Chapter 747: Chapter 304: The Defeated Longyou Army, Xia Army Cannot Escape, Holy Tripod
As the two armies distanced themselves, the underground main zone also fell into silence.
Hive Main Zone, North Side of the Building Complex
Longyou Army Camp, by the campfire, Li Xuanling always wore a dark expression. Upon seeing Meng Ying, who was responsible for tallying the casualties, return, she immediately inquired:
"What’s the situation with the soldiers’ casualties?"
With a grave expression, Meng Ying began, "572 dead in battle, 32 seriously injured, total casualties 604, minor injuries not tallied, the remaining combat-capable soldiers are 2365."
Crack......
Li Xuanling directly smashed the temporary desk in front of her and stood up, glaring around at the Cold Resistance Level officers, angrily scolding, "How could we have lost so many people? I just observed during the retreat, Great Xia’s casualties were no more than a little over 2000, how did you manage to fight like this?"
Just now on the battlefield, including during the retreat, her entire focus was on Great Xia’s casualties, and she honestly had no clear concept of her own side’s losses. The casualty number of 604 clearly exceeded what she could mentally accept.
Not only Li Xuanling, but all the Cold Resistance Level officers around the campfire displayed startled expressions, and a few even looked at Meng Ying with disbelief.
to over 2000, the loss ratio is about 1 to over 3.
If they had fought such a result against a normal army of comparable strength and numbers, the reaction wouldn’t have been like this.
But they faced a garrison composed of ordinary Earth-digging Realm troops from Great Xia.
Failing to break through the main building was already a significant failure.
The loss ratio didn’t even reach 1 to 5, how is this possible!
"The battle spirit of the Xia Army seems much stronger than ours."
"It’s not the battle spirit, it’s the Dan Medicine. Great Xia not only has better healing pills, but there seems to be one that can block physical pain. The person I faced had their abdomen pierced three times, yet could still retaliate against me."
"The front line Xia Army is equipped with Hundred Forged Armor, although our soldiers have a cultivation advantage, we can’t kill with one strike, that’s why the progress is so slow."
"Over half of the soldiers in the rear were suppressed by the arrow formation on the main building, unable to advance for reinforcements. Only a little over a thousand managed to assault the base of the main building."
"That white smoke comes from Teng Jiao Poison, activated at high temperature, which can directly kill Logging Realm. Even though inhaling it at the Earth-digging Realm Limit isn’t fatal, it causes severe dizziness. We had hunted Teng Jiao before in Long Mountain, how did we not consider that this could be used on a battlefield?"
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"Everyone shut up!"
Li Xuanling abruptly interrupted their discussions, her face as dark as blood.
She’s not blind. All the factors they mentioned were clearly observed on the battlefield earlier, yet regardless of these objective reasons, she couldn’t accept the Longyou Army performing like this.
She fiercely glared at the south-side main building, asking Meng Ying in a rage.
"How are the soldiers’ conditions?"
Just earlier, after the Teng Jiao Poison Mist spread, it covered a wide area, causing nearly all soldiers to inhale some, leading to universal poisoning.
The Teng Jiao Poison Mist isn’t unfamiliar in Long Mountain. Li Xuanling knows that its potency isn’t particularly high. It can kill ordinary people and Logging Realm upon inhalation, while an Earth-digging Realm just needs to cover their face with a damp cloth to hold on for a moment, and those at the Earth-digging Realm Limit who’ve started Reshaping Skin will only feel dizzy, not fatal.
Meng Ying promptly replied, "Not a major issue, Cheng Guang is leading people to retrieve wet soil from the tunnels to squeeze moisture, some lightly poisoned soldiers have already recovered, more than six hundred soldiers affected more severely will need about one more hour to recover."
In this part of the Hive Station, the tunnels excavated underground are numerous, making the soil below not as dry as other places. As long as enough wet soil is obtained, water can be extracted, and clean water is the key remedy against Teng Jiao Poison.
Still an hour needed!
Li Xuanling’s brow tightly knit, as she lifted her gaze towards the ceiling’s iron wall opening, discovering no light outside at all, and she immediately clenched her fists.
When the Rodents broke through, allowing all of Longyou Army to descend beneath, it was the late night of June twenty-fifth. After descending, the scattered soldiers gathered to the north side, advanced towards the building area after gathering, and finally came the bloodbath in the main building zone, all taking time.
Earlier, during the grand fight by the main building side with Xia Chuan and Chen Yingyuan, she noticed light filtering through those openings, yet now there was none.
This proves an entire day has passed.
Now it’s already the night of June twenty-sixth.
While it’s impossible to precisely predict the time, she could roughly estimate that nighttime had already advanced by about four hours.
In other words, the first half of the night was about to pass.
The army still needs another hour to rest and recover, and even if prepared for battle, the soonest it would happen is during the latter half of the night, with victory targeted around June twenty-seventh.
Three thousand Longyou Army, arriving at the Hive Station late night of June twenty-third, have been dragged by Xia Chuan with twenty-seven Cold Resistance Level officers and over nine thousand ordinary Earth-digging Realm soldiers for four days.
They haven’t captured it yet!
Li Xuanling stood up, abruptly turning and glaring at everyone, speaking in a stern voice:
"Of the Cold Resistance Level that Great Xia put forth for battle, there are twenty-seven in total. I just confirmed with you, we’ve slain three, factoring in Xia Chuan and Chen Yingyuan who fought against me. There are nineteen seriously injured, unable to recover shortly.
Their total Earth-digging Realm manpower is about over nine thousand, with at least over two thousand casualties in the first wave, including those who lost combat capability, an estimated remaining average of only six thousand combat-capable soldiers.
We have only six seriously injured Cold Resistance Level, not one dead, remaining are 46, soldiers still 2365, as long as we’re fully recovered and regroup for a second round, we’ll break through the main building and annihilate all the Xia Army!"