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#665 - Griffin Cannon and Regimental Falcon Cannon

The Secret Society members, who had been chattering noisily, suddenly fell silent.

It wasn't that they were unfazed by a collapsing Mount Tai; rather, they were in a state of utter bewilderment, unsure what expression to wear.

That wasn't just some country squire's courtyard; it was the Fraser Fortress, which had held the northern county's throat for decades.

After the initial daze, a high priest of the Roan Party couldn't help but whisper to a Shadow Council elder beside him, "Do you remember a spell that descends from the sky?"

"Meteor Shower? But that witch has been dead for two hundred years."

"Is this the clockwork gun you mentioned? Its power is far greater than what you described." Remembering her family's self-made slender clockwork gun, Soran couldn't help but feel ashamed and annoyed. Did these alchemists dare to fool her with a miniature version, thinking she wouldn't dare kill anyone?

"No, no, no." Lurels took a puff from her pipe. "This is a new weapon; it's my first time seeing it too... No wonder the Secret Society was invited to watch; was it to establish dominance?"

Recently, the Roan Party had been subtly spreading word of the 'Black Serpent Bay Alliance'.

Large Secret Societies like the Shadow Council naturally united quickly, but the small and medium-sized Secret Societies were fearful and unwilling.

It's the old saying: better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix. If they handed over power and lost their independence, wouldn't they be at the mercy of the larger Secret Societies?

Logically, they knew that uniting was necessary.

But emotionally, most Secret Societies, especially the small-time leaders, had considerable reservations about it.

Coming to Fraser Fortress, the Secret Society members knew they were going to be given a show of force, but they didn't expect it to be this overwhelming.

After comparing it to their own Secret Society strongholds, the small and medium-sized Secret Society members present hissed through their teeth.

Because they realized that with the strength of their own small castles or earthen fortresses, they probably wouldn't even withstand a second shot.

"Devotion! Sincerity!"

After firing the clockwork cannon, Mormont walked excitedly to Horn: "Your Grace, according to the observation mirror, the Griffin Cannon's first shot created a gap of about 1 meter in the enemy's city wall and caused a collapse of about 2 meters in diameter."

Holding the observation mirror, Horn was also staring at the top of the wall. He only felt a little relieved when he saw the bricks and stones flying.

Generally speaking, the main force of siege cannons are 24-pound and 48-pound cannons, and 12-pound cannons are mostly used for ship cannons and field guns in specific battlefields.

This field gun hit the target on its first shot and happened to collapse a section of the wall. Horn thought it would take several shots.

After all, although the adjustment angle of the screw and the position of the track have been increased, the shells fired are still quite random in the absence of ballistics.

Astrology can only determine the position and distance. There are also interference factors such as wind force, air humidity, and the firing pin itself during the firing process. Whether it can hit depends on the gunner.

Mormont, as an old hand at fire ballistas, showed unparalleled talent in operating clockwork cannons.

Horn was both satisfied and dissatisfied with the result of this first test shot.

To be precise, he was very satisfied with the effect, but quite dissatisfied with the prototype cannon's five-meter-long barrel and more than two-ton weight.

Normally speaking, even a twelve-pound siege cannon needs a long barrel, but it shouldn't exceed 3 meters, but the clockwork cannon made by Leonardo and Haimertin is actually 5 meters long.

According to the two, this is because the orichalcum spring does not release energy instantly. If the barrel is too short, the shell will fly out before the spring is fully relaxed.

But on the other hand, because there is no gunpowder explosion problem, the Griffin clockwork cannon's barrel is about 2-4 centimeters thinner than a normal cannon barrel.

Of course, as a prototype cannon, it only thickened the barrel wall for safety.

If it is really put into actual combat in the future, not only will it not need an integrated barrel, but the barrel wall can also be 2-3 centimeters thinner, and it can even be loaded from the breech.

It was because the barrel was too long that the weight, which should have been only about 1.8 tons, soared to more than 2 tons.

Such a cannon actually requires six horses to pull it. You must know that the Falcon Cannon can be pushed by two or three people.

