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After a while, Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked Steven again, "Then what do you suggest? Can you tell me your plan?"

"Of course!" Steven, the younger of the Lyk Brothers, declared swaggeringly. "I'll blast them with that big gun on the tank!"

...Yu Lin Bloodhawk froze when he heard that, then nearly spat out a mouthful of blood.

You idiot, don't you think I'd use cannons if I could? If cannons were an option, I wouldn't even need that big gun on your tank. I'd just take the cannons off the gunboats!

I refuse to believe those Stone Men could withstand solid iron cannonballs. If one hit didn't break them, I'd hit them a few more times. No matter how hard their stone was, I'd pound them into gravel for paving roads!

But isn't the whole problem that we can't transport the cannons? Those long barrels are damned heavy. They aren't like wingblades and ballistae that you can dismantle and reassemble! Besides, the large components of those other weapons are all wooden. That's much lighter than a cannon, isn't it?

Even if you removed the wheels and everything else from a cannon, what would you do about the barrel? That thing accounts for at least seventy percent of the cannon's weight. Without a cart, no beast could possibly carry one.

And that oversized gun of yours is even worse! It would crush any beast that tried to carry it into a meat patty. The only thing that can carry it is a tank converted into a farmland tractor.

"Well...I know that big gun of yours is powerful, but isn't it guarding the harbor right now?"

Yu Lin Bloodhawk said, "That big gun of yours is too heavy. It's powerful, but transporting it to different battlefields really isn't practical. Even the cannons