Chapter 192: Huanglong City is out
The Savage City was breached in the fifth hour of the siege, and the remaining defenders in the city finally chose to surrender after seeing no reinforcements coming.
Li Qing did not kill them all, but accepted their surrender.
It is worth mentioning that most of these surrendered troops were the troops left behind by His Highness Chunyu An, and did not belong to the Divine Realm troops, so they were able to surrender.
In addition, they do not belong to the Divine Realm military system, nor to the Imperial military system. Instead, they are troops trained by indigenous people, and His Highness Chunyu An himself spent a large amount of money to equip them with weapons and armor.
In terms of weapons and equipment, they are exactly the same as the third-tier Imperial Veteran Infantry and the fourth-tier Imperial Heavy Infantry, but they do not have their own combat skills and experience, so they cannot be defeated in a one-on-one fight.
But combat experience can be accumulated slowly, and after surviving many battles, there is no difference between them and real Imperial Heavy Infantry except that they cannot be promoted to the fifth-rank Dragon Scale Heavy Infantry.
This type of troops is very common in the outer realms, and many war lords who own their own territories in foreign planes are equipped with many such troops.
The hundreds of thousands of elite troops left by His Highness Chunyu An in Savage City are basically of this type.
The main reason for this is that the training of troops is too slow. If we want to train hundreds of thousands of recruits to the fourth or fifth level of troops, how many battles will be needed?
It would be better to configure it to the maximum and reach the fourth-level troops in one step.
Of course, generally speaking, war lords who are not very powerful are equipped with third-level soldiers such as mail armor and chain mail. The cost of heavy infantry with full body armor is too high, and it is very expensive and time-consuming to manufacture a set of full body heavy armor.
A full set of heavy plate armor requires an experienced blacksmith and a large number of apprentices, and it takes ten days to half a month to make.
Even if there is a large-scale forging factory that can use molds for one-piece forming, the post-forming finishing, additional accessories and other processes will still take four or five days to complete.
The hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in this plane by His Highness Chunyu An took hundreds of years to accumulate.
Unfortunately, the foundry is not in the Savage Plane. It is probably either in the Star Empire on the main plane or in the small plane where its main home is located.
When Li Qing conquers the primitive and wild plane in the future, he will also make one, using this method to arm a large number of indigenous heavy infantry.
There were only a little over 10,000 troops surrendering this time. Excluding a part of Yi Zhengyuan's Divine Realm troops, there were about 6,000 indigenous troops that could be incorporated.
The soldiers of the divine realm will be disarmed and imprisoned first, and after the war, see whether Yi Zhengyuan wants to redeem them. If not, take the time to remove the marks from other divine realms on them before recruiting them.
It took the troops two days to clear the entire city and complete the garrison.
Then repair the damaged buildings in the city, especially the city walls.
A week later, the city hall was opened and Li Qing met with representatives of all forces in the city at the city hall. He announced that everything would remain the same and the policies would remain unchanged after the change of ownership of the city.
Half a month later, Li Qing took the time to repair and reactivate the inter-dimensional teleportation array in the center of the city.
If it were anyone else, there would be no way to repair it. However, Li Qing's achievements in magic at this time had surpassed those of ordinary legendary wizards. In addition, he had mastered the origin of space, so he completed the repair after careful research.
While repairing it, he also memorized this inter-dimensional teleportation array and turned it into his own knowledge reserve.
As long as he has enough resources and time, he can also build an inter-dimensional teleportation array by himself.
It is worth mentioning that at this time this inter-dimensional teleportation array can only connect to the transit base located at the edge of the plane group, and cannot be teleported to other planes, because the coordinates of the several inter-dimensional arrays originally connected to it have been closed.
If you want to teleport there, you must open the coordinates first.
Although it cannot cross dimensions, the level of this magic array can serve as the central hub of the teleportation array system in this plane.
By building any teleportation array in the plane or opening a portal, you can connect to this inter-plane teleportation array and teleport over.
The prerequisite is to obtain permission from this teleportation array.
After the repair, Li Qing invalidated all the originally stored coordinates except for the inter-dimensional transmission coordinates of several other planes, and added the star gate within his own divine domain as the coordinates.
This means that as long as he is within this plane group, he can teleport directly to the Savage City through the Astral Gate, or open the Space Gate himself and teleport to the Savage City.
During the city repair period, Li Qing was not idle either. He returned to Longcheng through his subordinates and prepared to build a fixed portal in Longcheng.
Even if Savage City is taken, Dragon City will not be abandoned. Instead, it will serve as an extension and fulcrum of power in the depths of the plane, an important main city.
When Li Qing was building a portal in Longcheng, the war between Savage City and the Five Cities Alliance came to an end.
