The empire has developed for thousands of years, and the most successful field is large-scale combat machinery. It even surpasses the Eternal Night camp in terms of city defense facilities and floating battleships, especially the single-ship combat power. The advantages of the strong to make up for the shortcomings of the battleship itself.
But in this battle, neither of the two great monarchs on Yongye's side showed up, and the well-prepared empire also had an advantage in terms of the next-level powerhouses. As a result, Yongye's floating fleet suffered heavy losses.
Only a few hours after the war started, Yongye lost a complete main squadron. However, warships from both sides continued to arrive on the battlefield. It seemed that the Eternal Night Council was not completely unprepared, and had hidden two squadrons in the distant base as a reserve team. It's just that they never imagined that the empire stayed in the outer void with three squadrons as a hole card.
Ground forces are still advancing. Qianye closed the car window, calmed down, and looked forward.
Smoke and dust billowed on the horizon. There was the vanguard of the imperial army. Among the 30,000 forward troops, the main force of the empire accounted for half, and the other half was Zhang Clan's private army. Zhang Boqian, as the commander of the empire in this battle, has organized the private army in his own clan into the forward line. Even the powerful family who has a grievance with Zhang clan has to say a word of convincing.
Qianye ordered the attendants to pass orders to keep the whole battalion in formation, pay attention to the distance from the forward of the army and the friendly troops on the left and right, and then he lit a cigarette to let every part of his body enter a rest state. There was constant roaring from the sky above his head, but Qianye managed to relax his mind. His thoughts became slower and slower, and he gradually fell asleep. He actually fell asleep.
After an unknown amount of time, Qianye was awakened by a violent explosion. There was a sharp whistling in the air, and a heavy artillery shell fell right into the air. However, it did not complete its mission. The shooter on the back seat of the off-road vehicle raised the muzzle, fired continuously, and exploded the shells in the air.
The explosion point was a few hundred meters from the ground, but the off-road vehicle was still jumped up by the shock, and the windows of the car were all shattered, which shows the power of the heavy artillery.
Qianye stretched out his hand to smooth his hair messed up by the harsh air waves, lightly pressed the seat, flipped out of the car window lightly, stood on the roof of the car, and turned his head to look around.
The sharp whistling sounds in the sky joined together, and the shells rained down on Qianye's convoy. Qianye said: "Pass down the order, everyone is free to evade!"
A school officer in the back seat of the off-road vehicle immediately stood up and passed the order with a semaphore. The convoy behind the off-road vehicle immediately dispersed in all directions, and at the same time, the roof of the vehicle continued to emit flames, and the light of the original force could be seen from time to time, like a large defensive net, intercepting the shells falling from the sky one by one.
There are black and gray smoke clouds exploding in the sky, and each smoke cloud will bring a deafening roar. The heavy artillery shells were blasted in the air one by one, but many of them successfully passed through the intercepting fire net and fell on the ground, creating deep pits one by one.
A personnel carrier suddenly made a sharp turn, but still failed to avoid the falling shells, and was hit directly. The entire vehicle immediately turned into a big fireball, and the soldiers on the vehicle were thrown in all directions like broken dolls. Among them, only a few non-commissioned officers came out with injuries, and most of the others were broken limbs.
Qianye frowned as he watched. Dozens of elite fighters would have lost their lives in one shot. Although other vehicles were not directly hit, there were also casualties in evasion and stray bullets. However, passing through the blockade of artillery fire, with less than a hundred casualties, is already considered an excellent performance, and the elite private army of the Zhao Clan is undoubtedly evident.
Qianye has been standing steadily on the roof of the car, with crimson force shining around his body, and from time to time he takes shots to intercept the shells falling around him. Seeing him doing this, several other powerful senior officers of the Vanguard Battalion also jumped onto the roof of the car, deploying the force defense to protect the moving convoy.
Qianye looked ahead, and at the end of his vision, fires continued to rise. The vanguard troops had already deployed at the predetermined location, forming a temporary line of defense to fight against Yong Ye's army. Based on visual inspection, Yongye's number of defenses far exceeds that of the empire's forwards. It is obvious that he wants to take advantage of the empire's unstable foothold to push the defense forward.
Seeing Qianye, he immediately ordered: "Speed up!"
The engine of the off-road vehicle roared crazily, and the whole vehicle seemed to be flying, jumping forward on the rugged wasteland. Seeing the speeding up of the command car, the team of the Qianfeng Battalion also sped up one after another, roaring and rushing towards the front line.
A few kilometers away from the battlefield, Qianye jumped off the off-road vehicle and rushed forward at full speed. Seeing this, the communications officer on the off-road vehicle immediately grabbed the flare gun and fired a flare towards Qianye's direction. The signal flare soared upwards in the air, dragging a blue trajectory. All qualified fighters in the empire can tell that this is a special flare for the Zhao Clan.
The vehicles of the Vanguard Battalion stopped several kilometers away from the battlefield, and all the soldiers got out of the vehicles and rushed towards the predetermined position in skirmish formation.
Heavy artillery shells in the air became denser, while the ground was trembling, deafening explosions continued continuously, and bomb craters were everywhere on the battlefield.
The soldiers of the Zhao Clan's Vanguard Battalion are all battle-tested veterans. They jumped from one bomb crater to another, cleverly using all terrains to cover themselves. In the middle of the team, shells exploded on the ground from time to time, and soldiers were blown away by the shock wave from time to time. But most of the fighters fell to the ground, stood up again after struggling a few times, and continued to move forward.
