Guided long-range attack weapons have been used by elves tens of thousands of years ago, and modern guided rockets have existed for more than 400 years, but they have never broken through the technical bottleneck of ultra-long range.

Longer-range homing missiles are not a new idea, and this world is by no means unthinkable. But most people who have thought this way over the long history of steam have proven to be whimsical.

Historically, at the suggestion of generals and knights, mechanics have tried to amplify the guided projectile. However, simply enlarging the volume will either blow up on the ground, or make an arc in the sky, and even fly back in a circle. In the end, the generals and knights, faced with the results of the experiment, could only give up on this idea.

Binghe flipped through these situations back then, and almost covered his stomach and burst into laughter: the mechanic dealt with the big noble upper family, and directly enlarged the rocket. Small rockets are enlarged into large rockets, no gyroscopes are added, no complex electrical control systems are added, and nozzle high-temperature resistant materials are not developed. There is no research on high-thrust gunpowder.

The mechanics themselves made samples, and then summed up the authoritative conclusion of the mechanics: "Ultra-long-range guided rockets can't be made." What is made is dangerous and defective", which made the knights and fortresses who had ideas in history have to give up in a stupid way.

【Steam Calendar 1025 / September 3rd / Night / Vikla City, Duchy of Oakleigh】

For the first time on the Western Continent, a fortress based on the mechanical controller profession. The mechanic birth fortress uses a large number of long-range guided rockets with a range of more than thirty kilometers.

There are a total of 27 warheads, and the farthest target of the warheads is 54 kilometers away, and the average strike distance is 17 kilometers. Twenty-seven ultra-long-range warheads were all launched safely, not a single volley exploded, none of them failed to control the rudder in the air, and in the end, the eccentric distance of all strikes did not exceed 10 meters. Someone later got the inscription on the missile: Gun flame nuclear self-acting arrow

The result is simply a reproduction of a modern fable of the earth:

Before the yield rate of 99.9% of the parachutes of a certain manufacturer of the US military in World War II became 100%. The manufacturer also (seriously and professionally) explained: "Unless there is a miracle, the product qualification rate cannot be 100%." ”

However, after a change of detection method, a miracle happened.

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On the road west of Oakley, a horseman in a straw hat drove a horse-drawn carriage at a rapid pace. Sutar sat quietly in the carriage dressed as a civilian, taking advantage of the darkness to flee. The fourteen-year-old was looking out of his car, and the streets were full of Oakley military police.

Due to a severe lack of information, Souttar's mistaken belief that the Oakleys tried to put him under house arrest in order to coerce Bix into a great power political strife. But he did not expect at all: this decision to flee in plainclothes and keep Bix away from the conflict of great powers happened to fall into the conspiracy of another great power.

The clothes of ordinary people concealed their aristocratic status and facilitated the escape, but this was based on the fact that the Oka people were genuinely helping Suta escape. It's a pity that this foundation didn't hold up in the first place. Suta's current plainclothes just left him without the protection of his noble status, which was the most vulnerable to plotting in a chaotic situation. And once he encounters an accident, it is quite valuable for some countries.

Suta's hand quietly grasped the corner of his coat, and he looked out the window at the chaotic scene, and beside him was the knight who came with him from Bix, who was still loyal. The Oka people also did not think of bribing Suta's knight of the guards, the whole plan was just to take advantage of the knight's ignorance of the situation.

The knight had been leaning against the window, when he suddenly tilted his ear in one direction, and then activated the sound collection technique, and a palm-sized ring of light appeared on his ear. After activating the perceptual refinement of the Sounding Technique, the knight's face changed drastically.

Suta, who was on the side, asked, "Knight, what's wrong?" Did something happen? ”

Knight of the Blade Rail: "Your Highness, a large cavalry contingent has appeared eight hundred meters on the left, numbering more than two hundred, and their direction of travel is our side. ”

A hint of panic flashed across Suta's face: "Then what should I do?" ”

He habitually turned his head to find Binghe on the side, but when he turned his head, he found that Binghe was not by his side.

Suta could only bow his head, gritted his teeth and made up his mind, and said silently in his heart: "I can't fall into their hands and embarrass my father." Suta looked up, just about to give the knight some order.

