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Chapter 37 12.7mm Gas-operated Automatic Sniper Rifle

After sending Oliver away, Purficott also returned to his laboratory.

After taking off the long skirt that he was wearing when meeting guests, he changed back into lighter clothes, put on his white coat and returned to the laboratory. Purficott decided to do something else to change his mind.

Recently, she has been busy dealing with the doomsday disaster, which made her feel tired and stressed, and also made her think that her thinking was frozen.

After all, thinking about the same problem for a long time can easily make people feel tired.

She needed to do something that had nothing to do with the apocalypse to relax her brain, so as not to tighten herself too much.

Generally speaking, according to Purficott's habit, she would tinker with small things that interest her, such as flying mechanical birds, singing dolls and other alchemical creations.

This can not only relax your brain, but also exercise your skills and produce something interesting.

However, although he is randomly tinkering with small things that interest him, generally speaking, Purficott will still set a general tone and goal for his leisure and relaxation.

For example, what she is working on now is a large-caliber automatic sniper rifle that is a bit too high for this era.

In the original world, during the First Industrial Revolution, flintlock guns had not completely withdrawn from the stage of history. There was no rifling in the barrel, and bullets were inserted through the muzzle of the gun by a push rod. It took about half a minute to stop and fire a round. time to refill.

Those who can fire three shots in one minute are already elite veterans with extremely high efficiency.

At that time, the only use of muskets was the line infantry that was ridiculed by later generations as lining up to be shot.

It was not until after the second industrial revolution that humans began to use single-shot loading rifles such as the Dresser needle gun and the Mauser 1871. The bullets also transitioned from paper-cased black powder bullets to copper-cased smokeless gunpowder.

As for automatic rifles? Basically, we had to wait until the end of humanity's two world wars and tens of millions of people died on the battlefield before large-scale applications began.

It can be said that in the original world, you wanted to build an automatic rifle during the first industrial revolution? It's theoretically possible, but in practice it's basically impossible to build.

But in this world, relying on alchemy, which is something that is against the heavens in a sense, Purficott can make a large-caliber automatic sniper rifle.

"12.7mm gas-operated automatic sniper rifle"

"Materials Made: Excellent"

“Craftsmanship: Excellent”

"Effect: The effective range is 1.2KM, the ultimate range is 1.5KM, and it can accurately kill a single living target within a range of 800M."

"Evaluation: The automatic sniper rifle with a rate of fire of 300 rounds per minute has completely surpassed the level of weapons in this era. You are still using large-caliber full-power bullets. A fully-equipped knight can be blown into two pieces with one shot. Are you planning to use it to hunt dragons?"

In the eyes of the omniscient, this rifle, which was made by hand by Perfectcott bit by bit, has such an exaggerated evaluation. This was a very capable performance in the original world before Perfection crossed over, let alone in this era when paper shells are still used for fixed ammunition.

If Purficott really takes this thing to the battlefield, it can really change the outcome and direction of a war.

However, although he was very satisfied with this weapon, Purficott did not intend to actually take it to the battlefield.

On the one hand, it's because she is an alchemist and the most talented alchemist master in Langton's history. Letting her go to the battlefield is really a waste of resources.

Another reason is that this gun is not a weapon that Purficott made for himself, but a gift intended for Foster.

Foster is a transcendent and a knight who has reached the Grand Knight level. This is something Purficott has known for a long time.

This old butler was the retinue knight of the old Baron Brandlis, Perficott's grandfather. Unlike the knight squire who served as an apprentice, the retinue knight was highly bound to the knight he followed.

It is not like a knight's attendant, who can break away from the knight he serves after receiving the official knight title.

Generally speaking, knights would not treat their servant knights harshly, and would even allocate them a small territory if they could.

For example, Perficott's grandfather, the old Baron Brandlis, was a powerful knight of the Order. After he obtained the title of hereditary baron and a large territory as his own fiefdom by virtue of his accumulated military exploits on the battlefield, he A village in the fief was allocated to Forster and he was given the official title of knight.

But Foster has always stayed at Brandless Manor and worked as a housekeeper, taking care of three generations of the Brandless family.

For such a respectable elder, in addition to finding ways to help him break through the level of a great knight and become an honorary knight, Perficott also built a complete set of equipment for the old butler according to his own ideas.

The other parts of Perfectcourt are basically done and confirmed to be a huge surprise for Foster.

Purficott originally didn't plan to make this gun, because of the existence of alchemy. When the knights of this era wore armor and went into battle, their armor was enough to withstand the shots of those flintlock guns.

Even knights of the Grand Knight level can use their flesh and blood to forcibly connect small-caliber front-loading artillery with complete armor.

Therefore, for knights of this era, guns may not be as practical as the hand crossbows hanging on their waists.

At least some well-made hand crossbows also have a continuous fire function, which can empty a 50-piece arrow box in one minute, shoot the heads of an entire line of infantry on the opposite side one by one, or nail a lucky person among them into a sieve.

Contrary to the impression of most people, it was not the muskets that ended the age of knights in the world before Purficott's time travel, but the development of productivity and changes in social structure brought about by the Industrial Revolution, which completely destroyed the soil for the existence of knights. .

Moreover, a large number of cheap and quickly trained soldiers also broke the monopoly and dominance of the knight class on force. A more efficient modern army replaced the knights of the past, and this was the only way to end the age of knights.

After all, when I can train a qualified soldier in three months, and then take a rifle that may only take a dozen working hours to make, I can train a soldier for more than ten years at a hundred times the quantity. , a formal knight wearing heavy armor shoots his head off, do you think that the so-called knight is just that?
  In this world, although knights have higher combat effectiveness and there are thousands of powerful forces gathered in one body, their essence has not changed. When quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes, knights will still be replaced.

(End of this chapter)