Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 185 Cannonball Command

Frost Maple Ridge has every reason to be sorry:

Lena Leslie, who studied under Professor Hugh Hosseini, a famous historian of magic, has only a half-knowledge of magic alchemy related to prop manufacturing;
Even her own fire magic cultivation level is just an ordinary third-tier intermediate magician;
With Lina's level, it is enough to burn a brick in the "Griffin Kiln Factory", but it is a bit difficult for her to make magic bombs.

If Lena Leslie were replaced by any magic alchemist above the fifth level, then he could use a magic bamboo tube of the same size to directly blast the core area of ​​the bandit coalition camp into a white ground——

—Unfortunately, it cannot be replaced.

The magic bamboo tube placed behind the command tent by Allen, the power of the explosion can only be described as drizzle.

The explosion of the magic flame, which was extremely lacking in heat and impact, at best only lifted a corner of the tent felt, and even the bandit leaders in the room were not disturbed.

But Frost Maple Ridge is also lucky.

Because the killer weapon that this group of Igor scum rely on is far more than just magic!
At the beginning of the plan, Mountbatten learned that Lena could not produce a portable magic bomb with enough power, so he immediately changed his strategy: he asked Lena to make a strong enough light that burst out, but with little power. An improved bomb.

It just shoots out light instead of causing actual damage. It is much easier to make such a "magic flashbang": Lina quickly made a batch of bamboo tubes with reference to the magic runes on the magic sword "Light of the Sky". , A miniature flash bomb that can be detonated with a delay——

——When these bamboo tubes are detonated, they can burst out a magic flame beam that is astonishing and powerful enough to blind a dog's eyes. It is the best choice for breakthrough inventory, close-range CQB, revenge on neighbor's bear children and square dance aunts.

Alan Hotelling's mission is simple: sneak into the bandit camp, and then use these Hanyang-made magic flash bombs to clearly mark the location of the bandit coalition headquarters on the wasteland!

At noon in the wilderness, the sun is strong, the water is gentle;
But Lina's carefully crafted A1 high flash, with a moment of dazzling glare, contrasts everything in the world like a dark night.

Three kilometers away, at the gate of Fenghuang Terrace, the "I want you to die 3000" super ballista, which is threatening to show its teeth and claws, was also turned pale by the beam of light in the distance.

"How about it, did you see it?" Xia Houyan stood beside the crossbow, using the lens barrel of the dark moon glazed telescope to look a little farther away, "That's where the bandit headquarters is—can you fuck me? "

He immediately got a confident answer:

"Just look at it!"

Using siege weapons to inflame the enemy is not the first time Shuangfengling has done such a wicked thing. The Southern Pride Knights had already suffered from this tactic;
But what is different from that time is that the person who is manipulating the ballista at this moment is not a layman like Master Kobe, who rushes ducks to the shelves temporarily, but a real "professional"——

A thin old man with a gray beard and a few apprentices were carefully adjusting the "kill you 3000" ballista under the supervision of the lord.

The master's movements are not fast, but they are extremely smooth, and the point-to-point, mechanically precise sense of proportion when adjusting the elevation angle and direction amazed the onlookers.

His name is Nicholson, and he used to be a famous siege weapon master. Later, because he was charged with crimes, he fled all the way to the Land of Broken Soul, and then lived in seclusion. A few days before Fengling's conscription, he volunteered to join the revolution with a few apprentices.

Siege weapon master, this is a profession that is rare even in the Central Plains of the empire. Of course, the Xiahou official accepted everything according to the order, and even held a welcome dinner for the master.

These days, while the Igor Pioneer Army is busy training and preparing for war, this Master Nicholson only does one thing:

That is to assemble all kinds of parts in the territory into a "kill you 3000" ballista!
For quite a long period of time, Shuangfengling's siege equipment has fallen into a tragic fate and has become a one-time use consumable: whether it is the Wanguo brand bed crossbow prostituted from Yueshenzhai, or The lion's roar seven-style ballista gifted by the pride of the southern border was all a show of power and was immediately scrapped, and turned into a pile of spring parts in the heartbroken eyes of the lord's father and mother remarrying.

