The top of the ruins was shrouded in countless blood lines, and many Eternal Night experts looked pale and slowly fell down.

The Werewolf Count roared like thunder and struggled repeatedly, but this move attracted more blood threads, restraining him again and pulling him back to the ground. This time, the Werewolf Count could no longer jump up, roaring

Gradually he became sinking and fell motionless.

The demon-born Marquis froze for a moment, then suddenly screamed, and his whole body was ignited with demonic fire. All the blood lines on his body were pulled off, and he flew into the sky and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Qianye did not chase after him, but pulled out Dongyue and waved it several times. The wild waves of the sea drowned all the strong men of the dark race who were still struggling on the ground.

There are too many variables in chasing down a marquis who is seriously injured and trying to escape, so it is better to consolidate the results. These powerful men with titles are the backbone of the dark race. Killing them all can also severely damage the enemy and reduce the risk of cleaning up the battlefield.

The leader of the strong men was annihilated in one fell swoop. The dark warriors who originally retreated at a reasonable pace immediately fell into chaos and turned into a rout in the blink of an eye.

The Dark Fire mercenaries surrounded them from all sides, and deliberately left many small gaps, waiting for the Dark Warriors to escape from here, and then attack from the sides and rear, causing a lot of damage. These are common tricks used by mercenaries, and they may occupy a lot of space on the frontal battlefield.

Not cheap, but extremely useful at the end of a chaotic campaign.

Leaving the neutral ground, the ferocity of the Darkfire mercenaries is undoubtedly revealed. Their personal combat power is far higher than that of ordinary soldiers of the Empire and Evernight. In the past, the only difference was equipment, tactical command and discipline. But now, all shortcomings have been eliminated by Song Zining

After joining Qianye, An Huo revealed his fangs.

The battle ended quickly. Although some dark race warriors escaped, most of them fell in the process of breaking out. The mercenaries in the neutral ground showed their ferocity and cunning to the fullest, causing huge damage in the final stage.

Shocking. If any commander had known such a result, he would not have chosen to break out, but would have waited for reinforcements.

At the end of the battle, Dark Fire's casualty rate was incredibly low compared to the results achieved. This was also due to the fact that the top warriors among the defenders were eliminated by Qianye in one fell swoop before they could play any role.

Song Zining also came to the city. Regardless of the officers' dissuasion, he went deep into the city and quickly walked around. During this trip, he caught a lot of dark snipers lurking in hidden corners. He was surrounded by the prosperity of the world.

, no sniper can really target Song Zining.

After seeing clearly the distribution of buildings in the entire town, and combining it with the surrounding terrain that he had already surveyed, Song Zining quickly deployed several lines of defense outside the city to prevent the dark race from counterattacking. Then he began to divide areas within the city and build a new defense system

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The small town is called Baicheng. The building materials here are all made of stones from nearby mountainous areas. They are all gray and white, hence the name.

The original intention of this small city was to protect the landing point of the dark race on the floating continent. Therefore, it was originally designed to function like a fortress. As the dark race gradually took advantage of the floating land battlefield, it played a role in logistics.

Its role has become increasingly important, and many new civil buildings have been added.

It is precisely because of this that the small town has a complete defense system that can be put into use with just a few modifications, 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 energy. The plunder of life just now consumed a lot, and the harvest was even greater, which needed to be digested in time.

The dark race reacted quickly. Not long after Song Zining's outer defense line was set up, their counterattack troops arrived. However, they came in a hurry and had no air superiority. The counterattack troops smashed their heads in front of the prepared defense line. In just a short time

Over time, there were huge casualties, and we had to return to our original starting point.

After taking advantage, Song Zining banned the pursuit and continued to seize the time to improve and deploy the defense line. The cargo aerostat continued to fly up and down, unloading a large amount of defense supplies, coupled with the reserves left by the dark race here, Song Zining unceremoniously

Various fortifications were built everywhere, and the posture was intended to turn every street corner and every building into a death trap.

The sky is getting darker and dusk has arrived.

Qianye opened his eyes, and his 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 life plunder.

It was already dark, and there were no lights in the small building. All energy was used for fortifications. Lighting was also restricted in the barracks, and only candles were issued in the officers' quarters. The dim candlelight could only illuminate a corner of the room, making everything look blurry and eerie.

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Qianye didn't care about Song Zining's bad taste in allocating resources to the fullest. This brightness did not affect his vision.

Qianye stood up and walked out of the house. The smell of greasy meat hit his nostrils. A young mercenary next to him brought over a tray with two large bowls of stew on it. As soon as he smelled the slightly pungent smell,

, you know that it is stewed with the meat of ferocious beasts. This is a food exclusive to senior officers above the Dark Fire Warlord, and it can provide a lot of energy. Ordinary mercenaries dare not eat it, as they do not have enough Force cultivation to eat ferocious beasts.

Animal meat is almost like taking poison.

These two bowls were already four or five times the amount of an ordinary high-ranking officer. However, after Qianye finished eating, he felt only half full, so he asked for three more bowls, and he felt much better.

The landing has been successful, and the action time of the other groups of 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 that this is the last meal that can be eaten calmly.

Qianye put the empty bowl on the tray, ordered the young mercenary to return to the kitchen, and prepared to climb to the top of the building to check the defense layout of the entire town.

The young mercenary had just walked out of the room when he suddenly lost his balance and all the empty bowls on the tray in his hand fell to the ground.

The whole small building was shaking, and then a deafening roar came. For a moment, nothing could be heard except a loud explosion.

Qianye rushed out of the room and looked around. He saw a cloud of smoke and dust rising not far away. Half of the building rolled and flew out in the smoke, and several figures fell out of the window from time to time.

