The top of the ruins was shrouded in countless bloodlines, and the faces of many Yongye powerhouses were bleak, and they fell slowly.
Earl Werewolf roared like thunder, and struggled again and again, but this action attracted more stabbing bloodlines, restraining him who had jumped into the air again, and pulling him back to the ground. This time the Count Werewolf couldn't jump up anymore, his growl gradually became deeper, and he fell down motionless.
The demon marquis froze for a moment, then suddenly screamed, and his whole body was ignited with magic fire, which cut off all the blood lines in his body, flew into the sky, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Qianye didn't go after him, but pulled out Dongyue and swung it several times. The waves of the sea engulfed all the struggling dark race powerhouses on the ground.
There are too many variables in chasing and killing a marquis who was seriously injured and desperately trying to escape, so it is better to consolidate the results of the battle. These strong men with titles are the backbone of the dark race, and killing them all can also severely injure the enemy army and reduce the risk of one's own side sweeping the battlefield.
The leading strong man was annihilated in one fell swoop, and the dark warriors who had retreated at a reasonable pace immediately fell into chaos, and turned into a rout in a blink of an eye.
The dark fire mercenaries surrounded them on all sides, and deliberately left many small gaps, waiting for the dark fighters to escape from here, and then attacked from the side and rear, causing a large number of casualties. These are all small tricks commonly used by mercenaries. They may not be of much advantage on the frontal battlefield, but they are especially useful at the end of a chaotic battle.
Leaving the neutral ground, the ferocity of the dark fire mercenaries is undoubtedly revealed. Their personal combat power is far above the ordinary soldiers of the empire and Yongye. In the past, the gap was only in equipment, tactical command, and discipline. But now, Song Zining and Qianye have made up for all the shortcomings, and then Dark Fire bared his fangs.
The battle ended very quickly. Although some dark race fighters escaped, most of them fell during the breakout process. The mercenaries in the neutral land showed their ferocity and cunning to the fullest, and caused great damage in the final stage. amazing. If any commander knew this was the result, he would definitely not choose to break out of the siege, but would stand by and wait for help.
At the end of the battle, compared with the results obtained, the casualty rate of Dark Fire was unbelievably low. This is also because the top defenders in the defenders were completely unable to play a role and were taken away by Qianye in one fell swoop.
Song Zining also came to the city, ignored the dissuasion of the officers, went deep into the city himself, and quickly swam around. After this trip, he caught many dark snipers lurking in hidden corners. With all the prosperity in the world, no sniper could really target Song Zining.
After clearly seeing the distribution of buildings in the entire small city, combined with the surrounding terrain that he had already explored and understood, Song Zining quickly set up several lines of defense outside the city to prevent the dark race from counterattacking. Then he began to divide the area in the city and build a new defense system.
The small town is called Baicheng, and the building materials here are all made of stones from the nearby mountainous areas, and the whole body is gray and white, hence the name.
The original intention of this small city was to defend the landing point of the dark race on the floating land, so it was originally designed to function similar to a fortress. As the dark race gradually gained the upper hand on the floating land battlefield, it played an increasingly important role in logistics, and many civilian buildings were added.
It is precisely because of this that the small town has a complete defense system, which can be put into use with a little modification, which saves Song Zining a lot of trouble.
Qianye was much more relaxed. He chose a quieter place in the city to sit down, told his adjutant not to disturb him, and began to recover his kung fu. The plunder of vitality just now consumed a lot, and the harvest was even greater, which needs to be digested in time.
The dark race reacted very quickly. Song Zining's outer line of defense did not take long before their counterattack troops arrived. But coming in a hurry and without air superiority, the counterattack troops were smashed in front of the prepared line of defense. They suffered huge casualties in a short period of time and had to retreat to the original starting point.
After taking advantage, Song Zining forbade the pursuit, and continued to seize the time to continue to improve and arrange the defense line. The cargo airship kept flying and landing, and unloaded a large amount of defensive materials. Coupled with the reserves left by the dark race here, Song Zining unceremoniously repaired various fortifications everywhere. That posture planned to cover every street corner, every Every building has been turned into a death trap.
The sky is getting dark, dusk has come.
Qianye opened his eyes, and the training came to an end. At this moment, he converted part of the consumption of essence and blood in his body, leaving room for the next vitality plunder.
It was already dark, there were no lights in the small building, energy was used for fortifications, lighting was restricted in the barracks, and the officers' quarters simply provided candles. The dim candlelight could only illuminate one corner of the room, making everything look blurry and gloomy.
Qianye didn't care about Song Zining's evil taste of using resource allocation to the fullest. This brightness didn't affect his vision.
Qianye got up and walked out of the house, a greasy smell of meat wafted out of his nostrils. A young mercenary next to him brought over a tray with two large bowls full of stewed meat. As soon as you smell the slightly pungent smell, you know it's stewed with beast meat. This is the exclusive meal for senior officers above Darkfire Warlord, and it can provide a lot of energy. Ordinary mercenaries would not dare to eat it. If they didn't have enough force to cultivate, eating beast meat would be like taking poison.
These two bowls were already four to five times the amount of an ordinary high-ranking military officer, but after Qianye finished eating, he felt only half full, so he ordered another three bowls, which made him feel much better.
The landing has been successful, and the action time of the other troops should be about the same. Next, the empire will face the counterattack of the dark race that is close to half of the floating land. I am afraid this is the last meal that can be eaten calmly.
Qianye put the empty bowl on the tray, and ordered the young mercenary to send it back to the kitchen, while he prepared to go up to the roof to check the defense layout of the entire small town.
Just as the young mercenary walked out of the room, he suddenly lost his footing, and all the empty bowls on the tray in his hand fell to the ground.
The entire small building was shaking, and then there was a deafening roar, and for a while, nothing could be heard except the explosion.
