Pirate Kingship.

Chapter 341 Hot Weapons VS Stone Tools: Rifled Gun Punishment Hammer!

"It finally begins."

Byron and Violet sat up straight subconsciously, and a huge strategic map that looked like a God’s perspective slowly unfolded in front of them.

The entire battlefield in the midst of fierce fighting was presented before their eyes in the form of a three-dimensional image.

With the help of its large number of devout believers who serve as legal nodes, every detail of Tayapan is clearly visible.

Even the panicked expressions of the defenders on the city walls could be seen clearly.

"Enemy attack——!"

The city-states of the two indigenous empires were based on the one-city-one-country system. In addition, the city-states had been fighting each other for years to compete for sacrifices, so city defense was naturally always the top priority.

Before a round of saturation bombing began from all directions, on the ground and on the water.

The guards, whose bodies had grown scales, fangs, and even deformed tails and wings after being contaminated, had already noticed the movement outside the city in advance and had already climbed up the thick rock walls to garrison.

Moreover, unlike the knowledge in the "Book of Beast Families" (Volume 1) inherited by other city-states, whether it is a cheetah, tiger, brown bear, or other beast spirits, the indigenous warriors need to hunt them in the mountains and forests themselves during the coming-of-age ceremony.

The forbidden knowledge passed down by Tayapan, [Crown of the Dragon], also comes with methods of breeding sub-dragon species colorful dragon lizards and a series of other dragon veins.

Artificially breeding "animal souls" is naturally much more convenient than hunting wild animals.

Some of the higher quality colorful dragon lizards will become their contracted dragon souls, and the others will become beast tames in the city-state.

It is said that living with the five-colored dragon lizard for a long time can reduce the difficulty of practicing the corresponding black magic and even reduce the side effect called "greed".

Greedy for money, greedy for food, greedy for sex, greedy for power. Anyway, they have to suffer from one of the problems that the dragons in the legend of the "Dragon Court" in the Old World should have.

"sizzle"

"Ow Oo"

The red dragon lizards with fire attributes, the blue dragon lizards with water attributes, the white dragon lizards with ice attributes, the black dragon lizards with darkness attributes, and the green dragon lizards with wind attributes roared and rushed to the top of the city wall together with the guards.

It looks like a powerful and majestic army, with clusters of flowers in the east and west, and the colorful flowers look very bright.

But in front of "people with insufficient firepower phobia", everything is just "real fancy stuff"!
Boom boom boom boom
The shells fell, and blood and flesh flew everywhere!
The main purpose of the original city wall defense was to resist human sieges, and the defense against artillery was too weak, far from being as targeted as a large bastion.

Especially the wooden city gates. Although they were enchanted by the shaman's black magic, they were responsible for material support, counterattack out of the city, and life passage, etc. It was impossible to completely block them with stones.

Just one round of shelling instantly tore it into millions of exploding pieces.

The coalition forces did not take advantage of this opportunity to attack the city, but immediately launched the second, third, and fourth rounds of concentrated fire.

This is what the symptoms of "fear of insufficient firepower" are like.

If something can be solved with full firepower, manpower will never be used.

In Byron's words:
“In future battles, we must vent steel and fire, not soldiers.

We must leave countless bomb craters on the enemy's positions, with such a terrifying density that a person can jump from one bomb crater to another.

In other words, it can also be called "supersaturation bombing", which is the great art of changing geography with artillery fire.

With sufficient logistical support and unscrupulous firepower coverage, there is only one word to say: Bomb me!
With every additional enemy, I will face a flood of new illnesses.

Studying medicine can't save me, but bigger and more powerful artillery fire and my dearest Miss Violet, the 'gunpowder artist', can."

If one concentrated firepower cannot solve the problem, try again.

Hundreds of cast iron shells whizzed across the sky and fell into the city of Tayapan.

Even though most of them were blocked by the city walls, there were too many of them, and a large number of shells continued to bounce and crush over the city walls guarded by the fallen guards.

"Ahhh help me, my legs"

"my stomach."

Some of them were blown into bloody mist along with the dragon lizards, and it was normal to have missing limbs, while many were also cut in half on the spot.

However, after they fell, they seemed to have inherited some of the dragon lizards' abilities.

As long as the limb damage is not too serious, it can grow back again, which is obviously much stronger than the recovery ability of normal people.

If it were still the era of cold weapons, they would definitely have the upper hand.

Although the limbs that grew back were already lizard limbs, it also proved that they were gradually going down the path of depravity and there was no turning back.

At the same time, the ancient city walls that had stood firm throughout countless cold weapon wars were also rumbling from the shaking of artillery fire.

If you just keep getting beaten without fighting back, no matter how strong the city defense is, it will eventually collapse.

