The news of the marriage between Kapok Zi and Princess Nanling quickly spread throughout the Xizhou Continent, and the kings of the other four countries sent envoys to New South City to congratulate this eternal fate.

At the same time, the whole people of Xizhou countries mobilized to build fortifications on the periphery of various large and small cities, and for a while, the Xizhou continent entered a historical period of vigorous struggle for survival.

Nandi is the largest kingdom in the southern part of Xizhou, with a population of nearly 2.5 million and five large and small cities, among which the new Nancheng and Nancheng rank first and second respectively in terms of size and importance. The King of the Southland issued a royal decree that all men over the age of eighteen must join the militia guarding the city.

Kapok didn't spend much time with Princess Nanling, because Princess Nanling was busy touring the country to inspect the preparations for war, and she was also very responsible for urgently recruiting ten regular army troops.

Kapok works all day in a military factory in New South City, and Yagu and several soldiers follow him inseparably to defend him. This military factory is the largest manufacturer of gunpowder guns in the southern part of Western Continent, but the range of the cannon is no more than 200 meters, and it is time-consuming to fire a single shell, and the explosive power of the shell is limited.

Kapok quickly came up with ways to improve the performance of the cannon after carefully examining the manufacturing process of the factory, and after several tests, the maximum range and firing speed of the shells were doubled. He then improved the gunpowder recipe, and the explosive power of the cannonballs was greatly increased.

Overjoyed to see the power of the new cannon, the king of Nandi admired his future son-in-law even more, and ordered the munitions factory to send more people to make the new cannon day and night.

Jiesheng soon gathered 3,000 children from the Three Kingdoms Qizhou Chamber of Commerce in the south of Xizhou in Xinnancheng, and these soldiers all came to report on horseback and weapons, so Jiesheng soon had a legion of 3,000 cavalry in Xinnancheng.

Although Jiesheng had no experience in the army, he was familiar with military books in the civil court, and the senior brother Haidong sent five experienced instructors, so the assembly and training of the Chamber of Commerce Corps went smoothly.

The Qizhou soldiers in the north of Xizhou were called by Minke and Tie Lei, and they quickly recruited 3,000 people as planned, because the king of Nandi agreed to use Tiancheng as a military camp for the expeditionary force, so the northern soldiers went to Tiancheng in batches to station and train after reporting to the ancient city.

Because these 6,000 Qizhou soldiers have all served as soldiers in the Haidong Army, but they have not been trained for many years after leaving the barracks, and they only need to re-train for a period of time to understand each other, so that they can act according to orders and fight together in wartime.

The first batch of weapons and equipment prepared by Kabayashi was finally loaded onto five newly built steam-turbine ships as planned, and then set sail from the docks outside Princess City in the savannah.

After more than ten days of sailing, the fleet arrived safely at the wharf outside the city of Wanghai in Xizhou, Kapok Zi and Yagu drove a chariot from Xinnancheng to the wharf on time to greet them, and the wharf to meet the prairie fleet also sent a high-level delegation from the countries of Xizhou, thousands of people from the coastal country flocked to witness this eternal scene, and the king of Linhai sent a legion of troops to maintain order at the wharf.

Seventy thousand rifles and ammunition were loaded in hundreds of wagons, and the delegations of the five countries that received weapons brought their own wagons or other means of transport. According to the original plan, each of the five countries in the West Continent was to receive 10,000 rifles, and each gun was first issued with 50 rounds of ammunition.

The rifle made in the prairie was a semi-automatic powder gun that, when loaded, could shoot a bullet with a pull of the trigger, and the range of the bullet was longer than the best powder gun available in the West.

The fleet carried a total of two hundred cannons, each of which was staffed by a steppe-trained gunner.

The most striking thing was the 100 chariots that came out of the starting ship, and to the delight of Kapok and Yaya, the installation of the new engines greatly increased the speed of these extremely slow chariots, and the fuel consumption was reduced by half.

Kabayashi staffed each vehicle with two trained warriors from the steppe.

Cannons, cannonballs, and other military supplies such as oil were loaded in wagons provided by the king of Nandi, and the wagon procession and a hundred chariots marched into the territory of Nandi, and then into Tiancheng and New Nancheng respectively.

After unloading the five steamers, they immediately left the Linhai State Terminal and returned to the sea.

Shanglin and Zhen'er breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the telegram that Kapok had successfully received all the weapons and equipment.

Since returning to the prairie from the Outer Worlds, the two of them have barely had a day of rest. For the first time, he stayed in the workshop of the military factory day and night to develop the internal combustion engine with the technicians and workers, and after the first prototype was successfully developed, the military factory immediately concentrated all its resources to produce new engines and replace the old ones on combat vehicles day and night.

