After leaving the headquarters of Taiping Road, Su Fan once again went on the road alone to visit the great mountains and rivers of Kyushu.
As for Zhang Liao, he was left directly to Zhang Jiao.
Zhang Liao has a good level of strength and cultivation. He is still young and has already reached the level of Grand Master. He will even break through to the level of Jindan soon. He can be said to be a young talent in the North.
But in Taiping Dao, it is actually nothing. In Taiping Dao, many of the disciples who practice martial arts have reached the level of grand master.
Among Zhang Jiao's more than one hundred disciples, almost 70% are above the Grand Master level. Of course, Zhang Jiao is a Taoist sect, so most of his disciples are Taoists.
Of course, this does not prevent some disciples from switching to military martial arts, and all of these people have reached the Grand Master level, and most of them are even at the golden elixir level of martial arts.
For example, Zhang Niujiao is at the golden elixir level, and there are even several god-refining levels.
Zhang Liao is naturally proud, because there are really not many people who can compare with him in Bingzhou. Even the Wang family, the first family in Bingzhou, has many outstanding disciples, but in the same age group, there is no one who can compare with him.
How many.
So Zhang Liao has enough confidence to be proud.
But since being brought to Taiping Dao, Zhang Liao's self-confidence has been greatly affected. Although there are many people on Taiping Dao who are stronger than him and are actually much older than him, there are also several people who are the same as him.
The grades are almost the same, but their cultivation level is in Jindan.
And those people are still practicing Taoism.
Zhang Liao is not an ignorant novice. Compared with martial arts, it is more difficult to advance in the Kyushu as a cultivator. Those who can reach the golden elixir are almost a hundred years old, and some are even hundreds of years old monsters.
But those few are not very senior, but they can cultivate to the realm of golden elixir. And judging from their daily behavior, it seems that this cultivation level is nothing at all. Most of them are either teaching people to read and read, or studying that
What science.
Zhang Liao was not very interested in science. For him, he preferred to be in the military.
Of course, Zhang Liao was naturally very curious about the newly built firearms camp on Taiping Road. The power of those muskets and artillery. Not to mention the muskets, the effect of the artillery really shocked him.
After all, the artillery is more terrifying than the crossbow, especially the explosive shells, the power of the explosion is really strong.
Even he might be in danger when faced with a bombardment from dozens of cannons.
Moreover, he was even more shocked when he heard from Senior Brother Zhang Niujiao that the power of this artillery could be improved, or even doubled.
Of course he knew that the artillery was a deterrent to the cavalry. Once there were thousands of cannons and the roar of artillery fire, the cavalry would probably suffer heavy losses.
After all, the artillery's current range is a thousand meters away, and it would take at least twenty breaths for the cavalry to rush through this distance.
This is enough time for those artillery guns to fire for one round.
Actually even more.
The power of the simultaneous explosion is enough to bombard countless cavalry. Once the range and rate of fire of the artillery can be accelerated, it is conceivable that the cavalry, as the king of the army, may no longer be as powerful as before.
And this is Taipingdao’s unique trump card.
Originally, he didn't care about Taiping Dao. Although he followed his seniors, he didn't think Taiping Dao would have a chance.
But when he saw everything in the valley, he also changed, not only the many strong men in Taiping Dao, but more importantly, the foundation of Taiping Dao.
Those factories were really terrible, and he had heard that the steel in Taiping Road was endless.
Zhang Liao is naturally no stranger to steel.
After all, the armor on his body was forged from fine gold, which was refined from copper and iron.
Only one kilogram of fine gold was extracted from ten thousand kilograms of copper and iron. His armor used at least dozens of kilograms of fine gold.
For this suit of armor, Zhang spent ten years of her income.
Of course, the defense of this armor is indeed terrifying, and it is enough to withstand the attack of the powerful Jin Dan.
Zhang Liang was very clear about the price of copper and iron, and the steel on Taiping Road was almost infinite. The steel that could be seen everywhere, especially steel, was much more and could be used for agricultural tools.
You must know that many places in the North cannot even afford iron.
Zhang Liao naturally knew that steel was better than iron. Whether it was used for weapons or armor, it was much better in terms of sharpness and hardness.
As the saying goes, steel can be made by just tempering it a hundred times. Ordinary iron needs to be tempered hundreds of times to become steel. However, here on Taiping Road, steel can be made directly.
It eliminates the process of ferrite-making steel, and this technology alone is very precious.
Everyone in that 50,000-strong army was in steel armor. Even if they were placed in the North, almost no army could compare.
That is steel armor. Of course, some leather armors in the North combined with iron armor will not be much worse than steel armor in terms of defensive power. After all, it is still a little worse.
Moreover, Zhang Liao knew that the steel armor on Taiping Road was too easy. They had no shortage of steel, so it was not difficult to build the steel armor.
What arsenal, if it works at full capacity in a month, it can produce tens of thousands of steel armors or armors.
The water conservancy forging technology really surprised him. Compared with the water conservancy machinery forging hammer, human forging hammers naturally have no advantage.
The latter's speed and endurance far exceed human capabilities.
Whether it is armor or weapons, Taiping Dao really has an advantage. In this regard, the old forces in the North cannot compare with Taiping Dao.
Even the imperial court cannot compare. If the imperial court was at its peak, it would naturally not be a problem. With its huge manpower and resources, surpassing Taiping Dao would not be a problem at all.
But the current imperial court does not have that kind of power at all. It can only influence the imperial court around the capital, and it no longer has much control over the local areas.
There are more and more ambitious people in the local area, and it is good that they have not stood up to resist the imperial court.
Zhang Liao followed Su Fan all the way and saw too many crises in the court and the decline of the dynasty. He finally understood.
Naturally, he also knew about Taiping Dao and the preparations of the senior. Of course, after seeing everything about Taiping Dao, Zhang Liao was naturally excited.
In his eyes, Taiping Dao currently only has 50,000 troops, but he knows that as long as Taiping Dao wants, it can increase its troops explosively at any time. Fifty thousand, one hundred thousand, or even half a million is not a problem for Taiping Dao.
After all, whether it is soldiers, armor or food, Taiping Road has no shortage at all.
As for manpower, it goes without saying that there are too many people starving to death in the world. As long as they are given a mouthful of food, I don’t know how many people will be willing.
What's more, he knows that Taiping Dao believers can be found throughout Jizhou. ()