There are strict regulations on imperial titles, and those who can be obtained by paying military fees and contributions below the rank of lord are fictitious, and they cannot be inherited without actual fiefs, but all titles related to the territory, even if they are only at the viscount level, are awarded and inherited、.。

Special feudal marquis, hereditary will not be surrendered, and every word in the name is exquisite, and it will never be sealed randomly. At the beginning of each feudal marquis, they came from the development of territory, and the price of hereditary non-surrender was the loss of the initial land. And Song Zining asked for the title of Marquis of Fengjiang at this moment, and there was no specific area, and the ambition he represented afterwards was already obvious.

Song Zining wants to use his own strength to open another high-grade family! Song Zining is like this, but what about Qianye? Lan Xincheng suddenly had an idea, and his heart beat heavily: This Qianye, is it to claim the title of king? The kingdom established by the human race is not only Daqin.

Lan Xincheng's gaze swept over Qianye and Song Zining, and a stirring in his heart immediately put this thought away, since the other party didn't say it explicitly, he just couldn't hear it. Qianye currently has a delicate relationship with the empire, and there are too many forces involved, Lan Xincheng is a soldier, not a politician, and it is absolutely no good to step into it.

As for Song Zining's three conditions, there are many tricks when you think about it carefully. Qianye has made it clear that he will not be subject to the imperial system in the future, but Song Zining still seems to intend to stay in the imperial system.

The status of the feudal marquis is special, if Song Zining gets this knighthood, he will officially enter the upper echelons of the empire, at least in terms of identity and status, and is qualified to keep secrets. At the same time, during the period of expansion, the feudal marquis could develop private armies almost without restrictions, expand territories abroad, and ask for support from the imperial army if necessary.

Song Zining, the knight, wants to be extremely clever. It seems that the empire has not shown any real benefits at all, but if you think about it from another angle, when Song Zining made this title worthy of the name, it also means that the ownership of the territory he laid down was recognized by the empire. Even if the imperial family wants to save face, it will not easily allow other forces in the empire to invade Song Zining.

Therefore, the value of the title depends entirely on Song Zining himself. And this Seven Youth, who was once regarded as the future military god of the empire, has already proven his ability in several miraculous battles in the Eternal Night Continent.

As soon as Lan Xincheng thought about it, he knew that the three conditions proposed by Song Zining were interlocking, and I was afraid that there was no room for bargaining.

However, one point is not very clear, that is, what do you want those frigates to do? This kind of frigate is fast, flexible and maneuverable, and its shortcomings are also obvious; its defense and range are not very good, and it can only move with the fleet, and its ability to carry out tasks independently is limited. Especially in the expeditionary fleet, frigates are even more limited due to their poor endurance. Therefore, in the configuration of the fleet based on outer space warfare, destroyers and above are the main forces.

This is also the reason why Lan Xincheng is confident in delivering the frigate even if a major war in outer space is imminent. In the decisive battlefield of floating land and outer space, there is basically no room for frigates to play.

However, since Song Zining insisted, in Lan Xincheng's opinion, these were not unacceptable conditions, so he was naturally happy to agree. As an important member of the military department, Lan Xincheng has a very high registration of information that can be queried, and he has also studied in detail the examples of Qianye and Song Zining, and the series of results that almost violate all common sense of war can only show one thing, that is, the real combat power of Qianye and Song Zining is far above the data on paper.

Since this is the case, Lan Xincheng gritted his teeth and agreed to all of Song Zining's conditions. The next step was to handle the handover of the battleship. These general affairs will be handed over by Fang Zhan and Dark Fire, and Lan Xincheng himself returned to the empire day and night to submit Song Zining's request to join the war.

The next day, Song Zining selected a group of mercenaries with ship experience from the dark fire mercenaries, and Qianye also transferred a group of shipwrecks and Gaohu people from Valhalla to receive the battleships with Fang Zhan.

When the floating boat that Fang Zhan was riding in took off, Qianye suddenly said to Song Zining: "We really want to participate in this war?"

"You've already decided, haven't you?"

