Ten thousand I am across the heavens

Chapter 1856 Speedrunner

Although they did not recognize many of the things produced, they could still recognize the value of the snow-white salt and sugar, and the steel with a health-preserving quality comparable to that of a blacksmith who had spent years forging it.

What's more, there are priceless crystal clear glassware in it, the value of which is ridiculously high in this era.

Lan Nuo skillfully taught them how to push these things to the market, and how to use the huge profits brought by these bulk goods to establish a system independent of the existing court. When fiscal revenue is no longer subject to taxation, the influence that the original nobles and civil officials can bring is minimal.

Lan Nuo's actions were faster than expected. While qualified steel was being produced, the machine tool model previously made of wood had already allowed a large number of workers to understand the principles of the things they were going to process with steel next.

Although the processing encountered more troubles than they had imagined, the existing tools were very unqualified in terms of both precision and efficiency, and Lan Nuo had also forgotten the smelting ratios of many special steels, resulting in the inability to smelt some of the special steels they needed.

But these are only minor problems on the road of industrial development. The speed of development of their group is extremely terrifying. Not long after a few primitive machine tools were manufactured, craftsmen had already learned how to use them to drill holes in steel rods.

Although Lan Nuo had forgotten most of the details of steel smelting, he still remembered the most commonly used crucible steel and spring steel in the early days, which were enough to produce large quantities of flintlock rifles. Although the current technological level can only produce muzzle-loading flintlock rifles to ensure the firing rate and production efficiency, this thing, combined with rifling and Minié bullets, is still a weapon that is four or five eras ahead of the existing army. In addition, the iron film casting method is considered to have a relatively high casting efficiency in modern times, which allowed them to have a considerable number of artillery in a short period of time. Even though the number of troops is far behind that of traditional armies, under the premise of low scheduling and logistics capabilities in the farming era, it is actually difficult to play out the numerical advantage.

If Lan Nuo had followed his original character, he would definitely continue to farm quietly. It would be best if he could wait until he had even developed radio technology before engaging his opponent head-on. It would be best if he could directly crush the opponent with technology until he surrendered without a fight.

But this time he was in a hurry, and after training only more than a thousand new-style troops and gunners capable of operating fifty bronze cannons, he began an armed confrontation with the conservative forces.

When the young emperor learned that Lan Nuo's radical actions had led to the rebels besieging the palace, he almost fainted in the basement that night. He only had more than 5,000 imperial guards who were still loyal to the emperor, plus more than 1,000 new troops, but he was facing an army of more than 100,000 outside the city. This was a situation where he was doomed to die.

"It doesn't matter if you die, but before you die, can you arrange for someone to stand outside the door and have him kill me with a knife after confirming that you have failed? If I fall into the hands of the rebels, I'm afraid I will be cut into pieces."

Lan Nuo rolled his eyes, ignored his request, stuffed the guy's mouth again, turned around and left the room, ready to fight.

If any other time travelers were faced with this situation, they would indeed be quite panicked. Even if they knew that the army of the firearms era had a powerful suppressive ability against the army of pure cold weapons, they would still feel powerless in the face of such a huge numerical gap.

After all, even if there are hundreds of thousands of pigs below, they cannot be caught by just a few thousand people, let alone hundreds of thousands of well-trained troops.

But Lan Nuo was already an old hand at battlefield command. Although he rarely commanded such low-level battles in the feudal era, he was backward compatible. It was still very simple, especially after the birth of hot weapons, Lan Nuo's personal force was raised to a new level, but that privately customized sniper rifle and the factory's rush to produce it by hand. Two thousand rounds of metal shell reloaded bullets were enough for him to be unstoppable among hundreds of thousands of people. The more backward the army, the more obvious the effect of the decapitation operation. If you want to escape the sniper of a sniper who has unlocked the third-level gene lock state, it is impossible unless the opponent's fierce general breaks through to the fourth level on the spot. And this probability... According to Lan Nuo's experience, even if it is a son of luck in a world, it can only be achieved through slow breakthroughs layer by layer under their deliberate cultivation. It is almost impossible to explode instantly, let alone a passerby.

An army of more than one hundred thousand surrounded the city with great momentum. From the top of the city wall, the camps outside the city seemed endless. However, when the two sides lined up to fight at the city gate and Lan Nuo stood on the high platform outside the city to lead the army in person, the direction of the war was completely different from what the rebels had imagined.

The entire battle was like Emperor Guangwu transforming into a great magician to summon meteorites.

The two sides were still more than 2,000 meters apart, and before anyone could make any preparations for battle, the generals of the rebel side fell one after another. Although their injuries were not fatal, with the medical conditions of that era, even with full rescue efforts, there was no guarantee that they would survive, let alone continue to command the battle.

Lan Nuo was standing on a temporary platform at the city gate, wearing the black robes that were unique to the emperors of this era, holding a sniper rifle, and firing a series of shots at the rebel generals. Every shot hit the target.

Two thousand bullets may not seem like a lot compared to more than one hundred thousand people, but if the rebels really dared to let him stand there and shoot all the bullets, their morale would definitely collapse before they ran out of bullets.

After all, the one who died was the commander, and he had no power to fight back at all. He was inexplicably killed or injured at a very long distance. The fear of having the scythe of death hanging over his neck was obviously not something the feudal army could resist.

After Lan Nuo fired more than a hundred bullets and changed the barrel of the gun, the rebel vanguard collapsed. The center army and the two wings had to reorganize and send out elite cavalry to prepare for a sneak attack from the flank.

Amid the dull drumbeats, the army was approaching, marching in neat steps. The oppressive feeling it brought was suffocating, but the silent pace of the god of death reaping lives was equally terrifying.

After the two sides approached to the range of a thousand meters, the heavy artillery spoke. In the era of cold weapons, the army's formation was dense and thick in order to resist the enemy's charge and ensure that the army would not be cut in half from the middle. However, when such an army faced ricocheting artillery shells, the dense formation became the biggest tragedy.

[To be continued]

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