At first, Gawain chose to ask Byron for a weapon improvement plan because he liked the middle-aged knight's early mercenary experience.
Unlike orthodox promoted noble knights or mages, mercenaries usually do not have such perfect training conditions and good inheritance norms, but they have their own set of methods to make up for their shortcomings—rich combat experience and adaptability are They rely on blood on the tip of the knife. A mercenary must understand various combat environments, be familiar with the strengths and weaknesses of various weapons, and clearly know how to solve crises in various environments, so that they can To survive long—Byron was perfectly content with that.
Knight Philip is indeed a powerful and talented knight, but his knowledge is too dogmatic and old-fashioned. Facing Cecil's armaments and brand-new fighting concepts, which are being updated rapidly today, he can guarantee that he will not fall behind. , and asking him to make a breakthrough idea on the basis of traditional weapons and equipment is probably more difficult than forcing Amber to walk through the door...
Knight Byron summarized the characteristics of the current Cecil combat soldiers, and found the improvement route for the melee equipment that the soldiers needed, and these two sets of plans were quite attractive in Gawain's view.
"The mechanical sword plan is inspired by the magic engines that are more and more widely used in the current territory," Knight Byron began to explain his thoughts, "Those engines are so powerful that even a professional knight in plate armor is transformed by a machine. One round will kill or disable, so some rune craftsmen consider using the power of the machine on the sword—they consider installing a small repulsion mechanism in the hilt, using the repulsion mechanism to vibrate the blade or drive the jagged structure, so that it can easily tear apart the armor of the enemy.
"The melting and cutting sword plan abandoned the mechanical structure, and continued to find a way out from the effect similar to 'enchantment'. A rune craftsman proposed that an array of flame runes could be added to the sword body, using magic capacitors to supply energy. Runes can make the blade reach a very high temperature - we can use very high temperature resistant purple steel to cast the blade. The steel heated by the fire rune is no longer a magic effect, and the enemy's magic resistance is against it It is useless, but the extremely high temperature purple steel blade can easily destroy most of the conventional metal armor in the world, or cause great damage to the more sophisticated magic robes and mage shields. Its damage to the enemy is even more fatal.
"Of course, compared to the sawtooth driven by machinery, the destruction efficiency of high-heat blades may be slightly lower, and it's no different when you encounter those local tyrants whose armor is covered with mithril and adamantium—then again, if you really encounter Armor made of mithril and fine gold, the mechanical sword is also useless... "
At this moment, Gawain's mind was already full of chainsaw swords and plasma blades flying around...
It took him a lot of effort to push back the fancy things that were jumping around in his mind, while maintaining the majesty of the ancestor who revealed the coffin on his face. After thinking about the two options seriously, he denied one of them: "Mechanical Swords are out of the question."
"Um... we haven't discussed the results yet..." Byron was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect Gawain to directly deny the seemingly most promising of the two extremely valuable proposals so quickly, "Why do you think the mechanical sword Impossible?"
"The mechanical structure is too complicated, the stability is poor, the maintenance is difficult, the cost is high, and it is not easy to mass-produce. Moreover, the repulsion mechanism at this stage still has relatively large mechanical vibration, which will affect the use of soldiers." Gao Wen shook his head and said, "Don't forget I have reminded you at the beginning: only weapons that can be mass-produced are good weapons, and this sentence must be added: equipment that can withstand harsh environments is good equipment. It is a pity that the mechanical sword is not good at these two points. None... at least not with our technology at this stage.
"The sword will frequently collide with the opponent's weapon or armor. In the continuous collision, the gears and connecting rods in the hilt are prone to problems, and besides-the movable tooth structure means that it is more fragile and easier. Wear and tear, even if we mass-produce this thing regardless of the cost, it will crumble if you saw the armor a few times on the battlefield, so there is no practicality at all.”
Byron was stunned for a moment, and finally realized the huge problem: "That's right! I didn't expect..."
However, Gawain didn't think it was Byron's problem—it is true that he has rich experience, but when a new magic energy industry technology is mixed into a matter, his judgment will inevitably go wrong—he only saw The magic engine is so powerful, how do you know how the precise parts in the machine work.
To be honest, Gao Wen felt sorry for denying the plan to eliminate the mechanical sword—a chainsaw sword with steel teeth whirling as the engine turns is a man's romance, but the current industrial foundation really can't do this, it really creates a man's romance. I'm afraid the battlefield will be turned upside down...
However, compared to the mechanical sword with obvious shortcomings, the idea of the melting sword is very feasible.
