Chapter 88 The Conception of the Gun

After leaving the space, Gervis carried the big pot and hurried back to the inner castle. In the kitchen, Gervis asked the servants to find a large wooden basin and a smaller copper basin.

Copper utensils are also popular in this world. Some nobles who cannot afford enough silver utensils use copper utensils instead. However, Gervis knows that using copper utensils to hold food for a long time is not good for the body. Therefore, the copper utensils in Gervis Castle are all used to hold water for him to wash. There are quite a few stored in the castle, and this time they are just right for making ice.

Gervis first asked the servant to put the copper basin into the wooden basin, and then filled both the wooden basin and the copper basin with water. When everything was done, Gervis poured out the sticky brine in the cauldron, leaving only the white saltpeter. Then Gervis carefully poured all the saltpeter into the wooden basin.

When everything was done, Gervis stood up and clapped his hands. However, looking at the strong sunlight outside the castle, Gervis became worried again, so he took a large pot lid and covered the wooden basin directly.

"It should be OK now."

As for making ice with nitrate, Gervis had never done it himself, but the process he saw in novels was similar, which was to let nitrate and water combine to produce a reaction, and then the nitrate water in the wooden basin would absorb a large amount of heat, and the temperature would drop to make ice cubes. Saltpeter cannot be eaten directly, so it is necessary to add a copper basin with good heat conductivity in the wooden basin, add clean water in the basin, and after the water becomes ice cubes, the ice cubes in the copper basin can be eaten directly without worrying about safety issues.

"Okay, it's done!"

Nashen and Anna have been following Gervis all the time. They witnessed everything Gervis did. In the cave, Gervis was able to boil out white crystals with water, which opened their eyes. Although they didn't know what that thing was used for, they could tell at a glance that it was extraordinary.

But after arriving at the inner castle, Anna and Nashen couldn't understand what Gervis was doing. Why did the food that had just been cooked get re-melted into the water? Wasn't this a waste of effort?

Although Anna didn't understand, she had a mysterious confidence in her master, so she didn't ask. But Nashen couldn't help but ask, "Master Gervis, you just boiled these white things, why did you put them in the water again?"

"Ice! I want to make ice."

"Soldier? Ice?"

Na Shen didn't quite understand what the word "ice" that Gervis was talking about was.

"It's the ice cubes that only the nobles can eat in this season!"

Gervis was cheerful and said it directly without hiding anything.

"Is this true? Master Gervis, can we get ice this way?"

Na Shen suddenly became excited, his voice became much louder, his eyes widened in disbelief.

"Of course it's real. Lord Nashen will be able to taste it later! Haha!"

Gervis saw that Nashen was extremely excited, and then he looked at the little maid Anna, whose eyes were wide open and looking at him with watery eyes full of admiration, which made Gervis even more proud.

"I'm sorry, Master Gervis, I just spoke out of turn, but this is the first time I've seen such a magical thing!"

Na Shen then reacted and felt that the sentence just now was a bit doubtful of Gervis's meaning. This was very rude for a noble and could easily cause others to be disgusted, so he immediately explained to Gervis.

"Well, I understand. Lord Nashen doesn't have to apologize!"

Being able to artificially make ice in summer was as incredible to Nashen and his friends as building a rocket to fly into the sky. Gervis was not surprised by their surprise. If someone on Earth had told him that he could cultivate fighting spirit, Gervis would definitely have slapped him on the head and told him to walk away gracefully.

"If ice can really be made, Master Gervis must assign more people to guard the yard, and the people who enter the mineral space must be loyal and reliable!"

Seeing that Gervis didn't mind, Nashen breathed a sigh of relief and began to give Gervis advice.

"Well, I will take care of this matter, Lord Nashen, please rest assured!"

Saltpeter is very important to Gervis, so he will of course guard it closely. Saltpeter is the only one in the world and it is related to the future of Storm Territory.

The reason why Gervis did not boil saltpeter in secret and then make ice was that he wanted people to subconsciously combine saltpeter and ice together. When he made gunpowder, no one would associate gunpowder with saltpeter. Ice and saltpeter would serve as a shield to hide the secret of gunpowder.

For this purpose, even if Nashen, Anna and the servants may not reveal the news, Gervis will take the initiative to tell others the ice-making process in the future.

Looking at the wooden basin, Gervis knew that it would take some time to get ice, so he sent Nashen and Anna away and returned to the study on the third floor alone. Now that he had saltpeter, he could conceive of gunpowder and muskets.

The main components of gunpowder are saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal. Gervis has a lot of memories of the production process, but he still needs to write it down and slowly organize and experiment. Gervis remembers that the formula of black gunpowder is one sulfur, two saltpeter and three charcoal, but this will definitely require later mixing experiments, so he is not in a hurry.

What he needed most now was to figure out how to make a musket. He didn't have to worry about the hardness of the musket barrel because he had mithril, a material with advanced armor hardness on Earth, so he only needed to consider how to make a musket.

He first thought of the structure of the most representative matchlock gun in ancient times. There was a metal hook on the gun, one end of which was fixed on the gun and could rotate around the axis, and the other end held a slow-burning matchlock. When the soldier fired, he pushed the metal hook into the firing port with his hand, allowing the burning matchlock to ignite the black gunpowder, thereby firing the projectile loaded in the barrel.

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The fuse of the matchlock gun is a hemp rope or a tightly twisted cloth strip, which is soaked in saltpeter or other salt solution and then dried. It can burn slowly without extinguishing, at a burning rate of about 80 mm to 120 mm per hour. In this way, after the soldier presses the metal hook into the firing port, he can hold the gun with one hand or both hands, keeping his eyes aimed at the target.

Gervis prepared to draw the parts of the matchlock gun and asked Bernard to make one for him to try out the effect. The only long-range weapons in this world were longbows, and there were no crossbows. However, if you want to train an excellent longbowman, it requires a long period of training.

Gervis had originally planned to try making a crossbow in his spare time, but now that he had saltpeter, he skipped the crossbow and decided to see if the musket could replace the longbow. After all, he had an advantage in making muskets, which was the hard barrel material. This meant that Gervis didn't have to worry about the barrel exploding, and he could load more gunpowder, making the power much greater.

"I just don't know if the power of the musket will pose a threat to those titled knights."

Gervis had no doubt that as long as the musket was made, it would be lethal to ordinary soldiers. However, he felt that it was a bit unreliable for the titled knights who possessed inhuman martial arts, especially the high-level bronze knights and silver knights.

However, Gervis was not prepared to use muskets against high-ranking knights. He just wanted to quickly equip the ordinary guards with them. In the face of small-scale battles, such as the night of the ambush, if everyone had a musket that day and a volley of fire, at least half of the enemy soldiers could be eliminated. It was a must-have weapon for killing, looting, ambushing and stunning.

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