In Qianye's eyes, Liao City is neither good nor bad. After looking at it for a while, he said, "Who does Liao City belong to?"
Nan Ruohuai replied respectfully, "The Lord of Liao City is the grandfather of the second brother, and also the biggest help for the second brother."
What he said seemed to be plain, but Qianye seemed to have heard something, turned around and asked: "Do you have a grudge against your second brother?"
"Brother, it's not as deep as the sea of hatred." Nan Ruohuai took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and said, "The person I like the most died in the second brother's house!"
Qianye nodded and said, "Then what do you need me to do?"
Nan Ruohuai knelt down with a plop, and said in a deep voice, "You only need to hand him over to me in the future, and my life will always be yours."
Qianye said indifferently: "Isn't it mine now?"
Nan Ruohuai bowed his head and said: "I think I still have some small talents, and I haven't wasted them in the past twenty years. I know what you mean by helping me. But if I return to my heart, Zheng Guo will become more and more prosperous, so you don't have to Worry about this small place again. It's different from putting a puppet on the throne."
Qianye stared at Nan Ruohuai's gray hair and the back of his neck, and didn't speak for a while. There was no fluctuation in his heart at the moment, but he was a little emotional.
Nan Ruohuai didn't raise his head, but his posture was calmer than his past few times in front of Qianye. After a while, Qianye smiled, "Is Zheng Guo still young?"
Nan Ruohuai mentioned the breath at this time in his heart, and then he calmed down, "For us, the sky and the earth are just a corner in your eyes. With a person like you, not to mention Zheng Guo, even Yonglu, you can also see the land. It's just a springboard to something bigger."
Qianye laughed, "You have confidence in me."
"In fact, I have never seen a character like you, and I have never even heard of you."
Qianye got up, walked to the window, looked at the void at the end of his vision, and said, "Do you know what I'm going to do?"
Nan Ruohuai hesitated to speak, and then said honestly: "To be honest, I don't know."
Qianye sighed, and said, "I don't really have any big goals, so let's take a step at a time."
Nan Ruohuai was startled, he really didn't believe it, he just thought that he was not good enough to let Qianye reveal the secret, so he didn't ask more questions.
He didn't know that Qianye himself really didn't have any ambitions. What he wanted to do, other than take care of his brother, was to send someone to the holy mountain.
Now that the entire territory of Xudong Floating Island has been pacified, the next step is to occupy and prepare for war. Qianye sealed off the outer space of the entire floating island, and all airships were only allowed to enter but not to exit. In one day, all the 10,000 troops following Dark Fire arrived, replacing the elite troops from all over the place. At the same time, Yuanjing City began to build large-scale fortifications and strengthen turrets.
This floating island was regarded by Qianye as the first springboard and advance base for marching into Yong Continent, so he paid special attention to it. After the first batch of troops arrived, Qianye ordered someone to send a message back, ordering An Huo to immediately prepare several engineering airships and recruit craftsmen to come to Xudong.
A few days later, when the garrison troops on the floating island were in place, Qianye led the legion and set off to fly to Liao City.
Ten thousand troops arrived at the floating island, and only four thousand left with Qianye. The area of the floating island is not small, and the most basic garrison needs are more than 10,000 soldiers, and 6,000 soldiers really cannot be less. If it is further reduced, even the mercenary generals will not do it.
There are about 150,000 people in Liaocheng, which is considered a big city. The place is built along the river, and the transportation is convenient. There is a black stone mine outside the city, which provides an endless supply of energy for the workshops in the entire city. When Qianye arrived, the first thing he saw from a distance was not the city, but the gray-black smoke columns above the city.
Behind the billowing smoke are flowing gold coins. There are ready-made workshops in Liaocheng, and more importantly, a large number of skilled craftsmen, who can be used in the empire's workshop system with a little training. Originally, Zheng Guo learned from Qin Dynasty everywhere, and the workshop system was similar, but it was equivalent to the level of the empire fifty years ago.
When the fleet approached the sky above Liao City, the whole city rang out piercing sirens, and even Qianye who was on the battle patrol could hear it clearly. He walked up to the deck and looked down, only to see several air valves opened on a steel tower in the center of the city, billowing steam jetting out, making ear-piercing screams.
Power towers and steam sirens
Qianye was a little surprised, the city's preparation was exceptionally high. Although the power tower is an old model, it is still a power tower no matter how old it is. Many cities in the neutral land don't even have one. Moreover, this power tower is a bit old, but its specifications are large and high enough, and the power output must be surging.
In other words, there may be a powerful power turret in the city
Qianye's eyes were fixed, and a strange sharp whistling sound had been caught in his ears. The top of a dark tower in the distance opened, and a thick crossbow arrow was sprayed out, drawing an arc in the air, and shooting towards the battle cruiser.
If it wasn't for an attack from the enemy, Qianye would have praised the timing of the arrow's launch. At this moment, the speed of the battle cruiser has slowed down, and it is too late to increase the speed instantly. Moreover, no matter how huge the battle cruiser is, it can't run away from the tracking ballista within its range.
There was a roar, and the entire battle patrol trembled, the magnitude of which surprised Qianye a little. The power of this ballista was actually greater than he expected.
With a flash, Qianye appeared at the bow of the battle cruiser. I saw that the crossbow bolt was nailed to the shell of the battle cruiser, halfway into it.
After all, the captain is a long-time veteran. Seeing that the situation is not good, there is no time to intercept the fire, let alone withdraw from the range, so he immediately fine-tunes the hull. This part of the battlecruiser is the thickest armor, and the ballista did not penetrate the outer armor.