The knight suddenly looked up, as if he had heard something new.

However, before Suta could continue to ask, the knight suddenly grabbed Suta and jumped out of the car, pinning Suta to the ground, blocking him with his own body. This is the action of dodging shells.

At this time, the whistling sound in the sky became louder and louder, and then, the screaming sound swept over the heads of the two of them and fell directly in front of the cavalry team that came to intercept six or seven hundred meters away.

All I heard was a loud explosion.

In the light of the explosion, the green gas expanded to the surroundings with a strong shock wave, and the green smoke-like gas washed over the grass and trees on the ground like a stream of water. Spread near the ground. In such an open area, chlorine gas is not very lethal, and the most adverse effects on soldiers are coughing and discomfort for several hours.

Chlorine warfare during World War I was fought with the help of weather and wind, which made chlorine gas form a wall of fog on the ground, flooding the opposing position, making it impossible for soldiers to escape. Soldiers drowning in poison gas will strafe the enemy's machine guns in the trenches if they run in front of them without any cover, and the wind blows in this direction when they run to the rear.

At this time, it was not so cruel, Binghe's rocket did not hit the center of the cavalry group, and the target of the rocket landing was the open space between the cavalry and Suta. The purpose of Bing Nuclear is only to create chaos. Now 200 percent of this goal has been achieved.

Oakley's cavalry had never encountered such a blow, and their horses had never seen such a scene, and the smoke expanded to cover the cavalry queue passing by, and the cavalry formation suddenly exploded.

This is just a semi-feudal and semi-modern army, which is being attacked by an evil attack that falls from the sky for unknown reasons, not to mention a feudal army, and even the modern army is not much better at first glance, I am afraid it is not much better. For the first time in World War I, Germany was confronted with the black history of tanks: a company of German soldiers was captured by a tank that broke down in a village.

The evil that fell from heaven caused the cavalry to abandon the horses that had been frightened by the chlorine smoke, and they ran and scattered, and the rockets did not kill a single person, but the bombing camp caused a large number of injuries.

Although the commander of the high-ranking soldier profession shouted "steady, maintain order, withdraw" and raised his horsewhip to ask the soldiers to return, it was to no avail.

The chiefs could only look at the chaos with red eyes, tears and anger - their tears were smoked with chlorine.

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After the explosion of a gas bomb

The Knight of the Blade Bar looked up at the clouds rising in the distance and the chaotic sounds of men and horses, his expression uncertain. When Suta tried to push him away, he reacted and quickly got up to help Suta up.

Even the grass clippings and the dirt didn't care about the beating, and the two looked into the distance together. Then they realized something, turned their heads and looked around, and saw that there were a lot of cloud pillars in the sky dragged by rockets. , and this rocket strike in front of it did not appear in isolation, it seems to have taken place everywhere in Vikra. The knight said, "Your Highness, with the current situation, something big may happen to Vikla. We're going to get out of here. ”

Suta nodded, acquiescing to the Blade Rider's suggestion. And the groom, who realized that the two had jumped out of the car, also drove back.

However, a few minutes later, when the two returned to the carriage, a mechanical bird, after circling in the sky, descended from the sky. The knight guarding Suta tried to knock down the rapidly descending mechanical bird with his firearms, but Suta stopped him.

Sutar recognized it, it was made by Binghe, and gave the order for the knight to take a look at the mechanical bird.

Instead of going directly to the landed mechanical bird, the knight picked open the parts of the mechanical bird with his sword, made sure there were no explosives, and picked up the paper roll inside.

On the paper scroll were very fine maps, on which there was even an hour earlier the arrangement of the Oka army in the area, as well as the general direction of its movement. There are also multiple routes. Each route is marked with a plan to deal with the current situation.

At the bottom of the plan, Binghe wrote: "If the person who saw this letter was the Knight of the Blade Fence beside Suta, I solemnly warn you that Okka's plot to take advantage of Oakley's arrogance and create an attack on His Highness Sutar has gone bankrupt. It's not clear to me where you stand in it. If you are still guarding His Highness Sutar, then it will be impossible for His Highness Sutar to be attacked by the Oakley people in full view of everyone! Next, you are Suta's sole reliant, and it is your duty to protect him for the sake of the family's glory. ”

Since Binghe didn't know whether the blade fence had been bought by the Oka people, he could only tell him in a subtle tone that the Oka people's plan had failed.