Originally, Xia Houyan had already planned to dispose of these damaged parts as scrap iron;
However, the arrival of Master Nicholson immediately ignited the fire of waste recycling.

With genius-like ideas, mathematician-like calculations, engineer-like design, and the frugal spirit of the trash guy in the map bar, Nicholson just pieced together the remaining parts of the three siege weapons and assembled a Taiwan can put into actual combat "kill you 3000"!
Even the wind magic components in the Lion's Roar Seven Styles and the Wanguo brand bed crossbow were all stuffed into "Killing You 3000" by Nicholson—for "Killing You 3000" that emphasizes static defense capabilities In other words, the wind magic power in these circles does not need to do chores such as pulling the ballista, it is completely used to increase the energy and speed of the crossbow!
According to the master's calculations, this thing is enough to shoot a giant crossbow bolt 2000 meters with reasonable accuracy——

——This is an awesome number!
You must know that even the Imperial Cromwell Annihilator, which is known for its range, can achieve an effective range of only about 500 meters with the blessing of wind magic. If you want to pursue a larger attack range, either To switch to heavier land-based static defense equipment, or to turn to demons and dwarves with better engineering forging technology.

It has to be said that magic is indeed the primary productive force, and only under the joint blessing of three siege weapons with wind arrays, and an earthen "kill you 3000", can such an astonishing range be achieved;
It is worth mentioning that when the energy of the crossbow arrows continues to increase, the structural strength of the ballista itself will easily become a bottleneck restricting the increase in power - enough kinetic energy to shoot the crossbow bolts 2000 meters and react on the ballista. The strong structure is torn to shreds;

As for the technical research on the launch reaction force, in addition to using Babylon dense steel nails to reinforce it, Shuangfengling actually took a trick and used the "Wind Protection" rune board obtained from Keel Peak to achieve it——

——These elf props that can create magical airflow out of thin air can just counteract the reaction force of the crossbow bolts, and it would be great to use them as a buffer for "kill you 3000".

Lin Lin finally figured it out, and the rough "I'll kill you 3000" is the best use of the wealth accumulated in Shuangfengling these days.

In any case, when Master Nicholson showed his achievements to the lord, all the senior leaders of Shuangfengling really suspected that they were dreaming:

They had expected Nicholson to be awesome, but they didn't expect the old man to be so awesome!
Amassing a siege weapon out of a pile of discarded parts is like amassing a motorcycle out of a pile of bicycle parts and wire shoelaces—no, a pile of The rear eight wheels come out!

Even, the range of 2000 meters is just the case of using conventional crossbow bolts;

Master Laurie took Lina and Wilson to refer to the manufacturing process of the magic crossbow of the regular army of the Empire. After more than ten days of serious research, he successfully passed the technique of "Lister's magic division" and carried out the wind element on the thick frost maple crossbow. , Fire-type dual-line magic enchantment:

This also means that just the magic power attached to the crossbow bolt itself is enough to create a range of nearly 1000 meters.

Although there are only three enchanted crossbow bolts successfully manufactured, when they are loaded into "Kill You 3000", Frost Maple Ridge will have a super long-range strike radius of up to 3000 meters that is almost only seen on the front line of the national war.

The "3000" in the name of the ballista is of course a tribute to the classics, but it can indeed hit 3000 meters!
This is actually why Xia Houyan had always wanted to take a shot at the bandit camp before:
Cool is one aspect;

It is another aspect that a rocket that strikes from a theoretically safe distance can bring a huge psychological blow to the bandits.

Although there is nothing wrong with Karen Lepage's insistence on the strategy of waiting for the opportunity, Sean Mountbatten, who is aggressive in tactics, obviously, like the lord, hopes to give the opponent a shocking and fucking epic punch earlier!

Whether it's the cavalry's continuous harassment or Alan Hotelling's infiltration behind enemy lines, it's all to completely light up the opponent's command center on the map, so that Master Nicholson can use "kill you 3000" to snipe at a fixed point——

- Bombard the headquarters!

Amidst the friction of the gears, the tightening of the machine springs, and the sound of the wind circle, the "Kill You 3000" ballista fixed in place with sandbags, slowed down like a dragon waking up in the morning. Slowly raised his head, and slowly turned to the location where the strong light broke out just now, exactly.