Qianye was silent for a moment and said, "I'm still hesitating, mainly because I'm not sure if that plan is ...... Lin Shuai's draft. ”

"There will be no difference. This kind of plan, which can calculate all the factors, at least all the forces of the empire, is just right, and only Marshal Xitang can come up with it. If it was the King of Qingyang, I was afraid that he would have been impatient for a long time and would go to the floating land to find a dark powerhouse to fight alone. Others may be able to come up with a similar plan, but they can't grasp the overall situation with such a mind, and the details can't be handled so perfectly. This plan has a sense of beauty that is balanced to the extreme. Well, war is an art, and Teacher Zhang Jing did not deceive me. ”

Song Zining's previous analysis was quite serious, and the last sentence made Qianye's tightly locked eyebrows stretch slightly.

Song Zining looked at Qianye and said solemnly: "You don't have to participate in this war." You don't owe the empire anything at all, but the empire owes you. If you still feel that you have to make up for someone on the other side of the empire in your heart, you have already made up for it in the maelstrom. You don't know what what you do inside the maelstrom means to the Empire. ”

Qianye smiled very faintly: "I don't feel indebted or made up for what I do, what I do is what I think I should do, or just what I want to do." ”

Song Zining was silent.

"Will you go to war?" asked Chiya.

"Of course I'm going to participate. The Marquis of Fengjiang is not so good, it has to be somewhat interesting. You must know that after the end of the era of the great development of the empire, there are almost no new titles of titles second only to the dukes. Even if a person like Lin Shuai is a knight and a marquis, he is a marquis, but he is one level worse. Speaking of this, Song Zining was a little frowning.

Qianye looked at Song Zining's appearance of loving power and money, and couldn't help shaking his head, and most of the gloom between his eyebrows dissipated.

Song Zining said again: "Don't say anything else, if you give me command all the way, it should make the empire die a lot." ”

Qianye nodded and said, "In that case, you all participate in the war, why don't I participate?"

Song Zining glanced at Qianye, no longer dwelling on this question, but asked, "There is a key point here, do you plan to let Valhalla participate in the war?"

Qianye said: "The first battle is the key, and Valhalla must be used. Now that it has gradually merged with me, it is almost impossible for outsiders to take it away. ”

Song Zining's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and after a while, he stretched it out and said slowly: "It's okay, just let it be shown in front of the world." If this battle is lost, then naturally there is no need to mention anything. If you win, you and I will make a great contribution, and the empire will never take your things again. What's more, even if someone dares to be greedy, most of them will not succeed. Now in the empire, there are many people who are willing to help you. ”

The last few words were a little inexplicable, of course there were people in the empire who were willing to help him, but he also had to divide what he wanted to do, how to help. But when it comes to major interests, many of them are constrained, and they involve the whole body, so what's the use of talking about this now.

However, Song Zining has always only spoken half a sentence, and many times he is so mysterious that he doesn't know anything in the end, and Qianye is too lazy to rap with him, and he doesn't ask more.

Now that the plan to participate in the war has been decided, the focus of Dark Fire's next operation will change accordingly. Song Zining recruited ships and gunners from all over the neutral land, while also continuing to recruit experienced mercenaries. On the other hand, when the imperial army withdrew, a large number of weapons and equipment were left behind, which were taken out of the warehouse by Song Zining and began to arm the dark fire mercenaries in batches.

After taking a stronghold on the other side of the land, it will need to hold on for a while, and the ground forces will be quite important. The mercenaries of the Neutral Land are strong in individual combat, but compared to the dark race, they lose in the organization of the army and the overall equipment.

Now the floating land is full of elite troops of the two camps, and the individual combat power is not inferior to the mercenaries in the neutral place, and the command and discipline and even the combination of troops are far better than the rabble who have not participated in a decent war. If the two sides meet in the wild, the number of mercenaries will be doubled and they will be easily defeated.

On the one hand, Song Zining had to make up for the equipment gap, and on the other hand, he had to strengthen the discipline and tactical literacy of the mercenaries in the shortest possible time. Before the latter attacked Tingchao City, the Darkfire mercenaries had been specially trained, and a large number of veterans survived the battle. Song Zining took the veteran as the foundation, constantly expanded the dark fire mercenaries, and trained day and night.

