Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 307 Is this "Advanced Mathematics"?
Yun Family Manor is a large farm, which is not well-equipped for defense. Even though Yun Ce had long ago used the river bends to form a network of waterways and planted a large number of cypress trees in some important places as part of the barrier network.

However, such protection may be effective against a small number of enemy troops. Once the Guifang people mobilize tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of troops, the trees will be cut down and the river network will be filled in. At best, it can only slow down the enemy's advance.

However, Yun Ce had already calculated that a small place like Yun Clan Manor was not enough to make the Gui Fang people mobilize tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of iron cavalry to attack it. After all, the Gui Fang people also had to consider the economic benefits of deploying troops.

Only a powerful warlord like Cao Kun deserves a large army to attack him; a small place like Yun Clan Manor is usually only attacked by a small force.

Even if Yun Ce defeats the detachment, the Gui Fang people probably won't continue to cause him trouble. In any case, any piece of land beyond the Great Wall is more valuable to attack than Yun Clan Manor.

If we can't conquer it, we can't conquer it. Once the Guifang army sweeps across the Great Wall, no matter how powerful the Yun Clan Manor is, it will be unable to survive independently because it is surrounded by the vast ocean of Guifang people.

It is simply a skin condition called scabies.

What the Guifang people considered a minor ailment was actually extremely deadly. The Guifang people's strongest troops were all in the vanguard, and their absolute strength was basically supplied to the vanguard. The remaining limited resources were used on the left and right flanks of the vanguard, as well as the central army position.

As for the rear guard, it has always been mainly composed of the elderly, weak, women and children, who are also the main force in supplying the army's logistics.

Yun Ce's main target will be the logistics personnel. He is not strong, but the Gui Fang people's logistics are definitely much weaker than his.

When he continues to attack the Guifang's logistics and gains a great reputation, many virtuous and ambitious people will come to join him. At that time, he will definitely not be like he is now, where even a cavalry of five hundred men is unwilling to follow him.

This is actually a strategy that Yun Linchuan and his group had already used before. Now that Yun Ce has picked it up again, it still has great potential. After all, a strategy is not afraid of being old. As long as it works, it is a good strategy.

For Yun Ce, Yun Clan Manor, Xiangcheng, and even Jingkou Pass could be abandoned. The place that truly needed to be defended in the long term was Jin Suo Pass. Jin Suo Pass was located in the Yanran Mountains, with a strategic and secluded location. It was also connected to the Great Wall by tunnels and stored a large amount of grain inside.

Even if the Guifang people occupy the Great Wall, Yun Ce's army can still pass through Jin Suo Guan and enter and leave Chang'an with ease, greatly increasing their chances of survival.

Yun Ce invited Wu Tong to visit the secret base at Jin Suo Guan, but Wu Tong refused to go. He was now more interested in why the Yun Clan Manor could produce so many children with Qi Sentiment at such a high rate.

In the Han Dynasty, a child with a sense of Qi and one without are completely different species. A child with a sense of Qi, even if born into poverty, will be recruited by many people and organizations. Even the least promising one can become a guard in a caravan. Among the common people of the Han Dynasty, such a person is considered a superior person.

In ordinary Han Chinese families, it would be remarkable if one out of a hundred children possessed the ability to sense Qi. However, in Yun Family Manor, the proportion of children with the ability to sense Qi exceeded half. This has left Wu Tong in a state of extreme shock ever since he discovered this secret.

Because this is a new beginning.

Lei Ming's internal energy flowed like pearls. Wu Tong cut off his internal energy, but the internal energy did not stagnate as he expected, repeatedly impacting the blocked area. Instead, it quickly sought other pathways to maintain Lei Ming's external power manifestation.

Based on this alone, Wu Tong felt that he was far inferior to this twelve-year-old boy, not to mention that this boy already possessed strength surpassing that of an ordinary centurion.

Having acquired internal energy, the next step is a long period of accumulating it. For thousands of years, no one has been able to skip this accumulation process. However, applying this to Lei Min now is not appropriate.

As for Yun Ce, he is not a Han Chinese at all, and Wu Tong never used his performance as a model.

Lei Ming was burned by the ancestral fire, which caused the mutation. The four children who were burned with Lei Ming also performed exceptionally well and basically reached the strength of a hundred generals. However, they were far inferior to Lei Ming.

At the same time, Huo Wudi was also being studied by Wu Tong. This girl had been very low-key since she came to Yun Clan Manor. She often hid in the girls' dormitory and didn't come out. She could get along well with everyone. Apart from frequently changing dormitories, she had no other problems.

After examining Huo Wudi, Wu Tong was quite upset. Huo Wudi, who originally had no internal energy at all, had developed a surging internal energy in his body after only fifteen days in the Yun family. Although he had not yet reached the strength of a hundred-man general, he was not far off.

Huo Wudi had no sense of Qi, so the sudden flow of Qi like pearls was naturally very strange. When asked, the little girl shrugged and said she knew nothing, explaining that she had internal energy while sleeping.

