Boiling Beast Bloodline-Chapter 1264 - 349: Imam’s Treasure

At that time, Kalimantan City’s regular army actually consisted of only nine "Honglu" which means tents that house a thousand soldiers each, so nine Honglus make up nine thousand Mulanese warriors; eight thousand of these were distributed to defend the four city walls, and a thousand guarded the Caliph Royal City; there were also over a hundred "Hamburgs" spread across the four district areas north, south, east, and west, comprising five thousand official Bounty Hunters. The function of these Hamburgs was similar to the Bimon city defense police camps, with the Bounty Hunters specializing in apprehending thieves for maintaining order.

The strength of Kalimantan City’s defenses depended critically on who the Flying Camel Army and General Rommel were up against. If the opponent was formidable, General Rommel would increase troop allocations, reducing the defensive force in Kalimantan City.

Historically, the lowest number ever recorded was four thousand warriors left in the city; however, no mishaps occurred—General Rommel had cleared the area of thieves and small kingdoms surrounding Kalimantan City within ten years. The remaining troops were more about maintaining order and show than actually defending Kalimantan City.

This time, on the expedition to Maerhan Royal Capital, either the Maerhan people were fiercely brave, or General Rommel had to take more troops away for other reasons. Anyway, the four hundred sixty-six turquoise airmen now had no match; each carrying at least one oil melon, they were used for bombing the merchant convoys approaching Kalimantan City and most were deployed to cleanse the city walls. The eight thousand city-defense forces gave up all hope amid gigantic flames and suicidal explosions. Even those lucky enough to escape were terrified out of their wits, no longer possessing the capability to snipe at disturbances within the city—this was when a ground troop force, under the cover of three Mechanical Gao Cen, charged straight in, their spearheads aimed at the last remaining troops on the city wall!

Caliph Royal City had a mere thousand soldiers! Just a thousand men!

The number of imams in the court was not small, amounting to twenty-five, with the highest-ranking Imam reaching the level of Master Mage. Yet Master Puskas needed only one Forbidden Magic Domain to disable all the abilities of the imams.

When magic ceased to work and the city gates were also breached, a Mulan Imam proved no more useful than a strong, dumb ogre; although today there was no support from air forces or cavalry, the even ratio of soldiers to brave Summer Palace Warriors was enough to handle the situation.

The tactical play of the turquoise fighters often left much to be desired. This time it was still the stout, hippo poet with a kite-shaped heavy shield at the forefront, the wings consisting of outstanding warriors capable of going Berserk, with long-range fighters like the Panta Warriors and Golden Ring Warriors in the middle. The only change was the distribution of five extremely lethal Birdwing Crossbow men at the front line.

They charged at opponents in a swarm, with the frontline shield bearers simply covering, allowing the Birdwing Crossbow’s Serrated Crescent Blades, angular spears, and Kuerke Flying Blades to clear a path. The battle configuration was simple and direct.

General Pan had been holding back for a long time and, leading the charge, he blasted a bloody path through the battlefield.

Originially, there were no paths on the battlefield, but as turquoise soldiers trod more, paths were formed.

For this warrior band of the Summer Palace Guard, academy-trained General Reyes had once witnessed their performance in person and gave what seemed a fair assessment—Summer Palace Warriors liked to break through from a fixed point in a swarm, disrupting the enemy’s balance, then splitting and inserting themselves, quickly dissecting their opponents. Not afraid to disrupt formations—{PS: In fact, there really was no formal organization.} they then stretched horizontally and closed in to surround their opponents; these Beamon warriors acted brazenly and struck brutally. As heavy infantry, their progress was quick as professional thieves. Leveraging their height and strength, well-armored and well-equipped, and with straightforward tactical objectives that everyone understood, they were fiercely unstoppable and difficult to confront on the frontline.

This single-point breakthrough tactic was not actually very advanced; the Bimon Army had adopted this approach in the early days. There was a clear way across the Pan Continent to handle such forces, even rookie commanders were aware of it—manage to withstand the sharpest impact at the wave’s front, assault both flanks to divide them, then use long-range firepower to encircle and annihilate the unit. This move wouldn’t obliterate them immediately, but it would at least trap them, rendering them immobile.

Yet to this day, the turquoise opponents, good or bad, have faced many, yet none have managed to withstand their advance—who could stop them? The Birdwing Crossbow was king of armor-piercing, with unmatched linear destructive power within a hundred steps; the maglev Crown Thorns Armor was of astounding thickness, enough to staunchly face heavy dragon lances. With such prerequisites, even the most elegant counterattack tactics were in vain.

Indeed, everyone had underestimated this seemingly monotonous tactic. Turquoise soldiers lacked long-range mobility, but their mid-range charge was absolutely like thunderous prisons. This succinct tactical arrangement, akin to the shock of Shaman of Divine Songs, evolved from a rookie to a veteran, step by step. In the basic framework, the first wave of attack by the Summer Palace Guard was supposed to be the air troop squadrons leading the way, first bombing the opponent’s formation, then alternating infantries and Mechanical Gao Cen for clustered breakthroughs, with the flanks of Heavy Cavalry keeping pace, sweeping across the open ground in a tri-winged assault, striking the final blow.

In the battle at Yale Oasis, all these auras were overwhelmed by the vast expanse of Magical Power. Even General Reyes didn’t realize that at that time, an Antelope Warriors detachment using sky-frogging tactics launched an attack from behind the Mulanese, utterly crushing these warriors.