The correct way to open the elf

Chapter 61 Anthony's Compromise
Feng Yu smiled and said, "That's fine. You're very smart, Brother Allen, but it's too slow. It's like the halfling brother using his kettle to get water from the river. I'll take you to see a small experiment later and you'll understand how to use this machine to pump water."

The water pump that Feng Yu designed for the steam engine was not the centrifugal water pump commonly seen in daily life, because the current steam engines were still too primitive and did not have such a high rotation speed, so it was impossible to pump up water, and there were no suitable water pipes.

Although the steam engine is slower, it has one feature compared to the water pump, which is that it is more powerful. In view of this feature of the steam engine, Feng Yu planned to build several water troughs in the seawater pool and the riverside with stone powder, and use a spiral water pump that can pump a large amount of water even at a low speed to pump water.

This type of water pump has a large water flow rate and is still in use on modern Earth. Feng Yu once saw a spiral water pump working in Germany, and the scene was very spectacular.

As for the hammering machines, cutting machines and drilling machines used by Dick for blacksmithing, they had already been designed and were just waiting for Dick and the others to make steam engines one by one.

Feng Yu also had another purpose for doing this, which was to let Dick use these machines so that the reputation of these machines would spread back to the Dwarf Kingdom along with the dwarves who came here, and eventually sell a batch of these machines to the Dwarf Kingdom.

This would not only bring back some of the funds, but also earn the friendship of the dwarves. After all, the elves, dwarves, and halflings combined were not as many as a fraction of humans, and Feng Yu could not ignore any ally.

By freeing up some of the dwarves' productivity, these idle dwarves can come to the Great Wasteland and be employed by Feng Yu.

Dwarves are an important part of Feng Yu's future plans. These dwarves are strong and have a low chassis. They can mine, forge iron, and process parts. They can wear heavy armor in battle and play the roles of musketeers, stormtroopers, and transport soldiers on the battlefield. They can also pick up double-flowered axes and fight for a hundred rounds with the enemy.

Although it is not perfect, it is much better than the relatively weak halflings.

In Feng Yu's future strategic conception, the dwarves will be the first-row warriors, and the elves will be the best long-range snipers. As for the halflings, they are logistical talents and the only candidates for the kitchen team. After all, the food of the elves and dwarves is really not that good.

Feng Yu was also planning to teach the halflings surgical medical knowledge, but he was not sure whether the creatures in this world could accept surgical treatment. However, suturing wounds would be no problem after all, as there were not many magicians among the elves who knew medical spells such as healing and recovery.

It was not known whether Mr. Anthony had figured it out or had given up, but the elf reserve archers that Feng Yu had requested finally arrived, ten more than Feng Yu's minimum requirement, totaling to thirty.

Since the old man had compromised, Feng Yu didn't hesitate and accepted all of them. He also asked Allen and Dick for thirty halfling boys and dwarf boys each, and began to conduct preliminary training for these ninety warriors.

Of course, Feng Yu would not personally conduct training in basic subjects, so he left this task to his smart student Marshall.

Marshall Qingjin was the most serious and the best student in daily queue training among Feng Yu's students. He was the vanguard selected by Feng Yu. He was lively, cheerful and not stage-frightened, making him very suitable to be a small instructor.

Feng Yu had other things to do, and was afraid that these new recruits would not listen, so he thought of a trick. He pulled Nicole over to calm the situation, and the beautiful sister Nicole stood aside. These new recruits were more obedient than each other, and were afraid of making mistakes and embarrassing themselves in front of Nicole.

Feng Yu is now busy drilling gun barrels and cannon barrels. In order to produce fixed bullets, he also needs to make a steam engine-driven stamping machine to stamp out bullet shells and primers.

In addition, his schedule also included helping the halflings survey the layout of the canals, the location of the screw pumps, etc. It can be said that he was too busy to do anything.

Without industrial alcohol refined from petroleum, Feng Yu had to find a way to increase grain production, especially high-yield sweet potatoes, which could be harvested twice or even three times a year in the desert climate and were an important source of alcohol in his plan.

In addition, cotton crops, which the Halflings call cloth cotton, must be planted together with alcohol to mass-produce smokeless gunpowder, so the construction of canals to ensure irrigation of the wasteland is of utmost importance.

This would require more halflings to participate in farming. In order to free up more halfling labor, Feng Yu also developed spinning machines, looms, threshers, flour mills and other machines that occupied a lot of the halflings' labor.

In addition, wine-making workshops, gunpowder factories, etc. need to be built, and these tasks give Feng Yu a headache.

However, in order to prove to old man Anthony that the new muskets have the ability to protect the camp, Feng Yu still has to process the guns first to ensure that future plans can get Anthony's support and increase the confidence of the three tribes in the camp.

After all, many people are well aware of the situation in the camp. Without any hard and fast truth, no one is willing to waste their efforts on a camp that may be abandoned at any time.

There were not many options for firearms. Without an automated bullet production line and sufficient supply of gunpowder, there was no way to have an automatic rifle, and processing that thing was also difficult. So Feng Yu chose a bolt-action rifle, which was the Mauser 98K rifle, a super-famous gun on the Internet with its own battle song.

The reason why he chose this thing is because he had played with this gun abroad because of its reputation. Another reason is that this gun has a very good machine aiming mechanism. Unlike the M24 and AWM, it is basically useless without a dedicated sniper scope.

Although Feng Yu had managed to make highly transparent glass, a professional ultra-long-range sniper scope or telescope was not only made of glass, but also required a coating process to enhance brightness. Given Feng Yu's current conditions, the difficulty of making this was no different from making Big Ivan, as he was completely in the dark.

He also underestimated the difficulty of making a low-magnification sniper scope by manually polishing the lens. He provided a lot of glass to the jewelry master in the camp, but only a few usable pieces were polished out.

In order to reduce the difficulty of manufacturing, he had to settle for the second best and convert the Mauser 98k, named the Elf Rifle, into a machine-sighted rifle.

However, the first firearm Feng Yu made was not the Elf Rifle, but a Barrett sniper rifle that Feng Yu named the Demon Hunting Rifle, which was specially designed to attack high-value tactical targets.

In order to increase the safety of the barrel, Feng Yu thickened the barrel wall, and the bullet was also a larger special model, specially made for sniper bullets, but only a few were produced in total, and only one sniper rifle was produced.

(End of this chapter)