A crossbow arrow soaked in vine fuel oil and filled with fluctuations in magic power was parked in the chamber of the crossbow machine—at least at this moment, the smell of death was completely the smell of fuel oil.

"Ready!" Master Nicholson raised the binoculars, double-checked that the aiming was correct, and then supported the wheel that fired the crossbow arrows, and reported loudly to the lord.

"Wait another three seconds, don't accidentally hurt Hotelling..." Xia Houyan silently counted three times in his heart, then raised his hand.

In an instant, Ya felt a strange sense of excitement like ordering a nuclear submarine to launch a missile, kicking off a global nuclear war—this made him feel lucky again, fortunately, he did not become the leader of a major country during the Cold War era, or he did not become a leader of a major country during the Three-Body Civilization invasion. Later, he was invited to be a sword bearer.

Master Nicholson shook his arms and swung the wheel hard.

Amidst the loud noise, the magic-blessed version of "Molotov Rocket 2.0" went straight into the sky with a line of fire like a dragon sailing out to sea, and then roared in the direction of the bandit camp——

——However, the people who were more unlucky than the bandits were the people of Shuangfengling who watched the excitement and didn't think it was a big deal.

Since there was no serious test shooting before, no one would have imagined that the power of "killing you 3000" is so overbearing!

The violent gusts generated by the wind array and the superimposed force of the three machine springs erupted. While pushing the Molotov rocket out of the chamber, a round of earth-shattering shock waves burst out directly on the spot!
Except for Mr. Nicholson who was cunning and cunning hiding in the blind spot of the attack, the surrounding onlookers, from the lord who was caught off guard and Clement in heavy armor, to the pioneer recruits who accompanied him as guards, everyone felt that they were first He was thrown to the ground severely by an air fist, and then his bones were almost shattered by a small earthquake.

If Clement hadn't gotten up in time and used his stalwart figure to block the subsequent impact, it is really uncertain whether the lord and Master Laurie and other relatively weak magicians would have been shocked. What internal injuries.

But the Shuangfengling scum who were lying on the ground had no time to care about their physical condition;
Everyone's eyes followed the looming line of fire straight into the sky, and then watched it helplessly. At the end of the field of vision, it suddenly fell downwards, reaching the center of the bandit's camp, and then a flower exploded on the horizon. Blooming mushroom cloud.

None of them could make any sound from their throats.

But looking at the mouth shape, everyone silently cursed "Fuck".

When the "Molotov rocket" landed in the distance, the ground tremors caused by the brazenness did not stop until three or four seconds later;
When Sean Mountbatten rushed back to the lord with a happy face, he found that everyone was staring at the complacent Master Nicholson in a daze.

"Old man..." The lord asked dryly and with difficulty, "Excuse me...you really used to make siege weapons?"

Master Nicholson sucked his teeth:
"Dragon Hunting Ballista...should be considered a siege weapon, right?"

In just a few minutes, everyone silently cursed "Fuck".

hunting!dragon!crossbow!gun!
The siege weapons made by this old man are not even aimed at humans at all!
Xia Houyan stiffly gave a thumbs up and asked:

"How did you, an incomparable genius like you, end up in the wilderness?"

"Don't mention it..." Master Nicholson shrugged his shoulders with a bitter face, "There were not many dragons left in the empire, and they were almost killed by our ballista. A handful of..."

"Such dirty things will never happen in our Shuangfengling!" The lord waved his hand, "I will arrange the Ministry of Internal Affairs to give you a big bonus!"

"Bonuses are not necessary, we are not the ones who value these things..." Master Nicholson rubbed his hands, "To be honest, the reason why we joined your territory was because a young man who was recruiting secretly told us that you I once killed a giant dragon... Aside from other things, when will you find another giant dragon to give us pleasure? This is what we can count on in this life..."

For the third time, everyone cursed silently "Fuck".

It was Sean Mountbatten who broke the eerie silence:

"My lord, let's talk about rewards for meritorious deeds after the war... After this cannon, if the bandits have not collapsed, then we have to quickly regroup the army and prepare for the desperate counterattack of the enemy coalition forces! "

(End of this chapter)