On top of the rapid-fire gun, there is a 'multi-functional light semi-automatic deployment gun' that compromises power, rate of fire and 'portability';

This model adopts a semi-submersible reactor turret layout, and the front end is a 55 times diameter 203mm enchanted main gun barrel, which can be used to complete the transformation between the rifled heavy gun and the smoothbore armor-piercing gun with 20 lamps according to the requirements;

Moreover, every time the barrel changes shape, it is equivalent to a 'reforge', and the life of the barrel becomes almost endless at the cost of nutrient absorption.

The diameter of the reactor chamber of this model is 2.7 meters, and most of its lower part is enclosed in a body with a length of 17 meters, a width of 7 meters, and a height of 6 meters, leaving only the tail air intake and the upper third of the compartment outside the body;

Of these, the former is completely exposed, and the latter is protected by a trapezoidal composite armor dome.

In addition, the interior of the body is combined with the driver's seat, bomb storage and semi-automatic bomb feeding, sound wave reflection and other totem control systems, and the body is flanked by a retractable eight-legged arthropod self-propelled chassis.

Arthropod joints have the ability to be hydraulically stabilized during artillery strikes, and each connection is enchanted with totems, giving them toughness properties that are stronger than the strength of the material itself.

The eight-legged tail end is also equipped with a root system retraction bin, and the top of its internal root system is equipped with a burrowing structure that can release corrosive liquids, and 32 roots can be drilled deep into the ground within ten minutes when deployed, so as to quickly obtain nutrients.

At the same time, the regular crown crown was abolished, and all blades were instead laid flat across the entire body, with a certain self-healing ability.

Even if this kind of 'cannon' can only attack at a speed of half a shot per lamp due to the compression efficiency of the reactor chamber, and in order to maintain nutrient replenishment, it must be carried out in the state of landing deployment;

But it's still the product that Nesta is most satisfied with.....

The barrel is 11.17 meters long, and the 1.7 meter area connected to the interior of the body can be opened during reloading, and it closes seamlessly after reloading.

Needless to say, when equipped with rifled barrels, a 1.7-ton all-metal heavy gun can be projected to a distance of 17 kilometers at an initial velocity of 600m/s;

When the barrel is deformed into a smoothbore structure, the winged armor-piercing projectile can penetrate the 300mm thick steel-wood armor within 2000 meters with a chambering speed of 1100m/s and the black prismatic gold piercing core inside it.

And when the smoothbore state is changed to a black edge gold sub-caliber armor-piercing projectile (with a light and brittle metal coating on the outside), it can penetrate 200mm steel-wood armor at 3000 meters.

No matter what kind of attack, at least Nesta himself can't bear it, and a single shot can kill him.

In terms of defense, after the body completely fell apart during the first test launch, it was tried to increase its material strength without limit;

However, when it successfully resisted the side effects of its own shelling, the entire artillery carriage lost its ability to move and became a fixed battery.

This obviously did not fit its battlefield positioning, so the lower-level main gun was once a replacement for today's 203 gun.

In this predicament, the project was saved by the 'Stereogenetic Enchantment' project proposed by Nesta;

He transplanted the multi-layer enchantment scheme used in the construction of the reactor to various key parts of the cannon body, and used the limited space to accumulate higher material strength.

After the success of this scheme, the witch doctors drew inferences and applied it to 'armor protection';

They used the same multi-level three-dimensional enchantment technique to make the cannon body and the top reactor dome with a thickness of only 150mm of steel and wood armor, and obtained a 500mm effect.

In the same way, all weak points, including the octopod joint, were strengthened in this way, and successfully withstood the many negative effects of their own main artillery bombardment.

This newly invented multi-layer three-dimensional armor structure not only brings a self-protection efficiency that is only inferior to that of the mother tree prison for this type of cannon, but also successfully compresses its overall weight to 55 tons and obtains more internal volume.

In addition, it has achieved better capabilities than the original plan in terms of battery life and other aspects.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the witch doctors were so greedy for versatility and endurance that they gave it too many redundant totem plug-ins, the cannon would have been able to be further compressed in terms of size and weight;

Especially in size, it can be reduced by at least about a third ....

