Chapter 188 Ana-Frosilova, an apprentice engineer

A black heavy cannon was placed on the carriage, and three sturdy mules were pulling the carriage hard. The engineer of the baroniality, Benny Sutherson, was next to the carriage that was dragging the artillery, and rode on a Leron ration. his horse.

Lailun’s deal with the imperial engineer included going with the army, and now is the time to test the results of his years of research.

“Tutor, Tutor!” An anxious figure came from the end of the team.

A female engineer apprentice named Anna Frosilova who followed Suttersen from Tarabheim to the Barondom of Draco.

She is well-proportioned and small, about 1.6 meters, with short brown hair covered by a blue and white slanted kite hat, wearing very simple and iconic apprentice clothes, with a silver badge of Nuen Engineering College on her neckline. For engineers who often deal with black powder, Anna Frosilova is very neat.

A bright smile hangs on the goose egg face dotted with small freckles, with a high nose bridge, small lips, a pair of watery dark brown eyes full of knowledge, she looks less than nineteen years old, her appearance is not very beautiful, But it is very durable and has some cute taste.

As the only apprentice of Sutterson, and the only woman among the baron’s artillery crew, the other gunners care about her very much, and they all love this young and astute female engineer apprentice very much.

“Anna, my student.” Bennick Sutterson turned his head away, looking angry, and reprimanded in a low voice: “I told you many times, let you honestly follow the infantry regiment and don’t run around. , this is what you promised in advance, have you forgotten?”

“I understand, Instructor Sutterson.” Seeing the engineer apprentice nodding properly and obediently, at least half of the imperial engineer’s anger was dispelled, Sutersen asked helplessly: “Tell me, what’s wrong?”

The young engineer apprentice carried a self-made long gun and four-shot dwarf fire gun with him. For safety reasons, there was a close-fitting rapier hanging from Anna’s waist.

“The greatest mentor of Sutson, my new long gun is still in the testing stage, you know that… So my ammo consumption recently… is a little bit overdone.” In front of the elder Bennick Sutterson, he asked in an embarrassed whisper: “I think… I need a few more mercury lead bullets before departure, I hope the instructor agrees!”

“The 20 rounds of mercury lead bullets that were just given to you have been used up in less than two days?” Sutterson said in a stunned voice, his goatee shaking a few times.

“Mmmm.” Anna nodded obediently.

Bennick Sutterson felt a pain in his flesh. He spent a lot of money to entrust a batch of magic mercury lead bullets made by a baron’s sorceress. In a blink of an eye, his apprentice used half of it, and the imperial engineer was furious for a long time. Can’t say a word.

“Tutor, Tutor?” The young female apprentice blinked her big dark brown eyes and waited patiently for the reply from Sutterson’s tutor.

“In the small box in the lower left corner of the ammo box, you are not allowed to take more!” Suterson took a deep breath and finally gave it.

“Good mentor, promise to take more.” Anna stuck out her tongue, left a sentence, turned around and left…

The young female apprentice who was rushing towards the back of the line happened to bump into Baron Draco, the adopted son of the elector and their accompanying knights.

Anna-Frosilova was very restrained, she nodded and whispered: “Come… Mr. Lailun!”

“Yeah.” Lailun on horseback waved his hand as a greeting, and the young female apprentice quickly ran away.

“Lelun, why is there a woman in your army?” Von Tugenheim, who was beside Baron Draco, glanced back and said curiously, “Looking at the dress, she is still an engineer? It’s really rare.”

“Anna? Yes, she is indeed a little… different. The only apprentice of the imperial engineer Benny Sutterson that I hired was invited to join him from Tarabek to Midden,” said Lailun.

The young baron added: “As far as I know, the relationship between them is not simply a tutor and a student, but a father and a daughter are more appropriate.”

“Oh? I’d like to hear about it.”

“My affairs officer should have mentioned it to me.” Leron paused, then continued: “Her full name is Anna Frosilova, she was born in the southern state of Kislev, about ten years ago in In a Norsca raider attack in the wild, she was rescued by Sutterson who was visiting Prager City north. Benny Suterson had planned to settle her in Prager City because she was too young. already.”

