After listening to Taoyao's words, Su Wen understood the core reason why Emperor Yan launched a massive attack on Daliang.
The old grudge between the two countries is naturally one of the reasons. Over the years, the Yan State has continued to use various means to create trouble in Daliang, but it has basically failed to succeed.
Now that the reform of the Liang Kingdom is about to be completed and the domestic forces are basically integrated, if the Liang Dynasty is given another ten years to digest the hidden dangers left by the powerful families, neither Yan nor Jingchu will have the ability to fight against the Liang Dynasty.
Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that a very large-scale war was launched against Daliang at this time.
But the real core reason has to fall on Emperor Yan.
Emperor Yan should have also touched the bottleneck area of the extraordinary path. A war to destroy the country was probably a requirement for his promotion ceremony.
Similarly, there are quite a lot of extraordinary military strategists in the Yan State, and they naturally receive their enthusiastic support for large-scale wars.
"well……"
Su Wen didn't expect that when he woke up, the world would undergo such earth-shaking changes.
"Stop sighing and see what you can do."
Taoyao rolled her eyes at Su Wen, turned around and left.
After leaving the courtyard, Su Wencai discovered that the mountain behind the academy had changed.
Except for the peach blossom forest, the rest of the area has been basically leveled and there are many giant trees piled up.
Many students and craftsmen are working enthusiastically under the command of Mr. Academy.
"Are you awake?"
Zhong Wen saw Su Wen, smiled and nodded.
"Senior Brother Zhong."
Su Wen quickly saluted. Along the way, Gugu introduced him to many recent developments in the academy, including his second senior brother Zhong Wen.
After the Yan Kingdom provoked a war, Zhong Wen returned to the academy and opened up most of the back hill of the academy into workshops.
As a scholar of both Confucianism and Mohism, he gathered a group of extraordinary people from the Mohist craftsman sect to build warships for the imperial court. These warships were not used in lakes and seas, but were used to fly across the sky to defend the sky and target extraordinary people and enemy ships.
of.
"No need to be polite."
Zhong Wen had a really good impression of Su Wen: "You should rest for a few days, wait until you get used to the strength in your body, and then find something to do."
"yes."
Su Wen could only nod.
This was the first time he saw the construction of a Mohist ferry warship, and he was naturally very curious about it.
In his sleep, he was also promoted to the Mohist Sequence 4 "Mo Master", and he understood the principles of building the ferry at a glance.
"Are they all temporary warships?"
After walking around the factory, Su Wen was puzzled.
In his opinion, the ferry produced in the academy can only serve a transportation purpose, and from a technical perspective, it can only be used for half a year at most. After half a year, the formations and materials on it will be completely scrapped, and even the value of repairs will be lost.
None of them exist.
"That's right."
Zhong Wen expressed his appreciation for Su Wen's gaze, and at the same time there was a bit of helplessness in his voice: "The battle situation on the front line is not optimistic. These ferries are only used to temporarily transport the army and food. As for the combat effect, we will not consider it at all."
Su Wen felt awe-struck.
From Zhong Wen's words, it can be determined that the situation in the Liang Dynasty under the attack of Yan was much more serious than what was published in the newspapers.
"What is the current situation?"
Following Zhong Wen, Su Wen asked carefully.
"not optimistic."
Zhong Wen said calmly: "At the beginning of the war, Emperor Yan secretly challenged His Majesty."
"Your Majesty...lost?"
Su Wen's pupils narrowed.
"That's not the case." Zhong Wen smiled slightly: "The result can only be said to be a lose-lose situation. Because of this, in order to suppress the injury, Emperor Yan had no choice but to take risks. He had to be promoted in advance. Once the promotion failed, he would die.
The result of Emperor Yan."
"Where is your Majesty?"
"His Majesty's extraordinary path was originally the path of both military master and domineering master. In order to alleviate the injury, he abolished the military master path and used his strength to stabilize the injury."
Speaking of this, Zhong Wen's voice was a little low.
The former is more mature than the latter, as it has stable rituals and can be promoted step by step.
Domination is different. Domination can make extraordinary people burst out with stronger power, but those who cultivate domineering will never live long.
Hegemony cannot last long, this is the law of heaven.
In the past, Ji Changge relied on the power of the military strategist to suppress the backlash of the domineering power and survived until now.
Now that he has lost his military power and is over seventy years old, his life span has actually begun to count down.
"Your Majesty... it's really... it's really..."
Su Wen sighed and wanted to say something, but found that nothing could be said.
An extraordinary person like him who has mastered the historian's path can naturally easily understand the reason for Ji Changge's choice.
Sacrificing the power of the military path, Ji Changge could only rely on secret medicine to maintain his life.
And all his remaining power was sealed, and then he waited for the final battle.
