Chapter 669 Preparing for Return
A simple hit of one or two bullets would not have a particularly big impact on this powerful soul beast that is good at speed, but a large number of bullets have tracking capabilities, and there are many snipers ambushing in the distance. Under the constant attacks, his speed was immediately reduced significantly.
After the speed is reduced, it means that the hit rate of the remaining bullets increases. If this continues, it will definitely be a vicious cycle.
Originally, this powerful soul beast should have chosen to quickly come to the place where the sniper was ambushing to fight back after realizing that the sniper hiding in the dark was targeting it. This is also a common strategy used by speed-type soul beasts when fighting against enemies who are good at long-range attacks.
Raid can usually be completed within a very short period of time. Then kill the opponent who is not good at defense.
However, the development of things was different from their expectations. Conventional attacks did not work. There were too many snipers and they were distributed in all directions. There was no way to attack at the same time.
When attacking a sniper attacking in one direction, he will often be attacked by a sniper in another direction. Moreover, they are not arranged in a perfect circular position, but are scattered in an area. It was impossible to easily connect all of their positions into a line. When he came to the edge area, then flew along the shortest line, and completed all the kills, he had no idea that he would be worn down by these bullets. How many times have you died?
Lan Nuo was wearing a mecha and had a shield on his linked soul guide. He didn't worry about his defense being broken at all. Instead, he actively faced his opponent and killed him. His current mecha was so powerful. On the one hand, there is no disadvantage in a head-on confrontation with the opponent. With the protection of this layer of shield, it is possible to take the initiative and even eliminate the opponent.
After all, he is a type who is good at speed. If he cannot break the defense in a short time, he will suffer a big loss if he fights with the opponent's strength. And this soul beast was obviously aware of this problem. After colliding with the mecha's iron fist several times, it decisively gave up its plan to continue attacking.
The humans in front of them are obviously well prepared. If they continue to attack, they may lose their lives here.
He decisively chose to turn and flew towards the jungle, because he found that the artillery positions had begun to retreat, and rockets were fired into the air at a high angle.
If he didn't retreat next, rockets and artillery shells would swoop down at him at a large angle, and the power of the bombing explosion on him would not be as simple as bullets.
Just as he judged, these artillery shells and rockets with tracking capabilities quickly flew into the sky, then fell from the sky from the stratosphere, aimed at his location, and flew over. If he hadn't been flying fast enough, a headlong Plunging into the jungle, most of the attacks that relied on optical locking failed to land on his head. At this time, he was probably blown into charcoal, and even the soul ring had condensed.
Lan Nuo looked at his well-preserved camp with satisfaction and continued to launch the attack step by step. Then they would soon use artillery fire to bomb an isolation zone in the forest. In this isolation zone, if there is a soul, As the beasts shuttle through, they will be easily locked by the cannonballs flying in the sky. In the area enclosed by his isolation zone, the soul beasts have basically all escaped. Ground troops can enter this forest and attack the forest. Cut down the tall trees in the middle and transport the wood to the rear to be used as building materials or raw materials for building ships.
In this regard, the empire has calculated very carefully. If all the forests here are razed to the ground through indiscriminate bombing, the shells consumed will be a huge wealth in themselves, and a large amount of military resources will be wasted, while at the same time the benefits will be gained. It was very limited, so they used bombing and burning in the forest to draw an isolation zone. After clearing everything in the isolation zone, they could send troops to garrison the isolation zone, and use sunlight to make the isolation zone high-temperature. The area cannot be crossed by spirit beasts, while ground troops can carry chainsaws to develop the forest in an orderly manner.
The virgin forest has grown here for tens of thousands of years. Many trees are more than a hundred meters tall and several meters in diameter. Even if this kind of wood is cut down to make a canoe, it can be made into an unusually large type. Not to mention making these things into the keels of battleships.
For today's Sun-Moon Empire's industrial capabilities, large-scale construction of ironclads or even all-steel battleships still requires too many resources, especially in terms of metal resources. When industry is just emerging, more resources are still needed. Invest on land. Therefore, more ships in the ocean are actually made of wood, which is more practical. In addition, in this era, using wood to make warships has unique advantages. For example, in these historical forests, there are often quite thick trees. , some trees were originally even plant-based soul beasts. While they were huge in size, they were as strong as steel. When processed into ships, their defense when sailing in the ocean might not be worse than that of an armored ship.
Today, the coast of the New World has developed into the largest port city in the Sun and Moon Empire, has the largest number of shipyards, and has manufactured a large number of fishing boats.
Under normal circumstances, it is difficult for fishing boats to sail freely in dangerous oceans. To the sea soul beasts in the water, the humans on the fishing boats are like walnuts to supplement their brains. Even ordinary people can improve their IQ after eating it.
Under normal circumstances, if a human-driven ship goes out to sea without the protection of a soul master, nine out of ten people will die in the sea. However, the safety of fishermen going out to sea is much higher now. On the one hand, they choose large ships. Many fishermen rent a ship together. A large ship with a length of more than 100 meters is considered a behemoth even in the sea. It is not easy for ordinary sea soul beasts to climb onto the deck to attack. The sailors can poke them all down beside the ship.
The ship will also be equipped with some simple guns to guard against nearby sea soul beasts, and these ships will go out to sea in the form of a team. Each ship will be equipped with at least one cannon. In this way, even if facing a 10,000-year soul beast, the opponent can only choose to retreat when encountering a round of salvos.
As for the 100,000-year soul beast, it is indeed capable of destroying these fishing boats, but they dare not show up easily, because the aircraft carrier fleet of the Sun and Moon Empire has been patrolling this sea area. Military battleships and aircraft carriers are not something that a single 100,000-year soul beast can deal with. After aiming, a round of firepower coverage. Basically, half of their lives are gone.
