Chapter 4: Gunpowder, machinery and steam

　　 "Boom!"
　　 A loud noise not far away fell into the trench with a lot of dust, hit Leo, and pulled him out of the state of checking himself, making him realize that this is not a good place to think about.
　　 At this time, a figure suddenly rolled in awkwardly from outside the trench, and when he fell on the ground, he cursed several times with a kind of native English language with a rustic flavor.
Although Leo was aware of the moment this figure appeared, he did not make any precautions or offensive actions because he knew this figure, that is, the bearded man who rescued him from the battlefield and dragged him to this bunker for treatment. .
"God bless you, I know Leo, you kid will not be in trouble." The bearded man shook his head, shaking off the dust on his head, and saw Leo sitting on the trench wall, A sincere smile suddenly bloomed on his face, and he stepped forward to hug Leo, patting his back like an old friend, and then let him go, patting his shoulder lightly and lightly. Said happily.
　　 was treated with such enthusiasm for the first time, which made Leo uncomfortable. He frowned and secretly drove his vice brain to search for memory fragments, and soon found information about the bearded man.
　　 This bearded man is Leo’s comrade-in-arms, named Jason, because he is only a free man in the Kingdom of England, so he has no surname.
　　Just like Leo had to join the army in order to offset the debts on his body, Jason chose to join the army in order to offset the robbery on his body. As for the items he robbed, it was just a piece of bread.
Jason is a little silly, with a muscular mind, and often does some inexplicable things, but the human nature is not bad. Once he is recognized as a friend, he will be treated sincerely, even with his life, just like he just did Braving the sky of artillery, he ran to the battlefield to rescue Leo.
　　The reason why Leo will be recognized as a friend by Jason is mainly because Leo just saw several soldiers playing tricks on Jason after he was assigned to the subordinates. He was not a wise man himself, and he was bullied like this in the past, and he was deceived before he came to the end. So after seeing this similar scene, a grievance broke out, relying on his superior physical fitness Then, I stepped up and taught the soldiers a few times, and then was recognized as a friend by Jason.
　　 "Jason, you fool, lighter, my wound has just healed!" Leo said according to the tone of memory.
　　 "Hehe!" Jason smirked and moved a lot.
　　 "Thank you!" Leo thumped Jason's chest and said sincerely: "If you risk getting here, maybe I'm dead now."
　　 "Hehe!" I have never heard any other people's thanks in the past. Jason didn't know how to deal with it for a while, so he only touched the back of his head with a smirk.
Leo likes to get along with people who don’t need any brains, because he doesn’t have to worry about the knife from the back. In the past, most of the players in the squad he manages are such people, so he also has such people. Extensive experience in dealing with each other.
The most important point when dealing with such people is to go straight, because if you talk too much, the other party will be difficult to understand, and even take some euphemisms seriously, so Leo pointed out of the ditch after saying hello, directly Asked: "How is the situation outside?"
"It's terrible." Jason put away the smile on his face and became serious, said: "I heard the third wing guy said that the first army headquarters in the barrel town was taken off by a blue hat. Now, the blue hat has formed a siege circle, and the siege is here. The third team is preparing to break through and retreat. I came to you and I want to retreat together."
Upon hearing Jason’s words, Leo just frowned slightly. Although it’s not hard to hear from Jason’s words, the situation here is very tense, but for Leo, who has experienced the interstellar battlefield, this kind of tension The situation is just a trivial drizzle.
　　In an era in which there is no scientific and technological means to assist in enemy search and can only rely on the judgment of both eyes, no matter how tight the encirclement of the enemy army is, Leo can easily find the loopholes in the encirclement and escape.
The problem now is that Leo doesn’t know where to escape, because there is no knowledge of geography in the past memory fragments. He doesn’t even know where the battlefield is located in the French Empire, so even if he escapes, he will be the same You will be lost, maybe you will go in the wrong direction.
Thinking of this, Leo looked at Jason and shook his head. Obviously, with Jason’s wisdom, he probably couldn’t know much about geographical knowledge, so his eyes shifted to the side and he was still in a daze. Dr. Nelson who came.
　　 Well-educated Dr. Nielsen should have complete geographic knowledge, even if the knowledge is just floating on paper, it is enough for Leo to bring them out of trouble.
Thinking of this, Leo moved to Dr. Nielsen's side, reached out and patted the other person's shoulders, making the tone as honest as possible, comforting: "Doctor, please mourn! This is war, not you die, I die, everyone It is possible to die in the next moment, all we can do is live alive."
　　 "Hoo! Yes, this is the war!" Dr. Nielsen, who was in a low mood, regained his breath, suffocated in his chest, and then gritted his teeth with his teeth.
　　 "That's right, war!" Jason on the side also agreed deeply and echoed loudly.
Seeing that Dr. Nielsen had recovered, Leo directly repeated the current form that Jason said to him, and asked, "Dr. Nielsen, what do you think we should do now?"
