Chapter 144: The Eldest Princess
After Chen Ning settled the rebels, he began to discuss the next offensive route of the army with Kan Jing.
It was a good choice to go to Black Rock City, which according to the information was an important stronghold of the rebels.
But Chen Ning is not so concerned about crusading against the rebels, in addition, he has just clashed with the people of July Drifter, if he meets Makino at this time, there will definitely be disputes and frictions. Makino is an eighth-level general, even if Chen Ning is a double sixth-level general, it is estimated that he will not be able to get any benefit in front of Makino. In addition, Chen Ning's army now has more than 300 rebels as logistics personnel, and Chen Ning is a little worried that once they meet, Makino will take these people on the spot in order to establish his authority.
Therefore, under heavy consideration, the Black Legion did not go to Black Rock City, but went straight forward, advancing towards the depths of the southern war zone, and the deeper the war zone, the more likely it was to encounter zombie groups or even the main force of the rebels. Moreover, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and the information and forces in Chen Ning's hands are becoming more and more inaccurate.
However, the southern province has the capital Suzaku Castle, and there are several other important cities.
Among them is a Qingxiu City, which has a population of 2 million. Because there are rare earths in Qingxiu City, rare metals in rare earths, which can make important equipment and weapons in the empire, although the scale of Qingxiu City is far less than that of Vermilion Bird City, this city has always been a military town, with heavy guards, and the defense equipment is no worse than that of Vermilion Bird City. It hasn't fallen yet, and it's still struggling to hold on.
Chen Ning and Kan Jing entered the war zone this time, and the most important goal they planned was to advance towards Qingxiu City to see if they could help Qingxiu City, which was besieged by the zombie army.
The action of wanting to rescue Qingxiu City is very good, but the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny.
Vermilion Bird City is more than five hundred kilometers away from Qingxiu City, not to mention which high-level zombie commander the zombie army besieging Qingxiu City, but the worst is estimated to be at the lord level, and there will also be strong zombies of the level of Blade Wolf Rider and Demon Apostle, as for the low-level zombies below Frieza, there should be countless more.
Chen Ning, a small legion, may not be able to play a key role in helping Qingxiu Mountain.
Even, along the way, you may encounter countless zombies and rebels, whether their small army can reach the Qingxiu City area or not is another matter.
But if you don't enter the tiger's den, you can get the tiger, the so-called crisis is to bring opportunities in danger, the greater the danger, the greater the opportunity, and Chen Ning and Kan Jing led the legion into the southern theater, they were determined to do something big, they couldn't meet the main army of zombies under the command of the Corpse Emperor, so they could only take the rescue of Qingxiu City as the important task of this trip!
The Black Legion bypassed Black Rock City and marched in the direction of Qingxiu City.
After traveling dozens of miles, I came to a small town called Gou'an.
There were several troops stationed in this town, and there were more than 30,000 Imperial soldiers.
Among them are the Tornado Legion, the Vortex Legion, the Tsunami Legion, the Thunderstorm Legion and the Tulip Royal Legion.
It turned out that the Tsunami Legion and the Tornado Legion were both sent by the Grand Governor from Vermilion Bird City into the Southern Theater to fight guerrilla warfare, while the Vortex Legion and the Thunderstorm Legion, like the July Flowing Fire, were all sent here by the four generalissimos of the imperial capital to reinforce and quell the rebellion; as for the Tulip Royal Legion, this is the legion of the royal family of the Chinese Empire.
The Chinese Empire has a king, but the king's power is minimal, and the royal family does not have much influence, just like the emperor of Dongying, just to let the common people know that there is a royal family. However, all important domestic affairs are the responsibility of the military department, and the military department composed of the metropolitan governor and the four generalissimos and eight generals determines the affairs of the empire.
The royal family is nothing more than decorations, and even many commoners don't care about the name of the current king of the empire.
However, this situation happened mainly in the apocalyptic era, when the representatives of the wealthy clan lords firmly controlled the economic and military power of the empire, and these representatives were of course the Grand Governor and the four generalissimos.
