Chapter 244, The Knights
Wang Qi is not the kind of woman who gets scared when seeing blood.
Although she is a businessman, blood is not uncommon.
After being pushed by Lacroxia through a side door and into a residential building, where she dodged the first round of bullets, she immediately stood up, found a window nearby, observed the battle situation outside, and was ready to provide support at any time.
She is not powerless.
Wang Qi had taken time out to undergo two months of professional military training, which certainly didn't make her a qualified soldier, but at least made her know how to shoot.
In addition to this, she has a skill that is much more powerful than that of ordinary warriors: she is rich.
Her two earrings, plus the pinky rings on her little fingers, together formed a miniaturized shield generator. When fully activated, it could provide three hours of protection and withstand direct bombardment from three 155mm howitzers.
Shield generators are already very expensive items, but the one in Ms. Wang Qi's hand is many times more expensive than ordinary shield generators.
Normally, a shield generator would be as big as a car, but this one is extremely miniaturized. It can be made of tiny things like earrings and rings, and it doesn't feel out of place when wearing an evening gown at a banquet.
Obviously, this thing can't be mass-produced. In fact, it is a fine product made by a casting master using very high-end equipment and taking a long time to create. In addition, there are also special jewelry masters who have made exquisite designs for it to ensure that it is still beautiful, elegant and high-end without affecting its functionality.
Moreover, this miniaturized shield generator has a very important special effect: it will be automatically triggered when it detects a threat. This can prevent the owner from being unable to react in time when attacked and being killed before the shield generator can take effect.
From these perspectives, one can imagine how valuable this set of earrings and ring would be.
In addition, she pulled out a weapon tied to the inside of the hem of her evening dress at her thigh.
This is a flintlock rifle. The ebony wood exudes a slight fragrance, and there are hollow carvings on it filled with gold, revealing a high level of craftsmanship.
Rather than a weapon, it really looks more like a vintage artifact.
But in fact, this ancient flintlock can be loaded with four bullets at a time. No matter what material the loaded bullets are made of, the first four bullets fired every day have powerful psychic power. After contacting the target, a violent psychic explosion will occur. The power of a single psychic explosion bullet is even greater than that of a heavy bolter.
However, she was not so arrogant as to think that she could survive this crisis with just these things.
In fact, it can be seen from the whole set of equipment she has that the core purpose is to defend against assassinations.
Ms. Wang Qi would never put herself in an absolutely dangerous situation. When the assassin's first wave of attacks was blocked by the shield generator, the psychic flintlock rifle gave her a certain means of counterattack. As long as she delayed a little, the elite bodyguards who should be not far from her at all times would quickly arrive and eliminate the threat.
This should be the case under normal circumstances.
But at this moment, it was obviously not a normal situation. What she was facing was not an assassination, but a real war.
What does it matter how powerful the shield generator is? It can block three 155mm howitzer rounds when facing assassination, which is simply a wall of sighs, but in war, it will explode in no time if several machine guns and rifles are fired at it. Not to mention, the shield generator is like the void shield, which is very insensitive to slow approaching objects and cannot be broken by bullets, but if a person approaches with a knife, the shield generator is useless.
In war, there are many things far more dangerous than assassination.
Why did the situation on Black Arrow Star turn into a war?
That story begins a few days ago.
Wang Qi and her fleet came all the way here after leaving the Wrathful Owl Star. The Black Arrow Star was a planet still in the feudal era, with a population of 400 million and dozens of feudal kingdoms of all sizes. Among them, the seven most powerful ones formed the King's Council, and every few years, one of them would be selected to become the governor, responsible for communicating with the imperial departments.
From this perspective, the power of the governor of Black Arrow Star is quite small. He is just a docking job. Whether the tax can be collected depends on whether the kingdoms cooperate. Of course, they usually cooperate. Those who don't cooperate will be beaten. Even if they are big kingdoms, they don't want to bear the wrath of the empire, and they will also be questioned by other countries.