Bing Nu's hypothesis is that the bribed blade fence Hu wants to experiment and continue to carry out the plan in favor of the Oka people, and there is no possibility of clearing the suspicion.

Binghe thought of several blades to participate in the assassination of Suta, and then clear his suspicions.

For example, in the current situation, the knight of the blade bar assassinated Suta, and then made a sign of fake death, incognito, which is the way to clear the active service. Because Oka has lowered the bottom line of Xinyi to the extreme, in this aristocratic society without promise, Binghe now has a trace of suspicion about this knight.

Therefore, Binghe mentioned in the letter: "I will visit the Grand Duke Bickers again in the future." ”

It means that if Suta dies, Binghe will run over and talk to Archduke Bix about it.

The family of the blade bar is a family of knights who have served the fortress for generations, and they are the cronies of the Archduke of Bix. And if there is a suspicion of betrayal, there is no need for evidence at all, and he will be kicked out of the circle of power by the Grand Duke.

And the entire circle of the upper nobility will convey this dishonor. This dishonorable end is the same as the record of theft and imprisonment on the resume of modern people.

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The knight of the blade bar looked at the letter, at first he was very surprised by the style of the letter, and then after a while, he reacted to the meaning of the letter, his face suddenly turned red, as the guardian knight of the fortress family, he reacted that his loyalty was doubted, and Bing's suspicion was a serious humiliation for a knight.

And this humiliation cannot be refuted, and others will have such suspicions, precisely because of his own stupid behavior.

The knight recalled the previous situation, figured out everything in an instant, and then stared at the groom like a beast. This groom was hired temporarily by the Otas and is said to be familiar with the escape routes in the Vikra region.

Two hours ago, the knight was in a state of nervousness, and he didn't expect the Oka man's discipline to be so low. So there is no prevention at all.

And now, after seeing the fierce scrutiny of the knight, the groom's face immediately showed a look of panic, and the groom wanted to pull something out of his waist, but the knight quickly approached the knight, grabbed his neck and removed his chin.

Then the blade bar groped around the groom's waist and found a pistol of a very small caliber. The guns were even poisoned.

This gun is the prop that is planned to be prepared to mend the knife against Suta in the midst of chaos.

Blade Rail examined his mouth, and immediately stretched out his fingers to pull the suicide pill from the groom's mouth, and then put his chin on it, and the knight roared and asked, "Tell me who sent you." ”

There seemed to be a deep hatred in the eyes of the blade bar, and the motivation he got from the groom now was not to find out anything, but to force the confession of this goods in front of Suta, and to clarify his innocence in front of Suta.

Thinking of the Captain Oka (median occupation) who was drinking with him a few days ago, he secretly deducted this basin for himself and his family. The betrayed Blade Knights are now furious.

Enraged, the blade couldn't find the Captain Oka and poured fire on the groom.

The knight crushed the groom's fingers. Then he grabbed his throat to prevent him from screaming, and then connected his chin to ask for a confession.

And Suta, who was on the side, sighed with emotion after reading Binghe's letter. Suta's gaze looked into the distance of the machine factory, where huge columns of smoke unfolded across the sky like a multi-headed dragon with teeth and claws, enveloping Vikla.

Retracting his gaze, Sutar folded the letter, then pressed the crease with his fingernails, sliding and squeezing it.

Then, with a tear, Sutar tore the beginning of the letter neatly along the folded and squeezed straight line and set it on fire.

Suta doesn't burn the note. In the future, the contents of this note will be circulated in case they are circulated. Then the knight of the blade bar can never explain the gossip of the outside world

And standing in Suta's position, the blade bar does not need to explain the gossip outside, but only needs to explain it to himself with the next actions.

The Knight of the Blade Fence watched as Sutar was throwing his head down and kicking the flames on the ground, his eyes showing a touch of trust.

