Although the newborn steam tank brought a problem from the womb, just as the appearance of the ironclad ship on the sea made the original wooden battleship that galloped the seven seas into a product of the times in an instant, the steam tank will sooner or later win the throne of the king of land warfare, but when that day actually comes, it will require more patience and effort than expected.

The large tank with a tall and powerful appearance and a strong temperament is a bit old-world steampunk-style powered by a steam engine, but it is not coal-burning, and the difficulty of finding a coal mine in the new world where geological activity is very inactive is almost the same as finding a gold mine, and Luo Zhengdao does not have the leisure to conduct a mineral resource survey.

The calorific value of combustion provided by ordinary wood is too low to expect a tank charge ahead, followed by a bunch of panting infantrymen carrying sacks of firewood ready to be thrown into the hearth of the tank's boiler, right? Even if you look at it horizontally and vertically, it's inevitably too unreliable. The rich biodiversity of the New World provides more choice, and in the vast sea of stars, oleucoma wood is a relatively common tree species. The resin-rich wood of this low tree is hard and wear-resistant, and it is easy to find a mature tree, but despite all these advantages, it cannot be used as a ship timber, or even as furniture, and is only worthy of fire in the eyes of carpenters.

After cutting and dehydrating, the logs of the oil tumor will quickly split into irregularly shaped hard nodules in the natural direction of fibrous growth, which can be compared to the old world elm lumps as a useless building material.

Accustomed to be called waste wood, in addition to the effect of burning fire, only a few wood carvers will appreciate it, because the wood contains a lot of resin, the wood is very resistant to insects, the gloss is also very good, suitable for carving into small ornaments and handicrafts. The amount of burning heat produced by the same weight of oil tumor wood is roughly ten times that of ordinary firewood, and the high calorific value of oil tumor wood can come in handy in places such as steam tanks with limited internal space capacity.

In any case, Luo Zhengdao is not extravagant enough to use the remaining part of the heavy oil from refined naphtha as fuel, and the chemical industry, which is already waiting to be fed, is still waiting for crude oil extract to be used as a raw material! No matter how low the added value that the chemical industry can produce, it is much higher than directly burning, so he can't do the behavior of the loser.

Humans are physically weak and have limited strength, and prolonged and brutal combat can cause mental exhaustion and pain in human spirits, and even professional warriors cannot compete with demons and demons who treat killing and death as if they were breathing air. Therefore, trying to mix human armies into a bloody war is not so much overconfidence as a problem with the brain. The Steam Tank replaced the muscles of a human soldier with enough steam power, replaced the sword with cannons and machine guns, and replaced the heavy plate armor that required the soldier to use his own flesh and blood to carry the heavy plate armor with two and a half inches thick wrought iron armor plates.

The natives of the New World did not know what mechanized warfare was, but this did not prevent them from seeing the glorious future of steam tanks, because steel means great power, and the larger the caliber of artillery, the closer it is to justice, and this value is still quite universal.

"That's amazing! With such thick armor, Barlow Flame Demon can't split it with a sword! ”

Zola Hegel, who was about to command the armored troops on the front line, excitedly stroked the front armor plate of the steam tank, and his affectionate posture was no less than caressing the delicate skin of his first love, and his eyes revealed obsession and yearning, obviously about to be intoxicated.

The team of engineers who led the development of the project was not so optimistic, and Jerry Hartman, who was the leader, pushed his myopic glasses and said:

"Well, exactly, the main armor limited to the frontal part can do it. The top of the tank was strengthened with a special alchemy process, and additional stiffeners were welded, but the output of the steam engine was insufficient, so we could only reduce the weight from non-essential positions, and the defense was ...... Hehehehe, you can't build a steel bunker that can't be moved, that will make the enemy laugh to death. ”

Luo Zhengdao, who has an eye on the bright future, does not care how poor the performance of the current tank is, and says very firmly:

"We need more tanks, what is the production now?"

"Optimistic estimates, twenty vehicles per month."

Hearing the sound, Luo Zhengdao immediately shook his head like a rattle, and said in a loud voice:

"Not enough, it's not enough at all. I need more tanks, you subcontract all the non-classified parts and components for production, what I need now is maximum production. ”

"But...... That would reduce the reliability of the steam tank. ”

As soon as he heard this, Luo Zhengdao was unhappy again, pulled down his face and said:

"If we don't have enough tanks, what to take to face demons and devils? Do you use garlic juice? ”

In the natural world of the Old World, wolves were near-perfect predators, and they were able to occupy the top of the food chain pyramid, rather than relying on the individual combat power of each wolf. In fact, lone wolves are easy prey to other predators, and wolves work together as a team to outwhelm other larger competitors with a colony advantage. From a certain point of view, there are many similarities between the use of armored forces and the survival tactics of wolf packs of predators, without a sufficient number of tanks to form an assault group, coupled with the follow-up infantry and other support forces, the tank is only an ordinary weapon on the battlefield. Only the qualitative change causes the qualitative change, and the armor clusters that roll like a torrent of steel are the nightmares that can trigger a sense of fear in the depths of the enemy's soul.

