Chapter 418: Intrigue and deception, backfire
"Boom!"
"Crackling..."
As the soldiers of both sides watched, the outer protective shield covering the entire Jinan city suddenly shattered and turned into specks of light that disappeared.
After half an hour of continuous bombardment by hundreds of psychic cannons of the Renaissance Army fleet, which consumed more than 100,000 magic cores, the energy of the city defense formation of this super city was finally exhausted.
"Finally, we broke through a layer of the turtle shell, but there is still the more powerful protective formation of the Yan family!"
Wan'er was overjoyed when she saw this. She waved her hand and ordered, "All treasure ships, continue to launch concentrated fire attacks!"
"The Yan family's clan formation that was previously connected to the Jinan City Guarding Formation now looks shaky and can't hold out for much longer!"
Her talent in formation is quite good. After more than four years of alchemy, refining, and formation training, she has become a junior formation master and can clearly observe the situation of the enemy's formation.
Although continuing to launch concentrated fire attacks from psychic artillery would require consuming at least tens of thousands of magic cores again, the Renaissance Army had wiped out countless aristocratic families, wealthy merchants, and tycoons since its attack on Shandong, and had gradually harvested a large amount of this type of psychic crystals.
Relying on the convenience of maritime trade, in these several provinces along the southeast coast, the various aristocratic families have accumulated countless magic cores through trade with the white barbarians.
After the property of a large number of officials and gentry were confiscated and their families were exterminated, these strategic materials basically fell into the hands of the Fuxing Army, and it was no problem to use them to meet the army's continuous fighting consumption.
The strategic resources that this Renaissance Army now reserves, such as magic cores, demon beast inner cores, soul beads, etc., are an astronomical number.
"Boom!"...
Following Wan'er's order, the large fleet that had broken through the city defense formation outside Jinan City, the psychic cannons on each treasure ship began to roar again.
Wave after wave of psychic shells bombarded the mysterious protective formation set up by the Yan family, and then exploded, causing ripples to appear, and the formation shield flickered in and out.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathered in this megacity is not the kind of innate spiritual energy that can be generated continuously. It is just an intermediate acquired spiritual vein in the city. It is at best a larger spiritual land. Naturally, it cannot support the consumption of the operation of the Yan family's innate formation for long.
"Something strange."
"Something's not right,"
Li Dingguo's powerful spiritual sense could clearly sense that the Yan family's innate formation in front of him, which was under concentrated fire from his side, was rapidly weakening.
Judging from the situation, it would be forcibly broken in less than a quarter of an hour. He began to have doubts in his heart, "Is the power of the innate formation so weak? It shouldn't be like this."
Logically speaking, even the worst innate formation is far more powerful than any acquired formation.
Even if the master of the Yan family's formation has a very low level of cultivation and does not have real innate spiritual energy to provide the consumption of the formation's operation, no matter what, this is also an innate magical formation that comes with an innate top-grade artifact. Under the concentrated fire attack of the Renaissance Army's psychic artillery, it can at least hold out for more than an hour.
Others may not know how serious this is, but Li Dingguo, who often comes into contact with the innate formation in the Human Emperor Cauldron, knows this situation better than anyone else.
The innate magical formation that comes with the natal innate divine artifact, under the stimulation of its owner's divine consciousness, is not so easy to break even if there is no spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the outside world.
"What tricks is the Yan family playing?"
His eyes were slightly cold as he looked at the Yan family's clan formation, whose aura was rapidly weakening under the concentrated fire of his own side, and thought, "Maybe the enemy is showing weakness and deliberately acting for us to achieve their ulterior motives."
Li Dingguo suddenly had an idea and his eyes lit up. He thought to himself, "If it goes as expected, the other party wants to lure the enemy deep into the city, making our soldiers mistakenly believe that the formation has been broken. When the army rushes into the city, they will use this mysterious innate formation to trap and kill us!"
"Ha ha……"
He smiled coldly, "This Yan family is indeed insidious. If it were a cultivator who didn't understand the magical formations that come with the innate divine weapon, he would most likely be fooled!"
"Once our soldiers fall into the trap, they will undoubtedly become trapped, and it will be almost impossible for them to escape."
The Yan family's clan formation before him, which he perceived with his divine sense, was not much different from the innate magical formation within the Human Emperor Cauldron. It was simply not something a Qi Refining Realm cultivator could contend with.
He and Wan'er were protected by their own innate divine artifacts, and with the advantage of their cultivation level, they were naturally not in great danger.
But the soldiers of the Renaissance Army are different.
