Xiang Prefecture, Ding County.
Zhang Poyue reached up to stroke his chicken-nest beard, then flicked his fingers across his purple robe. His left foot landed on the main body of a grass-green Armored Mechanism, his right on its turret, revealing a pair of gleaming new-style black military boots.
He bounced the toes of his right foot, a smug smile curling across his lips, then turned to look behind him.
Five hundred Armored Mechanisms stood in neat ranks. Against their grass-green bodies, five hundred pitch-black cannon muzzles resembled ferocious beasts that devoured men alive, radiating waves of chilling menace.
Compared to the earlier Armored Mechanisms, this batch of second-generation models had more sensible designs, finer workmanship, and more mature technology. Other than the unchanged power of their Literary Qi Light Clusters, every indicator had improved by thirty percent over the first-generation Armored Mechanisms.
This model of Armored Mechanism was not only Jing Kingdom's first mass-produced model, but also the Sacred Academy's first batch-produced Armored Mechanism for the Human Race!
It was named Xiang Prefecture!
After "Xiang Prefecture" came into being, everyone learned that all the previous mechanisms had merely been experimental products, meant primarily to provide data for the second generation of new-style mechanisms.
The production line for "Xiang Prefecture" had been designed and constructed entirely by Craftsmen School Great Scholars working alongside Craftsmen School Half-Sage treasures, yet the manufacturing process itself was carried out wholly by scholars below the Great Scholar rank.
Jing Kingdom had not only manufactured second-generation Armored Mechanisms, but also produced second-generation Flying Mechanisms, second-generation Literary Qi Cannons, and second-generation Wooden Oxen and Gliding Horses.
Behind the five hundred Xiang Prefecture units came four hundred "Yueyang" Literary Qi Cannons, pulled by Wooden Oxen and Gliding Horses.
Beyond the Literary Qi Cannons lay Ding County's newly completed airfield,