"Head...I, what should we do now?!"

On the city wall, a soldier with a shield behind him, wearing a pair of silver-white steel plate breastplate and leggings, panting, and asked in panic to a small leader who was also panting beside him.

These people are actually soldiers belonging to the elite Dundan Warriors team in Stad Town, and belonging to a group of professional soldiers. They are loyal to the lords here and have a high status.

However, the situation in Stad Town has become like this: their governor and lord Lord Adaruan has been beaten to death by the women holding devil weapons in the distance! Then, the lord Lord's deputy was also beaten to death! Even the lord's masters who were usually above the top were all dead, and they were still dead to the point of not even one left!

At this moment, in the town of Stad, except for those government officials, the military commander with the highest position seemed to be the little clerk who was responsible for coordinating and leading the two teams of Dingdan Warriors?

"What else can I do? I can only hold on!"

"The iron rods in their hands that make loud noises, fire and smoke must be some kind of devil's weapon! So, we must never go out of the city and fight them hard!"

The leader of the Dendan Warriors who was the first to run back from the team just now was breathing violently for a while before finally calming down.

"Tell me immediately and calm my brothers down! They are not as many as ours, so they should not forcefully attack the city. As long as we guard the city walls and don't go out, they will definitely leave by themselves in a few days!"

In any case, he would never go out of the city to seek death!

Then, after looking at the corpses of the knights outside the city, he suddenly realized that it seemed like a great opportunity for him to successfully take office?

The situation is already very bad now. Lord Lord and his hardcore knights all died outside the city just now! At this time, all the rest in the city were their unused family members. The people in Stad Town probably had gritted their teeth at them long ago?

And if he could successfully defend the city wall this time and slowly take over and win over the other defenders with his two hundred elite Dundan Warriors, perhaps when the enemy retreats, he might become the new lord of Stad Town?

The more he thought about it, the more he couldn't help but feel excited that he almost wanted to laugh out loud! This was directly transformed from a small clan who was not a nobleman to this large land, including a large lord who ruled tens of thousands of people in the surrounding area...

"Hurry up! Send a few trustworthy brothers to guard the city gate immediately and get more things to block it! As long as they guard the city gate, no matter how powerful their weapons are, they will not be able to attack inside!"

boom!!!

The leader of the Dingdan Warrior had just finished his words. Suddenly, he felt a shock like a swaying mountain on the city wall. Then, what came was a burst of explosions like thunder and lightning. He was so shocked that when he was retreating hastily, he fell into the city directly from the city wall more than three meters high...

"What's going on..."

When the leader of the Dendan, who was just dreaming of a lord, staggered from the ground, he only saw: the tough large rivet iron-wood gate in their Stad town, which is said to be able to withstand the impact of the sheepmen, was penetrated directly by some terrible thing?

Moreover, while the city gate was pierced and collapsed by huge force, only half of the broken wooden blocks were left hanging in the city gate hole? What methods did those enemies use to break a city gate in an instant?

Think about the loud noise just now, did they summon the thunder and lightning?

...

On this day, the offensive and defensive battle in Stad Town was soon over!

When the gate of Stad Town was blasted open by the enemy's large devil iron rod weapon, the soldiers who were already frightened because the lord and the knight master were wiped out almost instantly!

Some of them, after discarding their armor and weapons, ran back to their homes to pretend to be civilians; some of them, after taking over some of the original lord's property, went with others, and ran away from the city gate on the other side of the town!

And the rest, because they had their own family and property in the city, were reluctant to abandon them easily, so they chose to hang the white flag and surrendered to the army equipment outside the city that was said to be the United Kingdom of Alicia.

"Ah... Middle-earth is an era of personal courage, and it is finally gone forever..."

Looking at the dilapidated city gate in the distance, after touching the huge cannon in front of him that was still hot and smoke, Groyin sighed deeply, while looking at the almost ran away soldiers and the white flag that kept waving the willingness to surrender on the walls of the Stad Town.

Although, the old dwarf himself was prepared before this, could he probably imagine how cold weapons perform when facing muskets?

However, looking at the tragic battlefield ahead, he still sighed... The hundreds of humans with superb riding skills and heavy armor were not even touched by the side of the musket team, and were easily killed by a group of women who had almost never touched weapons before...

It seems that this little girl witch has created something extraordinary with the help of their dwarfs! The rules of war in the future will be undergoing major changes under the ravage of muskets and cannons, right?

