Seeing that there were more than ten professional officers in Fort William, the Spencer nodded in satisfaction.

Just the strength shown at the banquet, Haaland's territory has surpassed the average baron family.

Spencer knows that this is not all the Haaland family's strength.

Baron William served as the captain of the main legion in Blackriver Castle and was already a powerful sixth-order warrior.

Bernie was with William as a deputy captain and was a fourth-order professional.

In addition, William has two sons who are adults, both of whom are serving in the Eighth Brigade of the Wild Lion Legion, and all of them are present at the banquet today.

As Richard introduced them one by one, Spencer also learned about the situation of these officers.

Fifth-order warrior Soros, fourth-order Roland, third-order Martin, Heyman, Norman, second-order Arvis, Bradrick, first-order Jennings, Vincent, Graeheim.

More crucially, the Haaland family has two magicians.

A family of barons with a magical heritage is very rare.

Counting the vassals of earls, marquises, and dukes, there are hundreds of hereditary families in the Kingdom of Grant.

There are probably no more than one-tenth of the hereditary barons who have a magical heritage.

Even if there is a magical inheritance, the next generation in the family may not have a magical talent.

None of the nobles with a magical heritage have been able to train magicians

Spencer has seen kingdom statistics, and the number of magicians in the entire Grant kingdom is only more than 600.

Among the more than 600 people, the vast majority were born into the aristocracy.

It is very rare for a baron family to be able to train two qualified magicians.

Spencer exchanged a few words with the crowd, then waved to Richard covertly.

The two came to a corner unobtrusively, and Spencer quietly asked, "What is the reason why the Harland family defeated an orc brigade at Fort William?" ”

As soon as he heard this, Richard's expression immediately became solemn.

Before building the counterweight trebuchet, Richard had already thought about the possibility of a leak from the trebuchet.

As long as such a huge weapon appears on the battlefield, the technical secrets cannot be kept at all.

It is not difficult to make a counterweight trebuchet, as long as you pierce this layer of window paper, find some qualified carpenters, and slowly grope for it.

The key technique is the calculation of the trajectory, using the right counterweight, the right weight of the stone projectile, and accurately projecting the stone projectile into a fixed area.

Without Richard's mathematical knowledge, he could not measure accurate gravitational acceleration, calculate parabolic trajectories, analyze Newtonian mechanics, and understand the principle of levers, so he could not measure accurate ballistics.

Without accurate ballistic guidance, you can only rely on the experience of manipulating trebuchets to aim and strike, and the accuracy will be far worse. The striking effect is slightly better than that of a torsion trebuchet.

Despite this, the counterweight trebuchet is still a formidable weapon.

Even if you are a high-level professional above the seventh order, if you are hit by a heavy stone bullet, you will still be seriously injured.

In offensive or defensive battles, the counterweight trebuchet is also an extremely efficient weapon.

The first use of such a weapon is likely to result in a surprise and a major victory.

For a kingdom, a major victory can often determine the fate of the country.

But this kind of weapon is simple to make, as long as you let a smart person take a look, there is a great chance that it can be copied.

So the issue of confidentiality is also very important before using it.

If the enemy is on guard and does not enter the battlefield that is preset by his side, it will be difficult to achieve better results.

Spencer was a bureaucrat directly appointed by the Grant royal family, with the status of a court baron, and he was an important representative of the royal family in northern Xinjiang. Since he opened his mouth, he was actually asking on behalf of the royal family.

Now the Haaland family is a vassal of the Grant royal family, and from the moral point of view of the nobles of the Dawn Continent, the Haaland family should also be loyal to the king.

Moreover, now the Haaland family and the royal family do not have much conflict of interest, and the relationship between the two sides is one with glory and one loss.

By handing over the counterweight trebuchet to the royal family, the Haaland family can receive merit.

As has traditionally been the case, the invention of an important battle can be decided, or even a hereditary domain.

Even if the counterweight trebuchet is not easy to keep secret, and the invention is less important, it can be exchanged for three great achievements.

So after the Spencer City Council asked, Richard decided to tell the truth.

"It's easy to say because of the invention of a new weapon."

"What kind of weapon is it?" Hearing Richard's words, Spencer asked eagerly.

"It is a new type of trebuchet that can project a 200-pound stone projectile to a distance of 300 meters."

"Can you show me? I know it's presumptuous, but I swear in the name of nobility that I will never do anything against the Haaland family. ”

Spencer Zu is the legendary warrior Ogudus Allen.

This powerful and legendary warrior came from an ordinary background, a mercenary from the Northern Xinjiang region.

Augustus's luck is particularly good, his life is a legendary life, relying on his own struggle, he married the princess of the Grant royal family, and also became the hereditary duke of the kingdom of Lane.

But the development of the Allen family was not very smooth.

As soon as Ogudusi died, the Allen family gradually declined amid brutal aristocratic competition.

Most of the dukedoms were annexed by the Grand Duchy of Starnik, and a small part was occupied by the Orc Empire.

Now belonging to the Allen family, only a small part remains.

Some of the members of the Allen family became counts of the Rhine Kingdom, and the other part defected to their relatives, the royal family of Grant.

Spencer was not the eldest son of the family, and the succession to the title was very low.

After defecting to the royal family of Grant, although Spencer made some military achievements, he was far from being a hereditary baron.

Besides, he didn't want to seal his fief in the northern frontier.

The Allen family were hereditary nobles in the northern part of the Rhine Kingdom.

Spencer grew up hearing countless histories of the family's decline.

Even a powerful ducal family will gradually decay in the face of years of war.

If you want to seal the territory in a relatively safe hinterland, you need to have complex exchanges of interests and relationship dredging.

It would be very important for Spencer to convince the Haaland family to offer their secret weapon to the royal family. If this is done, his ability will enter the eyes of the nobles of the royal capital.

Although Spencer stared at him with fiery eyes, Richard still shook his head and said, "Although this new trebuchet is powerful, it is relatively easy to imitate. To tell you the truth, there is still a lack of mutual trust between us, and I am a little uncomfortable for you to watch the trebuchet.

If the City Councillor of Spencer leaves the Harland family behind and presents the trebuchet to the Kingdom of Charlie, we Haaland family will have nothing.

I think we might as well write a letter to the king separately, and the Haaland family will be meritorious, and Mr. Spencer's abilities will be recognized by the king. ”