Chapter 2312: Chapter 2312 Take The Risk And Try
"Both chariots and energy cannons can breach their shield defenses, but relying solely on equipment won’t be enough given the limited numbers. As for the soldiers’ arm-mounted energy cannons, their firepower isn’t sufficient to take down those shields.
Their crossbows have a similar range and power to our energy cannons."
Qiong Qi analysed and came to this conclusion.
"So, how are we supposed to fight this battle? They haven’t even revealed their War Wolf Cavalry yet!" Ye Liuyun asked Qiong Qi.
"Let’s control the soldiers using divine soul and turn their own soldiers against each other!" Qiong Qi suggested.
Ye Liuyun sighed in frustration. "We’ve been tailing them for a month now. They’ve already captured six or seven cities, but we’ve never seen them split up."
"They don’t disperse even when they enter a city? You can infiltrate the city they’re planning to attack and set up an ambush!" Qiong Qi proposed.
"With the concealcape, you can escape when the time comes. When you’re fleeing, they’ll either let you go or send a small squad after you. They wouldn’t mobilize their entire army just to chase a handful of people, right?"
"All right, we don’t have any other options. Let’s give it a try!"
Ye Liuyun agreed after some thought. It was risky, but there was no alternative.
With that, Ye Liuyun quickly led his team retreated and headed toward the next city on the Galeocerdo Legion’s march route.
In truth, the Galeocerdo Legion had long noticed this group of observers. However, they deemed these few individuals unworthy of their attention and thus ignored them.
They did not care if Ye Liuyun and his team scouted their strength and movements. Even if they launched an open attack, the locals would not be able to stop them.
When Ye Liuyun and his team arrived at the next city, they did not deploy everyone. Instead, he donned on the concealcape with his clone and Mo Shaowen and slipped into the city unnoticed.
Most of the city’s citizens had already fled to the Alliance State for refuge. The remaining martial cultivators, numbering around fifty thousand of various realm, were prepared to fight to the death.
The newly formed Alliance State had dispatched several hundred martial practitioners to reinforce the area. However, their numbers were far from sufficient to withstand the onslaught of the Galeocerdo Legion.
Currently, the New Alliance City had also sent martial practitioners to various locations in search of Ye Liuyun.
Initially, some martial practitioners had discovered that Ye Liuyun was monitoring the Galeocerdo Legion, prompting them to send an elder and a group of martial practitioners to negotiate. Unexpectedly, Ye Liuyun had vanished again, leaving them with no choice but to stay and assist in defending the city.
Having lost their ability to resist, they could only turn to Ye Liuyun for help. Yet, just when they needed him most, Ye Liuyun had disappeared. They deeply regretted driving him away.
What said coudl not be taken back. When they had boldly declared to Ye Liuyun that they were not afraid to die and now Ye Liuyun had decided to let them face the consequences, leaving them to their fate.
After entering the city, Ye Liuyun and his companions wasted no time. They first took control of nearly a hundred martial practitioners of relatively low cultivation levels, embedding them within the martial practitioner troops. When the battle commenced, these individuals would act as decoys, fleeing to lure the Galeocerdo Legion into deploying their War Wolf Cavalry in pursuit.
A few days later, the Galeocerdo Legion launched their assault on the city as expected. As usual, they breached the defenses with ease and began hunting down the martial practitioners within the city walls.
True to their plan, the close-quarters combat within the city caused the soldiers to scatter, giving Ye Liuyun the opportunity he needed.
Amid the chaos, Ye Liuyun and his team seized the chance to take control of several minor commanders. Ye Liuyun’s clones even captured a soldier, donning his armor and interspatial ring, and assuming the soldier’s appearance. The clone infiltrated the Galeocerdo Legion alongside a commander they had already subdued.
Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun and Mo Shaowen began their escape from the city under the cover of the martial practitioners that were under their control. A squad consisted of hundred soldiers immediately chased after them with crossbows trying to hunt them down.
Ye Liuyun just focused solely on driving the martial practitioners to flee as far as possible to draw the soldiers to pursuit them. Once they had pull some distance, Ye Liuyun immediately appeared at their side, releasing Zheng Huan and his companions to charge towards the soldires.
Ye Liuyun and Mo Shaowen covertly assisted Zheng Huan and the others, using divine soul attacks to eliminate the soldiers.
Caught off guard by the sudden assault and with some of their comrades’ divine souls being controlled, the soldiers were swiftly wiped out. Ye Liuyun then ordered Zheng Huan and his team to dispose of the soldiers’ bodies before retreating.
At this moment, Sui Fenghu, the commander of the Galeocerdo Legion had noticed the situation.
"An ambush? It seems they’re after our armor. We can’t let them take it back!"
However, Zheng Huan and his companions were far more advanced in their cultivation than the previous martial practitioners and they escaped from his sight swiftly.
In a moment of desperation, he had no choice but to release one thousand cavalry unit from his spatial world to pursue them.
Seeing that the War Wolf Cavalry had finally been deployed, Ye Liuyun and Mo Shaowen breathed a sigh of relief. They immediately hid by the roadside to observe the ensuing battle.
The War Wolf Cavalry rode on mounts that resembled the Mossy Marauder in appearance but were larger in size and had a grayish-white coat.
These war wolves had longer limbs than the Mossy Marauder, seemingly built for speed and endurance, making them much faster.
The soldiers riding these wolves were all at the late or peak stages of ninth tier. Their strength far surpassing that of any individual martial practitioner.
Moreover, they were equipped with powerful crossbows, making escape nearly impossible once targeted by them.
Zheng Huan quickly ordered his men to arm themselves with shields and spears to get ready for defense.
These tactics were learned during their training with the Dark Legion.
They successfully blocked the first wave of crossbow attacks.
Seeing that the crossbows were ineffective, the War Wolf Cavalry immediately activated the protective shields on their left arms and prepared for close combat with spears or sabers in their right hands.
Ye Liuyun assessed the distance and realized that if he were to deploy his own army, he could indeed annihilate this War Wolf Cavalry.
However, he launched a direct divine soul attack directly at the commander of the unit.
Upon entering the commander’s ocean of consciousness, Ye Liuyun discovered that he was bound by a divine soul contract.
He then forcibly pulled the commander’s divine soul into his own oceaon of consciousness, extracting information while slowly destroying it.
Like the army under Ye Liuyun’s control, each member of this cavalry was bound by a divine soul contract. Once the divine soul contract was broken, they could no longer be stored in the spatial world of the Galeocerdo Commander, Sui Fenghu, and would immediately be exposed. Thus, keeping them alive served little purpose.
Through his soul extraction, Ye Liuyun learned that the total number of this cavalry was only ten thousand. This was not due to a lack of soldiers or equipments, but rather a shortage of these war wolves.
These mounts that were referred as war wolves were actually snow wolves discovered in a secret realm. After relocating the pack, they were gradually bred and trained to reach their current size.
These snow wolves combined speed with ferocity and had exceptional endurance, making them rare and formidable beast mounts.
