We are in Terra and there is no book to read.

【dong——】

The entire chassis slid a little to one side, and the road wheel that was directly kicked even slightly deformed.

"I'll try too!"

Sister Mudstone suddenly spoke. She activated her Origin Stone skill, and several sharp stone thorns rushed out of the ground.Its position was exactly one side of the chassis, and the entire chassis was pushed over to the other side and slammed to the ground.

"hey-hey……"

Mud Yan smiled sheepishly at Teresica, seeming a little worried that he might have gotten into trouble.

"Your Majesty, such a small combat boat...should not be able to deal with a battleship."

The shapeshifter patriarch's eyes looked at it with suspicion, but his description made Teresica feel a little weird.

"Small combat craft?"

"Isn't it? Isn't this thing with metal all over its body a battleship?"

Seeing the simple confusion of the leader of the Transformers, Teresica couldn't help but grin.

"Of course not, this is not used to deal with battleships, it is used to deal with infantry."

He said: "This thing can block most infantry attacks, and it also has extremely high mobility. Once its attack methods are produced, we will produce hundreds of them and then use them together like cavalry. What will that be like? The scene?”

There was no sound around, and Teresica continued to lead them to imagine the future, "It is small and can be hidden in the undulations of the terrain, making it difficult to be discovered by warships. Moreover, the best high-speed warship in Victoria can only reach a speed of more than 30 kilometers per hour. It But it’s a lot more! With drones, it can easily bypass warships, and then allow them to attack the enemy’s rear, destroy small fortresses and even directly attack infantry groups. In short, it cannot stop.”

"A good strategy."

The King of Scavengers pondered for a moment, nodded in agreement, but also raised a question, "Now that the shield and legs are available, when will the sword be completed? Otherwise, everything will be just a useless illusion."

"This one……"

Teresica looked sideways at Zeppelin and Alfred, "Then it depends on your efforts."

The two people suddenly felt an invisible pressure, and their expressions couldn't help but become nervous. They just couldn't produce a qualified direct-fire artillery now!

This is equivalent to the two of them dragging down the entire project.

"Your Majesty, we must complete the flat-fire experiment of the 75mm infantry gun as soon as possible."

"Don't be nervous. It's just a test product of the chassis now. There are still many things in it that need to be optimized and perfected."

Teresica comforted them, "I also know your difficulties. Once the exchanges between Ursus and us begin and the introduction of warships starts, the situation will get better. At that time, we will use Ursas' cannons Take it apart thoroughly and study it carefully.”

Chapter 170 The 5000-Kilometer March

The preliminary factory inspection of the chassis of Tractor No. 1 is over, but just shooting it with arrows a few times and then letting a magician explode it with Originium technology cannot be put into practical use with confidence. This is far from being truly qualified. Military supplies are still a long way off.

Teresica looked at Manfred aside, "Do you have any suggestions for testing this thing?"

"...Your Majesty, who is your imaginary enemy? Who do you want to use this weapon against?"

Manfred asked such a question. After thinking about it, Teresica said: "Victoria."

"If we have a war with Victoria in the future, even if we build a fleet at that time, in terms of numbers alone, once there are battle losses, the supply speed will definitely not be as fast as Victoria's. It is very likely that there will be We are fighting less and less, while the enemy is fighting more and more."

"At this time, it is particularly important to disrupt the enemy's production, and most of Victoria's territories are fixed cities, which is more conducive to our sneak attacks. But I believe you have all seen Victoria's ballistae, and our infantry is just like this There’s no benefit in rushing forward.”

Teresica pointed to the tractor chassis on the side, "With it, we don't have to worry, and we can also rely on the speed advantage to disrupt the whole country of Victoria."

"In that case...the marching distance alone will be more than 5000 kilometers."

After thinking about it, Manfred said: "Your Majesty, one of the weapons you envision is that it can be hidden in the terrain. That cannot be transported by transport ships. It can only be moved to Victoria on its own. What I just said is marching. , it still has to fight. Please tell me, can this land vehicle run so far? And the march will not stop casually. "

Feeling everyone's gaze, Gottlieb shook his head, "Your Majesty, please forgive me for my dereliction of duty. I did not consider such a long march."

"This is not your problem. You are not a professional soldier. It is inevitable that you will be influenced by the thinking of civilian equipment."

Teresica smiled and patted his shoulder, and then ordered: "Manfred, find a few officers from the cavalry corps and spell strike battalion to work together to formulate a detailed performance testing plan. Then Gottlieb You then make improvements based on their test results.”

"Yes."

Manfred and Gottlieb saluted together.

"With the exception of this landcraft, can we keep food good for a month?"

The King of Scavengers suddenly said: "Without food, I'm afraid it will have a big negative impact on the soldiers. I have experienced several long-distance marches, and to be honest, I didn't feel very good."

