Chapter 173: Breaking the Sky

Although she was a little disappointed that her appearance failed to attract the emperor of the Blue Dragon Empire, Qinghe still suppressed this disappointment in her heart and did not show it, because her father sent her as an envoy this time to befriend the Blue Dragon Empire, not to make enemies of the other party.

As a master who has personally fought with Guo Dafu, Gu He naturally knows very well the power of Guo Dafu and his army, so after hearing that the other party began to move troops again, Gu He also destroyed his own Feihe Empire in order to avoid the other party's entry into the Golden Eagle Empire, so he sent his daughter to the Qinglong Empire to make friends with the other party.

Speaking of which, it is normal for Gu He to have this worry, after all, compared to the Iron Bear Empire located in the snow field on the northwest border of the Golden Eagle Empire, his Flying Crane Empire is located in the relatively prosperous hinterland of the Golden Eagle Empire, and it is easy to be injured by mistake.

Thinking of his father's entrustment before leaving, Qinghe quickly suppressed the unhappiness in his heart, and greeted Guo Dafu, the emperor of the Qinglong Empire, very respectfully, and also presented several boxes of gifts.

Among these gifts are gold, silver, jewelry, as well as various martial arts techniques and extraordinary equipment, which can be regarded as full of sincerity.

And what Gu He wants is only to be able to form an alliance with the Blue Dragon Empire and become an ally in the same camp as it, so as not to destroy his Flying Crane Empire after the other party destroys the Golden Eagle Empire.

Guo Dafu also knew the other party's purpose, in fact, he didn't want to build more strong enemies now, so he agreed to the request of the Feihe Empire and became an ally with it. However, this must be temporary, after all, Guo Dafu knows very well the truth that others are not allowed to snore on the side of the couch, just like that roaring island, there were so many forces in the past, but now except for a holy tree kingdom with a relatively special status, the other forces have not been eliminated or annexed by him!

This Ancient Crane's Flying Crane Empire can't escape these two endings in the end, unless the other party's cultivation improves even faster than Guo Dafu's.

After reaching the intention of forming an alliance, in the next few days, the two parties discussed a detailed stipulations and results on various specific matters in the alliance.

In the past few days, Qinghe also met Ling Zhi, who is now the commander of the Eagle Yang Army, and saw that the princess of the Golden Eagle Empire and the emperor of the Qinglong Empire behaved very intimately, and seemed to be valued by the other party, Qinghe felt very jealous, thinking that this woman was obviously not as beautiful as herself!

However, what Qinghe didn't know was that Guo Dafu loved Ling Zhi so much, not because of his appearance, but because of his excellent martial arts talent.

Although Ling Zhi couldn't fight evenly with Huang Ying like he did with all his strength, but when he suppressed the realm to the same level as the other party, he was still able to fight with Guo Dafu in dozens of moves without losing.

In this regard, it is far better than others, except for Ling Zhi, the other so-called geniuses that Guo Dafu has encountered can't support it after five or six moves in his hands at most, and he can't even warm up Guo Dafu.

And a friend like Zhang Tongtian saw that Guo Dafu loved the princess of the Golden Eagle Empire so much, and even persuaded him to marry him altogether, so that the other party became his own person, so that even if he controlled the hundreds of thousands of eagle army, everyone could rest assured.

Guo Dafu was also a little excited about this proposal, but he was going to take some time to ask his wife Su Li's opinion later. After all, this woman helped him a lot in the process of starting his family, and the two got along for a long time, and they could be regarded as having some feelings, so Guo Dafu felt that he still needed to respect the other party's choice.

At this time, the Golden Eagle Empire, after learning that Guo Dafu's army was drawn again, was also a little panicked.

After all, in such a short period of time, most of the five million troops recruited before have not been able to completely complete their training! There is a serious shortage of equipment, after all, a large amount of equipment and grain and grass hoarded in military warehouses around the country have long been hollowed out by Du Geng, so that many recruits of the Golden Eagle Empire are only issued with a wooden stick for training.

Fortunately, the veteran Agucos had expected this, and he didn't panic at all in the face of this situation, so he immediately sent his eldest apprentice Adams to let the other party follow his own plan to drag down the army of the Blue Dragon Empire.

On his side, he seized the time to train the troops, and at the same time built various weapons and equipment, so that the soldiers could be armed as soon as possible.

Due to the heavy losses of the active troops of the Golden Eagle Empire before, this time Agukos did not have many troops for his big apprentice, including about 200,000 field elites, and about 1 million militia troops.

Although these so-called elites of the Golden Eagle Empire are not as good as those of the Blue Dragon Empire, most of the soldiers also have four or five levels of cultivation the day after tomorrow, and they also have at least one iron armor on their bodies.

And those militia units, among them, there are not many soldiers who have the strongest cultivation, and they are two or three times the day after tomorrow, and there are even many ordinary people who have no cultivation at all. In fact, most of these guys didn't have the opportunity to go to war before, that is, to maintain law and order in various places, catch some thieves and ruffians and the like.

However, now that the Golden Eagle Empire is short of troops, it can only let these militiamen take it for the time being.

In order to prevent these militiamen from falling apart on the battlefield, Agukos also gave each of these militiamen a few silver coins to pay for the extraction, and also pieced together at least a set of well-maintained leather armor for each of these militiamen, so that these militiamen had a sense of security.

Soon after sending off his eldest apprentice, Agucos himself led 500,000 new troops who had just completed their training and armament.

