Just as sharpened sticks and smashed stones replace claws and teeth, primitive swords and personal martial arts will inevitably be replaced by guns made of steel. In this unstable world, wars follow everywhere, and for the sake of In order to survive, inefficient personal force must and must give way to efficient war machines—this is the objective law of the development of things.
Gao Wen didn't know whether every world followed such objective laws, but at least he could be sure that this world did follow such laws.
Even if there is extraordinary power in this world, even if the extraordinary powers in this world have the power to move mountains and fill seas, this principle will not change—the extraordinary who move mountains and fill seas will surely be able to move mountains and fill seas with higher efficiency. This was decided the day the first hunting stick was sharpened.
He looked at the chariot in admiration, as if seeing another era stretching in front of the chariot's tracks.
Rebecca, Hetty, Philip and Nicholas were with him, and everyone's (and ball's) attention was equally focused on the chariot.
The idea that Rebecca came up with after the advent of the magic vehicle—installing a cannon on the vehicle—has finally come true, and it is not only equipped with a cannon, but also equipped with armor plates and shield generators.
This chariot, which can barely be called a "tank", is not the same as Gao Wen's original design, and it is even very different from any tank in his understanding. It has no sloped armor, and the main body of the entire vehicle It was an almost square iron box. The tall iron box was spliced together with a large number of rivets and welding points. Each piece of armor was nothing more than a thin steel plate; It is very similar, but obviously rougher, and deep rune indentations can be seen on each track plate-earth elemental runes can reduce the wear and tear of the metal plate when it contacts the ground, and slightly enhance the resistance of the track to elemental attacks It is said that this is a suggestion of a rune craftsman from the Horsman area; its turret is equally impressive, it is a trapezoidal iron cover, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, the front end of the iron cover is open, and two parallel The metal guide rail extends straight out of the opening, and the simple optical sighting device is installed parallel to the metal guide rail, located in the lower half of the iron cover.
Restricted by the current technology, the main gun it installs is the smallest "Persuader" light rail gun, and it has also undergone a lightweight transformation specifically for loading on tanks. Naturally, its power has a certain discount, but for the battlefield of this era As far as it is concerned, this thing is already a mobile shredder.
From the appearance point of view, it is rough like a punk product, and it does not conform to the tank design ideas on earth at all.
Almost all of its armor has no bevels and arcs; its armor is also very thin, and at some riveted seams, it can even be seen that its side armor is just thin steel plates; It seems to be quite tall car body and eye-catching large turret.
These designs made the tank much easier to manufacture (which is one of the reasons it was built so quickly), lowered the cost of the tank, greatly reduced its weight, and increased payload and interior space, But this all brings up the obvious problem: its physical defenses seem to be reduced.
In Gawain's original design materials, there were concepts of sloping armor and low bodywork, but in the final product, these two concepts were abandoned.
At the beginning, he also approached Rebecca and Kamel specifically because of these changes, and had a debate, but in the end, he made concessions, because he later discovered that this seemingly defense-reducing design was actually the most effective design. is the most reasonable.
At the beginning, he gave the tank a strong physical defense capability according to the inertial thinking, and wanted to make the future tank able to resist physical attacks such as artillery shells and reduce the hit rate by increasing the armor angle and reducing the height of the vehicle body. But he overlooked one point - the most powerful form of attack in this world, and the only form of attack that can threaten the chariot is magic.
Tanks don't need to deal with shells at all, and don't even need to think too much about throwing stones. On the battlefield, what it has to face are basically small-power projectile weapons and powerful magic attacks—small-power projectile weapons, such as Crossbows and stone bullets can't hurt armor made of thin steel plates at all, and powerful magic attacks have no effect at all with inclined armor or curved armor.
Powerful spells such as Lightning, Pyroblast, and Ice Whip will not "ricochet", and some spells with channeling effects will not miss the target because of the tank's low body. It is necessary to defend against powerful For magic attacks, what is needed is not to work hard on the armor, but to add a set of shield generators to the tank body.
And with the magic shield, even if the chariot encounters a powerful live ammunition attack—such as the shelling of another chariot of the same level—it still has a certain defensive ability, instead of compressing the precious interior space of the chariot in order to resist the live ammunition attack .
Under the guidance of this idea, the technicians of the Machinery Manufacturing Institute and the Magic Technology Research Institute abandoned operations such as sloped armor that "do not understand what is useful", and instead designed the tank to be square and human-like. A tall iron box, and two sets of magic shield devices were stuffed into the enlarged internal space, and finally, the thing in front of Gawain was created.
"We've tested it, and its weapons and shield systems work fine," Rebecca said cheerfully beside her, her face full of complacency, "As I said, you can put it in the car shell." Two sets of shields are much more useful than hanging a bunch of slanted steel pipes, and the cost is lower, and it can also reduce the weight... Your previous idea was just to look good, not practical at all... "
Gawain, who was slapped in the face by the objective laws of this world, couldn't refute Rebecca's words academically, but he could knock his little granddaughter's head off as an ancestor, so he casually patted Rebecca on the head: "I The previous idea was wrong, but who said that my previous plan was because it looked good?"
"Oh..." Rebecca screamed when she was photographed, but she became happy in the next second, "Then you mean that the chariot we are building now is very good-looking?"
I have no idea how she came up with this idea.
Gawain ignored Rebecca, who was already self-satisfied, but looked up at the punk-style "Magic Energy Tank", and asked casually, "The final plan is to use a rail gun?"
