The attack of the dark army was extremely fierce. According to the original plan, the first-line fortress should hold out for at least one day. As a result, under the onslaught of the dark army, they had to retreat in advance and retreat to the second line of defense in just a few hours. However, because of Qianye's existence, the number of enemies killed in this defensive battle, especially the number of nobles with titles, far exceeded expectations, and the blow to the dark army was particularly painful.
The two fortress lines of defense are not far away. In silence, the high-speed battleship quickly arrived at the central fortress on the second line of defense, and put down the fighters and strong men who were still able to fight. The ballista withdrawn from the previous fortress also stayed here.
Originally Song Zining was supposed to retreat to the rear with the seriously wounded, but he strongly demanded to stay and served as the chief guard of the fortress. At present, this is not a good job. According to the imperial military law, whoever sits in the position of the highest officer of the entire fortress must stick to it until the end, and can only evacuate when it is allowed to retreat.
There are several major generals with Song Zining, but he is the only one who has the qualifications to serve under Zhang Boqian's command, and he has snatched this popular position with this.
The last fortress fell too quickly, and the retreat process was decisive enough, so when Qianye came here, Zhang Clan's army had just passed by.
Standing on the wall of the fortress, Qianye watched Zhang Clan's army go away, sighed suddenly, and asked, "Can we win this battle of floating land?"
"Definitely." Song Zining replied without hesitation.
"Why?" Qianye wasn't sure where Song Zining's confidence came from. At least so far, the empire had completely retreated on the floating land, and it was only a matter of time before the Song Clan's territory fell. And in outer space, it is only difficult to maintain. It is said that the main fleet has not dared to fight the Eternal Night Fleet easily.
Can such a situation be won
Song Zining pointed to the top of his head, and said, "This battle was planned by Lin Shuai, and Zhang Shuai was in charge. How could we lose?"
Qianye was a little stunned, and said after a while: "I didn't expect you to have such confidence in them. Is this considered...worship?"
Song Zining shrugged and admitted frankly, "It's sort of."
Qianye watched Song Zining carefully, and found it hard to believe that he would actually worship him.
At this time, several teams of soldiers left the fortress and began to bury something in the area outside the fortress. Qianye asked: "What are they burying?"
"Mines, I let them bury them."
Qianye was speechless for a moment. Landmines, an ancient weapon with a history of thousands of years, can only be seen on the most remote and desolate continents like Yongye, and they are still used on marginal battlefields. A landmine can't even seriously injure a senior soldier, so it has long been eliminated by the imperial army. Even if Song Zining had a whimsical idea, where did he find so many landmines
Facing Qianye's question, Song Zining smiled slightly and said, "I saw that you used the grenade well in the last battle, so I came up with such an arrangement on the spur of the moment. This is a large mine."
Song Zining ordered someone to bring over a box of so-called land mines. It is said to be a landmine, but it is actually made of shells and grenades bundled together, plus a fuze. This thing is indeed very powerful, and the soldiers outside the city buried it densely, and they would bury one every ten meters.
Song Zining returned the "land mine" to the soldier, and said to Qianye, "Not everyone can use your method of throwing a grenade, at least not at all. So I came up with this stupid method. Fortunately, Zhao The preparations are indeed sufficient, even a lot of things like grenades and shells, and as soon as I opened my mouth, a whole boat was shipped over."
After seeing this landmine, Qianye understood that Song Zining followed his example and killed cannon fodder and low-level fighters in large numbers first. If a senior soldier is accidentally in the core area of the explosion, it is equivalent to being directly hit by a heavy artillery, and may be seriously injured. This weeding tactic can highlight high-end enemies, and the kill rate soars.
At this moment, on the land of the floating continent, the army of darkness overflowed the hills and valleys like a tide. The three fortresses on the first line were like three rocks, which were washed away one by one by the torrent. The fort that Qianye and Song Zining were stationed under the most pressure was the last to be conquered. The loss of the dark race in this fort was greater than the sum of the other two forts.
After arriving at the second-line fortress, Qianye only enjoyed a few hours of peace before being attacked again by the dark army.
The war was extremely difficult, unprecedentedly difficult.
With the will that Qianye had honed in Huangquan, he was a little shaken by the seemingly endless killings. Not long after the defense battle started, Qianye was surrounded by heavy siege. Looking around, all the dark warriors were in sight. At this moment, killing has become a physical instinct, and Qianye's brain seems to have stopped thinking, and he just relies on instinct to dodge, block, attack, and kill mechanically.
The battle never seems to end.
After an unknown amount of time, Qianye suddenly felt that the pressure had eased, and the dark warriors around him became sparse in an instant. At this time, the roar of the engine came from above his head. He looked up and saw two long-lost imperial battleships circling above the fortress. The belly hatch slowly opened, and dozens of slings were dropped.
