Zhou Qingfeng previously attacked Broken Bridge City, and although he returned with a great victory, his horses suffered a lot of damage. After he came back, he thought about using mechanized power to replace the delicate horses that were difficult to maintain.
It doesn’t require much, it’s simple, durable, and cheap.
Arcee worked hard for half a year and came up with a prototype-a spider-shaped construct.
The road conditions in the foreign world are poor, and the eight legs of the spider construct are definitely better than horses in the wilderness. However, it cannot run fast enough, and its defense can basically be called streaking.
In order to reduce the cost and facilitate mass production, Arcee dismantled the core magic circle that permanently enchanted the construct. In order to provide power, she also specially invented a magic steam engine-a strange-looking thing.
The steam engine is actually a machine that boils water, but the rider cannot endlessly add coal to the boiler. It happens that Zhou Qingfeng's altar of faith can provide a large number of magic gems, so just choose one that can be heated as fuel.
The small boiler and cylinder crankshaft of the steam engine were brought from the real world by Zhou Qingfeng, and after assembly, they turned into a thing that emitted white smoke.
It was installed on the spider structure to act as a power source, successfully reducing the cost of the entire machine to five thousand gold coins per unit. In comparison, the price of a heavy war horse was two hundred gold coins, and the price of a draft horse was fifty gold coins.
"It's still too expensive. It would be better if each unit cost one thousand gold coins."
Zhou Qingfeng rode a constructed spider in Fuqiang collar at night to test it, and his butt hurt. "This thing is ugly as hell, and its reliability is not good. I ran it for a lap and it broke twice."
The mana steam engine is too large, which causes the spider's center of gravity to be very high, making it very easy to roll over when running. In addition, this machine is immature and breaks down from time to time, so it needs to be adjusted properly.
Arcee hummed at the owner's complaint and pretended not to hear it. She and Sophia worked together to figure out how to improve and create an item that had never been seen before. This was a great pleasure to the Magic Queen.
Zhou Qingfeng got off the spider construct, rubbed his sore butt, and specifically asked Arcee to improve the suspension system.
'Swift Shadow' poked his head from the side to please: "Great master, a noble and wise monarch like you, why do you need to worry about this kind of thing? As long as I am here, I guarantee that you will gallop on the battlefield and be invincible."
Zhou Qingfeng glanced at me and said, "Today's flattery was too harsh and not comfortable at all."
"Really?" 'Shiying' fell into self-doubt, "I just watched the master test the majestic bearing of the constructed spider, and I created it specially based on my temporary inspiration."
"You can shut up." Zhou Qingfeng knew how embarrassed he was riding that broken spider just now, as if he was going crazy.
"Okay, Master." 'Jiying' lowered his head.
Leaving the maid behind to improve the constructed spider in the laboratory, Zhou Qingfeng went out and headed towards another secret area in Fu Qiang's leadership - the original Artisan Area No. 4 of Harmony Village was moved there and a lot of equipment was added.
Cold Wind City has always faced strong survival pressure, and the previous battle with the Banshee Castle was unsatisfactory. Zhou Qingfeng relied on a different war mode to drag the opponent into the "quagmire", and then the war was eliminated.
Afterwards, we must reflect on our own ability in regular warfare - is it appropriate to continue to use cold weapons?
The Panshi Battalion of the Cold Wind City Infantry Regiment continued to follow the path of heavy infantry, but the other two battalions simply lost their spears and heavy armor after the expansion, because Zhou Qingfeng's manufacturing industry had touched the edge of hot weapons - skipping the match rope,
Just get a flintlock gun.
The barrel and flint mechanism are easy to talk about, and the weight is only about one or two kilograms. Twenty or thirty sets can be brought from the real world every day. This just enhances confidentiality.
The gun stock is made of wood and can be processed with simple machine tools. The craftsmen in ‘District 4’ have been able to assemble all the parts firmly.
The key is gunpowder. The chemistry of other worlds is somewhat different from reality. The pyrotechnics used in thermal weapons are completely ineffective in other worlds, which forced Zhou Qingfeng to find a suitable propellant formula.
This is where the alchemist comes in handy.
Wizard Jason, who previously made the 'Missile Staff', has a secret laboratory in Area 4. He leads a dozen wizard apprentices to verify thousands of alchemical recipes copied from the 'Gate of True Knowledge'.
This laboratory looks ordinary, with a dozen ordinary cubicles. The most important equipment is a few high-precision balances and a variety of material purification and passivation equipment.
Apprentices must wear protective gear when conducting experiments to avoid accidental death - many alchemical recipes are very powerful, or they may emit highly toxic fumes after explosions.
Alchemists can easily make money, but they can also easily die.
In the past six months, Jason has only verified more than a hundred formulas. The search for the perfect propellant may be in the next second, or it may take several years.
Seeing the lord appearing at the door of the laboratory, Jason, who had a dark face, showed his hands and said: "The situation is no different from last week. Most of the formulas that meet the requirements are toxic after explosion. A small number of them are either weak or very expensive.
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The 'Gate of True Knowledge' records the achievements of the elves for more than 20,000 years. There are too many alchemical potions that can simply explode. But most of them are used to explode in front of the enemy, and very few are used to explode in front of one's own side.
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"Is it still 'scarab powder' that can be used?"
Zhou Qingfeng walked into the laboratory. Jason muttered a spell and opened an activated safe. Inside the box was a vial containing light golden powder.
This thing comes from a strange insect. Its body is dried and ground into powder. If there is a spark, it will explode. Although the gas after the explosion is pungent, it is not poisonous at all.
But this thing is very expensive, very expensive. The cost of one round of ammunition is ten gold coins. Its sources are also very limited, and it is difficult to supply a large amount of demand. Even the daily training of the troops is difficult to meet.
"This thing can only be used in small amounts. Your infantry must be equipped with long guns and heavy armor." Jason said, "As for other formulas, I am still testing. I hope to find one that is cheap and easy to use one day."
Zhou Qingfeng could only compromise on this, "Well, it seems that my thermal weapon can only be used for elite soldiers. Since each bullet is so expensive, it would be too wasteful to use it to fight small soldiers. So..."
"So what?" Jason felt bad.
"So we have to equip it with a precision-forged barrel with rifling, a zoomable sniper scope, and an adamantine warhead with a magic-breaking effect. It is specially used to deal with wizards and high-level knights at a distance of two hundred meters.
Value goals.”
Ha... Jason was stunned. His eyes focused on the bottle of light golden powder again, and he felt extremely chilled by the scene described by Zhou Qingfeng.
The enemies of Cold Wind City will be in trouble, and the wizards hiding far behind the defense line are not safe either.
After Zhou Qingfeng finished speaking, he added: "Can that damn scarab be cultivated artificially? It's definitely not possible to rely on wild supply. We have to change our way of solving the problem."
Jason had never thought about this problem. He could only spread his hands and said: "I'm not an entomologist."