Seeing that there were more than ten professional officers in Fort William, Mayor Spencer nodded with satisfaction.
Just the strength shown at the banquet, the Harland territory has already exceeded that of the average baron family.
Spencer knew that this was not the full strength of the Harland family.
Baron William serves as the captain of the main legion in Black River Fort and is already a powerful sixth-level warrior.
Bernie is with William, serving as deputy captain, and is a fourth-level professional.
In addition, William also has two sons who have grown up and are serving in the 8th Battalion of the Mad Lions. They all appeared at the banquet today.
As Richard introduced them one by one, Spencer also got to know the situation of these officers.
The fifth-level warrior Soros, the fourth-level Roland, the third-level Martin, Heyman, and Norman, the second-level Alves, Bradrick, and the first-level Jennings, Vincent, and Graham.
What's more important is that the Harland family has two magicians.
Baron families with magical heritage are very rare.
Counting the earls, marquises, and vassals of the duke, there are hundreds of hereditary families in the Kingdom of Grant.
Probably no more than one-tenth of the hereditary barons have magical heritage.
Even if there is a magic inheritance, the next generation in the family may not have magic talent.
Nobles with magical heritage have failed to cultivate magicians.
Spencer has seen the statistics of the kingdom. In the entire Grant Kingdom, the number of magicians is only over 600.
Among the more than 600 people, the vast majority are from noble families.
It is very rare for a baron family to produce two qualified magicians.
Spencer exchanged greetings with everyone, and then waved to Richard covertly.
The two of them came to a corner without attracting attention, and Spencer asked quietly: "What is the reason why the Harland family defeated an orc brigade in Fort William?"
Upon hearing this, Richard's expression immediately became solemn.
Before making the counterweight trebuchet, Richard had carefully considered the possible leakage of the trebuchet.
As long as such a huge weapon appears on the battlefield, the technical secrets cannot be kept at all.
It is not difficult to make a counterweight trebuchet. As long as you pierce the window paper, find some qualified carpenters, and slowly explore, you can make it.
The key technology is the calculation of ballistics, using appropriate counterweights and stone bullets of appropriate weight to accurately project the stone bullets to a fixed area.
Without the mathematical knowledge that Richard mastered, he would not be able to accurately measure the acceleration of gravity. If he did not understand the calculation of parabolic trajectories, he would not be able to analyze Newtonian mechanical problems, and if he did not understand the principle of leverage, he would not be able to accurately measure ballistic trajectories.
Without accurate ballistic guidance, you can only rely on the experience of soldiers operating trebuchets to aim and strike, and the accuracy will be far worse. The strike effect is slightly better than that of a torque trebuchet.
Despite this, the counterweight trebuchet is still a powerful weapon.
Even senior professionals of level seven or above will still be seriously injured if hit by heavy stone bullets.
In offensive or defensive operations, the counterweight trebuchet is also an extremely efficient weapon.
The first time you use this weapon, you are likely to achieve unexpected results and achieve a major victory.
For a kingdom, a major victory can often determine the country's fate.
However, this kind of weapon is simple to make. As long as a smart person takes a look at it, there is a high chance that it can be copied.
Therefore, confidentiality issues are also very important before use.
If the enemy is prepared and does not enter our own preset battlefield, it will be difficult to achieve better results.
Spencer was a bureaucrat directly appointed by the Grant royal family and had the status of a court baron. He was an important representative of the royal family in northern Xinjiang. Since he spoke, he was actually asking on behalf of the royal family.
Now the Harland family is the vassal of the Grant royal family. From the moral point of view of the nobility of Dawn Continent, the Harland family should also be loyal to the king.
Moreover, now there is not much conflict of interest between the Haaland family and the royal family. On the contrary, the relationship between the two parties is one of prosperity and loss.
Deliver the counterweighted trebuchet to the royal family, and the Haaland family will gain merit.
According to past practice, the invention of an important battle can be decided, and it can even be exchanged for a hereditary territory.
Even if the counterweight trebuchet is not easy to keep secret, this invention is less important and can still be exchanged for three great achievements.
So after Mayor Spencer asked, Richard decided to tell the truth.
"This sentence is simple to say, because of the invention of a new type of weapon."
"What kind of weapon is it?" After hearing what Richard said, Spencer asked eagerly.
"It's a new type of trebuchet that can project 200 kilograms of stone projectiles 300 meters away."
"Can you let me take a look? I know this is very presumptuous, but I swear on the honor of the nobles that I will never do anything detrimental to the Harland family."
Spencer's ancestor is the legendary warrior Augustus Allen.
This powerful legendary warrior came from a very ordinary background and was a mercenary from the northern Xinjiang region.
Augustus was extremely lucky. His life was a legend. Through his own efforts, he married the princess of the Grant royal family and became the hereditary Duke of the Kingdom of Lane.
But the development of the Allen family was not smooth.
After the death of Augustus, the Allen family gradually declined in the cruel competition among the nobles.
Most of the duchy was annexed by the Grand Duchy of Stanek, and a small part was occupied by the Orc Empire.
Today, only a small part of it belongs to the Allen family.
Some members of the Allen family became earls of the Rhine Kingdom, while others defected to their relatives, the Grant royal family.
Spencer is not the eldest son of the family, and is very low in the line of succession.
After joining the Grant royal family, although Spencer made some military exploits, they were far from being granted the title of hereditary baronet.
Besides, he didn't want to seal the fiefdom in northern Xinjiang.
The Allen family is a hereditary noble in the northern part of the Kingdom of Rhine.
Spencer had heard the history of his family's decline countless times since he was a child.
Even a powerful ducal family will gradually decline in the face of years of war.
If you want to seal the territory in a relatively safe hinterland, you need complex exchanges of interests and smooth relationships.
If the Harland family can be persuaded to donate the secret weapon to the royal family, it will be very important to Spencer. If this is done, his abilities will enter the eyes of the nobles of the royal capital.
Although Spencer stared at him with fiery eyes, Richard still shook his head and said: "Although this new trebuchet is powerful, it is easier to imitate. To be honest, we still lack mutual trust, so I am a little worried about letting you watch the trebuchet.
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If Mayor Spencer abandons the Harland family and dedicates the trebuchet to the Kingdom of Charles, our Harland family will gain nothing.
I think it would be better for both of us to write a letter to the king separately, so that the Harland family can gain merit and Mr. Spencer’s ability can be recognized by the king.”