With the soldiers' current level of cultivation, if they form a military killing formation, once they are trapped in the innate formation, they will be no different from lambs to be slaughtered.
Any military formation composed of practitioners in the Body Refining Realm and low-level Qi Refining Realm cannot compare with the innate magical power formation that comes with the innate divine weapon.
There is absolutely no level between the two.
"Wan'er, the Yan family is most likely cheating. Their main formation master is actively reducing the strength of the formation, and will soon automatically dismantle the protective formation, making us mistakenly believe that the formation has been broken. Then, after our army rushes into the city, they will restart the innate formation and trap us inside."
Since Li Dingguo had already guessed the Yan family's conspiracy, he naturally would not let his soldiers take risks.
Although he had some confidence that he could break out of the military killing formation that he personally presided over even if he was trapped by the enemy.
After all, his trump card was far beyond the enemy's imagination, and it was not something that could be trapped by a level 5 master activating an innate formation.
But a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. There is no need to take risks and be trapped by the enemy's innate divine weapon and its own magical formation, and foolishly experience its power.
Since we are sure of victory, there is no need to take risks and put our soldiers in danger.
"Brother, I was also a little confused just now!"
Wan'er suddenly realized what was going on and said angrily, "This clumsy trick almost fooled me!"
"This is easy. After the enemy removes this mysterious innate protective formation, we will order the soldiers of the firearms battalion to continue using the psychic cannons to bombard the enemy soldiers on the city wall!"
“When the time comes, the two of us will each lead a hundred thousand soldiers to form a military killing formation, and launch a long-range attack with the killing formation magic power directly outside the city!”
"Humph! I will let the Yan family suffer the consequences of their own actions. Without the protection of the protective formation, they will have to experience how painful it is to be defeated by long-range attacks!"
She almost fell into the enemy's trap, which made Wan'er very angry.
But now that we have seen through the enemy's conspiracy, it is very simple to deal with it.
She and Li Dingguo both have powerful long-range attack weapons. With the help of the huge amplification of the military killing formation's magical power, the area within a radius of dozens of miles is within their attack range.
It can be said that in terms of long-range attacks and area attacks, Wan'er and Li Dingguo are the best masters among all human forces today, and there is no third person to consider.
As for charging into the enemy camp and fighting against them?
There's absolutely no need for that.
"Yeah, it works."
Li Dingguo nodded and agreed with Wan'er's opinion. The two men, who had come up with a corresponding plan, saw that the protective formation presided over by the Yan family in front was already shaky, and without wasting any more time, they immediately ordered the soldiers to prepare for the continuous firing of the psychic cannons and the long-range attack of the military killing formation.
This time we must make sure that the enemy loses more than they gain.
……
"Ancestor, we have persisted for a quarter of an hour. We should have eliminated the enemy's doubts. We can temporarily close our Yan family's clan defense formation."
In a large mansion about ten miles away from the north city gate, nine level five warriors of the Yan family were stationed in the nine palace positions, taking turns to activate a huge golden bowl artifact in the middle, maintaining the power of the clan formation and resisting the concentrated fire attacks of the Renaissance Army outside the city.
After estimating the time, Yan Changsheng, the head of the Yan family, spoke to the ancestor Yan Jingzhi through voice transmission.
This sacred artifact inherited from their family was imprinted with the mark of bloodline inheritance by their ancestor Yan Hui using magical means.
It allows Qi Refining cultivators with pure Yan family blood to inject their own soul imprint into it, so that they can activate it together.
It has to be said that according to rumors during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, those practitioners whose cultivation had surpassed the Spirit Refining Realm had such awe-inspiring magical powers that were far beyond the imagination of today's Qi Refining Realm practitioners.
"Well, let's follow the plan then."
The white-haired Yan Jingzhi nodded and said to the eight level five masters of the family at the scene, "Whether Li Dingguo is fooled or not, we have the clan defense formation here and can activate it at any time. We are temporarily invincible."
"Our family's innate top-grade artifact, the Hunyuan Golden Bowl, can form a formation with a single thought. It can freely control its innate magical power formation and can respond to various crises at any time."
"but……"
He looked up at the two golden figures flying thousands of feet above his head and said with a serious look in his eyes, "Those two beasts in the sky are constantly monitoring any abnormal movements in the city. This is a big problem."
"These two level six golden eagles must have discovered us and can even sense the unusual aura of our clan's sacred artifact. Report this to Li Dingguo."
There was a hint of helplessness in his words.
As for this kind of level six spirit bird, as long as the opponent does not actively swoop down to attack, there is nothing you can do about it.
