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Zhang Mu strolled to the cave base early in the morning, saying that "it's a good thing to taste earthly food occasionally."
Then, while eating and chatting, he inadvertently revealed that the construction progress of Yingguo's spacecraft project has surpassed yours, and Amei has also caught up.
This lie is not clever, it can even be described as clumsy. As long as China and Britain get on the same page, it will fall apart on its own.
However, Zhang Mu was not worried because it was impossible for the two countries to share the specific details of their respective projects.
Although the two countries have good relations, there is also competition, especially regarding matters related to spacecraft landing on the moon, which is about who can be one step faster on the road to extraordinary success.
The Queen is ambitious, and China is unwilling to be outdone, so it will naturally keep the details secret.
After saying this, Zhang Mu caught a glimpse of the director becoming anxious, twisting his butt uncomfortably on the stool. He guessed that he was probably in a hurry to leave and gather his men to discuss how to speed up the construction of the spacecraft.
This was the scene he wanted to see, so he did not delay the director and stood up to say goodbye.
After returning to the "world", he did not practice meditation and knighthood. He opened the door to the Thor continent to check the upcoming war and Lake's preparations, and to inquire about the enemy's news.
Know thyself, ever-victorious.
Zhang Mu was not an expert in warfare, but he still understood this basic principle.
If he thinks that his Blue Star technology and magic weapons are enough to easily defeat the coalition forces, then he will definitely lose miserably in the end.
After arriving in Lake, Zhang Mu went to the palace as usual, found the king who was training, and asked about the recent actions of the coalition forces and Lagu.
The king led Zhang Mu to the study, rummaged through a pile of rough papers on the table for a while, pulled out two sheets, and while looking down at them, he turned around and told the story.
Probably because the cat girl's mantra is about to lose its effect, the coalition forces have been getting restless recently.
First, they deployed troops on the border and sent small groups of troops to provoke on the border every day.
Lake is now busy organizing his army and has no time to send troops to drive them away. Seeing this, the coalition forces became more arrogant and sent people into cities near the border, spreading the word that surrender would not be killed after the war, in order to disrupt the people's hearts.
The effect was good. The king received intelligence that many acting city lords had already been secretly contacting the coalition forces.
This situation was not unexpected. After all, in the eyes of others, Lake, who was targeted by the gods, would not be able to survive the subsequent continuous attacks even if he did not lose this battle.
Zhang Mu didn't care. Those acting city lords who betrayed him secretly were just a burden to Yu Lake.
The same goes for the king, it doesn't matter if there are a few less acting city lords.
But he was also in a heavy mood at the moment, the source of the problem coming from a cavalry unit of the coalition forces.
The kingdom that is the leader of the coalition forces is home to a mutant pack rhinoceros.
Unlike ordinary pack rhinos that can only serve as a means of transportation, the mutated pack rhinos have a larger body and skin with terrifying defensive power. They can be used as mounts and rampage on the battlefield.
Lake also has cavalry - the Griffin Legion. And the combat effectiveness of the Griffin Legion is far superior to that of the pack rhinoceros.
However, compared with the two, the former has a fatal flaw - its number is small and it is difficult to cultivate.
How many Griffin Legions are there?
Including the wingless subspecies of griffins, there are less than six thousand.
What about the mutant rhinoceros?
fifty thousand!
Although the nearly ten-fold difference in numbers was not enough to completely offset the mutant rhinoceros' combat disadvantage, it also prevented them from being easily annihilated by the Griffin Legion.
Moreover, the difficulty of training mutant pack rhinos is much easier than that of the griffin legion.
It took Lake thousands of years to build a 5,000-man griffin legion and 50,000 mutant rhinos, but the Alliance Kingdom only took 50 years.
In other words, if a large number of cavalry die in the war on both sides, the latter can be replenished quickly, but the former will no longer have a stage to perform in this battle.
These are just one of the reasons why the king is worried about this cavalry. In fact, the most troublesome thing is that the skin of the mutant pack rhinoceros can withstand bullets.
This means that Lake's side has no way to deal with the mutant rhinos and can only allow them to massacre their own soldiers.
Zhang Mu listened quietly and then laughed.
The king looked confused.
I know the weapons you found in the maze are powerful, but they are useless now. Lake has lost his most powerful support. Why can you still laugh?
He asked the question that puzzled him, but Zhang Mu was too lazy to explain. He just said, "Don't worry, I promise that all the rhinoceros cavalry troops will be buried in Lake." Then he left the palace without staying any longer and found Avril who was busy in the military camp.
As the war was approaching, she was a little worried. Every day, apart from handling government affairs, she would inspect the military camps.
The two men walked into the grove outside the camp and stood in the shade while talking.
"Have you come here every day recently?" Zhang Mu raised his head and squinted his eyes to enjoy the sunlight shining through the leaves and falling on his face.
"Well, take a look and feel more at ease."
"As I recall, senior sister, you don't understand military affairs?" Zhang Mu looked at her and asked puzzledly.
"I don't understand, but I can still tell whether a soldier is training seriously or not."
