Yuan Meng didn't know that in the long-gone civilization time and space, there was such a thing as "releasing military power with a glass of wine". He would never have known that Tianhao had had a similar thought, wanting to use more gentle means to exchange wealth for control of the clan from himself, the clan, and Ling Xiao.

The last time we convened a meeting in Pointe-Noire, it was a temptation. Unfortunately, Zongyu's attitude was too tough, prompting Tianhao to completely dismiss this idea.

The suzerains are dead.

Yuan Meng and Ling Xiao's attitudes were barely acceptable. Tianhao asked them to allocate troops from their respective ethnic groups to receive training, especially the soldiers of the Raging Bull Division who had completed the training in advance to join the Eighth Legion, which was essentially a military weakening of the two divisions.

Large numbers of civilians moved to the north.

A large number of soldiers were sent to the front.

Yuan Meng didn't know what Niu Lingxiao would think, anyway, he had already seen it. The pig clan and the deer clan were wiped out one after another, and the tiger clan was also temporarily subdued, I heard that the lion clan had sent an army to rebuild Fangs City, so Tianhao's intention to send the eighth legion to attack the eagle clan was obvious———— according to the order of the weakest first and then the strongest, the lion clan must be placed last.

I need a chance to perform and prove myself!

Yuan Meng secretly smiled bitterly in his heart.

It's not out of helplessness, it's just a little unwilling.

I'm ahead of Tianhao, and I'm his senior. Just like that, I was driven back and forth by a young junior...... Anyone who changes will feel uncomfortable.

But so what?

The result of not admitting defeat is death, and the suzerainty is the best example.

Yuan Meng felt that the best way to get rid of it was military merit. Instead of spending each day in fear and anxiety, it is better to take the initiative to invite Ying to the battlefield and prove that you have no heart with the head and blood of a foreign race.

I can hand over the Raging Bull to you.

But you also have to make a promise that you will never hurt my family.

Yuan Meng felt that Niu Lingxiao was very likely to have the same thoughts and concerns as himself.

The scale of the artillery bombardment was shocking, and the battlefield filled with the thick smell of gunpowder was far beyond Yuan Meng's imagination. Although he had served in Suolong Pass and had seen the muskets and cannons of the white men in the south, he still felt that compared to the powerful artillery in front of him, the weapons of the white men were rubbish.

In the distance, the gables were blasted open, and cracks tens of meters long were everywhere. Scattered masonry spilled and the crumbling tower could no longer sustain itself, tilting to distant exclamations and then collapsing, stirring up a cloud of dust.

A cold, emotionless command sounded in his ears: "The second artillery team cools down, and the third artillery team fires." ”

Yuan Meng knew that those thick tubes would heat up. His understanding of thermal weapons is superficial and not profound. If it weren't for the sheer lethality of the flintlock pistol, he still felt that the traditional long-handled tomahawks and knives were more useful.

Artillery is a high-tech branch of the armed forces. During his training, Yuan Meng saw the young people sitting in the classroom. The shamans dressed in black are teachers. There are strings of numbers on the blackboard, and there are many inexplicable lines. All kinds of bizarre names are awkward and difficult to remember, what "parabola", "geometric structure", "reverse side", "ridge", "explosion area" are a mess...... It made Yuan Meng's head dizzy.

He gave up his dream of becoming an elderly artilleryman in favor of shooting training in a more practical way. The effect was not bad, and the final exam results were nine out of ten, and I got an "excellent" evaluation.

When he was young, Yuan Meng received long-term training in archery, and he used to be the best hunter in the hunting group.

The pass in the distance was obviously unable to hold on, and people kept screaming and falling down on the broken wall. Through the binoculars, Yuan Meng saw that an Eagle Clan soldier close to the point of the cannonball had lost the left half of his body, and he ran to the side screaming completely by relying on his survival instinct, and after a few seconds, he fell headlong.

This is the power of artillery?

A wry smile appeared on Yuan Meng's face again.

He didn't know if this was the first wry smile of the day...... This expression of helplessness may stay with you forever, becoming a solidified part of the stiffened facial muscles and nerves that cannot be reversed.

Ah Hao...... It's still a more appropriate title, he's not bad, and he gave me the position of "deputy commander of the reserves".

The word "reserve" is actually equivalent to deprivation of power. Yuan Meng didn't care about this, he knew that he couldn't hold real power in the army. Merely...... From the very beginning, this war was unexpected and completely different from what I imagined.

