Chapter 144: Kill! Kill! Kill!!
When the soldiers of the Divine Elephant Nation camp saw this, every one of them cursed Huaxia’s Abyss-Suppressing Army.
Unfortunately, their curses were quickly swallowed up by the roars of the countless monsters.
There were at least six or seven thousand monsters in front of them!
With such an instant impact, trying to stay inside the camp and defend it would have been pure suicide!
So the Divine Elephant Nation chose to leave the camp and meet the enemy head-on.
Several thousand soldiers leaped out of the camp and engaged the monsters in battle.
Even in that situation, one of the two Profound Rank experts still remained behind to protect the Golden Elephant.
The other one charged out of the camp.
It had to be said that the true strength of a Profound Rank expert was terrifying.
The man in sunglasses leaped into the air in a single bound, flying directly over the monster horde.
Then he came crashing down in a superhero pose. The instant his right fist struck the ground, a shockwave blasted all the surrounding monsters into the air.
The powerful gale made his clothes snap and his hair fly wildly.
Aside from lacking slow motion and background music, the whole thing looked exactly like one of those bizarre Divine Elephant Nation action films.
Then he grabbed downward with both hands.
Boom!
Two enormous iron chains were ripped straight out of the ground by him.
Clearly, these were defensive measures they had buried around the camp beforehand.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
With one savage heave of his powerful arms, the two giant chains came bursting out of the earth in succession, flinging every monster along their path into the air.
As the man in sunglasses roared, he forcibly pulled the two chains taut. Each one was dozens of meters long.
Together, they formed a temporary defensive line nearly a hundred meters across!
Every monster that came that way was either blocked or tripped.
Then the man in sunglasses exerted himself again.
Crack! Crack!
With two earth-shaking blasts, he actually tore both chains apart by force.
Each length was more than ten meters long, and he immediately began swinging them as weapons!
As he charged into the monster horde, it was as though he had entered an empty field.
But no matter how strong he was, he could only secure one section of the battlefield.
Where the monster horde crashed into the Divine Elephant Nation soldiers, the fighting was exceptionally brutal.
The monsters had come far too suddenly. The Divine Elephant Nation troops had no formation to speak of and were instantly scattered.
On top of that, their military morale was unstable and their fighting spirit had collapsed. They were simply throwing lives into the grinder!
And as if that were not bad enough, on the other side of the camp, after those two hundred or so Huaxia soldiers rushed past, they continued their sprint for quite some distance before rapidly dispersing into five-man squads.
If they had been ordinary soldiers, there would have been no guarantee that they could all make it back alive.
With only one or two people, they could never have attracted a horde of this scale.
With too many people, they could not guarantee that every single one of them would outrun the monsters, because among the monsters were some that specialized in speed. If even one person was delayed, the whole plan could fail.
But these men were all from the batch that had participated in the Supply Run Game!
They had actually earned even more points than those who played the Chase-and-Evade Game.
That was because as long as one honestly ran in the Supply Run Game, one earned points. In the Chase-and-Evade Game, by contrast, one only earned significantly more by winning.
After a whole month of ultra-long-distance weight training, plus the tempering of Body-Solidifying Pills, Qi-Gathering Pills, and diluted Corpse Dissolution Flower liquid, once they shed their loads, these men could run three times faster than a warhorse!
And that was without even needing to activate the “Berserk State” effect of the Corpse Dissolution Flower liquid.
Not long after they scattered, they regrouped at high speed once more!
But this time, they joined up with the main force.
Under Song Chuhe’s command, more than twelve hundred men advanced in scattered formations toward the other side of Camp Five!
By then, ten minutes had passed since the monster assault began.
More than half the monsters were already dead or wounded.
The Divine Elephant Nation camp had also lost half its men, and had long since sent urgent requests for reinforcements to the other camps!
The light of teleportation arrays flashed nonstop around the Golden Elephant as elephants from Camp Four carried over supporting soldiers.
They immediately began resisting the charge of Huaxia’s Abyss-Suppressing Army.
Trying to withstand that without Profound Rank experts was sheer fantasy to begin with, and Huaxia had three Profound Rank experts on its side!
Duan Yuwen rose into the air and flew above the wall.
In his hand he held a ruler.