It was an astonishing explosion that threw half of the building dozens of meters into the air before falling. The surrounding buildings also tilted and fell.

The power of this explosion has reached the level of a cruiser's main gun bombardment. It is 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 slowly passing over the city. More than a dozen gunboats and transport ships with dark fire fled in all directions. These old model battleships in the neutral ground

, it's okay to bully the ground troops, but it's not enough for air combat. Even if more than a dozen ships come together, they will still be killed one by one by Yongye's cruisers.

However, this Yongye battleship cruiser obviously did not understand the situation and was eager to take credit. It actually dared to stay in the low-altitude area when passing above Baicheng.

Before Qianye could take action, a large ball of fire suddenly appeared on its hull, and a large piece of the ship wall was torn off and flew far away. The huge hull was tilted by the bombardment and flew sideways.

After being tens of meters away, the speed immediately dropped to another level.

The only battle cruiser that could severely damage a battleship with one blow was the battle cruiser of the empire. Sure enough, the graceful figure of the battle cruiser climbing rapidly appeared immediately. It made a side bend during the flyby, and dozens of secondary guns were aimed at the battlecruiser.

Then sparks erupted from the battlecruiser, which was shaken to the point of collapse.

Behind this cruiser, several more Eternal Night battleships appeared, but none of them were opponents of the Imperial battle cruiser. The battle cruiser ignored those small battleships at all, and just stared at the Eternal Night cruiser, chasing after them, with a look of indifference.

He smashed it into the air and never gave up.

The Yongye Fleet did not expect to encounter such a head-on attack in the air. The formation of the rear battle fleet was obviously out of shape. It seemed that the captains were beginning to hesitate and undecided whether to rush to rescue the flagship.

The attack of the Imperial battle cruiser was too fast and too strong. The cruiser was fatally hit as soon as it came up, and it seemed that it was inevitable to escape. Facing the Empire's most cutting-edge battle cruiser, if they failed to rescue them, they might even be trapped together.

At this time, several more imperial frigates appeared in the sky, and they rushed towards the Yongye battleship separately. This time, the Yongye battleship no longer hesitated, turned around and ran away, not daring to fight at all. Once entangled by the imperial frigate, wait for the battlecruiser

With your hands free, no one can escape.

As for the cruiser as the flagship, you can only ask for your own blessings.

Not long after the Yongye fleet collapsed, the cruiser could no longer hold on. It burst into flames and plunged diagonally towards the mountain. Then it crashed into a huge fireball and slowly rose into the sky.

Although the air battle was successful, plumes of smoke and fire began to rise one after another in the White City. This was the arrival of the army from the outer perimeter of Yongye, and they were bombarding the city with heavy artillery.

An attack of this level could not act as a threat at all. Song Zining issued an order, and a moment later the gunboats that had been scattered in the air gathered back together, condescendingly, and began to bombard Yongye's ground troops.

Although there are strong men on the Yongye side who use long-range weapons to fight back, but when their own side does not have the advantage in coordinated firepower, the dark strong men do not dare to take off, so the little counterattack becomes better than nothing.

As a result, the heavy artillery position behind the dark force lost its cover and was exposed to the firepower of the gunboats. Being suppressed and beaten unilaterally, the morale of even the most ferocious warriors would collapse. It didn't take long for the dark force to be in chaos, and the forwards

They were in a dangerous situation and were hit by double firepower from air and ground defenses, resulting in heavy casualties.

As a last resort, Commander Yong Yefang blew the retreat horn and withdrew the frontline troops.

Song Zining did not hesitate. After the dark race's heavy artillery force was beaten out of range, he recalled all the gunboats, and then, together with the various transport ships that had completed their missions, they formed a group and retreated to the outer void.

Sure enough, not long after Dark Fire's fleet flew away, another Evernight mobile fleet appeared in the other direction. This fleet was led by two cruisers, and the rest were destroyers, all of which were high-speed ships and had new models.

There are many, and the firepower is extremely fierce. If those slow antique aerostats in the neutral ground are still there, they will suffer heavy losses immediately.

Song Zining commanded calmly, placing the battle patrol in front and three frigates guarding the rear, forming a confrontation formation in the air.

This Eternal Night Fleet obviously did not belong to the same group as the one that was beaten away before. The only thing they had in common was that their intelligence was lagging behind. When they clearly saw the aerial fleet above White City, they immediately stopped their rush.

The comparison of the air combat capabilities of the two sides is very clear.

If an attack is launched, even though Dark Fire only has one battle cruiser, relying on its absolute advantages in speed and firepower, it can roam around the periphery and continue to bleed the Yongye fleet until all the battleships are dragged to death by kiting tactics.

Even if the Yongye Fleet attacks with all its strength, it will only eat up a few frigates at most, and the price paid for this may be the same or even more destroyers.

After a moment of confrontation, the Yongye Mobile Fleet finally chose to retreat slowly and then left the battlefield.

The distant mainland of Daqin.

There was a flash of lightning, and a stalwart figure appeared on the square in front of Tianji Pavilion.

Zhang Boqian raised his head, casually looked at the nine-story tall building in front of him, and then walked straight in.

Across half the city, the main hall of Lingyun Palace in Weiyang Palace was solemn and solemn. The court meeting was in the middle of the process. Suddenly, a chamberlain rushed out from behind the emperor's throne. Completely ignoring the ministers who were reporting matters, he rushed to the emperor's side and whispered a few words in a hurry.

Emperor Hao immediately stood up with a wave of his sleeves.
Chapter completed!