The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

After bombing for dozens of minutes and with almost no active enemy troops to be seen on the ground, the landing craft slowly descended to the ground.

It was not until these landing craft landed that it was clear that they were not small in size. The reason why they appeared small when they flew out from the transport starships was purely because the starships used for comparison were too large. Each starship was more than one thousand meters long.

In comparison, the landing craft, which is only more than 100 meters long, naturally looks a bit small next to it.

As the rear doors of the landing craft opened, teams of fully armed soldiers immediately walked out in neat formations.

It was obvious that these guys were all undead warriors, otherwise they wouldn't have moved in such unison when they attacked.

Among these undead warriors, most of the skeleton soldiers are equipped with large-caliber assault rifles, some zombies are equipped with heavy machine guns, and some are equipped with anti-material sniper rifles.

Because the enemies to be dealt with this time include stoneman warriors in addition to the demon warriors, the caliber of the firearms equipped by all the soldiers in the expeditionary force is larger so as to penetrate the defenses of the stonemen.

Each of these landing craft carried a total of five thousand Undead warriors.

Luo Chenguang sent out a thousand landing craft in the first wave, enabling five million undead warriors to quickly complete the landing.

Perhaps they were stunned by the previous fierce artillery fire. By the time the human officers of the Qinglong Empire had assembled their undead warriors, the enemies on Jin Yao Star had not made any effective counterattack.

Zhou Xiaoyang once again became the commander-in-chief of these undead troops. After making sure that all the troops had assembled, he immediately began to assign tasks, asking them to capture nearby towns first and separate the enemy forces bit by bit so that they could not support each other.

He himself led the 50,000 undead troops that had gathered nearby and rushed towards the nearest demon town.

When he approached the town, he finally encountered the enemy's counterattack for the first time. It was dozens of warriors, all over six meters tall, holding golden and silver melee weapons in their hands, charging towards the undead warriors he led.

Maybe in the eyes of these stone warriors, these short undead warriors can't pose a threat to them at all! After all, relying on their tall stature, these stone warriors, even if they don't exercise much, have at least the strength of the second level after adulthood. Coupled with their extremely solid mineral bodies, there are really not many races that can suppress them in close combat.

Unfortunately, these stone warriors don’t know that times have changed, especially in the Qinglong Empire, where most soldiers no longer engage in close combat.

Following Zhou Xiaoyang's order, the undead warriors in the front row raised their guns and began firing at the stone warriors rushing towards them.

Under the fierce rain of bullets, the bodies of the stone warriors were constantly broken into pieces, and a few of the thinner ones soon revealed their strongest metal bones, and some orange-yellow hot blood similar to magma spurted out. In the end, even the blue fire in the chests of the stone warriors was completely extinguished.

As the fire went out, the stone warriors immediately fell down and lost their life. Even if they were seriously injured before, they could still continue to struggle.

When Zhou Xiaoyang saw this scene, he realized that the fire in the chest should be the weak point of these stone warriors.

However, the chests of these stone warriors are protected by thick mineralized muscles and metal ribs. The metal ribs in particular have been combined into a whole piece, just like a breastplate, which firmly protects their fire. It is still very difficult to penetrate this layer of metal ribs.

Fortunately, the equipment of these stone warriors seemed very backward, and they didn't have any long-range weapons, so even if they were a little thick-skinned and tough, they could always be killed with a few more shots.

According to the previous reconnaissance report of the spies, the reason why the equipment of these stone warriors is so simple is because the demons only regard these stone warriors as coolies in the mines and do not expect these stone warriors to have any combat effectiveness. After all, although these stone men have low IQs, their physical foundation is good. If they are really armed, these stone men will be dissatisfied with their treatment and will start a rebellion that will have to be suppressed with great effort.

After killing this team of stone warriors, Zhou Xiaoyang asked his men to clean up the battlefield, which resulted in the picking up of some crude weapons that were obviously made by the stone warriors.

These weapons were full of potholes and not smooth at all, but they were still quite sturdy and did not suffer any serious damage under the intensive fire just now.

One of Zhou Xiaoyang's men saw that these weapons were all golden and silver, and asked curiously: "Boss, these things are not pure gold and silver, right?"

Zhou Xiaoyang raised a battle axe, knocked it, and found that it was very hard. He immediately concluded that it was not pure gold. After all, pure gold and pure silver are not very hard, and they can leave tooth marks on them if you bite them hard.

These weapons in front of us are obviously not made of pure gold and silver, but some kind of alloy. However, there should be a lot of gold and silver in them, so they will eventually present this color.

After telling his men his conclusion, Zhou Xiaoyang saw that the battlefield ahead had been cleaned up, so he led his army forward.

This time, until Zhou Xiaoyang and his men arrived at the city, they did not encounter any enemy blocking their way. It seemed that the previous group of enemy troops were just stragglers who did not obey orders and ran out to attack them on their own.

On the city wall, Zhou Xiaoyang didn't see many defenders. Perhaps it was because the previous bombing was too fierce! Many city walls were blown down in sections, and many corpses of demon warriors were still left on the city wall and had not been cleaned up in time!

Seeing that the city had been bombed so badly, Zhou Xiaoyang was not prepared to linger outside and immediately sent troops to attack from the two gaps in the city wall.

One of the two gaps was only seven or eight meters wide, while the other was more than thirty meters wide. So Zhou Xiaoyang sent out five hundred and two thousand troops respectively to launch attacks from the two gaps at the same time.