"Counterattack, counterattack, [Green Dragon Lizard Warriors] and Green Dragon Lizard Knights, take off and destroy their artillery positions for me."

[King with Curly Nose] Teohuacan roared angrily while wielding an obsidian saw sword of rare item level.

call out!call out!call out!
The wind-attributed and only flying species among the colorful dragon lizards took off into the air.

Gunpowder and bombs are not their strong points, but the various potions brewed by shamans are no less powerful than bombs.

Especially the "powerful voodoo potion", which will turn into a sticky poisonous mist as long as it comes into contact with humid air, and can corrode steel swords into slag in just a few breaths.

It is also enough to turn the heavy artillery into a pile of unusable scrap metal.

Seeing this scene, Byron and Violet were not worried at all. Instead, they were looking forward to the upcoming battle.

In this world, air force power is far less dominant than in a world without magic.

The various abilities of [Singer], such as the Forbidden Sky Song, the Law Mage's Law, and the Holy Prayer of the Temple Sequence, can cause heavy losses to low-level sky knights who invade their airspace and have low magic resistance.

Although the gathered indigenous coalition forces were not equipped with this capability, they had an air force that was larger than Tayapan.

"Wow—!"

The endless high-pitched eagle cries came from all directions.

The number of Green Dragon Lizard Warriors and Knights was less than a hundred at best, but the number of the surrounding [Eagle Spirit Warriors] who came from multiple city-states and transformed into golden eagles, eagles, horned eagles and other birds of prey was several times their number.

It flapped its wings and pounced forward without showing any weakness.

However, as soon as the two sides engaged in battle, the latter suffered a great loss.

Although they already knew from intelligence that these seemingly deformed dragon lizard warriors had been blessed with the power of the [God] Itsumna.

But he still underestimated the strength of their power increase.

Anyone who dared to rely on his own strength to engage in close combat with these dragon lizard warriors would have his wings torn off on the spot, howling and bleeding in the sky.

Those fallen ones with fangs in their mouths even bit down on the blood upon seeing it, and started feasting on it in mid-air.

It seemed that after transforming into a beast, it instantly gathered all the "greedy" characteristics of the dragon.

This also explains why [King of the Curled Nose] Teohuacan was so blinded by greed for five crystal skulls and the throne of emperor that he prepared to raid his powerful savior.

"Back off, don't get into close combat."

"They are no longer human, with 'deck clearing machines'."

At the same time, a ten-man air force team belonging to the Torrent Fortress, led by Wyandot, had already climbed to the top of the green dragon lizard warriors in advance, with a straight-line distance of about two hundred meters.

They are part of the "Wild Guides".

They turned into half-man, half-eagle figures, and each of them untied a firearm from their backs that looked like an ordinary flintlock musket. But if you looked inside the muzzle, you would find that the inside of the barrel was different from an ordinary smoothbore musket, and actually had a circle of threaded rifling.

These are not ordinary smoothbore guns, but a batch of well-made flintlock rifled guns!
——The new "Hammer of Punishment Model 1472 Flintlock Rifle" launched by the Torrent Fortress Arsenal.

Born long before Byron developed a phobia of pyrophobia.

"Each unit chooses the target closest to them and fires freely."

[Artillery Expert] Wyandotte gave the order and aimed his crosshairs at a dragon lizard warrior whose head and face were covered in human blood.

"Three two one, fire!"

After eleven gunshots in the night sky, eight dragon lizard warriors had their heads exploded and fell straight to the ground, turning into a pool of meat paste.

The bottle of medicine on his body shattered, and a highly corrosive green mist rose up, "sizzling" and turning the corpse into a pool of blood.

The remaining three were also badly injured. They flapped their wings hard but still spun and fell from the sky.

"Load!"

As soon as a shot was fired, this group of Eagle Spirit Warriors who doubled as [Artillery Experts] or [Musketeers] immediately reloaded.

However, the rifle bullets in their hands were different from the round bullets of normal smoothbore guns, but were very close to the conical modern pistol bullets.

In fact, one of the craftsmen with amazing hands-on skills had already invented the "rifled flintlock rifle".

That is the so-called "rifle" or "rifle", the word "rifle" originally means the rifling in the barrel.

There are many types of rifles, and it can be considered that any gun with rifling can be called a rifle.

The history of Byron’s previous life has proved that “rifling” is the soul of a gun barrel!

Because the rifling can give the bullet the ability to "spin", rifled guns often rely on the bullet's self-rotation to achieve a longer range and higher accuracy.

However, compared with its advantages, its series of disadvantages have prevented it from shaking the dominant position of the smoothbore gun for the time being.

