"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.
"Shh..."
"Wow, Meli, let me tell you: the Gandalf above must be lost! And we may be trapped here forever and never get out!"
Before, on the top of the mountain at Red Horn Pass, when they discovered the large group of black crows used by the white-robed wizard Saruman to monitor the pass area, they knew that their whereabouts had been exposed, and they had to follow Gandalf's advice and try to go to Karahoras, intending to forcibly cross the cold and ice and snowy world, and cross the high mountain in the misty mountains that was covered by the vast snow all year round!
Then, Saruman, a white-robed wizard thousands of miles away, used a long-range lightning bolt that entered his soul to teach them a cruel fact! That is: Never try to climb over a dangerous snow peak full of snow under the nose of a wizard!
Therefore, when Gandalf, who failed to cast the spell against the enemy in the end, was buried in an avalanche once, and when the Hobbits were unable to adapt to the cold climate and were almost frozen to death, he had to lead the team back the same way, intending to follow what the dwarf Jinli said before, and walk the Moria mine in the other party's Doberman Bahrain!
Unfortunately, after Gandalf finally cracked the gate of the dwarf and successfully escaped the big octopus in the lake outside the door, which had lived for many years, and was obviously a saltwater creature in the ocean, but could survive in the freshwater lake, they found something extremely surprised: in the Muria mine, there was no cousin of Jinli, nor the large glass of ale, soup or a chunk of barbecue that had been agreed upon before?
Here, the corpses of the dwarves and the orcs in the mist mountain are always there! As well as the decaying and ragged armor, rusty weapons and arrows of the other party! The Moria mine is now a silent mountain tomb! It seems that these original dwarves have died for countless years?
Later, when they had to go deep into the mine and planned to venture through the Mist Mountains from the mine, they discovered another even more deadly fact, that is, they are now lost in this huge mine!
Now, they have been climbing the mountain and returning on the same road. It has been more than twenty days since they left Rivendell...
"I think so, Gandalf must be lost! He is probably thinking about it now!"
"Yes, you may also know that old men like them are particularly prone to forgetting things!"
“…”
"We may really not be able to get out...unless, we go back along the same path?"
"No... I don't think any of us can beat the octopus monster outside the gate. I never thought that it had so many tentacles? It still grew so big!"
"What do you think we should do? There seems to be no food and drink here! Moreover, we don't carry much in our luggage!"
The two hobbits, Piping and Meli, were still muttering and discussing in a low voice.
Although their voices were already very small, in this empty and quiet Moria mine, their voices were still heard clearly by everyone...
However, now, like the two of them, they have the same concerns and have their own concerns, are not in the mood to care about them for the time being?
Gandalf himself, who was muttering, was currently busy with his own thoughts and memories. He wanted to find his way out as soon as possible, and he was also not in the mood to deal with the two little hobbits.
“?!”
Suddenly, Frodo, who was in a daze, suddenly found that there seemed to be a small agile figure crawling on the wall of the mine pit below? The other party's big and bright eyes were staring at him, and it seemed that he was not good at it?
But because the distance was too far and the light was dark, he couldn't see clearly what it was.
"Gandalff, below, there seems to be something!"
When he discovered the situation, he immediately ran to Gandalf and whispered to report his discovery.
"That's Gollu..."
Gandalf answered a little carelessly, and he was still trying hard to recall the path inside Moria.
Those damn, greedy dwarves, they dug the Moria mine too hard! Many things that were not dug before were all unrecognizable by the other party. Not only did they add many paths, but there were even countless door holes and cabins. This was like a maze, which really made him unable to recall. Where was the road he was familiar with many years ago?
"Gurl?"
Frodo was a little confused. Look at Gandalf's appearance, he seemed to have known about it for a long time. Moreover, he didn't seem to want to pay attention to the thing that was following them from afar?
"He has actually been with us for three days... Starting from when we walked down the snowy mountain and prepared to enter the Moria mine..."
In fact, Gandalf and others had discovered that Gulu, who had been following them all the time, was close and separated, and refused to leave without hesitation, but they just didn't want to pay attention to it.
After all, the pitiful existence that was twisted by the Lord of the Ring actually did not pose much threat to them. Except for the Hobbit, if it dared to approach, they could easily subdue the other person alone.
"Guru? Didn't it be caught long ago? Could it be...it escaped again?"
Frodo was quite curious about this.
Because, when he was in the Charles and at Broken Cave, he remembered it very clearly that Gandalf had told him that Guru, who knew the whereabouts of the Lord of the Ring, had been caught by Mordor's minions at that time!
"Escape? No..."
"It is very likely that it was released on purpose! The Lord of the Ring has attracted it here again. It will never be able to get rid of its desire for the Ring... For the Ring, it is like it is for itself, love and hate?"
Gandalf murmured while smoking his pipe.
"Smeger's life is actually a tragedy! It has been destroyed by the Lord of the Ring..."
"Before the Lord of Rings found it and it wasn't crazy about it, he actually... Forget it, I won't say this..."
Speaking of this, after looking at Frodo, who is now holding the Lord of the Ring, Gandalf stopped immediately without knowing what he thought of.
Then, Gandalf did not continue to pay attention to Frodo, but sighed softly on his own.
