Iron Power And Sorcerer

Iron Power And Sorcerer Chapter 52

2021-03-28

Chapter 52 New Ideas
“The pier is only that big, and the porters are Familiar face, who did you miss after the bombing?" Winters slapped the table heavily.

"There are too many people on the pier. As long as you have the strength, you can be a porter. How can we remember all of them?" The man who was questioned replied not one drop of water can leak out: "Your Excellency Gendarmerie, ask Why don't you ask someone else?"

Winters asked various questions from other angles, but the other party killed himself and didn't know anything.

"You go out." The exhausted Winters waved: "Call the next person in."

The man left, and the chair was replaced by another squat man .

The short man sat awkwardly on the stool, pursing his lips tightly, and said nothing.

"Your name, please?" Winters politely broke the silence.

Before he could finish his sentence, the little dunzi stabbed his neck like a hedgehog stabbed his ass and shouted, "I don't know anything!"

"I'm asking about you. Name..."

"I don't know anything!"

"Name..."

"I don't know anything!"

"get lost!"

"I don't know anything!"

Winters picked up the cup on the table, fiercely smashed it on the ground.

——cut——

“The dockers are very tight-lipped and won’t say anything.” Winters reluctantly reported to Lieutenant Colonel Field the results of the inquiries about the dockers .

In the lounge of the officers' club, Field, Moritz, and Winters sat in a circle around a small table.

"The porters are afraid of being regarded as leakers. Several gangs control all the porting business on the dock. They issued a seal order, and the porters naturally dare not even fart." Field was in a bad mood. , holding the wine glass in his hand for a long time without drinking a drop of wine: "We can't protect the porter's family, they will not stand on our side."

The assassination case did not make any progress, and Field and Winters' face is not very good-looking.

Major Moritz, who was beside him, seemed to be completely unaffected and happily poured himself a drink. Winters can't help but wonder if Major Moritz is really deaf, or if he can't hear anything as an excuse to avoid a frustrating job.

Under the calm pier, the undercurrent is surging, and the Benvenuto family's house is still empty. There's some news from cripple on Qianmin Street explaining why the dockers are all keeping their mouths shut, and why the entire Benvenuto family is missing.

The porters at the Hailan City Wharf are roughly divided into groups by region. Usually, violent conflicts often occur due to robbing and other reasons, breaking one or two arms and legs from time to time.

On the night of the assassination, the Montans found their leader in a pool of blood in the alley behind the Pinewood Tavern, stabbed to death in the left side.

And just a few days ago, the Monta people just had a fight with the Vine fiercely. One Vine was seriously injured and more than a dozen were slightly injured. The seriously injured one died not long after being brought back.

The Monta Republic is located in the mountains, and the living environment is difficult. The land could not feed people, so the men had to go out and earn money as soldiers. Therefore, the Monta people are fierce and tenacious, and they are not afraid of death. The land of the Monta Republic is an important source of soldiers.

Now the Montans have identified the Vine as the murderer and vowed to Blood For Blood. Then they will never give up until the blood of the enemy is spilled.

Although the Vine people do not admit that they killed the head of the Monta people, they just regret that someone has deprived them of the opportunity to take revenge.

As for the Wahn people who value family relations, if a Wahn dies, there will be a large family to take revenge. The entire Vine community is linked by a complex web of kinship, like a pot of soil overgrown with plant roots.

The Wahn people suffered a big loss before, and they are also licking their wounds and preparing to take revenge.

In the shadows of the bustling port area, the two sides are gearing up to gather strength, and they may fight at any time.

According to cripple, both parties bought a lot of real guys on the black market, and even bought a lot of gunpowder. Even the Platoons, who have nothing to do with this matter, are secretly preparing. The final result can be very ugly.

While the Vine, who had been seriously wounded and died in previous violence, were Ben Venuto's pro-Uncle, blood revenge is a venerated act in Vine culture. Therefore, the Ben Venuto family is now the key target of revenge for the Monta people. According to cripple, their family should be protected by the Vine community.

A few groups of workers at the wharf are going to fight to the death?

Field didn't care about that.

In his eyes, even if the water in the port is red with the blood of the dock workers, it is a problem for the customs and the city guard.

But it is for this absurd reason that the dockers keep their mouths shut and say nothing.

"These guys are sure that we have no evidence and can't be tortured." Field said angrily and frustratedly: "XX! Putting it in jail and beating it up must have said everything."

However, Field can only speak harsh words. Although torture is a common method used by coalition law enforcement officers to obtain evidence, coalition law has strict restrictions on the conditions for the use of torture. The church also strictly prohibits believers from using torture on believers to extract confessions — in theory.

If Field dared to put the dockworker in jail without any evidence today, he would have to pack up and go write the war history now without waiting for the day when the case is overturned.

“What about money?” Winters offered another naive approach.

"We can't get a price that can afford their lives, and the dockworkers' associations are never soft on slaughtering rats [referring to leakers]." We will know what valuable information is, and we have to find the leaders, but they are absolutely impossible to tell us where the leaders are."

Winters the past few days had a new idea in mind, But it was prudent not to raise it rashly. Now, seeing that the investigation has reached a deadlock again, he feels it is time to talk about his new ideas.

“I got a reed gun in the past few days, which is similar to the one I fished out.” The reed gun that Winters was talking about was actually Sophia’s: “After a few experiments, I first I found that the gun is not simple, and the shooter is not simple."

After Sofia was taken to the barracks under house arrest, the reed gun she was carrying was left at the Serbian house. Winters couldn't help dismantling the gun out of curiosity, and it took three times as long to put it back together again.

