Release that Witch - Chapter 33

[Chapter 33 Gunpowder]

“Stand up, the Fourth Prince is coming down,” Iron Ax clapped his hands and shouted before he rested for a quarter of an hour.

Faner quickly returned to his position. The previous special training gave him a conditioned reflex to obey orders. Almost subconsciously, he had already picked up the wooden pole and performed the preparatory action for stabbing.

The prince and his party walked up the city wall and walked behind the team. From the corner of his eyes, Vanner noticed that His Highness slowed down when passing by his position.

Roland sighed in his heart, saying that waking up late ruins the morning and getting up early ruins the day, this is indeed the truth.

After dealing with the aftermath of the night attack on the castle, I had to come to review the results of the militia’s recent training.

It’s a pity that I didn’t sleep all night, and now I’m sleepy again and again.

But he couldn’t help but come. Now that the team has entered the stage of training for battle, as the supreme commander, if he doesn’t show up for a long time, his sense of existence will decrease, and people’s hearts will also become unstable.

Hmm… what to say during a general inspection?

Roland thought for a while, hello comrades, have you worked hard, comrades?

If no one answered in the second half, it would be very embarrassing to shout this slogan, so it’s better to just invite someone to chat about family affairs, show that you are a virtuous corporal, and improve your reputation.

With that in mind, he patted a young man who seemed to be fairly strong.

“After training hard, do you feel tired? Are you eating well?”

According to the experience from watching the news in the past, the other party’s reaction should be to answer excitedly and loudly, “I’m not tired, it’s good!” As a result, he was excited, turned around and knelt down on one knee, which shocked Roland.

Fan Na felt that he was favored by the heavens, and His Royal Highness actually cared about him in a friendly tone whether he was tired from training or not!

Let alone the royal family, even ordinary nobles don’t want to say a word to them.

He subconsciously imitated a knight to salute His Royal Highness, regardless of whether this etiquette was suitable for him, he only had one voice in his heart: when he returned to Old Street in the future, he, Fanna, would be considered number one.

After being asked to stand up, Fan’er’s mind was still in chaos, and he couldn’t remember how to answer.

Finally, when His Highness asked if he had any opinions or views on the training, and he could put it forward, Fan Na suddenly became sober-this is a good opportunity!

If His Highness can be made to think that the militia alone cannot take on the heavy responsibility of guarding the city wall, will he not have to worry all day about whether to run or stay?

He carefully prepared his words in his mind, “Respect… Your Highness, the number of the militia team is too small at present. According to the current training method, when the evil beasts attack, everyone can only defend a third of the city wall at most. range. You see…”

Even if the prince recruits a few more batches, the training time may be too late, Van Na thought.

In addition, the weapons used by these people are also a big expense. It is very difficult for Border Town to gather long guns for 300 people in two months, and even 100 are very reluctant—so they are still training with wooden poles .

If His Royal Highness could realize this, maybe he would recruit a group of mercenaries from other towns to serve as the main defense force.

At least they can go directly to the battlefield without training, and they bring their own weapons and armor, but the price is relatively high.

Roland thought for a moment, nodded and said, “You’re right. It’s really not realistic for a militia to guard the entire city wall.”

Fan Na was overjoyed, what does His Highness mean…agreeing with his opinion?

But the fourth prince didn’t say what he expected to hear next, but called Iron Ax to his side, “Evil beasts are just mutants of wild beasts in a sense, they don’t have the ability to think, right?”

“Yes, Your Highness, normal-species evil beasts are still no different from wild beasts, and even their habits are basically the same… But I haven’t seen many hybrid-species, so I’m not sure.”

“That’s fine. Although it is nearly 1,800 feet (600 meters) long from the Chishui River to the foot of the North Slope, we can lure them to attack a specific area.”

“You mean setting traps?” Iron Ax asked.

“It’s a trap, but it’s not the kind that hunters usually use. Ordinary traps capture prey by hiding themselves, and I plan to do the opposite, setting up pocket-type roadblocks away from the city wall, such as fences, slopes, ditches, Force these mindless evil beasts to detour automatically. The continuous obstacles will guide the prey to the designated place, and finally concentrate in the defensive area we prepared,” Roland said here and looked at the iron axe, “As for how to lure these monsters, I will I don’t think anyone is better at it than you.”

Iron Ax thought for a moment, “Guiding them is no problem. Wolves don’t like to touch water, wild boars are afraid of light, and other evil beasts have their own habits. But Your Highness, this will cause all evil beasts to gather here. Within six hundred feet, isn’t it too dangerous?”

“If you just rely on long guns and bows and arrows, that’s true.” Roland said confidently, “However, now we have new weapons.”

When he was leaving, the prince came behind Fan Na again and patted him on the shoulder, “Good observation, what’s your name?”

“Fan…Fan Na, Your Highness.”

“I will propose to my chief knight that you be the deputy of the spear team, Mr. Vanner, do it well.”

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Roland built another bungalow in the backyard of Duan Shaofang, which was used to make snow powder—that is, gunpowder.

This house of about 300 square meters has only one entrance and exit, and the strictest security system is implemented.

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No sources of ignition are allowed inside, so work will only be done during the day.

In order to prevent Nightingale from sneaking in, a gauze curtain was hung on the door frame.

“This is the new weapon you mentioned?” Carter, who was summoned, picked up a little black powder with his fingers, put it in front of his nose and sniffed it, “Isn’t this snow powder?”

The iron ax may not be clear, but Carter often participates in royal ceremonies, so he naturally knows that this kind of thing is contained in the Mingri barrel.

The proud work of the alchemy workshop, the formula is a secret to outsiders, but if the prince wants it, he will definitely get it.

“It’s snow powder, but it’s not quite,” Roland said. “The latest improved product of the Alchemy Workshop, I call it gunpowder.”

Gunpowder is a must-have farming artifact for any traveler.

The materials come from a wide range of sources. As long as you know the optimal ratio of charcoal, sulfur and saltpeter: 1:1:7.5, you can make it without any technical barriers.

The snow powder of this era is an inferior product with 60% charcoal content, 20% sulfur and saltpeter, and 20% other strange materials (such as mercury, butter, honey, etc.). It burns slowly and releases less gas. It does not work as gunpowder should.

But Roland knew that the alchemists were also constantly experimenting with other formulas. After thirty years at most, snow powder closer to the standard black powder formula would appear.

In history, it took a long time after gunpowder was invented to completely eliminate cold weapons, because of the formula and the corresponding weapon manufacturing process could not keep up.

However, many people ignore that even without guns, gunpowder itself is a terrible weapon.

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