However, after crossing a fast-flowing river for more than ten kilometers, Zhang Hao suddenly saw a clear lake. There were beautiful islands here, and there were blooming flowers on the islands.

The clear lake and the dotted green islands are all so beautiful. It's like a fairy tale world.

After experiencing the majestic and dangerous green sea of ​​death, suddenly seeing such a beautiful scenery, many people ran to the side of the ship and exclaimed in admiration.

Only Hua Baixiang laughed lightly, stretched out his hand and shot a small fireball, flying towards a 'small island'.

As soon as the fireball flew out of the side of the ship, it quickly grew in size. By the time it reached a small island directly ahead, it had turned into a raging fire that was hundreds of meters tall.

But when I saw the "flowers" on the island suddenly came to life, they turned into dancing snakes. The flowers turned out to be all kinds of snakes!

And the small island also moved, and it turned out to be a "snapping turtle" about thirty meters tall, wrapped in a shell similar to that of a turtle, wrapped in a body as ferocious as a crocodile.

At this moment, the beautiful lake boiled. The beauty faded in an instant, revealing the ferocity of nature!

Those coquettish "flowers" turned into countless long snakes, with different sizes, lengths, thicknesses and colors.

Some snakes spit black water arrows from their mouths, some attack like water ripples, some send out ice picks to stir up lake water, and some attack directly with their tails.

The snapping turtle also moved, and the snapping turtle that bore the brunt roared, with anger and murderous intent in its majesty. The mouth full of fangs opened, revealing teeth like blades.

The snapping turtle's ferocious eyes stared at the steel giant that was quickly crushing it, and roared again, but saw that the entire lake was boiling, and all the 'islands' began to change. Hundreds of snapping turtles quickly rushed in and rushed towards the battleship.

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Countless demon snakes screamed and rushed high into the sky, forming a cloud that shrouded the sky and blocked the sun.

The lake was filled with the neighing of venomous snakes and the roar of snapping turtles. Black clouds suddenly appeared between the sky and the earth, turbid waves surged into the sky, and the calm lake instantly turned into a boundless forest.

The sky became gloomy, gloomy water vapor rolled around, and the dark wind began to swirl and make a chilling whistle.

Zhang Hao nodded to Dugu Junjie, and Dugu Junjie shouted: "Free attack!"

The next moment, the artillery roared. Every moment, there were shells in the barrel, and there were a variety of shells in order to respond to changes at any time.

Under the dim skylight, the light of the artillery was exceptionally bright. The flames sprayed out more than ten meters away, illuminating the nearby water surface and sky. Some shells fell into the water, but suddenly "small hills" bulged out from the water surface.

In an instant, the hills erupted into water jets, filling the sky with water splashes. Some unlucky snapping turtles were overturned by cannonballs on the spot.

Part of the water column even rushed dozens of meters into the air, scattering the demonic snakes gathered in the sky.

Many air burst bombs exploded in mid-air. Dozens of holes were instantly cleared out of the demonic snakes in the sky, and streaks of skylight fell down.

But this was just the beginning. The three 460mm cannons on the bow of the Iron Duke were finally raised and fired at the maximum elevation angle. The ballistic trajectory was very steep; the bow of the ship was almost pressed down by one meter by the recoil force, and the stern of the ship was raised; the surrounding areas were raised.

The water waves rolled, and the water waves exceeded the height of the deck, but they were blocked by the barrier.

The cannonball flew to an altitude of five or six kilometers before it began to turn around and accelerate its descent. About half a minute later, the cannonball finally fell and plunged into the bottom of the lake.

Then, half of the lake surface within the field of vision began to bulge, and then was broken open crazily. At that moment, it was like a volcanic eruption, water waves rushed hundreds of meters into the sky, and dozens of snapping turtles and countless venomous snakes were washed up into the sky.

, many died on the spot.

The water waves trembled violently, and the waves rushed to the shore thirty or forty meters behind them, and the entire Skull River was muddied.

The remaining demon snakes and snapping turtles struggled in the waves and screamed in terror. Under such a violent explosion, they were too frightened to use any magical powers.

"Continue!" Zhang Hao stood at the bow of the ship and continued to issue the order coldly. After saying that, he turned his head slightly and glanced at Hua Baixiang. The meaning is self-evident. Let me show you the power of the steel battleship and let you know why we are here.

