Chapter 425: Relentless and Head-on Counterattack
"This is the aura of the innate formation!"
"The twenty-four orbs covering the Zheng family's fleet look like Sister Hongmei's life-defining artifact, the Dinghai Divine Pearl."
Seeing that the Zheng army's fleet was about to collapse under the absolute disadvantage of being passive, suddenly a magical formation emerged, covering all the enemy's golden eagle treasure ships, easily blocking the concentrated fire attack. Wan'er was surprised, and sensed it with her divine sense, and immediately said in a lost voice.
"This is the Dinghai Divine Pearl, and there are as many as twenty-four of them!"
“I never thought that a large set of Dinghai Shenzhu would appear in the hands of the Zheng family!”
Li Dingguo had personally seized the twelve Dinghai Divine Pearls from the enemy, so he was naturally very familiar with this set of innate divine artifacts. After using his powerful divine sense to investigate, he confirmed the source of Zheng's army's innate protective formation.
"After Hongmei refined the set of twelve Dinghai Divine Pearls, she specifically explained that she could temporarily activate its innate magical power formation: the Innate Covering Sea Formation."
"Obviously, the protective formation that the enemy suddenly activated is undoubtedly the innate magical formation of this set of orbs."
Li Dingguo could not have imagined that there were indeed thirty-six Dinghai Shenzhen Pearls in ancient mythology, and twenty-four of them fell into the hands of the Zheng family.
According to Hongmei, the innate sea-covering formation formed by the movement of twelve magical beads is already an innate top-grade magic formation.
Then the magical formation activated by the combination of twenty-four Dinghai Divine Pearls is estimated to have reached the innate supreme level.
The power of this enemy formation is almost as powerful as the innate magical formation of the Human Emperor Cauldron.
"Humph!"
Wan'er's eyes lit up when she heard this, and then she snorted coldly and said, "No matter how powerful the innate divine weapon is, it still needs to rely on the cultivation of its owner to support it in order to exert its due power!"
"There are quite a few Level 5 practitioners in the Zheng family army, more than 20, but there are no Level 6 strongmen. They simply cannot maintain this set of innate life artifact's own magical formation for long!"
"Even if they use the military killing array and gather the strength of all their soldiers, it won't work!"
This miraculous set of innate artifacts may be extremely mysterious to other practitioners, but to Wan'er and Li Dingguo, who have seen many acquired and innate artifacts, it is just a simple matter and not surprising at all.
Not only do they both have a three-piece set of their own natal artifacts, but they also selected them carefully.
Any of the two people's innate magical weapons are no worse than Zheng Jiajun's set of innate magical weapons.
However, the power of Zheng's army's innate sea-covering formation should not be underestimated, especially when it can be amplified and activated with the help of the military killing formation.
Before the spiritual thoughts, internal energy, and blood power of the people in the main formation were mostly consumed, even the soldiers led by Li Dingguo himself could not cause substantial damage to the people in the formation.
"Pass the order down. Our army will continue to siege the enemy fleet. Let's see how long they can hold out!"
Watching the messenger taking orders and leaving, Wan'er and Li Dingguo looked at the flickering lights of the Zheng family fleet's protective formation under the continuous concentrated fire attack launched by their own fleet, and their faces looked a little solemn.
It’s not for any other reason, it’s because the enemy not only has this set of innate divine artifacts with their own magical formations, but also has the protective formations on each of the large treasure ships.
As long as the opponent brings enough magic cores and soul beads, it is entirely possible to switch back and forth between the two protective formations.
As long as the enemy's treasure ships have enough time to replace the magic cores and soul beads consumed by their own attacks in time, the protective magic arrays of all the treasure ships of the Zheng family army can be maintained for a long time, firmly blocking the concentrated fire attacks of the Renaissance Army.
With the means the Restoration Army currently possesses, there is no way to stop the enemy, nor can it break through the defenses of the enemy fleet.
No matter how powerful Li Dingguo is, he is only a sixth-level practitioner. Even if he uses all his tricks, he cannot easily break through the enemy's turtle shell.
As for whether Zheng’s army will lack spiritual crystals such as magic cores and soul beads?
Given the Zheng family's wealth, this is absolutely impossible.
"Brother, no matter what, we can't let go of this huge hidden danger of the Zheng family army!"
Wan'er gritted her teeth and said to Li Dingguo with a stern look, "We can completely rely on our own military killing array and coordinate with the concentrated fire attack launched by the fleet to maintain a high-intensity attack on the enemy's large fleet!"
"If one day is not enough, then let's take ten days. I don't believe that we can't use up all the spiritual crystals stored on the treasure ship by the Zheng family army!"
