Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1095 New Achievements
From the perspective of a monarch, Zhou Xu's ideas may not be consistent with those of Qin Fen, a researcher.

Obviously, Qin Fen was smart enough and he knew the answer from the beginning.

It is indeed very tempting to directly skip the steam engine and use the heat energy of the fire crystal to fundamentally solve most of the technical problems and create an internal combustion engine.

But the question is how much fire crystal can be produced?

Not to mention the storage capacity of fire crystal, due to the special mining environment, miners cannot work in the fire crystal mine for a long time, which leads to the fact that the output of fire crystal cannot be increased at all at this stage.

Under this premise, you use limited fire crystals to develop the internal combustion engine.

We will skip the questions like "Can it be successfully developed?" and "How much money and time will it take to develop it?" and just assume that the fire crystal internal combustion engine has been successfully developed.

How many boats and cars can you build with it?

If this were an ordinary world, and you built an armored vehicle in this era, you might be able to run rampant on the battlefield.

But this is a magical world!

Under normal circumstances, the attacks of a warrior in the Hundred Refinements Realm might not pose much of a threat, but the same cannot be said for a warrior in the Vajra Realm.

As for extraordinary wizards and saintly wizards, it is even more difficult to say, as it depends on what kind of mantra spells they possess.

Even if he is a wizard who has entered the holy realm, if he only has the skill of "skeleton soldier control", he will definitely not be able to deal with the armored vehicles.

In comparison, if Zhou Xu invested all of his limited fire crystals into the creation of enchanted weapons.

Even when the control problem of the enchanted attack of the 'Red Flame Blade' has not been solved, he can still form an ace team with terrifying explosive power!
It’s hard to imagine what kind of troops can withstand that level of attack!
Simply put, in Zhou Xu's eyes, Qin Fen's proposal was not cost-effective at all.

In his opinion, oil-burning internal combustion engines are obviously more cost-effective, and new energy sources will be even cheaper in the future.

As for using Fire Crystal...

How much money does he have? Even the stupid son of a landlord wouldn't do this!

If the output of fire crystal can be greatly increased in the future, or if they find a more suitable ore, we can consider it then.

But now, this issue is not within his consideration.

After Qin Fen left, Zhou Xu took a short nap and went straight out of the palace in the afternoon and headed straight for the testing site outside the city.

"Let us see your Majesty!"

"Everyone is free of charge!"

After signaling everyone to refrain from formalities, the test began directly, and a large vehicle-shaped device was quickly pushed into the venue.

This device is somewhat similar to the three-bow crossbow, the difference is that there is a large spoon of a full size on the back of this device.

Needless to say, what was advancing at this time was a catapult!

Zhou Xu had never been interested in catapults before.

When it comes to breaking into the city, he has a three-bow crossbow that can directly blow up the opposite city gate.

When it comes to targeting enemy forces, although the three-bow crossbow does not have the ability to quickly kill enemy troops, the catapult is not much better.

How many people could be killed by that huge rock? Could he be so inefficient?

Obviously, he was not bad, so there was no need to waste manpower and resources to develop this. But with the development of the explosive barrel, the catapult was suddenly given a whole new meaning.

Like the hot air balloon, its value was reflected by the appearance of the explosive barrel.

However, since their catapult was not intended to be used for throwing stones at all, the name of the catapult seems a bit inappropriate, and it may even make people who don't know what it is feel confused.

So Zhou Xu changed its name to a demolition vehicle, which mainly blasted enemies everywhere.

In order to facilitate throwing, he planned to make all the explosive barrels used in demolition vehicles into spherical shapes and simply call them demolition bombs. In this way, the name is very appropriate.

However, at this point in time, due to problems with the transportation of raw materials, there is not enough gunpowder for them to use.

Therefore, the research and development team simply filled the explosive bomb with enough weight of gravel to simulate the state of the explosive bomb filled with gunpowder, in order to test the effective range.

According to the current technology of their Great Zhou, it is not difficult to build such a machine.

Even this project does not need Zhuang Mengdie to take over. She just holds the position of "R&D consultant" here and asks the project team to ask her if they have any questions about the research. She herself has never even been here.

The entire test went very smoothly. The project team already had the specific data. Their main goal now was to let His Majesty confirm it with his own eyes.

"A small demolition vehicle with an effective range of about three hundred meters."

Since the explosive bomb is spherical in shape, it will bounce and roll after landing, so it is quite troublesome to get accurate data.

But it doesn't matter. When the time comes, if we load it with real explosive bombs, it will explode and cause area damage, so this range error is insignificant.

Under this premise, if there are small blasting vehicles, there will naturally also be large blasting vehicles.

This is undoubtedly what Zhou Xu meant.

To put it simply, as long as you continue to increase the size of this thing, its effective range will definitely be farther.

Taking this into consideration, Zhou Xu directly asked the project team to develop two styles.

In addition to the small demolition vehicle, another style is the 'city defense demolition vehicle'.

Just like its name, it is mainly used in city defense battles.

Compared with the small blasting vehicle, the city defense blasting vehicle is much larger and stands there like a tower.

The biggest difference between the two is that the small blasting vehicle is equipped with wheels underneath, so it can move with the troops to a large extent.

However, the city defense blasting vehicle does not have the ability to move and is basically equivalent to a fixed turret in a city defense battle.

But in exchange, its effective range is almost five hundred meters!
Zhou Xu was still very satisfied with this result.

After seeing it, he felt that there should be four city defense blasting vehicles behind each city wall of their Great Zhou.

As for more, that is unnecessary.

Although the objects it throws are different, it is still essentially a catapult and has many of the same shortcomings as a catapult.

It can only attack enemies within a distant attack range. If the enemy rushes too close, it will become unable to attack the enemy due to the attack angle.

Therefore, within a specific range, it is enough to deal a proper blow to the enemy and reduce the enemy's strength. Don't expect it to fight the whole field or end the battle in one wave. It is unrealistic.

(End of this chapter)