The Sun King's Evidence

The mechanical war horse is another brand-new invention of Nuer Military Factory. The reason for this invention is that after obtaining the mixed-blood elf war horse, many knights and nobles of Nuer started to think about it. They were all thinking about a good horse. After all, For knights, a good horse means strong combat effectiveness and better survivability.

Emilia has a mixed-blood elf war horse, which was given by Ryan. Since Emilia does not ride it often, this mixed-blood elf war horse is often borrowed by the nobles of Nuer for breeding. It is delicious and delicious. Coaxing, but because they know nothing about the breeding of elven war horses, the great nobles of Nuer have not produced a qualified war horse offspring to this day.

In essence, the Brittanians are not very proficient in breeding pure-blooded elven war horses. The wood elves are the best at breeding elven war horses. The wood elves were also responsible for the breeding of Ryan's war horse, Uncle Grape, and he was born in his lifetime. There are a dozen foals, but Uncle Grape doesn’t even look at these offspring. He only likes Surya’s mount, the pure-blood elf female Marihit. The two war horses gave birth to several pure-blood foals, and they are currently raising them in In the stables and pastures outside the castle of the Duke of Lane.

Regarding this, the great engineers of the Nuer Military Factory were unhappy. They thought that if the problem could be solved by machinery, why should war horses be used to solve it?

Wouldn’t building a powerful mechanical horse solve the problem?

As soon as they said it, Nuer's engineers immediately used machinery and clockwork to create such a mechanical war horse. This kind of mechanical war horse requires a lot of time to be carefully crafted and polished by hand. As long as it runs smoothly, the mechanical war horse can smash everything that blocks it. Enemies and obstacles.

An engineer triumphantly rode on the mechanical war horse. He waved to everyone, and everyone raised their hands to indicate that the performance could begin.

"here we go!"

Pressing the button and pulling the reins, the imperial engineer drove the mechanical horse into action.

Soon, the mechanical war horse began to operate. The sound of springs and gears came from its body. The entire mechanical device started to start and roared. The crystallization of human elite technology and wisdom was perfectly interpreted in the body of the mechanical war horse. Like some ancient flame of hope lighting up the mechanical horse, thunderous power surges through the mechanical horse.

"Start!" the imperial engineer shouted. He looked like a great general and an invincible knight!

The next second. "boom!"

"Boom! Boom!"

The entire mechanical war horse exploded!

Amidst the sound of explosions, electric sparks, and steam leaks, the mechanical horse exploded. It disintegrated instantly in front of everyone. The horse kicked off its hind legs, and the imperial engineer on the horse flew into the air, and then exploded into pieces. Pieces of heaven!

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 and fell to the ground on the spot, screaming miserably: "Ahhh! My leg, my leg is broken! I need treatment, I need treatment!"

Everyone: "..."

Is this a powerful mechanical horse?

It was indeed quite powerful. Both Ryan and Sulia couldn't help covering their mouths and snickering. Alfred was still holding back, and the female Norscan Ingrid was already laughing so much that she was almost rolling on the ground.

After a few seconds of silence, Emilia couldn't stand it any longer. The Imperial Lady's face was gloomy, and she signaled to the attendants: "Carry him down and send him to the Church of the Lady of Mercy for treatment."

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

"My chief engineer, I think I need an explanation. Our city council approves tens of thousands of dollars in funding for you every year. Is this what the military factory produces?" Emilia smiled. She was not The little maid mode in front of Ryan was the Imperial Baroness mode, and the majesty on her body was almost overflowing: "What is this? A self-destructing war horse? Noor doesn't need this kind of thing."

"Uh..." Chief Engineer Maybach was a little embarrassed. He lowered his head and said, "I'm sorry, my Lady, the mechanical war horse is still in the trial production and debugging stage..."

"What I need is not a reason, what I want to know is the reason, my chief engineer." Emilia still smiled, but everyone could feel the anger hidden behind her smile.

"The stability of the mechanical war horse has always been a big problem, my Baroness." Chief Engineer Maybach had no choice but to tell the truth. He sighed: "The structure of the mechanical horse is too sophisticated. I mean...its whole body is... It must be well maintained. As long as there is a problem in one part, it can easily evolve into a failure like just now. This is not the first time that this has happened. Several engineers have been injured because of this, but my Baroness, we still believe that there is Further research is needed.”

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

"Of course... I will follow your instructions." The chief engineer nodded with a wry smile.

A farce was quickly revealed. The chief engineer was a little embarrassed, and his previous arrogance no longer existed. He then began to introduce the latest war machine in progress at the Nuer Military Factory to everyone.

