The drums that were both dull and explosive echoed again. It was the prelude of the new wave of attacks that the reformists were about to launch.
Li Yao and his team snuck in through the intense smoke and joined the army of the reformists.
Their Crystal Suits had all been disguised by Li Yao. They were riddled with holes, rust, and blood, as if they had been fighting in the mountains for more than half a month.
The identification system on the battlefield had been cracked by the two little fellows and retrieved new identities for them. Unless their Crystal Suits were opened, it would be impossible to tell who they were on the chaotic battlefield.
Li Yao, Long Yangjun, and Li Jialing were all experts in using Crystal Suits. Naturally, it was not a problem for them to wear the standard Crystal Suit of the Imperium.
It was slightly more troublesome for Li Xiaoming and Li Wenwen, but the two little fellows boasted the naturally-endowed techniques to manipulate spiritual puppets. Li Yao had carefully selected two particularly delicate Crystal Suits for the medics and inserted a lot of units that could control limbs into them. Then, they were able to keep up with the three of them.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Before the melee, the artillery positions of the two parties began to talk again.
In order to cover the charge of the infantry, the reformists exposed all their firing points without caring about the weak defense of their artillery positions and attacked the heavy cannons of the Kurfürsten without caring about the cost.
The assault warships in the sky also pressed down against the stormy anti-air firepower, searching for the heavy cannons of the Kurfürsten that were hidden deep in the mountains.
Even if they could not destroy the enemy, they would at least disrupt the bombardment of the enemy's heavy cannons so that the infantry on their side could march into the enemy's defense line as soon as possible, in case the tragedy of half a legion being annihilated by a few heavy cannons happened.
During the five minutes, at least ten thousand cannonballs drew terrifying arcs in the sky.
The density of the cannonballs was so high that many of them even crashed into each other in midair, raising colorful fireballs. The blast spread out like a storm.
The soldiers under the storm of cannonballs were still shuddering like ants in a storm despite the protection of their crystal suits.
In both the army of the reformists and the army of the Kurfürsten, most of the soldiers and the bottom-level officers were low-level Immortal Cultivators in the Refinement Stage at best. As long as one or two cannonballs hit them and exploded brutally, they would be equal to the full-strength strike of the Cultivators of Jin Dan or even the Yuanying. It was definitely not something that they could bear.
If it was light, it would shatter his internal organs and cause blood to gush out from his seven apertures.
In serious cases, the Crystal Suit would be torn apart, and broken limbs would fly everywhere. It would be a horrible death.
If they were unlucky, they would be directly vaporized at the point of impact. Not even a speck of dust would be left.
Even though Li Yao and Long Yangjun had calculated the trajectories and landing points of most of the cannonballs with their astonishing computational ability and avoided all the destructive explosions precisely, they were still blown to the side by the airwaves. Their skin was stinging, and they felt bitterness below their tongues.
Xiaoming and Wenwen followed behind Li Yao with both confusion and excitement on their faces. Their eyes that were as clear as water absorbed every detail of the hellish slaughterhouse.
The fratricide of human beings, the graceful dance of broken limbs, the mixture of blood and internal organs, the raging mist of blood that was burnt by the fire, and the screams, moans, cries, and devastating battle roars … Everything turned into very special curves in their databases that were shaping their souls and making them grow more and more like human beings, or less like human beings.
Under the cover of the assault warships and the heavy artillery positions without caring about the cost, the Crystal Suit Legion of the reformists finally marched into the frontline of the coalition army of the nobles again.
Tu, tu, tu, tu, tu!
The previously silent frontline immediately turned into a burning forest. The intersecting lines of fire formed a complicated maze of death. Countless fresh lives were lost and annihilated in the depths of the maze. Their bodies, which were surging with hot blood, fell down like weeds blown by the wind.
The first wave of troops that charged forward was beaten back, but behind them were the supervisors made of the veterans of the Deep Sea Fleet, who shattered the hope of the defeated soldiers with firepower that was a hundred times more intense, forcing them to turn around and charge at the vortex of death again.
"The firepower of the coalition army of the nobles is too fierce!"
Li Jialing was the first to lose it. His body was not wounded, but his nerves were collapsing. He was the first to shout, "But the commanders on the reformists' side are too incompetent. Do they only know how to charge forward in such a simple and violent way? What can they do except to waste the lives of their own people for nothing? What kind of commander did Blackstar the Great choose exactly? "
"It's not incompetence; it's training."
