Chapter 642 – Counterattack
Translated by: Berrrybunz
Edited by: TN and DeAndreR
Bang!
Another shop was demolished into pieces. All of the soldiers inside already had experience with it, and thus before the energy barrier had shattered, they had retreated. But still, 10 of the soldiers were unable to make it, and were buried alive.
Many of the shops were in pieces, and the remaining few were left swaying from the explosions. All these remaining shops belonged to the large family businesses on Gold Street. For example Xu Ji Worldwide Commerce, their business were always flourishing, and the goods inside the shop were expensive, and thus the structure of the shop was not sloppy.
He Ying sneered sinisterly, his heart was brimming with a crushing delight, which was stronger than the humiliation he had suffered in Moon Manor. As one after another of the shops were being shattered into pieces, it made him extremely excited. ~All of you ants, go and die, all of you must die!~
“Go up!”
“Pressure them down!”
“Trample this street for me!”
He Ying’s roar sounded out in the vicinity.
The frigates and soldiers were high on adrenaline, fighting with all their might. Until now, the opponents had not even attacked once. It was said that there were two armies below that were recently purchased. They had never heard of armies that could be bought. In the entire 2nd Army, they were brimming with disdain and disgust towards such an enemy.
The situation of the battle was going along with their conjecture.
~In the face of absolute power, the enemy below are just a bunch of ants.~
~To fight ants, why the need for tactics? Just crush them. Crushing them is enough!~
Seeing the approaching enemies, and a frigate that was less than a 100m away from them, Xie Yu An could even see the enemies on the frigates pointing their middle fingers and laughing. The dense mass of frigates and crowd circled around them.
~We have waited for so long, and the time has finally come….~
~It is finally time for all of you to taste our power!~
Xie Yu An used all the energy in his body and roared: “ATTACK!”
The Swift Army who were long prepared, poured all of their rage out. Countless dazzling light pillars shot up into the sky like light bullets, the densely packed rain of swords shot out without warning towards the densely packed enemies.
The change was too sudden.
Everyone, including He Ying thought that the enemies had lost the power to resist, and did not expect for such a terrifying sneak attack.
At the start they were still extremely cautious, since their vanguard unit was destroyed, causing He Ying to be extremely careful. But with the overwhelming advantage, and the anger from the humiliation, he had finally lost his cautiousness, wanting to trample on all the ants. The soldiers of the 2nd Army were a group of arrogant soldiers, the entire Gold Street was mostly destroyed by them, and the enemies were still hiding in their shells, so they started to look down on the enemy. The seemingly battle, was just a performance, a beautiful performance in White Sands City.
Some of the frigates had even removed their energy barriers, showing off their bravery.
And when the powerful attack suddenly came out, they were completely stupefied.
Bang bang bang!
A few of the lower flying frigates were immediately engulfed by fire, resulting in intense explosions. Countless planks and broken ship parts flew everywhere and the dense sword lights brought forth hissing sounds, which filled up the entire sky. Under the intense attacks, all the martial artists who were flying by themselves were immediately pierced by the swords, blood splattering everywhere, the sounds of their screams drowned by the roars of the sword lights.
Every soldier of the Swift Army roared fanatically, their ears could not hear anything else but their screams. They did not hold back in forcing the energy from their bodies into the warship weapons. All of the warship weapons were installed into the formation, and had become extremely powerful killing machines.
They used to be a bronze army in a small area, no matter how strict their daily trainings were, they had never gone through a real war. In front of any silver grade army, they had no power to fight. Even the intense attacks from their enemies had made most of them choke with fear.
If not for them having no way to retreat, if not for the daily strict trainings under Tang Chou that made their techniques instinctive, if not for their deep respect to their master and their close relationships, they would had crumbled earlier.
But at the moment, when Xie Yu An gave the order to attack, all of their fears transformed into fanatical battle intent.
~Either you die, or I perish!~
Boom!
Explosions formed fire in the formation, as one of the warship weapons was unable to handle the immense pressure and thus exploded, the explosion affected the soldiers inside, but luckily the degree of the explosion was not too powerful, and thus the soldiers were not injured. But after losing their weapon, the soldiers were at a loss, they had not exited out of their fanatical battle state.
Boom boom boom!
Explosions continued to ring out from the sky, as regiment after regiments of fires and light auras lit up the sky.
Tang Chou looked at Xie Yu An, Xie Yu An who was usually calm and peaceful was at the moment looking extremely deranged, but Tang Chou did not mock him at all, but instead had a look of appreciation.
XIe Yu An was a leader with outstanding talent, Tang Chou did not understand how an outstanding leader would end up being in an army that could be bought. Comparing the standard of leadership, Xie Yu An was many more times stronger than Aya.
