Chapter 624, Land Ship and Nur Armored Army

The mechanical war horse is another new invention of the Nuer military factory. The reason for this invention is that after getting the mixed-blood elf war horse, many knights and nobles in Nuer moved their minds. They wanted a good horse in their minds. After all For knights, a good horse means strong combat effectiveness and better survivability.

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

In essence, the Bretons are not very proficient in the breeding of pure-blooded elf horses. The wood elves are the best at how to breed elf horses. Ryan's war horse, Mr. Grape, is also in charge of breeding by wood elves. He gave birth all his life. There are dozens of foals, but Grape Uncle doesn't even look at these offspring. He only likes Suria's pure-blood elf mare Richter. The two war horses have given birth to several pure-blood foals. In the stables of the Duke of Lane Castle and in the pastures outside the castle.

Regarding this, the big engineers of the Nuer military factory were not happy. They thought to themselves that the problem solved by mechanical energy, 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, Nur's engineers immediately used machinery and clock structures to make such a mechanical war horse. This kind of mechanical war horse takes a lot of time to make and polish 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 warhorse, and he waved to the crowd, who also raised their hands to indicate that the performance could begin.

"it has started!"

Press the button, pull the rein, and the imperial engineer drives the mechanical horse to start the action.

Soon, the mechanical warhorse started to run, and the sound of springs and gears came from its body. The entire mechanical device started 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 flame of hope lit on the mechanical warhorse, the power of thunder surged 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 exploded!

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

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

The poor Great Engineer of the Empire fell from the air, fell to the ground on the spot, and let out a miserable cry: "Ahh! My leg, my leg is broken! I need treatment, I need treatment!"

Everyone: "..."

This is a powerful mechanical horse?

It is indeed quite powerful, Ryan and Suria couldn't help covering their mouths and giggling, Alfred was still enduring, and the female Norscan Ingrid was laughing so much that she was about to roll on the ground.

After a few seconds of silence, Emilia couldn't stand it anymore. The Duchess of the Empire's face was gloomy, and she signaled 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. Our city council grants you tens of thousands of funds every year. Is this what the military factory makes?" Emilia smiled. She is not The little maid mode in front of Ryan is the imperial lady mode, and the majesty of her body is almost overflowing: "What is this? Self-destructing war horse? Nuer 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 Countess, the mechanical warhorse 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 horse has always been a big problem, my countess." The 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 is easy to develop into a failure like just now. This is not the first time that this kind of thing has caused several engineers to be injured, but my baroness, we still think there is a problem. Further research is necessary."

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

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

A farce was quickly revealed. The chief engineer was a little embarrassed, and his previous arrogance disappeared. He then began to introduce the latest war machine in the Nuer military factory to everyone.

land ship.

This giant unit with a height of seven or eight meters is a new order from the Merchants Alliance in Marienburg. It has an extremely large figure, 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 also equipped with four small cannons, two on one side. The hull is enough to arrange 20-40 soldiers to fight on the land ship, and the hull uses the front small cannon. Power is provided by wooden wheel guides and oversized wheels at the rear, driven by a steam boiler.

Ryan took a closer look at this ridiculous and magnificent behemoth, and smiled: "This land ship you made, excited!"

The birth of the land ship has a little relationship with Ryan.

As we all know, Marienburg is a free city. The city had been separated from the empire before the Great Holy War. After the Great Holy War, facing the unparalleled prestige of the savior Ludwig and the oppression of the imperial forces, the merchants of Marienburg They chose to submit to Ludwig's rule, but they used an astonishing amount of gold in exchange for "permanent autonomy" from Ludwig. For more than a hundred years, Marienburg has always enjoyed Self-governing powers, the merchants of Marienburg are tired of the endless political intrigue and wars at the imperial court, and they only care about their own profits.

However, because of this, the decision of the merchants is considered a double-edged sword. After they won independence, their cities lacked a strong army. As mentioned above, the bourgeoisie is weak, and the merchants have no ability. Like the military nobles of the empire, they can gather a large number of soldiers and elite elites in their own territories. The mercenaries cultivated by the merchants themselves cannot defeat the elites of the empire. In the face of war, Marienburg is Had to spend a lot 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 it faced the invasion of the Greenskins, and the Empire took advantage of the opportunity and the Griffin opened its mouth to severely blackmail Marienburg. By the way, the merchants promised many things equal conditions.

Of course the profiteers would not be reconciled, but Marienburg's defense was indeed very fragile. The merchants could not even allow the enemy to approach the outskirts of Marienburg, let alone the city walls?

So profiteers are eyeing the steam tank, a super killer.

Of course, how could the empire allow profiteers to reach out to steam tanks, a war machine at the bottom of the box? Marienburg has only successfully leased mass-produced Conqueror-class steam tanks twice in history. The super high rent was enough to almost bankrupt several chambers of commerce in Marienburg, and they also faced 24-hour surveillance by the imperial army. .

At the same time, the profiteers discovered 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 was with the profiteers of Marienburg, and how they agreed to help, they turned their faces away when they heard the word steam tank. People, the engineers of the empire were even required to keep the secret at the price of death.

