Above the Pirate King

Chapter 39 Ordnance
Early in the morning.

Ordnance Factory of the Kingdom of Saint Martin.

The factory is located on the outskirts of the western part of St. Maarten and is manned by a company.

Today, an unusual plume of black smoke appeared over the ordnance factory.

Inside the factory.

There were only five people inside at this time.

The leader is Arthur.

And then there was Shigekuni Yamamoto, Minister of Industry and Industry Giles, the military minister.

One of the last two was a strong man in his forties wearing a military uniform, and he was Dale, the head of the ordnance factory.

There is also an old man with gray hair, glasses, and wrinkled face, who is the dean of the Kingdom Academy of Sciences, Gnar.

Five people are happily surrounding a long production line.

"Crack Kacha!"

On the production line, various parts were assembled together continuously, and slowly, the shape of a gun appeared.

Exactly, the Mauser rifle production line.

On the side, Dale, Gnar, and Giles were holding a blueprint with excitement.

"Perfect, perfect!" Dale said looking at the drawing in disbelief.The firearms in the blueprint were exactly the ones he wanted!
"Steam can still be used like this?" Gnar said excitedly.

This production line is exactly the production line of the Mauser rifle, a complete production line powered by steam.

Originally, Arthur thought that the full set of production lines would be bullets and firearms at most. Unexpectedly, not only bullets and firearms, but also various parts, gunpowder production in bullets, etc., it is a complete set to the extreme.

With this set of production lines, even in the primitive era, as long as there are raw materials, Arthur can make guns for you.

Therefore, when this production line came out, Arthur also called Giles and Gnar to study the technology contained in it. Even if a little bit of research was done, it would be a step forward for the kingdom's technology.

"rumble---"

After a while, accompanied by the roar of the machine, the first gun appeared.

There are many versions of the Mauser rifle.

And this production line produces the most famous version, Kar.98k, commonly known as 98k.

The effective range is 800 meters, the initial rate of fire is 750 meters, the magazine capacity is five rounds, the total length is 1.1 meters, the barrel length is [-] cm, and the rate of fire is about fifteen rounds per minute!

Arthur picked up the gun, gestured, and loaded the bullets that had already been produced into the gun.

"Let's go to the shooting range and try!" Arthur said enthusiastically,

"Your Majesty, this way please!" Dale quickly made a gesture of invitation, leading the way.

Shigekuni Yamamoto, Giles, and Gnar quickly followed!

The shooting range is next to the factory, not very big, with a radius of 500 meters.

As soon as he arrived at the shooting range, Arthur frowned.

If nothing else, the shooting range is too small.

The furthest target is only 500 meters, which is too close for a range of 98K.

"Wait!" Arthur stopped Dale, "Go in and set the target, I'll try it here!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Although Dale was a little puzzled, he still nodded.

Although he has seen the blueprint of the firearm, he does not know the specific power!
Arthur retreated more than 100 meters.

When Dale set the target, Arthur raised the gun and closed his eyes.

aim.

"boom!"

Bullets fired.

A hole appeared in the center of the target.

Before anyone else could say anything, Arthur retreated another 200 meters, reaching 800 meters.

aim.

"boom!"

This time I hit it again, but not the center, but around the ninth ring.

"Bang bang bang!"

Arthur fired three shots in a row, emptying the magazine of bullets, all nine rings!
It's not that Arthur's marksmanship is bad, but that the 800-meter bullet is starting to drift a bit, but it's still an effective range.

"En!" Arthur nodded in satisfaction.

"Based on the power of this gun, the rate of fire, and the clip, as long as there are thirty or fifty guns that cooperate properly, even if the general major is not proficient in iron or armed with domineering colors, he will feel very uncomfortable, and finally dies in embarrassment. Escape!" Shigekuni Yamamoto analyzed seriously.

Although his weapon is a knife, as a military minister he also knows a lot about firearms, and the power of this gun has exceeded his expectations.

At this time, Dale also ran over, looking at the gun in Arthur's hand in a little shock!
Unexpectedly, this gun can hit the target so far!
"Starting today, we will do our best to produce this kind of guns, and strive to replace the whole army with this kind of guns within four months!" Arthur ordered to Dale. If this production line runs 24 hours a day, it can produce about two Hundreds of guns.

"Your Majesty, what's the name of this gun?" Dale asked puzzled.

"What's the name?" Arthur said after pondering for a moment, "It's called the St. Martin's Rifle!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Dale said respectfully, then hesitated and said, "Then, Your Majesty, what about the remaining guns and the previous production line?"

Arthur pondered for a moment, and said, "Continue to produce, I will be useful in a while!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Dale nodded.

What is the most profitable thing to do in this world?

Of course it's ammunition!

Arthur has been thinking about this idea for more than a day or two.

Since the blood port town of the Chris family was taken over, with the gold given by Arthur, they quickly recruited another team and occupied the territory of a small family.

After transferring the site, they started to resume their old business again, but because the site they occupied was too remote, the business has not improved, only some old customers from the past came!
With the remoteness of the site, the cost of smuggling and transportation has naturally increased a lot, and the selling price has also increased a lot, but you are not the only one selling arms in Xihai.

Pirates, why don't the Mafia choose the cheaper one?
Now is the right time to supply the obsolete guns to the Chris family and let them sell them.

Even the guns that were eliminated in the Kingdom of St. Maarten can be regarded as high-quality goods in the outside world. Recently, they have been changed to steam production line mechanical production, which is much more accurate than manual production outside, and the price is much cheaper.

It is better and cheaper, and it must be a hot-selling product when it is taken out.

Supplying the pirates, the mafia, and the kingdom at war, it's all worth it!
"Dalle, have those things been produced?" Arthur asked.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the Academy of Sciences gave us the recipe blueprints a month ago, and some were hand-produced yesterday. How about I bring some over for you to see?" Dale asked.

"Well, go get it!" Arthur nodded.

After a while, Dale came back, followed by several craftsmen, carrying three things.

The first thing is a wooden handle-shaped thing, that's right, it's a grenade.

This thing is easy to operate, easy to use, and easy to carry. The range depends entirely on the user's arm strength, and it also has good power. It has a miraculous effect when infantry fights at close range.

There are all kinds of weird black technologies in Pirates, there are even bombs that can blow up a city, or explosive rocks that can be amazingly powerful, but there are no grenades.

The only thing that resembles a grenade is the shell that Karp throws with his hand.

But is that something normal people can lose?

A normal person who can throw a few meters is considered to have relatively strong hand strength.

In this case, Arthur ordered people to research the grenade.

The research difficulty of the grenade is not high. The basic composition consists of three parts, the projectile body, the charge and the fuze, so it is easy to research it!

This is ready to equip the army of the Kingdom of St. Martin!
The second type is what Arthur is going to sell.

Flying thunder cannon, commonly known as heartless cannon, is simple to make and easy to operate, but it has a short range and is dangerous, and it is easy to hurt your own people.

However, it has another advantage that other guns cannot match, the price is extremely low.

The production materials are a tin bucket and some explosives.

Therefore, imitation is also easy.

However, the one made by Arthur is different from the general heartless cannon.

It is not made of tin tube. In order to delay the imitation time as much as possible, it is made into a faucet shape. The inside looks more complicated and has a certain thickness!

Of course, the core is still unconscionable guns, and the price is relatively low. It is suitable for those kingdoms that have relatively little money, pirates, and mafia. Anyway, they don’t need to use too good ones.

There is also a third.
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