Being a lord in another world begins with farming

Chapter 214 Huge gap in technology tree

From the moment the Battle of Mara Town began, Owen was always paying attention.

At this moment, a huge one-eyed puppet flying eagle, which was comparable in size to a bipedal flying dragon, was hovering thousands of meters in the sky. Under the control of the Flame Queen, it constantly adjusted its perspective and transmitted the scene back like a satellite.

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

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

Who would have thought that a crystal ball could be used as a computer, with stereoscopic projection and touch screen functions? This was something that had not been fully realized in the world before he traveled.

Therefore, Owen rarely works on these seemingly high-precision things, because it is too easy to go wrong. What is even more frightening is that you don't even know if there is a problem. It is far less simple and straightforward than powered armor and bolters.

But this area is considered their territory, so there's no harm in using it.

At the moment, Owen's concern is not the outcome of the Battle of Mara Town, but the role that firearms can play on the battlefield.

The battle conditions show that seemingly primitive firearms are surprisingly useful under certain circumstances. For example, if the current battle in Mara Town were to follow traditional fighting methods, even if there were one or two thousand professional soldiers defending, the loss would be almost half. After all, the spread of flesh-and-blood plague cannot be avoided in close combat.

But with strong walls and sharp firearms, the aberrations that are difficult to gather to form a powerful impact cannot break the defense, so the continuous attacks just add fuel to the attack and kill people.

Theoretically, as long as the ammunition and food are not exhausted and the soldiers take turns on the field, Mara Town can fight forever.

It is a pity that the rate of fire of existing firearms cannot meet the needs of field battles. Not to mention the cavalry that comes and go like the wind, a large number of light infantry skirmishers can pose a huge threat to pure firearms armies because the reloading speed is too slow. Even if fixed ammunition is used, a maximum of two shots per minute must be made by elite musketeers. Ordinary musketeers can only fire once a minute at most, and after a dozen rounds, the gun chamber must be cleaned and cooled, otherwise it will explode. chamber risk.

That's all. The hit rate is the most deceiving.

If you shoot when the enemy enters the range and starts to charge, you may not be able to hit a single shot until the sword is resting on the neck, 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 to fight positional warfare, they may not be able to block the desperate charge of the same number of enemies.

Of course, there are definitely not many such enemies. The average army can withstand the casualties on the second and third floors without being defeated. It is considered good. There are definitely not as many as imagined who dare to brave the hail of bullets and charge to the death.

After weighing it up, Owen found that the firearms he looked down on were actually feasible for large-scale equipment, because weapons cannot just be judged by their performance.

The crispy Panther Tiger tank of World War II is an example. In the early days, it was used to beat everyone, but later it was still piled to death when faced with the bear's armed tractors.

Although Owen was a little helpless about this, he had no choice, because the territory was not without good things. The problem was that the technology tree was too disconnected.

The top level of territorial technology is the combination of Owen, Brian, and the Flame Queen. The fusion of alchemy and technology allows them to create black technology-level gadgets, such as powered armor and bolters.

If the charge is piled up hard and the bolt bombs are continuously amplified, this thing will be a Dongfeng Express without navigation.

The middle level of technology is a combination of elves and goblins, one is a master craftsman, the other is a little clever ghost, plus the hard-working hobgoblins and bugbears. The puppet factories and manufacturing plants based on them have reached the peak of the steam age, especially It is the existence of mechanical puppets, which already has the prototype of steampunk.

There is not much to say about the bottom level of technology. They are the blacksmith shop and arsenal in the center of the town, which can manufacture muskets and small and medium-caliber artillery.

The three levels are one in the sky and one on the ground. No one is touching each other in the middle, and there is no connection at all.

Even if Owen works hard, he can at most double or triple the size of the Ultramarines, but he still won't be able to take into account the logistics and ammunition, so it will be useless for a real war.

Moreover, the advanced creations of territorial technology are very dependent on the progress value and the black glue bugs, because even if they are rubbed by hand, some high-precision things are still not self-sufficient and must rely on system exchange, and the body fluids of the black glue bugs are an important fuel for high-level technology. and explosives, and this is completely limited by the scale of black glue insect breeding in the territory.

However, the black glue worm needs to suck the sap of the magic horn tree to grow, which makes breeding more difficult and makes it difficult to increase production.

Considering that this thing is a strategic reserve, it cannot be produced and used as much as possible, and it cannot be expanded.

As for mid-level technology, it is limited by the level of elves and goblins. Unless it takes decades to develop a system that belongs to them, this will be the case for the time being.

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

Especially muskets and artillery. To put it bluntly, they are just drilling holes into iron pillars of varying thicknesses. Regardless of strength, a bunch can be produced in a day.

The propellant is simpler. Just grind the magic horn tree into powder and mix it. At most, add some egg white. The egg yolk can also be used to make bread.

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

Mara Town was shrouded in smoke that had no time to dissipate for three whole days. A large number of scrapped muskets were randomly discarded on the ground, and one-pound cannons were piled on the roadside like spent fireworks tubes. The residual heat has not subsided to this day.

At this time, he was finally able to come down from the wall. The musketeer, whose eyes were red from the gunpowder smoke, stuffed food into his mouth with trembling hands and devoured it to replenish his strength. The women beside him were busy cooking pots of food, regardless of their fatigue. Hot soup was distributed to the soldiers.

Now witches have taken over this place. They fly around on broomsticks, spreading nectar along the way to purify the flesh and blood plague brought by the aberrations.

By the way, these witches ride normal broomsticks, with cushion charms, the brooms are also horizontal, and the nectar is also a serious nectar, a magic potion with a purifying effect.

Emile twisted her hips awkwardly, rubbed the super broomstick, suppressed some personal habits, and honestly instructed the witches not to miss the spot to prevent the flesh-and-blood curse from resurrecting.

Witches have studied the flesh plague of the Church of the Flesh, not to mention the former veteran assassin of the Church of the Flesh and Blood Witch Qima. Now the glass jar of Nine-turn Large Intestine Qima has fallen into the hands of Owen and the others, and they have already extracted all the information. Now, After taking it out and summarizing it, the effect was unexpectedly good.

However, this method is difficult to popularize, because whether it is purification potions or fuel for burning the corpses of aberrations, they are important strategic reserves that often accumulate for a long time before being 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 been growing for thousands of years. If it is used excessively, the territory's technological system will suffer a fatal blow.

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