"Carré, I heard you're good at engineering?" Colonel Todman asked coldly.

"That's right." Lin Wen nodded.

"Please follow me." Colonel Todman beckoned to Lin Wen and motioned to follow.

Lin Wen put away the package on the table, and then followed Colonel Todman out of the lakeside town hall. After walking for a while, Lin Wen found that Colonel Todman had taken him to the lumber yard at the gate of Lakeside Town, and he didn't know what was going on.

"You must be wondering why I brought you here." Colonel Todman stomped on the floor of the lumberyard and lifted a large chunk of the floor. "I don't think you have experienced a major war, and you probably don't know much about the cruelty of war. Everyone in Company B is elite, they may be able to fight ten with one, but they can't fight one against a hundred or one against ten thousand, at this time, additional weapons and equipment are very important. ”

Lin Wen followed Colonel Todman into the basement of the lumberyard, and as Colonel Todman lit the oil lamp, Lin Wen realized that there was something here.

There's actually a tank here! A scarred, rusty tank!

The tanks on the Akkara continent were first created by the dwarf tribe to make up for the defects in combat power caused by their naturally weak bodies, but for some reason, the tanks have not been popular on the Akara continent until he saw the tank in front of him, and Lin Wen didn't know what the reason was.

In fact, the reason is very simple, just two points: the armor is not thick enough, and the firepower is not strong enough.

The tank in front of you is a steam tank produced by the Gnomes 10 years ago, and it is characterized by the use of high-pressure steam to ram targets in front of you with battering rams. The tank was made entirely of cast iron, and its armament included a siege gun in addition to the ram.

It looks beautiful, but the detailed data is not so good.

First of all, the tank armor, the average armor thickness is 50mm, if it is on the earth, this thickness can still block rifle bullets, but this is the continent of Akara, as long as you go to the dark gold level, not to mention your bare hands, tearing a 50mm cast iron plate with a weapon is really no different from tearing an orange peel. Then there are the weapons, the main gun of the steam tank is a slow-moving small cannon that throws red-hot lava rock, relying mainly on the heat of the lava itself and the shock wave generated by the explosion to kill the enemy. But with the speed of this kind of cannonball, let alone a fighter officer, even ordinary people, if they run a little faster, they can dodge it perfectly, except for hitting a fixed target, Lin Wen really can't think of what use this kind of cannon can be.

"As you can see, this is a steam tank, I'm worried that Kishann will encounter an army of orcs, so there is a tank at least safe, but this tank is too badly damaged and can't be started now, so I want you to repair it." Colonel Todman said.

"It takes a lot of metal to fix this thing, do you have any materials?" Lin Wen knocked on the shell of the tank and listened carefully to what the voice said.

"Yes." Todman used a crowbar to pry open a wooden box next to him, revealing neatly stacked metal ingots inside, "These wooden boxes are full of metal, whatever you want." Todman gestured around, there were at least a dozen such boxes.

"Okay, it shouldn't take long to fix it." Lin Wen took out his dwarf saber and rubbed it out, "First of all, let me check what went wrong." ”

After a short inspection, Lin Wen found that the main problem that made the tank immobile was the tail engine, I don't know who had smashed it hard, and the engine was concave in a large piece, and many transmission parts in it were distorted and deformed, making the engine unable to run at all, coupled with disrepair, the body was rusted to death in many places. Tossing like this, it's the hell that this tank can run.

But fortunately, there is no problem with the engine itself, otherwise this tank would not be expected to work. Disassembling the back cover, Lin Wen took out the twisted and damaged transmission parts one by one, and then remade new parts with the metal stored in the basement.

Bite! Learn a new recipe - Tank Fuel Engine. The bulky power unit can produce huge output, and is suitable for installation on large engineering structures as the power core. Materials: Mithril Shell x6, Thurium Transformer x4, Precision Agin Converter x4, Mithril Tube x30, Thurium Parts x30. Note: Every 1 km travelled consumes 2 Goblin Rocket fuel.

When repairing the tank, Lin Wen also accidentally learned the engine formula of the tank, which can be regarded as an additional gain.

Filled with fuel, Lin Wen got into the tank and tried to ignite it, there was a muffled bang, the engine ignited successfully, and the tank began to tremble slightly.

"Got it?" Todman, who was dozing off a little on the side, was startled when he heard the sound of the engine ignition, and then asked in surprise.

"The engine is fixed, this thing can start." Lin Wen turned off the engine, and the awakened steel beast fell into a deep sleep again.

"Thank you very much, for your hard work, this is your reward." Todman handed over a small bag.

"Wait, who said this tank was all fixed?" To Todman's surprise, Lin Wen didn't take the bag, "You expect this thing to be able to withstand the Orc army?" It's literally a mobile coffin. ”

The performance of the steam tank in the past did not disappoint Lin Wen's evaluation, it was indeed a large moving iron coffin, more than 80% of the tanks were destroyed with people during the Demon Spirit War, and the survival rate of the tank crew was less than 20%. And the tank kill rate is not even 10% of the average cavalry unit.

This makes a tank synonymous with a waste of resources, after all, it costs enough metal to make a tank to arm several cavalry regiments. So the tank was a flash in the pan during the Demon Wars and then disappeared, and not only that, but it was also labeled as a loser.

However, Lin Wen, who has the knowledge of modern warfare, is sure to reverse this situation.

"I don't know much engineering, if you have a good idea, just do it, I can provide the materials." Todman said, spreading his hands.

"Since you say so...... Lin Wen touched his chin, and suddenly had an idea, and then found a paper and a pen to write down the names of a few materials. There are not many of them, so I hope to find them soon. ”

"No problem." Todman looked at the note and nodded.

The three most important indicators of a tank are power, protection, and firepower. And the tank in front of me is rubbish except for the power that is barely qualified. Tattered armor and artillery don't give a person the slightest sense of security, and driving this thing into battle is a death. But there's no time to change armor right now, but it's still possible to make a new vehicle weapon. When the enemy does not have a strong ranged force, firepower is more important than protection.