Douluo starts with the Pea Shooter

The equipment of the soldiers of the Red Dust Family is indeed quite excellent. In the feudal era, smelting steel was a very difficult situation. Even in the Sun and Moon Continent, where metal resources are richer than Australia, large-scale forging of armor and weapons is also a very labor-intensive and resource-intensive task when metal smelting technology is not advanced.

A simple calculation will show that the mining process requires digging mines, doing heavy physical labor in mines that may collapse at any time, transporting the collected minerals to the blast furnace, and then digging coal and cutting trees. This depends on how far the coal is from the iron mine. If there is no coal mine, it is also necessary to burn the trees into coke, which requires a lot of manpower and material resources. Finally, the smelted steel will be handed over to the forger to forge into weapons.

The manpower and material resources required for a weapon are far from the consumption of the blacksmith's hammering, but are more than ten times or even dozens of times the labor intensity of the blacksmith. It takes dozens of off-duty people to work hard for several weeks to get one.

For the productivity of the feudal era, excellent weapons of the army are absolutely very expensive. If an empire is often occupied by millions of soldiers and armor, it can basically be regarded as a warlike aggression.

But the Hongchen family has a natural advantage in this regard. The martial souls of the main masters of the Hongchen family are all three-legged golden toads. The talent of this martial soul is to control metals. The purity of the minerals in the Sun and Moon Empire is very high. Only the simplest smelting is needed. The metal minerals and coal are piled together and ignited. The masters of the Hongchen family can directly use their martial souls to control the restored elemental metals, gather them together, and turn them into pure metal elements. If you want to smelt carbon steel, it is just when extracting metal elements. Mix some carbon powder, forge and mix them evenly in a high temperature state, and you can get steel with quite good strength.

As for casting these steels into armor and weapons, it is even simpler. The masters of the Hongchen family can control solid metals like controlling flowing water. All metals in their hands are like T1000, and can be kneaded into various shapes at will.

If this kind of martial soul takes the path of industrialization, it will definitely develop very rapidly. When humans process industrial products, one of the biggest troubles is that those materials that can withstand high-intensity reactions are often very strong. Just like steel, it has high strength and high ductility, but it cannot be forged by manpower. It must be heated to high temperature and softened before it can be processed.

This makes precision control difficult and the cost of processing high. For example, the Hongchen family can knead metal like plasticine, so it will be very easy to process gears, connecting rods, springs, and bearings. If the thinking is not restricted, high-precision machine tools are also easy to manufacture.

Unfortunately, the scientific thinking in the feudal era was quite backward, so the Hongchen family only used their own abilities to cast weapons and armor. It was not until the soul guide was introduced to the mainland that they found that their abilities were very compatible with the production of soul guides. This is how they embarked on the road of soul guide production and became a famous soul guide family in the Sun and Moon Empire.

It has to be said that the Red Dust Legion is definitely well-equipped among the feudal armies. Although not all soldiers are wearing plate armor, they are wearing armor on key parts. The weapons in their hands are of high quality. Whether it is a short sword or a spear, they are hard and sharp. In comparison, the quality of the original weapons of the Imperial Army is uneven.

Perhaps some weapons are of better quality than those of the Red Dust Family, but more are inferior products in comparison, without the ability to soften the technology. It is very difficult to achieve the standardization of weapons like the Red Dust Family.

Lan Nuo also discovered this situation, so he directly replaced the equipment of some people with assault rifles and sniper rifles. As for light and heavy machine guns, Lan Nuo is not so cruel. It is enough to defeat the opponent, and there is no need to massacre.

Everyone is charging in a neat queue, and then you bring out a heavy machine gun, it's like cutting wheat. After the battle, don't think about taking prisoners, basically all of them will be shot to death.

Although the soldiers only received the simplest shooting training, one of the biggest advantages of firearms is that they are easy to use. When flintlocks and even matchlocks were first invented, they were able to replace bows and arrows not because they were more powerful than bows and arrows. In fact, the newly invented muskets were quite weak and not as powerful as bows and arrows. One of the most important reasons for their replacement was that the training was very simple. It only took a few months to train qualified archers, while it took several years to train qualified archers.

