Chapter 608 - Victory and Defeat (1)
Chapter 608: Victory and Defeat (1)
Zhang Lisheng had inherited the ancient god bloodline from China on Earth and had read Chinese national classics since childhood, so he was heavily influenced by its civilization. He believed the old saying of ‘There must be a demon in the event of an abnormality.’ When he saw the heavy armored infantries and artilleries that seemed to look incompatible with the mainland soldiers massacring around them, an ominous premonition rose in his heart.
Then, the scenes appearing in the water curtain next were just like the young man had predicted. The infantry that were wearing brilliant armors guarded the artillery empty-handed as they continued to move forward, appearing to be quite noticeable on the battlefield. Very soon, sporadic counterattacks were quickly launched by the Wizard Li warriors who had pierced into the mainland coalition force’s battle formation of assault and began to launch the offensive in unison against these artilleries.
Those who could break out of the formation were, of course, the most heroic and elite of the native warriors. Although there were not a lot of them, there was a billowing fierce killing aura that emitted out of them naturally the instant they gathered and roared as they launched a bloody charge of assault.
The mainland knights who had turned back to fight with them would disperse with blood and flesh flowing everywhere just after a short fight with them. Those Wizard Li warriors, on the other hand, would urge the ferocious mounts under them that were covered in blood and dirt before howling with a twisted expression as they rushed to the coalition artillery formations.
The distance of 100 meters was instantaneous. During the battle, they raised their spears and stabbed forward with the help of the impact, piercing directly into the front chest of the unarmed heavy infantry guarding the artilleries.
Then, in the next scene, by right, the coalition force infantry that had their chests pierced through by the sharp spear of superior quality should have been miserably lifted up by the Wizard Li warriors and fall to their deaths at the slope.
However, unexpectedly, when the spear and the infantry armor contacted, a conch-like whirlwind suddenly gushed out of their armor, wrapping the entire spearhead and abruptly converging inwardly, shredding the metal into pieces.
When the weapons they brandished were damaged, some native warriors lost their balance and fell from their mounts. They were then cut in half by the air blade cast by the heavy infantries who used their hand to squeeze the air.
However, most of the Wizard Li warriors showed amazing battle skills in this life and death situation. Even though they staggered a little, they still managed to stabilize their posture and pulled out their sabers. By relying on the power of forward-leaning, they took the opportunity to hack towards the enemy’s head, but unfortunately, after a dodge from the enemy, they were still cut into two halves by the air blade.
“What is this? A fantasy-version ‘Transformer’ that masters some mysterious pneumatic weapon…” Watching the strong powerhouses of his believers powerlessly being killed by the coalition artillery infantry through the water curtain, Zhang Lisheng’s eyes widened as he blurted out.
Before he could finish his words, the heavy armored infantry who had brought the artillery to the appropriate distance slowly stopped their tracks after killing their attackers. They moved the barrels to the sky, and with the five of them in one group, they pressed their hands firmly on the artilleries.
At that instant, when the formation on the infantry’s hand and the formation engraved outside of the barrel were combined, green brilliance glowed around the artilleries as the muzzle began to sizzle in a sharp ear-piercing manner. Then, the massive air above the muzzle started to rub against one another, spontaneously forming a red fire brilliance and a column of gas that went straight up to the cloud before being sucked in by the barrel.
After more than ten seconds later, the gas column gradually disappeared. The heavy-armored infantry moved again to lower the artillery and turned them towards for the barbarian fortifications in the distance.
Then, their palms abruptly left the artilleries. At once, a sharp sound of bombardment that seemed to be able to penetrate the eardrum blasted loudly. The invisible bullets condensed by the massive amount of air that had an appearance seemingly wrapped by magma due to the friction between the air drew a long parabola trajectory before falling towards the defensive wall of the fallen land.
Two to three seconds later, when it was only 20 to 30 meters away from the ground, the bullet with a diameter of over one meter suddenly burst open in the air. The overflowing flames formed magical runes that caused a large area of the sky to be ignited.
Patches of vacuum area began to form in the sky above the Hellfire fortifications before merging into one, pulling the air through the surrounding to create a whirlpool that had the strength strong enough to rip through everything. After shredding the fallen land’s fortification and the defensive barbarian troops, it sucked the wreckage ruins along with the countless bodies into the air, forming a storm of bloody flesh and stones.
In the underground of the Gaoden Hill, Zhang Lisheng subconsciously changed the water curtain point of view and looked at the constant billowing rubbles and bodies in the air. With a slightly stunned expression, he muttered for the second time, “The artillery infantry squad…”
As he muttered these four words, there was no longer any contempt in his tone.
After being baffled for a long time, the young man gritted his teeth hard and said bitterly, “This is simply a meteorological weapon of scale. No, no, this should be… Sh*t! No matter what weapon it is, it should not be called an artillery infantry squad. Although it’s indeed composed of infantry and cannons that can spout fire…”
“Your Majesty, the Yassen’s artillery infantry squad is indeed more powerful than expected, but it’s still impossible for just a troop of several tens of thousands of people to change anything. The victory remains yours,” Tuan, who was equally stunned by the combat ability of the artillery infantry squad, snapped back to his senses and did no cow at all while watching the fortification in the water curtain being destroyed. Instead, he no longer placed emphasis on defense and spoke in a deep voice to the Wizard Li commander, who had launched a full attack.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Lisheng thought about his grand ambition and subconsciously blurted out, “But I have more use for these 30,000 elite warriors that have been chosen from thousands of real combats from my 340 million Wizard Li believers. Just one battle, and they are already so badly wounded…”
Abruptly, when he realized that there were still some secrets that should not be revealed at the moment, he sighed and shut up immediately.
