapon far more lethal.

It can be said that once this Virgil rifle is in his hands, he can hit whatever he points it at as long as it is within the effective range.

After the first bullet missed, Bjorn was not discouraged at all. Instead, he loaded the second pointed lead bullet correctly according to the musket operation procedures he had learned and practiced diligently during this period.

Bjorn once again laid the slender Virgil rifle flat on the wooden fence in front of him and aimed at the remains of the siege tower again.

The mid-level extraordinary archer hiding behind the wreckage of the siege tower was still wondering whether to continue shooting.

"Was that just an illusion? What kind of weapon is so terrifying?"

The burning ears told him that this was not an illusion.

After taking a look at the tragic situation on the battlefield, he realized that defeat was inevitable, so the Extraordinary Archer decided not to show his head again to avoid dying.

The value of a mid-level extraordinary archer is second only to that of a mid-level mage, and he plays an unparalleled role on the battlefield.

They are not just shooters who provide long-range firepower, but are often also top-level scouts and assassins, and the death of the enemy's main general.

The next second, another pointed bullet flew over, penetrated the wooden baffle he was leaning on, and then pierced his head.

The high-speed spinning bullet entered the back of his head and exited from his mouth.

Even a mid-level extraordinary person could not withstand such a fatal blow. The extraordinary archer who was trying to survive suddenly died with his eyes black.