But the equipment often breaks down during the production process, and it often has to be solved by the presence of Shanglin or Zhen'er in person, so the two of them can only work in two shifts. Kabayashi was worried that Zhen'er was too tired, so he forcibly demanded that Zhen'er work no more than ten hours a day, and he himself basically ate and lived in the office every day, and even at night, he was often woken up by the ringing of the phone from his dreams.

The first batch of weapons and equipment finally arrived safely in Xizhou, and the nerves that Shanglin and Zhen'er had been tense were finally relaxed, and they could have a good rest.

The arrival of weapons in Xizhou laid a solid foundation for winning the war in Xizhou, after Kapok and Yagu obtained this batch of weapons and equipment, their influence and combat effectiveness in Xizhou have been greatly strengthened, as long as a batch of cannons and chariots are transported to Xizhou, plus the existing military strength of the Xizhou people will be sure to resist the attack of 50,000 genetic people.

The successful arrival of the weapons in Xizhou also shows that the first steamships built in the steppe have withstood the test of strong winds and waves during the voyage, and the steppe people can build more, larger and stronger steamships on this basis.

More importantly, the success of this cross-sea transport means that the peace agreement concluded between the Eastern Alliance of the Underwater World and the Steppes has been tested in practice. It would be easy for the undermariners to attack a fleet sailing on the surface of the sea from the sea, because the steamers were not equipped with any weapons to counter submarines attacking from underwater.

Once the long-term tense nerves were relaxed, Shanglin and Zhen'er felt very tired, and they immediately decided to give themselves and the technicians of the military factory a three-day vacation, and the workers on the production line also had to take turns to take a break, so that they could continue to work and continue to manufacture the second batch of weapons and equipment sent to Xizhou.

Unexpectedly, before Kabayashi's order to leave the office for a holiday, the telegraph operator brought him another telegram, this time from Kabayashi's uncle who lived on Gran Island:

"Shanglin, I just received a letter from the governor of the Eastern Alliance, saying that the Western Alliance has learned the information that our prairie has transported a large number of weapons and equipment to Xizhou, so the Western Alliance has issued an order: the Gene Human Corps must occupy the Xizhou continent before the second batch of weapons from the prairie arrives in Xizhou, and completely cut off the military aid and personnel exchanges between the prairie and Xizhou, so the Xizhou War will start in full force soon.

According to the information obtained by the Eastern Alliance, the Gene Man has assembled at least 1,000 combat vehicles on the islands outside the Xizhou continent, and all of them are equipped with gunpowder cannons, which are wrapped in a layer of metal-shelled armor, which can withstand the blows of ordinary gunpowder gun bullets, and can travel on land with a slope of no more than 45 degrees.

The Genetics also possess thousands of personnel carriers, which are open and have no metal armor shells, but can travel on land with slopes of no more than 30 degrees.

The weapons of the infantry of the genetic people have also been replaced with gunpowder guns, and the performance of the rifles is close to that of the rifles existing in our steppes. The tactics of the Genetics will be to rely on the fast-advancing chariots to destroy the Xizhou people's fortifications and city walls, and then the personnel carriers will send the infantry to the city to occupy it.

The physiological characteristics of genetic humans are similar to those of sea and land people, their vision is uncomfortable with bright and warm light, and their skin is sensitive to hot and dry air, so they are more suitable for activities in the cool and humid field. Because we landers usually move during the day and rest at night, and have poor vision and mobility in the dark light of the night, it is likely that genetic people will choose to fight landers at night.

Genetic humans are as capable of moving their legs on flat land as terrestrial people, but they have more difficulty moving in rolling hills and mountains..."

After reading the telegram, Shanglin's nerves that had just relaxed immediately tensed, and he said to the telegraph operator: "Send the message to Kapok Zi immediately and intact!" ”

After the telegraph operator left, Shanglin sent someone to look for Zhen'er in the workshop.

Kabayashi waited for Zhen'er while restless, going back and forth in the office, thinking about the change in the situation.

The genetic people have 1,000 chariots and 1,000 troop carriers, and their combat effectiveness is much stronger than the 100 chariots and 200 cannons that Kapok just received, while although there are a lot of cannons in Xizhou, the performance is too poor, and the combined combat effectiveness may not be as good as the combat effectiveness of the 100 chariots of the genetic man.

The Gene Man will never wait until the second batch of weapons from the prairie arrives in Xizhou before starting the war, the Xizhou War is already in a state where it will be in full swing at any time, and if you want to ensure that you win the Gene Man, you must turn to the sea and land people to help!

Thinking of this, Shanglin sat back at his desk and picked up a pen and paper, he wanted to write a call back to his uncle.