　　 Dr. Nielsen was silent for a moment and asked Leo: "What are you going to do?"
　　Leo said directly: "If we continue to stay here, we will definitely be captured. I don't want to be a captive."
　　 "Neither do I want to be a captive." Jason shouted aside.
　　 Dr. Nielsen was silent for a while, when the artillery outside the trench stopped suddenly, and only sporadic gunshots sounded from time to time.
　　 Leo quickly made a judgment: "Their encirclement has been arranged. Next, they will advance to the battlefield and tighten the encirclement."
Jason didn’t feel anything about Leo’s remarks, but Dr. Nielsen was very surprised to see Leo. If Leo’s first-hand treatment of trauma just made him look at the country boy who didn’t look very old. If so, then Leo’s analysis of the battlefield situation and the inference of the enemy’s use of troops have shocked him, and he can’t help but wonder about Leo’s identity.
　　According to the identity card on Leo’s military uniform, Leo should be just an ordinary person in rural Yorkshire, but Leo’s knowledge is no worse than those of the National Academy’s prospective bachelors, which is really difficult to understand.
　　 Leo asked in a hurry: "Dr. Nelson, did you make a decision? Do you want to stay or leave with us?"
There was a hint of hesitation flashing on Dr. Nelson's face. Although he was a military doctor in the Kingdom of England, he was a registered doctor of Weilon Medical College. This identity can ensure that even if he is captured, he will not suffer any harm, only After the war is over, he will be released and returned to his country, so staying and not running around is his best choice now.
　　 But for some reason, he felt that if he chose to escape with Leo from the battlefield, he might encounter some interesting things.
　　 "Let's go together! I don't like being a prisoner." Dr. Nielsen had an inexplicable trust in his intuition, and his adventurous personality made him make a decision immediately.
"Okay, now sort the items, search for all the things that can be used, and we don't know what will be needed and what will be encountered on the way to escape, so it is best to prepare a little more." See Dr. Nielsen to make a decision , Leo immediately arranged things, and then took out a very old mechanical watch from his arms, looked at the time above, and said: "Twenty minutes of preparation time, whether it is ready or not Leave immediately. Now, act now!"
Dr. Nielsen and Jason, who had never received such an order, were overwhelmed and did not know what to do after hearing the order, and Leo immediately made a demonstration to resist the pain of the abdominal wound and quickly walked In the collapsed ruin bunker, look for everything that can be used on the bodies.
Seeing the demonstration made by Leo, although the two were not accustomed to picking things from the dead, they also felt that Leo was right, so they stepped forward and found all possible uses according to Leo's way. On something.
Perhaps the sealed medical gown and mask on her body were too obstructive, and Nielsen did not care about any possible infections. She took off her clothing, took off the mask, folded it carefully, and put it in the medicine you just found. Inside the bag.
　　 Dr. Nielsen, who showed his true face, surprised Leo.
　　 Nielsen's slightly hoarse voice and the identity of the medical school tutor made Leo feel that the other party should be very old, but in fact Nelson is very young, and it should look only about thirty years old.
　　Although Leo is not very clear about how difficult it is to obtain the identity of a mentor of Velon Medical College, from the special status of Velon Medical College in the Velon world, it is obviously not an easy task to become a mentor of the medical school.
　　 requires not only extremely high medical skills, but also a certain identity.
　　 At this time, Leo noticed a noticeable scar on Nelson's neck. Judging from the trace, it should be an old wound, which was also the reason why he spoke hoarsely.
　　 Nielsen seemed to be particularly sensitive to his sight. Leo’s eyes only stayed a little on his neck, which was also felt by him. He just frowned, pulled up his collar, and covered the scars on his neck. Without saying much, he continued to search for useful items.
　　 Leo did not ask, after all, the relationship between the two sides has not been good enough to interfere with the other party’s private affairs, and it is not a good time to talk about private affairs.
　　Refocused on the ruins of the bunker in front of him, and soon found a lot of useful things, such as unopened cans, intact medical bags, some coins from the kingdom of France, a few daggers and swords, and so on.
　　 But the most valuable thing he found was a set of ten-barreled mechanical crossbows found on the body of an officer.
　　 This mechanical crossbow is very precise. A large number of gears are meshed together. With some special devices that Leo can't understand the principle, it forms a gorgeous killer weapon.
　　 Even the crossbow is not big, and can be picked up with one hand. After Leo found it, he adjusted it to a single-shot state and tested its power.
　　The slap-sized steel arrow fired from the crossbow easily shot a steel plate for defense not far away, and the extra force could make it penetrate deeply into the soil.
　　 "The power of this thing is much better than those guns!" Jason couldn't help but show envy after seeing the results of the experiment, and looked at the breech gun in his hand very disgustingly.
　　 Gunpowder weapons have been around for more than three hundred years, and they have been improving from the moment they appeared. Those in power hope that these weapons can be used as a weapon for siege.
