World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 653 - 326: The Linhai Army is annihilated! Save Turing Si!

Chapter 653: 326: The Linhai Army is annihilated! Save Turing Si!

People are always filled with fear toward the unknown.

The limited number of explosive sacks that just five Griffin Beasts could drop was quite small, but the resulting terror was immensely astonishing.

As the southern gateway of Linhai City, Nanlin Fort’s fifteen thousand Samurai, densely packed, guarded every corner of the castle.

Countless bows, giant crossbows, and trebuchets were armed to the teeth.

If a genuine assault were to occur, as Gui Qinqu said, it might take days and nights to possibly capture it.

The Fenglei Fort Defense Line defended by Nai’er was the same, with twenty-five thousand troops, and an astronomical number of defensive fortifications, they could at least withstand Zhi Wei’s army of hundreds of thousands for several days.

And now, Nanlin Fort faced the same situation; twenty-five thousand Cavalry attacking fifteen thousand defenders, almost without siege equipment, might end up battered and bloodied and still be unable to breach the defenses.

But now, with these rounds of explosive sacks being thrown.

The earth-shattering explosions caused the defending soldiers on the city walls to shrink back, afraid to move.

Only after two rounds of explosive air raids did Gui Qinqu remember that they could shoot the Griffin Beasts with arrows.

"Shoot toward the sky, shoot toward the sky..."

At Gui Qinqu’s command, thousands of Samurai braved themselves and shot arrows at the Griffins in the sky.

"Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh..."

The rainfall of arrows was dense, but they lost momentum at less than two hundred meters in the air and began to fall back down.

Meanwhile, the Griffins were flying well above three to four hundred meters—they weren’t aiming for precision strikes; as long as the explosives were dropped over the heads of the castle’s defenders, that was enough.

In this way, the five Griffin Beasts continued their rounds of air raids.

In just over an hour, they dropped more than a hundred thousand catties of explosive sacks.

The suffering defenders of Linhai City were completely in a state of passive beating.

"Boom..."

Suddenly, a thunderous explosion rocked Nanlin Fort, the ground trembled, and a fireball rose with a mushroom cloud.

At least a thousand soldiers were instantly blown to pieces.

As it turned out, one of the explosive sacks had collapsed the fish oil warehouse within Nanlin Fort, instantly detonating the over three hundred thousand catties of fish oil stored inside, an explosion more powerful than dozens of tons of explosives.

This fish oil had originally been stored in an underground warehouse, but because it was conveniently transported for defense purposes, it had been kept in an above-ground storehouse and thus was hit and ignited.

The earth-shaking explosion was like an enormous force tearing the middle of the castle apart, a large section of the center of Nanlin Fort’s hundreds of acres of ground collapsed.

The fish oil turned into flames that blazed everywhere.

"Add fuel to the fire, drop oil barrels," commanded Suo Lun.

Immediately, the five Griffin Beasts kept bombing Nanlin Fort with barrels of oil, one after another.

"Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh..."

Countless barrels of oil smashed down.

The entire Nanlin Fort was ablaze, turning the entire sky red, as bright as daylight.

Inside the fortress, countless screams and roars could be heard.

Many of Linhai City’s defenders began to desperately fight flames, flee, completely unable to hold their positions.

"Breach the gate..." ordered Suo Lun.

Instantly, a team of a thousand people with thick shields covered a giant explosive sack as it was brought to the main gate of the fort.

"Retreat..."

They successfully buried the huge explosive sack under the gate and then the army withdrew.

"Ignite..."

Suo Lun lit a rocket, closed his eyes, and fired an arrow directly igniting the vast explosive sack.

"Boom..."

Several tons of explosives detonated instantaneously in another earth-shattering explosion.

Not only was the entire castle gate completely torn away and hurled outward, but dozens of meters of the fortress’s main wall also collapsed.

Suddenly, the gates of Nanlin Fort were wide open.

"Attack..."

Following Suo Lun’s command.

Countless Samurai wielding giant swords surged through Nanlin Fort like a tidal wave.

"My husband, the nature of war has changed," said Zhen Yan Princess. "Is the secret base manufacturing this gunpowder safe enough?"

"Very safe..." Suo Lun said.

Indeed, it was very safe, as it had been completely relocated to the Barbarian Tribes’ sea area.

A team of thousands had withdrawn to a secret island in the Southern Barbarians Sea Area.

Suo Lun, looking at the Griffin Beasts constantly crisscrossing the sky, sighed, "These Griffin Beasts are truly formidable weapons; it’s a pity that there are so few of them."

They were indeed few; the entire Rage Wave Kingdom had only about twenty or so, fortunately, the Gryphon Knights were entirely under the direct control of the King. If they fell into Zhi Li’s hands for replication in Tianshui City, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Four hours later, the battle came to an end.

Linhai City’s gateway, Nanlin Fort, had completely fallen, the commander Gui Qinqu was captured, and over nine thousand of the enemy were killed, with more than five thousand captured.

From this point on, nearly the entirety of Linhai City’s fifteen thousand main force was virtually annihilated.

After extinguishing the great fire, Suo Lun’s army rested for a few hours in this damaged fortress, replenishing oil grenades, explosive sacks, and rations.

As dawn broke, they continued northwards to attack the main city of Linhai!

"Princess, Zhuang Zhixuan, City Lord Liren, along with the top experts of the Shadow Cabinet, you all shouldn’t rest tonight," said Suo Lun. "The news of Nanlin Fort’s fall will soon reach Linhai City. Gui Clan’s young master Gui Qinbi is extremely cunning; he will likely immediately flee to the sea. I want you all to ride the Gryphons at top speed to the Linhai City Lord’s residence, capture Gui Qinbi, and rescue Turing Si."

"Okay!" Zhi Yan said.

Then, Zhi Yan, Zhuang Zhixuan, Liren, and ten Shadow Cabinet experts immediately mounted the Gryphons’ backs, flapping their wings toward the main city of Linhai.

...

Indeed, just as Suo Lun had expected.

Before Nanlin Fort fell, Gui Qinqu had desperately sent out more than a dozen flying yings to deliver messages to the main city of Linhai.

Most of these flying yings were shot down, but one or two got through.