Chapter Eighty-Eight: Heavenly Thunder City
Although there are still two kilometers away from Heavenly Thunder City, Ye Fan has already seen the tall city wall in the distance, Heavenly Thunder City, as the imperial capital of the Heavenly Thunder Empire, is also the most magnificent city of the Heavenly Thunder Empire, even in the entire continent, there are only a few cities that can be compared with it.
The area of Tianlei City is huge, which is enough to accommodate nearly 10 million people, even so, all around Tianlei City are surrounded by city walls, these city walls are all up to 100 meters, and the thickness is also tens of meters, such a magnificent city wall, without thousands of years of heritage, is absolutely impossible to build.
From a distance, the entire Heavenly Thunder City was like a peerless beast, constantly devouring everyone from all directions, exuding a sense of endless vastness brought by the years on the magnificent city wall, which made Ye Fan stunned for a while.
In the past, Ye Fan rarely left Tianfeng City, and the largest city he had ever seen was Tianxiang City, the provincial capital of Tianxiang Province, where Tianfeng City was located, but even Tianxiang City was nothing compared to the Tianlei City in front of him, and there was nothing to compare.
The place where Ye Fan is located is on the official road in the east of Tianlei City, and there is an endless stream of pedestrians on this official road, these people are all coming to Tianlei City from all over the country, and there are some large convoys passing by from time to time on the road, these are merchants who come and go between places, and there are a large number of mercenaries guarding the caravan around.
In addition, there are also some luxurious carriages from time to time, with a group of guards, or some horse teams, all kinds of pedestrians are endless, this is only the east side of Tianlei City, which shows the prosperity of Tianlei City.
At this time, there were many people who came to the imperial capital for the first time like Ye Fan, and like him, they were looking at the magnificent city in front of them in a daze.
After staying for a while, Ye Fan finally came back to his senses, looking at the Heavenly Thunder City in front of him, Ye Fan couldn't help but secretly praise in his heart, it is worthy of being the imperial capital of the Heavenly Thunder Empire, it is really magnificent.
Ye Fan continued to hurry, at this time he had already arrived around the imperial capital, Ye Fan did not need to rush at full speed, so he slowed down, walked forward with the flow of people, and it took about half an hour to reach the city gate.
On the east side of Tianlei City, that is, in the direction where Ye Fan is located, there is a magnificent city tower in the center of the tall city wall, and the height of the city tower is about half higher than the city wall next to it.
This tall tower is not luxurious, but it looks extremely ordinary, but with the degree of its height, it can only make everyone admire, and from time to time there are pairs of patrolmen walking by on the city wall, all holding cold and shining weapons in their hands.
Under the city tower, there are three city gates, one large and two small, the big city gate is in the center, it is fifty meters high, and the smaller city gates on both sides are also more than thirty meters high, the city gates are all made of metal, extremely strong, even if the city gate is opened and closed, it takes hundreds of soldiers to push it together.
Around the city wall, there is a moat nearly 100 meters wide, this moat, when the Tianlei City was first built, the original Tianlei Empire Emperor sent 100,000 people, it took a long time to successfully excavate, the depth is more than ten meters.
After the moat was dug at the beginning, a channel was dug out of the Tianxing River, a large river near Tianlei City, and finally the river water was introduced into the moat, and the royal family of the Tianlei Empire stocked many fierce beasts in the moat, although these beasts are not as good as some powerful demon beasts, but they are definitely not weak.
In particular, these beasts are extremely fierce and numerous, including large beasts such as crocodiles, so to speak, unless you fly directly into Tianfeng City from outside the city, you can only pass through the city gate, and if you want to sneak into the city quietly, unless it is an emperor-level powerhouse who can fly for a short time, it is almost impossible.
There is a wide stone bridge outside the city gate, and if you want to cross the moat, you can only pass through it, and this stone bridge is close to the city wall for tens of meters, not fixed, but like a suspension bridge, on which are connected to several thick metal chains, and on the city wall, there are strong mechanisms.
The gates of the city are closed every night and no one is allowed to enter or leave, and after the gates are closed, the general stone bridge will be raised, such a city is not only a prosperous commercial city, but also a huge fortress.
If you want to break through Heavenly Thunder City, you need at least a million soldiers, and you need to pay a great price to succeed, and the walls of Heavenly Thunder City are also covered with various defensive arrays.
These circles were arranged by those powerful alchemists, and they had strong defensive capabilities, which was to prevent some super strong people from destroying the city walls, so to speak, the city walls full of defensive formations, even compared to a real steel city wall, were not inferior.