After stepping on the flames, Suta raised his head and said to the knight of the blade as if he was fine, "Knight, let's go to Roland's legation. As he spoke, Suta handed the map to the blade bar. The next thing to do is the knight's business.

Binghe marked a number of routes and plans for Suta on the map, and he could choose to flee directly from the country or take refuge in the neutral legation.

But the reason why Suta chose to return to the embassy was because the matter was too big this time, and Suta was a little worried.

Because Suta didn't know about tonight's scene, Binghe did all this with the domain, and only knew that Binghe was the mechanical controller. A mechanical controller is not yet qualified to provoke the entire Vikra. Seeing Binghe get out of here, Sutar felt uneasy.

The knight of the barricade did not spare the groom, he removed the groom's joints, tied it firmly, and stuffed a rag in his mouth to prevent him from biting his tongue and committing suicide. Then tuck under the chair railing of the carriage. In the eyes of the knight of the blade, this living tongue must not die on his hands. (Once the groom is killed by the blade fence himself, he is suspected of murder.) ）

The knight handed the pistol at his waist to Sutar in the carriage, telling him to stay on his toes.

However, Suta took the pistol and looked at it, and without hesitation, he immediately shot the groom.

In the knight's astonishment, Suta explained: "Throw it away, even if you confront him back, the Oka people have a thousand ways to deny it, and if he spreads rumors, my knight, if your reputation is seriously injured by such a villain, it will be too worthless." "Subtext: I trust you, and I will protect your reputation.

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As Suta had seen, the rocket launch plume was so wanton and in vain.

Today, the coordinates of the aiming and striking of nuclear rockets are also arrogant and presumptuous to the extreme.

While the Grand Justice of Oakleigh was enjoying a dinner in the fort's dining room.

The gilded porcelain and ceramic lamps on the table were placed on the table as the grand justice prepared to put a piece of ruddy roasted venison in his mouth.

There was a loud bang, the porcelain on the table fell to the ground in a tremor, and the candles went out with a bang. All the stained-glass windows shattered in the shockwave, and the hand holding the fork shook slightly, and the Grand Duke of Oakley's mouth was cut by the fork, and a trace of blood oozed from the corner of his mouth.

And outside the window, it was already a mess, all the flowers in the flower bed were blown away, and the pungent green gas filled the garden in the center of the fortress. And the Grand Duke of Oakley sat on the chair with a blue and white face, looking highly calm from beginning to end, and even the action of holding the dinner knife did not change, but the joints of his palms turned white because of the clenching.

In stark contrast to the Grand Duke's calm and composure, those servants who squatted down in panic, who usually paid attention to their demeanor, behaved very badly at this time.

The knight-born duke looked coldly at the scattered glass shards and the panicked rats in the hall hidden under the tables, chairs and benches, the grand duke turned around and walked towards the door without saying a word, picked up his coat and hat, and even straightened his hat very carefully, and walked out of the hall with sonorous and powerful steps.

The damage to the Grand Duke of Oakleigh was not significant, it was just a destruction of a flower bed, all the glass windows were destroyed by the blast wave, and the choking gas only took a few hours to dissipate.

However, a few minutes later, the Grand Duke received a report from the whole city on the phone

Note: There are telephones in the city of Vikla, but there are no more than 100 numbers, and these numbers can only be dialed within the city, and the calls are forwarded by a dedicated operator.

In the ringing of the phone

Archduke Oakley, who picked up the phone again and again, went from annoyance to astonishment.

Many important sectors of the city have been attacked. There have been no clear reports of injuries, but various departments in the city are in a panic.

And since the residence of the Grand Duke was also attacked, a large number of rumors appeared in the city, and even rumors that the Grand Duke of Oakley had died, and various departments were calling the Grand Duke of Oakleigh to try to confirm the situation.

Faced with this situation, the Archduke of Oakley could only stay in the telephone room, holding a gold-inlaid telephone receiver and establishing contact with various departments.

The Grand Duke commanded the gendarmes of the entire city to maintain order all night.

The whole of Vikra entered the highest state of martial law, and it is strictly forbidden to spread rumors. At the same time, all the troops in the vicinity of Oakley were ordered to return to the camp and stand by and be on standby, and all military posts were strictly on standby, and if anyone approached, they would be killed.

