Chapter 1073 War Machine (seeking a monthly ticket)
Chapter 1,073 War Machine (please vote for me)
Lorraine looked up, and the war fortress in front of him was really eye-catching.
I saw that it was a whole size larger than the stupid, thick and black war fortress in the original version of the Demon Race, and it also became taller and taller. When you walked up to it, you had to raise your head and look up to see the top building of the war fortress.
Although it stopped on the ground, it was like a terrifying prehistoric beast, majestic and full of an almost suffocating sense of oppression.
Standing at its feet, Lorraine found that the entire war fortress was more like a widened spindle shape, and the base was no longer square.
For a fortress, this shape seems to be worse in terms of side defense, but correspondingly, the frontal defense is much stronger than the original one.
Limited by the huge consumption of magic crystals, the war fortress of the demons is mainly used as a fortress. It often flies to one place, then stops on the ground, and is used as a fortress. It cuts off the enemy's supply lifeline, or outflanks the enemy.
Way of retreat.
In order to resist the war fortresses of the demons and offset the enemy's advantages, the mission of the human war fortresses is no longer to target ground targets like those of the demons.
Most of the time, its role is to target the enemy's war fortress, so this design is undoubtedly more reasonable.
Moreover, compared to the past, this shape is undoubtedly the most conducive to breaking through the air when flying. The flying speed is also much faster than that of the demons.
It can be seen that Luo Linna really put a lot of thought into this aspect.
"I designed this myself~!" Luolina said proudly with a moving light on her pretty face.
Several girls nearby couldn't help but exclaimed and praised him at the same time.
"Rorina, you are so amazing."
"Sister Lorena, you are amazing."
"..."
Luo Linna smiled a little shyly and said modestly: "It's nothing, it's just a random design, and it ended up like this accidentally. It's just some trivial things. It's trivial. Oh, hehe..."
Everyone nearby was speechless for a while. Everyone couldn't figure out whether this aunt was being modest or showing off?
Luo Linna pulled Lorraine and proudly introduced: "My design is good, right? According to rumors, my design has been approved and won this year's top ten outstanding design awards from the Magic Society, as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award."
"Cough, cough, cough, cough..." Lester coughed loudly from behind.
Luolina couldn't help but spit out her tongue, and then continued: "Of course, I am only the first designer, followed by the teacher and the great wizard Ohid. We are a team, and when the time comes, we will go on stage to receive the award together.
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Everyone suddenly understood and let out a loud "Oh".
Regardless of Lorraine, Catherine, Adele, etc., they have all received a complete university education, and they have a clear understanding of this thesis and academic achievements.
The two old guys Lester and Ohid must have taken a ride on Lorena. After seeing the results, they ran over and signed their names on the back, and then took the opportunity to make a lot of money.
Lorraine hated this kind of academic dominance the most, and she cursed in her heart: These two are so shameless.
But if you know, what can you do?
No one can afford to mess with a top student of this magnitude. At the very least, they can say something like this: So-and-so’s growth can be separated from our years of careful training and teaching?
Or just put your face aside and don't go. The tiger's body trembles, and the aura of domination spreads wildly: whoever is not convinced, just stand up.
I turned him into a toad and made him lie down in the ditch screaming for three days to see who else wouldn't accept it~!
Therefore, although Lorraine was clear in her heart, she still wanted to congratulate the top student with a smile on her face.
When Lester saw Lorraine's expression, he became furious and shouted angrily: "Asshole~! What do you mean by that look in your eyes? What do you mean?
Bastard~!
We all contributed to the design and construction of this war fortress from beginning to end."
Everyone hurriedly echoed and shouted comfortingly: "Yes, yes, you have worked hard, thank you for your hard work..."
That so-and-so is ignorant, you sir have a lot of knowledge, don’t be as knowledgeable as him."
Lorena ignored their nonsense behind her, pointed to the curved base of the war fortress like a ship's bow, and proudly said to Lorraine: "This is based on the aerodynamic principle you mentioned.
