Within a week and a half, Landon had successfully produced 12 cannons within the Construction industry and 56 large sacks of gunpowder in the Alchemy estate.
To ensure that the gunpowder had a superb bustion ability, Landon had gone through several processes to ensure that the gunpowder particles were all finely crushed powders with uniform particle sizes.
At the same time, Landon had also recruited 150 knights into the army within this past week and a half.
Landon wasn't worried about the slow production rate of cannons and the number of knights he had, because he knew that, in another 1 and a half weeks more, slaves and refugees would be arriving Baymard from Santa.
Today, Landon positioned 8 of those cannons on the city walls and decided that the remaining 4 cannons should be brought to the barracks headquarters in the upper region.
Behind the barracks was an empty field that led to a dense forest. From the high walls on the Baracks, one could see the dense forest that went on for about 80 square miles leading to a tall volcanic mountain.
From what he had heard, the mountain has not had an eruption for at least 10,000 years and is not expected to erupt again in a parable time scale of the future. So this was an extinct volcanic mountain.
It was the perfect place for the knights to practice cannon firing in future.
For today, he chose to test 1 of the 4 cannons from the barracks and had 2 knights drag the cannon unto the empty field.
Both knights and workers wanted to see, as well as his mom, Lucy, little Momo and Grace, so he allowed them to e. But not all the knights of course (** Who's going to guard the city walls in the central region?)
Many of the workers were curious as to what they had been making. They had been creating this weapon for quite some time now and didn't fully understand what it could do.
But for Tim Mayers and chief Wiggins and the various supervisors in the industries, they understand exactly what would be happening today. Based on the chemical reactions and production processes, they knew that this weapon would have a great explosive factor.
Everyone's heart was pounding as they crowded on the city walls, waiting to witness history.
Landon also had some workers create 7 strong circlular wooden fences with rope and wood, 3 feet away from each other. Then, he had his knights place 7 wild boars in each circular fence.
He assigned a gunner and crew needed for operating a single cannon, and instructed Lucius and the knights on how to operate the cannon.
Cannon operation required a specialized crew and a gunner to run it smoothly.
Each cannon was to be manned by 4 soldiers and a gunner. The gunner was in charge of loading the gunpowder, while 1 soldier was in charge of providing cartilage by igniting the canon. The 3 other soldiers were in charge of ramming and sponging the cannon, as well as holding the ladle.
Also, each cannon could fire about 60-75 shots (cartilage) daily.
After properly explaining to his knights, they followed instructions and pointed the cannon at a projected angle towards the fourth (middle) animal fence.
"My lord, we are prepared
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