Being a lord in another world begins with farming

Chapter 214 The Technology Tree with Huge Difference

From the moment the Mara Town battle started, Owen has been paying attention.

At this moment, a huge one-eyed puppet eagle with a body size comparable to that of a bipedal wyvern hovered at an altitude of several thousand meters, constantly adjusting its angle of view under the control of the Flame Queen, and sending back the scene like a satellite.

This one-eyed giant eagle puppet is indeed a weapon of war, but unfortunately there are still many problems to be solved, such as signal transmission, not only has a certain distance limit, but also has the possibility of being tampered with.

Don't underestimate the mages in this world. They use magical means to create many achievements of black technology, such as crystal ball spiritualization.

Who would have thought that a crystal ball could be used as a computer, and it also has the functions of stereoscopic projection and touch screen. This thing has not been fully realized in the world before he traveled.

So Owen seldom makes these seemingly high-precision things, because it is too easy to go wrong, and what is even more frightening is that you don't know if something goes wrong. It is far less simple and straightforward than power armor and bolt guns.

But this neighborhood is considered their territory, so it's okay to use it.

Right now, what Owen is concerned about is not the outcome of the battle of Mara Town, but the role that firearms can play on the battlefield.

The battle situation shows that the seemingly primitive firearms are unexpectedly useful in certain situations. For example, if the current battle of Mara Town was fought according to the traditional fighting method, even if there were a thousand or two thousand professional soldiers defending it, the loss would be about half Yes, after all, close combat cannot prevent the spread of the plague of flesh and blood.

However, there are strong walls and sharp firearms, and the aberrants who are difficult to gather to form a powerful impact cannot break through the defense, so the continuous impact becomes fuel.

In theory, as long as the ammunition and food are not exhausted and soldiers take turns playing, Mara Town can fight forever.

It's a pity that the rate of fire of existing firearms cannot meet the needs of field battles. Let alone cavalry who come and go like the wind, a large number of light infantry skirmishers can pose a huge threat to pure firearms troops because the loading speed is too slow. Even if you use fixed ammunition, you can shoot at most twice a minute. This must be an elite musketeer. Ordinary musket militiamen can only shoot once a minute at most, and after a dozen rounds, you have to clean the barrel and cool it down, otherwise there will be explosions. chamber risk.

That's all there is to it, the hit rate is the most deceptive.

Shooting when the enemy enters the range and starts to charge, I am afraid that it will be difficult to hit a shot until the neck of the knife holder, so the musketeers pay so much attention to volley shooting, all to make up for the problem of hit rate.

Therefore, even if primitive firearms are used for positional warfare, they may not be able to block the deadly charge of the same number of enemies.

Of course, there are absolutely not many such enemies. It is not bad for the general army to withstand the casualties on the second and third floors without being defeated. There are definitely not as many people who dare to brave the hail of bullets and charge to the death as imagined.

After weighing it left and right, Owen found that the firearms he didn't like were really feasible for large-scale equipment, because weapons can't just be based on performance.

The hot and crunchy Leopard and Tiger tanks of World War II are an example. In the early days, everyone who hit them was a grandson, but later, the armed tractors facing the bears were still piled up to death.

Although Owen was a little helpless about this, there was nothing he could do about it, because the territory was not without good things. The problem was that the fault in the technology tree was too severe.

The top level of the territory's technology is the combination of Owen, Brian, and the Flame Queen. The fusion of alchemy and technology allows them to produce black-tech things, such as power armor and bolt guns.

If you try to pile up the charge and enlarge the bolt bomb continuously, this thing is Dongfeng Express without navigation.

The middle level of technology is a combination of spirits and goblins, one is a master craftsman, the other is a little witty ghost, plus hard-working hobgoblins and bear goblins. The puppet factories and factories established on the basis of them have reached the peak of the steam age. It is the existence of mechanical puppets, and there is already a prototype of steampunk.

There is nothing to say about the bottom layer of technology. It is the blacksmith shop and arsenal in the center of the town, which can manufacture muskets and small and medium-caliber artillery.

The three levels have one foot in the sky and one foot on the ground, and no one is next to anyone in the middle, and they cannot be connected at all.

Even if Owen works hard, at most the size of the Ultramarines can be doubled or tripled, and the logistics and ammunition cannot be taken into account, so it will not help the real war.

Moreover, the advanced creations of Territory Technology rely heavily on the progress value and black gum worms, because even if they are rubbed by hand, some high-precision things still cannot be self-sufficient and must rely on system exchange, and the body fluid of black gum worms is an important fuel for high-level technology. With explosives, and this is completely limited by the scale of cultivation of black gum worms in the territory.

However, the black gum worm needs to suck the sap of the magic horn tree to grow, which makes the difficulty of breeding soaring and the production is difficult to increase.

Considering that this thing is a strategic reserve, it cannot be produced as much as it is used, nor can it be expanded.

As for the middle-level technology, it is limited by the level of spirits and goblins. Unless it takes decades to develop a system that belongs to them, it can only be like this for the time being.

On the contrary, the low-level technology can use the power of the middle-level technology to achieve mass production, such as wheels, bearings, steam engines, muskets, and artillery that come off the production line.

Especially for guns and artillery, to put it bluntly, it is to drill holes in iron pillars of different thicknesses. Regardless of the strength, a bunch can be produced in a day.

The propellant is simpler, just grind and stir the magic horn tree block, add some egg white at most, and the egg yolk can be used to make bread.

This gave Owen the idea of ​​forming a regular army of pure firearms, and the military camp was a ready-made foundation.

The town of Mara was shrouded in gunpowder smoke that was too late to dissipate for three days. A large number of scrapped muskets were randomly discarded on the ground, and pounders were piled up on the side of the road like spent fireworks.

At this moment, he was finally able to come down from the wall. The musketeer with red eyes who had been smoked by the gunpowder stuffed food into his mouth with his trembling hands, gobbling up his strength, and the women beside him were busy cooking a pot of food regardless of being tired. The hot soup was distributed to the soldiers.

Now the witches have taken over here, and they fly around on broomsticks, spreading nectar along the way to cleanse the plague of flesh brought by the aberrants.

By the way, these witches are riding broomsticks normally, with cushion spells, and the brooms are also horizontal. The nectar is also a serious nectar, a potion with a purification effect.

Emile twisted her hips awkwardly, rubbed her super broomstick, suppressed some personal habits, and honestly instructed those witches not to miss a place, in case the curse of flesh and blood would recur.

Witches have studied the plague of flesh and blood in the church of flesh and blood, not to mention the former veteran assassin of the church of flesh and blood, Qima, the bloody witch. Now the glass jar of nine-turn large intestine Qima has fallen into the hands of Owen and the others, and they have already squeezed out all the information. Now Take it out and everyone summarizes it, and the effect is unexpectedly good.

But this method is difficult to popularize, because whether it is purification potions or fuel for burning the corpses of deformed people, they are important strategic reserves, and they are often accumulated for a long time before they can be used once, because even the cheapest magic horn tree blocks are not inexhaustible of.

The magic horn tree grows very slowly, and the seemingly huge magic horn tree forest has grown for thousands of years. If it is used excessively, the technology system of the territory will be fatally hit.

For this reason, Owen is preparing to plant magic horn trees across the border to prevent the energy system of the territory from collapsing.

(End of this chapter)