When the two groups of undead warriors advanced to less than a hundred meters away from the gap in the city wall, the enemy in the city finally took action. Many demon warriors were seen holding bows and crossbows and shooting at the attacking undead warriors. However, there were few demon mages among them. It was estimated that they had all been withdrawn to charge the magic tower!

However, there were quite a few stone warriors. Under the command of the demons, they threw slightly polished stone bullets at the attacking undead warriors.

As soon as the enemy appeared, Zhou Xiaoyang's side immediately opened fire. In addition to various firearms, more than a dozen assembled heavy artillery also opened fire.

Faced with those heavy artillery with a caliber of over 100 mm, even the stone warriors could not resist. As long as they were hit by a bullet, a big hole would be immediately blasted in their bodies, or even their bodies would be directly broken.

Then, as the shells explode, a large number of demon warriors around will be killed at once.

The demons, who were still in the era of cold weapons, seemed helpless against the Qinglong Empire's army this time. Even the weakest undead troops among them seemed to be completely defenseless.

After suffering negligible single-digit casualties, the two undead troops sent by Zhou Xiaoyang quickly broke into two gaps in the city wall with the fierce fire support of the large force in the rear, and then began street fighting with the more numerous enemy troops in the city.

Zhou Xiaoyang, who had some experience in street fighting, ordered his soldiers to throw some high-explosive grenades into the houses and shops on both sides when they passed through the streets. In this way, any enemy hiding there would be immediately killed or forced to escape.

As for whether civilians would be accidentally injured, Zhou Xiaoyang said that he didn't care at all. After all, the IQ of those stone men was too low, and their language and culture were completely different from those of the Qinglong Empire, so there was basically no possibility of communication. In this case, it would be better to hurt them first, and then try to persuade them to surrender after they were convinced.

Therefore, under Zhou Xiaoyang's cruel and brutal attack, the demons' goal of using street fighting to consume the enemy forces was simply not achieved. Instead, the soldiers they sent out basically never returned.

Faced with this situation, the remaining soldiers refused to die and began to retreat towards the city center.

As a result, Zhou Xiaoyang's speed of capturing the city became faster and faster. In the end, it took less than an hour to basically occupy this large city. The only area left to be captured was the city center.

After setting up all the heavy artillery nearby, Zhou Xiaoyang sent one of his demon warriors to persuade them to surrender.

Perhaps it was because he had discovered that most of his own high-ranking officials had fled, or perhaps it was because the person who came to persuade him to surrender was a member of his own tribe. In any case, the demon guard trapped in the center of the city surrendered very readily.

Although they didn't have much territory left, when they pulled out all the troops and surrendered, Zhou Xiaoyang found that there were quite a lot of them. There were more than a thousand demon warriors and more than three thousand stone warriors, totaling five thousand people.

But although there were a lot of soldiers, the equipment of those stone warriors was very simple and the demons had no masters. So facing the attack of the Qinglong Empire army, they really had no power to resist. If they wanted to save their lives, those demon warriors could only choose to surrender.

In other places, it was basically the same as Zhou Xiaoyang's side. They easily captured the nearest city, and then continued to advance triumphantly. Soon they captured all the larger cities, leaving only some smaller villages and more remote mines.

Perhaps because the offensive was too fierce, after this battle, the expeditionary force captured a total of more than one million demon warriors and more than eight million stone warriors. Those demon warriors were easy to deal with, as they were old friends, and the Qinglong Empire was very skilled in dealing with them. Those who were willing to surrender were disbanded and reorganized and then sent to various troops, while those who were unable to surrender were used as coolies and later replaced the stone warriors to help mine on this Jin Yao Star.

However, those stone warriors were a little troublesome to deal with. At the beginning, some soldiers of the Qinglong Empire tried to teach those stone warriors the language of the Qinglong Empire and communicate with them.

But they soon gave up because the IQ of those stone warriors was too low. Often, after they had just taught a sentence, they would forget another sentence they had just taught.

Finally, they had no choice but to call in a group of noble wizards from the rear to cast a language-comprehension magic on these stone men, allowing these stone warriors to instantly learn the common language of the Qinglong Empire.

Now, the two sides were finally able to communicate. After some communication, they found that although these stone men had low IQs, they could still see the situation clearly and understood that the Azure Dragon Empire had defeated the demons and became the new master of the Golden Star. So they were willing to continue to serve the Azure Dragon Empire as they had served the demons before, but the Azure Dragon Empire needed to ensure that they had enough food every day.

When the officer who was communicating with the stone warriors curiously asked what these stone men usually ate, the stone man actually picked up a piece of gold ore at his feet, put it into his mouth and started chewing it.

It turns out that the favorite food of these stone people is gold and silver ores, and they eat at least ten kilograms of gold and silver ores every day. That's why they didn't resist mining for the demons in the past. After all, they usually come to mine to fill their stomachs.

When the demons arrived, they also brought them a lot of mining tools that were considered advanced by the Stonemen, which made their mining speed more than ten times higher than before. So it was only natural for the Stonemen to hand over most of the mined ore to them.

Afterwards, out of curiosity, the officer of the Qinglong Empire went to check the so-called advanced mining tools that the demons provided to the Stonemen. It turned out that the demons only provided the Stonemen with simple tools such as pickaxes. During the mining process, the Stonemen still had to rely on themselves to spend effort to dig.

Even these crude tools were considered advanced in the eyes of the Stonemen. The officer immediately had a rough estimate of the Stonemen's previous technological level.

According to the officer's conjecture, before the arrival of the demons, the technological level of these stone men should have been between the Paleolithic Age and the Neolithic Age.