Having children earns benefit, start competing for dominance in the world by marrying a wife-Chapter 586 - 348: Lu Chen, Driven by the Times_1

Just as Zhan Hong inwardly mocked the Cloud City defenders for not recognizing a good situation, he soon discovered that the truly naïve one was himself.

At that moment, he was about to issue instructions to a messenger soldier, when suddenly, an iron ball flew down from the sky. Zhan Hong, unimpressed, drew his sword and slashed at it, sending a burst of Sword Qi directly towards the iron ball in the air.

However, just as the Sword Qi was about to make contact with the iron ball, it exploded instantaneously.

Zhan Hong and Xu Xingwen realized something was wrong in a flash.

Xu Xingwen shouted loudly, "Not good!"

At that moment, both grandmasters simultaneously used Protective Gang Qi.

After the iron ball exploded, countless pieces of iron flew out, and nearly all the soldiers around them, except for Xu Xingwen and Zhan Hong, were either wounded or killed by the blast.

Seeing this bloody scene, Zhan Hong was completely stunned. freёnovelkiss.com

What kind of weapon was this?

How could it be so powerful?

There were several Ninth Grade martial artists by his side, and they were all killed by the explosion. Just a moment ago, if they hadn't used their Protective Gang Qi, they probably would have been seriously injured as well.

Even as a grandmaster, Zhan Hong was shaken by the sight of the explosion.

After regaining his composure, his face darkened and his brows furrowed.

What exactly was that iron ball! How could its power be so tremendous!

They had never seen such a weapon before.

At this point, Xu Xingwen said to Zhan Hong, "General Zhan, something doesn't seem right!"

No sooner had Xu Xingwen finished speaking when several more shells dropped from the sky. Zhan Hong quickly swung his sword, attempting to cut down the shells, but as soon as his Sword Qi made contact with the shells, they exploded on impact.

Even though the shells were quite far from the camp this time, the fragments from the explosions still killed and wounded many soldiers on the ground.

Seeing this, the expressions on Zhan Hong and Xu Xingwen's faces turned even uglier. They hadn't expected that after being destroyed, these iron balls could still unleash such terrifying power.

No, they could not just sit around waiting to die. If the North Country had a vast number of such iron balls, then perhaps before they had a chance to retaliate, their army of three hundred thousand would have been almost entirely obliterated by the blasts.

Immediately, Zhan Hong and Xu Xingwen, risking the bombardment, began to assemble soldiers for a retreat.

With the North Country wielding such terrifying weapons, it was absolutely impossible to confront them head-on at this time.

Under the artillery barrage, Great Wu's soldiers quickly assembled and retreated in several groups. Since heavy artillery has a limited range, the soldiers of Great Wu retreated quickly. Before Song Xuelin and his troops could attack, Great Wu's soldiers had abandoned the camp and had run far off into the distance.

Dongmen Feiyue immediately led his soldiers forward to attack, but Zhan Hong left tens of thousands of men in position for a counter-ambush. Fortunately, Dongmen Feiyue's troops brought some light cannons, which quickly routed the tens of thousands of Zhan Hong's soldiers left behind. However, those tens of thousands had bought significant time for the main forces of Great Wu to retreat.

In the darkness of night, looking at the scattered torches nearby, Song Xuelin approached Dongmen Feiyue and said, "It's no wonder Great Wu's main force is formidable; such quick responsiveness is not simple. I didn't expect their soldiers to be able to react even at this late hour."

Dongmen Feiyue frowned and then asked, "Are we pursuing them?"

Song Xuelin replied, "There's no need to chase. The heavy artillery can't keep up, and Great Wu's three hundred thousand are elite. Even if we caught up, we would suffer heavy losses. The Prince only told us to hold them off, not to take the initiative to attack."

Although they also wanted to annihilate Great Wu's main force and earn military merits, their mission was not to launch a counterattack. Moreover, their two hundred thousand-strong army had just been brought over from the polar regions. If they incurred heavy losses in this battle, it would instead leave a bad impression with the North Prince.

After hearing Song Xuelin's words, Dongmen Feiyue did not order his soldiers to continue the pursuit. He promptly led his troops to retreat and begin clearing the scattered Great Wu soldiers.

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By dawn, when the sky was gloomily bright, the soldiers of North Country were still clearing up the spoils of war in the campsite of Great Wu's army from last night.

The so-called spoils of war comprised food supplies and weapons of Great Wu. If this were one or two years ago, these items would be somewhat useful to North Country, but now that North Country had obtained firearms as a significant weapon, Great Wu's armaments were basically of little use to them.

At this time, a soldier approached Dongmen Feiyue and Song Xuelin and reported, "General Song, General Dongmen, last night we eliminated about eighty thousand of the enemy forces and captured more than twenty thousand prisoners!"

Upon hearing this, Dongmen Feiyue's expression turned somewhat unsightly, and he said with furrowed brows, "Unexpectedly, even with the help of firearms, we let nearly two hundred thousand Great Wu soldiers escape. I'm afraid that won't be easy to explain to the great king."

After all, this was their first battle since arriving in North Country, and they had let the enemy escape. This made Dongmen Feiyue feel somewhat uneasy, fearing that their king would think them incompetent.

Just then, from a distance, a soldier with a small flag on his back riding a horse galloped towards them. Arriving in front of them, the soldier dismounted and handed a message container to Song Xuelin.

"The king's military order!"

Hearing this, Song Xuelin quickly took the message container from the Red Ribbon Messenger, opened it, and took out the military order for a quick glance.

Impatiently, Dongmen Feiyue asked, "What are the king's orders? Are we launching a counterattack?"