Chapter 171 Future Vision, Mixed Naval Fleet
The soldiers defending the city were not given much time. Without the protection of the energy shield, more than a dozen legendary magic cannons immediately entered the super-restricted state, and dozens of eighth-level elemental attacks were instantly fired towards the city gate.

On the city wall, special defensive inscriptions lit up. Under the control of the magician, a nearly ten-meter-thick energy wall rose in front of the city gate.
But it was no use.

Boom boom boom————

In an instant, the heavy wall of energy was broken through, and the remaining dozen or so shells directly hit the city gate.

bang——

A big hole suddenly appeared in the tall city gate. The terrifying power of the artillery bombardment continued unabated, and it also consumed the soldiers behind the city gate. It then flew hundreds of meters and penetrated dozens of buildings before completely dissipating.

The black-armored warriors under the city wall were all mid-level extraordinary people. Without the obstruction of the energy shield, they climbed up quickly.

The dozens of meters high city wall could not stop them at all, and they climbed up the wall in a short while.

At this moment, the paratroopers were fighting fiercely with the defenders on the city wall, disrupting the situation and buying time for their companions to land.

As more and more black-armored warriors entered the city, a more bloody and brutal battle began.

But if you say it's intense, it's not that intense.

Because when the soldiers of the Eternal Night Empire gathered, the situation became one-sided.

In order to capture this main city, the Eternal Night Empire specially dispatched a sixth-level epic legion, and the other tens of thousands of regular soldiers also reached the level of a sixth-level royal guard legion.

As for those servant soldiers, their strength is indeed inferior to that of the imperial army, but according to the system's classification, they have all reached the elite level.

In this situation, the Alliance soldiers can still defend the city with the help of the city walls and defense equipment, but once a head-on battle breaks out, it will be impossible for them to win.

At least for now, this defending army cannot be defeated.

"Die." A black-armored warrior said in a cold tone. As he swung his sword, an Alliance warrior fell down, and the ground was stained with blood.

The Alliance warrior beside him had bloodshot eyes and rushed forward madly, trying to repel the Imperial warriors.

The long sword chopped down.

It chopped on the black armor, causing sparks to fly.

No defense breached.

"This……"

The Alliance warriors looked puzzled, as if they couldn't understand what was going on with this damn defense.

The imperial warrior glanced around, revealing a cruel smile, and swept his long sword past, a dark blur suddenly appeared, and a head flew up.

With the empire's elite troops as the vanguard, the defense line of the army defending the city was directly broken through.

"Fight! Fight! Fight!"

The black-armored warrior roared and continued to kill the enemies in front of him.

Under the attack of the imperial soldiers, the defending army was defeated step by step and had almost no power to resist.

In less than one night, the entire city was completely captured. And unlike other border cities where the defending generals ran away, all the defending soldiers of Soko City stayed.

It's not that they are brave and want to defend the city and fight to the death.

But it is a very realistic problem.

They tried to run, but they couldn't.

Unlike the undead army and the monster army, the army attacking Soko City is the regular army of the empire. They are stronger and have a more powerful commander.

Therefore, the deployment is more complete.

In this situation, the soldiers defending the city had nowhere to escape.

This time, the empire achieved remarkable results.

More than 50,000 enemies were killed, nearly 100,000 were captured, and less than 20,000 of their own casualties were lost.

Among them, a large part of the imperial army's losses came from the vassal soldiers.

There is no way. Those elite soldiers of the empire are really too tough. With the strength of the soldiers defending the city, it is not difficult to hurt them, but it is very difficult to kill them.

Therefore, they could only set their sights on those servant soldiers.

But even so, judging from the casualty ratio, the Empire still had an absolute advantage.

Moreover, this is a siege war. To be able to gain such an advantage in a siege war only shows that the gap in strength between the two sides is indeed quite large.

After moving into Soko City, the Imperial Commander quickly issued the same order. Except for not being allowed to leave the city, all other aspects of life remained the same.

The empire did not carry out a large-scale purge of these ordinary citizens of the alliance, and Su Xingyu's benevolent rule still affects the empire today.