Only then did Qianye realize that it was time to retreat again
Looking around at this moment, the eyes are full of ruins. The buildings in the fortress are almost destroyed, and there are corpses everywhere. The dark race and the imperial soldiers are mixed together, and there is no distinction between them.
The battleship still suppressed the dark race with fierce firepower, and the surviving fighters quickly climbed up the sling and entered the battleship. At the opened hatch, a familiar figure appeared. Zhao Yuying squatted and knelt at the cabin door, the hand cannon in her arms kept roaring, she didn't care about the original force, and knocked down all the senior soldiers who missed the naval gun.
As the chief officer of the fortress, Song Zining was the last to board the ship according to the usual practice, but he seemed to struggle when he grabbed the sling. The clean combat uniform he had changed into was now covered in blood, and it seemed that he had suffered a lot of new injuries.
Qianye was also approaching the battleship, constantly killing fish that slipped through the net along the way. He glanced at Song Zining who was still climbing hard, and couldn't help frowning.
If Qianye belonged to the Yongye camp, then Song Zining at this moment is the best target for sniping. As soon as this thought arose, Qianye saw a flash of light from the corner of his eye. In an instant, Qianye knew that it was an original force sniper bullet, a powerful sniper bullet!
In an instant, the blood core in Qianye's chest swelled extremely, and then suddenly shrunk. In the violent ups and downs, a huge amount of blood qi shot out all over his body, and surging power gushed out from every smallest corner of his body!
With a bang, the ground under Qianye's feet cracked and sank, and a huge shallow pit appeared in a blink of an eye, and Qianye had already soared into the air like a cannonball, blasted towards the turret, slammed into the turret, and then accelerated again, flying Song Zining in the air.
On the battleship, Zhao Yuying also saw the sniper bomb coming from a distance. She put down the hand cannon and reached out to grab the sling that was hanging Song Zining. But the sling was still some distance away from her, and there was no time to rescue her anyway.
At this moment, Song Zining already felt the danger coming from behind, but he was weak all over, and he had done his best to be able to hang on the sling, and he was powerless to dodge and block at all. At the time of life and death, he could still laugh, trying to raise his right hand, apparently he wanted to say hello to Zhao Yuying, or to wipe off the blood stains on his face, so that he could die cleanly and decently.
Time seemed to freeze at this moment, then suddenly speed up and return to normal.
Qianye suddenly appeared behind Song Zining, and the sniper bullet hit his vest directly, and collided with Song Zining heavily under the huge thrust. Qianye grabbed the sling with one hand, and grabbed Song Zining who was knocked flying with the other hand, then shouted, exerted all his strength, and brought Song Zining into the engine room of the battleship.
Zhao Yuying grabbed the hand cannon and fired several times in the direction of the sniper bullets, suppressing the terrifying sniper. The battleship has completed the rescue mission, quickly lifted off, the hatch slowly closed, and turned away.
In a piece of rock outside the fortress, a mound of earth slowly arched, and then a blood count broke through the ground. He shook off the dirt and gravel from his body, looked at the warship going away, and snorted, his eyes were full of anger.
As a real superior, he has been lying in ambush on the battlefield since the beginning of the war, and has been holding back all the time, just because of that excellent opportunity just now. But unexpectedly, the sure-kill blow was destroyed by Qianye under impossible circumstances.
In the reward list of the Eternal Night Council, among the younger generation of the empire, Song Zining's ranking is now only below Zhao Jundu, far higher than Qianye. In the eyes of those big figures in the council, Song Zining, who has outstanding personal strength and has demonstrated extraordinary leadership talent at a young age, is worth far more than Qianye. The Eternal Night Council does not want another Lin Xitang-like figure to appear in the empire in the future. Just one Lin Xitang had already caused them enough suffering.
As for Qianye, although he was brilliant in the bloody battle for a while, in the evaluation of the upper class, his potential and resources are limited. The rewards for the sons of many aristocratic families are above Qianye, not to mention those princes and daughters who have already made their mark in the imperial family. .
This is a shot that has been prepared for a long time, and it is also his unique ability. With such a powerful shot, he would not be able to fight again in the next few days. Such a shot failed to hit the target, but missed Qianye, so naturally he couldn't help feeling annoyed. After all, Song Zining's bounty was so generous that his heart skipped a beat, and the reward for killing Qianye was less than one-third of Song Zining's.
Just thinking of Qianye's demon-like intuition and lightning-like lightning speed, he suddenly shivered. Vaguely, he felt that it would be good to be able to kill Qianye. If he faced Qianye head-on on the battlefield, it would be hard to say who would win. Thinking of this, he couldn't help scolding those trash in the council office in his heart. Qianye's information was obviously wrong, and the reward given was too low.