　　 It was counterproductive because of the shortage of gunpowder itself. Gunpowder weapons have never been able to become the mainstream of weapons.
I don’t know whether it’s because of the basic elements of this world or because of other unknown mysterious forces. In short, the gunpowder in this world is very unstable. The same proportion of gunpowder sometimes fails to ignite, and sometimes the power of the explosion is far greater. The quality of gunpowder itself.
After a long period of research, some people were able to use a depressant additive to keep the gunpowder that often shows super strength after the outbreak stays in a relatively small range, which solves this often threatening gunpowder users and surrounding The big problem with other people's lives.
　　It is just that, while solving a big problem, another problem in which gunpowder stimulates disorder has never been able to find a solution, which often makes gunpowder weapons often appear as dummies.
　　 For this reason, the military of various countries can only use a variety of outside moves to solve this problem.
　　Early military forces in various countries simply asked soldiers to bring a few more guns. Once dummies appeared, they changed to a gun. When the guns were all used up, the enemy should not be far away.
Later, after someone invented the rifle gun and the magazine, the military of various countries made another device. This device will allow the firearm to eject the impacted ammunition after the impact of the ammunition, regardless of whether the ammunition is triggered. The next ammo came up.
Usually a ten-round magazine can trigger at least one, two or more bullets. Although the number of triggers is small, if there are a large number of firearms and large-scale concentrated shooting, it can still have considerable lethality, so now the military of various countries will only Equip this extremely unstable weapon.
　　In addition to these two methods, a few highly developed civilizations on the three continents, such as the Kingdom of England and the French Empire, also invented a special stabilizer.
　　This stabilizer not only stabilizes the power of gunpowder weapons, but also stabilizes the triggering of gunpowder, so that the use of firearms is not much different from the use of gunpowder weapons in the old age of the earth.
　　It's just that the production of this stabilizer is not only complicated, but also the materials used are very rare, so the price is extremely expensive.
　　Due to the price problem, this kind of ammunition can only be equipped in small quantities, most of which are supplied to the nobles of the kingdom and high-level military use.
　　 In addition, strategic weapons such as steam tanks and steam warships in various countries will also be equipped with a special bomb with stabilizer added. For example, the shell that just blown up the bunker is such a special ammunition.
　　Compared to guns that are limited by gunpowder, mechanical crossbows that still fire arrows with mechanical principles are the main weapon of the armed forces of various countries.
　　 For example, this beautiful Locke Crossbow is now in Leo's hand.
The mechanics who have used the mechanical gears to the extreme in the Locke Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the Inge Kingdom, miniaturized the ancient siege strong crossbow, and equipped with an arrow box, three minutes can shoot a fifty arrow box, It can penetrate the steel plate within two hundred meters and effectively kill within five hundred meters.
The crossbow in Leo's hand is the Locke III type crossbow specially customized for the army of the Inge Kingdom by the Rock Machinery Institute. This type of crossbow is mainly based on range and lethality. In addition, there are more advanced Rock II and crossbows. Locke type one.
　　 Even the hostile French Empire had to admit that Rocken Crossbow is one of the most powerful weapons in the entire Velon world. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com
However, this kind of crossbow also has shortcomings. The biggest shortcoming is that some precision gear parts are easy to damage when used continuously. Repair and replacement will be very troublesome. Only a formal mechanic who graduated from the Mechanical College can replace and repair. In addition, it is expensive. It is also a disadvantage.
　　 Therefore, the number of such crossbows purchased by the Kingdom of England is not very large, about ten sets of first-level combat teams under each legion are distributed.
　　Compared to this kind of precision crossbow which is only a small amount of equipment, the most common equipment equipped by the military of various countries is the steam crossbow.
This steam crossbow first appeared in a naval battle between the Kingdom of Inge and the Sealord Sigma more than two hundred years ago. The Commander of the Fleet of the Inge Kingdom’s fleet, Marquis Grant, asked his friend at the Rock Machinery College to design a set of The ship's steam crossbow, and for this purpose designed a set of special naval warfare tactics.
In the battle of naval battles that affected the situation in the world, Marquis Grant, with this set of steam crossbows and unique tactics, easily wiped out the first fleet of the Sigma Kingdom that dominated the sea at sea, thereby making the Kingdom of Sigma replace the Kingdom of Sigma as the new Sea overlord.
With the glorious victory of this naval battle, the steam company has quickly entered the sights of various countries, and gradually moved from the sea to the land, and it has been continuously miniaturized. By now, this steam company has become a conventional equipment of the army, almost All armies will be equipped with a lot of equipment, and with different terrain and tactics, they will be equipped with different arrows.
　　 Just like now, the battlefield has entered the harvesting and sweeping stage. In order to clear the resistance forces in the trenches, the steam company of the French Empire will be specially equipped with a burning arrow aimed at the trenches.