The royal family has always wanted to change this, but to little avail.
In this cataclysm in the southern theater, the Corpse Emperor slaughtered the zombie army and swept the entire southern provinces of the empire, and the metropolitan governor personally went to the front line to sit in town, and the four generalissimos also "sent reinforcements" one after another. The royal family also spoke out and had to do their part, so they sent one of the only two legions of the royal family over, that is, the Tulip Royal Legion, led by the eldest princess Gangneung herself.
The legions sent by the four generalissimos are all here for a perfunctory time, even if they fight, they are specifically to deal with the rebels, they will not be stupid to go to the zombie army to fight, that is to kill themselves.
And the Tornado and Tsunami Legions, although they defend the area of Suzaku City, but they are actually people from the camp of the four generalissimos, and the Metropolitan Governor sent their two legions out to fight guerrilla warfare, in the eyes of their two legions, the Metropolitan Governor wants to send them to death to achieve the goal of eliminating dissidents. Therefore, their two legions will not be stupid to fight the zombie army and send them to death.
As for the tulip army led by the eldest princess Jiangling, when she came here, she just showed her face and announced the existence of the royal family, how could the princess's daughter really go to fight with the zombie army? Even if the eldest princess Jiangling wanted to, then her group of royal soldiers couldn't agree!
Therefore, these legions were stationed together in this small town called Gou'an.
According to a few legion commanders, after a while of being comfortable here, then they turned around and went back, wrote a better report, and made some credit, could it be true that they went to find the zombie army to die?
Chen Ning was very excited at first when he encountered several legions stationed here, feeling that so many troops were gathered together, which was a large force and very promising.
So, he settled down the legions, and he immediately took Kan Jing and more than a dozen henchmen of the Bull Demon King to meet the eldest princess Jiangling and the commanders of several other legions.
However, what Chen Ning didn't expect was that he had a hot face and a cold ass.
You must know that the commanders of these legions, except for the eldest princess Jiangling, are all from the camp of the four generalissimos, and everyone was a little surprised by Chen Ning's arrival, but when they heard Chen Ning propose to join forces to rescue Qingxiu City, everyone immediately sneered.
The commanders of several legions have similar meanings, Qingxiu City is far away, and it is surrounded by a zombie army, most of the governors dare not lead troops to rescue, just with these tens of thousands of troops, they still want to ask for help, I am afraid that they will be wiped out by the zombie tyrants or zombie lords on the way.
Several commanders, on the one hand, were hostile to Chen Ning because Chen Ning was the governor of the capital, and secondly, they felt that Chen Ning was so happy that he didn't know the depths, so they all rejected Chen Ning's suggestion one after another. They planned to stay in Gou'an Town for half a month, and then they went home and followed up to ask for credit.
The eldest princess Gangneung is about twenty-five years old, probably because the women of the royal family are very beautiful, so she has also inherited excellent genes and looks very beautiful. Moreover, she has a kind of nobility, wisdom, and skill in doing things that ordinary women do not have.
The royal family has declined, so the royal family has been reluctantly developing in order to re-emerge over the years, and deliberately befriending generals in the army, especially middle-level generals, the royal family wants to be presided over by a new generation of generals, and it is possible to truly re-emerge in the future.
Therefore, the eldest princess Jiangling, even if she treats Chen Ning, a small legion commander, is polite and polite, far better than the commanders of several other legions.
However, she didn't plan to rescue Qingxiu City.
After they refused to jointly rescue Qingxiu City, Chen Ning said angrily: "You continue to drink and have fun here, and I will continue to travel south with my army to rescue Qingxiu City.
After speaking, Chen Ning left with his subordinates and returned to the temporary garrison of the Black Legion outside the town.
Chen Ning ordered the army to rest here for one night, and continued on the road every day to rescue the trapped Qingxiu City.
At night, at ten o'clock, Chen Ning was about to rest, when suddenly the adjutant Bull Demon King came into the account to report: "Brother, the eldest princess Jiangling, she came to our military camp and said she wanted to see you." ”
Chen Ning was stunned when she heard this: "Why did she come to me?"