Of course, this does not mean that the Eternal Night Empire will just ignore everything and let things take their course.

It’s just that the managers haven’t arrived yet and they don’t know how to manage, so the situation remains the same.

After the managers come with their teams, changes will definitely be made. Putting aside other things, first of all, there must be faith, and it can only be in the dark gods.

In fact, this is also the empire's solution to the conquered forces in recent years.

After all, there are so many forces and so many people, we can’t incorporate them all, right?

This is simply unrealistic. They cannot possibly manage it, and they do not have enough resources to support them.

Therefore, for those surrendered forces, there are only two main points of transformation: the first is to change beliefs, and the second is to pay tribute.

Changing beliefs is for the sake of stability. As long as there are enough people who believe in the Cult of Eternal Night, the empire will not worry about their rebellion.

Needless to say, tribute is important. The empire is also short of money, so if you have any good things, just send them over as soon as possible.

As for the Hundred Nations Alliance in the Northern Continent, if they can be successfully conquered, the solution is actually similar.

After all, the Hundred Nations Alliance is too large, so large that it can overwhelm the Eternal Night Empire. If it is completely absorbed, it will only disrupt the situation in the empire.

There are not many solutions to deal with such forces.

Either absorb and assimilate, or let it go, or kill them all...

The first two are not suitable.

As for killing?
With the strength of the Eternal Night Empire, it is indeed possible to do it. After all, they can bring about a natural disaster of undead, and the human wave tactics are useless to them.

However, Su Xingyu is not a bloodthirsty person.

He will not show mercy to those who resist and will kill them if necessary.

He would not carry out meaningless killings of his people who posed no threat.

Let’s talk about the most basic value.

Even if these citizens of the kingdom do nothing but pray at home every day, they can still create value, and it is a higher value than killing them and transforming them into skeleton warriors.

Use theological beliefs to control them, and establish divine right of kings. After hundreds of years, when the people of the kingdom have fully adapted to the new world, it will no longer matter what the rulers above think.

The empire would not wantonly massacre the kingdom's citizens, but it could kill tens or hundreds of thousands of nobles without any burden.

But it's too early to say this now. The battle has just begun, and we haven't even taken down a few border cities. It's unknown how long it will take to take down the entire Hundred Nations Alliance.

According to conservative estimates, it will take at least thirty years. If the war does not go well, it is possible that it will last a hundred years.

The situation hasn't even opened up yet, so it's a bit too early to start thinking about arranging them now.

……

When the full-scale attack was launched here, other places also followed suit.

The vast territory lengthened the border between the two sides, which also facilitated the empire's offensive.

In addition to the ground attack, the Empire also launched an attack at sea.

Over the years, the empire continued to expand its territory and finally reached other coastlines, so it also developed its own naval fleet.

Although judging from the imperial headquarters alone, their strength is not very good.

After all, the development time is too short, and the navy is a very time-consuming branch of the military. In addition, the sea is not their strong point, so it is normal that their strength is not very good.

But if the affiliated sea tribes are included, the empire's navy is not weak.

It can even be said that it is very powerful, not weaker than some sea players who specialize in sea combat.

Over the years, the subordinate sea tribes have been developing at an incredibly fast pace. Some time ago, they even established the Naga Kingdom and accepted the coronation of the empire.

The population of the headquarters has reached tens of millions, and the number of dark fishmen has reached nearly thirty million. As for other servant sea tribes, it has already exceeded 100 million.

Compared with the fierce competition on the continent, the intensity of competition in the ocean is very complex and can be said to be both high and low.

Why do you say that?
The reason why it is high is that there are sea tribes everywhere. You can see sea tribes wherever they can survive.

The reason why they are said to be low is that most of them are in the "tribal" era, their weapons and equipment, social systems, etc. are relatively primitive, and their level of civilization is low.

As long as you cross the threshold of the tribe and develop steadily for a period of time, you can basically crush 95% of the sea tribes.

As for the mainland, the level of civilization is too high.

They are all tough guys and very difficult to beat.

Think about how Su Xingyu’s Eternal Night Empire has developed, and it’s really weird that there are still two forces that can fight against him.

