World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 859 - 407: Countless dead and injured! Zhi Li defeated and retreated!

Chapter 859: 407: Countless dead and injured! Zhi Li defeated and retreated!

Earl Chu Ye’s calculations were astute—if he had faced a cunning opponent, the game would have been enjoyable.

Unfortunately, he faced an adversary who could tolerate no sand in his eyes.

Yan Nai’er didn’t care if you were acting; once you angered her, she was set on your destruction!

After Chu Ye completely abandoned the crossing of the river, she immediately ordered the elevation of the cannon muzzles, aiming at Chu Ye’s army on the northern bank.

"Fire, fire, fire..."

Half were shrapnel, half were solid cannonballs.

Crossing over the more than two hundred meters of the river, they smashed toward Chu Ye’s army on the northern bank.

"Whoosh..."

At that distance, the damage and accuracy of the shrapnel were somewhat unsatisfactory.

But still, groups of soldiers fell!

As for the solid cannonballs, their devastating capability at this distance was unparalleled.

Although the northern bank of the Nu River had been rested, it was still relatively narrow. Tens of thousands of troops arrayed there were already unbearably crowded.

Whenever a solid cannonball struck—

"Boom..."

After a massive explosion, it plowed a bloody path straight through.

And because the ground here was hard, the cannonballs easily caused ricochets.

The dozens of pounds heavy cannonballs rampaged through the crowd, breaking legs and crushing bodies everywhere they went.

Surprisingly, a round of shelling across more than two hundred meters still resulted in several hundred casualties.

Earl Chu Ye nearly jumped up, shouting, "Suo Lun, damn it, are you an idiot?

I’ve already stopped crossing the river; I’ve already started acting; why are you still attacking me?

And at that moment...

"Whizz, whizz, whizz..."

Suddenly, a whistling sound came from the sky.

The hidden gigantic catapults in the trenches started to show their power!

Hundreds of pounds of gunpowder bags, as if hurled by a giant hand, then fell into Chu Ye’s army’s formations.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Earth-shattering explosions!

Countless soldiers were blown to pieces, bodies flying!

At this time, Yan Nai’er felt that, although cannons were very powerful,

their killing power at medium to long distances still couldn’t compare to catapults hurling gunpowder packs, especially when the enemy troops were densely packed. The explosive power of hundreds of pounds of gunpowder far surpassed any cannonball.

The advantage of cannons lay in their ability to shoot from a distance and with greater accuracy than catapults.

But their biggest advantage was firing shrapnel at close range, their lethality simply unmatched.

Instantly, Earl Chu Ye felt like weeping but had no tears.

...

Fenglei Fort Defense Line battlefield!

Just now, hundreds of large cannons on the city walls had fired, and catapults had launched hundreds of primitive cluster bombs. (Though wrapped in lead pellets and shrapnel, these were quite different from actual cluster bombs, at least those little pellets wouldn’t explode.)

In an instant, over a million pellets exploded over an area of ten to twenty thousand square meters.

Both Zhi Li in the air and Suo Lun on the city walls saw clearly.

That area was emptied in an instant!

Then, the whole battlefield fell into a terrible silence. (Relatively speaking)

And Zhi Li seemed to have lost all sensation.

Not seeing with his eyes, not hearing with his ears, just a continuous roar.

After quite a while...

All his senses gradually returned to his body.

Then, he saw on the battlefield below the walls of Wind Thunder Fortress, one soldier after another getting up.

Each person was covered in blood, although it was unclear whether it was their own or the enemy’s.

When over a million pellets had exploded violently just now, that area had been instantly cleared, as if everyone had been wiped clean.

But that wasn’t the case!

This wasn’t like being in the ocean, or at the Nu River, where being hit might lead to falling into the water and disappearing completely.

This was on solid ground, where many pellets and shrapnel penetrating the body wouldn’t necessarily be immediately fatal.

And with the crowd so dense, it was likely that some people were hit by dozens or even hundreds of pellets, dead beyond redemption.

While others might have been shielded by comrades in front, only suffering grazes from pellets and shrapnel.

Eventually, the soldiers who managed to stand up numbered still over twenty thousand.

By Suo Lun’s estimate, just now, with hundreds of cannons firing simultaneously and hundreds of catapults launching primitive cluster bombs, there must have been over ten thousand casualties inflicted on the troops below.

Thus, the first wave of soldiers assaulting the fortress still had more than half remaining.

Zhi Li’s body seemed to completely recover its warmth, he exclaimed excitedly, "Not all dead, many are still left."

Only Turing Tuo knew that having over twenty thousand people left was useless because the momentum of the assault had been halted, and both their order and formation were completely disrupted.

The distribution of the fire shields was originally very meticulous, as that was the only way to protect most of the soldiers.

But now...

These costly so-called fire shields were all thrown on the ground.

Indeed...

"Bang, bang, bang..."

Many holes opened in the city wall, then countless barrels of burning oil rolled down.

Above the wall, numerous strong men smashed oil barrels down.

Then, countless rockets were shot downwards...

Many medium to small Scorpion Catapults began launching.

Still those terrifying explosive pack cluster bombs.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

The soldiers, disorganized and without leadership, disbanded like a bunch of loose sand.

What awaited them was a one-sided slaughter!

Burned to death!

Blown up by explosive packs.

Shot through the body by countless pellets and died!

Ultimately, the first wave of fifty thousand soldiers assaulting the fortress was annihilated.

They hadn’t even managed to effectively scale the walls!

...

And at that moment, the second round of artillery preparation at the Fenglei Fort Defense Line was ready!

"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."

Hundreds of cannons fired simultaneously.

Targeting Zhi Li’s positions with the gigantic catapults!

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