Chapter 1408: Chapter 1408: 1393: Collapse Like a Mountain
Chapter 1408: Chapter 1393: Collapse Like a Mountain
A simultaneous volley of five thousand Flame Spirit Burst Demon Crossbows instantly transformed the five-mile radius in front of the camp into a sea of fire.
The sky was filled with rain evaporating in the firestorm, creating vast white mists that sealed the entire heavens and earth.
However, the rain pouring down instantly extinguished these mists, revealing the scene in front of the Human Clan camp.
The five-mile radius in front of the Human Clan camp had turned into a wasteland!
The Water Demons that previously occupied this area, whether alive or dead, had been reduced to nothingness, leaving only a terrible stench drifting in the rain toward all directions!
Dragon Prince Ao Zheng, who was clenching his fists and roaring, suddenly froze mid-air, thoroughly shocked by the scene before him!
Not moments ago, there were at least fifteen thousand Water Demons within this five-mile radius, but in just one volley, they vanished into thin air.
However, Ye Zhen gave the Water Demon Army no time to catch their breath.
From the first clash, Ye Zhen realized this Water Demon Army was even worse than he imagined; he had previously exaggerated their threat in constructing defenses.
“Order! Advance steadily!”
Instantly, the deep drumbeats sounded within the entire camp of the Human Clan.
Under County Captain Tang Biao’s command, the sixty-thousand-strong army stepped in unison, advancing quickly in a formation toward the Water Demon Army, unleashing showers of arrows as soon as they came within range!
Slaughtering the fifty-thousand-strong Water Demon Army, leaving them wailing in misery!
County Captain Tang Biao’s expression became tremendously excited!
For the first time in his life, he was slaughtering so freely!
This was not a battle; it was clearly a one-sided massacre!
Before, of the thirty thousand County Soldiers under his command, not even one-tenth were equipped with the lowest-grade Fire Crossbows.
Even among these thirty thousand equipped with Fire Crossbows, arrow supplies were limited.
Each soldier could only have three boxes of arrows!
Once they ran out, soldiers would engage in hand-to-hand combat!
But today, his thirty thousand County Soldiers in North Sea each wielded a Wind-Fire Crossbow, which was equipment reserved for the elite Imperial Guard of Great Zhou.
More critically, the arrow boxes.
Each Wind-Fire Crossbow came with one hundred boxes, one hundred boxes per soldier! For every fifty soldiers, there was a quartermaster holding storage rings constantly distributing arrow boxes!
What does one hundred boxes mean?
Take the elite Imperial Guard of Great Zhou as an example; the standard configuration is three boxes of crossbow bolts, but in a great battle, a non-standard five boxes of crossbow bolts are provided!
But now, each County Soldier under his command at least had one hundred boxes of arrows!
Moreover, at the end of the troops, five hundred quartermasters each had at least ten chains of storage rings around their necks, each chain holding no fewer than one hundred storage rings, filled with arrow boxes for the Wind-Fire Crossbows!
This situation made County Captain Tang Biao feel like he was burning Spirit Stones as he ordered the shooting!
He felt this wasn’t a war but was killing the enemy by bombarding them with Spirit Stones!
In any case, so far, more than one and a half million boxes of arrows had been shot.
He dared to guarantee that not just North Sea, but even the entirety of the stockpiles in the Pingyi Border Defense Camp wouldn’t add up to half of today’s expenditure!
And all this terrifying quantity of military equipment was provided by their master, Ye Zhen!
Thinking of this, County Captain Tang Biao shivered, wondering if his Viscount of North Sea, Ye Zhen, had robbed the Great Zhou’s armory?
Under the cooperation of Wind-Fire Crossbows and Flame Spirit Burst Demon Crossbows, Water Demons fell from the skies like rain, causing Ye Zhen to feel heartache and Dragon Prince Ao Zheng to be filled with fear.
Ye Zhen’s heartache stemmed from today’s heavy spending. So far, not much of Ye Zhen’s military equipment had been used other than Wind-Fire Crossbows and Flame Spirit Burst Demon Crossbows, which were a tiny fraction.
But the arrow box consumption was too massive!
After all, the arrow boxes Ye Zhen acquired from Duke Tian Jiayu’s underground military warehouse had all been handed out.
“My heavens, even the Imperial Guard of Great Zhou doesn’t possess such powerful firepower!” Water Scorpion General Yin Quan exclaimed in shock, and the expressions of nearby Water Generals also became extremely grave.
“Your Highness, at this rate, the soldiers won’t be able to hold this!” One Water General advised.
Ferocious intent pooled in Dragon Prince Ao Zheng’s eyes as he looked at a high-level Realm King expert behind him and said, “Worshipper Bai, these soldiers are too elite; you have to take action!
This weather is perfect for triggering the Eight Directions Annihilation Storm!”
Worshipper Bai slightly bowed and said, “Your Highness commands, and I must follow, but the enemy’s firepower is immense. Casting requires time, and during this time, we cannot defend and will need at least a hundred Dark Palace Realm Demon Generals to protect us!”
“I’ll assign you a thousand Water Generals!” Dragon Prince Ao Zheng declared, “Cast quickly!”
Almost simultaneously, four Realm King Tributor experts soared into the air, and as they stood in the void, countless Dao Patterns flew from their bodies. The four Tributor experts moved their fingers rapidly, initiating one Magic Formula after another with speed.
These Dao Patterns were all Water Element Dao Patterns. Under the Magic Formula’s activation, they swiftly hid into the void in all directions.
Immediately, the rain in the entire void became incredibly heavy!
