Chapter 2375: Chapter 2375 Expand the Army Rapidly
Ye Liuyun didn’t hold back either. After collecting the resources, he immediately converted them into elixirs and distributed to the soldiers.
The elixirs he distributed were all of top quality.
The armor and weapons they looted were all freely distributed by Ye Liuyun to the Omnipotent Level soldiers, allowing them to choose the highest-grade equipment at will. Only after that did Yu Yao proceed with training the soldiers according to plan.
Wyang Wei couldn’t help but feel a bit shocked upon seeing this.
“Ye Liuyun really is generous. These resources and equipment cost more than ten times the usual budget for ordinary soldiers.”
But it also made him admire Ye Liuyun even more. A commander willing to invest so generously would surely lead troops that were not mediocre.
But when Yu Yao started the training, he realized that Ye Liuyun actually had his own effective methods for drilling the troops.
These soldiers were trained according to the initial standards of the Dark Legion, with extremely strict requirements placed on them.
Any soldier who failed to meet the standards, even slightly, would be singled out and used as a live training target for the others until they were killed.
As a result, the number of soldiers kept decreasing. The more they trained, the fewer remained. Every day, several were eliminated and killed.
By the time reinforcements from the surrounding major cities arrived, this army had been reduced to just over a thousand soldiers.
Moreover, when Ye Liuyun organized the battle formations, he placed all the soldiers who had not yet reached the Omnipotent Level at the very front of the troop.
"Empyrean Legion leaves no room for the weak! Without strength, the only path is death! I can give you the best resources, but I only want the strongest soldiers!"
"The formations have already been handed over to you. In this battle, the enemy numbers ten thousand! But as long as you can apply these formations properly, taking on ten foes each will be effortless."
"Whether you live or die depends on yourselves. We’re not defending the city. We’re marching out to confront the enemy head-on!"
Ye Liuyun began his pre-battle speech to rally the soldiers.
Wyang Wei had never witnessed such a kind of pre-battle rally. The idea of facing the enemy head-on and fighting at a ten-to-one disadvantage seemed more like a suicide mission than a tactical plan.
But having learned from his previous experiences, this time he kept quiet and simply watched silently from the side.
"Let’s march out!"
Zhao Hu roared out loud and lead the troop out.
This time, the incoming troops were an elite force of ten thousand soldiers, drawn from the garrison of a nearby major city. Among them, more than two thousand were already at the Omnipotent Level.
Seeing that they only had about a thousand troops and yet dared to confront them head-on, the opposing soldiers all mocked them, scoffing that they clearly knew nothing about warfare.
But at that moment, Zhao Hu led his soldiers forward at an accelerating pace and launched a direct charge without saying a single unnecessary word.
"Fire the arrows!" Yu Yao controlled his voice from the rear, transmitting the command solely to the soldiers stationed in the back rows through spiritual communication.
The three rows of soldiers in the rear immediately drew their bows and loosed several volleys of arrows. With the front-line soldiers providing cover, the sudden barrage caught the enemy off guard, and the arrows struck precisely at the enemy’s front line.
Some of their slower-reacting soldiers were immediately hit by the arrows, causing even the front-line troops to become somewhat fearful.
At that moment, Zhao Hu was leading his soldiers in a charge as well. They tore through the enemy formation and stormed right into their troop.
Ye Liuyun, along with Lei Ming, the Dragon Lady, and a group of demons and feral beasts, circled around from the rear and struck at the flanks of the enemy army.
A massive tide of feral beasts surged forward with a thunderous roar, charging fiercely at the enemy troops. No matter how strong the soldiers were, they couldn’t hold back the onslaught, and soon the enemy formation was split into half.
Taking advantage of the moment, Zhao Hu led the army to fiercely crush and annihilate the enemy’s front lines.
Then, Ye Liuyun controlled the beast tide to charge towards the enemy’s rear forces.
He drove them relentlessly forward, while the vanguard was desperately pushed back by Zhao Hu and others, retreating in disorder. The front and rear forces collided, causing even greater chaos in the enemy formation.
"Kill them all!"
Zhau Hu let out a thunderous roar.
"Let’s kill them!"
The soldiers of the Empyrean Legion roared in unison, intimidating the enemy forces.
"Roar!"
Ye Liyun controlled the feral beast tide and let out a loud roar in unison.
The synchronized roars truly had a terrifying effect. Some soldiers close to them immediately dropped their weapons and surrendered.
Ye Liuyun also took out the Tundra Bow and shot an arrow straight at the enemy commander.
The commander’s armor actually blocked Ye Liuyun’s arrow. The armor was dented but had prevented a serious wound. Although the arrow’s impact knocked him over several miles, he didn’t suffer any major injuries.
After getting up, he saw that Ye Liuyun’s realm hadn’t yet reached the Omnipotent Level, so he immediately charged toward Ye Liuyun.
Ye Liuyun also jumped down from the feral beast and charged toward the commander, swinging his blade from afar.
He wanted to fight against an expert to test out his strength.
The sword intent in his strike truly startled the commander. The power behind the blow was so strong that, combined with the fact that the commander’s armor had already been compromised by the previous arrow, his defense was greatly weakened.
So he could only use the shield light barrier on his arm to defend.
However, Ye Liuyun controlled that sword strike to directly lead it into the void, bypassing the shield light barrier, and struck at him again.
The commander immediately used his spatial power to push away the sword strike. Ye Liuyun’s blade just grazed the armor on his arm without injuring him.
But then, Ye Liuyun followed up with a palm strike.
After his cultivation level increased, the quality of his advanced energy became stronger. This palm strike from Ye Liuyun also drew upon all the power of heaven and earth and his advance energy, smashing down with a great force.
The commander didn’t have time to counterattack and could only raise his shield to block once more.
With a loud “boom,” the commander was actually forced back two steps by Ye Liuyun.
After that, Ye Liuyun launched a relentless assault, striking with a blade and a palm one after another.
"How does this brat has so much genuine energy!"
After a few turns of attack, the commander had very little chance to fight back.
But Ye Liuyun kept up his relentless attacks, forcing the commander to retreat again and again.
However, it wasn’t easy for Ye Liuyun to instantly kill the commander.
"Sigh!"
Ye Liuyun sighed and ultimately resorted to using a Divine Soul attack, erasing the commander’s Divine Soul completely.
There was no other choice. During a battle of this scale, if the enemy commander wasn’t killed quickly, their soldiers wouldn’t surrender anytime soon. That would mean his own troops were risking their lives just to buy time.
Sure enough, once the commander died, the enemy army fell apart like scattered sand, and soon many soldiers laid down their weapons and surrendered.
One took the lead among them, and more and more soldiers followed suit in surrendering. In the end, over five thousand soldiers surrendered, and Ye Liuyun gained a substantial number of troops from this victory.
Under the desperate situation, his Empyrean Legion suffered only over three hundred casualties, many of whom were weaker cultivators, proving that the legion had withstood the test.
Ye Liuyun divided the surrendered soldiers into several groups, having them surrender one team at a time. This made them easier to control and prevented any chance of rebellion.
Since five hundred captors were controlling five thousand prisoners, once the enemy soldiers realized this, they would surely feel resentful and unwilling to accept it.
But once a few groups began to surrender, it became increasingly easier to manage the rest.
After a long and busy time, all the surrendered soldiers were finally dealt with. Ye Liuyun could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
However, his work wasn’t finished yet. He still had to reorganize the troops and screen the soldiers.
As for the martial practitioners at the seventh or eighth realm, Ye Liuyun simply didn’t have the time or resources to train them properly. So, he had no choice but to assign them to defend the city and serve as cannon fodder in the next battle.