“As peak level five practitioners, the three Zheng brothers would have to work very hard to maintain the innate magical formations that come with their life artifacts for a long time. Their own inner energy and divine thoughts would be greatly consumed.”
"They are only peak level 5 practitioners. Without enough time to recover, how long can they last?"
"When they are at the end of their strength, it will be the end of Zheng's fleet."
Wan'er is right.
No matter how talented a level five practitioner is or how strong his foundation is, his own cultivation is a fatal flaw.
As a person who has experienced this, Wan'er knows this better than anyone else.
Even if the Zheng family army carried enough magic cores on board to sustain the fleet's treasure ships for a long time, the soldiers of the Zheng family army, including Zheng Zhilong, had limited cultivation and could not maintain the high-intensity formation defense for long.
"Well, we have to take advantage of this opportunity to capture the Zheng family army's lair in one fell swoop and completely destroy them. It won't be a big problem if it takes a little more time."
After hearing this, Li Dingguo nodded and said, "The entire territory of Shandong will soon fall into our hands, at least within three months. Given the court's slow efficiency, it will be unable to launch a counterattack against our army in the short term."
"In terms of troop deployment, the Ming court, which is already stretched to the limit, will definitely dispatch the Guanning Army to the south to launch a counterattack against Qi and Lu."
"Even if our army is not here, with the 300,000 troops led by Xiao Shitou and the several new recruits that are being formed, it will not be a problem to hold the northern frontier of Shandong."
As the Fuxing Navy went to war with the Zheng family army, a large number of main forces were withdrawn. The only weakness of their side was the weak force guarding the land of Qi and Lu.
Although there are a large number of new recruits camps that continuously produce warriors and soldiers, they are still not enough to compare with a truly strong army.
Once their revived navy launched a relentless pursuit of Zheng's army and moved away from the land of Qi and Lu, their own shortcomings would be exposed.
Fortunately, the current Ming Dynasty is already crumbling, and the efficiency of changing orders every day is low. If it wants to draw a strong army to launch a counterattack on Qi and Lu, the action will inevitably be slow.
By the time the Ming court transferred the Guanning Army to the south, he had most likely ended the battle with Zheng's army, and returned to Shandong in time with Wan'er to fill the gap in defense.
After he finished discussing with Wan'er, he continued to command the fleet to maintain a safe distance from Zheng's fleet. He used the range advantage of the psychic cannons and the speed advantage of his own treasure ships to launch continuous concentrated fire attacks on Zheng's army which was shrouded in the innate formation.
Half an hour passed quietly as the two sides chased and fled.
As expected by Li Dingguo and Wan'er, the Zheng family army, which had replaced the energy of the treasure ship's formation in time, suddenly dispersed the innate protection formation that enveloped the fleet, and relied on the treasure ship's own protection formation that had recovered its full defense to withstand the artillery fire of the Fuxing Army and continued to flee south. The soldiers of the Zheng family army took the time to meditate and regulate their breathing, recovering from the huge consumption of maintaining the military killing formation and the innate protection formation.
This rotational defense method was obviously very effective and perfectly resisted the continuous and violent attacks of the Restoration Army.
"Brother, Li Dingguo and the Fuxing Army are too abominable!"
Zheng Zhihu's eyes flashed with ferocity, and he said to Zheng Zhilong viciously, "We have been defeated and have retreated. We have given up on continuing to attack the Qi and Lu regions in the north, but they are still insisting on it. They want to wipe out our Zheng family army!"
"Why don't the three of us brothers each lead an army of 200,000 soldiers, form a military killing formation and launch a counterattack. We can fight them head-on and see if this Fusion Army is really invincible!"
His tone was fierce, but he was actually nervous and a little uneasy.
To be honest, he didn't think he had any chance of winning in a head-on battle with the Fuxing Army led by Li Dingguo.
"Second brother is right!"
Zheng Zhibao, who was brutal and aggressive by nature, agreed immediately upon hearing this and said, "We have a 90,000-man black slave army. They are fearless and invulnerable. We are not afraid of Li Dingguo at all!"
"Since they don't want us to live, we might as well fight to the death!"
"So what if Li Dingguo is a level six warrior? The three of us brothers still have our own divine weapons. Even if we can't win, we can still retreat unscathed. It won't be too late to return to the fleet and evacuate southward."
"If we don't try to counterattack once, and then retreat back to Fuzhou Yuegang in disgrace, it will be unbearable no matter how you think about it!"
"Besides, judging from the Fuxing Army's posture, they are determined not to let our Zheng Family Army go."
Looking at the psychic cannons on the enemy's treasure ships surrounding their own fleet, which were constantly spitting out tongues of fire, and the psychic shells bombarding the treasure ships of their own fleet, not only the three brothers of the Zheng family were anxious and angry, but all the soldiers of the Zheng family's fleet were also equally aggrieved.