In the first two months, we experimented with various base shapes and found that this curved base is the most suitable for flying. After discussion with my teacher, we finally decided to finalize the production."
Lester caught Li Li immediately and said loudly: "Did you hear that? Did you hear that? I did it with all my strength, right?"
Adele smiled sweetly, walked over and hugged Lester's arm, saying: "Grandpa, okay. Ignore him. This guy has pink eye. He is jealous of your talent. Don't be the same as him..."
As he said that, he blinked his beautiful eyes slightly and cast an apologetic glance at Lorraine.
Lester didn't pay attention to the little movements behind her. After hearing her words, he was paused for a moment, and then suddenly realized. He looked at Lorraine with disdain: No wonder. I said, why is he so picky? So that's it~!
Although I still vaguely feel that something is wrong, I feel much more mentally balanced.
At this time, Lorena sighed with a little regret, and then introduced to Lorraine: "I could have added the lifting body wings you mentioned, but we have to build about a hundred war fortresses within a year. The progress is
It's really too late.
That kind of structure is still under experimentation, and the experimental results are very good. It can save half the cost during flight. The current difficulty is how to install them."
Lorraine nodded thoughtfully. He was quite satisfied with the current situation. In fact, he didn't have much hope for the design and transformation. He just hoped that they could replicate the war fortress, which would be good.
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Unexpectedly, Luo Linna actually exceeded the task.
This thing looks more and more like a super large seaplane. Lorraine remembered that the Spruce Goose had a take-off weight of close to 200 tons and could carry up to 700 people. Calculated, it could carry more than a war fortress.
Luo Linna excitedly dragged Lorraine into the interior of the war fortress. Different from the darkness and obscurity inside the demon war fortress, this place was bright and transparent, with sunlight shining in from windows at different locations, making it refreshing and dry.
Eye-catching signs are used in the corridor to indicate the leading location, the freshly painted walls are clean and smooth, and a green plant is deliberately dotted in the corner, which is full of vitality.
This place has changed from the gloomy and terrifying style of the demon war fortress, and it looks like a beautiful villa.
Catherine and the others let out a burst of exclamation. As the prototype of the War Fortress, people would always feel extremely depressed when staying inside. After all, the undead do not like sunlight.
But here it feels like you won’t want to leave.
Adele said with emotion: "It would be great to have a house like this. I will build it into a beautiful hanging garden."
Several girls were also quite moved, longing for such a house in their hearts.
After Xiaobai slipped in with Leo, he immediately caught a glimpse of the green plants in the corner of the wall. The green was as dazzling as sunlight to him.
Xiaobai raised his nose and shouted excitedly, "Ouch!", rushed forward on his feet, rolled up his nose, pulled out most of the plants, and then randomly put it into his big mouth. He squinted his eyes and enjoyed the food in his mouth.
gourmet food.
Although the winter in the southern Almohad is not too cold, there are no fruits suitable for Xiaobai's appetite.
Uncle Xiaobai's appetite is very bad now, and he won't eat anything other than fresh fruit. In recent months, Xiaobai's stomach has been suffering. Suddenly seeing a bunch of delicious green plants, Xiaobai's eyes were filled with joy.
It's about to fall.
Leo hurriedly jumped away, staying far away from Xiaobai, pulling on Lorena's clothes, and said with a slanderous face: "Sister Lorena, you don't have to give me face, you can just deduct it from Xiaobai's food expenses."
Xiaobai was stunned when he heard this and curled up a lot of plants with his nose. Then he stretched out his nose and poked them back into the flowerpot. As if nothing happened, he rolled his eyes upwards, pretended to whistle, and then thrust in again.
Went into the crowd.
"Go," Luolina pushed Leo's forehead angrily and said, "I don't have time to talk to you. Just go play, little brat."
Luo Linna led Lorraine and the others to the power room in the center, pointed to the obelisk-like building that penetrated several levels of cabins, and said: "This war fortress is the No. 1 unit of the third generation modification. In charge of power
In the process of constructing the source, we have to admire War Fortress's use of the magic circle, which has reached a level of subtlety.