"If we couldn't solve the problem of the fuse and locking wedge, we would directly build a mortar and fire a hurricane bomb at the top of the wall. With their dense formation, tsk tsk." Haimertin folded her arms in front of her chest and clicked her tongue.

"Instead of thinking about how to solve the problem of timed unlocking of the locking wedge, you should think more about how to develop a stronger locking wedge." Horn put his hands behind his back and stayed far away from the spring chamber being replaced. "How many spring chambers have exploded along the way."

"My design is perfect, it's a material problem, it's none of my business." Haimertin immediately threw the blame on the Dragon Cult dwarves. "You should ask Kelgan."

The hurricane bomb in Haimertin's mouth is actually stuffing an orichalcum spring and iron sand pellets into an iron shell, and unlocking the locking wedge when it lands.

Then, under the crazy rotation and ejection of the spring, the iron sand and pellets will burst out in all directions like a tornado.

Currently, the design of this hurricane bomb only stays on paper, and I don't know when it can be developed or when it can be put into production.

"Can these locking wedges and spring clips be used for the regimental Falcon Cannons?" Horn looked at Leonardo, who was reloading the Griffin Cannon and recording data, and continued to ask Haimertin.

In Horn's artillery design, the 12-pound cannon is probably used for defensive warfare and positional warfare, and the real field gun is still the 3-pound Falcon Cannon.

Because even if the 12-pound Griffin Cannon barrel is shortened, the weight will not be less than 1.7 tons, the mobility is relatively poor, and the cost is too high.

Horn's regimental artillery is the 3-pound cannon subordinate artillery team assigned to the legion level and the 6-pound cannon independent artillery team assigned to the battalion level.

Haimertin muttered to herself: "Um... the 2-pound orichalcum spring equipped to the regimental Falcon Cannon probably requires a 40-pound carbon steel spring chamber.

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Assuming that each Falcon Cannon is equipped with 15 spring chambers, it will cost 30 pounds of orichalcum and 600 pounds of carbon steel. A legion of 3 Falcon Cannons is 90 pounds of orichalcum and 1800 pounds of carbon steel. This number is not unacceptable..."

While Haimertin and Horn were chatting, under Mormont's operation, the artillerymen smoothly replaced the 60-pound spring chamber and started the second round of shelling.

With Mormont's order, the black shadow, wrapped in air waves, flew out again, crossing a distance of nearly 1500 meters and rushing towards Fraser Castle.

The second shot was obviously not as lucky as the previous one. Although it still maintained the previous angle and direction, this shot hit the bell tower head-on.

Gravel and tiles, wrapped in broken wood, fell down and hit the foreheads of the soldiers and knights under the city wall. Some timid soldiers even screamed "Devil" and "Heavenly Punishment" and began to flee in all directions.

"Get back to your positions!"

"Want to lose your heads? Get back!"

"Buzz--bang!"

The knight officers had to take out their whips to drive these fleeing soldiers back to their positions.

But when they looked up at the crack in the bell tower, they couldn't help but swallow their saliva.

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It must be said that thanks to the knights of Fraser Fortress for their years of cultivation in this place, they have built many waterwheels and windmills.

After installing gear sets and replacing larger water wheels, the remaining eight spring chambers took turns, and the Griffin Cannon could roar almost every five to ten minutes.

This Griffin Cannon roared from morning to dusk. If Horn hadn't felt sorry for the spring chamber and was afraid of blowing it up, it was estimated that it could continue at night.

Although the city wall had been blasted with gaps and cracks everywhere on the first day, Horn still did not order an attack on the city, but repeatedly tested data from various angles.

Two days, three days, until the fourth day, the knights and soldiers in the city collapsed.

Before the city gate was blown open by the Griffin Cannon, hundreds of extraordinary knights secretly rode their war horses out of the castle at night.

When the Roan Party's army stepped into Fraser Fortress in the morning light, looking at the soldiers kneeling in rows on both sides with their flags hanging upside down, they were momentarily dazed.

Their wounded, the only wounded, was the unlucky guy who broke his leg while running too fast when entering the city.