Warlord: King of All Clans

Hewan's current guns are all hand-made by gunsmiths. The various machine tools purchased from the imperial capital during this period can only improve their production speed and manufacturing accuracy, but they cannot be immediately iterated to industrialized production.

Valeri, the head craftsman, has already mastered Leo's assembly line production model.

In the workshop he manages, there are almost no craftsmen who make finished products individually. Instead, all products are disassembled into large parts and put into the workshop's assembly line for production.

Those low-level craftsmen and craftsmen's apprentices did not have the ability to build an entire musket, but they could specialize in the production of parts such as wrought iron barrels, flintlocks, wooden stocks, and paper-wrapped bullets.

If the parts were not hand-made by different craftsmen, no matter how strict the requirements were, there would be errors in the assembled parts, which would affect the performance of the musket or seriously reduce production efficiency. Valeri would have liked to split it into basic parts to manufacture it.

Now, the Hewan gunsmiths have been able to increase the speed of making muskets to one per half a month using new machine tools.

The musket workshop, which consisted of twenty mid-level craftsmen and eighty junior craftsmen, was divided into five workshops and could produce two hundred qualified muskets in a month.

If the alloy gun barrels from the Imperial Capital Alchemy Workshop arrive, there will be no need to make the barrels ourselves, and we will only be responsible for manufacturing other parts, and the output can be further increased.

This muzzle-loading smoothbore flintlock rifle, which was officially put into use, has basically no major improvements except for the optimization of materials and structure, and is basically the same as the hunting rifle that Leo had tested before.

However, with continuous shooting tests and optimization, its performance has been greatly improved, with the effective range increased from 50 meters to 100 meters, and the maximum range increased from 200 meters to 300 meters.

In other words, its range has reached the level of a high-quality longbow in the North, and its power has reached the level of an enchanted heavy crossbow in the South.

In terms of production cost, the three are currently not much different, but with the development of technology, the cost of muskets will only get lower and lower, but the longbow and heavy crossbow have reached their limit.

Moreover, the Northern Longbow, which weighs over 100 pounds, and the foot-operated crossbow that can penetrate armor, take a very long time to produce, and the time cost is also a cost.

Whether it is the longbow of the North or the heavy crossbow of the South, the armor-piercing steel arrows they consume are far more expensive than the lead bullets of the musket.

More importantly, the training cost of musketeers is extremely low.

A civilian with all his limbs intact can master musket shooting and become an entry-level musketeer after half a month of live-fire training.

But if you want to master the longbow and heavy crossbow, you will need three to five years to train your physical strength and skills, and you won’t be able to finish shooting a bag of arrows.

The reason why the Wildfolk Hunters of River Bay are so powerful is that the Wildfolk who have obtained the title of Wildfolk Hunter have all undergone more than ten years of archery training.

So to sum up the above, this flintlock rifle is already a qualified weapon of war.

Of course, Leo has more than one type of musket in his hands, but only this muzzle-loading smoothbore flintlock can provide stable firepower on the battlefield.

Several other breech-loading flintlocks, rifled guns, and Minié rifles all sound more advanced, but with Hewan's industrial capabilities, they all have various defects when produced.

The airtightness problem of the breech-loading flintlock rifle could not be solved, and its power was not as good as that of the muzzle-loading smoothbore rifle.

The problems of lead hanging and gunpowder residue in rifled guns cannot be solved, and their endurance is not as good as that of muzzle-loading smoothbore guns.

These deficiencies can be compensated by the alchemy laboratory in Morse's Mage Tower, but the cost is a tenfold increase, making it impossible to put it into mass production.

Leo was not too worried as he watched his first group of musketeers follow the baggage train to the front line.

Compared to fighting against the longbows of the North, the heavy crossbows of the South, or being charged by the heavily armored cavalry, the musketeers on the walls of Fort Buck could play to their advantage when facing the nomadic peoples of the West.

If half of Hewan's elite troops and firepower were invested in Buck Fortress, but still could not defend it, Nario could only admit that he could not take it at this stage and deserved to return it to others.

After returning to the river bend, as soon as Olivia got off the Pegasus, she picked up Six with her left hand and Fesa with her right hand to prevent them from taking the opportunity to escape.

Leo followed behind and marveled at the thought. It was true that being a mother was different. She had much more strength.

Olivia walked to the Mage Tower, threw Fisa in, and warned, "If you dare to walk out of this door without my permission, I will let the Kobolds change their queen!"

"My Seti is much more obedient. It's not impossible for her to be the queen of the kobolds."

Fesha cried in grievance, but seeing that Olivia showed no mercy, she tucked her tail between her legs and went to continue studying with Master Morse.

Then he carried Xix to the portal and warned her: "You should go to the palace and fish for goldfish happily. You can't go home until you catch all the goldfish in the palace!"

Olivia originally captured Six back home because she was afraid that he would play too crazy in the palace, but she later found that it was safer for the little guy to continue playing with the Elf Queen in the palace.

After saying that, he didn't care about Six's reaction and threw it directly into the portal.

After dealing with the number one and number two figures of the Kobold Tribe, Olivia clapped her hands and sighed, "They are both troublesome little guys."

Then she realized it belatedly, grabbed Leo's hand, and said in surprise: "Six has conquered a city for us!"

These days she followed Leo and hurriedly flew to Buck Fortress, busy teaching the dog a lesson and assigning labor. When she came back, she suddenly realized that she had one more city.

Leo secretly found it funny, but he was also a little dazed, so he could only sigh: "Alas, the children have grown up."

Olivia grumbled, "Have you grown up? Then you have to consider marriage, which is a big problem..."

Leo said hurriedly: "There's no need to be so anxious."

"Next, I will continue to work for the Elf Queen in the Imperial Capital. You still have to keep an eye on the river bay. As for Fort Buck, whether it is war or peace talks, there will be a result within half a month. We still have a lot to do."

If it was just three to five thousand Western Border troops coming in for a demonstration, Leo wouldn't have to worry at all, but if Talhanberk was preparing to gather a large army to attack Buck Fortress, it would take more than a few days to complete.

The population distribution in the West is even looser than in the North, and the nearest castle is three hundred miles away from Buck Fortress.

The Western Border Cavalry marches quickly, but they cannot go without food and water and attack the city with their bare hands. They still need to prepare food and siege weapons.

The nomadic forces in the western border near the border would sneak into the northern and southern borders to forage for food and crops every spring and autumn, but there were almost no cases of them capturing fortified cities. They basically bypassed the cities, plundered food and people, and left.

Now that Buck Fortress is in the hands of Hewan, and there is no other road from the west to the territory of Isenpor, Talhanberk only has two choices.

Either attack or negotiate.

A few days later, while Leo was still in the imperial capital, he got the news that the furious Talhanberk had chosen the former.

Without a second thought, the wage earner Leo went to his boss to complain.