Without fresh food, the physical fitness of soldiers will decline during long marches, and sometimes they have to eat spoiled food, which can damage their intestines and stomach and eventually lead to non-combat attrition.Unless they plunder the refugees' supplies along the way, his Majesty probably won't allow it.

After listening to the words of the Scavenger King, Teresica nodded, "This is indeed a problem. I will try to solve it, so that's it for today."

Teresica let out a melancholy sigh. The tractor was not done well, and a very important new problem arose.

'This has to be solved!Without supplies, the Sakaz soldiers can't go far! '

"His Majesty."

There was a sudden voice next to her, and Teresica turned her head to look.

"Why didn't you leave?"

Zeppelin and Alfred were still standing here. Zeppelin said: "Your Majesty, you are too busy to report to you today. When you just mentioned the Victoria ballistae, I remembered how many we had captured and what kind of weapons we had. Got some ammo.”

"Let's go! Go and see!"

Teresica hurriedly rushed to where Zeppelin was working. He took out a few things that were close to cylinders and looked similar to Victoria's original individual crossbow.

"Your Majesty, this is Victoria's ballista, and these are the ammunition."

Teresica picked up the crossbow and looked at it. Compared with the individual crossbow, it only had a round hollow metal tube on the crossbow bed where the arrows were fired, which seemed to be used for guidance.The back half is open on both sides to allow the bowstring to move within it, while the front half is closed.

The bow string is used to position the arrow, and a tray is added to fire the ammunition.Its outer diameter is equal to the inner diameter of the guide tube. The entire ammunition is cylindrical. The lower part is equal to the inner diameter of the bullet holder, and the upper part is equal to the inner diameter of the guide tube. The tail is small and the head is large.

"Your Majesty, look."

After confirming that he had taken out the Originium battery, Zeppelin picked up the ballista and demonstrated.He pulled the bow string to the top, loaded the ammunition into the stock, then released the switch, and the stock pushed the ammunition into the end of the guide tube.Then Zeppelin pulled the trigger again, and the bowstring was released immediately, and the elastic potential energy pulled the bullet stock forward quickly.

Ignoring the bullets that fell on the ground, Zeppelin brought several more metal pipes cut in half and a torn round of ammunition.

"Your Majesty, these are the metal tubes on the ballista."

Teresica picked up one and looked at it carefully, and asked: "Zeppelin, what is in this?"

He discovered that there were some straight lines on the inside of these metal tubes. They were not grooves or ridges, but were extremely smooth.

"Your Majesty, when the Originium battery is installed, these stripes will release energy. It is also installed in the stock of the bowstring."

Zeppelin said: "Victoria's bullet is also filled with Originium propellant similar to ours. When it is loaded into the holder, it begins to be activated by Originium energy, and then accelerates forward with the help of the bowstring. While continuing to receive the Source Stone energy in the pipeline."

"This force not only continues to activate the Source Stone propellant, but also gives the ammunition itself a forward force. I have calculated that when the bullet almost reaches the mouth of the tube, its Source Stone propellant will reach the activation critical value. An explosion occurs and a projectile is fired. However, the accuracy is very poor, and the Victorians made up for the shortcomings in accuracy by firing one large projectile and several small projectiles at the same time."

"Then can we imitate it?"

Teresica asked the question she was most concerned about, to which Zeppelin shook his head regretfully, "Your Majesty, we can't understand what material those stripes are made of and what principle they operate on."

At this point, Zeppelin sighed melancholy, "We can't understand other people's things, but ours are different."

"Ok?"

Teresica felt as if Zeppelin had something to say.

"Your Majesty, this is the first time I propose to you."

Zeppelin took out a stack of documents and said, "I have given the new drone you mentioned to the mechanic to test fly. The results are quite amazing. Please take a look."

Teresica was a little surprised to hear that the new drone she described had been made so quickly, but when she thought about it, it was true that Terra already had air propellers, indicating that they knew how to provide lift.

"So, Zeppelin, what do you suggest?"

"Your Majesty, although this kind of aircraft needs to accelerate on the ground before it can take off, it is extremely fast and can easily fly out of the control range when used by a mechanic. Once out of the control range, it will fall out of control, and it is very likely that it will fall. If it is picked up by the enemy, it would be a pity for this creativity and design.”

Zeppelin said sincerely: "It should be manned like a helicopter, so that it can fully take advantage of its speed, so I hope you approve this project."

Teresica saw the last page of the report sent by Zeppelin, which included a list of various demands.But money is a trivial matter, the key is...

"Zeppelin, you already have a helicopter project, and then you have to help with an artillery project. Now add another one...can you do it?"

"Your Majesty, Victoria is also developing new weapons. Time waits for no one. If we can make these things, I will die from exhaustion in this factory. I admit it!"

