From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 238 A big technological breakthrough (weighted double issue, please vote for me~~)

On top of the rapid-fire cannon, there is a 'multifunctional lightweight semi-automatic deployment cannon' that compromises power, rate of fire and 'portability';

This model adopts a semi-submersible reaction chamber turret layout. The front end is a 55 times diameter 203mm enchanted main gun barrel. It can be changed between a linear-bore heavy gun and a smooth-bore armor-piercing gun in 20 minutes according to needs;

Moreover, every time the gun barrel changes form, it is equivalent to a 'recasting' of the gun barrel, which makes the life of the gun barrel almost endless at the expense of nutrient absorption.

The reactor chamber of this model has a diameter of 2.7 meters, and most of its lower part is wrapped in a body that is 17 meters long, 7 meters wide, and 6 meters high, leaving only the rear air inlet and the upper third of the chamber body.

outside the body;

Among them, the former is completely exposed, while the latter is protected by a trapezoidal composite armor dome.

In addition, the interior of the body is combined with totem control systems such as a driving position, ammunition storage and semi-automatic ammunition supply, sound wave reflection, etc. The two sides of the body are retractable eight-legged self-propelled chassis.

The joints of the limbs have hydraulic stability during shelling, and each connecting part is enchanted with totems, giving them a tougher property than the strength of the material itself.

There is also a root system retracting chamber at the end of the eight legs. The top of the internal root system is equipped with an underground structure that can release corrosive liquid. When deployed, 32 roots can be drilled deep into the ground within ten minutes to quickly obtain nutrients.

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At the same time, the conventional crown was cancelled, and all blades were instead laid flat across the entire body, with certain self-healing capabilities.

Even though this kind of 'cannon' can only attack at a speed of half a round/light minute due to the compression efficiency of the reaction chamber, and must be deployed on the ground in order to maintain nutrient replenishment;

But this is still the product that Nesta is most satisfied with

The total length of the gun barrel is 11.17m, and the 1.7-meter area connected to the interior of the body can be opened when loading, and self-seamlessly closes after loading is completed;

Needless to mention the attack power, when equipped with a rifled barrel, the 1.7-ton all-metal heavy artillery can be projected 17 kilometers away with a muzzle velocity of 600m/s;

When the gun barrel is deformed into a smoothbore structure, the winged sabot armor-piercing projectile can penetrate 300mm thick steel and wood armor within 2000 meters with a discharge speed of 1100m/s, relying on the black rib gold thorn core inside it;

When the smoothbore state is changed to a black rib gold sub-caliber armor-piercing projectile (exteriorly wrapped with lightweight brittle metal), it can penetrate 200mm steel and wood armor within 3,000 meters.

In addition, there are also more or less disadvantages in terms of transportation convenience and self-propelled speed.

In the field of material manufacturing, the witch doctors totemized the raw materials required for each part of the cannon body and every step from the breeding stage into classified 'breeding totem trees' and 'birth totem trees'

, and give them a control center that can be activated and controlled by bioelectricity;

In various mechanical processing fields within the factory, pure physical factories that use hydraulic power can be ignored for now, but various totem tree magic factories that rely on nutrients from the land to operate actually have a reasonable supply of nutrients.

to enhance the possibility of working efficiently.

The related totem design discipline, driven by these progressive technical data, gradually took shape and became a senior elective course at the First Education Center.

In addition, as Nesta had predicted, corresponding combination methods have gradually emerged in the wool spinning industry, silk spinning industry, food processing industry, etc., which have improved production efficiency and reduced labor demand;

In addition to crown wheat, more types of breeding totem trees have also been generated one after another, basically completely liberating the shackles of the witch doctors' tasks in this area.

After completing the construction of the artillery manufacturing center and the laying of raw material pipelines, the ambitious Nesta and the witch doctors began to design the artillery manufacturing center.

After that, the other end of the pipeline will be drilled deeply into the lava channel inside the base of the volcano group, and the magma in it will be continuously extracted and transported in a liquid state;

After receiving the sound signal, the monitoring tree will move its own 'pen tentacles' specially used for recording according to the set program, and record the codes one by one on the paper, which will then be translated by the technical arm.

For example, can we further improve the problem of low firing rate that is currently limited by compression speed?

