Chapter 510 Air Fleet

Before Leitch took over the Holy City of Lyra, excluding the patrol soldiers who were mainly responsible for maintaining law and order on a day-to-day basis, the permanent strength of the Holy City of Lyra was actually only 3,000, that is, 3,000 Lyra patrols. However, from the beginning, it was built according to the standards of a large city, and it is not surprising that the Holy City of Lyra built a barracks tower that could accommodate 100,000 people, and now the 30,000 mercenaries hired by Leitch at a high price live in these barracks towers that have been vacant.

In the center of these barracks towers is an unusually flat training ground, which can accommodate 1,000 soldiers for training at the same time! Don't underestimate the number of 1,000, you must know that the Holy City of Tianqin is built on the Eagle's Nest Mountain, which is no better than those cities that stand on the plains! This is why many newcomers to the Holy City of Tianqin always feel a little uncomfortable at the beginning, those lofts with high and low levels, and the undulating streets, it is simply a labyrinth for road idiots!

Nowadays, the training ground is densely packed with soldiers, these soldiers are either wearing standard Black Wind Knight chain mail (light equipment), or wearing standard Black Wind Knight Servant leather armor, obviously the Black Wind Knight and Knight Servant who joined the Black Wind Knights not long ago!

And around the training ground, in the corridors leading from the barracks towers to the training grounds, there are even larger numbers of soldiers, or mercenaries!

Although the Black Wind Knights have only completed their expansion for a short time, they look at them standing silently now, and their straight waists reveal a bit of murderous aura, which can be regarded as decent! On the other hand, these 30,000 mercenaries have all kinds of strange equipment, and they don't stand up one by one, and there are even people who are talking to each other at this time, and from time to time they let out one or two discordant laughter! It wasn't until the soldiers of the inspection team assigned to the various mercenary teams stared at them with stern eyes that they began to restrain themselves slightly, but seeing them pout, and even secretly making some 'threatening' movements such as raising their fists after the soldiers of the inspection team turned around, they obviously didn't take the seriousness of this moment in front of them to heart at all!

Soon, Lucky, also dressed in black leather armor, appeared in the training ground.

Looking at this young and tall figure, many black wind knights and knights were full of reverence and reverence! As for those mercenaries, they also quieted down one by one, and secretly looked at the legendary man in front of them with curious eyes. And it can be seen that many mercenaries have admiration for Leqi, probably because Leitch ended the Kuroshio.

Standing under the 20-meter-high stone statue of Lyra Saintess Arabella, Leqi looked around at the thousands of soldiers on the training ground, and said loudly: "I think many of you have received the news that I have blocked some streets in the Eagle Talon District today, in fact, not only these streets, but also the entire Heavenly Lyra Holy City, as well as the entry gate at the foot of the Eagle's Nest Mountain, have been blocked!"

Rych's voice was loud, loud enough for the mercenaries at the very end to hear it clearly. When the tens of thousands of soldiers and mercenaries heard Leitch say this, some looked immovable, some had fiery eyes, some looked thoughtful, and some looked dazed...... But no matter what, these soldiers and mercenaries all looked at Reich intently at this time, waiting for him to continue!

"The reason why I want to blockade the city is simple, that is, war is coming!"

"Wow-"

For a while, the vast majority of the mercenaries were in an uproar on the spot, and their faces were shocked! Only the thousands of knights and knights standing on the training ground were unmoved, and their facial expressions were as cold as ever—absolute discipline, this is Leqi's first and most basic requirement for all the knights and knights of the Black Wind Knights! In the past few days of joining the Knights, those ruthless bastards of the inspection team have already used all kinds of strange torture methods to make them shoot and remember this!

The 30,000 mercenaries hired by Leqi naturally couldn't all be from the same mercenary group, in fact, they came from a total of 78 mercenary groups! Among them, there were only three S-class mercenary groups with the largest number of 3,000 people, and as for the smallest mercenary groups, there were only one or two hundred people.

Of course, these mercenary groups were tempted by the high price given by Leqi, after all, it is equivalent to twice the salary of the regular legion (not the knights), and this treatment is not something that can be touched casually! For example, the three largest S-class mercenary groups have 3,000 mercenaries of the third rank, and Leitch has to pay a salary of up to 200 gold coins for each mercenary every month! Then he has to pay 600,000 gold coins to the entire mercenary group! With this huge amount of money, these mercenary captains can not only save the salary that is scheduled to be paid to their mercenaries, but even make a lot of money!

Of course, the mercenaries do the work of licking the blood with knives, and these mercenary captains who can be mixed into mercenary captains and also drum up mercenary groups may all look like five big and three thick, but none of them are really simple-minded types! Since Leitch will give such a high salary, of course, it also means that the task they will face must not be simple! But for them as mercenaries, the task is not good or bad, only whether they can earn enough gold coins to make them excited in the end is the most important!

Most of the locals in various places don't like mercenaries from other places, they feel that these people have no honor to speak of, and where they appear, they often only bring destruction! And most of the mercenaries don't give people a very good feeling, rude, savage, bloodthirsty, and extremely ...... In the eyes of many people, they are simply a group of legitimate robbers!

