"Yes, the Fortress is a tough nut to crack. At that time, as long as Panin drags it on and drags the war down, the prairie people's inability to attack fortresses will gradually be exposed.
Siege battles are the most brutal and many people will die. The grassland people have a tribal system, and the army is the property of each tribe. At that time, facing a solid city defense, who should be sent to be the first wave of death squads, who should be sent as cannon fodder, and who should be sent to consume These were all headaches for the Prairie King.
By that time, no matter what decision or order the Prairie King makes, there will always be people who are dissatisfied, and there will always be people who feel that they have been treated unfairly.
Because in a war, people are bound to die and there are bound to be injuries. It is impossible for this bowl of water to be absolutely level.
"If it were in the past, the Royal Court was very powerful, even if some people were dissatisfied, they could only obey the orders without hesitation due to the power of the Prairie King. But nowwhen these dissatisfied people suddenly look up and find that the aloof prairie king is no longer as powerful as before"
Du smiled slightly, and after saying this, he gently put the dagger away and put it into his sleeve.
The middle-aged nobleman pondered for a moment, frowned and said slowly: "This is indeed a variable. Butwill it hinder our plan in any way?"
"I don't think so." Du Weiwei said calmly: "We will eventually solve the grassland man's stone. What Panin is doing now will be beneficial to us in the end. By the way"
Du Weiwei seemed to suddenly remember something and said: "That madman Bai Wang, has there been any news recently? He won't really ruin this guy Prairie King, right? This guy is a madman, and he can do anything when he becomes crazy. After all, even though we are all relatives, I don¡¯t really like this guy.¡±
"It's nothing else." The middle-aged nobleman hesitated for a moment: "He just sent someone to contact me secretly, asking for food."
Du sighed slightly: "That's about it. It has been so many days since the prairie people entered the country, and the cattle and sheep supplies they brought have been exhausted. Our strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the wilderness is very thorough. They have been fighting these days, and they have collected There is very little food supply. Even if we grab some in Nulin Province, there are more than 100,000 or 200,000 people, and horses have to chew, and it¡¯s winter Well, you can arrange it, build a few strongholds, and deliberately let out loopholes. , let them occupy it. It can also be regarded as supplementing some food for them. Even if you raise a dog, you still have to give it a few bones to chew on regularly. "
The middle-aged man was quite confident. After thinking for a while, he immediately said: "To the east of us and close to Nulin Province, in the town of Dal and the small town of Motes, these two places have stocked up some food. I will order the guards to do so." If the army withdraws and the news is sent to the grassland people, they will definitely send people to attack. Well, there is a lot of food stored in these two places, which is enough for them to support them for a few days."
"Yes, we have to let them support them until the spring comes and the flowers bloom, and they support them until the day when the orcs go south." Du Weiwei seemed to be smiling.
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In Chen Daolin's new city, behind the temple in the city, in the high priest's mansion belonging to Chen Daolin, there is a remote courtyard.
There are not many guards near this courtyard.
In fact, Chen Daolin has a limited number of soldiers and horses under his command, and his own mansion has never had many servants and guards.
As a magician, he only needs to arrange magic circles in some important places, which is far more effective than arranging some guards.
This courtyard is very large. When it was first built, a large cellar was dug behind the courtyard.
The cellar was not dug too deep, it was only half underground, and half of it was still exposed above the ground, with houses built on top.
Several windows for ventilation were also exposed around the basement.
This is the place where Chen Daolin prepared the magic laboratory for himself. Before the New Year, he had asked Master Kang and his disciples to build several unique stoves in the back and arranged some copper pipes, all as thick as the mouth of a bowl.
These copper pipes were not produced locally, but were ordered and shipped from the imperial capital by Master Kang.
¡°Now in this underground magic laboratory, several furnaces are hung with copper pipes as thick as a bowl, which are winding and winding, making it look like a very huge instrument.
At this moment, there were only two people in the huge basement, Carmen and Chen Daolin.
Dean Carmen looked at an object placed in the middle of the basement, with curiosity and doubt in his eyes, and walked back and forth around the object for two times.?, then sighed: "Darling Chen, this is what you said power, um, power core?"
Chen Daolin smiled: "To be precise, the name of this thing should be called an engine."
"Engine?" Carmen looked blank.
"Well, a magic engine." Chen Daolin smiled: "To be precise, it is a tidal magic engine prototype."
This series of strange names made Carmen obviously a little confused, but this was exactly the effect Chen Daolin wanted. Being able to show off in front of this great magic expert of the Roland Empire made Chen Daolin feel a little proud.
"Thisis the same thing as the car you made in the academy that can walk without magic power?"
"The meaning is the same, but the details are very different." Chen Daolin laughed, and then led Carmen to the stove with several special characteristics.
"Here, coal is burned to produce heat energy. Well, you can understand it as producing the fire element.
The fire element draws heat through these copper tubes. Well, because copper pipes conduct heat very well. I can't find a more suitable material at the moment. "
Then Chen Daolin pointed to this thing placed in the middle of the basement.
This thing is about three or four meters long and looks like an oval metal shell.
Chen Daolin opened the upper lid with force.