As for preparations for armaments, about a year has passed since the completion of the cannon factory;

The gun can launch a super-heavy projectile weighing 7 tons to a distance of 20 kilometers with an initial velocity of 600m/s; or it can launch a 3-ton composite projectile 30 kilometers away with an initial velocity of 900m/s.

Or you can launch a 1-ton lightweight composite bomb with an initial velocity of 1100m/s to a distance of 55 kilometers.

In the field of enchantment, similarly, the totems used to engrave totems are also integrated into the 'Totem Engraving Totem Tree';

But the real problem is that it is very difficult to produce black gold. The three types of metal elements it requires are almost all rare. The Republic has not been able to find rich ores in other areas;

Therefore, the only existing source of raw materials is the magma from the southern volcanoes.

What saved the project in this predicament was the ‘three-dimensional enchantment strengthening’ plan proposed by Nesta;

He transplanted the multi-layer enchantment scheme used in the construction of the reaction chamber to various key parts of the gun body, using the limited space to accumulate higher material strength.

This newly invented multi-layered three-dimensional armor structure not only brings this type of cannon a self-protection efficiency that is only inferior to the mother tree prison level, but also successfully compresses its overall weight to 55 tons, gaining more internal volume;

Moreover, as a result, it has achieved even better capabilities than originally planned in aspects such as battery life.

In this way, the carving and erasing of totems will be a very convenient thing for soldiers. As long as they pay a tax-included maintenance fee, they can get corresponding services on the street where they live.

This obviously does not meet its battlefield positioning, so the lower-level main gun once became the replacement for the current 203 gun.

Therefore, in terms of the choice of attack method for the upcoming battle, there will definitely be a very high demand for armor penetration.

In addition, the same is true for processes such as processing of supplied materials and assembling different parts.

In addition, after the Totem Tree technology is combined with machine tools, it has the same effect as the previous CNC machine tools. After reducing the required labor by two-thirds, it has also allowed the Republic to rise to a higher level in parts accuracy control.

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And with the further combination of totems and machine tools, relatively more complex operations have become possible, which has qualitatively improved the complexity of workpieces that each factory can produce.

Faced with these two new problems, the witch doctors all used their brains to think of solutions, and quickly came up with corresponding plans.

In terms of obtaining black gold raw materials, the witch doctors specially developed constant-temperature pipelines to maintain the temperature of the magma and transport it;

These pipelines will be cultivated in sections by witch doctors at a distance of hundreds of kilometers, quickly spawned, and connected to each other.

After the attempt of this solution was successful, the witch doctors applied it to 'armor protection';

They used the same multi-layered three-dimensional enchantment technique to achieve a 500mm effect with only 150mm of steel and wood armor thickness for the gun body and the top reaction chamber dome.

And amid such rapid progress, Nesta finally set its sights on the south;

He believes that the advanced salamander capture plan, which has been delayed for countless years, is time to end this seemingly endless preparation period.

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With the great breakthrough in the development of totem trees, most of the volcanic salamanders that were once valued as targets of the "Alchemical Biological Development Plan" have lost their significance to the Republic at this time;

The attraction of the southern volcanoes to the trolls has been traced back to only the advanced salamanders and the magma itself that is rich in easily mineable metal minerals.

Especially the body shape can be reduced by at least one third

At the transportation level, in the early stage, it can be quickly transported to the vicinity of the battlefield through rails, and in the mid-term, it can be towed by moose to transport it to the vicinity of the battlefield;

Its effect on super-strong individual soldiers who can move at high speeds may be limited, but its destructive power against fixed targets cannot be underestimated.

Others have the ability to engrave 'listening type' totems on magic plants, and make 'listening trees' appear naturally.

Therefore, corresponding attempts were started.

On the one hand, on the basis of continuing to optimize the compound nutrients, it is necessary to simultaneously reduce the proportion of the cave wolf cell fluid;

On the other hand, for objects such as farmland engineering vehicles, power requirements must be further reduced by making the body material itself lighter, optimizing the engineering structure, and rationalizing the process steps.