The Eagle Clan is a powerful tribe.

One of the favorite phrases on the lips of the Eagle Clan is, "We have the best archers in the world." ”

This is not an exaggeration.

It was an extremely terrible genetic talent that permeated the bones. The ancient mud stencil records the long history of the war between the cattle and the eagle tribe. The Niu clan was once defeated and defeated. If it weren't for the development of high-hardness alloy armor that blocked the sharp bows and arrows of the Eagle Clan, the Niu Clan would have accepted the fate of being wiped out.

The Leons seldom initiate large-scale wars against the Eagle Clan, sending out small armies and hiring pigs to fight in the border areas, for the same reason. On the one hand, the Black Feather Pass is difficult to overcome, and on the other hand, there is no better way to suppress the Eagle Clan from a distance. Of course, the Eagle Clan also has the same idea, and they hire pigs as cannon fodder, taking into account the strong strength of the Leon Clan, the stability of food production and supply, and other factors. Rather than rashly launching a large-scale decisive battle that outweighs the losses, it is better to attack tentatively first, and even if you lose, you will not be broken.

Yuan Meng always thought that he could not break through the Black Feather Pass.

But under his gaze, the solid wall was blasted open by a cannonball, accompanied by countless flying rubble, and a deafening "bang-la-la" sound could be heard in the distance. Immediately after, the wall facing the dragon army slowly collapsed, as if a giant hand was hidden underground, tearing down all the obstacles that were covering and blocking directly above.

Yuan Meng opened his mouth and his eyes widened.

This scene broke his logical thinking that had been fixed for many years. The Black Feather Pass, which was once evaluated by the former king as "at least 200,000 elite warriors must die to conquer it", failed to hold out for even a day, and was broken like this.

Taking a deep breath and enduring the choking smell of gunsmoke, Yuan Meng put away his binoculars, turned around and took two steps to the side, controlling his excitement, and pleading to the fierce tooth in a trembling voice: "Commander, please let me go!" This battle...... I'll take the lead! ”

Although there are such and such grievances and disputes with Tianhao.

Although my race, population, and territory have been dispossessed.

Although I may lose the power in my hands forever, I am a wealthy and wealthy aristocrat at best.

But I'm a dragon after all.

I have my passion and ideals.

I'm going to war!

Looking at this old man who was too much older than himself, looking at his resolute and stubborn expression, he smiled slightly and nodded.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent said in a secret letter: If Yuan Meng wants to behave, let him do it.

It's also a way to test and determine if he's loyal.

Although Yuan Meng is old, there is still blood flowing in his body.

……

Eagle territory, close to the eastern city of Jinling City, off the coast.

It was a clear night with stars.

A large fleet came from the north, and under the guidance of the navigator, the large and small ships avoided the reefs hidden deep underwater, followed the pre-discovered channel, made an irregular "zigzag" on the sea, turned around the sea due east, and sailed to the shore.

The Intelligence Department lost two second-level spies and spent more than a thousand dragon gold coins in exchange for detailed geographic and hydrological data on the sea area.

Beneath the surface of the water, the landscape is in the form of a cliff fall. The two-kilometre-long slope that extends from the land to the south acts as a barrier into the sea, creating a natural harbor.

Six battleships of the first rank sailed directly to the open sea. They take the south side as the main warning direction, forming a tight blockade line.

This is a large battleship built on the basis of a 1,500-ton large armored ship, and it is also the most powerful first-class battleship with the largest gunload in the Dragon Clan. The interior of the cabin has been redesigned to further compress the cargo hold, regardless of the sailing time, purely for the purpose of maximizing the power of artillery fire. On the general establishment table of the Dragon Admiralty, this kind of first-class battleship is called "Fierce Wolf".

Because the cargo capacity has been comprehensively compressed, the maximum sailing time of a single "Fierce Wolf-class" battleship with full crew is no more than five days, so it must be accompanied by a supply ship. This is thanks to the experience of the civilized era, where combat and logistics are separated, each performing its own role.

Fifteen "Green Wolf-class" warships with a shallow draft of small tonnage slowly sailed into the offshore waters. The sailors on deck lowered their boats and formed a fan-shaped search surface towards the surrounding sea area with the two ends of the horizontal fleet as the core. They quickly landed and climbed up the hill along the route previously explored by the Intelligence Unit...... The whole process lasted for more than an hour, and it was not until the soldiers who climbed to the top of the cliff on the shore with the help of various auxiliary tools lit the horse lantern and sent a light signal from a distant position, that Zhengjiang, who was sitting on the flagship, finally smiled and immediately gave the order: "Everything is going well, and then it is the performance time of the marines." ”

This world is very different from what Tianhao remembers. The terrible catastrophe caused by the asteroid hitting the Earth made him feel unbelievable.