At the transportation level, in the early stage, it can be quickly transported to the vicinity of the battlefield area by rail, and in the middle stage, it can be towed by moose and transported to the vicinity of the battlefield.

In the later stage, the eight-legged joint chassis can be used for battlefield deployment and transfer, and before the root system is not connected to the ground and enters the deployment state, it can maintain a self-propelled state at a speed of about 5 lights at a speed of 25km/light with the high-energy liquid stored in the body.

In addition, in terms of automation, it has also achieved remarkable results thanks to the efforts of witch doctors;

Whether it is the loading of shells, the sending and receiving of sound waves, the adjustment of the firing range, or even the transfer and deployment, and the activation of the enchanted armor around the body, these have all been totemized;

Therefore, the entire artillery carriage only needs 4 soldiers to work part-time for various tasks to achieve full power use.

Of course, in addition to the rate of fire, there are other drawbacks, such as 'nutrients' ....

The high-energy liquid used to maintain its 'self-propelled' ability is produced by blending 13% Cavernwolf High Energy Cell Fluid, 25% water, and 62% Complex Nutrients.

Among them, the Cave Wolf Cell Fluid is a foundational resource with ultra-low production capacity, which can be said to be priceless, and every bit of consumption will make the troll's heart ache.

Compound nutrients, on the other hand, are acquired compounds made from the blending of many elements, and although their raw materials are not valuable, the manufacturing process is quite complex.

In addition, there are more or less drawbacks in terms of transportation convenience and self-propelled speed.

But this is indeed a powerful weapon.

In addition, in addition to the multi-functional self-propelled gun, it is a "full-power gun" that pursues ultra-long attack distance and high-power projection, and reaches the limit of the current stage under the limitation of recoil.

It uses a 70 times diameter 420mm rifled barrel with a total length of 29.4 m, plus a diameter of 9 m in the reaction chamber, and a total weight of 220 tons with a giant rail gun body, with a slow rate of fire of 1 round/20 lights.

The gun is capable of firing a super-heavy projectile weighing up to 7 tons at an initial velocity of 600 m/s to a distance of 20 kilometers; or launch a 3-ton composite bomb at an initial velocity of 900 m/s to a distance of 30 kilometers; Or a light composite bomb of 1 ton can be launched at an initial velocity of 1100 m/s to a distance of 55 km.

Its effectiveness against high-speed individual soldiers may be limited, but its destructive power against stationary targets should not be underestimated.

It also integrates semi-automatic loading, acoustic positioning and other totem systems, but due to its weight, size, and energy consumption, it completely loses the ability to deploy after deorbiting.

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In the capture plan for the higher salamanders, the rest of the weapons are just foils, and the most important ones are the full-power guns and the multi-purpose guns.

Therefore, after the witch doctors developed and finalized them, they concentrated on the production of 5 full-power cannons and 15 multi-functional self-propelled cannons.

But at this time a new problem was discovered ....

First, the manufacturing efficiency is too slow;

Second, it is not enough to have artillery, the corresponding shells must be prepared.....

In terms of manufacturing efficiency, since these two cannons are no longer like the previous spell plants, they only need to control the appearance and materials, and their manufacturing process also includes a large number of enchantment needs, which cannot be met by the existing number of witch doctors;

The problem with artillery shells is somewhat different, and in addition to manufacturing efficiency, there are also difficulties in obtaining raw materials that need to be overcome.

Extrapolating from the variation in armor thickness of volcanic salamanders from seven to forty meters, the higher species must have more exaggerated external defenses;

Therefore, in the upcoming battle in front of us, in terms of the choice of attack methods, there must be an extremely high demand for armor piercing.

And black edge gold is the most suitable alloy material for this task at this stage, and the demand for it in the Republic has soared all at once.

However, the reality is that it is very difficult to produce black edge gold, and almost all the three types of metal elements required for it are rare products, and the republic has not been able to find rich ores in other areas;

Therefore, the only remaining source of raw materials is magma from the southern volcanic group.

If the scale of its demand is still as small as in the previous experimental stage, then this kind of 'stealing' method can still be barely maintained, but the actual situation is obviously not the case....

