Starting from the world of martial arts

Donghai County Taishou Mansion. "My lord, we have already created what you said."

In the government office, a middle-aged man with a scruffy beard, carrying something like a long stick, hurried into the gate and shouted with joy.

Su Fan, who was discussing countermeasures with many scribes and military generals in the hall of the government office, suddenly heard a familiar voice and immediately stood up.

"Master Lu, it's really built."

Su Fan walked out of the government office hall like a flash, and his face was happy when he saw the 'spear' in Master Lu's hand.

"That's right, my lord, this is the musket you mentioned earlier. The flame gun we created with the secret rune technique is a bit more powerful than the musket."

On the pitch-black barrel, engraved with flowing runes, the body of the gun is like a shotgun from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but it is a bit bigger than the opponent.

Su Fan held it in his hand and weighed it. It weighed about 50 catties. This weight is impossible for future generations, and not many people can afford it.

But it's different in this world. Even for ordinary middle-aged men, as long as they are fed and drunk, a few months of exercise is enough.

Rune Flame Gun.

"Can I try it now?"

"Yes, my lord, give it a try." Master Lu also said excitedly when he heard the words. He followed Su Fan from Luoyang to Donghai, and he was very nervous at first.

But when he came to Donghai County, he realized that what the lord told him before was true. Here in Donghai County, ink craftsmen like them are very important, and they can also be officials.

Just like him now, he controls tens of thousands of people in the ink industry department.

It was something he had never imagined before.

And it was the man in front of him who caused all of this, and he was sincerely grateful.

"My lord, this rune flame gun is the same as the musket you told us, but we use runes instead of gunpowder,"

"However, due to energy reasons, this rune flame gun can only be fired ten times at a time. After ten times, the energy must be slowly recovered. With the rune source array we built, it will take a day to be able to fire This flame gun is full of energy"

"Ten times a day?"

Hearing this, Su Fan wasn't too disappointed. After all, it was already pretty good to be able to make it.

Su Fan turned to the rockery in the garden not far away, and pulled the trigger. Suddenly, the gun barrel fired a red light, like a laser.

boom!

Hearing an explosion, Su Fan saw a hole about the width of a fist appeared in the rockery.

This power is indeed a little stronger than the muskets they were asked to build before.

However, Su Fan's musket technique, that is, the shotgun, is not bad in the Xiaoao world, but in this world, it is really difficult.

It's hard to break armor.

Of course, if it is possible to research firearms of later generations, it is possible, but the gunpowder is very difficult.

So Su Fan mentioned to these ink workers that they should replace gunpowder with rune secrets.

Unexpectedly, in the past few years, it was actually researched for them.

With this power, one hundred meters should be able to break through one layer of armor. As for whether it can break through three layers of armor, of course Su Fan doesn't care.

After all, being able to wear armor is no longer an ordinary army.

Even if it is the imperial guards of the gods, not everyone wears armor, and most of them are not iron armor, but armor made of wood chips.

In an era when productivity has not improved significantly, iron armor is still only owned by officers.

After all, a pair of iron armor is the cheapest, and it costs tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. No ordinary person can afford it.

So the power of this rune flame gun is almost enough.

"Master Lu, what is the maximum range of this gun?"

A musket is not only powerful, but also needs to look at its range.

If there is no range, then this gun is useless, wouldn't a crossbow be better.

"My lord, this rune flame gun has a maximum range of one hundred feet, but as my lord said, the effective range is about fifty feet."

"Fifty feet? It's still a bit low, it's better to reach a hundred feet, or even farther away"

Hearing this, Su Fan shook his head and said.

Fifty feet, if placed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, is indeed not bad, but in this era, the effective range of common archers is more than a hundred feet.

After all, because of the vitality of heaven and earth, as long as they can eat enough and exercise, each of them will have great strength, and the range will be farther.

Therefore, the rune flame gun does not have an advantage over the archers. The only advantage is that the archers take a long time to form, but the musketeer does not take too long, about a month or two. .

“We have also started to improve”

Master Lu naturally understood.

"So is this rune flame gun energy-produced?" This is the most important thing. If it cannot be mass-produced, it will have no effect at all.

"Because of the manpower, now we can only build 300 pieces per month." At this point, Master Lu felt a little guilty.

This is indeed very low yield.

There are 300 guns per month, and no more than 3,000 guns a year. Not to mention the loss of training, only 3,000 guns are only armed with 3,000 people.

For the 300,000 army under the lord's command, that is really a drop in the bucket.

"The output is too low, can it be increased, at least 3,000 per month"

Su Fan also knows that this thing must not be so simple to make. The barrel alone cannot be made of ordinary steel. It must be mixed with some fine iron or something, plus rune secrets, it is not ordinary. Artisans can do it.

"this."

"Difficulties?"

"My lord, the main reason is that there are too few ink craftsmen who know the secret art of runes." Master Lu's face was full of bitterness.

"In this way, I will give you fifty people from the school, and they will almost graduate."

Su Fan thought for a while and said.

"Really, that's great." Hearing this, Master Lu beamed with joy.

Su Fan instantly understood that this old fox might have already set his mind on him.

The school was founded by him in the East China Sea Territory. It has been six years, and almost all the students in that batch were good enough to graduate.

Although most of the cultivation bases are very low, only around the fourth or fifth level of soul cultivation, these students are quite good at depicting runes.

After all, in the school, the ones who teach them ideas are the methods of Mogong, and the professionalism is quite strong.

"You, you're playing tricks with me now." Su Fan shook his head with a smile.

This guy was so honest and honest at the beginning, but after a few years, the other party has become tricky.

Of course Su Fan wasn't angry either.

"I've given you the fifty people, so you have to increase the output to me. Since the rune flame gun can be researched, then the Thunder Talisman should also be able to do it."

"Thundergun should be more powerful"

"Hmm! The thunder gun is somewhat possible, but the material of the barrel is still being researched"

"Not bad! As long as I research it, I won't be stingy"

"There is also the rune cannon. Since the gun can be researched, it will not be difficult to think about the rune cannon."

Su Fan's words made Master Lu feel bitter.

"My lord, the rune cannon is more difficult than the musket, and we don't have enough manpower at all"

On this point, he really didn't lie. They also studied the rune cannon, but the number of them was too small, and now it's just superficial.

"It doesn't matter, let's produce rune flame guns at full capacity for the time being, and wait for the fifty students to grow up and be able to take on the role. You will not be short of manpower."

Su Fan glanced at him and smiled.