Chapter 19

"Hehehe, I didn't think that we would be able to take over two cities so soon, and the fact that they just gave up after seeing my army was a bonus" Yang Chen gleefully looked at the city that lay before him "Odala, is it possible to start the construction of tanks or other heavy vehicle type robots and is it possible to start making some flight ones".

[Yes, however, the amount of tanks depends on if they are light tanks meaning their armor isn't infused with that much spirit stone or while heavy is infused with hundreds of pounds of it, the same is with Aircraft].

"Finally, how many can be made".

[if no other types are made then 543 thousand light tanks, 173 thousand heavy tanks, 5 thousand light aircraft, or 891 heavy aircraft].

"Alright what would you recommend to build".

[Your majesty, I recommend that you build 100 heavy aircraft, 3 thousand light aircraft, and 50 thousand heavy tanks, while the rest goes to build factories and power stations].

"Alright, when they are done have all the light aircraft roam the surrounding 40 miles around this city in groups as I really doubt the leaders of the heavenly dragon empire will enjoy the fact I took over a multiple of their cities".

[It will be done].

After another 2 weeks, all the aircraft and 30 thousand of the tanks were completed.

[your majesty a large human army was seen by a group of aircraft from the count there was at least 50 million].

"What of the aircraft".

[none of the aircraft were damaged in the initial volley of arrows, however, when a group of red armored soldiers fired their bows almost all the aircraft were lost losing 9].

"Alright, tell all the light and heavy aircraft to come back they will attack while the archers are preoccupied with the artillery raining down above their heads, also have 10 thousand robots hide 30 miles deep into the forest and send 100 thousand combat robots to the back of Mount Tian to flank them from behind after the initial bombardment," Yang Chen told Odala to do what he thought was the best as although he had been practicing strategy as none of the robots possessed enough intelligence to make their own strategies except Odala but as a robot even he lacks the creativity of a human strategist besides its a skill that would never hurt to have.

"Also what is the maximum range of the heavy tanks" Yang Chen wanted to slap himself because he didn't even ask such a basic question.

[67.5 miles your majesty].

"Damn it, if I extended the range of the search then he would have been able to blow the enemy army to bits before he even saw them" Now Yang Chen really wanted to slap himself for not asking that question earlier "alright instead of 20 miles have the combat robots hold at 10 miles deep and harras the enemy army there instead have every tank and artillery unit fire away as soon as possible".

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"Have there been any enemy scouts?" Duan Asked the commander next to him.

"No your majesty we have found none, however even if we did miss some there would be no way they could sneak off in front of an army that numbers in the tens of millions to go and tell the enemy that we are coming" The commander showed that he was very confident that there was no way a mere rebellion with or without an army of golems would warrant the entire interior and part of each of the north and east armies to squash them, of course, he didn't dare say that in front of the emperor.

Hearing no reply from Duan the commander looked back to see him looking very intensely at the sky towards Fu Ying city "is everything alright your majesty".

After a couple more seconds The emperor suddenly yelled loud enough that every single person out of the tens of millions of people "BRACE".

Boom boom boom boom boom.

The tens of thousands of explosions all in quick succession to each other killing hundreds of thousands, most of the explosions were much bigger than the others these were from the heavy tanks.

In seconds hundreds of thousands of soldiers were left either blinded from the giant orange balls of fire the billowed out of what seemed like nowhere or were left deaf from the hundreds of the thousands of explosions that is if you were lucky as most people whose eardrums popped died instantly from the shock, while most of the deaths that already happened were just from the explosion millions were already dead.

The red guards however suffered no casualties, not even a scratch on their armor as once the emperor said to brace hundreds of them rushed to the front and got in a mysterious formation that formed a giant blue shield protecting the guards, the emperor, and anyone lucky enough to be behind the section that the emperor was in.

After a whole 10 minutes of constant bombardment, there were massive cracks in the giant blue seeing this the guards that were defending the sides and back rushed to the front, as they added to the formation the shield started to crack less and less but it was too little to late the sound of the shield shattering could be heard for miles, however, no matter how long they waited they heard none of the explosions that they expected to hear bombarding the emperor.

After a minute of just standing there defeatedly, they heard a whistling sound, not like the whistling they heard just before the explosions but like the whistling, they heard from those strange metal birds.

Eventually, they saw 5 aircraft surrounding a fatter one in the middle, once the fatter one got closer to the center of the army the bottom of the aircraft and 20 golems could be seen jumping out of the bird landing straight in front of the Red Guards.

[Who is your leader, we bring a message].

All 20 of the golems spoke at the same exact time, in the same monotone of a voice, which shook everyone there especially after what just happened.

"I am" Duan lightly pushed away some of the Red armored soldiers and announced his presence.

[You are to surrender within 1 minute otherwise I will continue to rain hell upon you and your army but this time we will not stop after only 10 minutes].

"Alright, we surrender on the conditions that nobody here will be executed nor imprisoned and that you will help the injured" Duan instantly said his conditions as he knew that this was a hopeless war with zero chance of winning.

The robots said nothing but the eyes of the one in the front glowed a bright red.

[these terms are….. Acceptable, everyone take off your armor and weapons and start marching to Fu Ying city, however, you will be coming with us] The robots stated before pointing to Duan what they said about their emperor coming with the enemy made them raise their weapons also making the robot's arms turn to swords.

Duan however just took off his armor and threw his sword on the ground before telling the guards to listen to the golems and not cause trouble, none of them wanted to surrender however with the emperor himself telling them to surrender they couldn't do much other than listen.

After the robots saw this their hands turned from swords back to regular hands before grabbing Duan's hands and forcing them behind his back before pushing him in the direction of an aircraft that just landed a couple dozen feet away from them, the imperial guards really didn't like how they were treating their emperor but he told them not to make any trouble so they didn't.

"Damn although they aren't as powerful as the soldiers in the first battalion they are 2 maybe even 3 times as strong as a regular imperial guard, who the fuck made these" Duan thought to himself while looking at the aircraft that he was getting stuffed into"also not even the golem masters of the draconian republic could build a golem that could fly nor would they build anything that looks like that".