Knowing that a high-ranking general had been captured, Bai Liyan quickly ordered that Cross and the following senior officer corps be immediately escorted to Xianguo, and he thought of a brilliant note.

In the first battle of Jinye, countless guns and ammunition were captured. According to the captured axillary documents, as many as 1.2 million shells, 70 million shells, and 100,000 guns were piled up in the port alone, all of which were supplied for the invasion of Rongcheng Port.

The rest of the evacuation and accumulation of ammunition accounted for one-third of the port, and with the battle of Cuicheng, the coalition forces captured enough to fight two battles on the scale of Rongcheng.

The war subsided for a while, the voice of the truce of the princes was very loud, the defense of the country fought two battles in a row, and two-thirds of the 500,000 casualties armed last year were no longer able to continue to participate in the war, and the Liang army had suffered more than 300,000 casualties since Liang County.

The casualties of the other princes participating in the war were not small, and in three years, not counting the casualties of the eldest grandson, the total casualties of the coalition army exceeded 1.5 million, and in the foreseeable future, there will be more large-scale fierce battles.

On 14 November, Cross and other high-ranking officers were escorted into Xianguo, and before that, they were blindfolded all the way by car, and after entering Xianguo, Bailiyan specially arranged a special train for buses, took off their blindfolds, and took a train to Shanling.

On the afternoon of 15 November, Cross and the others arrived at the military base outside Shaoping, where a high-level prison was built underground to temporarily detain and interrogate high-ranking officers, and then to the south after obtaining information.

At this time, Bai Liyan was already waiting in the thirteenth interrogation room of the prison, and he wanted to meet the lieutenant general in person.

The three interrogation rooms from the 13th to the 15th have a special feature, they are all soundproofed, and there is no camera or audio recording, so it is impossible to know the content of the conversation inside.

Bai Liyan waited in the interrogation room for two hours, and saw Cross and his people, still wearing their peculiar generals' uniforms.

The style of armpit clothing or military uniforms is very different from that of humans, in the case of military uniforms, their ranks are fixed to the left and right arms, and there are no epaulettes on their shoulders, but instead they are replaced by something like a seniority badge.

This layout also makes sense, and the configuration of every detail of the military uniform is not only beautiful, but also the design product of combat requirements and experience accumulation.

Human combat often needs to prostrate and lie down, so the arms have been polluted for a long time, the rank badge is not easy to identify, and the shoulder avoids most of the dirt, and the armband is not as important as the rank, and the damage does not affect the officer's rank recognition and battlefield scheduling.

In most cases, axillary people do not have the tactical requirements of prostrate and lying down, because their eyes under the armpit are not conducive to continuing to use after lying down, so they often choose to squat or sit, and the military rank is not easy to lose the recognition function due to dirt.

Cross was taken directly into the interrogation room, and Bailiyan arranged a seat for him, and did not use shackles to lock him up, but the horror and uneasiness on his face could still be seen, and he was obviously worried that the humans would tear him apart.

Closing the soundproof door, Bai Liyan sat facing each other, in front of him was an ordinary table, on which stood a stick central computer, a cup of tea cup with human blood, and a large cup of warm water, and some cooked beef.

Bai Liyan hasn't mastered their language yet, so he needs Wildland's technical support for the rest of the conversation.

At this time, Cross smelled the smell of blood, and he wondered why the human in front of him was preparing blood products, which should not be the treatment that a prisoner of war should enjoy.

The air was silent for a long time, and Bai Liyan carefully observed the lieutenant general, and like the other dwarves, he couldn't see anything special about this ferocious dwarf.

"Well, Lord Cross, if you are hungry and thirsty, you have food, water, and human blood in front of you, and you can eat it at any time."

Bai Liyan speaks the Central Plains, but it is translated into axillary language through the audio system of a stick computer.

Cross looked at the human in front of him in surprise, he could hear that this human spoke the language of the human and the other voice spoke theirs, but there were only two people here.

