Warhammer Throne

The mechanical war horse is another brand-new invention of the Nuer Armory Factory. The reason for this invention is that after obtaining the half-blood elf war horse, many of the knights and nobles of Nuer were moved. They were all thinking about a good horse. For the knight, a good horse means a strong fighting power and better survivability.

Emilia has a half-blood elf warhorse, which was sent by Ryan. Since Emilia does not ride it often, this half-blood elf warhorse is often borrowed by the great nobles of Noor to breed. It is delicious and delicious. Huh, but because they don't know anything about breeding elven war horses, the nobles of Nuer today have not matched a qualified war horse offspring.

In essence, Bretons are not very proficient in breeding pure-blood elf warhorses. The most adept at how to breed elf warhorses is the wood elves. Ryan’s warhorse grape master is also responsible for the breeding of the wood elves, and he is born in a lifetime. There are a dozen ponies, but Uncle Grape doesn’t even look at these heirs. He only likes Suria’s horse, the pure-blood elf mare, Ma Richter. The two war horses gave birth to several pure-blood ponies. In the stables of the Duke of Lane’s castle and the pasture outside the castle.

Regarding this, the major engineers at the Nuer Armory Factory were unhappy. They wanted to solve the problem that mechanical energy could solve. Why should they fight the horse to solve the problem?

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

Just do it, Nuer’s engineers immediately used machinery and clockwork to make such a mechanical war horse. This kind of mechanical war horse requires a lot of time to be crafted and polished by hand. As long as it runs smoothly, the mechanical war horse can crush everything that blocks itself. Enemies and obstacles.

An engineer triumphed on the mechanical war horse. He waved to everyone, and everyone also raised their hands to signal that they could start the performance.

"here we go!"

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

Soon, the mechanical warhorse began to move, and the sound of springs and gears came from its body. The entire mechanical device started to start. Like a kind of ancient fire of hope igniting on the mechanical horse, the power of thunderbolt surged on the mechanical horse.

"Start!" the imperial engineer shouted, he looked like a great general, an invincible knight!

Next second. "boom!"

"Boom! Boom!"

The whole mechanical war horse exploded!

Amid the sound of explosions, electric sparks, and steam leaks, the mechanical horse exploded. It disintegrated instantly in front of everyone. With a kick of the horse’s hind legs, the imperial engineer on the horse flew into the air, and then it exploded. Fragments of the sky!

Gears, springs, and iron pieces fell on the ground, making a rattling 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, making a miserable cry: "Ahhhhh! My leg, my leg is broken! I need treatment, I need treatment!"

Everyone: "..."

This is a powerful mechanical horse?

It was really strong, both Ryan and Sulia couldn't help covering their mouths and snickering, Alfred was still patient, and the female Norscar Ingrid was already laughing and was about to roll on the ground.

After a few seconds of silence, Emilia couldn't stand it anymore, and the empire lady's face was gloomy. She motioned to the attendant: "Bring him down and send him to the Lady Mercy Church for treatment."

"Yes!" The attendant 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 funds. This is what the military factory makes?" Emilia smiled. She is not now. The little maid mode in front of Ryan was the imperial lady mode, and his majesty almost overflowed: "What is this? Battered warhorse? Noor doesn't need this kind of thing."

"Uh..." The chief engineer Maybach was a little embarrassed. He lowered his head and said: "Sorry, my excellency, the mechanical war horse is still in the trial 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 her anger hidden behind the smile.

"Mechanical horses have always been a big problem in terms of stability, my lady." The chief engineer Maybach had to tell the truth. He sighed: "The structure of the mechanical horse is too sophisticated. I mean... its whole body To be well maintained, as long as there is a problem in one part, it is easy to evolve into a failure like just now. This is not the first time. Several engineers have been injured as a result, but my lady, we still think there is The need for further research."

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

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

A farce was quickly revealed in this way, the chief engineer was a little embarrassed, and the previous arrogant aura no longer existed. He then began to introduce the latest war machine in the Nur Armory to everyone.

Land boat.

This huge unit with a height of seven or eight meters is a new order from the Merchants 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. , The front of the hull is equipped with a standard Empire heavy cannon, on both sides are also equipped with four small cannons, two on one side, the hull is enough for 20-40 soldiers to fight on land ships, the hull uses the small front Wooden wheel guides and oversized wheels at the rear provide power, driven by a steam boiler.