Modern firearms are even easier to use. As long as you understand the principle of three points and one line, you can basically learn how to use them in one afternoon. To deal with a group of guys with swords and spears, you don’t need high shooting skills. Everyone is pulled within a range of 100m, and then lined up to shoot.

The Holy Dragon Legion lined up here to shoot the enemies of the Red Dust Legion.

Seeing that the distance was 100 meters, the legion of the Holy Dragon Empire stopped. The Duke of Red Dust thought that the opponent was afraid because of the huge gap in weapons and equipment between the two sides. After all, the guy standing in the front row, holding a fire stick and not even wearing armor, looked too much like cannon fodder.

Then he saw these people raise the fire sticks in their hands and clumsily start to operate them. They were not familiar with the weapons in their hands after only a short shooting training. Lan Nuo even dared to let them line up in one row. If they lined up in two rows, Lan Nuo was worried that the people in the back row would accidentally shoot through the heads of the people in the front row.

Even so, the weapons in their hands were too advanced. Compared with cold weapons, they had already crushed more than one technological gap. As long as they aimed at the dense formation of the enemy and pulled the trigger, they could harvest the enemy's life.

As a round of uneven shooting sounded, a group of people in the front row of the Red Dust Legion fell down inexplicably. They could only hear the sound of explosions and see the fire from the muzzle of the opponent's gun. They could not see the bullets at all, and they died.

Those who were still alive immediately regarded this as a terrible curse. For a time, there were thousands of soul masters who could cast curses, and such rumors spread in the army.

Although they had to continue to move forward under the military order, they launched a charge towards the position. But morale has dropped to the bottom, and the soldiers in the front row keep falling under the harvest of bullets, as if they will die inexplicably after rushing across a certain line.

This weird scene almost instantly broke the soldiers' inner defenses, and the continuous deaths put the legion on the verge of collapse.

The Duke of Hongchen widened his eyes, looking at the scene on the ground in disbelief, and looked at Lan Nuo angrily. This is a conspiracy, a conspiracy against the Red Dust Legion. On the surface, it said that it wanted to fight alone and stop all super powers from being used among the soldiers, but secretly, it had replaced the soldiers with super weapons that could be used by one against a hundred. Now it is unrealistic to continue to use super powers to influence the army, because the Duke of Hongchen clearly felt that his legion was on the verge of collapse, and could provide him with power.

In contrast, the Holy Dragon Legion was naturally growing while the other was declining. Although it did not defeat the enemy in a tragic close combat, the morale boost brought by killing the enemy in person was quite terrible. The momentum released by Lan Nuo was so strong that the Duke of Hongchen could hardly breathe.

"No! If we continue, the legion will collapse, and all that's left is to capture prisoners! We must stop the morale of the Holy Dragon Legion from continuing to rise, otherwise even if the reinforcements of the Sun and Moon Alliance arrive, it may be difficult to defeat the monsters in the sky."

Yu Hongchen gritted his teeth, bypassed Lan Nuo, and rushed towards the giant cannon position in the rear, shouting as he rushed: "Despicable enemy, not keeping his promise, using extraordinary power in battle, I will destroy the source of their extraordinary power, everyone hold on! Even if I die in battle, I will definitely destroy the source of the ancestral curse."

The commander's leading by example and his promise to break the death curse immediately raised the morale of the Hongchen Legion, which had already fallen to the bottom. The archers began to counterattack in the direction of the Holy Dragon Legion. Both sides were now without cloud protection. Whether it was bullets or bows and arrows, they all caused real damage. As the rain of arrows fell, the frequency of shooting began to decrease after the front row of the Holy Dragon Legion soldiers were injured. The Hongchen Legion seemed to be about to launch a counterattack.

Yue Hongchen rushed to the position of the giant cannon at high speed. He naturally knew that the curse was not caused by these giant cannons, but as the commander, he had to do something. If he continued to confront the opponent's commander in the air, he would only face defeat.

It was very important to destroy the defense position of the giant cannon. If it could not be destroyed, when the reinforcements arrived, they would also be subjected to waves of fierce firepower and would be weakened to a low point before they could fight.