I now believe that rumor, the war fortress should be the product of the abyss demons left in the world during the war of gods.
Humanity's research on magic is far from reaching this level. At the current rate, maybe human mages will be able to reach that level in the next thousand years.
But thanks to Master Ohid. He has successfully simplified the demon's power system."
Going up from the ground floor to the upper part of the entire war fortress is the weapons room where the fort is installed.
Lorraine walked around the weapons room. After opening the windows on all sides, he could have a good shooting range indoors.
There are two artillery pieces placed on each side of the weapons room. The base of the artillery piece is fixed on a circular guide rail and can be quickly moved 360 degrees in the room through wheels.
Lorraine had to praise this ingenious design.
When shooting at one side, eight artillery pieces are used in rotation, with some firing, some on standby, and some loading. It can be like a platoon of guns, making the attack continuous and ensuring the continuity of firepower.
When surrounded, you can fire from all sides at the same time.
Luolina patted the dark barrel of the cannon and said with emotion: "After in-depth research, we realized that what limits the speed of the demons in building war fortresses is not the power source.
As long as the formation is carved according to the blueprint and enough crystals are provided, the war fortress can fly. Although this is not easy.
But the main thing that limits the demon war fortress is the magic cannon."
Lorraine scratched his head in confusion. Lorraine really didn't know much about magic. To him, the knowledge in it was like advanced mathematics.
Seeing everyone's puzzled expressions, Luo Linna smiled and explained: "The materials of the magic cannon need to be repeatedly refined to remove impurities, because these impurities will limit the transmission of magic power, and the magic cannon must reach extremely high purity before it can be used. Now on the mainland
The number of magic cannons can be counted on one hand.
After discussing with the teacher, I simply gave up the magic cannon and switched to artillery. This not only saves a lot of money, but also does not slow down the project speed."
"Oh," Lorraine nodded, rubbed her hands and smiled, "Just save money."
No wonder the Necromancers are only equipped with one magic cannon in a huge war fortress.
Lorraine had always wondered before that it was no problem to accommodate four or five guns at the same time in that space. The design of the demon was equivalent to a big car resisting a small cannon, which limited the power of the war fortress.
Of course, in the era when the necromancers monopolized the war fortress, people didn't care about the power. If the power was low, just fire a few more shots. Anyway, the war fortress had no natural enemies, and you could torture them at will on top of the enemy's heads.
Lester puffed out his chest and snorted coldly to show his presence.
Lorraine smiled and nodded, saying, "Thank you, Master, for your hard work."
For the sake of the harmony of his harem, Lord Maurolin of Leicester also had to smooth things over.
"It's good that you know." Lester said sarcastically.
Lorraine smiled and said: "You are also making a contribution to all mankind."
I gave Lester a hat as a gift.
Lester pretended to smile reservedly, waved his hands, and said: "Compared with the peace of all mankind, this is nothing, it really is nothing. Haha, hahaha..."
Lorraine pouted, his beard was clearly about to stand up.
"Let's go, I'll take you back. I've also heard about Edin Island." Luo Linna said.
Lorraine shook his head, rubbed his chin and said, "No hurry, we still have another mission?"
"Why?"
Lorraine pointed towards the south and said: "Go around Haligard's head and say hello to Hadu."
Lester stroked his beard and nodded, saying: "That's exactly what happened. Hadu actually colluded with the demons to cause trouble to mankind. He is simply a scum."
Lester originally had a good impression of Hardou. He also started out as a commoner and became a world-leading figure. In this world monopolized by nobles, Lester had a sense of identification with him in his heart and thought he was a good person.
Even if he is rebellious and wants to be the emperor, it doesn't matter. But colluding with the demons to attack Edin Island is a big taboo.
Although human beings are very forgetful in many cases. For example, when they owe someone money. But regarding the Holy War, even though a thousand years have passed, the human race will still not forget that painful war.