He held it horizontally before him as True Essence flooded into it from his right hand. Boundless True Qi gathered with a roar, and in the blink of an eye, his right hand blazed as brilliantly as the sun.
Then he flicked a finger.
Twang! Hum-hum-hum-hum!
The iron ruler in his hand gave off a vibrating hum that spread from near to far, striking the wall of Camp Five.
Boom!!
The very space at that point twisted violently, spreading along the walls to both sides like a tidal wave!
Wherever it passed, the wall shattered inch by inch like torn paper.
In the blink of an eye, hundreds of meters of wall, together with the buildings attached to it, together with the people on those buildings...were wiped to dust.
There was no longer any obstacle before Huaxia’s Abyss-Suppressing Army. They surged into Camp Five like a crushing avalanche.
And then came the slaughter.
Even without the Three Profounds, Huaxia’s soldiers, at the height of their ferocity, cut down these panic-stricken Divine Elephant Nation troops like chickens and dogs.
Especially the soldiers who had just arrived as reinforcements from Camp Four.
They had assumed that after arriving, they would still have time to climb the walls and assess the battle.
Who would have guessed that the instant they opened their eyes, a steel blade would already be cleaving down at their heads!
The enemy was already right in front of them.
Still, the Divine Elephant Nation quickly received support from two more Profound Rank officers.
They managed to barely stabilize the situation.
Of course, that so-called stabilization only existed because Song Chuhe allowed it to.
Whether it was the Three Profounds or the Huaxia soldiers, all of them remembered the primary purpose of this battle.
Kill people!
Do not kill elephants!
Especially not that Golden Elephant. The Divine Elephant Nation believed Huaxia’s goal was to kill it.
What they did not know was that Song Chuhe’s true aim was to fix the point and slaughter the reinforcements.
The Three Profounds tied down the enemy’s Profound Rank experts.
Meanwhile, the Abyss-Suppressing Army carried out flexible street fighting, slaughtering Divine Elephant Nation soldiers.
When they were killing too quickly, they deliberately slowed down.
The point was to draw a constant stream of Divine Elephant Nation reinforcements.
If too many arrived, then the slaughter would speed up again.
It kept the Divine Elephant Nation trapped in the illusion that, with just a little more effort, they might turn the battle around.
In just over twenty minutes, the Divine Elephant Nation had already suffered nearly six thousand casualties, not counting the noncombatants caught in the aftermath.
In other words, the fighting strength of Camp Five had already been wiped out.
After the Divine Elephant Nation finished off the monsters, the officer in sunglasses rushed over to reinforce the battlefront. Duan Yuwen and Qu He even joined forces to kill one of the enemy’s Profound Rank experts.
That brought the balance of Profound Rank experts back into equilibrium once more.
The Divine Elephant Nation still had a little over a thousand soldiers struggling to hold on.
At the same time, Camp Four.
Camp Four had already been one of the larger camps to begin with, and in recent days its troop count had grown to six thousand.
Now only four thousand remained.
But urgent pleas for aid from Camp Five kept pouring in like snowflakes.
Camp Four had descended into chaos as well.
“Damn it! How does Huaxia have this much combat power? Weren’t they only supposed to have one thousand men?”
“What do we do? Do we continue sending reinforcements?”
“Of course we do!”
“The real key is still the clash of Profound Rank combat power. Huaxia has three of them!”
“Our Camp Four still has two. If we send them both over now, we can reverse the battle instantly.”
“Damn it!”
Just as the group argued fiercely, the two Profound Rank experts both sensed something at once.
They cursed and quickly ran outside.
Everything was eerily similar to Camp Five.
An ominous white cloud floated above the camp, and Li Mu’s head popped out from it.
With a grin, Li Mu waved at the people below, shaping two words silently with his lips:
“Heavenly Might.”
Boom!
A terrifying force crashed down from the sky.
Its target was the teleportation zone, where troops were being rapidly assembled. More than a hundred soldiers and over twenty elephants died on the spot!
And yet, the Golden Elephant still was not hit.
“AHHH!!!”
One of the Profound Rank experts roared in fury. He crouched and launched himself into the air like a cannonball.
His fist thrust forward, striking a pose like Superman.
Li Mu was instantly startled.
Because he felt as though he had actually been locked onto. He had frozen for an instant, and by then dodging properly was already difficult.