First of all, the spiral rifling makes its manufacturing process more demanding, with higher time and labor costs.

The cost is naturally more expensive than a smoothbore rifle.

In addition, because of the rifling, the projectiles it uses must be larger than before, which makes loading difficult and greatly reduces the shooting frequency.

Moreover, the projectiles made of lead will deform when loaded with force, and may even get stuck directly in the grooves of the rifling, greatly increasing the risk of explosion.

In large-scale line-up shooting operations, the benefits of accuracy are far less than the disadvantages it brings.

However, although Violet failed to become the inventor of the [Holy Relic: The First Rifled Gun], she was able to bring it to the battlefield by improving a small bullet.

It will eventually become the first choice of all musketeers and artillery experts.

That was the new type of bullet inspired by Byron, which she named "rifled bullet".

The appearance is very close to the round-head bullet of modern pistols. The difference is that a reliable and stable primer has not yet been invented. There is only a bullet but no gunpowder.

But the characteristic of "rifled bullets" is that the caliber of the bullet is slightly smaller than that of a rifled gun, and it is easy to load, and is not inferior to a smoothbore gun.

Behind the bullet head, there is a cone-like groove, which is matched with a small oak plug.

After pulling the trigger, the instantaneous pressure generated by the gunpowder and the impact force of the oak will cause the groove to expand outward, thus matching the rifling on the barrel to form a suitable shape.

Thanks to the improvement of the projectile, the "Hammer of Punishment Model 1472 Flintlock Rifle Gun" equipped with rifled bullets has achieved a maximum range of 918 meters and a fantastic performance of being able to accurately hit within 500 meters!

You should know that at this time the range of an ordinary smoothbore rifle is still within a hundred meters.

Violet also relied on this seemingly insignificant little invention to make great strides on the path of "driving out ignorance with knowledge."

Not only did he obtain the [Holy Relic: First Rifled Bullet] which possessed the abilities of "spiral armor-piercing" and "100% hit rate within 5,000 meters", he also raised his spirituality to the fourth level.

After all, he did not let Byron fall behind and followed closely in his footsteps.

At this moment, the Wyandotte group, who were holding such advanced weapons, were not at the same level as the ordinary natives who were holding foreign trade version weapons.

Not to mention the Tayapans, whose majority is still in the Neolithic Age due to their resistance to large-scale trade.

boom! boom! boom!
Every bullet kills an enemy.

Seeing that most of the air force troops were destroyed before they could reach the artillery positions and the pirate fleet, the [King with the Curled Nose] Teohuacan was extremely angry and roared in anger.

But I am so sad that I still don’t understand why I am being attacked by so many people.

"Assholes, assholes, I will sacrifice you all to my Lord!"

It just delayed us for a while.

With a loud bang, a large section of the city wall, which was the most humid and less strong on the side close to the river bank, collapsed.

Having lost the city's defenses, the pirate fleet simply launched a few more rounds of metal storm-like shotgun shells, completely wiping out the defenders on this section of the city wall.

Since the air forces in other directions have already gained the advantage, they dropped piles of "wild explosive packs" from high above.

The blooming of gorgeous fireworks also broke the defenses of this city-state from all directions.

Both the contaminated ordinary guards and the dragon lizard warriors suffered heavy losses.

This is the consequence of committing a crime that causes public outrage.

It was not until they discovered that the range of ordinary artillery could no longer reach the central temple that the various forces finally sent out ground troops to pounce on the hedgehog whose thorns had been plucked out.

The mountains and plains were crowded with people everywhere.

There are too many, so many people coming, it’s really making my scalp numb!
The surviving dragon lizard warriors couldn't help but show despair in their eyes.

"Damn it! I just want a few skulls and be your emperor, why are you forcing me?

[God] Itsumna will send you all to hell!"

With a cold look in his eyes, Tiouhuacan cut his wrist and dripped his blood onto the crystal skull.

The turbid colorful spiritual light swarmed out like a flood and transformed into the five-headed dragon again.

Instead of attacking the enemy directly, it sucked in the entire city.

Those dead, injured, and intact [Dragon Lizard Warriors] all turned into mummies without any resistance.

The dragon lizard soul and extraordinary blood in the body were all swept away by the evil dragon.

This includes the strongest [King of Curled Nose] and the Great Shaman.

However, the five-headed dragon, which was originally a natural spirit, regained its flesh and blood body and truly descended on this indigenous city.

"Roar--!"

The terrifying colorful spiritual light exploded, and the violent dragon power swept across the entire city-state like a storm, instantly knocking out most of the civilians.

It also made all the coalition forces that had entered the city change their expressions.

Even Violet in front of the image stood up suddenly and cried out in surprise:

"Dragon?!"

(End of this chapter)