Zhou Qingfeng attacked Broken Bridge City before, and although he returned home in a big victory, his horses suffered a lot. After he came back, he thought about using mechanized power to replace the delicate and difficult horses.
Not much demanding, simple, durable, and cheap.
Arcie tossed for half a year and came up with a prototype—a spider-shaped structure.
The road conditions in the alien world are poor, and the eight legs of the spider construct must be stronger than horses in the wilderness. However, it can't run fast enough, and its defense is basically streaking.
In order to reduce the cost and facilitate mass production, Arcie removed the core magic circle permanently enchanted by the construct. In order to provide power, she deliberately invented the magic steam engine-a seemingly weird thing.
A steam engine is actually a machine that boils water, but the rider cannot add coal to the boiler endlessly. 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 the fuel.
The small boiler and cylinder crankshaft of the steam engine were brought from the real world by Zhou Qingfeng, and after assembly, it became a gadget that suddenly emits white smoke.
It was installed on the spider structure as a power source, and the cost of the whole machine was successfully reduced to five thousand gold coins per unit. In contrast, the price of a heavy war horse is two hundred gold coins, and the price of a service horse is fifty gold coins.
"It's still too expensive. It would be nice if the price per unit was 1,000 gold coins."
At night, Zhou Qingfeng rode a construct spider to test the rich and strong collar, and his butt hurts. "This thing is ugly to death and its reliability is poor. I ran it twice and broke twice."
The magic steam engine is too large, causing the construction spider to have a high center of gravity, which makes it easy to roll over when running. In addition, this machine is still immature and breaks down from time to time, and needs to be adjusted properly.
Arcie hummed twice to the master's complaint, just as if he hadn't heard it. She and Sophia worked together to figure out how to improve and create an item that had never been seen in the past, which was great fun for the magic girl.
Zhou Qingfeng stepped down from the construct spider, rubbed her sore buttocks, and specifically asked Arcie to improve the suspension system.
"Jiying" looked from the side to please: "Great master, a noble and wise monarch like you, why bother about this kind of thing? As long as I am here, you are guaranteed to gallop on the battlefield, brave and invincible."
Zhou Qingfeng glanced at him, "This flattery is too blunt today, it's uncomfortable at all."
"Really?"'Jiying' fell into self-doubt. "This is what I just watched the master test the stalwartness of the spider, and I temporarily felt it and created it specially."
"You can shut up." Zhou Qingfeng knew how embarrassed he was when he rode the broken spider just now, as if having a mania.
"Okay, Master." Jiying lowered his head.
The maid was left to improve the construction spider in the laboratory, while Zhou Qingfeng went out and walked to another secret area of Fuqiang Lead-the Artisan District No. 4 of Harmony Village originally moved over and added a lot of equipment.
Coldwind City has always faced strong pressure to survive, and the previous battle with Banshee Fort was very unsatisfactory. Zhou Qingfeng relied on a different mode of war to drag his opponent into the'quagmire', which eliminated the war.
After considering it after the fact, we must reflect on our own ability in regular warfare-is it appropriate to continue to use cold weapons
The Panshi battalion of the Coldwind City Infantry Regiment continued to take the road of heavy infantry, but the other two battalions simply lost their long spears and heavy armor after the expansion, because Zhou Qingfeng’s manufacturing industry has already touched the edge of the hot weapon-skip the fire rope and directly Engage in flintlock.
The barrel and the flintlock mechanism are easy to say, weighing about one or two kilograms, and they can bring twenty or thirty sets from the real world every day. This just strengthens confidentiality.
The butt is made of wood and can be processed by simple machine tools. The craftsmen of the'No. 4 Area' can already assemble all the parts firmly.
The key is gunpowder. The chemistry of another world is somewhat different from reality. The pyrotechnics used for hot weapons are completely ineffective in other worlds, which forces Zhou Qingfeng to find a suitable propellant formula.
This is just right for the alchemist.
Wizard Jason, who made the Missile Wand, has a secret laboratory in District 4. He led more than a dozen wizard apprentices to verify thousands of alchemy formulas copied from the "Gate of True Knowledge".
This laboratory looked ordinary, with dozens of ordinary compartments. The most important equipment is several high-precision balances, and a variety of material purification and passivation equipment.
The apprentices must take good protection for the experiment, so as not to accidentally die-many alchemy formulas are not small, or they emit highly toxic fumes after explosion.
Alchemists are easy to make money and die easily.
In the past six months, Jason has only verified more than one hundred formulas. The search for the perfect propellant may be in the next second, or it may be years away.
Seeing the lord appearing at the door of the laboratory, the black-faced Jason said, "The situation is no different from last week. Most of the formulas that meet the requirements are toxic after the explosion. A small number of them are either weak or very expensive. ."
The "Gate of True Knowledge" records the achievements of the elves for more than 20,000 years. There are too many alchemy potions that simply explode. But most of them are used to explode on the enemy's side, and the ones that explode on their own side are really rare.
"It's still'Scarab Powder' that can be used?"
Zhou Qingfeng walked into the laboratory. Jason whispered the spell lightly and opened it, an activated safe. There was a small bottle in the box with light golden powder in it.
This thing comes from a peculiar insect whose body is dried and ground into powder, and a little spark will explode. Although the gas choked the nose after the explosion, it was non-toxic 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, it is difficult to supply a large amount of demand, and even the daily training of the troops is difficult to meet.
"This thing can only be used in small amounts. Your infantry still has to be equipped with long spears and heavy armor." Jason said, "As for other formulas, I'm still testing them. I hope I can find cheap and easy-to-use ones someday."
Zhou Qingfeng can only compromise on this, "Well, it seems that my hot weapon can only go the elite route. Since every bullet is so expensive, it is too wasteful to use it to fight the minions. 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 from two hundred meters away. Value goals."
Ha... Jason was stunned. He once again focused on the bottle of pale golden powder, and felt extremely cold at the scene described by Zhou Qingfeng.
The enemies of Coldwind City will be in trouble, and the wizards hiding far behind the defense line are not safe.
After Zhou Qingfeng said, he added: "Can that damn scarab be cultivated artificially? It definitely won't work with wild supply. We have to change our thinking on solving the problem."
Jason had never thought about this problem, he could only say, "I am not an entomologist."