The result was that both sides suffered losses and neither could do anything to the other. After a week of fighting, seeing that neither could do anything to the other, both sides chose to cease fire.
The Five Cities Alliance remained motionless. After withdrawing its troops, the Savage City temporarily stayed at a former outpost only 400 kilometers away from the Five Cities Alliance. Their subsequent strategy is not yet clear.
Li Qing didn't have time to launch an attack on them for the time being, so he had to build a portal first to connect Savage City and Dragon City.
At that time, we will slowly suppress their living space until they can no longer hold on and are eliminated.
Yes, beating them is a way to win, and forcing them out is also a way to win.
He has now occupied the Savage City. It is not realistic to attack the city head-on and take it back with the current strength of the Savage City. This means that they either have to unite with the Five Cities Alliance and go all out, or move to another location to establish a new base.
In Li Qing's opinion, it is unlikely that Yi Zhengyuan would choose the latter.
In this plane, the Savage City that can connect other planes and the transit base is equivalent to orthodoxy. Whoever occupies the Savage City is equivalent to possessing orthodoxy.
Even though it is impossible to connect to other planes now, there are still a large number of adventurers and merchants who are teleported from various realms of the Eternal Tree to the transit base, and then to the Savage City. All their transactions can only be conducted through the Savage City.
If things go on like this, the forces occupying the Savage City will be tacitly recognized by all outside forces as the owners of the original Savage Plane.
However, Yi Zhengyuan and the Five Cities Alliance were restricted for a long time, and their strength could not grow. As time went on, they were increasingly unable to defeat the enemy.
So even if Li Qing doesn't have to do anything at this time, and doesn't need to enlighten the space dragon and the space dragonborn, his basic strength will quickly surpass them as time goes by.
Theoretically speaking, Li Qing could now use this as a foundation to be promoted to a formal war lord.
But he still wanted to wait a few more months to see if there was a chance to completely defeat or expel those two forces.
He planned to make a decision before the ten-year deadline.
If you cannot defeat him, you can be promoted to a formal war lord based on your current foundation. The rewards you get from the Tree of Eternity at that time may not be as good as completely occupying the plane, but it is not bad either.
If we can defeat them, that would be even better.
Anyway, the bottom line is that it will happen within this year, this is inevitable.
At this time, none of the many Sons of Destiny had been promoted to a formal war lord. Their progress was not as fast as Li Qing's. The fastest one was only halfway through the progress. He was the Son of Destiny who was preparing to conquer an island outside the continent.
It was a huge island with an area of 500,000 to 600,000 square kilometers. There was a city-state federation on it that worshipped an indigenous demigod called Black Mountain.
Fortunately, they don’t need to consider their potential, even if they can develop for twenty or thirty years.
But as long as they are promoted to official war lords, they can immediately begin to unlock the final seal and ascend to true gods.
So his advantage now is not that big.
On the eighteenth day after the capture of Savage City, Li Qing, who was building a teleportation array in Dragon City, suddenly received a message from An Erqiu that an envoy from Huanglong City had appeared in Savage City.
He returned to Savage City in surprise and met the envoy from Yellow Dragon City in the restored City Lord's Mansion. Turns out to be the Lord of Yellow Dragon City, a legendary ranger.
As soon as they met, he clasped his fists and bowed respectfully, and said in a deep voice:
"I have long heard of the great name of His Excellency Li Qing, Lord of Dragon City. Today I have the chance to meet him in person. He is indeed wise and powerful. I am Feng Xiuren, Lord of Yellow Dragon City!"
Li Qing also bowed and asked directly:
"If I remember correctly, Huanglong City should have surrendered to Lord Yi Zhengyuan. Now you come here alone to see me. I wonder what's the matter?"
Feng Xiuren stood up straight and said in a deep voice:
"Let's be frank. The purpose of my coming here today is to inform the Lord of Dragon City that our Yellow Dragon City will withdraw from the Plane Hegemony and return to the Yellow Dragon Adventure Group. I would like to inform you of this."
"oh!"
Li Qing was slightly surprised, but not too surprised.
Huanglong City is the weakest of the four forces. Seeing that it has no hope of winning the battle, it is normal for it to withdraw.
This is a good thing for Li Qing. It means that the strength of Savage City has been weakened again, and the difficulty of unification has been reduced again. Of course, he will not object and said with a smile:
"Mr. Feng Xiuren's decision is beneficial to Dragon City. I certainly wish for it."
After thinking for a while, he asked:
"There is one thing I don't understand. Why didn't you leave when Lord Yi Zhengyuan occupied Savage City? Why did you leave as soon as I captured Savage City?"
