467 Sacrificing the Knight to Protect the King (1/2)

The entire harbor was a total mess.

Wang Feng led the Divine Martial Guards. They stepped onto the wooden boards the placed Flying Cloud placed down and disembarked first.

Jiaozhou Harbor was similar to Beihai Harbor in that both the military and commoners used it. The Jade Buddha County Navy Unit still had two hundred more soldiers guarding the camp.

Only a bunch of fishers remained.

Ouyang Shuo had instructed his troops to not act as mindless killing machines. Unless they really had no choice, they would not massacre defenseless people.

Hence, the moment the Divine Martial Guards disembarked, they charged straight for the navy camp.

Navy soldiers still had combat strength on land. The two squadrons on this trip all disembarked, apart from a portion left behind in the harbor.

If not, solely relying on the Divine Martial Guards, they would not be able to take down Jade Buddha County.

When the two sides fought the naval battle, the troops in the units had already gathered up. Facing the fierce enemy troops, the major wanted to retreat into the city, but he did not dare to do so.

Escaping from battle was a death crime.

Of course, even if they stayed, only slaughter awaited them. In front of the Divine Martial Guards, they were defenseless. After clearing out the soldiers at the harbor, the entire squadron could finally disembark.

The two navy squadrons, apart from those guarding the harbor, could gather into eighteen thousand men to fight on the land.

In addition to the Divine Martial Guards, the had over twenty thousand soldiers. After a short rest, they charged straight for Jade Buddha County.

The current Jade Buddha County was in a state of high alert, the city gates tightly shut. The city protection forces were waiting in formation on the city walls. If they were purely a navy squadron, they really could not do anything to the county, unless they had cannons.

Shanhai City had made preparations for this battle for a long time, so how could they lack arrangements? The enemy waited, only to see arrow towers and scaling ladders taken down from the ships and assembled together.

The hundred odd movable arrow turrets were the key to this battle.

Apart from the sword-shield soldiers, they navy forces were mainly archers.

Thanks to the help of the movable arrow turrets, they suppressed the firepower of the defending troops. The Divine Martial Guards acted as the front unit, using the scaling ladders to climb up the city wall in less than an hour.

Of the Jade Buddha County city protection division, Hefu had taken away five thousand of the elites, so only around eight thousand men remained. Facing a sieging force of around twenty thousand, they should not feel so pressured.

Unfortunately, the opponent that they faced were the Divine Martial Guards, who had taken down the Jiangdong Warriors. Each and every one of them could take on ten alone.

This bunch of warriors trained in hell. The moment they rushed up, the outcome was already predictable.

At 11 AM, the Divine Martial Guards had completely occupied the city wall.

They had broken the defences of Jade Buddha County.

After taking down the county, Zhao Kuo followed Ouyang Shuo’s instructions and did not destroy the stone steele. Instead, he arranged for five hundred Divine Martial Guards to defend the teleportation formation.

In the surroundings, two thousand archers waited.

If Hefu dared to teleport back to try and help, before he even walked out of the formation, arrows would rain on his troops.

Apart from that, Zhao Kuo also arranged for ten thousand soldiers to control the Jade Buddha County city gates, arrow towers, treasury, granary, and other important areas.

The entire county had now fallen under their control.

Meanwhile, one thousand Divine Martial Guards led the remaining soldiers out of the city to destroy the subsidiary territories of Jade Buddha County; they swept the entire territory.

When Jade Buddha County was attacked, Hefu who was thousands of miles away had already received the notification.

At that moment, his face turned ashen white.

His first reaction was to lead his troops back to help out.

He was about to look for Di Qing, but he stopped prior to walking out of the room.

He could not go.

The moment he went back, the entire alliance army would fall apart.

The worst part was that Yun An County was just a territory that Shanhai City had occupied before. As such, the place did not have a teleportation formation. He needed to travel back to return through teleportation.

This was where Baiqi’s genius showed.

When the alliance army came down south, Baiqi had started to consolidate their defenses. He had given up territories they had taken over, making the main camp as the core area to defend.

With that, Baiqi created a situation where the enemy could not directly teleport their troops without alerting the Shanhai City Army. If they teleported reinforcements to the back, the Military Intelligence Division would definitely find out.

Now, the question that remained was whether the alliance army had the courage to cut off all means of retreat and charge ahead.

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When Hefu summoned Di Qing, the latter felt a little confused.

After the probing attack in the morning, Di Qing had basically confirmed that the enemy main base, Cangcheng County, was the weakest point.

Baiqi had truly played it well.

Unfortunately Di Qing did not fall for it. The prestige of the Asura did not deter or scare him.

Di Qing was already planning to adjust the forces and focus their attack on Cangcheng County. The moment it fell, the enemy would face imminent defeat.

He was highly confident about this battle.

As a result of his careful nature, he would not give the enemy any way back into this.

The moment he discerned the enemy's weakness, he would go all in and destroy them before they could react.

Even the Asura, without soldiers under his control, was like a lion without claws.