Monarch of Evernight: Baxin’s journey

bsp;When Qianye returned to the Hall of Valor, Carol was already waiting at the hatch and asked, "Is everything going well?"

"Of course. The Wolf King is not a fool, he knows what to do."

"Isn't it possible to bring him to our side? I mean, a true ally."

Qianye shook his head and said: "No. Until now, we have not figured out the true purpose of the Wolf King, or even why he appeared in a neutral place. In this case, rashly forming an alliance It would be a huge risk. At least for now, I still can’t trust him.”

Carol smiled slightly and said: "Then why do you trust me so much? And you also opened up part of the authority of the Hall of Valor to me?"

Qianye didn't know how to answer for a moment, so he hesitated and tried to muddle through. There are of course many reasons. In the Battle of Floating Land, Carol defended the Hall of Valor without fear of casualties and did her best. Comrades who have experienced life and death are naturally reliable allies.

However, Qianye himself felt a bit guilty when he said it. At this time, if he could no longer see Carol's intentions, he would be really stupid. It's just that Qianye has been unwilling to blow away this layer of fog, and would rather this matter never be revealed.

A hint of disappointment flashed in Carol's eyes, and then she cheered up and said, "It's a good thing that you trust us. Let's go back to the Frost and Thunder Temple first, and I need to mobilize more people to help. I think, The temple's personal guards can be divided into at least two-thirds to follow our actions."

“It couldn’t be better!” Qianye said happily.

Every member of the Guards of Frost and Thunder Temple is a deacon, and one must have at least a level equivalent to that of a human warrior to be able to serve. This is the temple's accumulation over the years and the essence of the entire family. Until now, there are only a dozen members of the Frost and Thunder Temple's personal guard. Carol transferred two-thirds, which is equivalent to adding seven or eight strong warriors to Qianye.

Qianye walked towards the bow of the ship. When passing by the gun cabin, he suddenly remembered something. He reached out and patted a ballista next to him and said, "Remove this."

This crossbow is more than ten meters long, and the giant crossbow mounted on it is also several meters long. It is so powerful that you can tell it is the main gun of the cruiser class at a glance. But Qianye slapped it casually, and there was a dull banging sound where it landed. It was not a metal sound at all, but more like wood.

A few soldiers came over and lifted the huge ballista with all their strength, and dragged it to the elevator. Their steps were light and they didn't feel any difficulty at all. After the ballista was lifted, the wood grain was exposed under the base. This so-called main gun turned out to be a model carved from wood.

"Retreat now, but the Wolf King will see you." Carol reminded.

Qianye smiled and said, "It's just for him to see."

"I really don't understand you." Carol shook her head and went back to her cabin.

Qianye, on the other hand, commanded the crew and soldiers to remove the camouflage of each model and return it to the warehouse.

In the ancient totem battle fort, the Wolf King had just sat down in the study when he heard a rush of footsteps. A young priest pushed the door open and said, "Great Chief, you'd better take a look at this."

Seeing his anxiety, the Wolf King did not blame him for being rude, and quickly climbed up the main tower of the castle with the priest and looked up. At this moment, the Hall of Valor is slowly climbing up, and with the Wolf King's eyesight, he can naturally see that the ballistas on the side secondary battery emplacements are disappearing. The Wolf King is so smart, he figured out what was going on after just a moment's thought.

In the blink of an eye, most of the gun emplacements became empty. The dozens of large and small ballistae that were originally densely arranged, nearly half of which had terrifying cruiser-level firepower, now only have one cruiser main gun and five destroyer main guns left, which are not even a fraction of them. /

The werewolves on the ground who could see this scene all had pale faces. Who didn’t know that they had just been tricked by Qianye?

The priest gritted his teeth and said with hatred: "How dare you lie to us! Chief, this matter cannot be tolerated. No matter what request he just made, as long as we go and get Nan Qingcheng, let's see what else he can do Tricks! ”

The Wolf King thought for a while, suddenly laughed, and said: "Don't worry about him, the cooperation with him will continue as usual. Inform our legion that from today on, no one is allowed to touch Nan Qingcheng. That's it!"

The werewolf priest was immediately dumbfounded and asked: "Great Chief, you just saw it with your own eyes, what he did!"

The Wolf King said lightly: "Of course I saw it, and I know that's what he showed me. So, continue to cooperate."

The priest was puzzled. Seeing the Wolf King's intention, instead of getting angry, he became even more willing to compromise with Qianye. He could only convey the order with full of doubts, and in his mind, he planned to go to the high priest immediately after finishing the work and ask for advice, otherwise he might not be able to sleep tonight.

Nanqing City is busy. Whether Dark Fire is expanding its army or preparing for war, it is a big move, and every move touches the hearts of countless people.

On the top floor of a rare high-rise building in Nan Qingcheng, several people stood in front of the window, overlooking the mercenary training at the Dark Fire School Ground in the distance.

Dark Fire was originally built in Nanqing City, and many facilities were directly exposed to the eyes of others. Places like the school grounds were not important in Song Zining's eyes, nor were they particularly closed.

On the school field, about three thousand recruits were divided into several teams and were practicing. The school ground is not that big, but when there are thousands of people there, it feels crowded. On one side of the school grounds, thousands of new recruits have completed preliminary training and are registering to receive equipment and weapons.