“Hahaha…that’s true.”
Avril seemed to be in a bad mood and didn't respond.
Zhang Mu noticed it as soon as he saw her: "Are you worried?"
"inevitable."
"Can you please have a little faith in me?"
"It's not that I don't have confidence in you." Avril raised her head and stared at him, "It's just... I..."
"Okay, I understand."
Zhang Mu interrupted her and walked quickly to her.
Avril blinked, wondering what he was going to do. Before she could figure out the result, Zhang Mu pulled her into his arms.
His right hand gently stroked the soft, cool ice-blue hair: "Are you feeling better?"
Avril buried her head in her chest: "Yeah."
"I know you are worried that Lake will be destroyed and its people will be displaced, and I will be implicated and killed."
"Junior, you have never complained, but I always feel that... you shouldn't give too much for Lake."
"The one I'm paying for isn't Lake."
"Ok?"
"It's you."
Zhang Mu rested his chin on Avril's head and couldn't see her expression.
Avril was silent for a long time, then slowly said, "Leaving the capital quietly and going to Cass Town was the luckiest choice of my life."
"I'm glad to be born too... Well, Cass Town is pretty good."
They continued to cuddle for a while, and after they separated, Zhang Mu told them that he had to go to the border to get information about the mutant rhinoceros.
He was very happy and confident in making such a bold statement in front of the king, because Zhang Mu was confident that the tanks could definitely blow up those mutated rhinos, but it was not advisable to underestimate the enemy, and it was very necessary to understand the enemy in advance.
After saying goodbye to Avril, Zhang Mu activated the shadow technique and rushed all the way to the border, then he crossed it without stopping and arrived at the coalition camp.
Flying high in the sky and looking down, he felt that it was indeed difficult to find people who could fight in the Sol Continent.
The coalition forces' camp was not centered on the legion commander's tent with soldiers' tents scattered in a circle, but extended in a straight line.
With an alliance of more than a dozen kingdoms and principalities, the number of soldiers is naturally not small. Viewed from the sky, the entire camp looks like a long snake lying on the ground.
Does it look familiar?
Zhang Mu scratched his head. If Uncle Liu saw you setting up the camp like this, he would probably slap his thigh and exclaim “No way”.
Zhang Mu wondered if he could replicate the fire that burned down the camps on Thor Continent.
It is not difficult and there is no danger.
He has the power of shadow magic, and after setting the fire, the coalition forces couldn't even find where he was.
But after thinking about it for a moment, he gave up this somewhat tempting idea, thinking it was meaningless.
There must be a large number of high-level professionals in the camp. I estimate that there will be quite a few water-attribute mages, and perhaps some saint-level ones as well.
With them around, even if the fire spreads rapidly and the flames blaze across the sky in a short time, it can be put out in a snap.
It would not cause any damage and would also expose the fact that there were professionals on his side who could become invisible. Zhang Mu felt it was not worth it.
So he no longer paid attention to the layout of the camp and looked around for the place where the mutant rhinoceros was stationed.
It is a legion of 50,000 people, and the mutant rhinoceros is as big as a heavy truck, so it is very conspicuous and not difficult to find.
After flying for more than ten minutes, Zhang Mu saw a large group of mutant rhinos lying on the grass to rest in the middle of the camp.
"That's awesome. Not only did they not set up a separate camp for the cavalry, they also placed them in the middle. If they were attacked, how would you charge... Forget it."
Zhang Mu shook his head, thinking that the enemy was doing something stupid or good. As he landed, he swaggered to the feet of a mutant rhino and looked up at it carefully.
Big.
This is his first impression.
Standing at the feet, shrouded by the shadow of the mutant rhinoceros, Zhang Mu felt like he had come to the land of giants. He had to tilt his head almost parallel to the ground to see the head that looked like a mountain.
He flew behind the mutant rhino's buttocks and poked it with his hand.
"It's no different from a steel plate." Feeling the hardness, Zhang Mu smacked his lips and withdrew his hand, "But it's not a big problem, it hasn't exceeded the limit of what tanks and armored vehicles can handle.
Well...even forming a tank group is not that simple."
Tanks are easy to obtain, Neo has as many as you want, but shells and gasoline are more troublesome.
Tanks can be used continuously as long as they are not broken down, but shells and gasoline are consumables that need to be continuously replenished as the war progresses.
Zhang Mu doesn't have time to set up a production line at Lake for the time being, and now is not a good time.
There are a lot of deeply hidden WDs inside, as well as people waiting for an opportunity to rebel. Before he eliminates them all, Zhang Mu does not intend to allow the production lines of magic weapons and original weapons to appear in Lake.
In this case, Zhang Mu would probably have to run back and forth to transport the shells and gasoline in the short term.
"It's okay if it's troublesome, but wait until the first battle... hm?"
Zhang Mu saw from afar a group of more than ten ordinary cavalrymen leaving the camp on horseback and galloping towards the border.
What to do?
Just as Zhang Mu was about to go back, he decided to follow him and take a look.