Eagle Cannon

Karl settled on a direction. For Carnford, which urgently needed to improve the firepower of its grassroots troops at this stage but lacked heavy industrial capabilities, the Crouching Tiger Cannon and Fo-Lang-Ji Cannon were undoubtedly the best choices.

In his vision, the light Crouching Tiger Cannon would be assigned to battalion- and company-level combat units as direct support fire accompanying infantry, suppressing enemy infantry charges in field battles or increasing the fire density of forward positions during defensive warfare.

The Fo-Lang-Ji Cannon, meanwhile, could serve as the core support weapon at the regimental level, suppressing enemy formations and destroying fortifications.

With this plan in mind, Karl arrived at Hector's firearms workshop, located beside a small river on the edge of the Carnford Plain.

By then, Hector's military workshop had already been moved down from the castle on the mountain. It was no longer inside Tunbao either, because Karl had separated the military workshop from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, placing it directly under the army.

Karl had situated it on the Carnford Plain, near a small river with abundant waterpower. This space had been reserved for more advanced processing equipment in the future, such as water-powered forging hammers.

The workshop was a scene of bustling activity.

Flames roared inside several brick-and-stone furnaces, driving away the chill of spring in the Northern Territory. The clang of blacksmiths' hammers, the whooshing of apprentices working the bellows, and the shouts of craftsmen calling to one another blended together, making the place noisy yet full of life.

The firearms workshop was no longer the cramped, disorderly shack it had once been, where everyone had crowded together and hammered away.

With continuous funding from the Lord's Residence and the personal planning of the engineer Morr, it had expanded into an orderly group of independent