“So, then how did she become an engineer apprentice?” The adopted son of the elector asked thoughtfully, and he was interested.

“Because Anna is literate, she is more knowledgeable and smarter than her peers, and she can cook, and also knows a lot of medical and dressing techniques, and also makes some herbs, and occasionally sings a few Kislev songs.” Empire. Engineer Benny Sutterson came to Lailun and others, and he took over the words: “Later, I found out that this little girl has a unique talent in mechanics and memory. She made me work hard when I was thirteen years old. The long-barreled musket, which had been assembled for a day and a night, was disassembled and reassembled in only half a quarter of an hour. Charlemagne was on top. The long-barreled musket had more than 90 parts, and the components inside were complicated. It’s a miracle that a thirteen-year-old girl can do it well.”

Sutterson added with a smile: “So gentlemen, when I saw the scene where she assembled the musket, my mind was stunned.”

“It’s really interesting… For such a literate and educated girl who is gifted and intelligent, her family is at least the local Boyer nobles, or the town Duma, and she should have been assigned a lot of guards. How could she be rescued by you in the wild? What, Engineer Bennick?” The adopted son of the elector was very puzzled.

“Anna said that she is the daughter of a fallen Boyer nobleman. There are many such situations. There are disasters everywhere in Kislev, so it’s not surprising.” The kingdom is far more dangerous than our empire and the kingdom of knights. When I rescued Anna, the little girl only had one breath left, and she almost froze to death in that wasteland.”

“Well, similar situations like this are too common.” Von Tugenheim nodded. …

Then, the adoptive son of the White Wolf Elector kept swept over the heavy artillery that belonged to the Baron of Draco.

The huge gun body, the black lacquered muzzle, and the golden twin-tailed comet pattern on the gun stand all illustrate the exquisite workmanship.

Compared with Middenheim’s city fire cannons, the dwarf-crafted heavy artillery has shorter barrels and thicker barrels. Their casting drawings are mixed with the results of years of research by the imperial engineer Sutsen, both in terms of range and power. Ordinary imperial cannons are superior, and they are not particularly troublesome to carry. Compared with a large pile of thick iron pipes on the city wall that cannot be moved, the large wheels cast by dwarves can be said to be very convenient, and only a few young mules can be pulled. , does not require temporary assembly yet.

The adopted son of the elector knows the importance of artillery. As the flag-holder of the Elector of the White Wolf, he has proposed more than once to add firearms and equipment to the Miden-Leading Provincial Army, but Tugenheim faced enormous resistance. None of the suggestions made were accepted and ended in vain.

“Very good artillery, far more powerful than the artillery in the Middenheim warehouse.” The adopted son of the elector was full of praise.

“Of course! Made by dwarves, it must be a fine product!”

“Big man, see the real good craftsmanship!”

Several dwarf gunners in the gun crew clapped their stomachs and laughed non-stop, “You human craftsmen are just a bunch of stupid students! Hahaha~~”

Ser Armand, who was riding a half-griffin next to him, frowned. In comparison, von Tugenheim’s face was much better. The latter just looked at Baron Draco helplessly, and Leren shrugged in the same way. , the two of them smiled at each other tacitly.

Lailun and the others speeded up their horses, the cloaks behind the eternal knights and the white wolf knights rattled, black and white converged in one place.

The front end of the coalition army is composed of Gavin Clinton and the Eternal Guard Company, as well as the two teams of swordsmen from Uric’s Sword. The elite halberdiers of Pi Jian are undoubtedly the best forwards. The middle of the coalition army is arranged A number of long-range output arms, including musketeers, crossbowmen, archers, and wood elves woodland guards, totaling more than 600 people, the end of the coalition army after several halberd companies and the freedom militia regiment is the artillery of Lailun. .

The baronial soldiers are no strangers to the dwarves in the army. The dwarves walk on foot, their speed is very slow compared to humans and elves, barely following behind the artillery, acting as the rear guard of the queue.

But dwarves are a race that can march uninterruptedly and eat and drink on the road. Their stamina is excellent. In short, they are a group of natural long-distance marathon runners.

