Proof of the Sun King

The mechanical warhorse is another new invention of the Nuer military factory. The reason for this invention is that after obtaining the half-blooded elf warhorse, many of Nuer's knights and nobles have moved their minds. They all want a good horse, after all For knights, a good horse means strong fighting power and better survivability.

Emilia has a mixed-blood elf warhorse, which was given by Ryan. Since Emilia does not ride often, this mixed-blood elf warhorse is often borrowed by the nobles of Nuer for breeding. It is delicious and delicious. Coax, but because they don't know anything about the breeding of elf war horses, the great nobles of Nuer have not matched a qualified war horse offspring to this day.

In essence, the Bretons are not very proficient in the breeding of pure-blooded elf war horses. The wood elves are the best at how to breed elf war horses. Ryan's war horse, Uncle Grape, is also responsible for the breeding of wood elves, and they are born in a lifetime. There were a dozen foals, but Uncle Grape didn't even look at these offspring. He only liked Surya's horse, the pure-blooded elf mare Richter. The two war horses gave birth to several pure-blooded foals. Among the stables and pastures outside the castle of the Duke of Lane.

For this, the big engineers of the Nuer military factory were not happy. They thought that the problem that the machine can solve, why should they solve it with horses?

Wouldn't the problem be solved by building a powerful mechanical horse?

As soon as they said it, Noor's engineers immediately used machinery and clockwork to create such a mechanical warhorse. This kind of mechanical warhorse requires a lot of time to be hand-crafted and polished. As long as it runs smoothly, the mechanical warhorse can smash everything that stands in its way. Enemies and obstacles.

An engineer proudly rode on the mechanical warhorse. He waved at the crowd, and everyone raised their hands to indicate that the performance could begin.

"here we go!"

Push the button, pull the reins, and the imperial engineer drives the mechanical horse into action.

Soon, the mechanical warhorse began to run, and the sound of springs and gears came from its body. The entire mechanical device began to start, and the sound roared. The crystallization of human elite technology and wisdom was perfectly interpreted in the body of the mechanical warhorse. Like some kind of ancient fire of hope lit up on the mechanical horse, the power of thunder is surging on the mechanical horse.

"Activate!" shouted the Imperial Engineer, who looked like a great general, an invincible knight!

next second. "boom!"

"Boom! Boom!"

The entire mechanical warhorse blew up!

Amid the sound of explosions, electric sparks, and leaks of steam, the mechanical horse exploded. It disintegrated instantly in front of everyone. The horse kicked its hind legs and flew into the air with the imperial engineer on the horse. Fragments of the sky!

Gears, springs, and iron pieces fell to the ground, making a clattering sound, and then the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.

The poor imperial engineer fell from the air, fell to the ground on the spot, and let out a miserable cry: "Ahhhh! My leg, my leg is broken! I need treatment, need treatment!"

Everyone: "..."

Is this a powerful mechanical horse?

It's really powerful, Ryan and Suria couldn't help covering their mouths and snickering, Alfred was still enduring, and the female Norsca woman Ingrid was laughing so hard that she was about to roll on the ground.

After a few seconds of silence, Emilia couldn't stand it any longer. The Imperial Countess looked gloomy. She motioned to the attendant: "Take him down and send him to the Church of Lady Mercy for treatment."

"Yes!" The valet immediately lifted the engineer who had broken his leg down.

"My chief engineer, I think I need an explanation. Every year our city council grants you tens of thousands of dollars. This is what the military factory produces?" Emilia smiled, she is not now The little maid mode in front of Ryan was the imperial duchess mode, and the majesty on her body almost overflowed: "What is this? Self-destructing warhorse? Nur doesn't need such a thing."

"Uh..." Maybach, the chief engineer, was a little embarrassed. He lowered his head and said, "Sorry, my lady, the mechanical warhorse is still in the trial production and debugging stage..."

"I don't need a reason, I want to know the reason, my chief engineer." Emilia still smiled, but everyone could feel the anger behind her smile.

"The stability of the mechanical warhorse has always been a big problem, my Countess." Chief Engineer Maybach had to tell the truth, he sighed: "The structure of the mechanical horse is too precise, I mean... its whole body is To be well maintained, as long as there is a problem with one part, it can easily evolve into a failure like just now. This is not the first time. Several engineers have been injured because of this, but my Countess, we still think that there are Further research is necessary."

"No more." Emilia said impatiently: "I think the precious scientific research funds should be used in more important places, what do you think? Gaunt-Maybach?"

"When...of course, everything follows your orders." The chief engineer nodded with a wry smile.

A farce was revealed so quickly, the chief engineer was a little embarrassed, and the arrogant aura before him no longer existed. He then began to introduce the latest war machine going on in the Nuer military factory to everyone.

