You Have Science, I Have Martial Arts-Chapter 613 - 275: You Want Me to Take a Concubine for the Country? (Part 3)

Chapter 613: Chapter 275: You Want Me to Take a Concubine for the Country? (Part 3)

Although I am poor, if I go to kill and plunder, I can quickly become rich!

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Luoyang, Imperial Palace.

"Your Majesty, a message by pigeon from Suiye City, our army has already entered a state of engagement with the enemy."

At the morning meeting, Nie Shixiong announced this explosive news in front of the civil and military officials.

In fact, several hours earlier, Nie Shixiong had personally delivered the message to the Imperial Palace and presented it to Ye Qingzhou.

The officials were furious: "Your Majesty, such a barbaric country fears might but does not cherish virtue. Our Great Qi should mobilize troops to conquer and destroy their state!"

"Indeed, Your Majesty, if they want war, we shall give them war!"

Many civil officials from noble and rich families were even more belligerent than the generals, with none advocating for peace. Instead, many wanted to kill all the Sunset People, occupy their land, and migrate people to fill it.

Ye Qingzhou felt a tingling in his scalp, as he was clearly the radical reformist, yet the originally conservative faction thought him too conservative?

In fact, this was not surprising.

Because Ye Qingzhou nationalized the land in Great Qi, the noble and rich families lost control over land, which meant they couldn’t control grain supply. Without control over grain, they couldn’t control the population, thus losing any leverage against the court.

Those who wanted to resist were not nonexistent, but Ye Qingzhou had killed them all.

Life always finds a way, and the noble and rich families in the Central Plains quickly realized—Laozi might not be able to defeat the Divine Martial Emperor, but can’t we defeat you barbaric tribes beyond the borders?

So the noble and rich families supported sending troops, believing that only through this means could they occupy a piece of private land between the Black Sea and White Sea for their descendants.

This is why they were so aggressive, all forced by Ye Qingzhou.

And so, Great Qi quickly mobilized, united in resolve to engage in a fair and open confrontation with the Iron Fury Empire, marking it as a war of life and death!

Prairie Fire Tiger Nie Shixiong, Sky Tyrant Tiger Xu Biyi, and Flying Star Tiger Zhang Shunchen each led thirty thousand soldiers to move towards Suiye City for reinforcement.

The mighty army marched forth, like a torrent surging towards the Western Regions.

The clash between the two empires was just beginning, in a stage of probing between soldiers and generals, so Ye Qingzhou did not directly take command on the frontline.

He is the Emperor of Great Qi, the foremost martial artist in the Cangyuan Realm, so only in decisive battle should he appear and ideally deliver a final blow.

The enemy possesses the black-box technology of the steam core, although they only know how to imitate and manufacture it, they may not have grasped the power of the Golden Talisman Secret Text.

But power is power; steam battle armors, steam tanks, steam rifles, and steam cannons are all terrifying weapons of slaughter.

Not to mention there is a Supreme Will hidden behind the scenes, resembling a divine existence, evidencing that the opponent’s strength is not only formidable but unprecedentedly powerful.

Even Ye Qingzhou has to handle it cautiously.

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"Kill!"

Amidst the roaring sound of guns and cannons, the battlefield was filled with smoke.

The earth was vast and desolate, the setting sun was like blood.

The forces of the two empires began to fiercely clash outside Suiye City, the soldiers with their strong physiques and rattling iron bones faced the enemy’s tanks and cannons with iron-willed determination, and even the towering Dreadnought-Class steam battle armors.

The previously invincible steam army of the Iron Fury Empire met an adversary they could not defeat for the first time.

With flesh and blood, the soldiers successfully repelled the enemy at the gates of the nation.

Even Wang Junfeng’s name ’Golden-Winged Tiger’ once again struck awe across nations, reminding everyone of when this Great Protector of the Western Regions swept through the Thirty-Six Kingdoms, hanging countless monarchs’ and ministers’ heads before the Northern Palace.

On the battlefield, Wang Junfeng was seen wielding a heavy iron spear, running swift as a dragon.

First, he skewered an oncoming Dreadnought-Class steam battle armor into the air with one spear, then stomped heavily, performing the Thousand-Pound Fall to crush a steam tank into scrap metal.

All other soldiers were equally brave, the ones with strong defenses absorbing fire in the front, withstanding attacks from steam rifles to launch assaults, while those adept in body techniques were unpredictable, always appearing behind enemy lines to harvest lives.

The empire’s soldiers possessed powerful weapons, yet their fragile physiques were their greatest disadvantage, making it difficult for them to gain any advantage against the soldiers on the battlefield.

"The empire’s steel torrent has been stopped!"

"Flesh and blood can actually achieve this degree!"

"Great Qi is far more terrifying than we imagined!" 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

"In such a battle, we don’t even have the qualification to shout and cheer."

The intensity of the war left the remaining Western Regions Countries shivering in fear.

In their eyes, this was no collision between steam technology and Great Qi martial arts, but a divine war between heavenly beings!

Whether it be the steam technology of the Iron Fury Empire or the martial arts powerhouses of Great Qi, they were entities only worthy of worship, gods beyond reach!

And in a battle between gods, mortal beings should only retreat and quietly await the outcome of the war.

Of course, in their hearts, the kings and nobles of the Western Regions Countries still hoped for a Great Qi victory.

After all, while Great Qi might be lofty, at least before punishing someone, they found a justified pretext and avoided unjust wars.

But the Iron Fury Empire did not even pretend to be humane; wherever they went, they killed, plundered, burned, and forced everyone to convert, and failure to comply meant annihilation.

Who could endure this?

Therefore, seeing that Great Qi’s soldiers were indeed holding off the Iron Fury Empire’s advance, and even employing reasonable tactics to gain the upper hand in battle, the kings and ministers of the Western Regions Countries began to provide unreserved support to Great Qi.

Though they were too weak to fight directly, providing supplies and acting as guides was no issue.

The tide of the war gradually turned in favor of Great Qi, while Ishtar, on the rear lines, grew restless.