If a change in the means of acquisition is not sought, the time required to gather ammunition will even exceed that of the development and manufacture of the cannon itself.

Faced with these two new problems, the witch doctors all started to think of solutions, and soon thought of corresponding solutions....

In terms of obtaining raw materials for black gold, the witch doctors have specially developed a constant temperature pipeline to maintain the temperature of the magma and transport it;

These pipes will be cultivated in stages by witch doctors over a distance of hundreds of kilometers, quickly spawned, and connected to each other;

After that, the other end of the pipeline will be drilled deep into the lava channel inside the base of the volcanic group, and the magma inside will be continuously pumped and transported in a liquid state.

At the end of the pipeline, the witch doctors concentrated all the processes of making cannonballs in one area, and totemized the processing methods corresponding to each process, giving them to the 'alchemy totem trees', and the key to the effectiveness of this plan is, of course, the dividends brought by Nesta's previous promotion.

As a result, this end of the pipe is connected to the cannonball manufacturing center outside the headquarters, and in the alchemy tree group endowed with the corresponding functional totem, an armor-piercing core of different shapes is made;

These cores are then transported to a separate processing end where various components are attached to them.

Of course, the other compounds present in the magma will not be wasted, and the parts of the remaining metal elements that need to be used at this stage, such as those needed for the shell of sub-caliber armor-piercing projectiles, will become the formation of the projectile, and the rest will become metal ingots for storage;

The same is true for non-metallic elements, which either make salamander bait from them, or synthesize the rest of the compounds useful to the Republic such as strong acids, etc., and feed them back into the alchemy totem tree to become chemical additives that accelerate the operation of the alchemy totem.

The construction of this pipeline, which was dedicated to stealing lava, was hundreds of kilometers long, and it took almost half a year to mobilize almost all the witch doctors, and after completing the above mode of operation, it greatly accelerated the productivity of the Republic in many aspects.

After completing the construction of the cannonball-making center and the laying of raw material pipelines, the ambitious Nesta began to design the artillery-building center with the witch doctors.

In the field of material manufacturing, the witch doctors integrated the raw materials needed for each part of the cannon body, starting from the breeding stage, into the classified 'breeding totem tree' and 'spawning totem tree', and gave them a control center that can be activated and manipulated by bioelectricity;

In the enchantment realm, the same totems used to inscribe totems are integrated into the 'Totem Inscription Totem Tree';

In addition, the same applies to processing of contract materials, the assembling of different components, and so on.

Finally, a special assembly line scheme was designed for the operation of the totem tree factory, which includes all the processes in cannon making, to improve efficiency and reduce the required labor as much as possible.

With the combined effect of so many means, a factory with a high degree of automation that only needs to be used in the maintenance phase after it was built appeared in a large clearing outside the headquarters;

After a period of training of professional operators, under the command of senior engineers, the factory began to produce cannons one by one.

As a result, the full-power cannon named 'Bombardier 1', the multi-functional gun named 'Armorbreaker 1', the hand-held 30mm rapid-fire assault gun named 'Raider 1', and the 60mm rapid-fire gun of 'Air Raider 1' were produced day and night in such factories.

In the same way, with sufficient raw materials, the shells they needed gradually began to pile up.....

For all of this, Nesta had at one point with dozens of witch doctors, hundreds of non-caster trolls from various research institutes, and thousands of energetic warriors;

With the all-round logistical support of the ruling government in terms of financial resources and food, it took nearly three years to complete all the processes from pipeline laying, to the research and development of various totem trees, to the design and construction of factories, and to the application of assembly lines.

At this time, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, and finally had time to carefully examine what kind of work he had accomplished;

Automated factories, high-tech industrial trolls, extremely efficient processing lines with incoming materials....

'Am I running with my people into the industrial age?' What about motivation? Not to mention the power plant, not even the steam engine was used, why is it suddenly like this? ’

He thought about it carefully, in fact, it was not unacceptable, in the previous life, there was a slave who had a meal every 30 kilometers, and in this life there can be a totem tree with a ton of fertilizer for 200 kilometers.....

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The new situation has brought about new changes.....