And Qianye received a special task assigned by him to visit the Frost Thunder Temple.

Carol of the Frost Thunder Temple had a relationship with Thousand Nights, and her support in several key battles was the reason why Thousand Nights survived. In this expedition to the floating land, the biggest shortcoming of the dark fire is that there is no god general in charge. Although Qianye already has the strength to rival the god general, he is not a god general after all. The battle between the true and the gods is still very dangerous.

Qianye had promised Carol to seek a fief for her. Then this battle of the empire's national fortunes is the best opportunity. At least with a cooperative deal, the Empire will not stand in the way of occupying extraterritorial territory in the future. Otherwise, according to the Empire's usual extraterritorial approach, proxy wars alone can bring down a small country.

With this relationship, Song Zining asked Qianye to visit the Frost Thunder Temple and persuade Carol to help.

The Frost Thunder Temple is not the only god general in Carol, it is said that the strongest person among them is actually Carol's younger brother, and his strength is far above Carol. If it is supported by the Frost Thunder Temple, at least during the period when Song Zining and Qianye leave to participate in the war, Nanqingcheng will no longer be watched by anyone.

Thousand Nights soared from the Darkfire Headquarters, soared straight up to the clouds, flew out of the protective layer of the land, and entered the Valhalla, which had long been stuck in the void.

The massive body of the ship slowly turned, and the tail swayed rhythmically, like a giant whale entering the water, swimming into the depths of the void.

After half a day's work, a piece of land wrapped in silver appeared in front of the ship. This mass is much smaller than the East China Sea and barely maintains the level of a protective layer. Because it is inclined to face the sun, it has a cold climate and is covered with ice and snow.

Thousand Nights hovered Valhalla above the icy land, leaping out of the ship and throwing it like a meteor.

The land was full of ice and snow, and the wind blew like a knife, and the fist-sized snow whistled in the wind, hitting the body as if it had been hit by a stone, and ordinary people couldn't bear it at all.

Qianye was in the air, and through the wind and snow, he saw a high mountain in the center of the landmass, with steep walls, and several whirlwinds around him roaring and circling around the peak.

On the side of Qianye's body, he flew towards the mountain peak by the wind. The legendary mysterious and powerful Frost and Thunder Temple should be on top of the mountain.

The cold wind was strong and powerful, blowing a thousand nights like cannonballs towards the mountain peaks. Qianye adjusted her posture in the air, and her limbs were spread out, and she had already clinged to the mountain wall like a spider.

Not far away is a winding mountain path covered with snow and ice, and if you don't look closely, you can't tell that there is a road there.

Qianye didn't bother to climb the stairs, so she simply climbed along the mountain wall. The storm around the mountain peak is a mortal danger to the average powerhouse, but it is not enough to see in front of Qianye, who has the ancient blood clan physique. Qianye is like a spider with long hands and feet, all the way up lightly, and in a few moments he will reach the top of the cliff.

The top of the cliff is another piece of heaven and earth.

There are no snowballs of ice whistling here, there are blue ice that have existed for an unknown number of years everywhere, and Qianye stands on it, and his figure is refracted by icicles layer by layer, as if there are more than a dozen Qianye standing here.

It's a suffocatingly beautiful world, but the temperature is hopelessly low, and even Qianye feels a chill. As a rough estimate, the temperature at the top of the cliff is probably below minus 150 degrees. With such extreme freezing and low temperatures, even steel will become brittle, and ordinary life will not survive at all.

Occasionally, gorgeous ribbons of color can be seen floating in the air, dyeing half of the ice peak into purple and red. However, these beautiful ribbons are actually extremely dangerous, they are made of the Void Force from the weak points of space, and they will be transformed into spatial rifts that can cut everything at any time without warning.

In the middle of this beautiful and dangerous ice peak, there stands a temple made of ice and snow, and twelve huge pillars tens of meters high shine in the sun. The main body of the ice hall is also nearly 100 meters high, and a three-shuttle icicle is erected at the top, I don't know what it symbolizes, and the ancient and sacred breath is blowing in the face.

This is the Temple of Frost and Thunder.