But the witch doctors feel that this is not enough. They actually want to develop wearable "armor-style totem trees", or let them absorb the physical energy of warriors to run, or rely on pre-injection, or a separately loaded nutrient pool.

operate;

In this way, you can integrate totems such as 'brute force', 'wind movement', 'far vision' and so on on the armor, and add corresponding control modules to give warriors more combat or reconnaissance options.

In addition, perhaps the magic crystal spells of salamanders above the forty-meter level can also make some contributions to atmospheric compression technology?

Therefore, after the witch doctors finalized their research and development, they concentrated on manufacturing 5 full-power cannons and 15 multi-functional self-propelled cannons.

'The high-pressure air mass in the reaction chamber has so much energy, it seems a bit wasteful to only use it in the military. Is there any other direction in which it can generate value?'

The same goes for non-metallic elements, which can be used to prepare salamander bait, or to synthesize other compounds useful to the Republic, such as strong acids, etc., and feed them back into the alchemical totem tree, becoming chemical additives that accelerate the operation of the alchemical totem.

Taken together, among all the ingredients required for 'nutrients', the cell fluid of the burrow wolf is the most precious;

But unlike the Armor Breaker Type 1, which can easily weigh tens of tons, other machines that the Republic needs to drive do not require such huge power to support;

Therefore, the content of cave wolf cell fluid in the formula can be reduced appropriately, as long as its proportion is reduced to within a range;

As a de facto "renewable resource", although the Republic will feel a little sad, it can still apply it to this aspect with tears.

But despite its flaws, this is indeed a powerful weapon.

If the required scale is still the same small batch size as in the previous experimental stage, then the current 'stealing' method can still be maintained, but the actual situation is obviously not the case.

If we do not seek changes in the means of acquisition, the time required to gather ammunition will even exceed the development and manufacturing of the cannon itself.

After they refined various nutrients absorbed by plants from the ground, concentrated them into complex nutrients, supplemented them with high-energy cell fluid taken from cave wolves, and diluted them with water into a semi-fluid form of 'nutrients', they discovered that this

Substances can replace the way plants obtain nutrients from the ground, and even achieve this goal more efficiently.

He thought about it carefully and found that it was not unacceptable. In his previous life, there were slaves who had a meal every 30 kilometers. In this life, there would be a totem tree with a ton of fertilizer every 200 kilometers.

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The new situation has brought new changes

All these studies were originally started to capture volcanic salamanders, but at some point, an infectious disease that was caused by an unknown source spread to all witch doctors and even more giants.

demons;

This disease has no name, but its symptoms are quite obvious. Let us be better prepared.

Similarly, all weak points, including the eight leg joints, were strengthened through this method, and successfully withstood the many negative effects caused by its own main gun bombardment.

In addition, on top of the multi-functional self-propelled gun, it is a "full power gun" that pursues ultra-long attack range and high power projection, and reaches the current limit under the restriction of recoil.

And black gold is currently the most suitable alloy material for this task, so the Republic's demand for it suddenly soared.

But when it successfully resisted the side effects of its own shelling, the entire artillery vehicle lost its mobility and became a fixed fort.

Therefore, after integrating the activated magic plants, totem electric activation technology, and such a 'non-land nutrient giving' mode, an 'Armor Breaker Type 1' weighing dozens of tons can be driven without the need for roots to enter the ground.

The energy supply model was born.

Therefore, the full-power gun named 'Bombarder Type 1', the multi-functional gun named 'Armorbreaker Type 1', and the handheld 30mm rapid-fire assault gun named 'Assault Type 1', as well as the prepared '

The Anti-Aircraft Defender 1 60mm rapid-fire gun is produced day and night in such a factory;

With this in mind, the preparation period for the capture plan for higher salamanders has once again been extended;

Similarly, with sufficient raw materials, the cannonballs they each needed gradually began to pile up.

For all of these things, Nesta at one point brought dozens of witch doctors, hundreds of non-spellcaster trolls from various institutes, and thousands of energetic warriors;

With all-round logistical support from the ruling government in terms of financial resources and food, it took nearly three years to complete all processes from pipeline laying, to research and development of various totem trees, to factory design and construction, and to assembly line application.