There will definitely be many conspiracies and intrigues around this mechanism. For example, the governor will cheat other kingdoms, or other kingdoms will cheat the kingdom that currently serves as the governor...
But Wang Qi didn't pay attention to these things. There were countless worlds within the empire, with different levels of technology, economic foundations, and political ecosystems. Who had the time to infiltrate so many?
What Wang Qi was concerned about was that most of the kingdoms on Black Arrow Star had very good relations with Gu's Chamber of Commerce. This relationship was so good that the Gu's Chamber of Commerce's family conferences in recent decades were all held on Black Arrow Star. The seven local kingdoms all welcomed their arrival and fully supported a series of activities of the Gu's family conference.
This time was no exception—at least not at the beginning.
Currently, the governor of Black Arrow Star is the king of Luman Kingdom, Ness Luman. This is the third largest country on the planet, and the meeting was held in the capital of this country, Pinser City.
The entire city of Pincer was decorated with lights and colors, treating the event as a grand festival.
In recent days, after the leading figures from the fourteen major caravans of the Gu Chamber of Commerce arrived one by one, public or private banquets began one after another.
Wang Qi had been preparing for many years to compete for the position of head of the family, and now it was just the final push. Although she could feel the struggle of her late husband's cousin, that guy jumped up and down and did a lot of things, and even tried to disrupt the rhythm by holding a family meeting in advance.
But none of this means much.
Before the family meeting officially began, Wang Qi further consolidated and confirmed the relationship between his allies through banquets and private conversations.
She still had a firm grip on four of the fourteen caravans, and the other four were her staunch allies. When the meeting began and the voting began, she would almost certainly be able to push her son to the position of head of the family with eight votes in her hand.
Then, two days before the conference, as a dinner was coming to an end, the deafening sound of gunfire and shouts of killing reached their ears.
Wang Qi realized almost immediately that Gu Ming was desperate.
After receiving her son's reminder, she had consciously taken precautions against this problem. The standard security force around her was tripled; everyone was highly alert; she reminded all the caravan lords to pay attention to and be careful of this problem, and asked them to double the security force while maintaining the highest level of security standards.
In addition, the merchant ships in the sky were also on high alert at all times to avoid sneak attacks or surprise attacks; the expeditionary force assigned to her by Gu Hang was also transferred to a small town outside of Pinsel through the exchange of supplies by the merchant caravan.
Wang Qi tried her best to hide their tracks, but she also knew that it would be difficult for an army of nearly 30,000 people to act without anyone noticing.
But exposure also has its advantages. It can form a deterrent, which is also good: I have an army outside, so you better be careful.
As long as there was no fight, it was good. After all, as long as things went on normally, she would most likely be the winner.
But Gu Ming still jumped out.
In fact, Wang Qi still couldn’t understand.
Indeed, if you don’t jump out, you can’t win. But what if you lose?
Although there has been internal competition in the Gu family since its founding, up to now, in nearly three hundred years and five generations, there has never been a vicious bloody competition. This kind of thing may be common in other families, but the internal struggle of the Gu family has never deteriorated to this extent. Being more united than other chambers of commerce is one of the reasons why the Gu family can become so big.
If Gu Ming lost, there was no other deep hatred between the two sides, and they were still relatives. Wang Qi won fairly as the winner, and there was no need and no possibility for him to be killed.
When the two meet, they might even play the uncle-sister-in-law role to show family unity.
For a person like Gu Ming, let alone being an idle rich man, it is even unrealistic for Wang Qi to deprive him of the Chamber of Commerce fleet under his control.
Gu Ming retained his own power. He could retreat to become a powerful figure in the Gu Chamber of Commerce, or he could advance and continue to fight for the position of the head of the family in the next cycle.
But if you do this, it will be a bad start and completely break the rules. After the incident is over, there will be no possibility of a good ending.
Gu Ming would understand.
Therefore, even until the last moment, Wang Qi actually felt that there was a possibility that Gu Ming would cause trouble, but the probability was really low.
But now that everything has happened, there is nothing to say.
Just be prepared and use it.