Wu Tong, being the kind of person he was, quickly found the young girls with internal energy who had lived with Huo Wudi. After examining them, he discovered that not only was the internal energy of these children weak, but it was also slightly depleted.

Seeing this, Wu Tong immediately understood where Huo Wudi's internal energy came from. He even asked the children if Huo Wudi had done anything special when she was with them. The children said that apart from sleeping on a large communal bed, they did nothing special except play and practice martial arts.

"Huo Wudi is a witch."

Wu Tong grabbed Yun Ce, who was about to inspect Jin Suo Guan, and whispered quietly, deliberately avoiding others. Yun Ce looked at Wu Tong for a long time, and then whispered back, "It's not a witch, she's just unlucky."

Wu Tong gritted her teeth and said, "He Junnian!"

Yun Ce chuckled to himself. Even Wu Tong couldn't stand Huo Wudi, who was passively stealing other people's inner energy. If he knew what he and Gouzi had done, wouldn't he explode on the spot?
Yun Ce knew about Huo Wudi's situation, and it was his idea to arrange for her to live in the girls' dormitory. He also specifically instructed Huo Wudi to frequently change dormitories.

Huo Wudi couldn't absorb his inner energy, nor could she absorb Lei Ming's inner energy, nor could she absorb the inner energy of the four young men and women who had reached the strength of a hundred generals. At present, she could only let the inner energy of those children with inner energy drift out faintly through some simple physical contact, ultimately benefiting her alone.

On one hand, Yun Ce was going to inspect Jin Suo Guan. On the other hand, he also planned to secretly leave Jin Suo Guan to capture a high-level martial artist and have Huo Wudi try to absorb his inner energy. If not, he would use Gouzi as a medium to raise Huo Wudi's inner energy level first.

After all, Huo Wudi was the best candidate to lead the Tiger Legion.

After tricking Wu Tong into directing his hatred towards He Junnian, Yun Ce happily ran towards Jin Suo Guan.

That's right, they went there on foot. After returning to Yun Family Manor, the chestnut horse ran away and disappeared in less than two days. The black eagle from the family also went missing at the same time.

Yun Ce didn't care. He thought that after listening to him, the chestnut horse and the black eagle went to form a beast army. If the two of them really put together a beast army, Yun Ce was prepared to teach the chestnut horse an unprecedented lesson to punish it for deceiving him.

Huo Liao is a remarkable person.

He led 20,000 strong laborers from the Yun clan to clear mountains and split rocks in the Yanran Mountains for a full year and a half.

With the help of the bombs, the second peak of Yanran Mountain has been completely transformed by him and his men, losing its original appearance.

The term "splitting mountains and breaking rocks" did not originally exist in the Han Dynasty. It only appeared in the work dictionary of Huo Liao and his group of senior craftsmen after the Yun family acquired bombs.

The original methods of burning and then pouring water, or using axes and chisels to open mountains, have been completely abandoned by Huo Liao. These methods can only be used for minor repairs after the initial structure of a large project has been formed.

After the originally gentle mountain peaks were straightened, they became sheer cliffs. Walking on the narrow passage in the middle, you can only see a sliver of sky when you look up.

This narrow passage is two miles long, with many hidden passages carved into the rock walls on both sides of the cliff. Once an enemy enters this narrow passage, no matter how many come, they won't be enough to die.

Upon reaching the end of the narrow passage, one is about to face the heavy iron gate that Yun Ce had seen before. It is obvious that Huo Liao has improved the way this heavy iron gate, which weighs forty or fifty tons, opens and closes. Yun Ce can see clearly that closing this iron gate only requires six strong men to push it with brute force, and similarly, opening it only requires six people.

"I used the power of the underground river."

Yun Ce glanced at Huo Liao and said, "The underground river is at least five miles away from here."

Huo Liao stared into Yun Ce's eyes and said, "Who said that? The underground river is right under your feet, Master."

Yun Ce gasped and said, "You brought the underground river here?"

Huo Liao laughed and said, "The geology here is special. There are underground passages everywhere, eroded by groundwater. I just accidentally discovered another underground passage. I built a dam on the underground river to raise the water level, and then poured the water into this newly discovered underground passage. I have enough water power to drive the door to open and close."

Yun Ce looked around but couldn't see the outlet of the underground river. Huo Liao laughed smugly, "Open the gate to draw water, close the gate to release water, and the water will circulate back and forth. If you don't want the city gate to open, just stop releasing water. If the enemy wants to open this iron gate, they will need the strength to lift a million catties of water."

Yun Ce smacked his lips and said, "Have you figured out 'Advanced Mathematics'?"

Huo Liao led Yun Ce to the mechanical house by the cliff, pointing to the thick and ingenious steel interlocking mechanism inside, and said: "This is what I obtained after studying 'Advanced Mathematics'."

Yun Ce's gaze was like steel needles, trying to pierce Huo Liao's eyes, and he said in a shrill voice, "That's completely impossible!"

(End of this chapter)