"This Li Dingguo is really going too far!"
Zheng Zhilong thought about it for a moment, and then he said angrily, "In this case, we will organize our soldiers and launch a counterattack against them!"
"It would be great if we can win. Even if we can't, protecting ourselves won't be a problem."
Since the Zheng family army dominated the southeast coast, they had never suffered such humiliation. Even if Zheng Zhilong wanted to admit defeat and retreat, he could not help it when he saw the enemy's relentless pursuit.
The three brothers had made up their mind, and then took advantage of the rare gap when the treasure ship was defending itself, each of them took a precious medicine, and meditated with all their strength to recover the huge consumption from before.
About a quarter of an hour later, the three Zheng brothers, who had recovered to their peak condition, suddenly stood up from the deck and gave orders in a hurry to prepare for a counterattack against the enemy.
When the energy of the protective formations of the treasure ships in their own fleet was once again consumed by more than half, the three legions of Zheng's army participating in the counterattack began to activate the military killing formations that they had prepared.
"hold head high!"……
As the silver dragon shadow formed by the martial arts images of the three Zheng brothers flashed, the aura in their bodies merged with that of the soldiers, and the bloody aura spread, enveloping all the soldiers of the Zheng family army who participated in the counterattack.
At the moment when the figures of the soldiers were hidden by the bloody aura, three silver dragons, each as big as six hundred feet, jumped from a top-grade treasure ship and pounced viciously towards the Renaissance Army fleet on the right!
"Ha ha……"
Seeing that the enemy could no longer bear it and began to counterattack using the Military Killing Formation, Li Dingguo smiled coldly and immediately activated the Military Killing Formation that he had prepared long ago.
"Dong dong!"
"Roar!"……
A dark yellow bell that was seven hundred feet in size and a white tiger mythical beast that was slightly smaller than the bell quickly took shape, leaped high into the air, and headed straight for the three incoming silver dragons!
Although they only dispatched two military killing formations, their power was no weaker than the three military killing formations of Zheng's army, and was even much stronger.
As for why the three military killing formations were not dispatched?
This was also a last resort.
In this revived navy, although the two commanders Liang Liping and He Lijing have reached the late fifth level of cultivation, they are obviously inferior to the three brothers of the Zheng family.
If the two of them were allowed to lead the military killing formation alone, there would be a great possibility that they would be defeated by the enemy, resulting in heavy casualties among the soldiers.
In terms of real foundation, this restoration army on the southeast coast is far inferior to the one entrenched in the northwest.
But now with Li Dingguo and Wan'er here, even if it's two against three, they are sure to win.
"Dinghai Divine Pearl, go!"
"Xuan Huang Chaos Bell, crash into it!"
"Fantian Yin, smash them to death!"
The five huge beasts were sailing towards each other on the rough sea, and in the blink of an eye, they closed the distance to about five miles. They all used their most powerful killing abilities and their own divine weapons and rushed towards each other fiercely!
"Dong dong..."
The first to show its power was undoubtedly Li Dingguo's Xuanhuang Chaos Bell.
This dark yellow bell, which was greatly amplified by the army's own formation, triggered a sonic attack that was faster than lightning.
In an instant, deafening bell sounds swept towards the three silver dragons in front, enveloping them completely!
"Boom..."
After a burst of extremely dull sound, the silver dragon, which had relied on the power of the military formation to withstand this wave of attacks, managed to block the invasion of the bell sound safely, but its rapid forward momentum was blocked.
At this time, the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell and the Fantian Seal, which were following closely behind, had already arrived in front of the three silver dragons that were coming with great momentum, and collided fiercely with the twenty-four Dinghai Divine Pearls that the three Zheng brothers had activated with the help of the military formation!
"when!"……
There was a sharp explosion, and both sides' innate magical weapons were blown away on the spot by the huge shock wave, and even two huge puddles with a radius of a thousand feet were blown up on the sea surface!
The difference is that the Xuanhuang Chaos Bell and the Fantian Seal were thrown back about two miles, while the twenty-four Dinghai Divine Pearls were thrown back a full three miles!
After a straightforward head-on clash, it was clear that the Fuxing Army had the upper hand, while the Zheng Army was slightly at a disadvantage.
This battle situation did not surprise Li Dingguo.
The military killing formation led by a mid-level sixth-level cultivator was, unsurprisingly, more powerful than the Zheng family army's soldiers who had a numerical advantage.
In this head-on confrontation between quality and quantity, the Zheng family army, which had slightly more soldiers, was slightly inferior.
(End of this chapter)