"Dean, look, the copper pipe here is responsible for introducing heat energy, um, that is, the fire element. And here, here is a pressure chamber Here is the suction channel And here, here is an air vent Here , I made a small wind device. You can see that on the inside of this thing, I made a small wind element magic circle to absorb the wind And here, here is the cylinder to store energy Here , this thing is called a piston. Well, I don¡¯t know how to explain it to you. But"
Chen Daolin thought for a while and simply walked to the stove, picked up a hammer, and hit a copper pipe on the stove several times.
The sound of banging spread along the copper pipe to the outside.
"This is my order, and the workers outside the laboratory will turn on the fire and burn the coal."
Soon, the fire started burning, and a large amount of coal was thrown into the fire outside the laboratory.
This kind of furnace is similar to the small blast furnace that Chen Daolin got for making steel in the real world. The technical standard of this thing is relatively low, so it is not difficult to make it here.
Chen Daolin built this small blast furnace to get some low-grade steel that was barely usable - it was always higher than the metallurgical level in this world.
The most important thing is that this small blast furnace can increase the furnace temperature and provide more heat energy, which is the so-called fire element.
¡°As the blast furnace begins to burn, the heat-conducting copper tubes absorb the heat energy and conduct it
The big guy that Chen Daolin calls the "Tidal Magic Engine Prototype" lifts the lid and you can clearly see the changes.
"I discovered a very special situation. At least as far as I know, it has not been mentioned in any of the existing magical civilization documents of the Roland Empire. This phenomenon, I call it, the tide."
Chen Daolin's tone was a little proud, but when he looked at Carmen, he found that Carmen's expression had not changed much. She was just staring at the "Tidal Magic Engine Prototype" attentively.
Chen Daolin was a little disappointed, but he continued:
"All magic elements have such a law in their operation, which is the law of tide. You must have seen the ebb and flow of the sea. The general meaning is this: when the magic elements move under the action of a certain force When, after this power is exhausted, the magic element will have a return effect, that is, it will return from the end to the starting point. If you make a metaphor, it is like holding a boomerang in your hand, and you throw it out After that, after it flies to a certain distance, it will fly back. It's like a pinball, if you hit it against the wall, it will bounce back."
Of course, the principle of real tides is completely different from that of boomerang bouncy balls. But Chen Daolin could only use this metaphor.
Otherwise, how do you ask him to explain the principle of tides under the action of universal gravity and the gravity of the moon to a native of the Roland Empire?
But even so, Carmen¡¯s eyes lit up quickly!
Chen Daolin continued: "Of course, the effect of tides does not mean that the use of magic elements can never stop.After all, energy is always being consumed. The so-called perpetual motion machine does not exist However, the utilization of this power can be greatly improved. The utilization rate will increase very, very horribly. "
Chen Daolin pointed at his seemingly rough "work".
"Thermal energy oh, it's the fire element. After being absorbed, I made a small fire magic array in this energy exchange room, where I completely activated the fire element. The energy generated came from these conduits. Evacuate it. And here, in the suction wind tunnel, I used several small wind magic arrays to compress the wind and air. Do you mean compression? Just compress the air and wind, compress it to To a certain extent, and then transport it to a closed place, allowing it to explode naturally. When the energy needs to find an outlet, it will burst out from these channels Well, I have strengthened these channels, and Using wind magic, the wind element is compressed inside the pipe, to be precise, it controls the direction of the wind element
You must do this, because you may not imagine how powerful this power can be when it explodes! If it were not compressed by a magic circle, this thing would explode directly. "
The more Carmen listened, the brighter her eyes became!
She couldn't help but get closer to the progress, looking at the humming "tidal magic engine", and saw several special tubes at the end of the engine, leading to one place.
But at the end, there was something covered with a huge black cloth.
At this moment, there was a faint light under the black cloth, and it was obvious that something underneath was "lit".
"What's down here?"
Carmen turned around and looked at Chen Daolin doubtfully: "Can you lift it up and let me have a look?"
A triumphant smile appeared on Chen Daolin's face: "Of course, Mr. Dean! This is the biggest surprise I want to show you today!"
"The biggest surprise? Isn't this tidal magic the biggest surprise?" Carmen's tone was very exciting, but while excited, it was also a bit serious: "Did you know, Darling Chen! It's just about magic elements. Your discovery of tidal action is enough to be written into the history of contemporary magical civilization! The Magic Society will compile your discovery into the history of magic! Your name will appear in the textbooks of the Magic Academy in the future!"
"No, no, no. The discovery of any principle must be used in practical applications to be valuable." Chen Daolin smiled, walked over, reached out and grabbed a corner of the black cloth: "Dean, this is This is the biggest surprise I can show you today! With this tidal magic enginethen, a huge problem that has been bothering me has been solved!"
Having said this, Chen Daolin paused deliberately, coughed again, and cleared his throat: "The following is the moment to witness the miracle!"
After saying that, he suddenly lifted up the black cloth!
In an instant, Dean Carmen let out an exclamation!
The black base, the long black tube, the originally dark body, the tube has begun to condense a faintly glowing energy group!
And under this energy group, the pattern-like magic symbols originally covered on the base are all faintly radiating light! It's like spreading, gradually spreading throughout the body!