The news of the battle was sent to the Angry Owl Star army in the suburban town. Inside the city, each family's security measures were urgently deployed and mobilized. They quickly contacted King Luman, who was currently serving as the governor of Black Arrow Star, and asked him to control the situation in his capital...
At this stage, Wang Qi's mentality was still very stable. When she and her allies were sitting in the banquet hall, she even had time to lament and say that Gu Ming couldn't possibly do this, and that someone around him must have bewitched him. She sighed that Gu Ming was dizzy and even discussed how to deal with this problem afterwards.
The situation outside was indeed beginning to improve. The security measures were effective and the surrounding area was under strict control. After hearing the report from the front, the army of the Luman Kingdom also entered the city and controlled the situation in the city. The sound of gunfire and shouting also subsided.
Later, they were discussing how to catch Gu Ming after the situation calmed down and prevent him from running away.
But at this moment, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse in a very short period of time.
The key is that the army of the Luman Kingdom, which was supposed to enter the city to quell the rebellion, lined up and headed towards where Wang Qi and others were, hoping to enter this area and take over the defense.
They said it very nicely, the situation in the city was unstable and adding stronger troops for protection was a necessary measure.
But at this time, Lacroxia, who joined Wang Qi's security team with a special team, raised strong objections.
Wang Qi was also cautious and didn't let them get close.
Then, the Luman army, which had come in full battle array, launched an all-out attack on them.
The productivity of the Luman Kingdom remained at the feudal level, industrialization was very poor, and the main economic foundation relied on agriculture. However, their army and weapons and equipment were not too bad.
They cannot produce it, or their production capacity is very weak, not enough to independently support the weapons needs of an army, but that does not stop them from buying it.
The G5 and G6 series have individual weapons and cannons.
Of course, even so, there is still a big gap between their equipment level and the security teams of these wealthy people in the Gu family.
But the only thing is that cannons, when fired from a distance, are unreasonable.
But if it was just the threat of artillery, it would be easy to deal with. It would be an option to form an elite force, rush out, and destroy the artillery force. Gu's security, almost all of them are equipped with alloy plastic steel armor, laser guns, electromagnetic rifles, hot melt bombs, plasma guns and other things. It is really difficult to stop the entire team of 100 people rushing out.
However, what was most unexpected was that the Luman Kingdom’s real killer weapon was deployed.
knight.
A feudal state is of course a feudal system. The king enfeoffs the lords, the lords enfeoff the knights, forming the ruling class: the nobility. And one of the core conditions for the nobility to be enfeoffed is to have their own "mount": mecha.
On the Black Arrow Star, a very speechless scene occurs: the serfs use medieval planting techniques, cultivate the land carefully, and work diligently, and hand over 90% of the harvest to their own lords, leaving only the most basic food to fill their stomachs; the knight lord drives a mecha to inspect his farmland to make sure the serfs are not lazy.
When necessary, the knights would obey the call of the lord, lead the serfs who had transformed themselves into militia, and fight under the lord's banner; the lords would obey the call of the king, lead their troops, and fight under the king's flag.
This is the system of the Kingdom of Luman, and also the system of the entire Black Arrow Star.
Those poor, little knights may have inherited a set of the most ordinary sentinel mecha from their family for eight generations. This thing is not even recognized as a proper knight mecha in the imperial military sequence. But no matter what, it is still a mecha, with a height of about three and a half meters, full metal coverage, two fixed machine guns on the side with good power, and it is not afraid of bullets.
At least two hundred of these Sentinel mechas appeared in King Luman's army;
At the same time, there are two real knight mechas, or what can be called knight titans.
[Ranger-class Knight Titan], with a height of 6.2 meters, a four-barreled heavy machine gun in the left hand, a gravity fist and a howitzer launcher in the right hand, and 16 extended-range rockets on the back...
This thing is a bit scary.
The "Knights" of the Luman Kingdom were the biggest threat, and it was this Knights that almost destroyed the defense position of Gu's security.
(End of this chapter)
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