Ge Luoyin, who had seen the practical effects of new weapons, felt that if he armed himself with thousands of musketeers and a part of the cannon, and with sufficient logistics supply, perhaps, he would dare to lead an army of thousands of people, push them all the way, and fight until Mordor?!

"Mr. Anne, I seem to have discovered a little bit of the musket..."

"The range of this first model of the 'Goddess Wrath' musket is far enough, and the penetration power seems to be OK! However, I think its caliber is still a little smaller. If it is to deal with super-large targets, it seems to be slightly insufficient?"

Ge Luoyin, who has been exposed to the complete process of musket manufacturing, is not unfamiliar with the technology and technology of producing this weapon. He has fully understood the principle of this weapon construction and soon remembered some better improvement solutions.

That is: Enlarge the caliber! His Groyin needs a larger and thicker barrel, as well as a larger and heavier conical projectile!

After thinking for a while, he found that the 18mm caliber seemed a little smaller in his opinion. If it were their dwarves who used it themselves, they would definitely be able to directly expand the caliber, at least to about 30mm. Anyway, their dwarves are strong, strong, and have a low center of gravity. They don’t have to worry about being overturned by powerful recoil?

The more he thought about it, the more feasible he felt, he immediately decided secretly. After he returned to Bree Town, he would have to customize a 30-mm rifle rifle for the more than 200 dwarves under his command to see if the power could meet his own expected standards!

"Take a large target? And increase your caliber? Do you want to fight a dragon? Are there any dragons in Middle-earth world?!"

Little Anne was also a little curious about this dwarf's idea.

She has read the document at Rivendell. The last giant dragon that appeared in Middle-earth was killed decades ago? Then why did he still want to increase his caliber?

Are there large and fun creatures like giant dragons in Middle-earth?

Anyway, in Anne's own opinion, the front-mounted flintlock Minni rifle that is now using a long range, high accuracy, and super armor-breaking ability is already very good. She directly crossed the smoothbore clamp and made such an epoch-making super elite weapon!

If it is added to thirty millimeters, it is like holding a cannon? The humans in this Middle-earth world will definitely not be able to withstand that powerful recoil!

Moreover, the battle just now is enough to explain: the "Goddess' Wrath" muskets can easily penetrate and tear the enemy's knight's plate armor at a distance of more than 100 meters. Such power is no longer small, right?

If it was necessary just now, they would shoot directly at a distance of 300 meters and directly suppress the other party's city walls and conduct long-distance gun shooting. Can they continue to hit until the other party can't show their heads or even until the other party's morale collapses?

"Giant, dragon?!"

"No, no, no! Lord Anne! I don't want to fight any dragons anymore! Moreover, I haven't seen any dragons except the dead Smaug in decades!"

When talking about the dragon, Ge Luoyin hurriedly shook his messy beard and head of his hair. He was not stupid, so how could he still find trouble for the dragon for no reason?

The psychological shadow caused by Smaug in the Battle of Gushan decades ago has not been completely eliminated until now!

That kind of terrifying existence that is inseparable from swords and guns, invasive of water and fire, and even the watering of melted gold cannot be eliminated, the mythical monster that flies in the sky and can spit out flames at a height of hundreds of meters, where are they, the mortals, able to easily fight against it?

If Smaug hadn't been careless and underestimated the enemy, and was shot directly into the defective unprotected scale-arm cortex by the River Valley Townman Bud with a special black arrow from the devil's broken left chest, thus killing the other party by chance, the current River Valley Town and the dwarves who had been expeditioning Gushan at the time would have died long ago? There wouldn't be the current Gushan and the Turin dwarf kingdom in the iron hills!

"Oh! By the way, Lord Anne! I also found a very important question!"

"I think so. What if our enemies... I mean those orcs of Mordor or their allies! What should we do if they imitate this terrible gunpowder weapon at that time?"

In Ge Luoyin's view, even if the precision machine tools and steam boiler power are not used for standardized industrial production, and if they are used to make purely handmade by the dwarves themselves, they have enough ability to mass produce imitations and imitate them in large quantities, right?

In his own opinion, this is actually not too difficult, it is just a uniform iron pipe and gunpowder? And the only thing that is a bit difficult here is at most the correct formula for rifling and gunpowder, right?