The reason why the Grand Duke was the first to order the troops to restrain the troops, instead of transferring the troops to the chaotic city.

That's because the army is semi-feudal, and the semi-feudal army has no ideological creed to self-restraint. In the case of no prefect watching, in a chaotic city, it is normal to rob a robbery, turn a woman, and kill a person.

And more importantly, under this feudal system of power. In the midst of the chaos, if the troops of any political faction entered the city and took the Archduke of Oakleigh to the end. Then take the opportunity to profit from the greater chaos, and the consequences will be even more serious.

Back in time, the rocket has just finished launching.

On the roof of the second floor of the factory, Binghe watched the bombs falling in the sky and the explosions in the distance, and made sure that all the rockets were delivered accurately. Binghe put away his palm, and the brilliant light cone and light projection map in his palm disappeared with it. Binghe slowly turned around and looked directly at Peso, not paying any attention to the knife that Peso was pressing against him.

When he turned around, he was a little flustered, and he strengthened his knife against Bingnu. But it didn't work in the slightest. Binghe turned around unconcernedly, and the knife also cut his back slightly, and the red oozed from the point where the tip of the knife had been cut. Under Binghe's gaze after turning around, Peso didn't dare to look at each other, so he could only take a few steps back, and the sharp knife also broke away from the touch of Binghe. Only a half-inch hole was left on Binghe's body, which was quickly repaired under the action of an eraser.

Bing Nu stared at the peso, and at the same time, his body was rapidly switching between the internal law vein system.

Binghe smiled cynically: "Now that the rocket has been released, Oakley will switch to a defensive posture in the next few hours." You say now we are withdrawing? Or stay and plead guilty to the Grand Duke of Oakleigh? ”

Peso was stunned for a few seconds before he thought about it, and after he exhaled, he calmed down and said slowly: "Now, of course, I'm taking you away." ”

Peso looked at Binghe, and there was a hint of pleading in his tone: "Ronggang, follow me back to Oka." Peso slowly removed the knife that was originally pointing at Bing Core and replaced it with a flat lift.

Binghe looked at Peso and slowly asked rhetorically, "I, can I still go back to Oka?" At this time, Binghe, who was dragging on time, began to debug and switch to the magic vein, and on the magic vein light bar on the back of his hand, one by one light points were jumping rapidly.

Hearing Binghe's rhetorical question, Peso smiled as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw and said: "Of course, the people in the imperial capital are wrong, they are blind, after you go back, I really want to see how stunned they look when they see you." ”

However, Binghe shook his head slowly, and the smile on Peso's face stiffened.

Binghe explained: "The destruction of faith is simple, but if it is erected, it is very difficult. ”

Peso took a deep breath, lowered his voice and said in extreme disappointment: "You really don't go with me?" ”

Binghe did not speak.

Peso roared like a red-eyed gambler, "Then I can't help you." As he spoke, Peso raised his knife and tried to knock Bing Nuke with the back of the knife.

However, just as the back of the peso's knife was about to fall to Bingnu's neck. Binghe suddenly squatted down and flashed over. Quickly reaching out, he grabbed the peso's hand and twisted it suddenly. Skimmed the peso's arm to the back. The knife in Peso's hand had fallen off because his wrist and arm had been restrained.

This is a very beautiful grappling move, as if it has been practiced a thousand times. As soon as Peso tried to resist, he received a heavy elbow blow to his neck, and his body suddenly went limp.

Facing the muddy peso that he was beaten by himself, Binghe whispered: "Your breathing is unsteady, and your moves are too full and complete, and you have no spare strength to control." This is a big no-no in hand-to-hand combat. ”

Peso was in a hurry, and he didn't realize that Binghe had such a high explosive ability, and his ability didn't come into play at all.

Binghe took out metal handcuffs from his waist, the thick kind, and cuffed his two hands behind his back.

Then Binghe dragged him downstairs, pushed out a motorcycle, and tied him to the back seat, which had a pole in the back seat of the motorcycle, just enough to lock him. The two then fled the scene.

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Twenty minutes later,

A detachment of Oakley's cavalry quickly arrived at the scene of the incident.

