The dark army's offensive was particularly fierce. According to the original plan, the first line of fortresses should have been held for at least one day. As a result, under the fierce attack of the dark army, they had to retreat early and retreat to the second line of defense within a few hours. However, because
With the presence of Qianye, the number of enemies killed in this defensive battle, especially the number of high-ranking nobles with titles, far exceeded expectations, and the blow to the dark army was particularly painful.
The two fortress lines of defense were not far away. In silence, the high-speed battleship quickly arrived at the fortress in the center of the second line of defense, and put down the warriors and strong men who could still fight. The ballistas removed from the previous fortress
Also stayed here.
Originally, Song Zining should evacuate to the rear together with the seriously wounded, but he strongly insisted on staying and served as the fortress guard commander. Now, this is not an easy job. According to the imperial military regulations, who is the highest officer in the entire fortress?
If you are in a position, you must hold on until the end and cannot evacuate until you are allowed to retreat.
There were several major generals like Song Zining, but he was the only one who had the qualifications to serve under Zhang Boqian, and he used this to grab this hot position.
The previous fortress was lost too quickly, and the retreat process was straightforward and decisive. Therefore, when Qianye arrived here, Zhang Clan's army had just passed by.
Standing on the fortress wall, Qianye watched Zhang Clan's army go away. He suddenly sighed and asked, "Can we win this floating land battle?"
"Definitely." Song Zining answered without hesitation.
"Why?" Qianye is not sure where Song Zining's confidence comes from. At least so far, the empire has been completely defeated on the floating land, and it is only a matter of time before the Song clan's territory is lost. In outer space, it is only difficult to maintain, and the main fleet is said to have no more
Dare to fight the Yongye Fleet easily.
Can we still win in this situation?
Song Zining pointed to the top of his head and said: "This battle was planned by Commander Lin, and Commander Zhang is in charge. How could we lose?"
Qianye was a little stunned. After a moment, he said, "I didn't expect you to have such confidence in them. Is this considered... worship?"
Song Zining shrugged and admitted frankly: "That's right."
Qianye looked at Song Zining carefully for a while and found it hard to believe that he could actually admire him.
At this time, several groups of soldiers came out of the fortress and began to bury something in the area outside the fortress. Qianye asked: "What are they burying?"
"I asked them to lay the mines."
Qianye was speechless. Landmines, an ancient weapon with a history of thousands of years, can now only be seen in the most remote and desolate continents like Yongye, and they are still used on marginal battlefields. A landmine even seriously injured a senior soldier.
They couldn't do it, so they were eliminated by the imperial army long ago. Even if Song Zining had a wild imagination, where did he find so many landmines?
Faced with Qianye's question, Song Zining smiled slightly and said, "I saw that you used grenades well in the last battle, so I came up with such a temporary arrangement. This is considered a large mine."
Song Zining ordered someone to bring over a box of so-called landmines. They said they were landmines, but they were actually made of artillery shells and grenades bundled together with a fuse. This thing was indeed quite powerful, and the soldiers outside the city
They are buried so densely that one is buried every ten meters.
Song Zining handed the 'landmine' back to the soldier and said to Qianye: "Not everyone can use your method of throwing grenades, at least I can't use it. So I thought of this stupid way. Fortunately, Zhao
The valve preparations are indeed sufficient, and there are even a lot of things like grenades and shells. As soon as I opened my mouth, a whole boatload was shipped over."
After seeing this landmine, Qianye understood that Song Zining was following his method, first killing a large number of cannon fodder and low-level soldiers. If high-level soldiers were accidentally in the core range of the explosion, it would be equivalent to being directly hit by a heavy artillery, and they might be seriously injured.
.This weeding tactic can highlight high-end enemies and increase the kill rate.
At this moment, on the Floating Continent, the army of darkness flooded over the hills and valleys like a tide. The three fortresses on the front line were like three rocks, but they were washed away one by one in the torrent. Qianye and Song Zining were stationed there.
The fortress was under the greatest pressure, but it was the last one to be conquered. The dark race suffered huge losses in this fortress, exceeding the sum of the other two fortresses.
After arriving at the second line of fortress, Qianye only enjoyed a few hours of peace before being attacked again by the dark army.
The war was extremely difficult, unprecedentedly difficult.
Qianye's will, which he had forged in Huangquan, was somewhat shaken by the seemingly endless killings. Not long after the guard battle began, Qianye fell into a heavy siege. Looking around, he saw all dark warriors in his field of vision. At this moment, the killings had already begun.
Turning into physical instinct, Qianye's brain seemed to have stopped thinking and just relied on instinct to mechanically dodge, block, attack, and kill.
The battle seems to never end.
