Lynn took the long-barreled musket, and after checking and verifying it, he spoke with joy.

"Very good, very good, your progress is faster than we thought."

This first battle with the Holy See made Lin En realize the powerlessness of the flintlock rifle when facing the extraordinary army. Just a large-scale auxiliary divine spell was enough to greatly reduce the power of the musket.

If it is impossible to rely on armor-piercing to instantly kill approaching enemies, the poor firing rate of the flintlock rifle becomes a big problem.

We can't expect them to use bayonets to fight the God's Punishment Army, which is made up of ferocious beasts. The percussion gun is a great improvement over the flintlock gun. Unlike the flintlock gun, which uses flint to ignite gunpowder, the structure of the percussion gun is very similar to that of modern guns. It also uses a hammer to strike the firing pin to ignite the primer, which then ignites the propellant to shoot the projectile.

The most important thing is that this thing is a breech-loading gun, which means that the bullets are loaded from the back of the barrel. There is no need to clean the rifling frequently. It only takes a minute to stuff the lead bullet into the barrel, which greatly improves the firing rate and accuracy.

If the firing rate of a flintlock (muzzle-loading rifle) is one round per minute, then even the first generation of percussion rifles (breech-loading rifles) can fire more than ten rounds per minute and are less likely to misfire or be affected by moisture.

The emergence of fixed ammunition also means that the development of another powerful weapon can be put on the agenda - that is the machine gun!

This is what truly dominates the battlefield! In the 19th century, machine guns exerted extremely amazing power after being brought to the battlefield.

For example, in a war at the end of the 19th century, fifty British soldiers relied on five Maxim machine guns to defeat dozens of charges by five thousand Metabili people, killing more than three thousand people on the spot. It can be said that this completely changed the status quo of future wars, ended the history of relying on human wave tactics and cavalry to dominate the battlefield, and pushed the war into a more tragic abyss.

Before, Lin En didn't want to take out this powerful weapon so quickly, but judging from the current situation, the flintlock and percussion rifle alone are not enough for them to gain enough advantage in a battlefield filled with divine arts and magic.

"I need a piece of paper and a pen!" Lynn suddenly said.

The alchemists present were suddenly startled and without any delay, they immediately fetched out their papers and pens.

Because this magic star was also here a few days ago, and he casually drew the drawings of the percussion rifle and fixed ammunition.

Lin En pondered for a moment, then took a feather pen and started drawing on the paper based on the information in the intelligent computer.

Lydia and others stared intently, afraid of missing any details.

They soon discovered that the musket drawn by Lin En this time looked a little strange. The main body was a thick round barrel with a long chain-like thing in the middle. The bottom was not a buttstock but a triangular bracket, which looked somewhat similar to a cannon.

"Dean Lin, what is this? Is it another new type of musket? Or an improved cannon?" Lydia asked curiously.

"I call it a machine gun. It is a special type of automatic musket. Its characteristic is that it can fire automatically and continuously at a very fast rate of fire." Lin En explained.

Automated musket? Wilson and others looked at the blueprint in front of them, thinking about the function of each component and the meaning of this automation.

To put it simply, it is an automatic device with a barrel that floats in the machine gun. After the bullet is fired, the machine gun and the barrel are buckled together, using the energy of gunpowder gas as power to open the chamber through corresponding components. The bolt continues to recoil to eject the empty cartridge case and throw it out of the gun, and then drives the feeding mechanism to compress the return spring.

Under the action of spring force, the bolt pushes the bullet into place and fires again, thus saving the time of loading ammunition and making automatic firing of bullets possible.

Alchemists such as Lydia and Wilson who had participated in the development and manufacturing of percussion rifles quickly understood the entire operation process and could not help but marvel at the ingenious design of this new type of musket.

They had previously discussed how to further increase the firing rate of the percussion rifle, but they had basically focused on simplifying the process of loading and firing. However, Lin En's method was to let the power generated by the first shot of the musket drive the second shot, thus forming a cycle that did not require any human control at all...

"What is its firing rate?" Wilson asked anxiously.

"Probably about a thousand rounds per minute." Lin En thought for a moment and spoke.

What he came up with was an improved version of the famous Gatling rapid-fire machine gun, combined with the automation concept of the subsequent Maxim machine gun.

However, considering the Alchemy Research Institute's weak industrial foundation, the firing rate is not that fast, only one thousand rounds per minute.

In fact, there is no difference whether it is faster or slower, because fixed-load bullets are not like lead bullets. They need to be made manually and the process is more complicated. Their ammunition supply is definitely insufficient, and they can only finish shooting within a few seconds or tens of seconds.

"One thousand rounds per minute?!" Wilson almost thought he had heard it wrong. Could it be one thousand rounds per hour?

You know, the firing rate of a percussion rifle is already very fast in their eyes. A skilled gunner can complete the loading and firing every five to six seconds, which is more than ten times the firing rate of a flintlock rifle! And this machine gun can only be described as outrageous, with a thousand rounds per minute, which means that it can fire fifteen rounds per second, which is one hundred and fifty times the firing rate of a flintlock rifle! What kind of monster is this?

Wilson thought about the scene where fifty machine guns appeared on the battlefield, and in just a dozen seconds, thousands of enemies fell down in rows after a burst of fire... He couldn't help but shudder.

"Master Dean, which master invented this weapon called... machine gun?" A wizard couldn't help asking. They really wanted to know who invented this insane battlefield weapon? "The inventor of this thing is called Gatling!" Lin En said. "Before joining the [Secret Law Society], he was a doctor who saved lives and healed the wounded on the battlefield. He witnessed the cruelty of war and the endless grief and death after the war. His original intention of inventing this thing was to reduce casualties, quickly end a war, and achieve true peace!"

Hearing this, the faces of all the alchemists turned extremely strange. They wanted to say something, but finally held it back.

Well... this makes sense. As long as all the enemies are dead, there will naturally be peace!

Directly and fundamentally solve the problem of war!

(End of this chapter)