Under the threat of the fleet, the 100,000-year soul beast dared not attack at will, and the soul beast that was caught could hardly really deal with the fishing boats that made up the fleet.
So they could only choose to avoid the fishing of these fishing boats. This was relatively easy for sea soul beasts. Most of what the fishing boats could catch were just ordinary sea fish. For them, at most, food was relatively scarce than before. Migrate to areas farther away from the coast. The impact was much smaller.
They would not fight with the people on the boat. At most, the soul beasts that were salvaged were of the level of ten-year soul beasts. Soul beasts of this level were not much stronger than ordinary animals. At most, they were slightly stronger. They could not even break free from the fishing nets, which showed that there was not much difference between them and ordinary animals.
Even if such soul beasts were caught, most fishermen chose to throw them back into the sea directly.
It was not that ten-year soul beasts could not be sold for money. Although there was no shortage of soul rings now, and no one cared about ten-year soul rings, the meat of soul beasts was more nutritious than ordinary ones, especially for soul masters.
But selectively releasing ten-year soul beasts is a strategy set by the Sun-Moon Empire government. When low-level soul beasts are captured, they should be released as much as possible. On the contrary, soul beasts with higher ages should be killed as much as possible. Their ability to store soul rings is relatively strong. Even if they are stored for decades, the soul rings will not deteriorate. Soul beasts at the level of ten thousand years are basically grown up, and they are kept alive. From the perspective of humans, it is not economical, because their survival will kill other soul beasts. This will prevent some low-level soul beasts from surviving for more years. The number of soul beasts they kill each year must be more than their own years.
So it is not economical for human soul masters to let such high-level soul beasts continue to survive. Therefore, hunting is encouraged. In contrast, ten-year soul beasts rarely kill other soul beasts with lower ages. Even if they still need decades to grow into hundred-year soul beasts. But it is relatively economical to let them continue to survive in the ocean. The number is huge, and every year is equivalent to increasing the total age of soul beasts in the ocean.
Moreover, their existence is also a low threat to ships, and they can basically not harm these armed fishing boats. Therefore, the Sun-Moon Empire defaults to their survival. The strategy for the sea is to clear the high-level soul beasts in the ocean as much as possible, and to maintain the soul beasts in the ocean as much as possible, with a lifespan of less than 10,000 years.
This is the idea of the Sun-Moon Empire. Because their demand for soul rings over 10,000 years is very low, according to their development model cycle, as long as there are 10,000 years, it is actually enough to meet the most basic promotion of soul masters. They don’t need to give them strong skills to make them qualified workers in the process of industrial development.
It can only be said that high-level soul masters. Individuals with powerful abilities are unstable factors in a country. Their powerful military force forces the country to give them a relatively high status. After all, if they completely break the rules and carry out assassinations, it is very troublesome to prevent them.
After these people obtain a higher status, they will instinctively seek more rights. The ruling class of the country cannot guarantee that powerful soul masters will appear in every generation, which means that the rule may be unstable. Correspondingly, if the highest soul ring in the future is only at the ten thousand year level, although it satisfies the soul master's promotion, even if it reaches the title Douluo, the individual's strength will not be too strong.
It needs to rely on the industrial system and the army to exert its own strength. In this way, it becomes much easier to control. As long as a powerful general and his army are separated, even if he has a powerful linkage soul guide, he can be easily suppressed when facing the legion.
This is beneficial to the rule of the empire. In the long run, the royal family of the Sun and Moon Empire implemented this plan. It is to limit the birth of stronger individual strongmen on this planet. After all, their strategic goal is ultimately to point to God, and if an individual strongman who is strong enough to become a god is born in this world, it means that the gods have an excuse to directly interfere in the human world. And those who have reached this level are absolutely all anti-Guzai. It is impossible to remain loyal to the emperor and patriotic after having such strength.
Lan Nuo had also heard about the ocean strategy of the Sun and Moon Empire, but he had no special idea about it. Although its main body operated a city composed of soul beasts and established a powerful cluster, which was the largest force in the world over there, from his own point of view, it was difficult for a planet to accommodate two intelligent species, and the competition between the two sides would inevitably be a life-and-death struggle.
And he in this world was different from the main body. He was completely on the side of humans. So he had no opinion on weakening soul beasts from various angles.
As for the soul beasts becoming endangered species in the future, they would be artificially bred. Could it be that after humans got rid of hunting and large herbivores in the wild were almost extinct, they could not eat meat?
The fact is just the opposite. After humans entered the industrial age, they raised livestock on a large scale, which actually provided more meat sources than in the primitive age.
Although the soul beasts have a long lifespan, which makes the breeding cycle equally long, Lan Nuo believes that in the real future, if the soul beasts fail to eliminate humans, they will eventually be unable to escape the fate of being raised.
After he completed his first strategic mission on the new continent developed by the Sun-Moon Empire, the time for the exchange and study agreed with Shrek Academy had come.
Although the Sun-Moon Empire said in name that it would help him keep his legion, he could see that although the Sun-Moon Empire trusted him, it was not completely defenseless.
It was calculated that after he set up the army organization, he would have to return to Shrek Academy. During this trip, although the legion still belonged to him in name, it was hard to say how many people from the Sun-Moon Empire were inserted into it.
Lan Nuo did not mind this particularly. It was not that he felt that the Sun-Moon Empire was worthy of loyalty, but the legion at hand was picked up for free anyway, and people were not allowed to make some conditions for things that were given for free.
[To be continued]
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