Douluo: What the hell is the academic master development system?

Chapter 822 Technological Explosion and Arms Race
"Yes, you're right."

Long Aotian was speechless for not expecting Chen Ping to guess his purpose so quickly, but he still continued.

"Although thanks to you, the Sun Moon Empire's armies on both the Star Luo border and the Heavenly Soul border were driven back, the Sun Moon Empire has not given up its idea of ​​continuing to invade."

"In the past month, although the people of the Sun Moon Empire have withdrawn their tentacles on the Star Luo border, they have been much more active on the Heavenly Soul border than before."

"In the previous border war, an ambush destroyed the forces of two Soul Master Corps of the Sun Moon Empire, and the actions of the Holy Spirit Cult were exposed by the Soul Guidance Manifestation Lamp. These things have indeed made the Sun Moon Empire's border legion panic."

"only."

At this point, Long Aotian seemed to hesitate, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.

"Just what?"

Chen Ping suddenly had a bad feeling.

Logically speaking, the two major Soul Master Corps were completely wiped out. Although only 20% of the Sun Moon Empire's top Soul Master Corps was lost, leaving 80% of its soldiers still capable of fighting, the accounts are not calculated that way.

To put it in perspective, it's roughly like two or three army groups in a military region in Chen Ping's hometown on Blue Star were wiped out in a single battle, leaving the entire military region with virtually no soldiers left to fight.

When this news got back to China, it was enough to cause the Cyber ​​Empire to perish a thousand times over, not to mention that the soldiers of the Sun Moon Empire had personally witnessed their comrades having their souls devoured by evil soul masters.

Under such circumstances, how could the border troops of the Sun Moon Empire regain their morale and rally their strength in just one month?

impossible?

He had specifically calculated that under such circumstances, the army of the Sun Moon Empire would be demoralized and rumors would spread throughout the country before he felt at ease to condense his soul core and go into seclusion to cultivate!

"However, the Crown Prince of the Sun Moon Empire, Xu Tianran, personally led his personal guards, leaving the imperial court and arriving at the border of the Heavenly Soul Empire."

"The first thing Xu Tianran did upon arriving at the Sun Moon Army was to execute Crown Princess Ju Zi on the spot, on the grounds that Ju Zi colluded with evil soul masters and allowed them to devour the souls of soldiers, a crime that could not be punished."

"After that, Xu Tianran spent the next few days comforting the soldiers, even sucking pus from their sores, and eating and living with them. This caused a stir in the army, and the previously low morale quickly rebounded."

I'm crazy.

Upon hearing Long Aotian's words, Chen Ping felt a chill run down his spine and realized that things had gone wrong.

Xu Tianran is a shameless guy who's willing to pull off this whole "recommendation of filial piety and integrity" thing; he's capable of any kind of ruthless act.

The war system of Douluo Continent is ultimately different from that of Chen Ping's hometown, Blue Star. In a country supported by hundreds of millions or even billions of people, it can only support a maximum of ten thousand Soul Masters to fight full-time.

Therefore, Xu Tianran's performance of sucking pus and soothing wounds, sharing meals and lodging with the wounded in front of each 500-man Soul Master regiment, would spread throughout the various Soul Master regiments within a few days. Furthermore, his swift and merciless execution of Ju Zi, the 'mastermind' who colluded with the evil Soul Masters, was seen by most soldiers as a sign of justice being served.

Birds choose good trees to roost in, and scholars will die for those who understand them. In this messed-up world, the Crown Prince's personal guard is second only to the Emperor's personal campaign, let alone the fact that Xu Tianran has put aside all his airs.
This action almost single-handedly reversed the despairing atmosphere within the Sun Moon Empire's army.

Seeing Chen Ping's expression, Long Aotian knew that the other party had guessed something, and added, "You should have guessed it too. After Xu Tianran did this, the soul masters of the Sun Moon Empire completed their reorganization in less than half a month."

"In the following two weeks, Xu Tianran led his troops north and invaded the Tianhun Empire again. Even though the march was difficult due to the weather in the north, and in order to prevent a repeat of the previous border explosion, the Sun Moon Empire still managed to capture four cities of the Tianhun Empire in just over ten days, averaging one city every two days."

At this point, Long Aotian's face showed extreme frustration. They had truly tried their best, but the combined power of several Soul Master Corps was simply too terrifying.

"Although the Sun Moon Empire's advance is already terrifyingly fast, it is actually far from the limit of their invasion speed."

"In order to prevent a recurrence of the border explosion, they worked overtime during the two weeks that Xu Tianran spent entertaining the troops to develop a batch of soul-guided mine-clearing devices, specifically designed to defend against mixed-carrying shells buried hundreds of meters underground."

"We just found an effective delaying tactic against the Sun Moon Empire, and they immediately came up with corresponding countermeasures. How infuriating!"

As Long Aotian spoke, he subconsciously clenched his fists, not even noticing that his fingernails were digging into his flesh.

When Chen Ping heard Long Aotian say that, he could only smile bitterly.

This soul-guided mine sweeper is just sweeping away landmines on Earth. It's just that most soul tools on the Douluo Continent require soul masters to detonate them with soul power. There are no pressure-activated soul tools, which is why the soul-guided landmine technology has never been developed.

As a result, after the old Soul Masters over fifty years old used human detonators to trigger Soul Guidance Cannons on the border, before the true trigger-type Soul Guidance Landmines were even invented, the Sun Moon Empire's research machine was already burning with excitement and had already developed a mine-clearing device.

Technological explosion, arms race!
These eight words flashed through Chen Ping's mind almost subconsciously.

At this time, due to the tug-of-war of war, the Heavenly Soul Empire and the Sun Moon Empire had begun to experience a cycle of weapon iteration with contradictions that was only seen during World War I and World War II.

To defend against infantry, trenches, barbed wire, and machine gun positions were developed. To counter the former, tanks were developed to ignore all of this. The subsequent anti-tank missiles and the reverse sloped armor on tanks were essentially the same.

At this moment, Long Aotian continued, "This is why the Sun Moon Empire's soul-guided mine-sweeping device is not very efficient. It must be operated by a soul master of the fourth ring or above to penetrate an area a hundred meters underground and detect whether a soul master or soul-guided cannonball is hidden there."

"So every time the Sun Moon Empire clears mines, we use your soul-guided grenade launchers to bombard them from more than ten kilometers away, bombard them a few times and then run away. This has reduced their advance speed to one city every two days to some extent."

"Without soul-guided grenade launchers and human soul-guided artillery soldiers, in half a month, let alone losing four cities, the Sun Moon Empire's army is already at the gates, and it's possible they've even reached Tiandou City."

Long Aotian sighed and said, "Our soul-guided howitzers can reach and see the Sun Moon Empire's military formation. The Sun Moon Empire's army can see where our artillery positions are even more clearly and will be able to counterattack quickly."

"If we could block or shoot down all the high-altitude detection soul guides of the Sun Moon Empire, that would be great. We might be able to buy some more time."

(End of this chapter)