Qianye stepped forward holding Dongyue, cut off the exposed part of the crossbow with a sword, and saw that the inside was solid. If this shot is a tracking explosive crossbow configured by the new empire's cutting-edge warship, then it is entirely possible that when it explodes, all the armor on the bow of the battle cruiser will be blown away.
However, if the battlecruiser can stop it, other battleships can't stop it!
Qianye's eyes were fixed, and at this moment, three more turrets rose up, the tops opened, and each shot a tracking crossbow!
One of the three giant crossbows was fired at the frigate, one was fired at the battle cruiser, and the other was fired straight to the rear.
Qianye didn't have time to think about it, his figure flickered, and he had already appeared beside the frigate, Dongyue was like lightning, he slashed six swords in a row, with one stroke fixed in all directions, and chopped the incoming giant crossbow into several sections. The battle cruiser was shocked again, and was shot by the crossbow again. Fortunately, this shot was also nailed to a part with thick armor, and it still didn't penetrate the armor.
When Qianye turned his head, his expression changed slightly, the target of the last giant crossbow was the troop carrier behind the fleet! Of course, the transport ship couldn't escape the shooting range, and the giant crossbow hit it in the middle, then passed through the top of the ship, flew up to a thousand meters in the air, exhausted its strength, turned around and fell.
A huge gap appeared in the center of the transport ship's hull, and then flames spewed out from the gap, and several figures fell. The sirens on the transport ship were loud, and then rushed to the ground.
Seeing that the ship was about to be destroyed, the hatch on one side of the transport ship suddenly burst open, apparently forcibly opened from the inside, and a large amount of steam spewed out. Immediately, the hull began to spin, and with the force of the whirl, mercenaries were continuously thrown out of it.
Only then did Qianye breathe a sigh of relief.
The transport ship's response is the best choice at the moment. Its loads are all elite mercenaries, and there are many officers with five or six or even higher levels of force.
They fell from a height of several hundred meters. It wasn't that they were too unlucky. Most of them could only be injured but not killed. On the contrary, the burning transport ship is a large coffin of flaming steel, and there is only one dead end in it.
Throwing the crew and mercenaries out can also avoid the explosion range after the spaceship lands. The captain's quick wit is really good. The only downside is that some mercenaries may be thrown into the center of the city, where enemies are everywhere.
But as long as the mercenaries are on the ground, Qianye will not worry about their combat effectiveness. It's hard to find a job more suitable for urban street fighting than mercenaries.
Then it was time for the dark fire to fight back.
Even the powerful turrets in the main city of Daqin couldn't fire very fast, and the reloading speed of the four powered turrets in Liaocheng was even slower. The captain of the battlecruiser synchronized the attack position when he was fine-tuning the defense just now, and he was already in position at this moment. With the roar of the main gun, half of a main gun turret in Liaocheng was blown down.
Regardless of the results of the battle, the battle cruiser continued to turn and aimed at another main turret. At this time, the three frigates in the air had already adjusted their attack posture, dived from high altitude, and the rapid-fire main guns roared continuously, submerging the third turret in the sea of flames.
There was only the last turret left, and it raised another bolt from the inside, and the huge cloud of steam almost flooded the turret, and the whirling gears continued to accumulate power. This time its target was no longer the immovable battle cruiser, but a frigate.
In the blink of an eye, the turret had completed its power accumulation. The giant crossbow was trembling and was about to be shot. Suddenly, the surrounding scene was distorted. Qianye appeared above the ballista. Holding a steel beam in his hand, he inserted it with force, and instantly stuck the ballista to death. in the slot.
The accident happened suddenly, and the officers and soldiers operating the ballista could not react. After a series of operations, they instinctively stepped on the firing pedal. But the giant crossbow was stuck and unable to move, and the expanding power steam had nowhere to vent, and the power accumulated in a blink of an eye reached an extremely terrifying level, and the cast steel shell of the turret began to expand rapidly to the extent visible to the naked eye!
In the desperate exclamation of officers and soldiers, the turret exploded suddenly, and the huge force even threw several tons of components into the air hundreds of meters high! Such power, how can a human body be able to bear it. None of the soldiers in the turret had time to escape, and there were no corpses left.
The figure of Qianye has returned to the battle cruiser and appeared on the bridge. The captain was commanding nervously, Qianye raised his hand to signal him to continue, no need to come over to ask for instructions.
The captain continued to issue orders, commanding the huge warship to tilt its hull and fly around Liaocheng with an elegant posture. In this way, the firepower of the rapid-fire guns on its side can be fully utilized, sweeping away the small turrets and defense facilities in the city one by one.
The four main turrets were killed, and the entire Liao City had no way to threaten the battle cruiser.
Due to the unexpectedly strong defense force in the city, Qianye simply played up his patience and watched the battle patrols fly around the city in circles, clearing the fortifications block by block.
An entire hour passed, and Qianye ordered the mercenaries to land and enter the city to fight until there was no more sound of cannons and ballista firing in the entire Liao City.
But Qianye himself went straight to the city lord's mansion, facing the swarming guards, a plunder of vitality made the surroundings quiet. When he stepped into the meeting hall of the City Lord's Mansion, a mighty gray-haired old man on the throne slowly got up and raised a huge battle ax in his hand, as if he was waiting.
Qianye didn't act immediately, but said: "Nan Ruohuai is a good King Zheng, why are you so obsessed with it? You should know that in front of me, you have no chance at all."
The old man snorted, and said in a deep voice, "The country of Zheng is the country of the people of Zheng. Who are you?"
Qianye asked without answering, "Couldn't Ruohuai be from Zheng?"