Chapter 1095 New Results
From a monarch’s perspective, Zhou Xu’s ideas may not be consistent with Qin Fen’s as a research and development staff member.
Obviously, Qin Fen was smart enough and he knew the answer from the beginning.
It is indeed very tempting to skip the steam engine directly and use the characteristics of fire crystal to directly solve most of the technical problems and create an internal combustion engine.
But the question is how much fire crystal is produced?
Not to mention the storage capacity of fire spar, due to the special mining environment, mining workers cannot work in fire spar mines for a long time, which results in the production of fire spar not being able to increase at this stage.
Under this premise, you use limited fire crystals to develop internal combustion engines.
Let’s skip directly to ‘Can the research and development be successful? ’, ‘How much money and time do we need to invest in research and development? ’ and other questions, just assume that the fire crystal internal combustion engine has been successfully developed.
How many ships can you build with it? How many cars?
If this were an ordinary world, if 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, attacks from Hundred Refining Realm warriors may not pose much of a threat, but it is hard to say that in the King Kong Realm.
As for the extraordinary mage and the holy mage, it is even harder to say, it depends on what kind of mantra spell they have.
Even if he is a holy mage, if he only has the ability to control skeleton soldiers, he will definitely not be able to deal with the armored vehicle.
In comparison, if Zhou Xu invested all his limited fire crystals in the manufacture of enchanted weapons.
Even when the control problem of the enchanted attack of the 'Red Flame Saber' has not yet been solved, he can still form an ace force with terrifying explosive power!
It’s hard to imagine what troops can withstand that level of attack!
To put it simply, Qin Fen’s proposal is not cost-effective in Zhou Xu’s eyes.
In his opinion, oil-burning internal combustion engines are obviously more cost-effective, and it will be cheaper to develop new energy sources in the future.
As for using fire crystal...
How much does he have in hand? No stupid son of a landlord would do this!
If the production of fire crystals can be greatly increased in the future, or if they find a more suitable ore, they can consider it then.
Now, this issue is beyond his consideration.
After Qin Fen left, Zhou Xu, who had taken a light nap, walked out of the palace gate in the afternoon and rushed towards the testing site outside the city.
“We see your Majesty!”
"Everyone is free of charge!"
After signaling everyone to be free of charge, the test began directly, and a large vehicle-shaped device was quickly pushed into the venue.
This instrument is somewhat similar to the three-bow bed crossbow. The difference is that there is a large spoon on the back of this instrument.
Needless to say, what is advancing at this time is a catapult!
Zhou Xu had never been interested in catapults before.
When it comes to destroying the city, he has a three-bow bed crossbow that can directly blow up the opposite city gate.
As for targeting enemy troops, although the three-bow bed crossbow does not have the ability to quickly kill enemy troops, the catapult is not much better.
How many people can be killed by a huge boulder? Isn't he less efficient?
Obviously, he is not bad, so there is no need to waste manpower and material resources to develop this. But with the development of explosive barrels, the catapult was suddenly given a whole new meaning.
Like the hot air balloon, its value has been reflected due to the emergence of the explosive barrel.
However, since their catapult was not intended to be used for throwing stones at all, the name catapult seems a bit inappropriate, and may even make people who don’t know this thing feel... baffling.
In this way, Zhou Xu changed its name to a blasting vehicle! Mainly focused on blasting enemies everywhere.
In order to make it easier to throw, he planned to make all the explosive barrels for explosive vehicles into spherical shapes and call them explosive bombs. In this way, the name is very appropriate.
However, at this time, due to transportation problems of raw materials, there is not enough gunpowder for them to use.
Therefore, the research and development team only filled the explosive bombs with enough weight of gravel to simulate the state of the explosive bombs being filled with gunpowder to conduct effective range testing.
According to their current technology in Dazhou, it is not difficult to build such a device.
Zhuang Mengdie doesn't even need to take over this project. She just holds the position of 'R&D consultant' here, asking the project team to ask her if they don't understand anything about the research, and she does it herself. None have been here.
The whole test went very smoothly. The project team has already had the specific data. Their main purpose now is to let His Majesty himself confirm it with his own eyes.
“A small demolition vehicle, the effective range is almost three hundred meters.”
Due to the spherical shape of the explosive bomb, it will bounce and roll around after landing, so it is quite troublesome to get accurate data.
But it doesn't matter. When the time comes to load it with serious explosive bombs, it will also cause area damage when it explodes. This range error is insignificant.
Under this premise, if there are small demolition vehicles, then naturally there are also large demolition vehicles.
This is undoubtedly what Zhou Xu means.
To put it bluntly, 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 small demolition vehicles, another style is the 'city defense demolition vehicle'.
Just like its name, it is mainly used for city defense warfare.
Compared with small demolition vehicles, city defense demolition vehicles are much larger, standing there like a tower.
The biggest difference between the two is that the small demolition vehicle has wheels installed on it and can follow the troops to a large extent.
The city defense demolition vehicle does not have the ability to move and is basically equivalent to a fixed fort in city defense warfare.
But in exchange, its effective range is almost five hundred meters!
Zhou Xu is still very satisfied with this result.
After seeing it, he felt that there should be four city defense demolition vehicles behind every city wall in their city.
As for more, it’s not necessary.
Although the objects thrown are different, it is still essentially a catapult. It also has many of the shortcomings of a catapult.
It can only attack enemies within the distant attack range. If the enemy is too close, it will also become unable to attack the enemy due to the attack angle.
So, within a specific range, just give the enemy a proper blow and reduce the enemy's strength. Don't expect it to hit the whole field, or end the battle in one wave, no. Reality.
(End of this chapter)