Li Yao narrowed his eyes and carefully analyzed the trajectories of the cannonballs in midair, the distribution of firepower in the defense line of the nobles' coalition army, and the movement of the siege troops of the reformists next to him. With utmost calmness beaming out of his eyes, he said, "Did you not notice that the siege troops of the reformists are mainly the regular legions of the Imperial Guards, mixed with the private troops of the local sects and nobles who surrendered?
"Except for the few elites, the regular legions of the Imperial Guards are all mobsters. The private troops of the local sects and the troops of the nobles may have some combat ability, but their cohesion and loyalty cannot be guaranteed. Such miscellaneous troops, according to the regular training methods, will not be able to be trained into elites in a year and a half.
"Blackstar the Great's greatest shortcoming is the lack of troops. Other than the Deep Sea Fleet and the Thunder Fleet, only the few elites of the Imperial Guards are capable of fighting. Not to mention occupying the countless planets in the vast sea of stars, it is barely enough to defend the entire Empyreal Terminus Sector.
"How can the most elites be harvested in the shortest amount of time? It was a bloody battle like the one in front of them. It was like raising venomous insects!
"The Imperial Guards have a rather good foundation. After all, they are members of the royal family whose surname is Wuying. However short of training resources they may have, they have a hundred times more than ordinary people. Like right now, when a hundred Imperial Guards charge forward, whether they win or lose, as long as ten of them return alive, at least eight of the ten will be bloodthirsty elites. Their performance in the next battle will certainly be both crazy and stubborn.
"I finally understand why Blackstar the Great has not uprooted the last nail even though he has controlled the entire capital. He is turning this hellish battlefield into the best 'training ground' so that the army of the Kurfürsten can polish the Imperial Guards and awaken the bloodthirst and determination that have been sealed in the Imperial Guards for five hundred years!"
Li Jialing was creeped out. "A hundred Imperial Guards charge forward, and only ten of them return alive. Is such a price acceptable?"
"Why not? You don't think that Blackstar the Great cares about his descendants, do you?"
Li Yao said, "I estimate that in Wuying Qi's eyes, those descendants are no more valuable than tens of millions of sperms. He even thinks that the idiots among them will be a waste of precious resources!
"Quality is more important than quantity. With the great war against the Kurfürsten's army around the corner, he must seize every second to train an elite troop. Besides, what I said just now was too exaggerated. Wuying Qi has the sky and the earth under his control. He can totally control the intensity of the war. The casualty rate is certainly not as unbelievable as 90%. Thirty to forty percent at best!"
Humans were not machines, at least not the people of the Federation and the Imperium. Even the most determined troops would have to quit the battle after twenty to thirty percent casualties.
However, with Wuying Qi's brutality and commanding skills, it was quite possible that he was really training his troops in such a cruel way.
Li Yao and his companions, on the other hand, had to suffer a lot. They had to summon all their spiritual energy and boost their computational ability to the maximum in order to look for the momentary gap in the impenetrable line of fire of the Kurfürsten's army. Most importantly of all, they had to keep a low profile and not let the two parties in the battle notice their weirdness. The best they could do was to consider that they were lucky enough to survive the disasters.
Otherwise, it would be rather awkward if the two parties in the battle aimed at them at the same time.
The reformists charged quite a few times but failed to break in. They found absolutely nothing except for the thousands of bodies that were twisted together with the Crystal Suit.
But it did not mean that they did not have weapons that were even more powerful.
Under the cover of a few consecutive charges, the bizarre-looking crawler crystal tanks were finally shipped to the frontline after much difficulty.
The turrets of those crystal tanks were like silver cauldrons. What they released was not fatal heat or mystic rays but soundwaves that boasted extremely powerful mental interference abilities.
"Brothers of the fake Kurfürsten's army, don't work for your masters who have lost their momentum anymore!
"Look back at the highest peak of the Netherwind Mountain behind you. When you were still trapped here and fighting like caged beasts, the sordid, shameless, and heartless nobles that you swore loyalty to and vowed to take you away with them have already left with the wealth of the people that they looted for hundreds of years!
"They would rather install more Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures or even bring a few pets on the starships than take you away with them! Please think about it carefully. Is it really worth it to work for such masters?
"Look, one starship, another starship, and a third starship! Every starship takes away the high and mighty nobles. They can run back to their nests and continue their extravagant lifestyle, but what about you? You have never enjoyed any benefits from the big nobles, and you are going to die for them?
"Wake up, brothers of the fake Kurfürsten's army, my dearest compatriots and fellow Cultivators! We firmly believe that most of you are the real Immortal Cultivators and the most loyal patriots of the Imperium of True Human Beings who have been deceived by the sinful big nobles!
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