Eagle territory is a good example, especially to the east of the sea, where mountains are formed by crustal movements between the land and the sea. The steep mountains and rocky formations have become a huge barrier for the Eagle people to reach the sea.

They had the same problems as the Ox before them: the mountains prevented the Ox from developing the Lake to the north, and the Eagle Clan blocked their way from the sea to obtain wealth and food. Although the Eagle people knew that they could get salt from drying the sea and that they could get a lot of seafood by building fishing boats, they could not send a large number of immigrants to climb the mountains and settle down on the seashore.

Of course, the young men could climb the mountains, but even they were blocked by the steep cliffs near the sea, and they could not complete the final conquest. It is a mirror-like smooth cliff, hundreds of meters high. One can tie one's body with ropes to the bottom of the cliff, but there is only a sandy beach about 200 meters above the sea, which is too narrow to establish a village, and it is even more difficult to get in touch with other cities in the interior.

The Eagle Clan has never given up, and they have sent countless explorers along the northern and southern ends of the Eastern Mountains for a long time, hoping for a mountain pass to the sea. It's a pity that the time and search records have made the Eagle Kings of the past generations have to give up their extravagance———— the north is the Niu Clan, the south is the Lion Clan, and in the middle section of the territory that belongs to his control, the damn high mountain is like a sentinel standing in the way, and there is no gap to be found.

The Eagle Kings were forced to abandon their unrealistic ideas, and the only thing they could do was to build the Golden Feather City in the middle of the basin formed by the Eastern Mountain Range. The land here is fertile and the water flow is abundant, which can be regarded as a little compensation from God for the Eagle people in terms of geographical advantages.

Two landing craft sailed out of the fleet and slowly approached the shore. The hatch of this novelty is located in the front section and is inclined in the shape. Except for the power, the overall design and function are all from the era of civilization, and there is almost no difference.

Heavily armed dragon warriors streamed out of the open hatch. They were armed with loaded rifles and swords used in combat diagonally behind them. A total of 200 people, they grabbed the rope that the explorer had lowered from the top of the mountain before, climbed the cliff in order, and quickly expanded the warning range.

More landing craft appeared, and the sappers gathered on the beach soon exceeded three hundred people. They used small rickshaws to transport explosives from the cabin all the way to the bottom of the cliff. Several sorcerers in black uniforms took out engineering drawings from waterproof animal skin bags and instructed the sappers to dig up explosives along the base of the cliff against the markings. The people at the top of the cliff also put down a few rattan baskets that were connected and fastened with ropes, and the sappers sat in them with tools such as iron pickaxes, and the people on the mountain pulled them up with force. The surface of the rope is marked with red paint, and they calculate the length in this way...... In this way, large rattan baskets containing sappers hung in the air against the cliff, and people wielded hammers and used steel tongs to cut blasting holes in the cliff surface.

From midnight until dawn, people were busy.

If Tianhao wants to unify the northern part of the continent, he must conquer the Eagle Clan. Although the prince of the Eagle Clan pursued his sister Tianshuang, it was his personal act after all. What's more, the two of them didn't have a result in the end, and it was over.

With a total population of 1.5 million, the Eagle Clan is a hard bone. It is difficult to meet the requirements of Tianhao's short-term operations by attacking only from the direction of Black Feather Pass. Although the dragon army has been fully redressed and has strong combat effectiveness, it is difficult to annihilate the enemy army with a one-point attack. Once the Eagle Clan is defeated, the Eagle Clan Walled City south of Black Feather Pass is very likely to abandon its original place and completely fall to the Lion Clan.

Tianhao needs to wedge an army from the east, plus the attacking troops in the direction of Black Feather Pass, cut off the Eagle Clan from the east and west sides, and then divide their troops to detour to the south of the Eagle Clan's territory to achieve the effect of encirclement.

The steep mountains of the eastern coastal area are the biggest trouble. The Intelligence Department has repeatedly confirmed that there are no roads in the vicinity. The only way is to blow up this section of the cliff and let the landing force at sea directly attack Jinling City.