Feng Xiuren smiled bitterly and said:
"How can Yi Zhengyuan compare to you? No matter how strong he is, he is still a normal person. Your Excellency has more than 200 dragons at his disposal, and he can transform into such a huge upper dragon. Your strength and potential far exceed Yi Zhengyuan."
"He, Yi Zhengyuan, is still within my understanding. Your Excellency Li Qing, your troops are completely unable to resist."
"If you send a group of dragons here someday, I won't be able to resist them at all."
"oh!"
This was a disguised form of flattery. Li Qing felt very happy after hearing this and asked:
"Since you have given up the struggle for hegemony and are now a member of an adventurer group, I wonder where you will go in the future?"
Feng Xiuren immediately clasped his fists and said:
"We are still planning to stay in this plane and look for resources deep in the plane, but we will only build a small base to obtain resources. The main force will leave this plane within a month. When the time comes, please let Lord Dragon do me a favor and let me be teleported to the transit base through Savage City."
Li Qing immediately smiled:
"No problem, you can come anytime."
He was quite sensible and only left a small base, which had almost no impact.
If he wants to keep most of it in this plane, Li Qing will be worried.
The two sides quickly reached an agreement and Feng Xiuren said goodbye and left.
As soon as he left, An Erqiu, who had been silent all the time, smiled and bowed:
"Congratulations, Boss, for eliminating an opponent without a fight."
Li Qing laughed and said:
"This is good news. With one less legendary warrior, the pressure we face will be much less."
He waved his hand and whispered:
"Get ready. Let Long Shou and Long Fa lead a group of dragons each to go to the Five Cities Alliance and Yi Zhengyuan respectively, and surround them in that area to slowly wear down their strength."
"By the way, go ask Mr. Zhuo Shaohang to come with you. Be careful and safe. I don't want anything to happen to my child again."
An Erqiu nodded seriously:
"Make sure the mission is accomplished ."
After he left, Li Qing turned around, pinched his chin and said:
"I don't believe you can hold on after months of harassment."
Harassment will not cause much harm to them, but the blow to their psychology and morale is fatal.
Each force was constantly harassed by hundreds of giant dragons, which would emit a dragon's breath from a distance. They were unable to leave the city and could only stay in one place, unable to eat or sleep peacefully. No one could bear it for long.
Li Qing planned to harass them like this for a few months. If they still didn't leave, he would lead the main force to attack the city head-on.
After four or five months of harassment, even if they can still hold on, their morale and spirit will be weakened to the extreme. At that time, the difficulty and pressure of attacking the city will be the lowest.
As for whether the giant dragon under his command would get into trouble or be killed by legendary masters such as Yi Zhengyuan, he was not worried about that.
They just harassed and did not attack the city or the camp. They basically just hovered in the air, breathing dragon breath from afar.
Currently, neither Yi Zhengyuan nor the Five Cities Alliance have any legendary wizards. Legendary warriors or knights may be able to fly with the help of magic items or bursts of fighting spirit, but they dare not attack the dragons.
With more than a hundred giant dragons gathered together, even a legendary warrior might not be able to escape unscathed if they rushed forward.
In addition, Li Qing sent Zhuo Shaohang to Yi Zhengyuan's side, together with Long Shou, the Five Cities Alliance had Long Fa, Xie Jin and Xie Heng, a total of three upper-level dragons, which were enough to resist the sneak attack of the legendary strongman.
Although they are unlikely to put themselves in danger.
After all, they are legendary warriors with a normal lifespan of several hundred years. Unless their lives are in danger and they have to fight for their lives, it is impossible for them to fight for their lives in a situation like this.
“The situation is very good!”
Li Qing sighed and put aside the third-level magic pattern he had just made.
After washing his hands, he picked up the third-level "physique" magic pattern construct again.
Magic pattern construction: third-level physique.
Attributes: Constitution +62%.
Occupancy value: 20 points.
The bonus of a normal third-level magic pattern is 60%, occupying a value of 20 points.
This card of his is considered to be an above-average performance. Under the standard occupancy value, the physical fitness bonus is two percentage points higher than the standard.
Up to now, he has completed the drawing of all the basic magic patterns for the Destruction Knight suit, and theoretically he can complete the production of this entire set of magic pattern structures.
This set consists of a total of 13 magic patterns, 8 for knights and 5 for war mounts.
The knight is composed of 2 third-order magic patterns and 6 second-order magic patterns.
They are level three physique and level three strength, 2 level two physiques and 2 level two strengths, one level two life link, and one level two strength sharing.
The war mount is composed of 3 second-level magic patterns and 2 first-level magic patterns.
They are respectively a level two physique, a level one physique, a level two strength, and a level one speed.