The knight in charge of leading the team jumped off his horse. Jumped into the train compartment.

The black leather boots stomped on the iron roof of the car, making a clanging sound.

In the white smoke that gradually dissipated, the knight saw the firing tubes on the carriage that looked like fountains of steam. The white mist in the launch tube is hydrochloric acid smoke and has not yet dissipated.

The knight crouched down, reached out and took the crowbar from the soldier below, and scratched it inside the launch tube. After scraping the crowbar over the pipe wall, pinch the pipe wall material scraped by the crowbar with your fingers and place it on the tip of your nose. Trying to figure out with the sense of smell what type of gunpowder weapon this is.

While the knight was pondering and judging. The soldiers below noticed it and immediately shouted to the captain.

They found a letter from the driver's compartment at the front of the train. The knight, who jumped out of the carriage, read the letter and handed the whip to the adjutant beside him.

The white-gloved knight unpacks the letter.

The letter reads as follows: "Archduke Oakleigh himself:

I'm in the middle of a gun. In the year 1024 of the steam calendar, Mu the world's industrial development and travel in various countries. Today, I have arrived in your country with the Chosen King.

Bickers had no intention of dwelling on the trip to choose the king, but he was caught in a whirlpool and could not be left alone. I am the same age as His Highness Sutar and my best friend, and I don't want my friends to suffer tonight. It is my sole responsibility to make plans to disturb Jing'an, and it has nothing to do with anyone else or any organization. I should have taken the blame for you, but my travels are not yet over, and I cannot stay in your land for the time being.

When he comes of age, he will compensate Oakley for his loss tonight.

September 3, 1026 in the steam calendar

Gun flame nuclear salute"

[After 3 hours]

The letter was in the hands of the Grand Duke of Oakleigh.

It was now the twelfth time that the Grand Duke of Oakley had picked up the letter. After a night of tossing, the Grand Duke finally roughly felt the outline of the matter under the convergence of intelligence from all sides.

And there are people in the entire Oakley who are the ones who are trying to intercept Bix. And the sign of these conspiracies is that the gendarmerie team found some secret letters in the investigation of one noble family after another in the chaos.

Although the Grand Duke of Oakley was a little inflated, he now understood the situation very well, and someone wanted to trap Oakley for injustice. And the identity of this party is very clear. Bickley's chosen king is under the control of Oka, and Pratt & Whitney is also under Oka's influence. Only the Oka have the power to control and orchestrate all of this.

"Damn the Oka people, these sneaky people, they will only use this kind of trick of the market liar." In the underground temporary military command post, the roaring Grand Lord of Oakley greeted Oka up and down in the most 'warm' and 'sincere' tone.

Of course, after the greeting, the Grand Duke of Oakley picked up Binghe's letter. And looked at Binghe's photo with emotion and anger, and Binghe left a letter of "I did it, I'm going to slap my ass and leave now", which made Archduke Oakley angry and funny.

Angry because Oakley had caused such a mess for a fourteen-year-old child, and the child had not been caught yet.

It's funny because if you cause trouble, you dare to leave a letter. And it seems that it is not once or twice that you can just go away, and St. Sauk and Oka are not in a rut.

Of course, Oakley, who also wants to save face, is unlikely to make this letter public.

Leaving a letter after being mistreated by a child, how can you say it publicly, the Qunteng family still has to show face.

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The Oka people's operation failed, but the Grand Duke of Oakley could not produce clear evidence, and the suspicious Oka people put the blame on him cleanly, and Oakley could not raise troops to settle accounts with him now. Therefore, the most energy spent by the Grand Duke of Oakley now is not to settle accounts with the Oka people, but to catch the troublesome bear child. Binghe's naughty deeds along the way to the election of the king have also been investigated, and the Grand Duke has the impression that Binghe is a bear child who should slap his ass hard.

On the roads of Oakley, fat and sturdy cavalrymen began to search along the road, carrying portraits, and began to interrogate young men between the ages of eleven and seventeen in the territory.

A fourteen-year-old mechanical controller with a mastery of large-scale, long-range precision artillery fire, without a knight's escort, is like a three-year-old child in the middle of the city.