Ryan took a close look at this ridiculous and spectacular behemoth, and smiled: "You made this land boat, exited!"

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

As we all know, Marienburg is a free city, this city has been separated from the empire before the great jihad, and after the great jihad, facing the unparalleled prestige of the savior Ludwig and the oppression of the empire, the merchants of Marienburg We chose to surrender to Ludwig’s rule, but used an astonishing amount of gold in exchange for "permanent autonomy" from Ludwig. For more than a hundred years, Marienburg has always enjoyed With the power of autonomy, the merchants of Marienburg were tired of the endless political conspiracies and wars of the imperial court. They only cared about their own profits.

However, because of this, the businessmen’s decision is considered a double-edged sword. After they won the right to independence, their cities lacked a strong army. As mentioned above, the bourgeoisie is weak, and the businessmen have no ability. Like the military aristocrats of the empire, they can gather a large number of soldiers and elites in their own territories. The mercenaries trained by the merchants themselves cannot rival the elites of the empire. In the face of war, Marienburg Had to spend a huge amount of money and contacts to seek help from the empire.

Just like twelve years ago, Marienburg was forced to ask for help from the empire when facing the invasion of Greenskins, and the empire took the opportunity to open up the griffon and ruthlessly ruined Marienburg. By the way, the merchants also promised a lot of disapproval. Equal conditions.

Of course profiteers will not be reconciled, but Marienburg’s defenses are indeed very fragile. Merchants cannot even allow the enemy to approach the suburbs of Marienburg, let alone the city walls?

So profiteers are eyeing the super killer like steam tanks.

Of course, how could the empire allow profiteers to reach above the war machine at the bottom of the pressure tank like a steam tank? Marienburg has only successfully rented two mass-produced Conqueror-class steam tanks in history. The high rent is enough to make several chambers of Marienburg almost bankrupt, and it also faces 24-hour surveillance by the Imperial Army. .

At the same time, profiteers found that steam tanks could not be purchased by any means or at any price. No matter how good the relations between the bureaucrats and generals of the Empire and the profiteers of Marienburg, how they agreed to help, they turned their faces on the spot when they heard the words steam tank. People, the engineers of the Empire were even more demanded to keep secrets at the cost of death.

The only official who accepted a huge bribe and promised to help went back and evaporated in place. Three days later, he was found to be publicly executed on the streets of Brunswick on the charge of treason.

The merchants in Marienburg soon realized that they could not buy a steam tank, but...maybe they could commission the Empire to build a "steam tank belonging to Marienburg itself?"

About the time after Ryan left Marienburg, after the Battle of the Collesen Plains, the merchants of Marienburg once again sat together for a meeting. The merchants who had tasted the pain finally made up their minds, and those occupying the House of Lords Which of the big trench merchants in China does not have a net worth of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of gold marks? They decided to concentrate their money in one place, and then asked the Empire to help them create a steam tank belonging to Marienburg.

The Braunschweig Army Factory refused, because the Braunschweig Army Factory did not have the ability to make steam tanks. The dwarves of Breeze Castle refused and mocked that humans are really a bunch of idiots.

In the end, Marienburg found the Nur military factory. In the face of a deposit of tens of thousands of gold marks and promised more follow-up investments, the Nur military factory was silent. Unlike Brunswick, this industrial city needs this The large amount of orders and funds, and the large sum of gold sent to Nuer's court at the same time also made the big nobles shut their mouths.

Including Emilia, the Queen of the Empire was originally very dissatisfied with this, but Marienburg sent a gift worth 10,000 gold marks and a large number of precious accessories and cosmetics of the high elves, so Emilia finally chose to acquiesce.

Since then, the Noor Armory Factory has accepted the order. Nuer’s major 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 the swamp, and It shouldn't be too complicated, at least to ensure that the engineers at Marienburg can learn how to control it.

"This is really embarrassing for us." At this time, the head of the land cruiser project, the great engineer of the Empire, Heiseka Goodman, stood up. This is a very special great engineer, and he is fairly clean in his clothes. His clothes have burn scars on his face, and he wears a soft hat from head to chin on his head. There is also a clock on top of the soft hat, which makes his head and clock look like a gourd when placed together.

