Alien Arms Empire

Walking on the streets of Wuyang, Liu Guozhu felt as if he had traveled through time. It was difficult for him to connect the city in front of him with the capital because he had seen Chang'an.

In the city of Chang'an, it goes without saying that there are busy cars and high-rise buildings. People are well-dressed and polite. It is simply another world.

 And the Wuyang in front of us...it really doesn't deserve to be called the capital. The streets and alleys were a mess, and there wasn't even any so-called scenery.

The streets were full of broken glass fragments, which could even make a clicking sound when stepped on. The naked children looked timidly at the Tang Army soldiers passing by, and no one dared to make any sound.

There is no subway or decent bus station here. Even the street lights seem to be much fewer than those in Chang'an, Linshui, Tongcheng...well, Fengjiang.

 The streets in the city are not spacious, and in Liu Guozhu's view, the design is also sloppy. If this situation occurred in Chang'an, there would definitely be congestion every day, and installing traffic lights would not improve it.

 There is not a single super-large shopping mall in the entire city, and there is no large-scale business district that makes people linger. Because of the lack of pedestrians, and the occasional pedestrians are wearing shabby clothes, Liu Guozhu feels that the city lacks the decoration it deserves.

There are no red skirts, no sky blue coats, no purple ones... The whole city looks gray and makes people feel monotonous.

 Some filled craters appeared to have been there for some time. They were traces left by the long-range ballistic missiles of the Tang Empire.

Many houses have been cut off from gas and electricity because there is really no condition to repair the lines and equipment damaged by missiles or bombings.

Frankly speaking, Liu Guozhu regretted a little bit. He regretted that he used his precious vacation time to come here to visit the so-called great city in the northwest. This city left no good impression on him, only its dilapidation and chaos.

This armored vehicle with a dragon emblem is parked on the side of the road. It is the equipment of the 33rd Mechanized Infantry Division of the 3rd Armored Corps of the 3rd Group Army of the Tang Empire. Two soldiers stood at the rear of the armored vehicle smoking. When they saw Liu Guozhu, they gave a symbolic military salute: "Long live the emperor!"

"Long live your Majesty!" Liu Guozhu returned a military salute to the other party, and then saw the broken glass window behind them and the clerk inside who was cleaning the clothes and decorations in the display cabinet.

 Order is indeed being restored here, just a little slowly. Soldiers from the Tang Empire who came to visit or patrol could be seen everywhere on the streets, and some locals were working hard to repair collapsed or about-to-collapse buildings.

"In front of you is the Silver Fox Tavern. It was closed due to the war. Now it's reopened. I heard that as long as you have a military officer's ID, it's free to drink in." The person who acted as Liu Guozhu's tour guide was a noncommissioned officer from the battalion headquarters. He admired Liu Guozhu's Brilliant results, so I volunteered to walk around the boring city again.

“Forget it, their beer is still drawn from us, and it doesn’t taste good at all.” Liu Guozhu shook his head. Of course he knew the inside information.

The wine itself is provided by the army. The armored troops often drink this kind of wine on weekdays. Frankly speaking, the taste is really not good.

“A little way further ahead is the imperial palace...but I heard that all the Qin kings were very frugal, so the palace is not large in size.” The non-commissioned officer said as he walked. "Can I go in?" Liu Guozhu looked at the other party. He was somewhat eager for a palace. He had never seen any royal palaces since he was a child, but later he saw the majestic Forbidden City from a distance, which left a very deep impression on him.

 “Can’t get in.” Shaking his head, the accompanying sergeant changed the subject in a somewhat nonchalant way, talking about other dilapidated places.

Although the imperial palace of the Qin State is not very wealthy, it is still a place that requires key statistics and inspections. How can it be opened to ordinary soldiers immediately... The valuable collections there must be registered and sent to the Forbidden City for selection, and then the rest will be discarded. Sent to the Tang Dynasty Imperial Museum.

In addition, the palace also houses many secret files of the Qin State, precious records, and many intelligence messages... All of these things must be recorded without any mistakes.

 Therefore, until these things are dealt with, it is impossible for Qin’s palace to be opened to the outside world and allow anyone to enter.

Similarly, the annexes, residences of some princes and royal families, and the offices of officials... must also be strictly controlled, investigated and sorted out, and can only be used for other purposes after the work is completed.

"But we can go to the door to watch the execution. Those officials who are found to have committed crimes on the pretext of war, as well as their implicated family members, will be tried and executed in the square in front of the palace...some of them will be killed directly..." The sergeant said more He spoke louder and quieter, and then simply closed his mouth.

"I won't go and watch..." Liu Guozhu had no interest in this kind of thing at all. He had seen too many killings on the battlefield and was completely immune to this so-called excitement.

If a person sees the enemy crawling out of the burning tank through the commander's observation device, with his upper body exposed outside the tank, twisting and struggling, and letting the flames burn his arms, face and body black, it is unlikely. Any interest in excitement like executions.

Bullets shattering the head is too common for soldiers returning from the front line. Only non-commissioned officers who have just been assigned to the battalion headquarters and have not experienced the cruelty of war are keen to see this kind of thing.

But it was obvious that the people of Qin were very interested in the demise of those corrupt officials and the nobles who oppressed them. There were gradually more people on the street in front, and bursts of cheers came from further ahead.

 They were applauding the hanging of a nobleman because that nobleman's reputation in Wuyang was really not very good. A row of nooses hung on a simple execution platform, and along with the orders, the high-ranking adults in the past were now turned into hard corpses.

On the distant city wall, soldiers from the Tang Dynasty were busy rolling out a huge dragon flag. This flag was custom-made and shipped from the Tang Dynasty, demonstrating the national power of the Tang Empire.

 After all, producing such a huge unjoined flag requires special looms. In the world, currently only the Tang Empire can produce such a large area of ​​national flags!

It is precisely because of this that it was delayed until today before it was launched at the city head.