These veterans have strong personal combat power and are equipped with excellent armor, so the heavy artillery bombardment poses little threat to them. Unless the shell landed right next to them, it would only cause minor injuries to these elite fighters.
At the forefront, Qianye has already rushed into the position of the empire's forward troops. A general of the Zhang Clan saw the emblem of the Zhao Clan on Qianye's body, he couldn't help being startled, and said, "You guys came so fast!"
Before Qianye could answer, Dongyue's lightning stretched out and blocked his chest. A large group of original force flames suddenly exploded on Dongyue's sword edge. There was a trace of black air in the flames, and a powerful sniper projectile shot at Dongyue's sword edge.
The general's face changed drastically. If Qianye hadn't blocked the shot for him, the shot just now would have pierced his armor and left a big hole in his chest.
The battle situation was urgent at this moment, and the general didn't have time to thank him, so he grabbed an assault rifle next to him and fired two bursts, smashing a blood shooter a hundred meters away into a sieve. He lowered his gun before he had time to say to Qianye: "Thank you, brother!"
Qianye waved his hand and said, "Needless to say, drink after the battle!"
Then Qianye did not stop, and with a long roar, he met a group of rampaging spider demons. The power of the sea suppressed more than half of the spider demons, and then Dongyue swept away and took down the leader of the spider demons. The Viscount's head.
Qianye only rushed to the most dangerous place in the battle situation, and each time he rushed straight to the middle of the enemy with unparalleled speed and strength, and then the power of the sea suppressed it, and Dongyue beheaded the dark leader leading the team, killing incomparably Quickly, in the blink of an eye, several dark race assault teams were crushed, and the situation on this line of defense immediately eased.
At this time, the soldiers from Zhao Clan's vanguard battalion in the rear had rushed to the battlefield one after another, forming an offensive and defensive formation and moving towards Qianye.
Qianye took out the twin flowers, fired several times, knocked down several dark warriors in front, and shouted back: "Defend on the spot, block the front line, and set up positions in the back line!"
As soon as an order was issued, Qianye suddenly felt a warning sign, and then a blood grenade suddenly appeared at his feet as if out of nowhere. The violent explosion sent Qianye flying several meters, and then he was driven by Dongyue's weight. He fell to the ground.
All of a sudden, Qianye felt the constant rumbling in his ears, the stars flying around in front of his eyes, and the original force of blood energy in his body was in a mess. It was not an ordinary blood grenade, and it even had the effect of disrupting the original force of Dawn.
Even though he was physically strong, he couldn't get up for a while.
In a trance, Qianye only felt that he was being dragged back quickly, and there were several figures of Zhao Clan soldiers in front of him, desperately pouring firepower to the opposite side to cover his retreat.
Then another blood grenade exploded. Although it didn't have the strong disruptive effect of the previous one, it landed right among the soldiers. These fighters tried their best to escape, but they still couldn't get out of the range of the explosion. Most of them fell down immediately, and only one of them was able to stand up and shoot back.
Seeing this, Qianye was dragged into a bomb crater, and then his neck hurt slightly, as if he had been bitten by some insect.
The attack on the vital parts immediately aroused Qianye's body's instinctive defense. He woke up in an instant, sat up suddenly, and pointed the short gun in his hand to the opposite side.
Beside Qianye was a young soldier, with a little immature expression in his eyes, but his military rank was already a major. At this moment, he was holding a needle of medicine in his hand, looking at the completely bent needle, he was in a daze.
This is the battlefield first-aid medicine specially distributed by the Zhao Clan. It combines healing, stimulant and blood enriching functions, and its medicinal effect is much stronger than the standard equipment of the main force of the empire. Even in the Zhao family's private army, only special units such as officers and vanguard battalions can be distributed.
In order to save lives at critical moments, the medicines are specially designed. The special needles are made of the alloy that makes the barrel of the original force, and they have armor-piercing effects. You don’t need to spend time looking for needles in critical moments, and you can directly pierce the soldiers of the Zhao clan. The standard battle armor, injecting the first aid medicine into the body.
What made the young major stunned was that the needle just pierced the exposed skin of Qianye's neck, bent it and scrapped it, leaving only a red spot in place.
Seeing Qianye, he took the medicine from the major, twisted off the needle, swallowed all the medicine in one gulp, said "Let's go", and jumped out of the crater.
Qianye held the bloody mandala in one hand and Dongyue in the other, and at the same time moved his bloodlines to lurk, using the cover of gunpowder and fire to keep wandering on the battlefield. He missed several good opportunities to attack in a row, and the current priority is to find the guy who unknowingly sent the grenade to his feet.
That man was too dangerous. Even Qianye's keen senses were attacked successfully, and he hadn't been able to lock his position. If he didn't kill him as soon as possible, it would cause great casualties to the empire.
Not long after, not far in front of Qianye, a grenade seemed to emerge from the water waves, and exploded, blasting two imperial lieutenant colonels and several soldiers into the air, and the heavy machine gun immediately misfired.
In this brief moment, Qianye's real field of vision has captured a trace of the original force that is as faint as a ripple, and that is the original force that sent the grenade to the designated location. However, at the source of the force trajectory, there is only a thick smoke, and no life can be seen or felt.