Chapter 873: An Empty City
Although at this time, the troops secretly exchanged by Shen Yidan and Wei Juan had not yet arrived, but after the arrival of the batch of troops that Marquis Pamela and Lei Boduo helped to contact, at the request of Li Ran, Xia Houben led his teammates and the leaders of various clans to start intensive training work, striving to make this legion have good combat effectiveness as soon as possible. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
This city of Thun is in full swing for large-scale training, but the surrounding city lords are tense, you must know that in their eyes, this Thun city lord is the ruthless character who just killed the city lord of Edoron with his own hands not long ago, and now he is in a rage, for fear that he will become his next target.
And among these city lords, especially the Elemental Clan Viscount Serakir was the most nervous, although he had seen that the situation was not good before, he had asked people to withdraw from the occupied Semito City, but for his own safety, he even prepared a large number of gifts for this, and was ready to personally send them to the City of Thun to make a sincere apology to Li Ran.
But all this was abandoned by the viscount with the messenger from the Marquis of Gaster, and he continued to put on a momentary expression, and in several meetings of the city lords, he even spoke harshly, bluntly saying that if the city lord of Thun dared to come to find trouble, he would definitely make the other party suffer.
After learning of this incident, Li Ran not only did not get angry enough to take immediate action, but even withdrew some of the guards originally set up in Semito City, leaving the city in a state of unmanaged, which couldn't help but make Viscount Serakil and several surrounding city lords a little confused.
But even if he was arrogant outside, he said a lot of cruel things after meeting with the city lords, but at this time, in the face of such an almost empty Semito City, although his followers Semito was making a lot of noise, this Viscount of Selaquil still did not dare to easily send troops over to garrison.
Because this elemental viscount knows very well that the reason why he can still be so lively now is not because he has more than 50,000 troops of his own race, not to mention because this Thun city lord is afraid of casualties in the war, but only because of the Marquis of Geist behind him, although this Thun city lord has greatly increased his strength after dodging a difficulty, he must still be inferior to the Marquis of Geist, not to mention the first person in the empire behind this adult.
But at this time, once he took the initiative to enter this Semito City, which was originally occupied by the other party, the nature would be completely different, I am afraid that even the Marquis of Geist would not be able to help him at that time, let alone take the opportunity to make trouble, and he would only become an innocent victim.
However, the city of Semito, which was basically ungarrisoned, attracted him and his followers Semito like a delicious cake, after all, the city originally belonged to this person, and even the surrounding city lords also cast greedy eyes on this side, but the power on Li Ran's side was too great, so that everyone did not dare to act rashly.
This is a strange phenomenon, a city with rich resources and relatively intact, there is no real belonging, as everyone has gathered their eyes here, after more than three months, seeing that the troops have gradually achieved results under the intensive training of Xia Houben and other teammates and leaders of various clans, Li Ran asked Zhou Xun to call Fan Zhiyang and his party again this day.
In the afternoon of this day, looking at the city not far away, Fan Zhiyang and his entourage couldn't help but feel a little emotional, during this time, they have set foot here more than once, but every time they come, the feeling is different, in addition to the fact that a lot of buildings are being built here, but also because of the rapid increase in the number of powerful legions of various ethnic groups here.
"Why did you come out in person?" And when he just walked to the city gate, he saw Li Ran coming over from a distance, and Fan Zhiyang and the others hurriedly stepped forward and said respectfully.
Smiling slightly, Li Ran opened his mouth and said, "I will definitely come here in person this time, because I want to welcome our city lord friends."
Hearing Li Ran say this, Fan Zhiyang and the others couldn't help but have a blank expression, until Li Ran said next that he wanted to hand over Semito City to them for management, they all showed ecstatic expressions.
But then Fan Zhiyang suddenly shook his head and said: "Although we have always wanted to become a real lord, but the Semito City you gave is too big, although my strength is limited, but I am also a little self-aware, with the ability of our people, such a city lord is by no means something we can control, or please leave it to other people to manage."
Li Ran seemed to have expected the captain's resignation, and at this time he looked at his other teammates, smiled and said to him: "I have promised you before, you just have to accept it with confidence, I know your worries, and I will not use you as just a bait, just a Serakil, if he dares to make a move, I will help you eliminate him."
But despite what Li Ran said, this Fan Zhiyang still shook his head and refused again, just when Li Ran was slightly unhappy, this person said solemnly: "During this period of time, with your help, we have obtained a rich reward that can only be obtained in the past few years, to tell the truth, when your city was occupied before, I did think about whether I could take this opportunity to replace you as a lord and enter the empire to compete for hegemony, but a word from my teammate Gu Zijian woke me up."
"What did he say?" Seeing that this person stopped a little embarrassed, Zhang Debiao beside Li Ran couldn't help but ask curiously.
Looking up at Li Ran, this Fan Zhiyang said: "At that time, Gu Zijian suddenly asked me, even if we can develop to the same level as you did before, what will be the final result, I understood at that time, even if I have your previous strength and strength, it will still end in a fiasco, and it is with this cognition that I know that I am not a commander, one city and one pond is just that, with our ability to make it develop and grow, and survive in such a big whirlpool of the empire, no matter how good the development is in front of it, In the end, it will only end up in the destruction of the city, rather than this, I might as well say a word like now, if I am not afraid of being embarrassed, follow you to enjoy the cold, and pick some fruit to eat."
Hearing these words of this person, Li Ran couldn't help but smile and said, "Then what if I want you to be the lord of this city and go and hang the big fish of Serakir for me?" ”
In this regard, Fan Zhiyang looked at Gu Zijian behind him, looked up at Li Ran and said solemnly: "If you really need it, we are naturally duty-bound, after all, we have picked up so many benefits behind you, then there is a reason not to help, you just have to rest assured, as long as you say a word, no matter what the outcome is, give me two thousand soldiers and horses, and I promise to lure Serakir over to you" (To be continued.) )