At this time, Brando Scarlet, who had been silent, suddenly interjected and said:

"Your Majesty, when are we going to start moving?"

"Well, be patient and gather strength, and wait for the opportunity to come until we are ready for war on the Main Continent. When the opportunity comes, whether you have the ability to seize it or just watch it slip away is key. ”

As he spoke, Luo Zhengdao, who turned his head, continued to Brando Scarlet Yan:

"How's the Chishui battle effect?"

Commander Scarlet, who couldn't help but sigh, seemed to be in a bad mood, and said:

"Alright! I was about to say this, the attitude of the devil and the devil is so arrogant that even if we are willing to buy human slaves with other benefits, they will not transfer, those bastard shit bitches raised fart. Eye ......"

The barrage of swear words that would make even a rude docker blush is enough to prove how irritated Brando Scarlet is, and his outstanding talent outside of diplomacy can even be said to be as remarkable as his amorous nature, and the ability to talk to people and talk nonsense is not something that anyone can have.

Dealing with some creatures in the lower planes who never pay attention to trust, and taking on such a suicidal task as an ordinary person, it is estimated that you will be scared to death directly on the way. However, even the skillful Brando personally lobbied, and even if he ran out of saliva, he could not convince any of the participants in the bloody war to hand over the human fugitive slaves who were detained in the war zone to the Kingdom of Light, as Luo Zhengdao expected. That's too much.

Anyway, there are no outsiders here, and leaving aside those foolish words and flowery rhetorical embellishments, Brando frankly and angrily told Sù Luo Zhengdao that the fundamental reason is that the strength of the human race is too poor, far from enough to sit at the same negotiating table with demons and devils, and the other party looks down on them, so naturally there is nothing to talk about in this matter.

The so-called diplomatic activities are, to put it bluntly, the use of force to bring the opponent to its knees, and to negotiate with words before using force to bring the opponent to its knees. The so-called truth is only within the range of artillery, if you can't get something on the battlefield, in fact, you don't have to expect to get it at the negotiating table, so the old world suffered China will give birth to the classic saying "weak countries have no diplomacy".

Of course, when the strength is not good, you have to lower your head and endure the anger of the moment, press the anger in your heart, avoid unnecessary armed conflicts, and know that you can't beat the opponent and still have to be stronger, that's called 2x!

Taoguang is certainly a clever way to buy time to develop strength, but everything is inevitably a mixed bag, and pretending to be a grandson, like many things, will have potential inertia. Once you get used to pretending to be a grandson when you have something to do, or even faintly pretending to be a little sadistic, then no matter what time it is, you can only accept your fate as a grandson if you have the strength to do it or not.

Luo Zhengdao groaned for a moment, clenched his fists and said:

"It's time for the ignorant world to know the power of science, and that science can do it not only with arcane and divine magic that can bring about a revolutionary leap in power."

On the coastline of the main continent, the hazy sea fog could no longer hide the figure of the attacker, and those black outlines were approaching the beachhead from far and near. Compared to the electromagnetic cannon and laser weapons, the overall technology of the steam tank is barely on the level of the old world in the late nineteenth century, and compared to the new world around the time of the Industrial Revolution, this weapon has announced a change in the rules of the battlefield, and ordinary soldiers armed with swords and spears will not be able to compete with armored fighting vehicles.

"Start attacking!"

At the command of Zora Hegel, eighty-four steam tanks with gray smoke from their tail chimneys drove directly from the bow gangplanks of a dozen dock landing ships into chest-deep murky water.

These new weapons lived up to the general rule that new things must fall off the chain, and after launching into the water, six tanks were put into the exhaust pipe or engine room on the spot, and the rest of the tanks struggled through the shallows to launch the first wave of attacks on the area where the demons were entrenched.

Confrontation of too powerful forces will destroy the stability of the world, and even if there are no defenders of the new world like Gaia, they will not be able to find a heroic spirit, but the problem is that when the whole world consciousness blows a headwind against those who wreak havoc out of the instinct of self-preservation, the consequences are also extremely terrifying. For example, the old-world horror film "The Grim Reaper is Coming" is a good demonstration of what a person can hang up in minutes, and when the world begins to have a fierce backlash against those provocateurs, the specific implementation of the plan will be countless times more terrifying than the little tricks against ignorant mortals. Even shocking situations such as the fall of celestial bodies, the collapse of the elements, and the division of continents will still emerge, and it is better not to provoke and provoke the consciousness of the world without the consciousness of death.

The high-end war between the Demon Card Master and the Aragami that broke out a long time ago, although the cause was almost child's play, if it didn't end in the end of both sides, the victor side who was lucky enough to overwhelm the opponent was likely to face the final judgment of the survival instinct of the whole world, and it was certain that no one could make a mistake without having to pay the price.