In truth, research like this was certainly not so simple, nor could it be completed with a few casual words. What Leng Xiyue wanted was precisely this awed attitude from Dugu Yan. If she took word back and slowly spread news of the Jiuzhou Empire's terrifying research capabilities among Heaven Dou's upper ranks, the Peace Faction would rise another step. This would clearly be of some help to Qian Renxue.
To achieve this deterrent effect, she had even deliberately placed the Leopards she had rushed to produce using the Forge over the past three months on the Shooting Range for the Imperial Fighting Team's party to admire.
These Leopards were naturally not the Panther Tanks of World War II, but genuine modern main battle tanks-the Leopard 2A6. Their combat power was another step above her original Modified Tiger King. Blasting a Soul Douluo to death with a single shot was no problem, and even a Titled Douluo would not come away unscathed after taking a shell.
If she could build twenty of these things, steamrolling Heaven Dou would be no problem. Then again, with her current reserve of Titled Douluos, steamrolling Heaven Dou would not be difficult either. Still, the same principle applied: on the battlefield, matters below the level of Titled Douluos should be left to conventional armies, lest people feel the invasion had no legitimate cause and the people of Heaven Dou begin rising in resistance.
After all, Heaven Dou's nobles had their own pride. If they were wiped out by a bunch of unruly peasants from the Northern Land, who would willingly submit? Resistance would spring up everywhere, and that would be no good thing. Guerrilla warfare was unimaginably brutal not only for the Jiuzhou Empire, whose population was still rather small, but even for a superpower.