Lord of the Desert

Chapter 444 Lecture
The night of deep conversation passed in the blink of an eye.

The relationship between Xiao Chu and Hong Fan seems to have not changed.

However, from today onwards, whenever there was an important military meeting, the princess would always ask someone to invite Hong Fan to attend the meeting. Although the latter was not good at military affairs, he always responded quickly and spoke clearly, leaving a deep impression on Sheng Yujun.

The next nine days were spent marching and camping.

Along the way, many Qi realm warriors who couldn't stand the loneliness either traveled alone or in groups to leave the camp to hunt scattered soldier insects. Gu Yixin even killed two general insects.

Xiao Chu's complexion improved but he was still busy. With the help of Fei Lian's orders, he integrated and took over the defense of Erbai City in advance.

Relatively speaking, Hong Fan is the quietest one.

Apart from doing some civil engineering work in the sand world when setting up camp every day, he was completely focused on the new way of killing.

Rifling repair, bullet solidification, true essence injection, aiming stimulation...

Through repeated practice while walking, standing, sitting or lying down, the release process of the "cannon" has become more refined and skillful, a bit like the meaning of a book that becomes clear after reading it a hundred times.

Time is like a taut rope, and it reaches the other end with a shake.

March seventeenth.

Shengyu's army arrived at Erbai City.

As the largest city in the west of the valley, this city is as large as it is beautiful. It is adjacent to a large lake called "Youhu" in the north, and has a high curved wall on the south with eleven city gates.

Xiao Chu entered the city at noon and attended the welcoming banquet hosted by the city defender. The first thing he did was to check the city defenses.

Hong Fan followed the team as usual.

Compared with the thick concrete of Feiyan Pass, Erbai City has a particularly strong mixture of old and new.

Several feet thick rammed earth walls, weathered and mottled blue brick facades, towering double eaves of the watchtowers, and insect-proof wooden ceilings...

These are old ones.

The cement hardened walls, large-caliber fixed bronze cannons, wheeled short-barreled cast iron shotguns...

These are new.

This was the first time that Hong Fan had seen so many heavy thermal weapons since he traveled through time. Moreover, they had not been restored or promoted by him, but were purely evolved and nurtured in this world.

Xiao Chu walked up to the horse-faced wall and listened to the garrison of Erbai City explain the burial of explosives outside the city.

Hong Fan followed behind the team, gently touching a heavy cannon.

It is cast from copper-tin alloy, front-loaded, uses black powder and solid bullets, has a firing rate of twelve rounds per hour, and then needs to be air-cooled for an hour to prevent the chamber from exploding.

Very primitive, yet very intimate.

A different world will have a different trajectory.

As Hong Fan thought this way, he sometimes couldn't help but doubt that his actions were wishful thinking. Whenever he thought of this, the experiences and encounters of his past life were like thick ink staining water, gradually dissolving in his memory.

Gods, martial arts, authority, alien races, and even the identity of a martial arts genius...

It has been four years since I traveled through time.

The so-called adaptation is also a kind of soft domestication.

But these primitive and clumsy artillery and the pungent smell of gunpowder were like iron chains, helping him penetrate time and space and connect to the past, proving that everything he had experienced was true.

The flag is flying high.

The top of the city wall is high up and one can have a panoramic view of the surrounding terrain.

Youhu Lake is in the north, with a length and width of about 100 miles, and its deepest point is said to be more than 300 meters.

Hong Fan leaned against the parapet and looked into the distance.

The outer edge of the lake is blue-green, and occasionally a fish jumps out of the water like a short flash of white lightning.

The center of the lake was pitch black, and even the blazing midday sun could not shine through.

There are neat embankments along the banks of Youhu Lake, and the water level is very high, second only to Erbai City, while the flat lowlands between the city and the lake are all farmland.

Such terrain is convenient for irrigation in peacetime and obviously also has military uses in wartime.

After Xiao Chu finished checking the city defenses, he let go of the sweating garrison and called over the city guard.

She first asked about logistics and weapons, then about the placement of military camps, then about the population and the registration of young and middle-aged people, and finally about the wartime conscription sequence...

Hong Fan followed behind, listening inattentively, his mind distracted.

He didn't know how much power would be unleashed when half a million people faced a war in which they would either win or die.

He also didn't know how many troops the Zerg could breed in the lush and green Sanshan Basin.

But Hong Fan knew in his heart that the outcome of this battle would not be entirely determined by the battlefield.

After all, Gu Xiqianli was just the outer edge of the raging storm.

The capital is like the calm eye of the storm.

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Two days later, March 19th.

noon.

In the exquisite courtyard specially set aside by the Wei family, Hong Fan had three bowls of rice with a plate of stir-fried lettuce and two fresh lake fish for lunch, and then studied the killing method in the courtyard.

No one understands the difference in power between bolt-action and fully automatic better than him.

Over the past ten days, through countless mechanical exercises, Hong Fan shortened the time it took to fire the first shot to three seconds, and the time it took to fire the second shot to one second.

From a procedural perspective alone, each step of the killing method has been solidified into instinct, with little room for reduction; and the excess heat energy generated by continuous firing will quickly affect the strength of the barrel, which can only be alleviated by replacing hot and cold sand flows.

After much experimentation, the best way to go further is to switch from a single barrel to multiple barrels.