Gandalf not only knows Guru's past, but also knows why Guru was released at this time! Sauron or Saruman, they just want to use it to monitor the exact position of the Supreme Lord of the Ring? In this Middle-earth world, there is probably nothing more useful than Guru's humanoid self-propelled radar...
"What a pity, Bilbo didn't kill it at that time!"
Frodo suddenly made such a vicious word, which made Gandalf stop recalling and turn his head over.
"What a pity? Didn't kill it?"
"Frodo...you should know that it is precisely because of my pity for life that Bilbo stopped him from killing him..."
"Some people who live in the world should actually die long ago! And some people who should not die early..."
"Can you bring those of them back to life? Frodo..."
What Gandalf didn't want to see happened.
It seems that the Lord of the Ring is having some very bad influence on Frodo? This originally innocent Hobbit can actually say such murderous words? In this way, Frodo does not seem to have strong enough willpower like his Uncle Bilbo?
You know, Bilbo Baggins held the Lord of the Ring for so long, for decades, and it was only in his later years that he was gradually influenced by the Lord of the Ring? But at least he could control himself and take the initiative to leave the Ring!
But now Frodo...
"Frodo, you must remember: don't judge the life and death of others so easily! Even the wisest person can't see through this... My intuition tells me that even this Guru still has its own mission..."
"Whether it is just or evil... Bilbo's actions may have affected the fate of many people..."
I looked at the lower part of Guru who was climbing on a mining nook, and then looked at the Frodo in front of me. They were actually very similar! Are Frodo and Guru both the people whose fate was affected by Bilbo Baggins?
"But... when I was at Rivendale, the lord Anne Witch told me... Is it necessary to burn it when dealing with bad guys... Isn't it?"
After slowly sitting next to Gandalf, Frodo asked in confusion.
During the period when Rivendell was recovering from his injuries, he had dealt with the little girl a lot, and he even took the initiative to give the other party the Supreme Lord of the Ring hanging on his neck several times! Then, Frodo was surprised to find that the little girl, she was the only one among all the people he had ever met, who would not be affected by the Lord of the Rings! This alone could make him admire him very much.
In Frodo's opinion, that little girl Anne must be a very powerful wizard who is even stronger than Gandalf, right? So, at some point, he would secretly remember the little girl's words that appear from time to time and are a little irrelevant, and he would secretly remember it in his heart.
For example: the best enemy is the dead enemy? My things are mine, and everything I like should be mine? Then there is: The bad guy should be burned by the flames! If anyone dares to provoke me, I will beat him? There are many more and many more...
Anyway, Frodo thinks that some words make sense!
"It's Anne?!"
"Okay... Frodo! I would like to warn you: I will never object to the fact that you want to have a good relationship with that little girl! But please remember one thing: never imitate that little girl casually, and don't believe her casually! Especially when you are not a wizard as powerful as her!"
While secretly letting go and knowing that it wasn't the Lord of the Ring that influenced Frodo's thoughts, Gandalf quickly spoke out to correct the other party.
He didn't want this simple hobbit Frodo to be taken by that hateful little girl! Look at her, what kind of dross she instilled in Frodo? Those ideas are wrong and undesirable!
"Okay, I get it..."
"But in fact, Gandalf, I really hope that the Lord of the Ring has never been in my hands, and I hope that none of this has happened..."
Imagine the thrilling thing along the way. Since he obtained the Lord of the Rings, he was not only hunted down by the ring spirit, but also almost stabbed to death by a sword at the abandoned mail tower at the top of Fengyun Hill. Then, when they started the expedition, they were surveillance by crows, struck by wizard lightning, and caused an avalanche to be almost buried alive?
Now, when you walk into this mine, you are not only caught by a big octopus at the door and almost eaten, but you even get lost even when you get lost?!
So, when so many things came to my mind, when Frodo saw that during this period, there were much more exciting things he had seen in his more than fifty years of life and more than he had seen in his life and death, he really felt a little discouraged and didn't want to go on like this anymore...
"Okay, in fact, everyone who encounters difficulties will think like you! But, Frodo, please don't be defeated by such a little difficulty in front of you! Sometimes, none of us can avoid our own destiny, but we can at least choose how to overcome it!"
Seeing that Frodo, the preceptor, looked a little discouraged, Gandalf quickly spoke out and encouraged.
"Frodo, you have to believe that in this world, besides those evil forces, there are some more magical existences! For example, Bilbo, he is destined to get the Lord of the Ring, and you... are destined to experience everything you are experiencing now! Do you understand? You have to face it, not escape!"
Looking at Frodo in silence, he could only sigh secretly. There are some things that Gandalf really can't say too much or reveal too much. He can only click here now.
"Ahh! I think, I finally know which way we should go, this must be this one!"
After comforting Frodo, Gandalf suddenly stood up with a cheer. She finally figured out what direction she was going! So, he used the gem on the head of the wand again to emit a soft white light, and then he called everyone and asked them to follow him quickly.
In this dangerous Moria mine, they had been delayed for a long time and had to leave here cleanly before they could really touch some danger.
"Did you remember the way out? Gandalf?"
Pi Ping, who followed behind, quickly asked, "He really wanted to leave this depressing dark world as soon as possible. He didn't want to stay for a moment when he couldn't see the sun and didn't know the time!"
"No! I didn't!"
"But the air on this road doesn't seem to be as bad as in other directions! My friend told me one thing: Sometimes, it's always okay to follow your nose..."
Chapter completed!