The Nicholas egg floated over and made a buzzing sound: "Although the smallest rainbow cannon can barely be installed on the turret, it will almost 'eat' more than half of the energy of the power ridge. As long as it continues to illuminate, it must stop on the spot. Short shots will also seriously affect the stability of the engine, and the heat generated by the rainbow cannon is too high. If it is continuously irradiated for more than 30 seconds, the inside of the turret will become extremely hot. In the end, we settled on live-fire guns. Although it requires carrying shells, it’s the only viable solution at the moment.”
Gao Wen nodded, and then looked at the production line behind the chariot: "How long will it take for mass production?"
Nicholas egg pondered for a moment, then buzzed: "Actually... mass production will be achieved in about half a month."
Gao Wen was surprised: "So fast?!"
"Because it is completely 'assembled' with existing technology, and the production line is directly transformed from the production line of agricultural machinery," Nicholas Dan explained, "The chassis is a direct-use General-II agricultural machinery chassis, and the armor is basically An iron box spliced together with rivets and solder joints, the existing welding work platform can be used by modification, the main gun has been mass-produced in the production line of the military factory, as for other internal devices... the technical content is not high."
Gao Wen nodded slowly, what the iron ball star said was really reasonable.
He wanted to build a tank with all his heart. At first, it seemed like an unattainable goal, but after the magic vehicle was built, the light rail gun was built, and various agricultural machinery were successfully developed, the tank had already been established unconsciously. ready.
Even in the history of the earth, the first tank seems to be something that was "rubbed" after patching together ready-made technologies.
The rough prototype vehicle in front of me may one day develop into something sophisticated, but the current version is really an iron shell on the chassis of a tractor, and a cannon is installed on the iron shell. so easy...
With such a simple thing, it is enough to deal with the challenges that Cecil will face next, and in places other than Cecil... it is also "sophisticated" enough.
"Mass production will be achieved as soon as possible after the final test is completed, and as many as can be produced before next summer," Gao Wen said to Nicholas, and then turned to Philip on the other side, "Choose one who has a high talent in magic machinery and driving." Soldiers, the task of training the first batch of tank soldiers is entrusted to you."
After Nicholas and Philip took orders, Gawain looked at Heidi again: "You are in charge of approving the budget."
Hetty: "... yes."
Butler Cecil wanted to cry but she didn't have any tears—she was dragged here early in the morning to see "farm machinery" just to approve the budget.
But after a brief moment of wanting to cry, Hetty still sensed a sense of urgency and deep meaning from Gao Wen's attitude: "Ancestor, do you think the crisis... will erupt within a year?"
"This is the worst case," Gawain nodded. "It's already summer—according to the temperament of the nobles in the royal capital, they should almost be done talking."
Hetty looked into Gawain's eyes and nodded slowly.
According to the original estimation of the ancestors, no later than this summer, the nobles of Ansu will reach a consensus on the issue of repairing the magnificent wall. This is not because their efficiency can really be calculated so accurately, but because the situation determines of.
They have to finish all the wrangling and discussions in the first half of summer in order to ensure that they can organize enough manpower and resources in autumn, select suitable representatives, and follow the elves to start the repair project near the barrier. When it gets colder, the team will need higher costs to start, and in the cold winter, various projects will become more difficult. If the team cannot build a safe shelter camp in time due to construction difficulties near the majestic wall with harsh environment, Then the possible losses and the cost of project failure cannot be afforded by any family.
"Regardless of whether they will let me, an 'old man', go out to repair the barrier on behalf of Ansu, the Anzu civil war will temporarily stop during the repair of the barrier, but they will not stop for too long—the repair and reinforcement of the barrier The work will probably take one to three years, and once this issue is resolved and all worries are gone, the civil war will restart immediately, and... definitely will be more violent, and all bottom lines and faces will be torn. By then, Sisi If you want to stay out of things and concentrate on development and make money at both ends... I'm afraid it won't be so easy."
Speaking of this, Gao Wen paused, and continued: "So we must make preparations as soon as possible. Counting the time spent by the engineering team on their way, the repair of the barrier may be completed in the fall of next year at the earliest, and the 'safety margin' left to us Quantity’, it will not exceed next summer—it will take time to get used to the production of weapons and equipment.”
Hearing Gao Wen's plan that calculated almost every step accurately, Hetty couldn't help biting her lips: "Will the situation really develop as you estimated?"
"In many cases, the plan is inaccurate, and the facts will always exceed your expectations, just like on the battlefield - you may have made a dozen plans, but when the war really breaks out, it still depends on the commanders to act on the spot , or even go up recklessly," Gao Wen laughed, looked at Hetty and said, "but an excellent decision maker will still make a plan, at least, if we have a plan, we will have something to do, won't we?"
Gawain himself knew that his analysis of the situation was just an "analysis". Even with Gawain Cecil's experience, the experience of satellite spirits, and the experience of his previous life, he couldn't guarantee that his analysis was accurate. But like he'd told Hetty, at least... have a plan.
Hetty lowered her head and said solemnly, "Yes, I understand."
Gawain nodded, then he turned to the prototype chariot, and said in a cheerful tone, "Okay, let's give this cold, hard man a name—"
Every pair of eyes looked at him expectantly, while he looked up and down at the chariot made of steel.
Square armor, rigid lines, simple and steady shape, straight rail gun...
Honestly, it's like a hammer.
"Let's call it Warhammer, Warhammer I main battle tank."