"Wait a moment longer!"
Hai Xing'an gazed at the flames in the sky and said in a deep voice, "We know very little about the Vermilion Bird Legion. Other than the Saint Guan Yu, we know nothing else. Based on the information we've gathered, I can't fathom why the Han Heavenly Emperor would order the Vermilion Bird Legion to attack our dynasty!"
"There must be something we are unaware of."
Inside the defensive fortress, Hai Lingyu watched the sea of fire in the sky. The trembling, nearly shattered defensive array could not hold on much longer.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, a token at his waist shattered. Hai Lingyu's expression changed drastically. He grasped his long axe, and killing intent erupted instantly as he looked at the broken token.
"Great Han Celestial Dynasty!!"
Hai Wenshu had fallen. That was Hai Wenshu's token. He had one, the Divine Emperor had one, and they could know the status of Hai Wenshu's army in real-time. Now that Hai Wenshu had fallen, the army stationed at the Heavenly Gang Supreme Sect was likely gone as well.
With the Heavenly Gang Supreme Sect annihilated, the situation in the entire Western Hundred Cities had reached an irreversible point.
"Deploy another two hundred thousand soldiers and reinforce the array for me!!"
Hai Lingyu suppressed the killing intent in his heart and said to a general beside him.
"Yes, Commander!"
The general immediately dispatched the army, and the trembling array instantly stabilized.
In a dense forest, Fa Zheng looked at the defensive fortress and sensed the condition of its defensive array. After half an hour, there was still no news from Gongsun Zan's troops.
"Notify Lu Kang, strike with all your might and shatter this defensive array!"
"Yes, Sir!"
Fa Zheng looked at the sky filled with flames. He hadn't expected Hai Xing'an to be so patient. After bombing the defensive fortress repeatedly for half an hour, he still hadn't sent reinforcements.
Continuing to drag this out was meaningless!
Not long after, Lu Kang received the military order. With a roar, the fiery iron balls on thirty thousand catapults were all stained with a drop of Vermilion Bird soldier's blood.
Boom!
Thirty thousand fiery iron balls shot into the sky, each weighing a hundred thousand jun. At the peak of the sky, they unleashed crimson flames!
A cry echoed through the heavens!
It made both Hai Lingyu and Hai Xing'an tremble in their hearts.
They saw that in the sky, every fiery iron ball condensed the form of a Vermilion Bird, each burning with rage, wings spread!
Boom!
The defensive fortress trembled.
"What was that sound?"
Hai Lingyu gripped his long axe tightly. Since the sky was covered by flames, he didn't know what was above. However, his divine sense could detect it. This bombardment by the Vermilion Bird Legion was significantly different. The attack, which made him tremble, was something the current array could no longer block.
"Quick!"
"Deploy more troops!!"
"Reinforce the array!!"
"Boom!!"
With a roar, the sea of fire that covered the defensive array instantly collapsed. Hai Lingyu and the eight hundred thousand soldiers watched in horror as the sea of fire cascaded down from the sky. The moment the array shattered, over a hundred thousand of the four hundred thousand soldiers reinforcing the array had their bodies explode and their souls vanish. The entire defensive fortress was engulfed by the scorching sea of fire.
"Rumble!!"
As the sea of fire descended and struck the city on the ground, a massive rebound erupted upwards, like a force battling the heavens. The sea of fire surged up to a thousand zhang, accompanied by the rumbling of the earth. A giant red mushroom cloud reached the heavens!
The descending sea of fire surged outwards layer by layer, consuming everything in its path from the defensive fortress as the center.
"Not good!"
"Deploy forty thousand soldiers to support the King of Chu!"
"Quickly!"
On the other side, Hai Xing'an watched the sea of fire descend. In a single breath, he could no longer see the flames, only the sky illuminated a fiery red by the inferno.
The defensive array was broken!
Hai Lingyu's army was in grave danger!
"Yes!"
"Follow this general to support the King of Chu!!"
Boom!
A general mounted his horse and led forty thousand soldiers charging out of their encampment in a matter of breaths. They soon disappeared from Hai Xing'an's sight.
"Inform the strategist that Hai Xing'an's forty thousand reinforcements have left the city, and General Gongsun has already launched an attack!"
Ten li away from Hai Xing'an's army, Zhang Fei used his divine power to conceal the army's movements and block their divine sense. Gongsun Zan, watching the forty thousand soldiers pass by not far away, immediately ordered a scout.
"Yes, General!"
The scout mounted his horse and galloped swiftly towards Fa Zheng's location.
"Notify the entire army~!"
"The army attacks!"
Gongsun Zan glanced at Zhang Fei and Liao Hua. With Zhang Fei accompanying him into battle, Hai Xing'an was not a threat. His aim was to control the entire army and annihilate these six hundred thousand soldiers of the Haiyun Divine Dynasty.
"Yes, Commander!"
Liao Hua bowed and held the army banner, issuing commands to the three armies. Zhang Fei remained hidden, preparing to kill Hai Xing'an in one fell swoop.
"Reporting to the Commander, the reinforcements are only seventy li away from us!"
"Reporting to the Commander, the reinforcements are only fifty li away from us~!"
"All troops, listen to my command, form the battle array!"
Zhang Liao held his curved scythe and shouted.
Behind him, hundreds of thousands of soldiers roared to the sky.
"Roar!"
"Roar!"
"Roar!"
Boom boom boom!
Crimson qi flowed out from the soldiers' bodies, turning scarlet and directly merging into the Vermilion Bird battle banner floating in the sky!
Rumble!
A thousand zhang Vermilion Bird condensed, its wings spread, the void exploding. A mountain peak, a thousand zhang tall and covering an area of over dozens of li, was directly blown apart. The shattered rocks were refined into lava by the Southern Bright Fire, creating a volcanic eruption that swept outwards!
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The general leading the forty thousand soldiers was suddenly drawn by the flames in the sky. He saw the Vermilion Bird spread its wings, and the thousand zhang mountain peak around it turned into countless lava that splashed down.
At this moment, many soldiers had no idea what was happening. They looked at the sky filled with flames and splashing lava!
"Enemy attack!!"
"Defense!!"
"Defense!!"
The general's face changed drastically. He roared at his army and stepped into the void, holding his long saber across his chest. However, the lava was too fast.
Before the forty thousand soldiers could react, tens of thousands of them were drenched in lava and perished, leaving no trace!
"Reporting to the strategist, Hai Xing'an's forty thousand reinforcements have left the city, and General Gongsun has launched his attack!"
Fa Zheng stroked his beard. At this moment, he saw flames erupting in three different directions.
"Notify Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong, it's time to begin!"
Hai Xing'an's million-strong army had been scattered, and the defensive fortress's array had been shattered. The enemy forces were all within his grasp.
This battle!
He intended to take the right and left arms of the Divine Emperor Hai Yao, and to consume the spirit and vitality of the Haiyun Divine Dynasty. These nearly two million troops must all remain on this border.