Chapter 307: Is This Advanced Mathematics?
Yun Clan Villa is a large farm, which lacks guard conditions. Even though Yun Ce had long used the river bend to form an intricate water network, and deliberately planted a great many Yi Trees in some important places as part of the barrier net.
However, such defenses can work against a small number of enemy troops. Once the Gui Fang people deploy several tens of thousands, or even over a hundred thousand troops, the Yi Trees will be chopped down, the water network will be filled in, and at most it can only delay the enemy’s advance speed a bit.
However, Yun Ce had already calculated that for a small place like Yun Clan Villa, it was not enough to make the Gui Fang people deploy several tens of thousands of iron cavalry, or even over a hundred thousand iron cavalry to attack. After all, the Gui Fang people also had to calculate the economic cost when deploying troops.
A vassal lord like Cao Kun was worth them deploying a large army to attack, while a small place like Yun Clan Villa was generally sufficient with just dispatching a detachment to attack.
Even if Yun Ce defeated the detachment, the Gui Fang people would probably not continue to trouble him. After all, any piece of land beyond the Great Wall was more valuable to attack than Yun Clan Villa.
If they could not take it, then so be it. Once the Gui Fang large army swept over the Great Wall, even if Yun Clan Villa here became extremely powerful, being in the vast sea of the Gui Fang people, there would be no way to survive independently.
Purely a minor ailment.
What the Gui Fang people considered a minor ailment was actually extremely deadly. The Gui Fang people’s strongest troops were all in the vanguard, and absolute strength would basically be supplied to the vanguard. The remaining limited resources would be used on the vanguard’s left and right flanks, as well as the center army position.
As for the rear army, it had always been mainly composed of the old, weak, women, and children, and these old, weak, women, and children were also the main logistics personnel supplying the army.
At that time, Yun Ce’s main attack target would be the logistics personnel. His strength was not strong, but the Gui Fang people’s logistics strength would certainly be much weaker than his.
1 When he continuously struck at the Gui Fang rear logistics and became renowned, many men of virtue and ambition would come to join him. At that time, he would absolutely not be like now, where not even a five-hundred-man cavalry was willing to follow him.
1 This set was actually something Yun Linchuan and the others had already played with. Now that Yun Ce had picked it up again to use, it still had great prospects. After all, stratagems are not afraid of being old; as long as they are useful, they are good stratagems.
1 For Yun Ce, Yun Clan Villa, Xiangcheng, even Jingkou Pass could all be abandoned. The place that truly needed to be held long-term was Jin Suo Pass. Jin Suo Pass lay across the Yanran Mountains, with dangerous terrain, secretive, and connected to the Great Wall via a tunnel, with large amounts of grain stored inside.
1 Even if the Gui Fang people occupied the Great Wall, Yun Ce’s troops could still pass through Jin Suo Pass to enter and exit Chang’an, achieving complete freedom of movement, greatly increasing the chances of survival.
1 Yun Ce invited Wu Tong to visit the secret base at Jin Suo Pass, but Wu Tong was unwilling to go. He was now more interested in why Yun Clan Villa could produce children with qi sensation so densely.
1 In the Great Han, a child with qi sensation and one without were completely different species. Even if a child with qi sensation was born poor, many people and organizations would recruit them. Even the most unpromising ones going to be guards in a caravan would be considered among the elite among Great Han commoners.
1 For ordinary Great Han children, it was already remarkable if one out of a hundred had qi sensation. At Yun Clan Villa, the proportion of children with qi sensation actually exceeded half, which had kept Wu Tong in extreme shock ever since he discovered this secret.
1 Because this was a new phenomenon.
1 Lei Ming’s internal breath flowed like beads. Wu Tong intervened to cut off his internal breath, but it did not stagnate and repeatedly impact the blockage as he expected; instead, it quickly found other pathways, continuing to maintain Lei Ming’s external manifestation of strength.
1 Just this point alone made Wu Tong feel he was far inferior to this twelve-year-old youth, let alone that this youth already had strength surpassing that of an ordinary hundred-man general.
2 With internal breath, the next step was the long time of accumulating internal breath. For thousands of years, no one had been able to skip this accumulation process. Using it on Lei Ming now would be wrong.
2 As for Yun Ce, he was not a Great Han person at all, and Wu Tong never took his performance as a model.
2 Lei Ming had been burned by the ancestral fire and then mutated. The four other children who were burned with Lei Ming back then also performed outstandingly and basically reached the strength of a hundred-man general, but compared to Lei Ming, they were far inferior.
2 Also under Wu Tong’s research at the same time was Huo Wudi. This little girl had been very low-key since arriving at Yun Clan Villa, often hiding in the girls’ dormitory and not coming out, getting along well with everyone, with no other flaws except frequently changing dormitories.
2 After Wu Tong examined Huo Wudi, he felt unwell all over. Huo Wudi, who originally had not a trace of internal breath throughout her body, after staying at Yun Clan for just fifteen short days, now had internal breath flowing like beads in her body. Although she had not yet reached the strength of a hundred-man general, she was not far off.
2 Huo Wudi had no qi sensation, so suddenly having internal breath flowing like beads was naturally very abnormal. When asked, the little girl shrugged and said she knew nothing about it; she just went to sleep and woke up with internal breath.