"What do you want to do!" Cross asked vigilantly, translating the content through the Raging Tide's system.

"Let's put it this way, you are the highest-ranking officer in the captured military ranks and positions since the beginning of the war seven years ago, and we can get a lot of interesting content from you."

"I'm not going to tell you."

"No, no, I think Your Excellency is wrong, I have no interest in your military secrets, what you don't want to say, we will get it from other people, you can continue to maintain your righteous and awe-inspiring and loyal and patriotic spirit."

"Then what do you want to do!"

"We can talk about life, about what you think of us, about what we think of you. Maybe you're wondering why there's human blood here. ”

"What do you want to say?"

"Actually, I know that you slaughter human beings to obtain human blood and flesh, and if you eat our blood and flesh, you can repair and heal your wounds more quickly, and even gain a longer life, am I right?"

"Those traitors told you."

"Sort of. But on the way here, you must have also seen that the technology you have, we also have it, and the technology we have you may not have, and you don't have to doubt that we have developed a key thermal blast, and the cost is cheaper. If needed, we can make and produce hundreds of pieces, do you think you will still have a chance to win? ”

"It's impossible, you can't industrialize the production of key thermal explosives, absolutely impossible."

It is really impossible, and so far a total of one small-yield test bomb has been produced. Bai Liyan is trying to get the resource miner in the body of the Lost Lin Storm to return to Xianguo at the right time, so as to recover the metal waste liquid produced by the gold and platinum produced by the key element and reduce the production cost. But there is still no operational space, and it is unknown when it will be shipped back.

Even so, the price of 200,000 inches of silver per shot still cannot be industrialized, but as a tactical strategy for negotiation, it does not hurt.

"Believe it or not, you will have more failures and deaths. And we are reproducing four or even five times as fast as you, so we will eventually outnumber you. ”

"Hehehaha......" Cross suddenly laughed, laughing very contemptuously and penetratingly: "You will never be able to defeat us, never." ”

"Well, why, why can't I defeat you. Just because your injuries can heal quickly, we will soon develop more powerful weapons, and you will only be beaten into a sieve. ”

"You are as fragile as paper, disease kills you, aging kills you, your technology is no more advanced than us, you are still vulnerable, and we will be stronger."

"Well, I'll admit that you hardly get sick, and you're going to live longer, but you'll be disappointed soon, and I promise we'll see each other again in fifty years."

"Fifty years!" Cross repeated this sentence vigilantly, but the next moment he mocked: "You are at least fifty years old, and the longest life span of you humans is only eighty or ninety years, and it is very rare, and at that time, it is impossible for you to continue to survive." ”

"I remember that I just said very clearly, you may not have the technology we have, and we have the technology you have, or will have it soon."

"What exactly do you want to say?"

"I think today's conversation can be over, please rest for the night, and we can continue to talk tomorrow."

"My people, where are you keeping my people!" Cross asked suddenly hysterically.

"Your Excellency, you can rest assured that we humans are a civilized species, and all your prisoners of war will receive the preferential treatment they deserve."

After speaking, Bai Liyan picked up the stick computer on the table and got up to leave, and Cross was quickly taken by the guards to the prison residence and locked up with the general.

During the conversation, Bai Liyan never revealed that he was the opponent of Liang County's battle against Cross. As an adversary, it is largely respectful to let the captured party know who he is. But Bailiyan didn't, for two reasons.

First, as a strategy for struggle and future negotiations, Cross will be released in the future and will not be detained for long.

Second, the armpit people are very smart, and it is inevitable that they will have to fight with them for a long time in the future, Cross has fought with him, and Bailiyan's character and habits have been set, although he still holds more advanced military concepts in his hands, but he is obviously not wise to be judged by the enemy to see his routine, not to mention that they are smarter than humans.

Leaving the interrogation room and walking on the way out of prison, Bai Liyan secretly asked Langlan.