But for the mercenaries, how can they care about this? The days of licking blood and precariousness make them indulge in self-indulgence, and they gradually become more and more indifferent in the endless killing, and the only thing that can really make them care is gold coins and their own lives!

These mercenary groups are naturally here for the gold coins, so they naturally don't feel that they owe anything to Leqi, and for the Black Wind Knights who have just been fully expanded, they don't feel that the combat effectiveness of the mercenaries under their command will be lower than those so-called knight servants or knights of the Black Wind Knights!

But as the saying goes, you have to lose the goods when you compare them! Now these mercenary captains look at the motionless, silent, indifferent and cold Black Wind Knights and Knight Servants in front of them, and then look at these mercenaries under their command who look no different from the aunts in the vegetable market, and they can't help but feel dwarfed for a while!

However, there are also mercenary captains who are secretly comforting themselves -- aren't all mercenaries like this? They are all pure men who can talk when they have something to say! But when they really come to the battlefield, no one will be a coward with weak legs and can't even lift an iron sword! As for those knights, how long has it been since they joined the Black Wind Knights? It's not even two months since they were full! So don't look at them majestic, but it's probably just a show!

Leitch continued: "Since it is a war, there must be a corresponding mode of war, offense or defense! Although there have been many knights or legions on the mainland that have become famous on the mainland with their outstanding defensive ability, I have always believed that only offense is the best defense! Especially for our knights, this is even more so! Think about it, once all our enemies are beaten to the ground, where is the so-called defense used?!"

"Hahaha-"

Hearing this, the group of Black Wind Knights and Knights who were originally silent immediately burst out laughing, which couldn't help but surprise the mercenaries standing behind them - how dare these stuffy gourds speak up?

What these mercenaries didn't know was that Reich did go to great lengths to require the knights and knights of the Black Wind Knights to be disciplined at all times, but he didn't usually ask them to be completely silent when he spoke. Of course, when it should be quiet and when it can be played casually depends on the context.

"I want to tell you, this time the direction of our attack is to the west of us - Purgatory City!"

"Wow-"

As Leitch pointed in the direction of Purgatory City, whether it was a mercenary or a knight, everyone was in an uproar - between Purgatory City and Starmist Valley, but separated by the Hawker Mountains that were hundreds of miles wide! This time, Lord Viscount (Viscount Black Wind) was going to attack Purgatory City on the other side of the mountain? Could they still fly over!

"Haha, seeing your expressions at the moment, I know what you're thinking!" Leitch looked around at everyone and laughed loudly, "Are you thinking at the moment - unless we can fly over?!"

As he spoke, Lei Qi paused slightly, and then it was like a hammer hitting the steel sword, the sword roared and the stone shattered, and Lei Qi's words shook the hearts of everyone present: "Then now I tell you, yes, we are going to fly over!"

"I know you find it incredible, that it is impossible, but I will tell you the truth what a miracle is!"

"Qiang—"

Lei Qi suddenly pulled out the sword of Li Huo hanging on his waist and raised it high, and the colorful flames on the sword body illuminated everyone's pupils!

"Today, I will lead you to a miracle!"

"Today, I'm going to take you on a flight over the Hawker Mountains!"

"Today, I will lead you on the march to Purgatory City on the other side of the mountain. And will conquer there soon!"

"Those defenseless enemies will be pierced by the sharp sword in our hands! Those who are immersed in the abyss of calamity are waiting for us to rescue! The magnificent history books are waiting for us to write with the blood of the enemy!"

"Today, all the impossible will be reduced to powder under our feet!"

"Let's go!"

"Bang, bang, bang!"

With the swing of Reich's sword, led by the Knights of the Black Wind, a large number of soldiers began to flock to the indoor training base that had been lifted from the roof.

"Great Guardian, the next task of defending against the leak of news will be handed over to you!" Leitch said as he looked at Clark to the side.

"I'll do my best!" Clark said with a solemn face.

Lei Qi nodded slightly when he heard this, and then saw him suddenly raise a mysterious smile and said, "I will send someone to assist you, with his help, no one can escape from here!"

Seeing that Leitch was so confident, Clark couldn't help but be secretly surprised, after all, the Holy City of Lyra was still too wide in his eyes! Especially for those spies with flying skills, if the other party really wanted to leave here, they really couldn't guard against it! But Clark also knew that now was not the time to study in detail, and seeing that Leitch was so sure was not a bad thing after all!

Soon after, four airships rose high into the air from the Eagle Wing training base, carrying hundreds of soldiers toward the west. About five minutes later, four more airships floated! Soon, a huge fleet of small formations of airships appeared over the Holy City of Lyra, and the huge white air bags were like flowing clouds—the sky above the Holy City of Lyra at this time. The wind rises and the clouds surge!

"Look, what's that?!"

"It's a boat, a lot of boats!"

"No, it's supposed to be a spaceship, a lot of spaceships!"

With the huge size of each airship, it soon attracted the attention of many citizens of the Holy City of Lyra, and at the exclamation of the discoverer, countless people took to the streets—looking up at the growing fleet in the sky, they couldn't tell which were white clouds and which were 'spaceships'!

(End of chapter)