All of these studies were originally started to catch volcanic salamanders, but at some point, an infectious disease that I don't know who started it affected all witch doctors. and even more trolls;

The disease is nameless, but the symptoms are quite obvious..... Namely, let's prepare a little bit better.

Now that the factory is there, you can't stock up on more weapons and ammunition to get started, otherwise why bother so much? ’

In this thought, the planning of the capture of higher salamanders was once again extended to the preparation period;

Waiting for the air is not a solution, and the existing weapons have to be trained and a new mode of warfare must be formed. ’

As a result, the standing regiment began to familiarize itself with weapons, the higher military schools began to design tactics while becoming proficient, and after some time began to exercise again and again.

'The high-pressure gas mass in the reactor chamber has so much energy, it seems a bit wasteful to use it only in the military, what other direction can make it valuable? ’

With this in mind, a mining scheme was developed in which a tunnel was dug and then a reactor chamber connected to the energy and gas supply roots was stuffed deep underground, and an 'explosion' was initiated in the vein.

'The totem tree technology has matured, shouldn't we expand its application methods again?' ’

As a result, many capable designers, including some non-casters, began to study the application of totem trees in agriculture, industry, service industry, military and many other aspects.....

The first project was established in the direction of 'power' that had long been in the throat of the Niesta;

In the previous development process of 'Armorbreaker Type 1', the witch doctors stepped out of the shackles of 'plants must be grounded to absorb nutrients and transform sunlight' in order to have a long-term 'physical' supply;

After refining the nutrients absorbed by plants from the ground, concentrating them into complex nutrients, supplemented by high-energy cell sap taken from cave wolves, and diluted with water to form 'nutrients' in semi-fluid form, they found that such substances can replace the way plants obtain nutrients from the ground, and even achieve this purpose more efficiently.

Therefore, after the combination of the activation method plant, the totem electric start technology, and such a 'non-terrible nutrient giving' model, an energy supply model that does not require roots to enter the ground and can drive the 'Armorbreaker Type 1' weighing dozens of tons was born.

Now, the witch doctors want to apply this 'power' technique to other things....

Agricultural vehicles, engineering vehicles, rail cars and other industrial products that need to work in motion are naturally not much, and power will greatly enhance their work efficiency.

In the various mechanical processing fields inside the factory, the purely physical factory that uses water power can ignore it for the time being, but all kinds of totem tree magic factories that rely on eating land nutrients to operate actually have the possibility of enhancing their work efficiency through the reasonable supply of nutrients.

Therefore, even now, research in this area is still very necessary.

On the whole, among all the ingredients required for 'nourishment', only the cave wolf cell fluid is the most precious;

But unlike the Armorbreaker Type 1, which can easily reach tens of tons, the other machines that the Republic needs to drive don't need such a huge amount of power to support it;

Therefore, the content of cave wolf cell fluid in the formula can be appropriately reduced, as long as its proportion is reduced to within a range;

As a de facto 'renewable resource', the Republic can be a little painful, but it can still be applied to this aspect with tears.

Therefore, the corresponding attempt began....

On the one hand, on the basis of continuing to optimize the compound nutrients, the proportion content of cave wolf cell fluid should be reduced simultaneously.

On the other hand, in objects such as cultivated engineering vehicles, it is necessary to further reduce the power demand by lightening the body material itself, optimizing the engineering structure, and rationalizing the process steps.

It is hoped that this will expand a way of giving and using power that meets actual needs.

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However, the first to set up the project does not necessarily lead to success;

In fact, the next breakthrough was the application of totem tree technology in other aspects.....

For example, the 'Inscription Totem Tree', which matured together with the cannon processing factory, has once again increased its variety and has the ability to depict totems in other aspects.

One of them, which replaced the 'Totem Engraver' and began to engrave training totems for warriors;

The witch doctors made a plan for this purpose, and decided to spread this totem tree in their headquarters and in various cities within a few years, according to the scale of one tree per street;

The totems that can be carved by these 'Inscribed Totem Trees' will be replaced by a detachable component that acts like a floppy drive, which can be updated by inserting a fixed card slot and fusing with a contact totem.

In this way, the portrayal and elimination of totems will be a very convenient thing for the warriors, as long as they pay a maintenance fee including tax, they can get the corresponding service on the street where they live.

