From the moment the chariot appeared on the battlefield, the confrontation between spear and shield began and continued.

From the early use of field guns to direct aiming and flat fire, to the development of professional anti-tank artillery, to the advent of anti-tank rocket launchers and missiles. The range of vehicles that can threaten the vehicle has expanded from another vehicle to the Flying Warthogs that rain depleted uranium shells on the ground with Gatling cannons, the bomb trucks full of precision-guided munitions, the magical neutron bombs that kill people without destroying vehicles, and the Wuling Hongguang with a cart full of rough men and RPGs...... It can be said that there are many kinds of things. But few people remember that the world's first professional anti-tank weapon was an anti-tank rifle.

Mauser Model 1918 anti-tank rifle. The weapon, known as the "Elephant Gun", was essentially a magnified Mauser rifle that fired 13.2mm armor-piercing rounds, and even the bolt was directly based on the rear pull handle of the Model 1898 rifle. From this kind of emergency design, it is not difficult to see how much panic the British water tank brought to the Germans, which is not inferior to the "T34 crisis" more than twenty years later. Had it not been for this kind of weapon bracing, which was equally threatening to the enemy and the shooters, the roar of the engines of the British water tanks in the distance would have scared the German soldiers back into formation.

With the development of chariot technology, especially the improvement of armor protection, the anti-tank rifle has proved to be no longer suitable for the needs of the battlefield, and since the end of World War II, it has gradually faded out of the equipment sequence of the armies of various countries.

It stands to reason that the development of anti-tank rifles was not a wise idea in the face of the 30-ton medium tanks and 45-ton heavy tanks that served as the backbone of the Wehrmacht's armored forces. No matter how high the requirements for the metallurgical industry and the chemical industry are, even if Roland is lucky enough to buy a lottery ticket and win the grand prize, he inadvertently clicks on the right technology tree, and the development process is still smooth sailing. The question is what the anti-tank rifle is used for? On the other side is not the first-generation thin-skinned water tank, but thick-skinned and rough-fleshed cats, and guns with a caliber of less than 80mm can be put away, so as not to be embarrassed and conspicuous.

Roland and the dwarven craftsmen didn't know this, and if they could, they would rather engage in practical and convenient equipment like the Iron Fist than toss things like anti-tank rifles, which are obsolete in production. But...... The concubine really can't do it.

Tekken's technical starting point is indeed relatively low, and the price is very low, which is exactly the same as similar products in another world. But the problem is, it only makes sense if you can achieve mass production. In another world, as long as you dare to place an order, even if you can't produce seamless steel pipes by yourself, bold heavy industry companies dare to buy seamless steel pipes for you, and then toss explosives, propellant raw materials and auxiliary materials such as cement, not to mention RPGs, even rockets with a range of tens or even hundreds of kilometers can be made for you to see. And in this world, beyond Alfheim, there is simply no heavy industry that can meet this demand. Just a blast furnace is still tormenting technicians from all over the world, and it is still a long way from being able to mass-produce steel products with stable quality and low prices.

The same applies to the production of explosives, where Charlemagne's production of soda ash from saltpeter mines is a pebble at the foot of a high mountain in the face of the massive production of soda ash produced by the combined alkali production process in Alfheim. And soda ash - this is widely used in the chemical industry, from glass, chemicals, petroleum, metallurgy, building materials, textiles...... The raw materials used in a large number of industries are also indispensable for the synthesis and production of explosives. In another world, as synthesis technology matured, a large number of enterprises dealing in saltpeter went out of business, saltpeter mines were closed, and the price of explosives depreciated sharply as production increased.

Without a systematic, all-round supporting industry, without sufficient production capacity and enough professional soldiers, it is absolutely impossible to turn the tide of the war by relying on only one or two technical principles and tactical concepts that are ahead of the times, not to mention that these technical concepts are still something that the opponent is already familiar with.

With enough lessons learned, Roland and his technical team set their sights on the anti-tank rifle, a weapon that is easier to mass-produce, after all, compared to the "Iron Fist", the anti-tank rifle does not need a new production line. The gunsmith and production equipment are ready-made, and mass production can be achieved by adjusting the production process.

The Dwarven craftsmen were truly skilled, and they managed to create a batch of anti-tank rifles that threatened the survival of lightly armored vehicles. Although the number is a little smaller, only a hundred dollars, but considering the constraints of the objective environment, this is enough to be called a remarkable achievement. It's just that neither the royal army nor Roland himself are very willing to produce this kind of anti-tank weapon.

This is not a question of factional struggles and shady power and money, but a real technical problem, knowing that using this rifle is no different from playing Russian roulette, and it is even more dangerous. The Russian Roulette wheel also lets you know how many bullets are in the wheel, and a soldier with an anti-tank rifle has no idea whether the trigger will blow up the enemy or his own head.

The weapon, named the "Trial Type 1 Anti-Tank Rifle", was essentially a large-caliber rifle. After the Night of the Long Knives, the Dwarven Artisans were inspired by the recovered multi-stage accelerated guns. When Roland and the Royal Army proposed to "create a mass-produced anti-tank weapon under existing conditions", the first thing that came to their minds was the "Iron Fist" and the "Cone Rifle Cannon". And after the idea of imitating the "Iron Fist" failed at the stage of argumentation, they turned their attention to the conical gun. I don't know who started it, but the idea of "enlarging the rifle, installing a conical bore, and firing a high muzzle velocity armor-piercing projectile" was put on the table, and after several arguments and studies, it became a formal finality.

The exterior of the rifle resembles the Pzb.39 anti-tank rifle used by the German army in early World War II, with a folding stock and a large handle, and also uses a manual grip to pull the loading structure. But the similarities between the two end there, compared to the Pzb.39, the trial Type 1 anti-tank rifle is even larger, with an overall length of 1.86 meters, a caliber of 12.7 mm, and a mass of 45 kilograms, almost the same as a 20mm machine gun. When firing a steel-core armor-piercing projectile, the muzzle velocity of the warhead reaches 1265 meters per second, and it can penetrate 30 mm thick homogeneous steel armor at 100 meters.

This sounds like a good statistic, but note that the high muzzle velocity of the Gunner is achieved entirely by high chamber pressure. With Charlemagne's current state of technology, the conical bore tube was placed in Alfheim as a completely substandard scrap. Not only is the life of the body tube low, but the shoddy body tube is also difficult to withstand the continuous fire of armor-piercing shells, and the nitrocellulose used as a propellant is extremely unstable and very easy to explode. Coupled with the fact that high bore pressure also creates a huge recoil force, the shooter's shoulder blades are often shattered, even if the stock is equipped with a spring cushion device to absorb recoil. As a result, this rifle has terrible nicknames such as "scapular crusher", "rapid retirement guarantor", ".50OVER (.50 refers to both the caliber and alludes to the explosion rate of up to 50%)", "a rifle that can only be fired once" and so on.

Using this rifle against the Wehrmacht's armored forces is almost the same as going to the death.

The shooters of the 5th Hussar Division were holding this weapon, staring condescendingly at the corner intersection, waiting for the careless opponent to walk into an elaborate death trap.