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

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

It was almost the time after Ryan left Fort Marien. After the Battle of Collerson Plains, the merchants of Fort Marien sat together for a meeting again. The merchants who had tasted the pain finally made up their minds. Those who occupy the House of Lords Which of the big businessmen in the world does not 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 asked the Empire to help them build a steam tank of Marienburg's own.

The Brunswick Arsenal refused because the Brunswick Arsenal was not capable of making steam tanks, and the dwarves of Windbreeze refused and laughed at the fact that humans are a bunch of idiots (in fact, they can't).

In the end, Marienburg found the Nuer Military Factory. Faced with a deposit of tens of thousands of gold marks and promised more follow-up investment, the Nuer Military Factory was silent. Nuer is different from Brunswick. This industrial city needs this kind of Large orders and funds, as well as large sums of gold sent to Nur's court also made those big nobles shut their mouths.

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

Since then, the Nuer military factory has taken over the order, and the engineers of Nuer have been asked to build a war machine that is "higher, faster, and stronger" than a steam tank, and they are asked to be able to drive in swamps, and It can't be too complicated, at least ensure that the engineers in Fort Marien can learn how to control it.

"This is really embarrassing for us." At this moment, Hezekiah Goodman, the chief engineer of the land ship project, stepped forward. This is a very special engineer, and he is fairly clean in his clothes. He has burn scars on his face, and a soft hat that covers his head to his chin. There is a clock on top of the soft hat, which makes his head and clock look like a gourd.

He introduced: "As we all know, our understanding of steam power technology itself has a certain limit. Only those great engineers who are proficient in steam technology can skillfully operate steam tanks, know when to decompress, when to pressurize, what It should be properly overloaded, and Marienburg’s requirements are too difficult. We have screwed up many times. For example, the main gun is too powerful, and the recoil of the artillery makes the steam tank disintegrate. It is easy to explode, the steam tank is easy to fall apart when 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 many difficulties."

"After many failures, we suddenly realized that we don't need to forcibly imitate a larger steam tank according to the prototype of the steam tank, we only need to follow the requirements of the merchants in Marienburg, taller and bigger , stronger~" Engineer Goodman was quite proud: "So we immediately gave up making a new tank, but made this kind of 'land traveler' according to Marienburg's requirements. We enlarged the steam boiler to ensure smooth Allowed, it may not be as lean and powerful as a steam tank, but with a large enough size and a strong hull, at least as long as the steam boiler does not explode and the tires are running normally, the land ship proves to be a walking war fortress and land Cruisers, the people of Marienburg were very satisfied after reviewing them, and they asked us to build half a dozen (six) at one go."

"How much have you built?" Ryan asked.

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

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

At the end of today's visit, everyone will visit the Nuer Gun Academy. Because this visit involves some privacy and technical confidentiality, there are not many places that Ryan and others can visit, mainly teaching buildings, dormitory buildings, shooting ranges and cafeterias .

At this time, after a morning visit, it was already afternoon. When everyone entered the cafeteria, Ryan noticed that there were still more than 20 Nuer armored soldiers eating in the cafeteria.

The Nuer Armored Army is very likely to be the most powerful firearms unit in the old world. This army is composed of students, guards and instructors from the Nuer Gunnery Academy. There are not many people, about seven or eight hundred people. They wear heavy armor and hold Master-level muskets, the Nur Iron Armored Army is the most widely respected and well-equipped musketeer regiment in the empire. At the same time, it also does not lack powerful melee capabilities. The soldiers of the army are almost from the noble children of the entire empire. Except for sending children to Rick In addition to guards, sending them to the Nuer Gun Academy is also an ideal direction for the children of the empire's great nobles to study.

"Hello, my Countess, Your Excellency Lane, Mrs. Suria, I am Jubal Falk, the commander of the Nur Iron Armored Army." A black half-body armor and a kite with several helmet feathers on his head Helmets, the general with a big brown beard stood in front of everyone: "Welcome to the Nuer Gun Academy."

"Jubal Falk is a battle-tested warrior." Emilia stood up, and the Duchess of the Empire said quite proudly: "He is regarded by many as a hero because of his excellent ability to control tactics." The successor of the President of the Engineers Association, Dear Jubal was born in the Noor River Wharf. Tactical talent and firm execution discipline allowed him to rise rapidly in the team. He respects those engineers who provide professional skills and people of high moral character to join the army, But never merciless towards the slack or the incompetent.”

"The Duchess is overrated." Jubal Falk, the commander of the Nuer Armored Army, bowed his head a little embarrassedly: "Sorry, we are eating."

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

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

Everyone entered the back kitchen. The food of the Nur Iron Armored Army today was steak, vegetables, salad, mashed potatoes, bread, boiled carrot and corn soup. They ate very well, and only a heavy industrial city like Nur could afford it.

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

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

"Tactical dining."

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

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!" The audience burst into laughter, both Suria and Emilia laughed so hard that they couldn't straighten up.

Lane's humor capped the tour on a happy note.

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

"What's the matter, Raymond?" Ryan knew that the old guard would come to find him.

"Mr. Oliver has arrived, and Mr. Vincent has also arrived in Nuer." Raymond said in a low voice: "They are waiting for you where you are staying."

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