Xie Yu An had arranged the formations extremely well, even Tang Chou who was a fussy person could not find anything wrong with it. Even with the tight timeframe, Xie Yu An had meticulously prepared the formation well. He did not directly use the shops as the main parts of the formations, but the warehouses beneath the shops, and the shops on the surface as a front.
All of these underground warehouses, hidden rooms, were the most important place for every family businesses, as they were used to store precious goods.
The shops on the surface were smashed into pieces, but the main part of the formations did not suffer many losses. And the warship weapons were positioned at even more stringent locations, making the formation so tight that no water could leak in. It was through meticulous planning and precision, that the light pillars, light bullets, and light swords in the sky interweaved to form an inescapable large net, a true death net.
Other than that, what Tang Chou admired the most was Xie Yu An’s steadiness.
To ensure that their enemies did not realise their true intentions, the fake formations on the surface of the ground had soldiers garrisoned in them. The intense offense launched by the 2nd Army caused the soldiers on the surface to die, but Xie Yu An maintained his calm, and waited for the best opportunity to arrive.
His adjutant had urged him to execute the plan many times, but Xie Yu An remained persistent and did not sway.
An outstanding leader!
Tang Chou remained expressionless, the individual strength of the Swift Army soldiers were not strong, there were too few Silver Saints in the unit, and thus they could not sustain the fervent and intense attack for too long.
But, Xie Yu An had performed far better than he anticipated, and the battle after that, would belong to him.
Tang Chou’s eyes flashed with a glint of cold, the Skull Unit was already gathered and prepared for their counterattack.
Within his expectations, in a short span of 5 minutes, the offense launched by the Swift Army quickly dwindled down. The soldiers of the Swift Army were still lacking in experience, and did not know how to sustain in a long drawn battle. And the temporary defensive formations could not compare to the frigates.
Frigates needed an energy supply, and thus soldiers were required to calculate and plan how much energy was left aside for offense, but the warship weapons installed in the formations had depleted all of their energy.
But in the short span of 5 minutes, the result was remarkable.
The frigates in the air were swept clean, as the frigates were big in volume, upon being struck by the enemies, they were swept clean. As for the soldiers in the sky, a third of them were killed.
The destroyed frigates had earned the soldiers a lot of time, as they had attracted the most damage.
He Ying stared at the battlefield blankly, he never thought that the situation would suddenly become like that. Out of his 2nd Army, he had lost almost half of them, and this loss had never happened before.
~Impossible…..~
He Ying could not believe his eyes, ~I was caught in a trap?~
He looked at the street that resembled ruins blankly, his mind was buzzing, he was actually bitten by the ants!
He did not notice that a group had suddenly rushed out.
After resting, the Skull Unit had recovered their fighting ability, with Aya personally leading at the front. They had formed groups of 15, like many sharp poisonous thorns, their targets were the soldiers of the 2nd Army in the sky who were at a loss.
The figures swept past his vision, causing He Ying to be startled and regain his senses.
When he saw the situation clearly, his blood boiled straight up to his face.
~These ants actually dare to assault me!~
~They actually have the gall to!~
~An army for hire actually has the gall to attack a silver army…..~
He Ying had never felt such humiliation in his life, they were the 2nd Army, other than Suo Bi in the White Sands Continent, no one was stronger than him!
~The 2nd Army are elites!~
~An army for hire actually dares to raise their weapons at us?~
He Ying was so angry that he was trembling: “Kill them all!”
The 2nd Army soldiers all regained their senses, all of them flew into a rage, their eyes turned red, and without hesitation they rushed towards their enemies, they wanted to slash all of them to pieces.
But who knew that when the army for hire saw that the situation was bad, they started to turn and run.
~Run? Where are they running to?~
The 2nd Army soldiers chased after their enemies frantically, all of their chests holding onto flames of rage. They were experienced soldiers, and immediately knew that the soldiers in the formations had completely exhausted their energy, so as long as they got rid of all the runners, they would win!
No, at this time, no one was thinking about winning, they just wanted to slaughter, only by slaughtering their enemies would they appease the rage in their chests.
He Ying felt the same way to, seeing his own soldiers chasing after the enemies like ravenous tigers and wolves, The killing intent in He Ying’s mind soared.
In the blink of an eye, He Ying suddenly realised that all around him, it was empty.
He lowered his head to look, his own soldiers had chased to a great distance.
Not good!
He Ying’s face flushed white, all around him, there were only 20 bodyguards!
“Gather….”
He Ying’s anxious scream had not finished, when the street beneath him suddenly produced cracks like a spiderweb.
The spiderweb ground suddenly split opened.
The entire sky was filled with dust, stones flew out like rain, a warship suddenly broke out through the ground.