Chapter 13 Chapter 13 A Letter from Marcel Bruckmann 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, as I valued my own life more than a model of a Schultz cannon. "While I bid you farewell, I must tell you my secret, or I will be disrespectful. But don't worry, you won't have to pay with your life. "My name is not Schwarz, and I'm not Swiss. I'm from Alsace. My name is Marcel Brickmann. If you have to believe what you say, I'm a make-shift Engineer, but I am first and foremost a Frenchman. You have become the sworn enemy of our country, my friends, my family. You devise vile schemes against everything we hold dear. I risk everything, I have tried my best to discover your schemes! I will do everything possible to foil your shameful schemes.

"I am anxious to tell you that your first shot missed, your purpose, thank God, was not achieved, and it was impossible to achieve it! Your cannon is a fine cannon, but it has so much explosive charge The cannonballs, and the cannonballs it might fire, hurt no one! The cannonballs will never fall to the ground. I have expected this, and today, a fait accompli to your great honour, Mr. Schultz has invented a horrific... utterly non-lethal cannon. "You will therefore be pleased to learn that we saw your perfect shell fly over our city at 11:45:04 last night. It traveled westward through space, and so on. The earth will go around 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, will 'can't fall!' Because of its motion, Coupled with the force of gravity, it will be destined to become a mobile object orbiting the earth forever.

"You probably don't know that. "Besides, let's hope that cannon in the Bull Tower is completely useless after this initial test. It's not too expensive, though, only two hundred thousand dollars, but you've added a new planet to the galaxy, and given Earth has a second satellite. "Marcel Brickmann "September 14, 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 right that the shells are scrapped afterwards.

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.