Land boat.

This giant unit with a height of seven or eight meters is a new order from Marienburg's merchant alliance. It has an extremely large body, about eight meters high, four meters wide, and more than ten meters long. It is equipped with a large boiler behind the hull. , the front of the hull is equipped with a standard imperial heavy cannon, and the sides are equipped with four small cannons, two on one side. The hull is enough for 20-40 soldiers to fight on the land boat. The hull uses small cannons in the front. Power was provided by wooden wheel guides and an oversized wheel at the rear, driven by a steam boiler.

Ryan took a closer look at this ridiculous and spectacular behemoth and smiled: "This land speeder you built is exciting!"

The birth of the land boat has a little to do with Ryan.

As we all know, Marienburg is a free city. This city had separated from the empire before the Great Holy War. After the Great Holy War, faced with the unparalleled prestige of Ludwig the Savior and the oppression of the imperial forces, the merchants of Marienburg They chose to surrender to Ludwig's rule, but used an astonishing amount of gold to obtain "permanent autonomy" from Ludwig. For more than a hundred years, Marienburg has enjoyed With the power of autonomy, the merchants of Marienburg were tired of the endless political intrigues and wars of the imperial court. They only cared about their own profits.

However, because of this, the decision of the merchants was considered a double-edged sword. After they won the right to independence, their cities also lacked a strong army. As mentioned above, the bourgeoisie was weak and the merchants were incompetent. Just like the military nobles of the empire, they can recruit a large number of soldiers and elites into their own territories. The mercenaries trained by the merchants themselves cannot be defeated by the elites of the empire. In the face of war, Marienburg will He had to spend a huge amount 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 the greenskin invasion. The Empire took the opportunity to speak loudly and blackmailed Marienburg severely, and also made the merchants agree to many undesirable promises. Equal conditions.

Of course the profiteers will not give in, but Marienburg's defense is indeed very fragile. The merchants cannot even allow the enemy to approach the suburbs of Marienburg, let alone the city wall?

So profiteers focused on super killer weapons like steam tanks.

Of course, how could the empire allow profiteers to put their hands on a bottom-of-the-box war machine like a steam tank? Historically, Marienburg has only successfully rented mass-produced Conqueror-class steam tanks twice. The extremely high rent was enough to nearly bankrupt several chambers of commerce in Marienburg, and it also faced round-the-clock surveillance by the Imperial Army.

At the same time, the profiteers discovered that steam tanks could not be purchased by any means or at any price. No matter how good the relationship between the imperial bureaucrats and generals and the profiteers in Marienburg were, or how much they agreed to help, they immediately turned their backs on hearing the word steam tank. People, and the engineers of the empire were even asked to keep secrets at the cost of death.

The only official who accepted a huge bribe and agreed to help disappeared when he returned, and was found publicly executed in the streets of Braunschweig three days later for treason.

The merchants of Marienburg soon realized that they could not buy a steam tank, but...perhaps they could commission the Empire to build "Mariburg's own steam tank?"

Almost at the time after Ryan left Marienburg, after the Battle of Colleson Plains, the merchants of Marienburg sat together again for a meeting. The merchants who had tasted the pain finally made up their minds. Those who occupied the House of Lords Which of the big businessmen doesn't have a net worth of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of gold marks? They decided to pool their money in one place and then asked the Empire to help them build a steam tank of Marienburg's own.

The Brunswick Arsenal refused, because the Brunswick Arsenal did not have the ability to build steam tanks. The dwarves of Breezecastle refused and laughed that humans were a bunch of fools (in fact, they couldn't).

In the end, Marienburg found the Nuer Military Factory. Faced with a deposit of tens of thousands of gold marks and the promise of more follow-up investments, the Nuer Military Factory remained silent. Nuer was different from Braunschweig. This industrial city needed this kind of investment. The large orders and funds, as well as the large sums of gold sent to Nuer's palace, also made the great nobles shut their mouths.

Including Emilia, the Imperial Baroness was originally very dissatisfied with this, but the gift from Marienburg worth 10,000 gold marks and a large number of precious jewelry and cosmetics from high elves made Emilia finally choose to acquiesce.

Since then, the Nuer Military Factory has accepted this order. Nuer's great engineers were asked to build a war machine that was "higher, faster, and stronger" than a steam tank, and was required to be able to travel in swamps, and It shouldn’t be too complicated, at least to ensure that Marienburg’s engineers can learn how to control it.

