Iron Cross Fire

In recent days, Kuster has been acting strangely, going in and out of several historic blacksmith shops, with his face covered with dust from time to time.

This makes many people curious about him, and most civilians can watch the general's style up close.

It is worth mentioning that since the signing of the Moscow Agreement, Austria-Hungary has promoted Kuster to general; Turkey has even given him the title of "Marshal of the Caucasus", although the gold content is not great.

Germany recognizes his status as a marshal, but still regards him as a foreign officer and does not allow him to participate too much in military command. Unlike the Caucasus, Kuster can freely draw Turkish troops there, and even sideline some local snakes.

Officials all know that Kuster is doing scientific research. Even if they don't understand why he wants to forge iron, he still has great wisdom compared to the people. They declared to the outside world:

"Marshal Kuster is sharpening a sharp weapon. This weapon can go up to the sky and into the ground, and can also launch rockets. At critical moments, it can also extend into a few centimeters thick armor to protect the user."

Many people came here because of his reputation, but they lost interest after taking a look.

Compared with professional knife makers, Kuster is not only lacking in technique, but also the technology he uses is very backward.

He uses the traditional method of forging swords since the Industrial Revolution. Several old blacksmiths around kindly reminded him that there is a power device next to him, which will be much more convenient for melting steel billets, casting, forging, etc. But he just didn't listen, and instead said that manual forging has better balance.

Kuster's forging level is not good enough. He can't even melt the steel billet at the beginning. He often can't control the temperature well, and the steel billet is not heated well before it starts to shape.

Over time, he also lost confidence and simply bought a high-quality knife from the old blacksmith to play with.

However, his way of playing is also a bit unique. He dug a piece of soil on the ground, put the carbon at the bottom, then put the knife on it, and finally rammed the pit tightly with soil.

Hundreds of years ago, blacksmiths whose ashes were dried should have known this method. This is a carburizing method, but it is very primitive. It usually takes several days to complete.

It is difficult to guess what Kuster was doing, but after he finished, he went to work without stopping.

His work efficiency was completely different from that of a blacksmith. He produced more than a dozen drawings in just a few hours.

The front and back of each drawing were different, and the things he developed were also extraordinary.

The research and development theme revolved around improving rocket launchers. Kuster found that the rocket's firing engine was perfect, but its guidance ability was very poor. The rocket could rise quickly into the sky, but because of this, the fuel would burn out quickly, and then it would depend on the mood of the wind god if it wanted to drive it.

So Kuster planned to slow down the burning speed of the internal fuel, remove some oxidizers and experiment again.

However, the results were not satisfactory, and the rocket did not even ignite.

After investigating the problem, it was found that due to isolation from the outside world, there was a lack of oxygen in the liquid fuel, and it could not react, so it naturally could not ignite.

Kuster pulled the original rocket over again, dismantled the explosive device of the warhead, and conducted experiments outside Berlin.

As Falkenhayn said, the rocket ran out of fuel in midair after flying less than 200 meters. It turned around and around, causing it to lose its sense of direction and start to fall freely.

Several German soldiers were sent to look for clues, and within half an hour, they found something valuable.

Several abrupt oil stains appeared on the ground, and they were quite large, almost as big as a small waterway manhole cover.

Going back to investigate, it was the fuel used by the rocket.

Now the reason was found - his rocket was leaking oil.

But Kuster clearly remembered that his rocket did not leak oil! The original Austro-Hungarian rockets were used very effectively in the Caucasus, and they could do a good job in both precise positioning and long-range strikes. So he was sure that the Germans had a problem.

Would the Germans admit it? No way! They repeatedly insisted that it was Kuster who had a problem, not their craftsmanship. After all, German craftsmanship is the best in the world, and they can completely shut anyone up with this reason.

Helplessly, Kuster had to give up improving the rocket launcher and only asked Franz, who lived in Austria-Hungary, to help him transport a few local rockets, and turned his attention to armored technology.

The main reason for doing this was poverty. The Germans did not allocate a penny to him for scientific research funds on the grounds that he was not German, and even he had to pay for finding German soldiers.

Compared with the puzzle game that takes a long time, costs a lot, and has little profit, it is more effective to directly create a new set of things.

But soon, his money became increasingly stretched. A marshal who beat a superpower to death a few days ago, today he can hardly even eat bread.

Under such a living condition of not being able to eat from one meal to another, he had the idea of ​​returning to Austria-Hungary, but Franz had not sent back any news, and with the obstruction of Germany, he had to give up.

But soon he became rich. Seeing that he stayed in the house day and night without coming out, Hindenburg felt pity for him and told him a little secret to get rich:

"You are the one who made the imperial uniforms."

After receiving the letter, Kuster jumped up instantly, not caring why his clothes came to Germany, and went straight to apply for a patent.

Because of the newspaper bombardment for several consecutive months, everyone who read newspapers in Europe knew what Kuster looked like, and they were quite respectful when they saw him.

But when he asked for the patent fee, the German civil servant immediately turned his face and refused to acknowledge him, firmly stating that the military uniform was completely developed by the German Empire itself, but only borrowed from Kuster in some relatively "small" places.

Kuster naturally couldn't stand this kind of thief behavior, so he picked up a saber and fought with those civil servants.

Because he was a well-recognized marshal, the civil servants didn't dare to fight back, and hurriedly fled to the streets to seek the protection of the police.

However, the police were useless, and Kuster still chopped.

Finally tired, Kuster "borrowed" a horse from the police station and started riding and slashing.

He chopped all the way to the Prime Minister's Office, and the noise was reported to the emperor, and this ridiculous incident like a child's play was barely stopped.

Germany quickly held a meeting on this case. Although the government cabinet strongly opposed it and suggested that the emperor implement a delaying tactic; but the emperor was very fair and had a good face, and he agreed to Kuster's patent request stubbornly.

The result was that Germany quickly spent a large amount of money, but Kuster also kindly said that it didn't have to be paid all at once, but could be paid in installments.

One day later, he put the money into the bank, and his property kept growing, so Kuster had enough money to do scientific research.

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