He introduced: "As we all know, our understanding of steam power technology itself has certain limits. Only those big engineers who are proficient in steam technology can skillfully manipulate steam tanks and know when to decompress, when to pressurize, and what. It should be properly overloaded at the time, and Marienburg’s requirements are too difficult. We have screwed it up many times. For example, the main gun is too powerful, and the recoil of the artillery makes the steam tank disintegrate. For example, if the steam boiler is too small, the power is not enough. It's easy to explode, and the steam tank can easily fall apart when turning, and the wheels will fall off."

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

"After many failures, we suddenly realized that we don’t have to forcefully follow the steam tank prototype to imitate a larger steam tank. We just need to be taller and bigger as the merchants in Marienburg require. , Stronger~" Engineer Goodman was quite proud: "So we immediately gave up building a new tank, and instead built this kind of "land cruiser" in accordance with Marienburg's requirements. We enlarged the steam boiler to ensure that it could go smoothly. Yes, 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 under the condition that the steam boiler does not explode and the tires are operating normally, the land cruiser has proved to be a walking war fortress and land. After reviewing the cruiser, the Marienburgers were very satisfied, and they asked us to build half a dozen in one go."

"How much did you build?" Ryan asked next.

"We have built three cars, and the fourth one is close to completion." The Goodman engineer nodded: "With the prototype, the remaining mass production is always easy. I mean... if the money is enough, Of course we can make it."

"Yeah." Ryan nodded, thinking a little bit in his heart.

At the end of today’s visit, everyone is going to visit the Nuer Gun Academy. Because this visit involves some privacy and technical secrecy, there are not many places where Ryan and others can visit, mainly teaching buildings, dormitories, shooting ranges and canteens. .

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

The Nur Iron Armored Army is very likely to be the most powerful firearms unit in the old world. This army is composed of students, guards and mentors from the Nur Gun Academy. The number is small, about seven or eight hundred people, wearing heavy armor and holding hands. Master-level muskets, the Nur Iron Armored Army is the most widely respected and well-equipped musket regiment in the empire. It also has strong melee combat capabilities. Army soldiers are almost from the noble children of the empire, except for sending children to Rick. In addition to the guards, enrolling in the Nur Gun Academy is also an ideal direction for the children of the Empire's nobles.

"Hello, my Countess, Lord Ryan, Madame Suria, I am Jubaal-Fokker, the commander of the Nur Iron Armor." A kite wearing a black half-length plate armor and several helmet feathers on his head Helmet, the general with a big brown beard stood in front of the crowd: "Welcome to Noor Gun Academy."

"Jubaal-Fokker is a battle-tested Titan." Emilia stood up, and the Empire Lady said with some pride: "He is regarded by many people because of his excellent control of tactics. The successor to the President of the Society of Engineers, dear Jubal was born in the Nur River Wharf. His tactical talent and firm execution discipline allowed him to rise quickly in the team. He respects those engineers who provide professional skills and people of high moral character to join the army. But he has never treated slack or incompetent people mercilessly."

"The lady's reputation is too good." Jubal Fokker, commander of the Nur Iron Armored Army, bowed his head embarrassedly: "Sorry, we are eating."

"It doesn't matter, can you show us a tour of the back kitchen?" Ryan suddenly became interested.

"Of course!" Jubal didn't expect Ryan to make such a request, he was taken aback for a moment, and still agreed.

Everyone entered the back kitchen. The Nur Iron Armored Army's meal today is steak + vegetable salad + mashed potatoes + bread + boiled carrots + corn soup. They eat very well, and only a heavy industrial city like Nur has the ability.

"Tactical cooking." Ryan looked at a Nur armored army holding an iron plate for cooking.

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

"Tactical meal."

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

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!" The audience burst into laughter, and Su Liya and Emilia both trembled with laughter and couldn't stand up straight.

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

When everyone came out of the Nuer Armory, the old guard Raymond walked closer: "My Duke, Duchess!"

"What's the matter, Raymond?" Ryan knew that the old guard wouldn't be okay to come to him.

"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 will go back now."