In the final battle of the domineering path, even if Ji Changge only has the power of sequence five, he can still defend the bosses below the saint.
In other words, if Emperor Yan still wants to provoke, or if someone strong enough in Yan comes to challenge him, Ji Changge can drag him to death together.
What Su Wendu knew, Zhong Wen naturally knew too.
If Ji Changge hadn't shown such courage, with Zhong Wen's character, how could he have returned to the academy and helped the imperial court build the ferry warship?
"This is not enough."
Su Wen pondered for a moment, and finally said: "If the ferry fails to form an advantage, no matter how many we build, it will not play a big role. We must give the ferry stronger power, and we cannot let the ferry be used only as a transport ship."
Su Wen once thought about finding a group of Mohist extraordinary people to transform the technology of another world and make this world better and more comfortable. In this way, while benefiting the public, he could also live a relatively comfortable life.
Comfortable days.
It's just that he has been approached by various accidents and unfortunate events all the time, and he is unable to do anything even if he wants to do something.
But now, there are dozens of extraordinary Mohist craftsmen in the academy, as well as Mohist sequence five bosses like Zhong Wen and Tao Yao. Some of his ideas can become reality.
But what I can think about right now is naturally not the things that can make life better, but weapons dominated by extraordinary power.
"gunpowder……"
Su Wen thought of this first.
Even in the extraordinary world, basic physical concepts are followed. Su Wen is very clear about the formula of mononitrate, carbon, and trisulfur. Mixing it with egg white can create granular gunpowder, which can also increase the power.
With gunpowder, hand grenades can be easily manufactured. As for firearms, it is not impossible, but starting from scratch and then deploying them on a large scale will not be possible within a few years.
But it is not difficult to cast artillery, especially the relatively backward bronze and iron cannons.
After Su Wen prepared the basic gunpowder as quickly as possible, Zhong Wen realized the power and magic of this substance, and immediately organized ink researchers to conduct research and then prepare for large-scale production.
After doing all this, Su Wen focused on the ferry. In his idea, changing the ferry into a battleship, then condescendingly firing cannons at the enemy, chasing and killing them, the effect should be good.
——Even if the lethality is low, the psychological shock of the visual effects is full.
Especially in the middle of the night, if Duzhou suddenly bombards the resting camp with ammunition above his head, one can imagine what effect it will have.
"You... what are you thinking about?"
When Su Wen drew up the gunpowder formula, cannon casting process, and battleship drawings, Taoyao looked at Su Wen with a sense of fear.
She is well aware of Su Wen's talent in Mohism, and can even say that Taoyao is an important leader in Su Wen's extraordinary path to Mohism.
What I didn't expect was that making a printing press was just a small test for Su Wen. Su Wen's talent lies in the craft of killing people!
"Knowledge!"
Su Wen patted his head.
In just a few days, the Mohists built the first "battleship" prototype ferry.
More than ten bronze cannons were cast. Zhongwen slapped his forehead and installed all the bronze cannons on the ferry.
The ferry, which was originally capable of carrying five hundred people, could only carry thirty people after loading the bronze cannon and ammunition.
Not only that, the array that supports flying in the air has to be increased by half accordingly, so that the ferry can have enough speed.
After all, in the past battles across boats, warriors from both sides would shoot at each other with bows, arrows, and rockets from a distance. Naturally, no extraordinary person would be involved.
But once unprecedented artillery is installed on the ferry, and one side has an absolute advantage over the other, extraordinary beings will inevitably intervene and attack the ferry.
Then the speed of the ferry must be increased, otherwise it will not be able to fight back under the pursuit of extraordinary beings.
Once the ferry is destroyed in mid-air, the soldiers on it will fall to the ground with no chance of survival.
Following this idea, Su Wen drew the drawing of the parachute bag.
Issue parachutes to each soldier on the ferry so that even if the ferry is destroyed, they will have a chance to escape.
After all, the speed at which Liang Dynasty built ferry boats was much faster than the time it took to train a qualified warrior. The consumption of resources could be easily compensated, but it would take many years to produce a qualified warrior.
Building a new ferry and forming a new army was a major event. After the experimental effect of the prototype ferry reached the standard, Zhong Wen secretly wrote to Ji Changge. Soon, Ji Changge sent Nangong south and arrived at the academy.
After looking at the iron-clad boat on the mountain behind the academy and the heavy bronze cannon on it, Nangong's expression changed: "This thing... is a ferry?"
"If you like, you can call it a battleship, that's what Su Wen said."
Of course, the reason why he was able to calm down was because he had already gone through the period of shock.
When watching the "battleship" take off, bombarding the target with artillery shells, and throwing grenades at the target area, Zhong Wen, who had experienced strong winds and waves on the rivers and lakes, could only say "fuck, f*ck".