Qianye rushed out of the room and looked around, only to see a billowing cloud of smoke and dust not far away, half of the building rolled and flew out obliquely in the smoke and dust, and several figures fell out of the window from time to time.
It was an astonishing explosion that threw half of the building into the air tens of meters before falling. The surrounding buildings were also crooked and toppled.
The power of this explosion has reached the level of the bombardment of the cruiser's main artillery, and it is absolutely impossible for ordinary land heavy artillery to have such an effect.
Qianye immediately raised his head and looked into the sky, only to see a huge Eternal Night battleship passing slowly above the city. More than a dozen dark fire gunboats and transport ships fled in all directions. The old warships in these neutral places can bully and bully the ground troops, but they can't do it in air combat. Even if a dozen ships go together, they will still be killed by Yongye's cruisers one by one.
However, this battlecruiser of Yongye obviously didn't understand the situation and was eager to claim credit. It actually dared to stay in the low-altitude area when it passed above Baicheng.
Before Qianye could make a move, a large group of flames suddenly appeared from its hull, and a large piece of the ship wall was directly torn off, flying far away. The huge hull was skewed by this bombardment, flying sideways for tens of meters, and the speed immediately dropped to a higher level.
The only one that can severely damage cruisers with one blow is the Empire's battlecruisers. Sure enough, the elegant figure of the battle cruiser climbing rapidly appeared immediately. It turned sideways during the flyby, and dozens of secondary guns aimed at the cruiser, and then sparks burst out from the cruiser, and it was bombarded to the point of collapse.
Behind this cruiser, several battleships of Eternal Night appeared, but none of them was an opponent of the Imperial Battlecruiser. The battle cruiser ignored those small battleships at all, just stared at the Yongye cruiser and chased it fiercely, as if he would not give up until it was blown up in the air.
The Eternal Night Fleet did not expect such a head-on attack in the air, and the formation of the battleships in the rear was obviously out of shape. It seemed that the captains began to hesitate, undecided whether to rush to rescue the flagship.
The attack of the Imperial Battle Cruiser was too fast and too strong, and the cruiser was fatally hit as soon as it came up, and it seemed that it was doomed. Facing the most cutting-edge battle patrols of the empire, if the rescue fails, they may even be trapped together.
At this time, several imperial frigates appeared in the sky, and they rushed towards the Yongye battleship separately. This time the Eternal Night Battleship didn't hesitate anymore, turned around and ran away, not daring to fight at all. Once entangled by the imperial frigate, no one can escape when the battle cruiser comes out.
As for the cruiser as the flagship, it can only ask for blessings.
Not long after the Eternal Night Fleet collapsed, the cruiser couldn't hold on any longer, its whole body was ablaze, it slanted towards the mountain peak, and then crashed into a huge ball of fire, slowly rising into the sky.
Although the air battle was victorious, smoke and flames began to rise one after another in Baicheng. It was the arrival of the army from the periphery of Yongye and they were bombarding the city with heavy artillery.
This level of attack is not a threat at all. Song Zining issued an order, and after a while, the gunboats that had been scattered in the air gathered back together, condescendingly, and began to bombard Yongye's ground troops.
Although there are also strong people in Yong Ye Fang who use long-range weapons to fight back, but when their own firepower is not dominant, the dark strong people dare not go into the air, so that kind of counterattack becomes better than nothing.
In this way, the heavy artillery positions behind the dark troops are equivalent to losing cover and being exposed to the firepower of the gunboats. Being unilaterally suppressed and beaten, the morale of even the most ferocious fighters would collapse. It didn't take long for the dark race troops to be in chaos, and the forwards were in a dangerous situation. They were hit by double firepower from the air and ground defenses, causing heavy casualties.
As a last resort, Commander Yongyefang blew the retreat horn and withdrew the troops on the front line.
Song Zining didn't take it too far. After the dark race's heavy artillery unit was beaten out of range, he recalled all the gunboats, and then organized and retreated to the outer void together with various transport ships that had completed their missions.
Sure enough, not long after Darkfire's fleet flew away, another Eternal Night Mobile Fleet appeared in another direction. This fleet is led by two cruisers, and the rest are destroyers, all of which belong to the high-speed ship type, and the models are much newer, with extraordinarily ferocious firepower. If the slow antique airships in the neutral land are still there, they will suffer heavy losses immediately.
Song Zining commanded calmly, ordered the battle patrol to be in the front, and the three frigates flanked the rear, forming a confrontational formation in the air.
This Eternal Night Fleet obviously does not belong to the same group as the one that was beaten away before, the only thing in common is that they all lag behind in intelligence. When they saw the air team above Baicheng clearly, they immediately stopped rushing.
The comparison of air combat power between the two sides is very clear.
If an attack is launched, even though Darkfire has only one battlecruiser, relying on its absolute advantages in speed and firepower, it can completely wander around the periphery, continuously causing the Eternal Night Fleet to lose blood, until all battleships are dragged to death by kite flying tactics. Even if the Eternal Night Fleet attacks with all its strength, at most it will eat up a few frigates, and the price to pay for this is probably the same or even more destroyers.
After a short confrontation, the Eternal Night Mobile Fleet finally chose to retreat slowly, and then left the battlefield.
The distant mainland of Great Qin.
In a flash of lightning, a tall figure appeared on the square in front of Tianji Pavilion.
Zhang Boqian raised his head, casually looked at the nine-story building in front of him, and then went straight in.
Across half of the city, the Lingyun main hall of Weiyang Palace was filled with solemnity, and the court meeting was halfway through. Suddenly, a servant rushed out from the side of the emperor's seat, completely ignoring that a minister was reporting something, rushed to the emperor's side, and whispered a few words hastily.
Emperor Hao immediately stood up.