Chapter 2202: Chapter 2202 Double Strike
After seeing the vanguards were not a match, nearly half of the Praetorian rearguard made a quick decision.
Retreat!
Their leader was dead and no one to lead them in battle. They could not sit and wait for their death.
After someone yelled, thousands of soldiers started retreating!
"Chase after them!"
Ye Liuyun immediately ordered the four jet-black tier experts and Xuan Yun with his companions to chase after the praetorian.
Ye Liuyun himself also used a spatial overlap to catch up.
He was at the rear of the chasing team, attacking and controlling one of them with his divine soul while subjugating one.
The seven experts were at the side of the praetorian driving them towards the middle. They would attack the praetorian with a palm strike after they gathered up, causing twenty to thirty of them dead or injured.
Ye Liuyun and his clone just picked up what was left behind.
Ye Liyun and the seven experts had been chasing after the praetorian for a whole day and subjugating lots of them.
Once Ye Liuyun felt the numbers had lessened, he released the Blade Legion to intercept the praetorian who managed to escape.
The praetorian reacted quickly. They immediately surrendered the moment they realised they were unable to escape.
After Ye Liuyun subdued these surrendered soldiers and returned to the battlefield, he found that the soul cultivators and martial cultivators he had dispatched had also captured a large number of praetorians.
They had captured over six thousand praetorian experts in total.
After planting the slaving seal on these praetorians, Ye Liuyun understood why the praetorians would crumble and surrender so readily.
Even though the praetorians were strong, it was a long time since they engaged in a battle. Aside from their arrogant demeanour, they had grown cowardly and afraid of death.
Furthermore, they had a better understanding of the Revival Dynasty. They could bully the commoners and engage in small fights to scare off opponents. However, they did not want to put their lives at risk for the Revival Dynasty.
Thus, they would immediately retreat whenever they encountered danger or opponents who went all out during a fight.
Ye Liuyun handed over these six thousand people and the six hundred prisoners from earlier to Ye Tiandao so that she could bring them back to the Eastcloud Dynasty along with the Blade Legion to train these new soldiers.
Ye Liuyun returned to the main force to inform Xiao Yunfang to split the troops and seize the resources as soon as possible before planning a quick retreat.
He knew that after losing ten thousand praetorians, the Revival Dynasty would be relentless against them.
The region Ye Liuyun had taken over had abundant od mineral vein resources. Besides seizing the City Lord Manor, he wanted to seize all of the mineral veins as well.
Thus, Ye Liuyun and Xiao Yunfang brought along thirty thousand soldiers to continue the siege while the other soldiers split into a few forces to start mining the mineral veins.
The loss of ten thousand praetorians of the Revival Dynasty had become a laughing stock among the martial practitioners in the central region.
They did not know that it was Ye Liuyun who annihilated these ten thousand praetorians with a few captives and elder experts.
If they knew that, the impression of the Revival Dynasty would be even more feeble in their hearts.
Mo Xiaotian had also not anticipated the entire army of ten thousand could be easily annihilated just like that.
He immediately dispatched over twenty powerful pinnacle experts of the ninth tier from the royal management along with another twenty thousand praetorians to rush over.
By the time they arrived, Ye Liuyun’s army had already taken a large number of resources and retreated to Perch City. They even managed to make a swift withdrawal through the conveyor formation.
By the time the experts from the royal management arrived, it was the same as last time. A huge mess was left for them to clean up.
After this battle, not only did Ye Liuyun seize a wealth of resources but he also gathered a large number of powerful experts.
Right after Ye Liuyun retreated to the eastern region, another shocking news spread throughout the region.
The fifty ferries of the Revival Dynasty had all sunk in the endless sea.
Only three thousand late ninth-tier martial practitioners out of thirty thousand praetorians managed to escape and return.
The remaining whether those who sank into the sea or escaped to the other shore could not return.
At this time, Yu Xiaofeng was sending more than a thousand escaped prisoners to the royal city, to undergo unified training by Ye Tiandao.
After the ferries sank, two to three thousand late-stage Forbidden Army who rushed to the southern ferry port were heavily bombarded by Yu Xiaofeng, wiping out half of them.
The remaining half whose genuine energy had been exhausted were either bombed to death or fell into the sea.
Finally, these people collectively surrendered and all signed loyalty contracts.
The Revival Dynasty had suffered double strikes in succession.
Of the one hundred thousand praetorians nearly half had been lost.
The hundred thousand troops sent to the south had also been waiting to cross the sea. Now that the ferries were gone, they had to continue to wait.
Mo Xiaotian could not understand why the ferries encountered unexpected issues.
According to the escaped praetorians, the ferry’s defence formation suddenly lost its effectiveness when it encountered spacetime turbulence. The hull was shattered by the impact, causing many experts to drown before they had a chance to escape.
The experts dispatched to inspect the ferry repeatedly confirmed there would be no issues, going so far as to check each one individually. Therefore, the matter could only be dropped.
At this point, Mo Xiaotian could not afford to waste any more resources. Continuing to fight would only deplete his remaining assets entirely.
He had no choice but to order the hundred thousand troops stationed in the south to retreat for recuperation. Since then, he never mentioned attacking the Eastcloud Dynasty again.
It did not mean that Ye Liuyun would give up even if Mo Xiaotian did not want to mention the matter.
"We will soon counterattack! Leave a hundred thousand troops in the southern and northern area for defence! The rest of the hundred thousand should prepare to enter the central region for combat!" Ye Liuyun told Yu Xiaofeng.
"All right!" Yu Xiaofeng excitedly agreed and went to make arrangements.
Before this, he never dared to dream of invading the central region.
After leaving a hundred thousand troops at the transit points in the southern and eastern lands, Yu Xiaofeng took the remaining soldiers and rushed back to the central dynasty to regroup with Xiao Yunfang and reorganise the troops.
Ye Tiandao also began to train the Blade Legion. The team had expanded three-fold the original size from three thousand members to twelve thousand, with enough power to compete with the praetorians of the Revival Dynasty.
All the troops started their active preparations for war. Ye Liuyun even invited a supervisor from the Alliance of Merchants to customize higher-grade equipment and weapons.
The mineral resources they seized could barely sustain the supply for their armament.
Ye Liuyun also returned to the foreign battlefield to improve his powers with his close subordinates.
Three months later, Ye Tiandao’s Blade Legion had completed their basic training and were ready for combat training.
Yu Xiaofeng’s hundred thousand Death Legion troop had also regrouped and were fully prepared.
All soldiers’ equipments and weapons were replaced.
Even the Eastcloud Dynasty could not afford to maintain such a vast army and powerful team. They had to be sent to the central region to seize resources.
Thus, Ye Liuyun left Jin Yuanhui and the others who had just arrived from the mortal realm at the palace and arranged Feng Hongxiu to bring some of the martial cultivators from Scarlet Cardinal House and go to the central region to establish a Scarlet Cardianl House branch.
Ye Tiandao’s Blade Legion was also taken into the spatial world by Ye Liuyun, along with a hundred soul cultivators from the Black Armored Guards. They were all transported to the Coast City through the transmission black tower.
After the last battle, the Revival Dynasty also started to learn from Ye Liuyun. Except for the conveyor formation of the Regalty, all other connections with the foreign battlefields were completely cut off.
As for the conveyor formation in the Regalty, all martial cultivators who passed through would have their divine souls inspected. So Ye Liuyun’s plan to enter the Revival Dynasty through the foreign battlefield was no longer viable.
