The past three years have been a golden period for the rapid development of the scientific research institute.

Originally, the scientific research institute was somewhat unworthy of its name. Because of the continuous wars and the weak foundation, Qin Yun and the others did not have much resources and time to carry out 'scientific research', and used the scientific research institute more as a logistics department, mainly responsible for the maintenance of magic weapons and the refining of various pills.

It wasn't until Qin Yun and others unified the six western states that the external pressure was not so great, and with a certain amount of resources and time, the scientific research institute really lived up to its name and began to study the ordnance on the battlefield and unify the armor and weapons.

Because of the popularity of cultivation in the Metaverse, as long as there is a certain amount of cultivation, the cultivator will have one or two magic weapons on his body, which are either used for attack, defense, or support, etc...... It can be described as varied, chaotic and very messy.

This is naturally nothing for individuals, but it is a major drawback for the military. Qin Yun, Nangong Cheng and others deliberately developed magic weapons suitable for the army for this purpose, which had the original foundation and quickly achieved results.

In order to distinguish the difference between the magic weapons in the army and the general magic weapons, Qin Yun and others named the magic weapons in the generals Xuanbing and Xuanjia. Nowadays, the scientific research institute can forge the Xuanbing and Xuanjia in batches, which are named the Brave Armed and the Heroic Cavalry respectively.

The Brave Arms are armed for all soldiers except the cavalry, because of the cultivation, the weight of the Brave Arms is not a problem at all, and there is no need to distinguish between light infantry and heavy infantry, a full set of Brave Arms has a total of full body armor, knee pads, leg guards, helmets, combat boots, a short weapon, a long weapon, and so on.

At the same time, according to the needs, crossbowmen were specially formed for long-range attacks and traps for charging into formation.

As for the cavalry armament, it is suitable for cavalry, including heavy cavalry armor, helmets, knee pads, leg guards, combat boots, spears, swords and longbows, as well as mount equipment, and even men and mounts are fully armed, just like tanks and chariots.

These are all practitioners who are applicable to martial arts, and they are also the majority of cultivators in the Metaverse. On the other hand, the number of cultivators who concentrate on cultivating spells is not only scarce, but also not suitable for Xuan Bing and Xuan Jia, they are still the same as always, but they are only allocated to various subordinate units in an appropriate amount.

"How many of the Brave Warriors and the Brave Cavalry do they have now?" Qin Yun asked Liu Jinyuan on the side.

"The Brave Armed Forces now have an inventory of 200,000, and the Cavalry Armed Forces have a stock of 50,000, which is enough to equip the entire army......" Liu Jinyuan didn't think about it, and blurted out directly.

In the scientific research academy, Qin Yun just opened his mouth to say, Nangong Cheng just put forward some opinions, and only Liu Jinyuan spent a lot of effort.

"Very good, immediately send out the brave arms and the brave cavalry armies, the big war may break out at any time, and the army must be adapted." Qin Yun said with satisfaction. "Also, how is the armament research of the Dingjun Cavalry, the Wudang Flying Army, and the Wuwei Guard?"

Dingjun Cavalry, Wudang Feijun and Wuwei belong to the top armies, and it seems a bit wasteful to use standard armaments such as Fenyong Armed and Xiaocai Armament, so Qin Yun specially ordered to conduct special armed research on the three armies, so as to maximize their strengths and avoid weaknesses, give full play to the strengths of each army, and avoid their weaknesses.

Liu Jinyuan shook his head: "It's okay to ride the Dingjun, it has been established for a long time, it has experienced more wars, and it has been studied for a long time. As for Wudang Feijun and Wuwei, not only lack of time, but also lack of research data, I am afraid it will not be so easy in a short period of time. ”

"Hmm."

Qin Yun also knew that it was a bit difficult for a strong person to let the scientific research institute achieve results now, so he didn't force it at the moment, so he asked casually: "What are the achievements of the Ordnance Department and the Research Department today?" ”

"There is information secretly transmitted from both sides, the Yin and Yang Rune Cannon and Wugang Cloud Car of the Human Race, as well as the Broken Blade Battleship and Demon Bone Chariot of the Demon Clan, have been preliminarily cracked and developed, but they still have no power to improve it for the time being. The same is true for the Sky Breaker, which has now reached a bottleneck, and it is impossible to break through again in a short period of time...... In the end, our foundation is still shallow, not only lacking research talents, but also lacking advanced cultivators, talisman makers and array mages. You must know that the more advanced the cultivation, the deeper the comprehension of the Heavenly Dao. And whether it is refining, talisman or formation, it is all the comprehension and study of the Heavenly Dao......"

Qin Yun frowned, these were all the hard injuries of the Cloud Dragon Palace, and he couldn't think about it for a while. If it weren't for the influx of talented people and monks from the south, the problem would have been even more serious, and it would have been much better now.

The same problem also involves the army, seeing that the Yunwang Mansion and the Great Xia royal family have hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the regular army alone, and the number of reserve troops and city defense troops adds up to no less than one million, and they can be expanded one by one, don't Qin Yun and the others want to explode the army?

Think, only a fool doesn't want to! The mystery of the art of war is not to win more with less, but to be an upright teacher with the outnumbered. If it weren't for the last resort, where would Qin Yun and the others grab a few elites and toss them to death, but crazy farming and exploding troops, pushing everything sideways.

It's just that the population of the six western states is small, and after several wars, the suitable sources of soldiers have been emptied by Qin Yun and others, and there is not much left. If the army is expanded again, the quality of the troop source will drop by a large margin, and this will actually lower the army's combat effectiveness, and the gains will outweigh the losses.

Under such circumstances, Qin Yun and the others had no choice but to adopt a strategy of elite troops to offset the disadvantage of insufficient numbers of troops.

"Let's put these aside for now, our foundation is too shallow, and there is no way to do it." Qin Yun said helplessly.

Liu Jinyuan nodded silently, as the chief steward of Yunlong Palace, he knew better than anyone that Yunlong Palace's pitiful family background. The changes in the Metaverse were too fast, and Qin Yun and the others were not given enough time, otherwise, in just ten years, everything would be very different.

In fact, what Liu Jinyuan didn't say was that the six western states were not only scarce in human resources, but also in various other resources, including the spirit grass for refining pills, the spiritual blood for refining talismans, the various spirit ores for refining formations, magic weapons, and ordnance, not to mention all kinds of strange materials for special ordnance.

Therefore, Liu Jinyuan has been acquiring and hoarding various resources in large quantities in the past three years, and at the same time, he has also tried to replace other resources that are difficult to collect and purchase with resources unique to the six western states. Fortunately, the scientific research institute is quite powerful, and the results are remarkable.

For example, replacing the spiritual blood with the blood of the desolate beast makes the talisman seal effect is not bad. Or replace the Great Demon Bone with the bones of the Desolate Beast, and the Demon Bone Chariot created is even better, and has been renamed the Behemoth Chariot and so on.

But all of this can't hide the huge disadvantage of the shallow foundation of the Cloud Dragon Palace!

Once a big war breaks out, it will be fine for a short time, but if it falls into a protracted war and stalemate, this disadvantage is the most fatal place.