World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 658 - 328: Gui Xingfu badly defeated! Coughing up blood!

Chapter 658: 328: Gui Xingfu badly defeated! Coughing up blood!

For Gui Xingfu, there were only two tasks.

First, declare war on Tianshui City. Second, capture Chaos Stone Island.

Afterward, Linhai City would completely withdraw from the fight, leaving the task of completely annihilating Tianshui City to Zhi Wei and the Tuling Tuo Army.

Since Suo Lun had died, the King ultimately recognized Linhai City’s declaration of war against Tianshui City, so the first step was smoothly completed.

Next was the second step, capturing Chaos Stone Island.

In Gui Xingfu’s view, this also seemed a simple matter.

Although the navy of Tianshui City refrained from battle and transformed from a maritime force to a land army, hiding within Chaos Stone Castle.

But how large was Chaos Stone Island Castle after all? Despite two years of construction, it was less than half the size of Nanlin Fort.

The castle backed onto steep cliffs, with vast flatlands in front and on both sides, providing ample space for forty-thousand troops.

The forty-thousand-strong army spread out in front of the castle, a dark mass forming a fan shape that completely surrounded it, almost as if it would drown the small fortress.

Hundreds of giant crossbows, which had been moved from warships, were orderly arrayed on the front battlefield.

According to Gui Xingfu’s prediction, it would take at most one day to completely conquer this small castle.

"Begin the battle!"

At his command, thundering war drums sounded.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh..."

In front of the castle, hundreds of giant crossbows fired simultaneously, sending arrows over three meters long out like a rain.

The terrifying range of these giant crossbows easily exceeded three hundred meters.

After two rounds of trial shots, the giant crossbow battleground was continuously adjusted.

On the left and right of the castle, Gui Xingfu’s twenty thousand troops surged forward toward the fortress like a tidal wave. The walls on both sides were so low that they didn’t even need to use ladders; they could simply climb up using hooks and ropes.

Gui Xingfu intended to besiege the tiny Chaos Stone Castle from three sides with a thunderous might.

...

On Chaos Stone Castle, Queen Yan Chuo, as the overall commander, alongside Duke Zhi Ting’s guard commander, Suo Feiyang, and Suo Mu, each led the defense of one side of the castle.

Gui Xingfu’s three-sided attack looked incredibly formidable.

On both sides of the castle, innumerable enemies swarm up like ants, whilst the formidable simultaneous shooting of the hundreds of giant crossbows at the front suppressed everyone atop the battlements so much that they could not raise their heads.

Queen Yan Chuo gave an order.

"On both sides, ready the Scorpion Catapults, prepare the explosive packs!"

With a ferocious action, hundreds of Scorpion Stone Projectors were readied, each equipped with explosive packs weighing dozens of pounds.

These Scorpion Stone Projectors were rather small, belonging to the medium and small size category, with a maximum shooting range of only just over a hundred meters.

"Archers on the left and right, ready!"

Instantly, over six thousand soldiers on both sides took up their bows and nocked their arrows!

"In the front, prepare the Super Heavy Catapults, prepare the giant oil barrels!"

In front of the castle, several soldiers strained to place a massive oil barrel on the launching tray of the dozen or so Super Heavy Catapults. Each giant oil barrel contained over five hundred pounds of oil.

Queen Yan Chuo watched the enemies on both sides getting closer and closer until they entered the two hundred meter range.

"All archers, fire!"

As she commanded,

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh..." Thousands of defending soldiers inside Chaos Stone Castle let go of their bowstrings simultaneously.

Thousands of arrows flew out like a torrential downpour.

"Thud thud thud..."

The arrow rain fell upon the ground, with Gui Xingfu’s troops on both sides falling to the ground, hit by the arrows.

In such a dense army laying siege, the hit rate of the arrow rain reached nearly fifty percent. In the first volleys, Gui Xingfu’s siege troops suffered casualties of over two hundred.

However, such casualties wouldn’t cause a change in Gui Xingfu’s expression.

Here, only two hundred meters remained from the castle. The defending army could fire volleys a few more times, at most four, totaling no more than six or seven hundred casualties.

For an army of forty thousand, these casualties were not significant.

However, once the siege troops got close to the castle walls, a different kind of carnage would begin.

The siege troops on both sides continued their charge like a tidal wave, having moved within a hundred and fifty meters.

"Fire the Scorpion Stone Projectors!"

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh..."

Following Queen Yan Chuo’s command, hundreds of Scorpion Stone Projectors launched hundreds of ignited explosive packs outwards.

"Boom boom boom boom..."

After hitting the ground, hundreds of explosive packs went off silently like raindrops in a pond.

The besieging troops of Gui Xingfu’s army were still bewildered; after all, these were just wrapped with cloth and couldn’t kill anyone if thrown at them.

But followed by...

"Bang bang bang bang..."

Hundreds of explosive packs detonated violently, each one weighing dozens of pounds, obliterating everything within several meters, sending bodies flying through the sky.

The ground trembled, and numerous flashes erupted.

Countless bodies were cast into the air.

Gui Xingfu’s besieging troops were completely astonished!

What was this thing? It was like a thunder from the skies.

The whole ground quaked, and their ears rung as if they had gone deaf.

Although the explosives seemed astonishing, their lethal power was not that immense.

The explosion of the few hundred explosive packs caused casualties of just over a thousand troops.

Yet, the siege troops on both sides were terrified beyond measure, instinctively halting their advance.

Gui Xingfu, stunned by the display of explosive force, roared with anger when he saw the siege troops slow down: "Continue the siege, continue the siege."

Then, both sides’ troops desperately pressed on with their assault.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh..."

Thereafter, the castle’s defenders were free to shoot, constantly drawing their bows and firing arrows.

Within this two hundred meter stretch, which turned into a hellish landscape, Gui Xingfu’s twenty thousand troops stormed through the distance and reached the base of the castle, suffering over two thousand casualties.