In the sea, the Nagas and the fishmen have no restrictions on their development, nor are they troubled by the social system. They don't need to think too much, just make sure their people have enough food to eat.

Under such circumstances, their development speed was astonishingly fast, and the number of their tribesmen also increased rapidly.

On several small islands near the northern waters, there are several large fleets stationed. These are the fleets of the Hundred Nations Alliance, and their mission is to blockade the sea routes of the Eternal Night Empire.

Compared to the Eternal Night Empire, the Hundred Nations Alliance has existed longer and has been in contact with the ocean for a longer time. In addition, they have to face the Blood Empire across the ocean all year round, so in terms of building a naval fleet, they are much stronger than the Eternal Night Empire.

With the strength of their fleet, it would be no difficulty at all to blockade the Imperial Navy which had not shown its fangs.

"It's so boring! Working here is really dull, there is nothing. The only drawback is watching the natives fight." A navy soldier stretched and yawned, feeling very depressed.

"Are you going to play with those natives again? You are really amazing. Those guys smell so bad, but you can still eat them!" Another navy soldier looked at him and said with admiration.

"Oh, don't mention it. If there is no other way, who would want to do this." The soldier sighed, feeling that the past was unbearable to look back on. "The ladies in the kingdom are still better. They are not only beautiful, but also gentle and considerate. The people here look stronger than me, and their voices are like the howling of wild boars..."

"You'd better be careful. If you are caught by the captain, you will be in trouble." Another soldier chuckled.

"Don't worry, the captain won't care about such trivial matters. We are already here, so why can't we have some fun?"

"That's right, we've all been 'exiled' here, so why don't we have some fun? It won't affect the mission."

"When I think about having to stay here for a long time, I feel overwhelmed. I don't know what the situation is like at home..."

"When I get back, I will definitely enjoy it..."

A group of naval soldiers sat around the table, discussing enthusiastically which region's indigenous women were better, which place's food was more delicious, and when they could go home.

The sea is vast and boundless, but also boring. When sailing on the sea, you can hardly see anything other than the sea and the sky.

Compared to aimless sailing, being able to stay on these small islands is actually pretty good.

At least they can take a shower freely and eat local delicacies freely.

The only downside is that they stayed a little longer.

Three years.

A fleet usually has to stay here for three years before returning to the kingdom to rest and be replaced by another fleet.

Three years, such a long time, just thinking about it makes people feel despair.

As we were chatting, there was a sudden explosion.

boom---

The flames instantly illuminated everything in front of them, and the next second, they lost consciousness in the purification of the flames.

On the sea level, several huge fleets were seen slowly approaching, with terrifying energy cannons streaking across the sky, drawing dazzling arcs in the air, and attacking head-on.

The size of the fleet is shocking. Each warship is like a mobile war fortress, huge and powerful.

"Enemy attack!!!"

Instantly, terrified screams spread throughout the entire port area. All the alliance soldiers, no matter what they were doing, stopped what they were doing, picked up their weapons, and instantly entered combat status.

The energy shield rose up, a beam of light shot up into the sky, and the dazzling light illuminated the sea area near the island.

The magic cannons mounted on the shore were activated and began to counterattack.

Boom boom boom——

"Damn it, what are scouts for? The enemy fleet is right at our doorstep, but we didn't find anything." A naval general roared as he watched the energy cannons keep coming.

The entire port area was in chaos.

No one thought that they would be attacked at this time.

This is very unreasonable.

It’s not that they think the Eternal Night Empire won’t attack them.

It’s because they had set up a defense line, but now there was no news coming from the early warning defense line, and the enemy fleet arrived at their doorstep first.

My heart was filled with confusion and anger, but the most important thing at this moment was to defend the port and then fight back.

However, it is not that simple.

"Roar--"

A huge figure as big as a mountain emerged from the sea, smashed the energy shield head-on, and spit out a thick poisonous fog, which instantly covered the entire ship.

The naval soldiers on the deck fainted before they even had time to react.

At the same time, countless tall, scaly black figures leaped out, landed on the beach, and rushed towards the gunner at a terrifying speed.

(End of this chapter)