The old Sakaz had a firm gaze and seemed to have made up his mind.

"Then... everything will be left to you. You can call everything you need, anything. This project will report directly to me from now on."

Teresica took out a pen and signed her name on the document.

Chapter 171 Suffering a big loss, but there is no way

In Londinium, the capital of Victoria, a secret parliament was being held in the old palace.

"Are all our people back?"

"Except for the three who died accidentally, all of them are back. The rest are not alive. Sarkaz has dealt with them all and saved us a lot of trouble."

"Very good. Without real survivors, Sakaz can't provide any substantive evidence to accuse us of participating in the Laika War."

The congressmen sitting at the conference table looked at the standing officers, with a satisfied smile on their faces.As long as there is no substantial evidence, it means that it has not been done, even if they know it well, they can only abuse Victoria, but the abuse is irrelevant.

Although the volunteers they sent to support Letania were nominally called troops under the direct control of the Parliament, they were actually just second-line troops collected from various places, and most of them were not Victoria's natives.

Nobles from all over Victoria have their own private soldiers. The Parliament has only been established for a few years, and there is not much power that can be used with confidence. How can it be used to support Letania.

"Those people... let's arrange pensions based on reasons such as training accidents and accidental explosions of arms, so that those foreigners will have no reason to cause trouble."

A man with a horn on his forehead sitting at the main seat gave these instructions to the people around him.After saying that, he turned to look at the officer in the center of the conference room. This man was an outstanding graduate of the Victoria Royal Guards School.

"So Major McDonald, let you participate in the war in Leitania. Have you discovered anything new?"

"Yes, Letania and Kazdael have expanded a new battle area, the sky."

He said: "Kazdel seems to have obtained certain artillery production technology from Ursus, and Letania also tried to use long-range formation source stone technology to attack Sarkaz in this war. Both parties At the same time, they used long-range attack methods to attack the opponent, and in order to extend the attack distance beyond the visual area, they all used drones to calibrate the attack point in real time."

"In this case, in order to disable the opponent's strike capability, the drones of the two parties competed several times for the scope of activities in the sky. The final result was that Leitania had difficulty supplying, and Kazdaele won, causing Leitania to Tania lost its long-range strike capability beyond visual sight. It was not restored until night because it could not find the drone in the sky."

After listening to his words, the members of the parliament couldn't help but start discussing. Several military representatives among them had already begun to discuss the improvement of drones.

"We will also use drones to expand our reconnaissance range, but we have never engaged in combat with other countries' drones."

"It's really not a simple thing to fight drones. There are no restrictions in the air, and the range of activities is too flexible."

"Not being able to find it at night is also a problem..."

The unicorn knocked on the table, and after the surroundings calmed down, he said: "Major McDonald, please continue."

"In addition to the sky, I also noticed something when I was marching in Leitania. Before the troops from Leitania officially set off, a small group of Kazdel's troops had already entered Leitania. They Burning fields and driving away residents has caused material shortages and high prices in many mobile cities. Without such a hand, Leitania would probably continue to fight Sakaz."

McDonald said: "At the same time, during the march of the Letanian army, Sakaz used various means to delay it, causing a lot of trouble and psychological damage. As a result, their morale was low, otherwise they would not have been able to Collapse so quickly.”

"A special small unit?"

The unicorn motioned to the military congressman on the side to write it down, and then asked: "Is there anything else you need to report?"

"No more, Mr. Speaker."

"Very well, MacDonald... Lieutenant Colonel, you have completed the task assigned to you by the council very well. Please organize these things into a detailed report. I will see it appear on my desk tomorrow morning. .”

"Yes!"

He performed a standard military salute, and there was a trace of excitement that could not be concealed between his eyebrows.

After the officer left, the unicorn looked at the surrounding MPs.

"I didn't expect Sakaz to actually master artillery technology..."

"I'm afraid it's more than that."

A man stood up before his secretary, who had just walked in, had time to leave.

"Just now, our intelligence network in Ursus sent a message that Ursus sold several destroyers and two light cruisers to Kazdel."

.........

Kazdale's ship berthing area welcomed a few new guys today, 9 destroyers and 2 light cruisers.

As soon as Leitania's financial compensation arrived, Kazdel immediately began to communicate with Ursus about purchasing ships and introducing technology.Ursus didn't regret it, but what he sold...

They are all combat ships currently in service in Ursus. In other words, they are all old guys that have been eliminated.Moreover, Ursus’ asking price is 25 billion rubles for a destroyer and 35 billion rubles for a light cruiser.

"Your Majesty, this is not a good deal."

The leader of the Transformers frowned when he looked at the price, "These are all outdated old guys, I've asked about it. A brand new light cruiser built by Ursus will not exceed 10 billion rubles, and a destroyer will be even lower." Yes, up to 7 million."

"What can we do? Will we produce military warships?"