“Your Majesty, after winning this decisive battle, the Green Leaf Mainland will not have any power to stop you from spreading your faith. After conquering the most powerful mainland of Gaia, the entire world will inevitably be under your command. Why should you care about the lives of millions of indigenous warriors then?” No matter how smart the mainland chief priest was, it was still impossible for him to know that the real enemy of the god that he believed in was actually a powerful light civilization that had occupied and colonized several dozens of ‘worlds, so he said respectfully.
“What you said makes sense too, Tuan,” Zhang Lisheng, who was feeling depressed, no longer said anything after this one reply. Turning his head towards the water curtain, he calmed himself down and continued to watch the development of the battle…
The mainland’s coalition forces, who used army supplies and gears to support the stalemate, had already decided to defeat the barbarian army in one fell swoop before the war. The Wizard Li ground army, on the other hand, received the only order to fight to their death. For this reason, both warring parties did not show any signs that they would die since the early morning. Even when noon had arrived, they were still assaulting each other with the same degree of strength.
This kind of blatant life-and-death battle without any pursing and scheming only took place for a few hours; the degree of the tragedy was beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Both parties involved in the fierce battle had already used up their trump cards and had even changed the entire topography of the Gaoden Hill.
At the mainland coalition force’s side, they had already released and exhausted the forbidden spells in succession, one-third of the infantry in the artillery infantry squad had already been besieged and killed by the Wizard Li warriors. The remaining artilleries, on the other hand, had also started to show signs of damage on the inscribed formations due to the long hour of continuous firing and could only be used once they were fixed.
At the Wizard Li army’s side, less than 30% of the millions of warriors managed to survive. Under the attack of the powerful artillery and coalition’s forbidden spell, less than 100 out of the several hundreds of biological warships could still fly in the sky. Although these warships still refused to retreat despite being heavily scarred, it was clear that they were already a spent force.
At this point in time, the war situation started to become apparent. Although the mainland coalition forces suffered hefty losses, they were still much better than the barbarians who were putting up a last-ditch struggle.
Under the escorts of thousands of powerful gryphon knights and spellcasters in the air, Dignity King, who had been watching the final battle, drove the giant golden eagle underneath him to return to the center of the coalition speechlessly for a long time.
“Your Majesty, congratulations! You’ve won this brilliant victory that will surely go down in history and gain the name ‘Saint King’ for yourself!” As the head of the Yassen’s royal think tanks, the white-haired elder looked at Dignity King’s lonely silhouette and took a few steps forward to look up at his own king before congratulating him loudly.
“Claremont, although they are barbarians, they are the most indomitable and fierce fighters I have ever seen on the battlefield,” Yassen King sniffed at the bloody smell on his nose, and a smile appeared on the corner of his lips. Raising his hand to gesture at the battlefield on the highland, he remarked, “I’m afraid I won’t be able to find such a strong opponent anymore in the future after defeating them. Hopefully, that new god can give me a bigger ‘surprise’ when I begin my attack on the fallen land.”
“Your Majesty, I’m sure you’d be disappointed if you think so,” Claremont said in a distinct sonorous voice, “The gods are powerful because of the beliefs they receive from the mortals. Now that they’ve suffered from such a terrible defeat, that newly born god can already be said as ‘lucky’ if he can still maintain his ‘god’ status with his faith wavering like that. If he’s smart, he’d surely bring the Hellfire remnant warriors to return to the Hellfire Archipelago.”
Upon hearing his words, the hundreds of mainland kings and nobles around them whose face had turned extremely pale over the incredibly tragic battle situation and the catastrophic military loss they suffered finally had some colors creeping up their faces again. However, Dignity King asked in a depressed manner instead, “Then, do you mean that this moment is the most glorious period in my entire life now, Claremont?”
Looking at the Yassen King bathed in the dazzling sunlight like he was made from outer disciple, Claremont smiled wryly before tacitly replying in a low voice. “Your Noble Majesty, a great king like you who would only appear once in a thousand years will, of course, wish to climb another seemingly unconquerable peak again and again as you defeat powerful opponents again and again. However, to an ordinary person like me, peaceful life is the essence of life. My king, with all due respect, but the mainland may no longer have the ‘surprise’ you want…”
“Alright, Claremont, I understand what you mean. Even if I defeated the Hellfire god, we could still consider the fact that the Green Leaf Mainland had gone through a terrible catastrophe. I will not force the coalition to cross the sea just to take an act of revenge,” Dignity King looked down at his think tank and replied boringly, looking like a child who had gone through a painstaking effort to finally get his favorite toy but had now become bored with it.
Upon hearing his promise, Claremont relaxed and smiled as though a significant burden had been lifted off his shoulder. Pulling his monocle, he stood on the hill and looked around into the distance, “Your Highness, the barbarian troops have already been fully divided. They can’t even form a century battle formation now. We only need to do one more assault at most, and you can blow the horn of victory already.”
“Is that so? How’s the situation from the western battlefield where the old guy Otto is at,” Yassen King asked casually.
Claremont took a crystal mirror out of his pocket and muttered some incantation. After looking at it for a while, he smiled and replied, “The Fran army has never slacked off, they’re still fighting a bloody battle now. Looks like His Highness Otto hasn’t played any tricks at all…”
When his words left his mouth, he suddenly felt the stable soil under his feet turning soft all of a sudden.