Military Industry Exhibition

Pandaria Continent, Valley of the Four Winds.

The Great Wall defense campaign had concluded perfectly, and the detailed report on the battle immediately shook the Shaohao Dynasty's upper echelons. Even Xuen the White Tiger, who paid the closest attention to and knew the most about warfare, was slightly taken aback.

Everyone had been fighting and killing across the Pandaria Continent for so many years, yet the main theme and fundamental nature of war had never changed. All sorts of military strategies, martial techniques, and methods had been refined to perfection.

But now, the era in which the Pandaren Dynasty relied on Monk forces and the Cloud Serpent Riders as its backbone seemed poised to change.

Those incredibly lethal firearms represented a completely different style of combat from a Monk's fists and kicks, and the patterns of warfare involving firearms were vastly different from what everyone had known before.

Moreover, firearms possessed one enormous advantage that martial arts simply could not match: accessibility.

You wanted to become a Monk and master martial skills and chi techniques capable of taking on ten or even a hundred enemies alone?

Sorry, but that was ultimately reserved for a minority, and it depended on your physique and talent. It was not something you could become just because you wanted to.

Even if you became one of the Monk apprentices, it would take at least seven or eight years to train you properly.

And if you died in battle, would that not be a terrible loss? Even if you did not care, the dynasty certainly would.

But firearms were different. Whether you were a Monk or had any education did not matter. Even if you were merely a logistics worker who did odd jobs, or a cook in the army cafeteria, hand you a gun and