There were several high-power telescopes on the top floor. Now the two old men each put their eyes in front of a telescope. The field of view of the telescope is clear, and the styles and models of weapons and equipment received by the recruits can be seen clearly.

Force vision is of course good, but Force scanning can easily attract the attention of the opponent's powerful person, so most of the time, various tools and equipment are easy to use and safe in a peaceful environment. This also shows how cautious the spy is.

The two old men looked at each other for a long time, then put down their binoculars, led everyone downstairs, sat down in an airtight conference room, carefully closed the door, and then visibly breathed a sigh of relief. An old man sitting at the bottom said: "Brother Liu, what do you think?"

The old man in the middle narrowed his eyes slightly, pondered for a long time, and said: "Dark Fire equips new recruits with relatively common weapons, which can barely be considered high-quality, but as far as I know, they are still inferior to the standard equipment of the main army of the empire. Some of the larger mercenary groups in the neutral land cannot afford these equipment. To put it bluntly, the fifty thousand recruits recruited by Darkfire are equipped with such equipment, and the cost is equivalent to that of the main force of the empire. Just a teacher."

Another person continued: "The batch of equipment that came a few days ago is truly high-end. According to Darkfire insiders, that batch of equipment is customized equipment for the elite elite legion of the empire. It's just that the quantity is not large. It is said that the purchase quantity There are only 2,000 sets, half of which have been received in advance.”

The old man surnamed Liu thought: "In other words, Qianye will form an elite army similar to Red Scorpion and Broken Wing Angel, and the rest will maintain the level of a first-class mercenary group in a neutral place."

Many people nodded and said, "That should be it."

They have been observing for a period of time, and based on the intelligence from all aspects, their guesses are very close.

After a while, someone finally broke the silence, "Then what should we do? Should we just watch him send troops to conquer the land and do nothing?"/

This question caused a deathly silence in the room. After a long time, the old man surnamed Liu in the middle said: "Now it seems that it may not be a bad idea to stand still."

Some people immediately objected: "Then if he gains a foothold in Yonglu, won't his strength be further improved and there will be nothing he can do against him?"

The old man surnamed Liu sighed and said slowly: "No one wants to see the secret fire grow stronger. But now we really have no good way. Even if we want to fight, how and what should we fight? Qianye We will definitely bring the elite and all the fleet with us in this battle. So what are we going to do? After the raid, we only eliminated some ordinary mercenaries and collected some supplies? You can make up for tens of thousands of people.”

Although everyone had known this conclusion for a long time, they were still reluctant to admit it when things came to a close. They did not expect that Qianye would use most of his resources to build a small elite force, while the large force would still maintain the level of neutral mercenaries.

One person smiled bitterly and said: "Even so, let's cancel the action plan."

“We have been preparing for it for a month, how can we just cancel it?”

"What else can we do if we don't cancel? No one in Qianye dares to do anything. He is gone and has no value. At that time, the most valuable thing in Nan Qing City was the trading workshop. Are we going to copy ourselves?"

"Don't Ningyuan Heavy Industries have several workshops here?"

"Those workshops are for the production of simple components and processing of raw materials. The workshops that actually assemble the engines are still in the empire. Those parts are only valuable in their hands, and they are just a pile of scrap iron in our hands. ."

At this point in the discussion, the conclusion is already very clear. The old man surnamed Liu said: "The plan is cancelled. Everyone should also be careful and don't show any signs of weakness."

One person was unconvinced and said: "The gears produced in our workshop are also key components of the aerostat. There are several models that only we can produce. Do you dare to offend us?"

"Without their orders, who would we sell the gears we produce to?" This sentence knocked down the former's arrogance.

The meeting broke up unhappy, and everyone was waiting for Yu Yu to leave.

A few days later, Qianye finally completed the preparations for the entire Dark Fire war. The huge transport fleet loaded with 12,000 mercenaries, slowly took off, regrouped with the **** fleet in outer space, and prepared to sail to Yonglu.

Before the formation of the large fleet was completed, several high-speed aerostats had already set off and headed to Yonglu to contact local support.

Then the Hall of Heroes, together with the battle patrol and some faster aerostats, carried the two thousand most elite warriors of Dark Fire and set off first. The slow transport ship, together with the old warship, loaded with 10,000 ordinary mercenaries, slowly moved on.

In Qianye's plan, these 10,000 mercenaries were there to maintain law and order and occupy territory, so they had nothing to do in the morning.

In the Hall of Heroes, Qianye is repeatedly confirming the list of elite troops. Among these two thousand people were the original elites of Dark Fire, the surviving veterans of Baicheng, the top mercenary warriors of the Gaohu people, the talents selected by Song Zining from the Ningyuan Heavy Industry Guards, and several of the Frost and Thunder Temple guards. .

The composition of this army can be described as complex, but if you want to form an elite army that can compete with the Red Scorpions and Broken Wing Angels, you can only do this. If you just rely on the accumulation of dark fire and do not absorb external elites, I am afraid that Not even half the number can be gathered, not counting the time it takes for the warriors to grow.

Qianye has read the list several times and can almost memorize it. However, he suddenly thought of a problem. After being busy for so long, it seemed that he still hadn't given a name to this team.

(End of this chapter) 8)