However, his target was not the army of the Blue Dragon Empire led by Guo Dafu, but the rebel forces that had appeared in the country in recent times.

After all, in Agucos's opinion, this outside must first be settled inside, if he doesn't clean up these rebel forces in the country first, then he will not be able to fully meet the army of the Blue Dragon Empire.

And compared to the elite soldiers of the Blue Dragon Empire, the combat effectiveness of the rebels in this country is far from comparable, just so that he can be used to train soldiers, I believe that after the elimination of these rebels in the country, those new soldiers should also accumulate enough combat experience to fight head-on with the army of the Blue Dragon Empire.

This new army can be said to have poured a lot of effort into Agucos, during this time Ling Feng helped him gather most of the craftsmen in the country to make all kinds of firearms, and finally after more than three months, 20,000 muskets, 100 guns of all kinds of artillery, and 100,000 grenades.

The muskets and grenades are basically the same products of the copycat Blue Dragon Empire, but in terms of artillery, Agucos thinks that he has made some innovations.

After letting the craftsmen below study the drawings of those cannons, they can't produce those advanced guns that can fire flowering shells, and only those relatively primitive cast guns can be produced.

And this kind of primitive cast artillery of the Qinglong Empire has only two calibers, one is about eighty millimeters, which belongs to field artillery. There is another one of about 150 mm, which is a heavy artillery to defend the city, which is generally only installed on the city wall and will not move around, after all, this thing is too heavy, in the road conditions of the central continent, this kind of heavy artillery really has to be pulled out, I am afraid that the car will be completely sunk into the mud if it can't go far.

After studying those cast cannons that can only fire solid bullets, the Golden Eagle Empire's side has come up with a full five calibers of artillery. The smallest of them was only about 30 millimeters, and two stronger soldiers could carry it. And then there are 50 mm caliber and 80 mm caliber. These are relatively light field guns, the largest of which only need two or three stronger beasts of burden to pull.

And the other two calibers of heavy artillery, it is really a bit difficult to transport, one of which is a caliber of 150 mm, and the other has a caliber of 200 mm.

Only five of these two heavy cannons were produced each, and after finding that their weight was too heavy to keep up with the advance of the troops, Agukoth could only regretfully hand them over to Ling Feng and let them be installed on the walls of the imperial capital to strengthen their defenses.

As a result, all he carries in his troops are relatively small-caliber light artillery, including 50 small cannons of 30 mm caliber, 30 guns of 50 mm caliber, and 23 artillery pieces of 80 mm caliber.

In addition to firearms, there are airship troops, chariot troops and cavalry in this new army, which basically copycats all the troops of the Qinglong Empire that can be copied.

However, since the main focus of Agucos was on the establishment of firearms troops, the number of these troops did not hide, including only six large combat airships, 1,000 boar chariots, 3,000 light cavalry, and 1,000 heavy cavalry.

Ling Feng also agreed with Agucos's strategy of destroying the domestic rebels first, and after learning that the other party had sent troops, he made a decree to let the other party go and not be afraid of losing the battle.

After receiving Ling Feng's will, Agukos was completely free of pressure, and was ready to test whether the new classes in some troops were good in the future competition with these rebels.

Due to the great turmoil between the Iron Bear Empire and the Flying Crane Empire during this time, they defeated a big city of the Golden Eagle Empire and wiped out tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Golden Eagle Empire troops. It made those ambitious people feel that the Golden Eagle Empire is indeed very weak, and it is time for them to start an incident.

So for a while, there were rebels of greater or smaller size popping up all over the Golden Eagle Empire, some rebels had tens of thousands of troops and occupied several towns, while some even only had a few hundred men and horses, and they occupied a small village and drove the country to become the emperor and divide one side.

Soon after the departure of the leader, Agukos encountered the first rebel army, according to the scouts, the leader of this rebel army is called Tapotian, this head sounds very big, but in fact, it is just a martial artist of the nine major consummations of the day after tomorrow.

This guy used to be an extremely ferocious Jiangyang thief, this time taking advantage of the restoration of the Iron Bear Empire and the Feihe Empire, he also took dozens of his cronies to pull the flag and rebel, because he was extremely fierce when he fought, so he broke three towns and more than a dozen villages in a row, and the strength quickly swelled from dozens of people at the beginning to more than 20,000.

However, although this step on the sky is famous, but in fact, he is still very clear about how many catties and taels he has, and he rebelled, not really to rebel, but to accumulate enough power, waiting for the court to come to Zhao'an.

In that way, he will be able to transform from a wanted Jiangyang thief to an official general.

On this day, he listened to the report of his subordinates, saying that there were hundreds of thousands of imperial army coming towards them, and he felt that his chance to Zhao'an had come, but before that, he had to thwart several attacks of this official army first, so that the other party knew how powerful he was, otherwise, he himself rushed to ask to be Zhao'an, and that person was likely to casually throw him a small official the size of a sesame mung bean and send him away.

While sending his cronies to gather men and horses, and on the other hand, he sent people to investigate the situation of the officers and soldiers, and it was necessary to find out whether this time it was the real elite or those local garrisons.

This different enemy, this method of dealing with is naturally different, if it is still those militia used for local garrison, then he naturally does not need to bother, when the time comes, with a group of younger brothers wearing heavy armor to rush a little round, the other party will definitely collapse.

And if the other party is really that kind of field elite, then he must be careful to deal with it.