"Wild Lan, what analysis results did you have from the conversation just now?" Bai Liyan casually lit a cloud silk cigarette and asked as she walked.

"They will not rest on their laurels, they will continue to invade, and it seems that they will do whatever it takes."

"Well, I can see that they do have this capital. And I think they want to get our scientific and technological achievements even more. ”

"I can't rule out this motivation, but it's not so much about acquiring technical results as it is about technical ideas. The development process of different species civilizations in the early days was very similar, especially on the same planet, because of the convergence of the physical environment and natural resources, the theories and alternative technical paths were similar, but there would be certain differences due to the differences in concepts.

In the later period, with the expansion of civilization and the mastery of more elements and different resources, there was a major change in the development direction of theory, resulting in huge differences in the technological paths between different civilizations in the universe, or even completely different. [Note 1]

The axillary people were constrained by geography and physical resources, and some technologies were theoretically feasible but lacked the necessary natural resources to be industrialized, but now the resources of the southern hemisphere provide this possibility. For example, rubber, by seizing human equipment, they will find rubber products, and then quickly associate them with natural rubber trees.

At the same time, human technology is different from theirs, and the concept is more advanced, if in the past it was for human stem cells to wage war, now the great temptation to make an unprecedented leap in their technology is more urgent than the human stem cells themselves. ”

"Yes, they actually know better than us the advantages and disadvantages of civilization, which determines the survival of species, and they will exterminate us at any cost for the continuation and development of civilization."

In the early stage of development, due to the failure to fully recognize the importance of civilization diversity, a large number of native civilizations were destroyed, which eventually led to the limitations and innovation constraints of the concept in the middle and later stages, so that they fell into a vicious circle and finally destroyed.

With their current mentality, they are still so arrogant after losing the battle, obviously they want to completely exterminate the human race and achieve the narrow unity of the planetary civilization. ”

"If the war is extended to a global scale, what results can be obtained with the current data?"

"It depends on the transformation of human technology products and technology R&D, industrial scale, there are so many variables and unknown data that all conclusions are possible. If you only need one consolation outcome, then humanity can achieve absolute victory. ”

"Hehe......" Bai Liyan laughed helplessly, and then said: "I think, even if we can achieve a final victory, it will pay a big price. ”

Extinguishing the cigarette butt, Baili Yanjing walked out of the prison.

[Note 1] The endowment of natural resources determines the development of civilization and technology, and the elemental materials and natural biological and plant resources determine the development of civilization.

In the case of the Indians, for example, the Indians never developed a state form, and the root cause was the lack of cattle, metal tools, and horses.

Cattle determine labor and agricultural output, metal implements determine agricultural tools and weapons, and horses determine the speed of high-speed mobility and communication transmission during farming.

Of course, many readers will say that the Indians in the movie don't have horses, sorry, but they were brought by white people after they landed in America. And until the white people landed in the Americas, the Indians were still using stone tools, and the best of all was obsidian.

No early civilization could have developed without efficient agriculture, without advanced tools, and without rapid communications. Of course, if it is a strong gene such as axilla, except for those with rapid gene evolution as the main technical path.

Another example, the development of electricity, with the technical path of human beings, must need rubber, without rubber to synthesize plastics.

But the problem is that synthetic plastics appeared much later than rubber was used in electricity, because the development of chemical industry lagged far behind natural science.

Therefore, without rubber resources and without the discovery of how to use oil, it is theoretically impossible for earthlings to develop safe electricity.

Of course, if it is an alien planet, there may be other resource endowments, but at least on the earth, without rubber resources, it is obviously impossible to live.

Therefore, the endowment of natural resources determines the technological path and the height of civilization development to a large extent.

And between different intelligent species, because of biological habits and the endowment of the species itself, there are differences in thinking, and differences in thinking bring about different technical paths, and finally a hundred flowers bloom on their own surface.

Therefore, the diversity of civilizations is conducive to the development of the civilization of the species of the association.

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