Of course, other compounds present in the magma will not be wasted. The parts of the remaining metal elements that are needed at this stage, such as the part required for the casing of sub-caliber armor-piercing projectiles, will become the components of the projectile, and the rest will become

Metal ingot storage;

But now a new problem was discovered

First, the manufacturing efficiency is too slow;

Second, it is not enough to have cannons; corresponding cannonballs must be prepared.

In terms of manufacturing efficiency, since these two cannons are no longer like the previous magic plants, they only need to control the appearance and materials. The manufacturing process also includes a large number of enchanting requirements, relying on the existing number of witch doctors.

There is simply no way to meet demand;

The problems faced by artillery shells are somewhat different. In addition to manufacturing efficiency, it also has difficulties in obtaining raw materials that need to be overcome.

Compound nutrients are acquired compounds that are blended with many elements. Although their raw materials are not valuable, the manufacturing process is quite complex.

Finally, a special assembly line plan was designed for the operation of the Totem Tree Factory, which includes all processes of gun manufacturing, to improve efficiency as much as possible and reduce the labor required.

Therefore, many capable designers, including some non-casters, began to study the application of totem trees in agriculture, industry, service industry, military and many other aspects.

The one who took the lead in establishing the project was the direction of ‘power’ that had long been at the back of Nesta’s throat;

In the previous development process of 'Armor Breaker Type 1', the witch doctors got rid of the shackles of 'plants must be grounded to absorb nutrients and convert sunlight' in order to have a long-lasting supply of 'physical energy';

'Totem tree technology has matured, should we expand its application methods again?'

Of course, other disadvantages besides the rate of fire also exist, such as ‘nutrients’.

The high-energy liquid used to maintain its 'self-propelled' ability requires a mixture of 13% Burrow Wolf high-energy cell fluid, 25% water, and 62% complex nutrients.

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In the capture plan for advanced salamanders, all other weapons are just foils. The most important ones are the full-power cannon and the multi-function cannon.

It uses a 70 times diameter 420mm rifled barrel with a total barrel length of 29.4m, plus a reaction chamber diameter of 9m. Together with the giant rail gun body, the total weight is 220 tons, and the rate of fire is as slow as 1 round/20 light minutes.

In addition, automation has also achieved remarkable results due to the efforts of the witch doctors;

Whether it is the loading of artillery shells, the transmission and reception of sound waves, the adjustment of the firing range, or even the transfer and deployment, and the activation of the enchanted armor around the body, these have all been totemized;

This pipeline, specially designed to steal magma, is hundreds of kilometers long. Almost all the witch doctors were mobilized for its layout work, and it took nearly half a year to complete the entire line. After completing the above-mentioned operation mode, it greatly accelerated the development of the Republic.

Productivity in many aspects.

'Now that we have the factory, we don't need to stock up on more weapons and ammunition before we start taking action. Otherwise, why would we bother so much?'

Since the factory has made a significant shift in production capacity towards the Bomber 1 and Armor Breaker 1, the headquarters has already owned 70 units of the former and more than 300 units of the latter in the past 500 days;

In addition, the number of ancient war trees has increased to 120, and they are all equipped with the same 203mm main gun as the Armor Breaker 1 type;

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But those who take the lead in establishing a project may not necessarily be the first to succeed;

In fact, the next breakthrough was the application of totem tree technology in other aspects.

For example, the ‘Engraved Totem Tree’ that matured together with the cannon processing factory has once again added categories and has the ability to carve other totems.

From this, this end of the pipeline is connected to the artillery manufacturing center outside the headquarters, and is manufactured into armor-piercing cores of different shapes in the alchemy tree group that is given the corresponding functional totem;

After that, these black-edged gold armor-piercing cores will be transported to another processing end to add various components to them.

Therefore, the entire artillery carriage only needs 4 soldiers to perform various tasks part-time to achieve full power use.

"Waiting around is not an option. Existing weapons must be practiced and new methods of combat must be formed."

And now, the witch doctors want to apply this 'power' technology to other aspects

Agricultural vehicles, engineering vehicles, rail cars and other industrial products that need to work in motion naturally do not need many, and power will greatly enhance their work efficiency.

At this moment, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and finally had time to carefully examine what kind of work he had completed;

Automated factories, high-tech industrial giants, and extremely efficient processing lines for supplied materials.

