Chapter 219: The Technology Tree with a Huge Difference
Chapter 214 – The Technology Tree with a Huge Difference
From the moment the Battle of Mara Town started, Owen was always paying attention.
At this moment a huge one-eyed puppet flying eagle with a size comparable to a bipedal flying dragon was hovering thousands of meters in the sky, constantly adjusting its viewpoint under the control of the Flame Empress, transmitting the scene back like a satellite.
This one-eyed giant eagle puppet was indeed a war weapon, but unfortunately there were still many problems that needed to be solved, such as signal transmission, not only was there a certain distance limitation, but there was also the possibility of being tampered with.
Never underestimate the mages of this world, they used magical means to create many black technology achievements, such as the Crystal Ball Spiritualization Technique.
Who would have thought that a crystal ball could be used as a computer, but also has the function of stereoscopic projection and touch screen, which was not even fully realized in the world before he crossed over.
So Owen seldom get these seemingly high-precision things, because it is too easy to go wrong, the more terrible thing is that you don’t know what went wrong, far less than the power armor and explosive gun simple and direct.
However, this neighborhood was considered their territory, so there was no harm in using it.
Right now, Owen’s concern is not the victory or defeat of the battle of Mara Town, but the role that firearms can play on the battlefield.
Battle shows that the seemingly primitive firearms in a particular situation is unexpectedly good, such as the battle of Mara Town according to the traditional way of fighting, even if there are one or two thousand professional soldiers defense, almost one half of the loss, after all, if the melee is unable to avoid the spread of the plague of flesh and blood.
But there are solid walls and sharp firearms in, it is difficult to gather to form a powerful impact of the aberrant is unable to break the defense, so a steady stream of impact will become fuel to send people’s heads.
Theoretically, as long as the ammunition and provisions are not exhausted, and the soldiers take turns, Mara Town can fight until the end of time.
Unfortunately, the rate of fire of the existing firearms can not meet the needs of the field, not to mention the cavalry that comes and goes like the wind, a large number of light infantry scattered line charge can be a huge threat to the pure firearms army, because the speed of reloading is really too slow, even if the use of fixed ammunitions, a minute to shoot up to two times, this is also the elite musketeer, ordinary musket militia up to a minute, and a dozen rounds after the gun has to be cleaned up the chamber and to carry out Cooling, otherwise there is a risk of blowing up the chamber.
That’s all, the hit rate is the most pitiful.
In the enemy into the range to start charging time to shoot, afraid until the knife on the neck are difficult to hit a shot, so the musketeer will be so focused on the volley shooting, all to make up for the problem of hit rate.
So even if the original firearms used to fight positional warfare are not necessarily able to block the same number of enemies under the death charge.
Of course, this kind of enemy is absolutely not much is, the general army can carry two or three layers of casualties and not rout even if good, dare to risk the rain of bullets to the death charge is definitely not imagined so much.
Left and right weighing a bit, Owen found that he could not see the firearms really have the feasibility of large-scale equipment, because weapons can not just look at the performance.
World War II spicy brittle Panther Tiger tanks is an example, the initial period that is to beat anyone is a grandson, but later faced with the Mao Bear’s armed tractors are piled up to death as usual.
Owen although some helpless, but there is no way, because the territory is not no good things, the problem is that the fault of the technology tree is too powerful.
The top of the territory’s technology is Owen, Brian, the Flame Queen combination, the fusion of alchemy and science and technology allows them to get out of the black level of science and technology things, such as power armor and explosive guns.
If they were to pile up the charges hard enough and keep enlarging the explosive projectiles, this thing would be the East Wind Express without navigation.
The middle tier of technology is the combination of elves and goblins, one is a master craftsman, the other is a little witty, together with the hard-working goblins and bear goblins, based on them to build puppet factories and manufacturing factories has reached the peak of the steam era, especially the existence of mechanical golems, which has already taken on the shape of steampunk. The bottom of the technological ladder is the smithy and arsenal in the center of the town, capable of manufacturing muskets and small to medium caliber artillery.
The three levels are one foot in the sky and one foot on the ground, with no one next to each other in the middle, and they are not connected at all.
Even if Owen worked hard, he could at most double or triple the size of the Ultimate Fighters, and he still couldn’t take care of the logistics and ammunition, so it wouldn’t help in a real war.
Moreover, the advanced technology of the territory relies heavily on the progress value and the vinyl worms, because even if they are hand rubbed, some highly sophisticated things are still not self-sufficient and must rely on the system to exchange them, and the body fluid of the vinyl worms is an important fuel and explosives for the high level of technology, which is completely limited by the scale of the territory’s breeding of the vinyl worms.
This is completely limited by the scale of farming of the Gummy Worms. The fact that the Gummy Worms need to suck the sap of the Magic Horn Tree to grow has caused the difficulty of farming to skyrocket, making it difficult to increase the production.
Considering that this is a strategic reserve, it cannot be used as much as it can be produced, nor can it be scaled up.
As for the middle tier technology, due to the level of the elves and goblins, unless it took decades to research a system that belonged to them, it would have to be like this for the time being.
On the contrary, the bottom layer of technology can use the power of the middle layer of technology to realize large-scale mass production, such as the wheels, bearings, steam engines, muskets and artillery that come off the production line.
Especially the musket and artillery, to put it bluntly, is the thickness of the iron columns of different thicknesses of holes drilling holes, regardless of the strength of the words, a day can produce a bunch of.
And the firing charge is even simpler, the magic horn tree blocks can be ground and stirred, at most add some egg whites, egg yolks can also be taken to make bread.
This gives Owen the idea of forming a pure firearms regular army, and the cantonment camp is a ready-made base.
The town of Mara was shrouded in smoke for three whole days, a large number of scrapped muskets were casually discarded on the ground, and the one-pound guns were piled up on the roadside like used fireworks tubes, and the heat has not yet subsided.
At this time, finally able to come down from the fence, by the smoke of the red eyes of the musketeers with trembling hands into the mouth of the food, swallowing to replenish the physical strength, a side of the women do not care about the fatigue, is busy cooking pots of hot soup to distribute to the soldiers.
It was the witches who had taken over now, flying around on their brooms, spreading manna along the way to purify the plague of blood and flesh brought about by the aberrations.
Incidentally, these witches were riding their flying brooms normally, with a cushion spell, and the brooms were horizontal, and the manna was proper manna, a magic potion with a purifying effect.
Amelia twisted her hips a bit, rubbed the super flying broom, suppressed some personal habits, and honestly commanded those witches not to miss the place in case the flesh and blood curse resurfaced.
For the flesh and blood plague of the Church of Blood and Flesh, the witches are studied, not to mention the former Church of Blood and Flesh veteran assassin Bloody Witch Chima, now the glass jar of nine-turned colon Chima fell into the hands of Owen and their hands, and has long been milking the intelligence clean, and now take it out to summarize everyone, and the effect is surprisingly good.
But this approach is difficult to popularize, because whether it is a purification magic potion or fuel for burning aberrant corpses, it is an important strategic reserve, often accumulated for a long time before it can be used once, because even the cheapest pieces of magic horn tree are not inexhaustible.
The magic horn tree grows very slowly, and the seemingly huge forest of magic horn trees grows over thousands of years, so if it is used in excess, the territory’s technological system will be dealt a fatal blow.
For this reason, Owen is prepared to cross the border to plant the magic horn tree, in order to prevent the collapse of the territory’s energy system.
(End of chapter)