New software brings new hardware requirements.

Greater amount of true energy, stronger true energy output power, and faster thinking speed and nerve reflexes.

"I'm afraid the cultivation of the innate two can't solve these problems."

Hong Fan tried for a long time and came to a conclusion.

At Shenshi (three o'clock in the afternoon), Xiao Chu's personal guards came to invite him, saying that the eldest princess was going to give a lecture on the topic of real insects.

Southwestern section of the city wall.

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As soon as Hong Fan entered the city, he smelled a faint fishy smell.

After entering the lobby on the first floor of the watchtower, he briefly responded to everyone's greetings and walked a few steps inside before seeing the corpse of a general insect placed on a thick rice stalk.

There were no seats in the hall. There was only a pot of water, a knife, and a pile of scrolls placed on the eight-immortal table by the wall.

Soon, everyone arrived.

Those taking the course included all the Purple Ribbon Xiantian, Gu Yixin, including Hong Fan, as well as a dozen newly promoted mid-level generals of the Shengyu Army.

The speaker was Xiao Chu.

"The evolution of true insects is very profound. Our dynasty's weaponry department has studied it based on the foundations of previous dynasties and has made a lot of progress, but it is still not exhaustive. Understanding this knowledge is very useful in combat. I have always wanted to tell you about it, but unfortunately I don't have the chance."

"I have had some free time these past two days, so I asked Lord Wei to personally catch a general insect and bring it back as an example."

She was wearing a set of gilded chain mail today, with a purple gold hairpin tied in her bun and her eyebrows drawn.

"Two thousand years ago, the Ancestral Dragon passed on dragon blood and martial arts to our clan, and called them our relatives."

"After that, the gods followed suit, choosing a tribe as their close followers and bestowing their favors on them. The Nine-Headed Snake God scattered blood among the snake people, establishing the Path of Blood; the Sea God shared the True Fire with the sea people, passing on the Path of Fire; the Mountain God bestowed wisdom on the Northern Wasteland Stone Beast, turning it into a giant spirit."

"The Zerg were initially chosen by the Tree God for their terrifying numbers and adaptability, but they began to decline over the next few hundred years due to their individual weakness and low intelligence. The Tree God could not bear this, so he personally transformed them for over a thousand years. You may not know that the Zerg encountered in each dynasty were very different."

After Xiao Chu finished his opening remarks, he gestured backwards.

Hu Zhuang unfolded a scroll and hung it on the first white wall.

The scroll is titled "The Four Limitations of the Primitive Zerg", and below it are four color pictures, all drawn with a wolf-hair brush, with exquisite and realistic details.

Each of the four pictures has a subtitle:

Respiratory system – energy production;
Circulatory system—energy transport;
Skeletal system—strength and size;

Nervous system—reaction speed.

"I'll tell the diagram."

Xiao Chu took the sheathed long sword from the table and pointed at the first picture.

"First, the primitive Zerg use inward-facing spiracles and have no lungs, so they cannot efficiently take in and out air, and their breathing efficiency is very low."

"Second, the primitive Zerg's mesoderm is poorly developed, and they use open-tube circulation. These two words are generally used inside organs. You can understand it as having no structures like blood vessels, and the tissues are directly immersed in the blood."

She glanced at Hong Fan when she mentioned the Director of Equipment.

"Without blood vessels, protozoa cannot circulate blood at high pressure and speed like humans and animals. When fighting, they can only focus on distributing nutrients by 'local hyperemia', and the circulation efficiency is very low."

"Third, the chitin exoskeleton of the protozoan has two disadvantages. The first is that it is fixed once formed, and can only shed its skin to grow. The second is that it is not strong enough. It is far inferior to the hard bones of my race and cannot support a body that is too large."

"Fourth, the protozoan's nervous system is a reticular structure without myelin. According to the thunder warriors, the signal is scattered and leaks electricity everywhere. The data obtained from the live test of the previous dynasty estimated that its conduction speed is about one meter per second. Once the body size is large, it will be difficult to take care of both ends."

The illustrations are generally easy to understand and although the warriors generally have a low level of education, they can still grasp the general idea.

Although Hong Fan had a blank expression on his face, he felt a distorted sense of surprise in his heart - a princess from a pre-modern country could actually talk about the nervous system.

Dahua is not an industrial country, but it is not an agricultural country either.

It is a martial arts country.

Many things in the Kingdom of Martial Arts cannot be viewed according to the common sense of the previous life.

For example, the diameter of a nerve cell is tens of microns, similar to a relatively thin hair, and its structure is clearly visible to a Qi realm warrior.

As for things like gas exchange efficiency and electrical signal transmission efficiency, you can get a rough idea of ​​them by working with a few wind and thunder warriors.

Based on Hong Fan's many years of experience, the research of the Qizuojian in the field of the study of things has actually been very in-depth, but the problem is that this knowledge only remains at the level of knowing the facts, and secondly, it has not been systematized and cannot be transformed into application.

This is not difficult to understand.

Warriors are a combination of humans and tools, possessing both knowledge and violence. They have no motivation to popularize their achievements to the lower classes, but instead indulge in philosophical thinking that does not rely on external things.

Martial arts, as the largest tree in the world, cuts off most of the sunlight and nutrients. Although its canopy shields humans from wind and rain, it also prevents them from seeing other scenery.

(End of this chapter)