‘Am I leading the race into the industrial age? Where’s the power? Not to mention the power plant, not even the steam engine is used. Why is this happening all of a sudden?’

Among them, Burrow Wolf Cell Fluid is a basic resource with extremely low production capacity. It can be said to be so rare that it is priceless. Every bit of consumption will cause the troll heartache.

With this idea in mind, a mining plan was formed that first excavated a tunnel, then inserted a reaction chamber connected to a root system that supplies energy and gas into the depths of the ground, and started an 'explosion' in the veins.

At this end of the pipeline, the witch doctors concentrated all the processes of making cannonballs in one area, and totemized the processing methods corresponding to each process, giving them to each 'alchemy totem tree'

, and the key to the effectiveness of this plan lies in the dividends brought by Nesta's previous upgrade.

This was a plan that seemed very feasible. The decision was passed and funds were allocated the moment it was proposed. It became a project that all witch doctors look forward to succeeding.

In fact, if the witch doctors were not so obsessed with multi-function and battery life that they gave it too many redundant totem plug-ins, the cannon should be able to be further compressed in terms of size and weight;

Judging from the change in armor thickness of the seven-meter to forty-meter volcanic salamanders, higher species must have more exaggerated external defenses;

Under the combined action of so many means, a highly automated factory that only required casters in the maintenance phase appeared in a large open space outside the headquarters;

After the professional operators who had been trained for a period of time were on duty, under the command of senior engineers, the factory began the production of cannons one by one.

As a result, the standing corps began to become familiar with the weapons, and the higher military academies began to design tactics while becoming proficient, and after a period of time, they began to conduct exercises again and again.

We hope to use this to develop a power grant and application method that meets actual needs.

No matter which attack method, at least Nesta himself cannot withstand it, and one shot can kill him.

When this technology was once again applied to artillery and even other manufacturing fields, due to the increase in factories with processing capabilities, the difficulty of processing could be increased, allowing each factory to obtain more high-precision components, thereby increasing production capacity.

The witch doctors made a special plan for this purpose and decided to promote this totem tree in their headquarters and other cities within a few years, on a scale of one for each street;

The totems that can be carved by these 'engraved totem trees' will be replaced through a detachable component. This component is like a floppy drive. It is inserted into the fixed card slot and can be updated after being fused with the totems in the contact position.

It can depict content.

In the later stage, the eight-legged joint chassis can be used for battlefield deployment and transfer. Before the root system is not connected to the ground and enters the deployment state, the high-energy liquid stored in the body can be used to maintain a self-propelled speed of about 5 hours at a speed of 25km/light.

state.

It also integrates semi-automatic loading, sonic positioning and other totem systems internally. However, due to weight, size, energy consumption and other reasons, it completely loses the ability to deploy after leaving the orbit.

In other words, the trolls in the Republic no longer need to carve listening totems, and the saved totem slots can be used to maintain training totems.

This kind of tree can be large or small. The large one can establish a communication center at the headquarters, the medium-sized one can support the wartime command center at the rear of the battlefield, and the small one can also serve as a communications station for the team on the front line.

In terms of defense, after the body completely fell apart during the first test launch, attempts have been made to increase its material strength without limit;

Therefore, research in this area is still necessary even now.

This will undoubtedly be good news for the vast number of monitoring technical units. From now on, they only need to engrave the 'Body-Electric Totem' on their fingers to ensure that they can open and close the monitoring tree.

Moreover, this also prompted the artillery factory to completely abandon part of the manufacturing process, and through outsourcing, the private sector also joined the war preparation plan.

One of them replaced the 'Totem Engraver' and began to inscribe training totems for the soldiers;

The reaction chamber and ammunition supply system are fully integrated into the chimera and become part of the overall composition of the Ancient War Tree;

Therefore, they are more flexible than multi-functional self-propelled guns. Under the control of the internal 'body', they can complete many tactical actions that the former cannot use.

In addition, multi-layered three-dimensional armor is also deployed on the chimera, focusing on protecting the area where the 'main body' is located.

In this way, these one hundred and twenty ancient war trees have truly become self-propelled forts capable of both close combat and melee combat.

With the combined efforts of near and long range, it will surely play a good role in this operation and even future ground wars.

Can everyone give me some ideas~~

(End of chapter)