During the half-day march, a small number of human soldiers were already a little tired, but the dwarves were still in good spirits and became more and more energetic.

In this way, an army of more than 2,000 people moved on the road opened in the forest, heading for the set goal,

“I really didn’t expect that I would have a time to fight with wood elves and dwarves.”

Saying that, Tugenheim glanced at the wood elf woodland lord who was riding a stag and wearing a giant stag helmet in the team. Olasif noticed his gaze, first glanced at him coldly, and then took the initiative. Don’t look away to the forest in the distance. …

“In the court of the White Wolf Elector, there are two Elector Tingchen from Lauren Loren wood elves. They are very temperamental and never look at people directly.” The adopted son of the Elector asked with a smile for no reason. : “Your Excellency Lailun, what means did you use to get these wood elves to obey you?”

“When you are very useful to them, this group of loner residents of the magic forest will treat you in a peaceful and equal way.” Lailun explained, “In other words, the wood elves and I have mutual benefits and mutual benefits. .”

“That’s true.” Tugenheim nodded.

“By the way, Lailun, the shadow forest in the northeastern part of the Central Mountains, there have been some unusual changes recently.” The adopted son of the elector suddenly changed the subject.

“It was a forest occupied by the necromancer Dieter Hersnicht, what happened?” Leron asked.

“It’s a bit of a coincidence, and it’s good news.” Tugenheim explained what happened in the shadow forest: “Dieter Hersnicht’s former servant , is also the apprentice of this death lord’s necromancer, the exiled undead Sagalya has returned from the badlands of the south, and the message from the shadow forest patrol camp, the undead Sagalya also brought back a zombie dragon, And the spells he masters are not inferior to those of Death Lord Dieter, and the two sides fought a battle for an ancient book.”

“According to the general situation, the death lord has been deeply rooted in the shadow forest for decades, and the undead army under his command is numerous, not to mention that Dieter has a powerful blood dragon knight who is loyal to him, while Sagalia has only A zombie dragon and a small number of summoned undead creatures, in terms of strength, the latter will undoubtedly lose, but the outcome of the battle is an unexpected loss for both sides.”

“Both losers?” Lailun narrowed his eyes, he already knew the reason.

“Yes, during the war, the two necromancers assembled tens of thousands of skeleton warriors, zombies, and dozens of black knights, crypt demons and other undead monsters.” Nodding slowly: “But as soon as the zombie dragon of Sagalya appeared, the situation was saved, but the only blood dragon knight Ameler Kell who could slay dragons did not appear, which led to Dieter-Helsnicht. Forced to deal with his one-time servant and the damned zombie dragon at the same time.”

“Vanmere von Laukoff, Elector of Ostermark, has assembled the Knights of the Bull and more than 10,000 provincial legions to join forces with Elector Wolfram Hertwig of Ostermark. The army, they intend to seize the opportunity to retake the land on the edge of the shadow forest, establish a new line of defense of the Central Mountains, and dozens of guard posts.”

“However, Lailun, I heard that the blood dragon knight Emile appeared at the border of your territory half a month ago?” Von Tugenheim suddenly changed his words and looked at Baron Draco.

“Yes, this is a bit confusing…” Lailun didn’t hide it, he told the elector’s adopted son about the blood knight’s appearance.

Of course, Lailun didn’t say that he was kissed with blood by the blood dragon knight. This secret will at least wait until the identity of the person who helps him behind the scenes is revealed.

Armand on the side nodded slowly, and the Winter Wolf Knight said with some admiration: “Your Excellency Lailun, it is already a very remarkable thing that you can fight against the Blood Dragon Knight at such a young age. It is humbling to say that if I face Aimille Kyle alone, the odds of winning are four or six, or even three or seven, as for killing the blood knight, it is impossible at all.”

xiaoshuting.

“Then the question now is, who killed the blood knight? With Ameler’s strength, even if he is seriously injured, he can definitely run rampant in Dracowald Forest, and there are very few people who can defeat and kill him completely. .” Feng Tugenheim looked solemn.

“This is also a question I’m thinking about.” Lailun’s eyes were deep, and he looked at the end of the forest.

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