He had secretly experimented before: If a hand-made rifled smoothbore gun is fired, although the range and accuracy are not ideal, at close range, within a distance of 100 yards, its power is actually not much worse than that of a rifled rifle?

And this distance of 100 yards alone is enough to suppress most of the archers in Middle-earth world and almost all the cold weapon army!

The only trouble is that the caliber of the hand-made musket may have large errors due to the skills of each craftsman? Then, it will make the projectiles specially manufactured according to the caliber of each gun?

Or, just send out a small crucible and lead blocks, and let the soldiers melt the lead blocks according to the caliber of their muskets and then rub them out by themselves? Anyway, it is easier to melt lead blocks, right?

For the formula of gunpowder, it is actually even simpler!

If the white-robed wizard Saruman or the demon king Sauron, if the person seized the physical object and conducted a comparison and research, Ge Luoyin believes that they can imitate the correct formula quickly! After all, this black gunpowder is nothing more than a few very ordinary materials. This is much simpler with the flash fire that they used to make out if thrown out...

"The enemy wants to imitate?"

Hearing this, Annie blinked, then tilted her little head and thought for a while.

"I'm not afraid of them imitating it! If they dare to imitate it, then we will create something even more powerful!"

Anne is actually not worried about this.

Because, not only has drawings from various eras, but also the Queen of Ofina under her has now begun to train the core Royal Guard, intending to train some of her loyal subordinates to specialize in the war workshop. As long as the secrets of steam turbines and industrial machine tools are kept, there is no way to keep them secret for a long time, such as muskets and cannons!

So, in Anne's opinion, those bad guys can only imitate the front-mounted smoothbore gun? At that time, at most, they will create more advanced breech Minnie firing rifles, which will definitely defeat those stupid enemies in terms of range and filling speed!

And then, if they dare to continue to copy the village shamelessly, she will jump into the era of internal combustion engines and electrical equipment, put on semi-automatic rifles and automatic machine guns equipped with metal shells, and then kill them when the enemy lined up?

If she can still imitate it if she is like this, then the gods must have cheated! Then she herself is shameless. At that time, she will directly use the electromagnetic rifles, siege tanks and space warships, and then throw Da Ivan to death. If they have the ability, they will imitate it!

"A more powerful musket? How powerful can it be?"

When Ge Luoyin heard this, he was a little stunned.

He thought that the current rifle and cannon were enough! If the power was insufficient, the caliber and barrel length could be expanded at any time to increase the power and range. In addition, he really couldn't think of any improvement that would be more advanced.

"Well...it's probably the kind that can fire thousands of bullets per minute?"

After thinking about the first time she traveled through the New York world, she had come into contact with the Vulcan cannon that would turn around and thunder. Annie said with a little uncertainty.

If she remembers correctly, it seems that the machine guns like Vulcan cannon seem to be just a few thousand bullets per minute, right?

"Every, several thousand rounds per minute? This is absolutely impossible!!!"

Ge Luoyin screamed in shock on the spot. He really couldn't imagine how could there be a high-speed musket with a high-fire rate? No matter how hard he tried, the ammunition could not be installed so fast, right? Nowadays, it would be amazing to have a few shots in a minute!

And if there is such a terrifying weapon that is thousands of rounds per minute, he feels that he only needs to be alone and bring enough ammunition to push Mordor flat and blow up the Vallado Tower of Soren?!

"Hmph! You are such an inexperienced guy! I have all the more powerful people than that, and there are so many more!"

After glanced at the bearded old dwarf beside him, little Annie slapped the foal beneath her and led dozens of musketeers and the team of gunners pushing cannons to walk down the hill and towards the city.

Now, Lenas had already entered the city and quickly completed control of the city's city head area and surrendered to the soldiers of the former Stad Town! Now, it was time for them to go in and see the new city she had attacked.

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"Hey! I said Piping, are we going to stay here like this now? I don't like this gloomy cave at all!"

"Not only is the air turbid, but there is also a strong smell of rotten odor..."

In the Moria mine, the little hobbit Meli and Piping got together again, and from time to time, they looked at Gandalf, who was sitting alone on the side and smoking a pipe above, muttering in a low voice.

Although they are also a cave creature and like to dig holes or make comfortable houses like caves, they definitely don’t like to stay in such deep, dark and sun-not-seeing caves for a long time, which will make them feel very depressed and uneasy!

After all, they are a normal race who likes to enjoy life and activities in the sun.
To be continued...