Chapter 13 Chapter 13 A Letter from Marcel Brickmann to Professor Schulz of Stalstadt

I feel obliged to inform you, Iron Lord, that I had the great fortune of crossing the boundary line of your domain the night before, because I valued my own life more than a model of a Schultz cannon. As I bid you farewell, I must tell you my secret, or it would be disrespectful.But don't worry, it won't cost you your life. My name is not Schwartz and I am not Swiss.I am from Alsace.My name is Marcel Brickmann.If you have to believe what you say, I'm a decent engineer, but I'm French first and foremost.You have become the sworn enemy of our country, my friends, and my family.You conjure up dastardly schemes against everything we hold dear.Regardless of all dangers, I tried my best to detect your plots!I will do everything possible to foil these shameful plots of yours.

I am anxious to tell you that your first shot missed, that your aim, thank God, was not achieved, and could not be achieved!Your cannon is a fine cannon, but the shells it holds so much dynamite, and the shells it might fire, can't hurt anybody!The shells will never reach the ground.I had expected this, and today, to your great credit, is the fact that Mr. Schulz has invented a formidable and completely indestructible cannon. You will therefore be pleased to learn that we saw your perfect shell fly over our city last night at 11:45:04.It travels westward in the space, and goes around like this, until the end of the century.A cannonball whose initial velocity is twenty times higher than the existing velocity, that is, 10,000 meters per second, cannot fall!Because of its motion, combined with the pull of gravity, it will be destined to be a living object orbiting the Earth forever.

You probably don't know this. Also, let's hope that the cannon in the Tower of the Bull is completely useless after this first trial.It's not too expensive though, just two hundred thousand dollars, and yet you've added a new planet to the galaxy and a second moon to Earth. Marcel Brickmann September 14th, at the City of France An express train runs immediately from the city of France to Stahlstadt.Everyone understood Marcel's eagerness to deliver the letter to Mr. Schulz, with the intention of making a good mockery of the latter. Marcel was right when he said that the notorious cannonball traveling at such a fast speed must travel in outer space and never fall to the earth again, and he hoped that the cannon of the Bull Tower would finish firing the cannonball It is also correct to scrap it afterward.

After receiving this letter, Mr. Schultz must be in a panic, and his incomparable self-esteem must be shattered.When he was reading the letter, his face turned blue, and after reading the letter, his head drooped on his chest, as if he had been hit in the head with a club.It took him a quarter of an hour to get out of this dejected state, and then he would go into a rage!Only Arminius and Sijime would know how outraged he was! Mr. Schultz, however, is not one to admit defeat.There is bound to be a life-and-death contest between him and Marcel.Didn't he still have shells filled with liquid carbonic acid?He also has less powerful but more practical cannons that can fire these shells from short distances?

A sudden force calmed the Iron King, and he returned to his studio to resume work. Obviously, the threat to the city of France is greater than before, so there must be no slack in the slightest, and we must be ready for defense.