Crossing the Green Sea of ​​Death!

The battleship began to accelerate, and the artillery continued to overturn the water in the distance. The wide lake was completely muddy, and the once clear water began to turn turbid and yellow.

At close range, the crossbows with ropes were fired continuously, and the sharp crossbow bolts penetrated the snapping turtle's carapace, and then... it was dragged onto the battleship!

These snapping turtles struggled wildly, but to no avail. The crossbow bolts were fired one after another, and the struggle stopped after a moment.

There were explosions everywhere in the sky and on the water. Various demonic snakes in the sky were shattered and broken in the explosion. The core of the explosion was even filled with blood mist. Perhaps many demonic snakes could be equivalent to the golden elixir stage, but here

Under such a large-scale explosion, there is still nothing to do.

There were also many demonic snakes and snapping turtles clinging to the bottom of the battleship; but the battleship opened the barrier and kept moving forward; sword lights began to flash on the surface of the battleship's barrier. The sword lights cut through the surrounding water, at least enough to kill the underwater ones.

Attack elimination.

On the ship's side, a ballistae exploded, clearing away the underwater threats. The two warships swapped left and right, clearing each other's underwater parts.

Zhang Hao looked at the battle in front of him and took out a small notebook to record: The next step should be to develop depth bombs, torpedoes, etc. With the current accumulation of technology, it may be enough to develop these things. If it doesn't work, just use magic first.

However, Zhang Hao has always firmly believed that technology is simply not up to the mark, and using spells and formations to assist is just a waste of time. It can only solve temporary needs but cannot last long.

In Zhang Hao's view, physical technology and formations are similar to computer hardware and software. No matter which one is weak, physical technology is the foundation.

Even traditional magic weapon manufacturing requires a good embryo to add advanced formations and then refine an excellent magic weapon. If you use ordinary low-purity dark iron, you may not be able to withstand the energy of the formation, and you will be unable to withstand the energy of the formation.

collapsed.

Zhang Hao was imagining here, but Dugu Junjie had already commanded the battleship to start a mass strangulation. These snapping turtles were almost the same as those in the Nascent Soul stage, but their main defense could not stop artillery and ballistae, and their attack power was not enough to destroy the steel battleship.

However, he became the target of hunting.

A group of soldiers whose average cultivation level barely exceeded the Foundation Establishment stage controlled powerful weapons and began a wave of crazy hunting. A large number of monsters equivalent to the Golden Core stage and Nascent Soul stage died tragically.

The big net was lowered, and the floating snakes on the water were dragged up. In order to prevent problems, they were sealed first, then opened the net, and then piled the sealed things into the warehouse, sealed again for insurance, preservation, etc. and returned

Qixia Kingdom will deal with it later. With so many snakes, there must be something good. The same goes for the snapping turtle.

More than an hour later, the battleship circled the lake, which was about 20 kilometers in diameter, several times before continuing upstream. At this time, there were almost no snapping turtles in the lake.

It was only then that Hua Baixiang finally sighed leisurely: "A very powerful battle. But it always feels a bit cumbersome."

"Hua Protector, this is inland. If you go to the sea, you will understand. The warships here cannot accelerate, and the fastest speed is only 30 kilometers. But on the sea, they can run at a speed of 110 kilometers.

Almost four times what it is now.”

"That's still very slow! You can easily reach this number in one foundation building period!" Hua Baixiang already understands the concept of kilometers and hours. It's easy to learn in people's transformation stage.

Zhang Hao smiled and did not explain. Hua Baixiang was obviously making an argument. It was a typical expression of dissatisfaction and a sour heart.

Sure enough, Hua Baixiang sighed again after a while, "It's a pity that it can only sail on the water and cannot fly to the sky."

Zhang Hao rolled his eyes, you really dare to think about it, but this is the so-called nitpicking. And judging from the current situation, it is simply unrealistic to send this behemoth to the sky.

Hey... a huge thing? Suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in Zhang Hao's head. How could I forget about the airship? Yes, I have been busy with sea traffic for a while and almost ignored the airship. Well, after going back this time,

Be sure to research airships!

When studying airships, we also need to study high-altitude atmosphere and spiritual energy. Master Zhang’s thoughts went off topic again...