Land boat.

This giant unit with a height of seven or eight meters is a new order from the Merchant Union of Marienburg. It has an extremely large body, about eight meters high, four meters wide, and ten meters long. The hull is equipped with a large boiler behind it. , the front of the hull is equipped with a standard imperial heavy cannon, and four small cannons are also equipped on the sides, two on one side. The hull is enough to arrange 20-40 soldiers to fight on land vehicles. Wooden wheel guides and oversized wheels at the rear provide power, driven by a steam boiler.

Ryan took a closer look at the behemoth, which was both ridiculous and spectacular, and smiled: "This landboat you made, exited!"

The birth of the landboat is also a little bit related to Ryan.

As we all know, Marienburg is a free city, the city was separated from the Empire before the Great Holy War, and after the Great Holy War, facing the unparalleled prestige of the messiah Ludwig and the oppression of the imperial power, the merchants of Marienburg They chose to submit to Ludwig's rule, but used an astonishing amount of gold to exchange "permanent autonomy" from Ludwig, and for more than a hundred years, Marienburg has enjoyed The power of self-government, the merchants of Marienburg, tired of the endless political intrigues and wars of the imperial court, cared only about their own profit.

However, because of this, the decision of the businessmen is considered to be a double-edged sword. After they have won the right to independence, they also make their cities lack a strong army. As mentioned above, the bourgeoisie is weak, and the businessmen are also incompetent. Just like the military nobles of the empire, they can gather a large number of soldiers and elites in their own territory. The mercenaries trained by the businessmen themselves cannot compete with the elites of the empire. Had to spend a lot of money and connections to seek help from the Empire.

Just like twelve years ago, Marienburg was forced to ask for help from the Empire when faced with a greenskin invasion, but the Empire took the opportunity to open up the Griffin and severely corrupted Marienburg. By the way, the merchants agreed to a lot of disagreements. equal conditions.

Of course the profiteers will not be reconciled, but the defense of Marienburg is indeed very weak, and the merchants cannot even allow the enemy to approach the suburbs of Marienburg, not to mention the city walls?

So profiteers are eyeing the super killer of steam tanks.

Of course, how could the Empire allow profiteers to put their hands on a war machine like a steam tank? In history, Marienburg has only successfully rented mass-produced Conqueror-class steam tanks twice. The high rent was enough to make several chambers of commerce in Marienburg almost go bankrupt, and it also faced 24-hour surveillance by the Imperial Guard. .

At the same time, the profiteers found that steam tanks could not be purchased by any means and at any price, no matter how good the relationship between the bureaucrats and generals of the empire and the profiteers in Marienburg was, how to promise to help, when they heard the word steam tank, they turned their faces and refused to recognize them on the spot. Humans, the engineers of the Empire were asked to keep secrets at the cost of death.

The only official who had accepted a huge bribe to help, vanished on his return and was found three days later publicly executed on the streets of Brunswick on charges of treason.

Merchants in Marienburg soon realized that they couldn't possibly buy a steam tank, but...maybe they could commission the Empire to build a "steam tank of Marienburg's own?"

Almost right after Lane left Marienburg, after the Great Battle of Collison Plain, the merchants of Marienburg sat together again for a meeting, and the businessmen who had tasted the pain finally made up their minds, those who occupy the House of Lords. Which of the big businessmen does not have a net worth of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of gold marks? They decided to pool the money together and asked the Empire to help them build a steam tank of their own in Marienburg.

The Brunswick Armory refused, because the Brunswick Armoury was incapable of making steam tanks, and the dwarves of Breeze Castle rejected it and mocked that the humans were a bunch of idiots.

In the end, Marienburg found the Noor Arms Factory. Faced with a deposit of tens of thousands of gold marks and more follow-up investments promised, the Noor Arms Factory was silent. Unlike Brunswick, Noor was an industrial city that needed this kind of The large amount of orders and funds, and the large sum of gold sent into the Nur palace at the same time also made the big nobles shut their mouths.

Including Emilia, the Duchess of the Empire was originally very dissatisfied with this, but the gift of 10,000 gold marks and a large number of precious accessories and cosmetics from the high elves sent by Marienburg made Emilia finally choose to acquiesce.

Since then, the Nuer Armament Factory has taken the order, and Nuer's big engineers have been asked to build a war machine that is "higher, faster and stronger" than a steam tank, and is required to be able to drive in swamps, and It can't be too complicated, at least to ensure that the engineers in Marienburg can learn how to control it.

"This is really embarrassing for us." At this time, Hezekiah Goodman, the chief engineer of the land boat project and the great engineer of the empire, stood up. This is a very special great engineer. He was dressed in a clean suit. clothes, burn scars on his face, and a soft hat on his head that wraps from head to chin, with a clock on top of it, which makes his head and clock together look like a gourd.