It is not uncommon to use runes to heat things. The reactors in the alchemy factory are now heated with fire runes, but ordinary fire rune heating devices can only produce high temperatures of several hundred degrees, which is far from reaching the melting temperature. The degree of metal, but Rebecca has been improving the magic circle of the fire system recently-she is trying to simplify the common trap type magic circle of "hot land" into a general rune group, and the simplified rune The group is used in steel mills to change the status quo of still burning firewood and charcoal in forges, and it is said to be close to success.
Presumably, the rune craftsmen did not think of using fire runes to make high-heat blades until they heard the news.
"Think about the fusion sword, it's a good way," Gawain returned the blueprint to Byron, watched him put away the blueprint, and suddenly asked again, "By the way, I see the tentative weapon in the plan The category is a one-handed sword?"
"Oh yes, a one-handed sword," Byron nodded as he rolled up the drawing, "Now the soldiers have installed force field shields in their magic terminals, which means that they have a shield available at any time on the battlefield. Therefore, the sword in one hand and the shield in the other hand are the most useful in melee combat. Philip Knight has started training in this area recently."
Philip Cavalier, who had been curiously watching Gawain and Byron studying the blueprints, finally broke the silence at this moment. He nodded: "I am asking soldiers to use force field shields and ordinary one-handed swords for combat training—force The field shield has no weight and does not affect the line of sight like a normal shield, so the content of combat training must be reconsidered."
Gawain nodded in satisfaction when he heard it—once again, the outsiders discovered the characteristics of the new technology on their own initiative. It seems that there are many things that he really doesn't need to worry about...
At the same time, in the dark mountain range on the southeast side of the territory, a group of heavily armed Cecil combat soldiers was patrolling the mountain road.
Under normal circumstances, there are no patrolling personnel in the depths of the dark mountains. On the one hand, there are insufficient manpower. In the direction of Duo Wasteland, Gawain did not arrange more patrol teams in the mountains to prevent the aberrations from attacking the territory again.
But recently, there are several more inspection routes in the mountains.
This is because the original stone of Hom has already been mined.
With the help of Rebecca Crystal, the progress of the new mine was not affected even in winter. The area where the original stone of Hom was discovered has now become an open-pit mining site. After several crystal collapses, large areas of the original stone veins were exposed. A large number of miners and soldiers were sent to the newly opened open-pit mining field. They built strongholds around the mining field. In order to prevent wild beasts and monsters from threatening the mining field, several new patrol routes were added around the mining field. .
It is a very hard job to patrol the Dark Mountains on this freezing day, but the soldiers are still conscientiously walking on their own routes. They wear magic armor that has just been finalized and mass-produced, and are equipped with general-purpose armor. The military magic terminal is fully focused on the patrol road without letting up.
This is not only because the "soldier ethics" that Gao Wen constantly promotes has been deeply implanted in their minds, but also because the recruits of the combat corps are all selected from civilians, and even after enlisting, they have to carry out continuous training as the construction corps. With the full-time construction of the territory, coupled with the various house building and land division laws that Gao Wen has been promoting, Cecil's soldiers have taken the protection of the territory and civilians as a matter of course from the very beginning.
They built their territories with their own hands, and they exchanged their labor and military exploits for their own houses and land. Their relatives and friends are all laborers in farmland, mines, and factories, whether it is their own interests, or their relatives, friends, The safety of their homeland is completely bound to whether they can perform their duties, which is completely different from other noble private soldiers.
The patrol captain walked at the front of the team, paying close attention to the movement on both sides of the mountain road. The mountain wind in the cold winter season kept blowing, but the cold did not affect his actions—the armor produced in the military factory had perfect protection. Magic, wind shield and heat shield runes can help him resist the cold wind in this mountain, while the lesser sanity spell solidified in the helmet can keep him sharp and focused during long continuous patrols.
As a veteran who survived the old Cecil Territory, he was extremely satisfied and at ease with his current equipment.
"Stay alert, prepare your force field shield," the captain turned to remind the soldiers behind him, "Be careful not to be attacked by monsters!"
Patrols in the dark mountains must be careful at all times. After the force field shields were issued, the soldiers took "keep the force field shields on standby" as a basic rule. This is because there are always some monsters in the mountains who are not afraid of people and even have simple wisdom. They will jump out to attack people, and if they don’t react in time, they will be in danger. A few days ago, some unlucky people were attacked and injured by poisonous monsters because they forgot to open their shields. If it weren’t for Cecil’s potion, it would be worthless. If they had several bottles of alchemy potions with them, that unlucky guy would have died long ago.
The soldiers under him are all good soldiers, but the veteran captain still can't help reminding them.
And at the same time as the soldiers responded, a trace of vigilance suddenly flashed in the patrol captain's heart.
There's... danger around here.
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