As someone with a natural instinct for mechanics, Winters was quick to figure out how a reed gun was constructed and worked. The ignition mechanism of the spring wheel gun is essentially a friction wheel connected to the scroll spring. Before use, it is necessary to "energize" the friction wheel round by round. Pull the trigger, the friction wheel rotates and the flint stone rubs to produce a fire star, which ignites the gunpowder.

In Winters' opinion, the advantage of this design is that the matchlock does not need to be carefully guarded like the matchlock gun, and there is no open flame.

Be aware that the matchlock gun is a rather dangerous weapon, both against the enemy and the shooter himself. Because matchlocks burn slowly, they are also open flames. For matchlock shooters who carry a lot of gunpowder and are covered with gunpowder powder, they are already eligible to receive wages without setting themselves on fire.

Another advantage is that it can be used with one hand. The shooting process of the matchlock gun requires two hands, so there is no one-handed matchlock short gun. The reed gun can shoot as long as one hand holds the trigger and pulls the trigger, so only the dock assassin can hold the gun in one hand and the sword in the other.

At the same time, however, Winters saw the dangers of the design—the spring-and-wheel mechanism was simply too complicated, too fragile, and not reliable enough.

The trigger, the detents, the scroll springs, if one part comes loose, this gun will fire. Assassin actually dared to hang this kind of gun on his waist, wouldn't he be afraid to shoot the torch and smash his own thigh?
"What's not simple?" Field lied back on the sofa in disinterest.

"It's not simple to use! The people who made the gun didn't take into account the actual situation of one-handed use, and the barrel used was still a long spear barrel. A 30-gram lead bullet. This caliber is too difficult to use with one hand. If I designed it, I would make the caliber a little smaller." Winters confidently expressed his thoughts: "We got that one. The gun is larger than the reed gun in my hand, and anyone who can shoot accurately with that gun must be proficient in firearms."

Field lay on his back on the sofa and gently un'ed: "And then what? ?"

"I was inspired by the coroner's report at the customs, where the coroner used the body shape, appearance, calluses on the hands to deduce their identity and social class. I think we can also Use the available evidence to speculate what kind of person assassin is."

"Interesting." Field heard this sentence and slowly got up and sat up: "Go on."

" Four assassins, at least two of them are proficient in firearms and can use this large-caliber revolver with one hand; there are also assassins in customs, so they know when the skua will dock and wait at the pier in advance; four passengers He took the initiative to approach them, thinking that Assassin was the one who came to pick him up, which is also very strange... By the way, and their horses, the horses pulling the carts did not panic when they heard the gunshots... Heh, I'm afraid an untrained draught horse can't do this."

Field's expression became extremely serious, and even Moritz noticed the change in the atmosphere and put down his glass silently, the lieutenant colonel said to Winters in a deep voice Said: "Just say what you want to say."

"I was also very impressed by those assassins. They are all sword technique experts, especially for Marshal Ned's long sword technique. Very, very familiar."

Winters used three verys in a row to express his thoughts, and he continued: "As familiar as it has been through a thousand pairings, assassin knows how to use the swift sword. Against the long sword, the first assassin I hit with the sword was almost slashed in the stomach. If it was an ordinary swordsman, I would definitely not be so embarrassed. Major Moritz also fought against the other side, so can you Ask the major for his evaluation."

"There are not many people in Veneta who fit the description of a sword technique expert who is familiar with the long sword technique of the military school, a horse proficient in firearms, and trained not to be afraid of the sound of gunfire. " Winters gritted his teeth and came to his own conclusion: "This is my own idea, the assa we are looking for ssin should be a few alumni... one of them had his jaw broken by me. "

"Alumni", what alumni? Winters wanted to say that it was an Army officer, but the accusation was too serious, he still used the term alumni, but Field would not have any misunderstanding.

“Are you sword technique very difficult to deal with? "Field asked without end.

"It's okay, but there aren't many swordsmen who can make me embarrassed. "

"Come on, there are training swords in the club." Field grabbed his uniform jacket and stood up. "

Half an hour later, on the second floor of the officers' club.

Field took off his helmet and wiped the sweat from his forehead, panting, "You brat really has something, didn't you?" 't expect a rookie, I'm still the one with the worst sword technique..."

Without training armor, only a helmet, and a sword technique contest up to the point, Winters beat Field 20-0. Winters Actually, I thought about giving Lieutenant Colonel a few points, but when he held the long sword, he only thought about winning. Lieutenant Colonel Field's sword technique level is far worse than his magical attainments.

"It's your turn. Field hooked his fingers at Moritz and threw his helmet to the major.

The pressure on Winters increased sharply against Moritz. The major deserved to be among the top players in the Army's internal competition. As a swordsman, his reaction speed and control after the sword are much better than Lieutenant Colonel brilliant.

But...still a little worse than Ike. Although Winters is indeed handled by Ike all the year round, but Aike Ke is a really top sword technique master. Winters keeps accumulating his sword technique over and over again, and he even nearly beat Ike in the end.

Major Moritz's sword technique is very good Strong, but he is only a first-class level. Not only can he not suppress Winters, but Winters the more fights the more brave is and won the game.

Lt Colonel Fidel looked aside Light.

"This year's competition depends on you to win glory for the military police, this guy Moritz is not motivated, you must practice hard. Field rushed up and held Winters' hand tightly: "must turn over all the beasts in the garrison command. ”

The flattered Winters are nodded again and again.

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(end of this chapter)