Originally, the storm was just a storm, unable to breach the Protective Spirit Armor of those Human Clan soldiers, nor the Protective Gang Qi.
But now, the torrential rain pouring down suddenly seemed to be weighed down by countless forces, becoming incredibly heavy.
At first, it pierced through the Protective Gang Qi of some Human Clan soldiers with weaker cultivation, then as the rain’s power grew stronger, it directly caused some Soul Sea Realm Human Clan soldiers to end up with bloody head wounds!
The torrential rain falling from the sky gradually took on a terrifying aura!
In an instant, realizing something was wrong, the Human Clan army activated their defenses simultaneously, but inevitably, their advancing speed slowed, and with some falling down, the attack rhythm became chaotic!
“Sir, if I am not mistaken, this should be the Eight Directions Annihilation Storm, a killing formation of the North Sea’s Aquatic Race, only a great talent of the Aquatic Race who can control the wind and rain can perform it!
Two hundred years ago, I personally witnessed this Eight Directions Annihilation Storm wipe out a border army legion of 300,000 in an instant!” The somewhat fearful voice of Group Captain Tang Biao entered Ye Zhen’s mind.
“The Eight Directions Annihilation Storm is one of the Sea Suppression secret skills of the Dragon Clan, with the greatest power when performed by them! However, its biggest flaw is the time it takes to perform!”
Ye Zhen, having the Black Dragon Legacy, couldn’t possibly not know what this secret technique was!
Even if not limited by insufficient cultivation, even Ye Zhen himself could perform this Eight Directions Annihilation Storm!
“Gu Tieqi!”
Ye Zhen called out softly!
Gu Tieqi responded, and after a few breaths, the Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbow, camouflaged layer upon layer in the dense forest, removed all disguises, following Gu Tieqi’s command.
A thousand Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Arrows, blessed by the Moon Priest of the Ancestor God Temple, simultaneously thundered out, each shot aimed at the four Water Clan Realm King Realm tributors in the void!
Upon seeing the Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Arrows soaring towards the sky, the four tributors were left in shock.
They could never have imagined that these small county soldiers actually had a thousand Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbows!
Not to mention North Sea County, even in the Pingyi Border Defense Camp, claimed to be elite, there wouldn’t be more than a hundred of them!
Chik-chik-chik!
The sound of skewering meat was incessantly heard!
More than half of the Dark Palace Realm Martial Artists guarding the four tributors, in an instant, were skewered like meat on a stick.
However, under the angry roar of Dragon Prince Ao Zheng, those Dark Palace Realm Martial Artists flew up and bravely shielded the four tributors.
A buzzing sound arose, and suddenly a Commander level Heavenly Spirit Boat ascended from the camp, bright light wildly spewing forth from the front of the Heavenly Spirit Boat!
The light flashed like lightning across the void, and White Tributor, who was casting, suddenly froze, a sorrowful smile appearing at the corners of his mouth.
As the light flashed past, his chest and below had completely vanished!
This is the military might of the Military Equipment of Great Zhou, the Commander level Heavenly Spirit Boat, a true weapon of war!
Of course, it is also a monster that devours Spirit Stones, as just now, the full load of the First Level consumed one hundred thousand High Grade Spiritual Stones from Ye Zhen!
One hundred thousand High Grade Spiritual Stones indeed!
That single shot consumed a tenth of the wealth Ye Zhen had painstakingly amassed in thirty-one nights of thievery!
However, its power was fierce enough to directly blast away a strong expert of the Realm King Realm!
White Tributor gave a smile more miserable than crying towards Dragon Prince Ao Zheng, “Crown Prince, flee…..”
Before he could utter the word “flee”, White Tributor’s just-escaped Innate Divine Soul let out a scream, uncontrollably rushing toward a certain direction in the sky!
In some place in the sky, there seemed to be a gigantic suction force, making it impossible for White Tributor’s Innate Divine Soul to escape!
Not only White Tributor’s Innate Divine Soul, but nearly all the Innate Divine Souls of killed Aquatic Race were gathering towards a certain direction in the sky!
There, it seemed as if a black hole specialized in devouring Innate Divine Souls existed!
However, at this moment, nobody paid attention to these matters!
With the death of White Tributor, the Eight Directions Annihilation Storm also collapsed; many Water Demons died miserably and became exceedingly chaotic. Dragon Prince Ao Zheng, inexperienced in such large battles, was panicked, looking at the Commander level Heavenly Spirit Boat charging toward them, and unexpectedly turned his head to flee!
Mainly because that strike from the Commander level Heavenly Spirit Boat was too terrifying!
A tributor of the Realm King Realm disappeared just like that!
In Dragon Prince Ao Zheng’s memories, he had never seen such a terrifying Heavenly Spirit Boat!
In fact, it wasn’t that he hadn’t seen it, but rather no one else had ever spent as extravagantly as Ye Zhen!
A single bombardment costing one hundred thousand High Grade Spiritual Stones, even the Holy Son of Heaven of Great Zhou would find it painful to fire too many times.
With Dragon Prince Ao Zheng fleeing, the many Water Demons who had barely held on due to the Blood Order of the Broken Scale completely collapsed!
Even the Dragon Prince who issued the Blood Order of the Broken Scale fled, what were they fighting for!
What is called a rout like a landslide!
The current situation exemplified a rout like a landslide!
Eleven hundred thousand Human Clan soldiers chased after the Water Demon Army of five hundred thousand that collapsed after merely six or seven hundred thousand had died in battle!
In the camp, watching Dragon Prince Ao Zheng retreating in defeat, Ye Zhen calmly boarded another Commander level Heavenly Spirit Boat, “Chase, definitely must not let that bastard Ao Zheng escape!”