He introduced: "As we all know, our understanding of steam power technology itself has a certain limit. Only those big engineers who are proficient in steam technology can skillfully operate a steam tank and know when to depressurize, when to pressurize, and what to do. The time should be properly overloaded, and Marienburg's requirements are too difficult, we have screwed up many times, such as the main gun is too powerful, the recoil of the gun makes the steam tank disintegrate, such as the steam boiler is too small, the power is not enough, too large It's easy to explode, the steam tank can easily fall apart while turning, and the wheels will fall off."

"So how did you solve this problem in the end?" Ryan asked curiously, "It is conceivable that you must have encountered a lot of difficulties."

"After many failures, we suddenly realized that we didn't need to force a larger steam tank to copy the prototype of the steam tank, we just needed to be taller and bigger as the merchants in Marienburg demanded. , stronger~" Goodman engineer was quite proud: "So we immediately gave up building a new tank, but made this 'land boat' according to Marienburg's requirements, we enlarged the steam boiler to ensure that it can be smoothly Granted, it may not be as lean and powerful as a steam tank, but with enough bulk and a sturdy hull, at least as long as the steam boiler doesn't explode and the tires run fine, the landboat proves to be a walking war fort and land Cruisers, the Marienburgers were so satisfied after reviewing them that they asked us to build half a dozen in one fell swoop."

"How much have you built?" Lane asked.

"We've built three, and the fourth is nearing completion." The Goodman engineer nodded: "With a prototype, the rest of the mass production is always easy, I mean...if you have enough money, Of course we can."

"Well." Ryan nodded, and he had some thoughts in his mind.

At the end of today's visit, what everyone wants to visit is the Noor Gun Academy. Because of the privacy and technical confidentiality involved in this visit, there are not many places that Ryan and others can visit, mainly the teaching building, dormitory building, shooting range and canteen. .

At this time, after a morning visit, the time had come to the afternoon. When everyone entered the cafeteria, Ryan noticed that there were still more than 20 Nuer armored troops eating in the cafeteria.

The Nuer Iron Armored Army is likely to be the most powerful firearms unit in the old world. This army is composed of students, guards and mentors from the Nuer Gun Academy. The number is small, about seven or eight hundred people. Master-level muskets, the Nuer Iron Armored Army is the most widely respected and well-equipped musket regiment in the empire. At the same time, it is also not lacking in powerful melee combat capabilities. The soldiers of the army are almost from the noble children of the empire, except for sending the children to Rick. In addition to the guards, it is also an ideal training direction for the children of the great nobles of the empire to be sent to the Nuer Gun Academy.

"Hello, my Countess, Lord Ryan, Madam Surya, I'm Jubal-Fok, Commander of the Noor Iron Armor." A kite wearing black half-body plate armor and several helmet feathers on his head Helmet, the general with the brown beard stood in front of the crowd: "Welcome to Noor Gun Academy."

"Jubal-Fokker is a battle-hardened warrior." Emilia stood up~www.wuxiamtl.com~ The Imperial Countess said with some pride: "He has excellent control over tactics because of his excellent ability to control tactics. Considered by many as the successor of the president of the Society of Engineers, dear Jubar was born at the Noor River Wharf. His tactical talent and firm execution discipline made him rise rapidly in the team. He respected those engineers who provided professional skills and moral character. Noble people join the army, but never the slack or incompetent."

"The Countess is overrated." Jubal Fok, the commander of the Nuer Iron Armored Army, bowed his head a little embarrassedly: "Sorry, we are having dinner."

"It's okay, can you show us the back kitchen?" Ryan suddenly became interested.

"Of course!" Jubar didn't expect Ryan to make such a request, he was stunned for a moment, but agreed.

Everyone entered the back kitchen. Today's food for the Nuer Iron Armored Army is steak + vegetable salad + mashed potatoes + bread + boiled carrots + corn soup.

"Tactical fight." Ryan looked at a Nuer iron armored army with an iron plate to fight.

"Tactical steak." The back kitchen is frying the steak.

"Tactical dining."

"Tactical bald head." Ryan finally pointed to the bald head of an iron-clad soldier.

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!" The audience joked, and Sulia and Emilia both laughed and trembled and couldn't stand their waist.

Ryan's humor brought the visit to a successful conclusion.

When everyone came out of the Noor Arms Factory, the old guard Raymond quickly approached: "My Duke, Duchess!"

"What's the matter, Raymond?" Ryan knew that the old guard would not come to him for nothing.

"Mr. Oliver has arrived, and Mr. Vincent has also arrived in Noor." Raymond whispered: "They are waiting for you where you are staying."

"Very well, we'll go back now."