Others have the ability to engrave a 'Listening Tree' totem on a spell plant, making it a logical occurrence for the 'Listening Tree'.

After receiving the sound signal, the listening tree will follow the set program and move its own 'pen and stroke' that is specially used for recording, and record the code on the paper, which will then be translated by the technical class.

This kind of tree can be large or small, the large one can establish a communication center in the headquarters, the medium one can support the wartime command center in the rear of the battlefield, and the small one can also serve as a communication station for the team on the front line.

In other words, there is no longer any need for the trolls in the Republic to carve the listening totems, and the saved totem slots can be used to maintain the training totems.

This will undoubtedly be good news for the majority of monitoring technology classes, and they will only need to engrave the 'body-electric totem' on their fingers to ensure that they can turn the listening tree on and off.

But the witch doctors felt that this was not enough, and they actually wanted to work out some kind of wearable 'armor stomach totem tree', either by absorbing the warrior's physical energy, or by pre-injecting or separately loaded nutrient pools;

In this way, it is possible to integrate totems such as 'brute force', 'windwalking', and 'farsightedness' on the armor stomach, and add corresponding control modules to give warriors more options for combat or reconnaissance.

It was a seemingly feasible plan, and it was immediately decided and funded, and it became a project that all witch doctors looked forward to success.

In addition, after the totem tree technology is combined with the machine tool, it has played a similar effect as the CNC machine tool in the previous life, and after reducing the required labor by two-thirds, it has also made the Republic of China rise to a higher level in the accuracy control of parts;

And with the further combination of totem and machine tools, relatively more complex operations have become possible, so that the complexity of the workpieces that can be produced by each factory has been qualitatively improved.

When this technology is fed back to the cannon and even other manufacturing fields, due to the increase in the number of factories with processing capacity, the difficulty of processing can be increased, so that each factory can obtain more high-precision components, and thus increase production capacity.

In addition, this prompted the artillery factory to completely abandon some of the manufacturing processes and to include the private sector in the war preparedness plan by outsourcing.

In addition, as Nesta had predicted, in the direction of wool spinning, silk spinning, food processing and so on, corresponding combination methods have also emerged one after another, improving production efficiency and reducing labor demand;

In addition to the crown wheat, more varieties of breeding totem trees have also been generated, basically completely liberating the shackles of witch doctors in this regard.

The related totem design discipline, driven by these technical data that has been progressing one after another, has gradually taken shape and has become an elective course for the upper grades of the First Education Center.

And in the midst of this rapid progress, Nesta finally set his sights on the south;

He believes that it is time for the High Salamander Capture Program, which has been delayed for countless years, to end this seemingly never-ending period of preparation.....

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With the great breakthrough in the development of the totem tree, most of the volcanic salamanders that were once valued as the target of the 'Alchemy Biological Development Plan' have lost their significance to the Republic at this time;

The only attraction of the southern volcanoes to the trolls has been reversed is the higher salamanders and the magma itself, which is rich in easily minable metal minerals.

In addition, maybe the magic crystal spells of salamanders above forty meters can also make some contribution to atmospheric compression technology?

For example, can it be further improved, and the rate of fire is too low, which is now limited by the compression speed.....

When it comes to armament preparations, about a year has passed since the completion of the cannon factory;

Due to the fact that the factory has made a large tilt in production capacity to the Bombarder 1 and the Armorbreaker 1, the headquarters has owned 70 units of the former and more than 300 units of the latter in the past 500 days;

In addition, the number of Ancient War Trees, which has risen to 120, is also equipped with the same 203mm main gun as the Armorbreaker 1;

The reactor and bomb feeding system are fully integrated into the chimera and become part of the overall composition of the Ancient Tree of War;

As a result, they are more agile than their multi-purpose self-propelled guns, and under the control of their internal 'body', they can perform many tactical maneuvers that cannot be used by the former.

In addition, multi-layered three-dimensional armor is also laid on the chimera, and the area where the 'main body' is located is emphatically protected.

In this way, these 120 ancient war trees have really become self-propelled batteries that can take into account close combat.

With the joint efforts of near and long-range, it must be able to play a good role in this operation and even in the future ground war....