Chapter 1929: Chapter 21: Drink Up!
This guy’s mouth, in the end, seemed to be laced with poison.
His mindset remained as carefree as the wind.
Indeed, he was the number one under heaven who once barged into Chen Baxian’s funeral after his passing, beating the drum and singing, laughing out loud.
Li Guanyi’s tense spirit gradually relaxed.
General Xue’s divine charm still lingered.
Although extremely faint, it was real, not a mere illusion. It only required finding a place abundant in Primordial Qi, setting up a formation, and slowly drawing in the Primordial Qi of heaven and earth through the power of the formation to restore General Xue’s divine charm and Primordial Qi.
However, surely, it would take a very, very long time.
If one were to speak of meeting again, perhaps it would never happen in this lifetime.
Li Guanyi suddenly understood what General Xue meant by the last word ’gone’, the Martial Arts Legend is long, but within these hundreds of years of his life, he might never meet General Xue again.
Now, it was him bidding farewell to General Xue.
And when General Xue awakens millennia later, what he sees will only be the transformed world, seeing cold solemn names in the annals of history.
What he sees is the Emperor Qin, Li Guanyi, in the eyes of future generations.
Then, it would be General Xue bidding farewell to Li Guanyi.
So it ends, never to meet again.
The river currents surged turbulently.
The Angry Scale Dragon King, Kou Yulie, led the main fleet that had expanded into Jiangnan to this battlefield, using the water to transport the wounded back. In this extremely brutal battlefield, the Qilin Army’s death toll was far lower than Ying Country’s army.
Yet the overall casualty numbers were still shocking.
The reason for this situation was due to the military equipment modifications promoted by Emperor Qin at the beginning; even though Emperor Qin was poor, all his money was spent on crucial areas. He was stingy with his spending to the extent of wanting to pull Nangong Wumeng along to rob sand pirates.
But when it came to truly important matters, he never hesitated.
Veterans like Shi Dalin and Lei Laomeng of the Qilin Army prepared pouches with medicinal powders for the elite soldiers of the Qilin Army.
Inside were the strongest five types of powders from Hou Zhongyu.
But at this moment, the effectiveness had surpassed that during Hou Zhongyu’s time.
Successors carried forward their legacy.
Building upon Hou Zhongyu’s Hemostatic Powder, and under the magician’s guidance, they successfully updated and upgraded the Qilin Army’s standard issue pouches. Though their use was intense and painful, the effectiveness was also excellent.
At the very least, it would forcibly stop the blood from the wounds.
And that deliberately preserved intense pain stimulated the spirit, bursts of pain keeping the wounded clear-headed, unable to fall asleep. When injuries reached a certain severity, gritting their teeth to stay awake versus falling unconscious was almost a matter of life and death.
A large number of Qilin Army wounded were brought to the rear.
Lei Laomeng, Shi Dalin, and others almost without rest treated the wounded, and upon returning to the rear, the auspicious light of the Nine-colored Divine Deer hardly ceased, doubling the survival chance for any Qilin Army soldier who reached the rear.
As for those who died in battle.
According to Emperor Qin’s orders, all were brought back to their homeland.
To die is also to return to one’s native soil.
The Canglong Ship cut through the river, and the Angry Scale Dragon King stood at the bow of this treasured ship, with the scarlet Qilin cloud-pattern banner wildly waving in the wind. Inside the great ship, carrying the wounded, bringing back the fallen and sacrificed brothers-in-arms.
The Angry Scale Dragon King looked at these people behind him and softly said:
"We’re going home, everyone..."
The Angry Scale Dragon King shouted out:
"Qilin Army soldiers, return to the homeland!!!"
Yet Fan Qing, even after losing an arm, remained on the front-line battlefield. Having fought to this point, he would not turn back no matter what, nor could he retreat, following Yuwen Lie’s death in battle, Jiang Su being decapitated on the battlefield, and Gao Xiang surrendering.
The entire army of Ying Country had almost become a defeated army.
They no longer had the will to fight, nor any means to defeat Emperor Qin. Yet in every era’s transformation, while a new era was replacing the old, there were always individuals trying to take advantage.
They could not see the future of this era, or even if they saw the direction, they would still follow their desires, their persistence, seeking personal wealth and glory.
Unwilling to surrender, unwilling to hand over military power, also unwilling to die for Ying Country, for their nation.
They planned to flee into the mountains and rivers, to build their own power.
But Breaking Army and Wen Qingyu had long anticipated this development, and with the Qilin Army’s formation, along with Yuan Zhi’s Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation turning the entire land into a battlefield, the Qin army surrounded from all sides.
Almost every direction had a main force of the Qilin Army with a famed general leading them.
Although there were figures ranked within the top hundred of the Famous General List among the defeated army.
There were even more famed generals within the Qilin Army.
In a standoff between large armies, morale had an extremely significant impact.
At this moment, the Ying Country army was almost entirely in a state of low morale, facing the Qilin Army whose morale was sky-high. Even with equal numbers, they wouldn’t be opponents, not to mention the Qilin Army carrying the momentum of a massive victory, holding the ambition of bringing peace to the world, while their opponents only thought of maintaining one little corner of stability, enduring as long as possible.
After several comparisons, the victory was actually already decided.
Under the strategies of Breaking Army, Wen Qingyu, and Yan Daiqing, the Qilin Army’s soldiers fought bravely in this enormous Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation enveloping and annihilating the defeated army, it was only a matter of time before they were completely wiped out.
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