"What is that sound?"
Lorne, who was feeling heavy, naturally couldn't ask such a question.
It was Athena who spoke.
The girl who felt that she had a heavy responsibility did not know the true intention of Keira in sending Lorne here, but this time she asked Lorne what the baron also wanted to know.
But when the girl asked Li Chenghai, it was Li Anbang who answered.
"Foreign gun."
"foreign gun" The voices of the baron and the eldest lady overlapped, but their tones were completely different.
Athena was naturally curious about what a foreign gun was, but Lorne's tone was rather strange.
There seemed to be objections to the name of the foreign gun, but the baron was more surprised and slightly afraid.
Even Athena heard Lorne's emotions, and the girl added another sentence.
"You know what a foreign gun is" "Of course I don't know how I would know" After saying the same thing twice, Athena just felt that Lorne was a little strange.
But Li Anbang, who deliberately lured Lorne here and even said the name "foreign gun", already knew it.
But for some reason, he didn’t question Lorne but instead excused the baron: “Foreign guns are unique to our Brilliant City, so it’s normal for the baron not to know.
Let me show you what a foreign gun is. " Of course Lorne knew what a foreign gun was.
Although the other party's addition of a foreign character made him suspect that the creator was actually a figure from the late Qing Dynasty, these were no longer important.
Following Li Anbang, the crackling weapons that looked like fire sticks had confirmed his previous guesses. surrender For a moment, the beast had the shameful thought of hugging the Li family's lap.
But after the curious Athena asked Li Anbang for one, the Baron discovered that things didn't seem to be as bad as he thought.
"This is a foreign gun."
She pointed the muzzle of the gun at herself.
The ignorant girl looked into the barrel of the gun with her eyes.
After that, she said in a nonchalant tone, "A strange hollow pipe.
This is a weapon."
It was a pity that the foreign gun in the girl's hand did not go off.
Taking a closer look, Lorne understood the reason why Li Chenghai and his son did not stop Athena's dangerous move.
The foreign gun that Lorne thought was a single-shot rifle, such as a Mauser.
But such weapons are simply impossible to produce without a certain industrial base.
Even though Brilliant City has begun to use steam engines to implement preliminary automated operations, they have not fully entered the industrial age after all.
The so-called foreign guns were even more backward than what Lorne had seen in historical movies and TV series.
Not to mention that it doesn't look like a rifle at all, the firing method is also so unique.
Not only did the whole foreign gun look bulky, but the ignition device at the bottom was so primitive that Lorne felt frightened.
After seeing the match rope at the end of the barrel, Lorne still didn't understand what stage this thing was in.
It has little practical significance and the cost is not cheap.
This is Lorne's evaluation of what is in front of him, but the Li family seems to know this too.
From the fact that they did not install matchlock guns in the army, we can know that they are not satisfied with these weapons, but if they develop a flintlock gun, it will be a real foreign gun.
When the time comes, the rifles will be loaded, and the soldiers of Glory City equipped with foreign guns will definitely be a terrifying army powerful enough to sweep across the empire.
But Lorne looked around and didn't seem to find any trace of the flintlock gun.
And since muskets have appeared, even if they are still quite primitive, it proves that Brilliant City must have mastered the formula of gunpowder.
The artillery that matches the muskets should naturally appear at the same time.
Matchlock guns are not something to be afraid of, but the power of artillery cannot be underestimated.
It's just that as a lord in the northern part of the empire, Lorne, if he asked the other party if they had cannons, he would be directly telling them that he had a problem.
Feeling itchy, Lorne was not interested in Li Anbang's explanation at all.
Seemingly sensing Lorne's anxiety, Li Anbang suddenly said something to Lorne.
"What do you think, His Excellency the Baron?"
The sudden question made Lorne not sure how to answer it.
Fortunately, Asina on the side seemed to want to get more information, so the eldest lady took the initiative to take it.
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"It's a very novel weapon, and its power is also very good.
But its shortcomings are too obvious.
Once the distance exceeds a hundred meters, it will be difficult for this thing to kill fully armed soldiers."
Pointing to the target in the distance, Athena continued.
"And it can't hit a target a hundred meters away.
The most deadly thing is that in an encounter, having the opportunity to attack twice is already its limit.
Ease of use is its greatest benefit, but rather than producing these weapons, our empire's hard crossbows are more practical. " Li Anbang explained it in detail just now, so Athena was able to find the weakness of the matchlock gun.
But its real meaning is not actual combat in Lorn's opinion.
The Li family must have done research and expected to come up with a more complete finished product, so they did not deploy it into the army.
"What Knight Stuart said makes sense.
Does your Excellency, Baron, have any advice?"
Instead of answering Athena directly, Li Anbang asked Lorne again.
But how could Lorne, who was already alert, express his opinions?
He waved his hands and pretended not to understand anything.
The ancestor, who had already identified Lorne's identity in his heart, did not force himself and admitted that his foreign guns were indeed not as good as the hard crossbows with perfect craftsmanship in the empire.
But there is one sentence that proves Lorne's guess.
"But it is difficult for the empire's crossbows to make breakthroughs.
Don't you two think that foreign guns are the key to future wars?"
If he could speak freely, Lorne would definitely agree with Li Anbang's point of view.
He even felt that the Li family's education was very successful.
Li Anbang, a native, actually understood that muskets would be the main theme of future wars.
In comparison, Athena is much worse.
In the face of the gunpowder truth, the eldest lady actually retorted like a mantis.
"Your foreign guns may be miraculous in small battles, but in large-scale wars, crossbows are the main force.
And I don't think crossbows can no longer improve.
Didn't Glory City also add some more bows and arrows last year?
Gear assistance?
I remember that the shooting range has improved a lot.
Since the things came from Brilliant City, how can you say that the development of crossbows has come to an end?"
Add gear assistance to bows and arrows Lorne suddenly remembered that there seemed to be something similar on Earth, but he didn't know what it was called specifically.
But since it can appear in his era, it proves that the effect must be good.
Moreover, many large-scale city defense weapons also use the assistance of gears to increase their range.
Lorne is curious about the power of adding the same thing to a crossbow.
It's a pity that those things are considered rare goods in the Stuart family, and it will definitely take some time for the North to get them
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