2 Wu Tong was no ordinary person; he quickly brought over little girls with internal breath who had lived with Huo Wudi. After examining them, he found that not only was their internal breath sluggish, but it was also slightly depleted.
2 Seeing this situation, Wu Tong immediately understood where Huo Wudi’s internal breath came from. He even specially asked these children if Huo Wudi had any special actions when with them. The result was that the group of children said that apart from sleeping together on a large communal bed, there was nothing special in daily life except playing around and practicing kung fu.
2 “Huo Wudi is a witch.”
2 Wu Tong grabbed Yun Ce, who was about to go inspect Jin Suo Pass, and deliberately avoided people to whisper.
3 Yun Ce looked at Wu Tong for a long time, then whispered similarly: “Not a witch, she is just relatively unlucky.”
3 Wu Tong gritted his teeth and said: “He Junnian!”
3 Yun Ce secretly chuckled to himself. Wu Tong could not tolerate Huo Wudi passively stealing others’ internal breath. If he knew about the things he and Doggy had done, would he not explode on the spot?
3 Yun Ce knew about Huo Wudi’s condition, and arranging for her to live in the girls’ dormitory was his idea. Frequently changing dormitories was something he had specifically instructed Huo Wudi to do.
3 Huo Wudi could not absorb his internal breath, nor Lei Ming’s, nor even that of the four young men and women who had reached hundred-man general strength. She could currently only draw out the internal breath of those children with internal breath through some simple physical contact, in a faint and indistinct way, ultimately benefiting her alone.
3 This trip to inspect Jin Suo Pass was one aspect, but Yun Ce also planned to secretly leave from Jin Suo Pass to capture a high-level martial artist to let Huo Wudi try if she could absorb his internal breath. If not, then use Doggy as a medium to first raise Huo Wudi’s internal breath level.
3 After all, the best candidate to truly command the Tiger Guards was Huo Wudi.
3 After tricking Wu Tong into directing his hatred toward He Junnian, Yun Ce happily dashed toward Jin Suo Pass.
3 Correct, he went on foot. The red date horse, since returning to Yun Clan Villa, had been home for less than two days before running off without a trace. Simultaneously missing was the family’s black feathered eagle.
3 Yun Ce did not care; he thought that after hearing his words, the red date horse and black feathered eagle had gone to form a beast legion. If those two really managed to assemble a beast legion, Yun Ce planned to give the red date horse an unprecedented lesson to punish it for deceiving him.
4 Huo Liao was a very remarkable person.
4 He commanded twenty thousand strong laborers of the Yun Clan, opening mountains and splitting rocks in Yanran Mountain for a full year and a half.
4 With the aid of bombs, the second peak of Yanran Mountain had been completely transformed by him and his men, losing its original appearance.
4 The term “opening mountains and splitting rocks” originally did not exist in the Great Han. After the Yun Clan had bombs, this term appeared in the working dictionary of Huo Liao and this group of advanced craftsmen.
4 The original methods of burning with fire, then pouring water, or chiseling with axes had been completely abandoned by Huo Liao and the others. These working methods could only become small repair projects after the formation of large engineering outlines.
4 After straightening the originally gentle mountain peak, it formed cliffs standing a thousand ren high. Walking on the narrow passage in the middle, looking up one saw only a sliver of sky.
4 This sliver of sky path was fully two li long. Many secret passages had been chiseled into the stone walls on both sides of the cliffs. Once enemies entered this sliver of sky path, no matter how many came, it would not be enough to die.
4 At the end of the sliver of sky path, one would directly face that thick iron gate Yun Ce had seen before. Clearly, the opening and closing method of this thick iron gate, weighing forty or fifty tons, had been improved again by Huo Liao. Yun Ce could see clearly that closing this iron gate only required six strong men to push with brute force, and similarly, opening it only needed six people.
4 “Used some power from the underground river.”
4 Yun Ce looked at Huo Liao and said: “The underground river is at least five li away from here.”
5 Huo Liao looked into Yun Ce’s eyes and said: “Who said that? The underground river is right under Lord’s feet.”
5 Yun Ce drew in a sharp breath and said: “You diverted the underground river here?”
5 Huo Liao smiled and said: “The geology here is special, full of secret passages corroded by groundwater everywhere. I just accidentally discovered another secret passage, built a dam on the underground river, raised the water level, then poured the water into this newly discovered secret passage, and I had enough water power to drive the opening and closing of this gate.”
5 Yun Ce looked around and saw no outlet for the underground river. Huo Liao smiled proudly: “Open the gate to lift water, close the gate to release water. The water waves cycle back and forth. If you do not want the city gate to open, just stop releasing water. For enemies to open this iron gate, they would need the strength to lift a million jin of water.”
5 Yun Ce smacked his lips and said: “Have you figured out your《 advanced mathematics》 research?”
5 Huo Liao brought Yun Ce to the mechanism house by the cliff, pointed to the thick and exquisite refined steel interlocking mechanism inside, and said: “This is what I gained from deeply studying《 advanced mathematics》.”
5 Yun Ce’s gaze was like carrying steel needles, wanting to pierce into Huo Liao’s eyes, and he said in a shrill voice: “This is completely impossible!”