I don't know how long it took, but Qianye suddenly felt that the pressure was relieved, and the dark warriors around him suddenly became sparse. At this time, the roar of the engine came from overhead. He looked up and saw two long-lost imperial warships approaching the fortress.
Hovering in the sky, the belly door of the ship 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, I saw ruins. Almost all the buildings in the fortress were destroyed. There were corpses everywhere. The dark race and the imperial warriors were mixed together, no longer distinguishable from each other.
The battleship still suppressed the dark race with fierce firepower. The surviving warriors quickly climbed up along the slings and entered the battleship. A familiar figure appeared at the open hatch. Zhao Yuying knelt at the hatch and held her arms in her arms.
The hand cannon roared continuously, without any regard for the force, knocking to the ground one by one the senior soldiers missed by the naval gun.
As the chief officer of the fortress, Song Zining was among the last to board the ship as usual, but he struggled to hold on to the sling. The clean combat uniform he had changed into was now stained with blood, and it seemed that he had a lot of new injuries.
Qianye was also moving closer to the battleship, killing fish that slipped through the net along the way. He glanced at Song Zining, who was still climbing hard, and couldn't help but frown.
If Qianye belongs to the Yongye camp, then Song Zining is the best sniper target at this moment. As soon as this thought came up, Qianye saw a flash of light in the corner of his eye. In an instant, Qianye knew that it was a
A force sniper bullet, a very powerful sniper bullet!
In an instant, the blood core in Qianye's chest expanded extremely, and then suddenly contracted. Amid the violent fluctuations, a large amount of blood energy burst out to all parts of his body, and surging power surged out from every corner of his body!
With a bang, the ground under Qianye's feet cracked and sank, and a huge shallow pit appeared in the blink of an eye. Qianye had already soared into the air like a cannonball, fired towards the turret, slammed into the turret, and then accelerated again, flying.
Song Zining looked up into 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 hanging Song Zining. But the sling was still some distance away from her, and it was too late no matter what.
rescue.
At this moment, Song Zining felt the danger coming from behind, but he was completely exhausted. He was doing his best to hang on the sling, and he was unable to dodge and block. At the moment of life and death, he was still able to laugh, and he tried his best to raise his right hand,
It seemed that he either wanted to say hello to Zhao Yuying or wiped the blood and stains on his face so that he could die a clean and dignified death.
Time seemed to freeze at this moment, then suddenly accelerated and returned to normal.
Qianye suddenly appeared behind Song Zining, and the sniper bullet hit his vest directly. Under the huge thrust, he and Song Zining collided hard. Qianye grabbed the sling, and with the other hand, he grabbed Song Zining, who was sent flying away, and then shouted
, suddenly exerted force, and rushed into the battleship engine room with Song Zining.
Zhao Yuying grabbed the hand cannon and fired several shots in the direction of the sniper projectiles, suppressing the terrifying sniper. The battleship had completed the rescue mission, quickly took off, closed the hatch slowly, and turned around to go away.
In a patch of rocks outside the fortress, a mound slowly arched up, and then a Vampire Earl broke out of the ground. He shook off the dirt and gravel on his body, looked at the distant battleship, and snorted, his eyes full of anger.
As a true superior, he had been lying in ambush on the battlefield since the beginning of the war, and had been holding back for the perfect opportunity just now. However, he did not expect that the fatal blow would be struck by Qian in an impossible situation.
The night was ruined.
In the Eternal Night Council's bounty ranking list, 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 the big shots in the Council, his personal strength is not bad, and he has demonstrated it at a young age.
Song Zining, who has extraordinary leadership talents, is worth far more than Qianye. The Eternal Night Council does not want another figure like Lin Xitang to appear in the empire in the future. Just one Lin Xitang has already caused them enough suffering.
As for Qianye, although he shined for a while in the bloody battle, his potential and resources are limited in the evaluation of the upper-class people. Many legitimate sons of famous families have bounties on Qianye, not to mention those princes and princesses who have emerged in the imperial family.
.
This was a shot that had been prepared for a long time, and it was also his unique ability. Such a powerful shot was fired, and he was unable to fight again in the next few days. Such a shot failed to hit the target, but hit Qianye by mistake.
, naturally he couldn't help but feel upset. After all, Song Zining's reward was so rich that it made his heart flutter, but the reward from killing Qianye was less than one-third of Song Zining's.
Just thinking about Qianye's demon-like intuition and lightning-thunder-like action speed just now, he suddenly shuddered. Vaguely, he felt that it would be good to kill Qianye. If he faced Qianye head-on on the battlefield,
It's hard to say who will win and who will lose. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but scold the bunch of losers in the parliament's office. Qianye's information was obviously wrong, and the reward given was too low.