Once Li Dingguo was mentally prepared, it was still unclear whether he would be fooled.
After all, no Qi Refining Realm practitioner is a fool, let alone a peerless genius like Li Dingguo?
In the world of practitioners, any unexpected event may happen at any time.
This is also the reason why Yan Jingzhi, Yan Changsheng and others did not have much confidence in the success of their own careful layout.
"Alright, listen to my command, everyone retract your spiritual thoughts and energy at the same time!"
"Don't let your guard down. If Li Dingguo doesn't fall for it, be ready to activate the clan-suppressing formation again to prevent us from being in a passive position!"
Now the arrow is on the string and must be shot, Yan Jingzhi shouted coldly!
"receive!"……
"Crackling..."
As the nine main formation members of the Yan family all withdrew their spiritual thoughts and internal energy that had been continuously poured into the innate divine artifact Hunyuan Golden Bowl, the protective formation light shield covering the huge city of Jinan could no longer hold on and shattered under the next wave of concentrated fire from the Fusion Army's psychic artillery.
However, Yan Jingzhi, Yan Changsheng and others discovered through their spiritual perception that an unusual situation had occurred: after the protective formation disappeared, the large fleet of the Renaissance Army continued to launch concentrated fire attacks with its psychic artillery!
"boom!"
"Boom!"...
The next wave of hundreds of psychic shells fired salvos, landing directly on the densely packed crowd of defenders on the city wall, exploding with a loud bang, stirring up a sky full of broken limbs, flesh, and blood!
"No!"
"Why haven't the enemy launched a charge yet? Instead, they continue to launch a psychic cannon salvo attack?"
"How can we fight them? The range of the psychic cannons of the Restoration Army fleet is far beyond ours! They can attack us at will, but our cannons can't hit them!"
"Quick! Get away from the city wall! The enemy's volley of fire has killed more than 10,000 warriors. Are you waiting to die?"...
The defending soldiers, who had already received orders and were ready for battle, were stunned when they saw this unusual scene!
In the normal siege mode, after the enemy's city defense formation is broken, they will form a formation and launch a charge. This is the normal operation.
All the sieges launched by the Restoration Army in the past followed this pattern.
However, when our side had made some calculations and preparations, the opponent suddenly did not play by the rules and continued to launch concentrated fire attacks with psychic cannons.
"Don't run! All units quickly mobilize their military formations to block the artillery bombardment!"
Ni Chong, who was in charge of the command of this battle, saw the chaotic situation at the scene. He immediately used all his power to shout and convey his orders to the ears of all the soldiers within a ten-mile radius.
His response was correct.
If the soldiers on our side can quickly activate the prepared military formation and use the bloody evil energy formed by the formation, they can block the concentrated fire attack of the psychic cannons outside the city in a short period of time and protect the soldiers from harm.
However, at this moment, on the two top-grade treasure ships in front of the enemy's fleet, a huge dark yellow bell that was seven hundred feet tall and a slightly smaller white tiger suddenly took shape!
In an instant, they flew across the water and arrived near the north gate of Jinan City, then stopped and launched a long-range attack on the enemies in the city from above!
"Dong dong..."
"Roar!"
"Fantian Yin, smash them to death!"
As the dark yellow bell rang, wave after wave of bell sounds swept through the city that had lost the protection of the city defense formation, reaping the lives of large numbers of enemy warriors like mowing grass. At the same time, a huge seal flashed out and smashed down on the enemies on the city wall!
The violent attack launched by two innate divine artifacts, each amplified by a hundred thousand soldiers, was simply not something the warriors in the city, who were not protected by a large formation, could withstand.
In the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of defending soldiers who had completely exposed themselves to the enemy's killing array and magical attacks were killed!
In such a hurry, they had no time to deploy the prepared military formation, and even the formation was completely disrupted. The soldiers were crying and running around, screaming, and the scene was in chaos!
At this moment, the Fuxing Army fleet outside the city and the remaining firearms battalion soldiers, under the personal command of Liang Liping, continued to attack with continuous concentrated fire from psychic artillery.
The artillery fire accurately avoided the dark yellow bell and white tiger in front that were launching long-range attacks on the enemy, and quickly extended towards the enemy gathering area in the city, killing the enemy warriors who were beginning to collapse in large numbers!
This scene is like purgatory on earth, how can it be described with just one word "tragic"?
The fundamental reason for this one-sided battle situation was that there was a mistake in the tactics arranged by the Yan family, and the Fuxing Army seized the opportunity in time.
(End of this chapter)