But these defense towers were not so easy to deal with. Not only the giant cannons, but also the Eiffel Tower and the Mayan Light Prism Tower launched attacks on him. Thunder and lasers fell on him first. If it were not for his own strong defense and the huge power given to him by the legion, this series of attacks would have been enough to make him disappear into ashes.

Even if he did not disappear into ashes, the heavy artillery fire that followed would have been enough to seriously injure him. However, the giant cannon was indeed not suitable for dealing with high-level strongmen. The reaction speed and movement speed of the strongmen were too fast, and weapons with trajectories such as cannonballs could be avoided.

More than 40 shells from the giant cannons did not hit Yue Hongchen, but passed by him. However, after these shells flew past, the trajectory of their flight became a little strange.

Lan Nuo was stunned for a moment, and found that the speed of these shells falling suddenly became faster. Even if they did not hit, the shells should have fallen on the open space in the distance. Judging from the current falling trajectory, they should have fallen into the Holy Dragon Legion.

Without the protection of the clouds, these shells were enough to harvest tens of thousands of lives on the plain. Lan Nuo had no time to think more. He turned into a stream of flames and appeared above the Holy Dragon Legion. The weapon in his hand turned into a green umbrella. The Hunyuan Pearl Umbrella suddenly enlarged under his control. After injecting a huge amount of soul power, the umbrella became a shield and blocked the back of the legion.

Fortunately, Lan Nuo was so strong in his current state that the explosion bombarded the umbrella surface, but it did not break the defense at all. After all, the attack that the legion defense of the Red Dust Legion could block, Lan Nuo had absorbed the power of the legion and there was no reason why he could not block it.

But Yue Hongchen's deadly Jedi counterattack also taught Lan Nuo a lesson. When he saw the Duke of Hongchen attacking the defensive position before, Lan Nuo didn't stop him at all. After all, Red Alert is a tower defense game, and the output capability of the defense tower is very high, so you can just rush into the defensive position. In less than a minute, the Light Prism Tower and the Magnetic Storm Tower can blast Yue Hongchen, who has lost the source of cloud gas, into rubbish.

But I didn't expect that this guy actually thought of using the cannon shells to bombard the Holy Dragon Legion. The Hongchen family has the ability to control metal, and as the head of the Hongchen family, this ability is naturally more powerful than the control. The softness and hardness of the metal can naturally control the flight trajectory of the metal. It is also possible to force the cannonballs to exert a downward force and let them hit the Holy Dragon Legion.

Thinking of this, Lan Nuo suddenly realized something and shouted at the people in the front row of the legion: "Throw away your guns! Retreat to the back row, and the pikemen step forward to prepare for close combat!"

This order is extremely strange, but most soldiers will still subconsciously carry out the commander's order, so even if they are reluctant to give up, most of them still throw out the guns in their hands. A few people who do not follow the order are reluctant to let go of the guns in their hands and still snap the guns crazily. Pulling the trigger to shoot, the barrel of the gun suddenly deflated, and the gun in his hand exploded. Only then, these guns turned into a metal hedgehog. Those who didn't let go, their hands were pricked with blood. dripping.

Of course, Yue Hongchen could control more than just cannonballs. After realizing the working principle of these metal pipes through observation, Yue Hongchen also immediately thought of countermeasures, crushing everyone's gun barrels at the same time. This consumes a lot of energy. Very rarely, even without using the power of the Legion, he can do it without anyone interfering.

Originally, this move should have been quite effective in killing people, but unfortunately Lan Nuo's reaction speed was also very fast. When defending against the explosion, he had no time to take care of Yue Hongchen, but he immediately ordered the soldiers to throw away their guns. Only a few Ten people disobeyed orders and were killed by explosions and deformed metal.

Bang!

Lan Nuo suddenly appeared behind Yue Hongchen. During the previous battle, he had quietly left the coordinates of Flying Thunder God on Yue Hongchen. In order to prevent him from continuing the exam, this time he appeared directly and instantly on Yue Hongchen. behind him, and knocked him down from the air.

"How careless! But in the next close combat, don't even think about having another chance to play any tricks."

[To be continued]

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