After the two warships continued to move forward for about 300 kilometers, they struggled to move until evening, and finally could no longer move forward; even because of the narrow river channel, they had to cautiously retreat for more than one kilometer before they found a place to turn around. The warships are here

After anchoring, Hua Baixiang simply flew away, saying he would come back tomorrow.

Early the next morning, Hua Baixiang came back again, followed by thousands of masters, Nascent Soul Stage, Golden Core Stage, roughly estimated to be at least five thousand. In short, it felt overwhelming, like a vast sea.

Dark clouds are coming.

Zhang Hao looked at it, but his heart was still a little trembling; if so many people attacked, his two battleships would not be able to escape! But fortunately, no problem occurred.

After these people arrived at the shore, under the command of Hua Baixiang, they used magic to level an area of ​​almost one kilometer of flat land. Then everyone sat cross-legged on the spot and took out a large amount of medicinal materials from the storage ring, as well as a large number of

Fine gold, mithril and other relatively excellent spiritual materials began to set up stalls.

Zhang Hao directed the battleship to move a large amount of black iron, elixirs, steel, etc. An unprecedented grand transaction began to proceed in an orderly manner.

Seeing that the transaction was going smoothly, Zhang Hao smiled. The thing he was most worried about did not happen after all. In fact, as Zhang Hao expected, the Red Lotus Sect also needs a lifeline.

Hua Baixiang flew to the bow of the ship alone and found Zhang Hao to negotiate about the artillery.

"Zhang Hao, the Red Lotus Sect has sorted out about 90% of our existing techniques, secret techniques, formations, etc. that are at the Golden Core stage and below. Except for the core techniques of our sect, almost all of them are here.

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As he said that, he took out three boxes of jade slips. Zhang Hao took a rough look and found that in the largest box, there were almost three thousand jade slips, including exercises, formations, spells, etc., as well as some alchemy.

knowledge of the device.

It is indeed worthy of the power of a holy land...well, it is the power of half a holy land. Although these things are relatively common, there are too many of them. At the beginning, the Jiuyang Sect did not even have one-tenth of these!

However, after Hua Baixiang opened the box, she looked at Zhang Hao with a half-smile, "Although these things are ordinary, there are too many of them. If they are just artillery... I'm afraid they won't be enough!"

Zhang Hao simply took out a jade slip and said, "Hua Hua Hua, please look at it. Everything is in it. But how many things can be exchanged depends on the value of the jade slip. Of course, the jade slip is

There is only a brief introduction."

Hua Baixiang took the jade slip and looked at it for a while, and her eyes suddenly shone. Inside, there is 60% black iron mass production technology, which has been made public for free in Qixia Country, but this technology is still precious.

As for the artillery technology, it includes complete drawings, gunpowder technology, and a large number of detailed parameters of the artillery, etc.

In addition, there are ballistae and many good drawings of war weapons. Zhang Hao also took out the drawings of war weapons from the Kingdom of Qixia. Since he no longer needs them, of course he has to reuse them.

Finally, there is also information on battle formations, strategies and other aspects of large-scale wars. It was Zhang Hao who compiled it after seeing the war here.

In the last war that Zhang Hao observed, although there were spells, there were no large war machines, and there was no military discipline or strategy. The two sides were more like a melee.

There were not many things, but they were all crucial. Hua Baixiang hesitated for a long time and had to start a conversation with the profiteer Zhang Hao.

The two people were at loggerheads and refused to give in. They actually discussed it for more than three days. But overall, the profiteer Zhang Hao had the upper hand, because what Zhang Hao brought out was what the Red Lotus Sect needed, and what the Red Lotus Sect brought out,

But it's not that Zhang Hao 'must', that's what Zhang Hao said anyway!

During the negotiation, Zhang Hao pressed forward step by step; in the end, Zhang Hao obtained two volumes of precious 'secret techniques' from Hua Baixiang: Earth Fire Cleansing Art, Burning Immortal Strength, Nascent Soul Level!

"Earth Fire Body Cleansing Technique" is a precious secret method in the Red Lotus Sect. It can further strengthen the body, temper the body, and with some powerful elixirs, it can also replenish foundation problems. This is very precious.
To be continued...