"This is really embarrassing for us." At this time, the person in charge of the land boat project, the Imperial Engineer Hezekiah Goodman, stood up. This was a very special engineer. He was quite cleanly dressed. There were burn scars on his face, and he wore a soft hat that covered his head to his chin. There was a clock on top of the soft hat, which made his head and the clock look like a gourd.

He introduced: "As we all know, our understanding of steam power technology itself has a certain limit. Only those engineers who are proficient in steam technology can skillfully operate steam tanks and know when to depressurize, when to pressurize, and what It should be appropriately overloaded at the time, but Marienburg's requirements were too difficult. We made mistakes many times. For example, the main gun was too powerful, and the recoil of the gun caused the steam tank to disintegrate. For example, the steam boiler was too small and the power was insufficient, and if it was too big, the steam tank was not powerful enough. It is easy to explode, the steam tank can easily fall apart during steering, and the wheels can fall off.”

"So how did you solve this problem in the end?" Ryan asked curiously: "I can imagine that you must have encountered a lot of difficulties."

"After many failures, we suddenly realized that we did not need to forcibly imitate a larger steam tank based on the steam tank prototype. We only needed to make it taller and bigger as the merchants in Marienburg requested. , Stronger~" Engineer Goodman was quite proud: "So we immediately gave up on building a new tank, and instead built this 'land craft' in accordance with Marienburg's requirements. We enlarged the steam boiler to ensure that it could go smoothly. In operation, it may not be as refined and powerful as a steam tank, but it has a large enough volume and a strong hull. At least when the steam boiler does not explode and the tires operate normally, the land speeder has proven to be a walking war fortress and land The Marienburgers were so satisfied with the cruisers that they inspected them and asked us to build half a dozen (six) of them at one go.”

"How many have you built?" Lane then asked.

"We have built three of them, and the fourth one is almost completed." Engineer Goodman nodded: "With the prototype, the rest of the mass production will always be easy, I mean... if you give me enough money, Of course we can make it.”

"Yeah." Ryan nodded, he had something in mind.

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

After a morning visit, it was already afternoon. When everyone entered the canteen, Ryan noticed that there were still more than twenty Nur armored soldiers eating in the canteen.

The Nur Iron Armored Army is most likely the most powerful firearms force in the old world. This army is composed of students, guards and instructors from the Nur Gunnery Academy. It has a small number of people, about seven or eight hundred people. They wear heavy armor and hold weapons. Master-level muskets, the Nur Armored Army is the most widely respected and well-equipped musketry regiment in the empire. It also has strong close combat capabilities. The soldiers in the army are almost from the noble children of the entire empire. In addition to sending children to Rick In addition to the imperial guards, enrolling in the Nur Gunsling Academy is also an ideal training direction for the children of the empire's great nobles.

"Hello, my Baroness, Your Excellency Lane, Mrs. Surya, I am Jubal Fogg, the commander of the Nur Iron Armored Army." A man wearing a black half-plate armor and a kite with several helmet feathers on his head The general wearing a helmet and a big brown beard stood in front of everyone: "Welcome to the Nuer Gunnery Academy."

"Jubal Fogg is a battle-hardened warrior." Emilia stood up, and the Imperial Lady said with some pride: "He is regarded by many as a leader because of his excellent control over tactics. The successor to the President of the Engineers Association, Dear Jubal was born at the docks of the Nuer River. His tactical talent and firm execution discipline allowed him to rise quickly in the ranks. He respected those engineers who provided professional skills and those of high moral character who joined the army. But we are never ruthless towards those who are lazy or incompetent.”

"The Baroness is exaggerating." Jubal Fok, the commander of the Nur Iron Armored Army, lowered his head in embarrassment: "Sorry, we are eating."

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

"Of course!" Jubal didn't expect Ryan to make such a request. He was stunned for a moment and agreed.

Everyone entered the kitchen. Today's meal for the Nuer Iron Armored Army was steak + vegetable salad + mashed potatoes + bread + boiled carrots + corn soup. It was a very good meal, and only a heavy industrial city like Nuer could afford it.

"Tactical cooking." Ryan looked at a Nur armored soldier holding an iron plate to cook.

"Tactical steak." The chef is frying the steak.

“Tactical dining.”

"Tactical bald head." Ryan finally pointed to the bald head of an armored soldier.

"Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!" The whole audience burst into laughter, and both Lidya Su and Amelia were laughing so hard that they couldn't stand up straight.

Lane’s humor made for a happy ending to the visit.

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

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

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

"Very well, let's go back now."

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