Ye Fan entered the Heavenly Thunder City with the flow of people, on both sides of the gate of the Heavenly Thunder City, there were hundreds of soldiers guarding, and the person responsible for guarding the periphery in the Heavenly Thunder City was the elite legion of the Heavenly Thunder Empire, the Heavenly Thunder Legion.
This Heavenly Thunder Legion has 200,000 soldiers, of which 100,000 are stationed in Tianlei City and are responsible for peacetime defense, while the other 100,000 are stationed in a military camp outside Tianlei City.
These add up, the entire Heavenly Thunder City has a full 900,000 defense force, which shows the strength of the Heavenly Thunder Empire, and the commander of the Heavenly Thunder Legion, who is responsible for the peripheral defense, is Ye Fan's uncle, in addition, the commander of another elite legion in the imperial capital is also a member of the Ye family, which shows the strength of the Ye family.
The soldiers guarding both sides of the city gate looked at the city gate with cold eyes from time to time, Ye Fan couldn't help but be surprised in his heart after seeing these soldiers, these soldiers were all low-level soldiers, and the squad leaders among them all reached the level of middle-level warriors, and the squadron leader was a high-level warrior.
In the army of the Heavenly Thunder Empire, ten people are a small team, one hundred people are a squadron, one thousand people are a large team, ten thousand people are one way, and two hundred thousand people are a legion.
After Ye Fan saw the strength of these soldiers, how could he not be surprised, there were almost four hundred people guarding on both sides of the city wall, that is, four squadrons, and these four squadron leaders were all high-level soldiers, and there was also a person with the highest position, who should be a captain, and this captain turned out to be a strong general, although it was only a low-level general, but it was amazing enough.
Thinking of a general-level powerhouse, who could only be a captain in the Heavenly Thunder Legion, this made Ye Fan feel the strength of the Heavenly Thunder Legion on the one hand, and on the other hand, it also made Ye Fan feel that his strength was insufficient, and the ** who wanted to enhance his strength was even stronger.
Under the gaze of the hundreds of soldiers, Ye Fan finally entered the city that had stood for thousands of years, and as soon as he passed through the city wall, a burst of noise came into Ye Fan's ears, making Ye Fan can't help but look around.
The surrounding scene made Ye Fan couldn't help but be surprised, close to the city gate, it should be the outermost part of the entire city, originally Ye Fan thought that this place should not be too lively, but the fact was beyond Ye Fan's expectations, although it was the outermost part of the entire city, but it was still very lively.
Once you enter the city gates, you will find a wide avenue, wide enough for ten horse-drawn carriages to march in parallel, and on both sides of this wide street there is a continuous stream of shops, and a large number of pedestrians wandering around.
Ye Fan, who was looking around, didn't notice that there were a few seemingly ordinary guys in the crowd, either male or female, or elderly, or middle-aged, after seeing Ye Fan, these guys shrank their eyes, and then quietly withdrew from the crowd and walked into the distance.
Ye Fan looked around with great interest, completely unthinking that he had fallen into the eyes of some well-intentioned people, and his whereabouts had been tracked, although Ye Fan's current strength was good, but after all, he was a teenager, not deeply involved in the world, and he was not too wary of the surrounding situation, plus he didn't expect anyone to pay attention to him at all, so he didn't find the person who was following him at all.
After looking around, Ye Fan quickly lost interest, and instead began to think about how he should arrange it next, first of all, he had to figure out the location of the Purple Wind Academy, as well as some important places in the city, such as the mercenary union, the Heaven and Earth Fighting Martial Arts Field, the Xingyao Business Alliance, and the location of the Ye family, etc.
After figuring out this, Ye Fan also wanted to rent a house near the Purple Wind Academy, so that it would be more convenient for him to have anything in the future.
And Ye Fan also began to make arrangements for his future, how to make his strength stronger, for the current self, with the teacher Huo Lao, there will be someone to teach, and the next thing is to rely on himself.
Moreover, Ye Fan found that he still had a lot of things to do now, he had to participate in the entrance examination of Purple Wind Academy in a few days, and he had to learn alchemy from Huo Lao, and he had to work hard to improve his strength, and Huo Lao said that Ye Fan needed to strengthen his experience in fighting with cultivators, and for this, Huo Lao and Ye Fan thought of the same place, that is, the Heaven and Earth Fighting Martial Arts.
In addition, he also had to find that Dugu Zhan to challenge, and he also had to find an opportunity to go to the Ye family, which was Ye Yang's order, and this series of things made Ye Fan a little big.
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