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Although Duke Luo played a lot of roles in bringing Hadu to this stage, he said with emotion: "Those who are dying will always grab any life-saving straw."
Everyone chatted for a few more words. Then, a group of staff officers were called into the war fortress by Lorraine.
Under the watchful eyes of hundreds of thousands of peacekeeping troops, the war fortress rose from the ground and slowly floated towards Haligad City at a height of more than 100 meters above the ground.
The staff's job was to draw a topographic map of Haligad City below from the air.
For this reason, Lorena deliberately controlled her speed and moved southward little by little.
Lorraine stood at the wide window and looked down. From this height, the vast city of Haligard was unobstructed.
Outside the city are dense black lines, which are wide trenches.
After more than ten days of hard work, the New Army has managed to fill in only a corner of the entire defense system. At this rate, it is unlikely that it will last until the end of the Year of the Monkey.
The war fortress slowly flew directly above the city wall of Haligad. After repeated bombardment by the artillery of the peacekeeping force, the city wall of Halilgad was still strong, which made the peacekeeping force and others very strange.
Lorraine saw from the air that the walls of Haligad had been increased to several meters wide. No wonder the artillery couldn't blast them.
However, the city wall is full of gaps made by cannonballs, and they are as jagged as bones that have been gnawed by dogs.
The once picturesque Haligaard was now deserted, and the broad streets looked desolate, with no sign of anyone moving at all.
Lorraine suddenly pointed down and said to Lorena: "Lower the height."
The war fortress was lowered to a height of 67 meters above the ground.
Lorraine shook his head and said: "It's not enough, let's go down a little bit more."
The busy staff officer next to him said: "Sir, it is not safe to surrender any further."
The war fortress is now within the shooting range of ground bows and arrows.
What's more, this is Hadou's territory, and there are magicians, knights, and so on in the enemy army. If they rush in, all of my group will become prisoners.
"It doesn't matter," Lorraine waved his hand and said, "It's actually better to draw out the enemy's attack."
Luolina smiled slightly and controlled the war fortress to lower again. She had absolute confidence in Lorraine and knew that Lorraine would never do anything wrong.
The war fortress was lowered to the same height as the spire of the city's cathedral, twenty or thirty meters above the ground.
Lorraine stood in front of the window and could see clearly even the doors and windows on the ground.
All the doors and windows on the street were tightly closed, and there was no trace of human activity. Some houses were damaged and showed no signs of repair. It was obvious that they had not been occupied for a long time.
Several places in the city have been reduced to rubble by the artillery of the peacekeeping forces. These are valuable targets in Haligad City, either the garrison's garrison, a government office or a warehouse.
Neighboring houses were also burned down.
The streets were covered with withered yellow leaves. When a gust of wind blew, the fallen leaves swirled with the cold wind, making it look as desolate as a ghost town.
The war fortress floated over the outer city and over the wall into the sky above the inner city.
Due to the limited range of artillery, the scenery in front of you is different from the collapsed and burned ruins of the outer city that were ravaged by artillery fire. It still looks exquisite and gorgeous.
Especially the view of the courtyard in the center is even better. That should be Hadou's residence. However, at this time, there is not a single person in the city at all.
Lorraine looked around, the whole city was in a desolate scene.
Lorraine nodded slightly. The once prosperous Haligard, one of the most famous cities on the continent and home to half a million people, was slowly dying under the siege of the peacekeeping forces.
"Just like Hadu", Lorraine thought to herself.
The decay in the city of Haligard made Lorraine let go of the last worries in her heart.
Lorraine personally watched this trip to personally evaluate whether Hadou still had the possibility to reverse the situation of the war.
The situation of Halligard shows that the Confederate army is at the end of its rope. Without external help, death will be waiting for them. It is just a matter of how long it will take.
With the last of her worries removed, Lorraine can leave the peacekeeping force with peace of mind and capture the lichs that have infiltrated.