In the world of departed gods, the war that has engulfed the entire continent has been going on for four years now, and all the warring parties have long been tired of it, but everything continues due to the impossibility of overcoming the “trench impasse.” Hundreds of thousands fell under machine guns in fruitless attacks on barbed wire on both sides. There is a stable but shaky balance at the front, and the one who can break through a well-equipped front will win. Disgraced after the crash of an airship, written off from the army due to shell shock, the imperial knight Savva Kobchik, deep in the rear, creates not only a tractor plant, but also self-propelled combat vehicles based on steam tractors... With the formation of the Retsk Guards “iron” brigade of armored vehicles, the opportunity became available to win the war... But how can you win peace after the war? Will a former student of the Timiryazev Academy succeed? - that’s the question.