He could only instantly dismiss the Somersault Cloud, activate Bronze Head and Iron Arms, and at the same time use Transformation Technique to become a mosquito.
Fortunately, while the Profound Rank expert was overwhelmingly powerful, he lacked fine control.
He brushed right past Li Mu in mosquito form, and because he had no foothold in midair, he quickly fell back down.
Li Mu flipped away, summoned the Somersault Cloud again, and patted his chest.
Then he stomped on the gas and shot away from the camp.
The two Profound Rank experts were so furious they gritted their teeth and stamped their feet, but there was no way they could catch Li Mu.
Li Mu’s method of fighting was simply too shameless. He was like a bomber, flying around dropping bombs wherever he pleased, then leaving as soon as he was done, slippery as an eel!
Even so, Li Mu was a little shaken afterward.
This kind of bombing run was exhilarating, but if he ran into a Profound Rank expert with quick enough reactions, it could become dangerous.
And he was also benefiting from the fact that these camps had no large-scale defensive formation.
So Li Mu decided to be more cautious.
When nearing a camp, he would first transform into a mosquito and slowly approach, so his aura would not be exposed.
The moment he cast Heavenly Might, he would turn and leave immediately.
No looking back at the explosion!
What followed was nothing less than a nightmare for the Divine Elephant Nation.
That very night, Camp Five suffered a total loss of 8,600 troops!
That was because the Profound Rank experts from Camp Three and Camp Two had both come to reinforce it.
They had originally intended to wipe out every last soldier of Huaxia’s Abyss-Suppressing Army in one stroke.
Instead, Huaxia’s Abyss-Suppressing Army scattered instantly!
They were perfectly trained, obeyed orders instantly, and retreated without the slightest hesitation or wasted movement.
And the key was that the Abyss-Suppressing Army fled at astonishing speed as well.
There was not even any clear target to pursue.
The Divine Elephant Nation assumed Huaxia’s attack was over.
Who would have thought that around four in the morning, Li Mu would appear at Camp Two and drop another Heavenly Might, once again targeting ordinary elephants.
While Camp Two was raging in fury, Camp Four was lured into another massive monster assault by the two hundred-man “Running Men” squad of Huaxia, this time with a horde numbering as high as eight thousand!
When they assumed the Abyss-Suppressing Army’s target this time was Camp Four and hurriedly shifted forces there, Song Chuhe used the exact same method again: first lure monsters in, then smash the walls, then strike from both sides and crush Camp Two.
This time, however, he had only two Profound Rank experts and one thousand Tiger Roar Camp soldiers.
Even so, Camp Two fell instantly.
Then, just as Camp Three was at its weakest, Li Mu and Duan Yuwen descended suddenly upon it and assassinated its Golden Elephant!
With that, the chain of camp-to-camp teleportation was severed right in the middle.
Camp Three could still leave, but no additional reinforcements could be teleported into it.
Camp One and Camp Three both rushed to support Camp Two.
But by then, Song Chuhe had already withdrawn.
Because Li Mu kept flying around and killing ordinary elephants, the speed of reinforcement between the camps was drastically slowed.
Even the Golden Elephants depended on ordinary elephants to move between camps.
Song Chuhe was not trying to maximize enemy casualties.
His highest principle was simply that Tiger Roar Camp’s soldiers must not die.
At eleven in the morning, Song Chuhe used a pincer assault to annihilate the 3,700 defending troops of Camp Three, along with its two Profound Rank experts, after it had lost outside support.
Then he rested there.
Before the next wave of reinforcements could arrive, his forces scattered once more. At three-thirty in the afternoon, they struck again in a pincer attack, this time ambushing Camp Four, which had the fewest troops left.
With Li Mu scouting from the Somersault Cloud, Song Chuhe could always find the weakest point in the enemy’s defenses.
Pincer attack, fix the point and slaughter the reinforcements; when the enemy’s supporting strength began to match the Tiger Roar force, they withdrew immediately!
Then they scattered, regrouped, chose the next weak target, and repeated the cycle.
At its core, there was really only one principle behind the entire strategy.
Overwhelming superiority!
Create an overwhelming advantage, kill until that advantage no longer exists, withdraw decisively, then create overwhelming superiority again...