Chapter 458: Futile Struggle, Defend Yourself and Wait for Help
"The one coming is a powerful enemy with level six cultivation!"
Fan Yubin looked at the enemy who suddenly attacked him and was immediately horrified. "Moreover, the formation set up by the other party exudes a strong innate aura."
"This powerful attacker is using a set of innate divine artifacts and beads. He is most likely Hongmei, the chief steward of the Renaissance Army!"
During his time as the head of the Fan family in the interior of the country, he spent a lot of manpower and resources to collect information about the Fuxing Army.
Among them were several core generals of the Renaissance Army.
Therefore, I am quite familiar with the news that Hongmei has a set of innate gem artifacts.
"Didn't they say that Hongmei's natal divine artifact beads only have twelve? Now there are actually thirty-six of them!"
"He waves his hands to form a formation, and it is a set of incredibly powerful innate divine weapons with innate formations. This is the rhythm of destroying my Fan family!"
Fan Yubin, who has an innate top-grade spiritual treasure and a cash cow in his possession, is naturally very familiar with the aura of the innate artifact.
That was why he felt so desperate after seeing Hongmei wave her hand and set up a super powerful innate formation.
He couldn't help but be terrified, because the enemy's innate magic weapon, which came with its own innate formation, was so powerful that it far exceeded all the formations he had ever seen.
After the Fuxing Army occupied a large area in the northern part of the Yellow River, the Fan family was forced to quickly evacuate from the Fuxing Army's territory. More than 90% of the core members of the family have come to Liaodong and gathered in the Fan family manor outside the Shengjing city.
This is also a helpless choice.
After the Guannei territory north of the Yellow River was completely occupied by the Fuxing Army, these big Shanxi merchants completely lost their base.
Naturally, the aristocratic families and wealthy merchants in the south would not be polite and humble enough to invite the big Shanxi merchants to settle down in the Jiangnan region and share their own trade and financial routes.
They were already quite friendly by not taking advantage of the situation to destroy these big Shanxi merchants. How could they possibly allow the desperate Shanxi merchants to move south and develop stably?
It can be said that there are no good men and women in the noble families, there is only endless greed and swordplay.
So after weighing the pros and cons, Fan Yubin and Fan Wencheng, after urgent discussions, decided to evacuate most of the Fan family's personnel and materials to Liaodong as soon as possible, and to wholeheartedly join Huang Taiji's Later Jin clan.
Unexpectedly, this decision has now brought real disaster to the Fan family.
The few core members of the Fan family who were left were suddenly discovered by Hongmei before they evacuated Shengjing City. Hongmei activated the innate sea-covering formation that came with her life-saving artifact, the Dinghai Divine Pearl, and surrounded them tightly!
It is impossible to say that this has nothing to do with the fact that the fortunes of the Fan family plummeted after the successive attacks by Li Dingguo.
The fortune of Li Dingguo's Fuxing Army soared during this period, while the fortune of the Fan family fell to the bottom. This resulted in the Fan family suddenly facing a devastating disaster at the critical moment when they were planning to escape.
"It is better to arrive at the right time than to arrive early."
Hongmei had never expected that, on a whim today, she decided to go out and check the surrounding situation of Shengjing City in person, but ended up easily catching the big fish of the Fan family!
I became even happier when I saw a large convoy of tens of thousands of people, which seemed to be heading off on a long journey.
If Li Dingguo and Hongmei had any mortal enemies, the Fan family would definitely be ranked in the top three!
During the rise of the Renaissance Army, the two sides have fought openly and covertly countless times.
Although Li Dingguo won easily every time from beginning to end, both Li Dingguo and Hongmei hated the big Shanxi merchant family.
"Huh? The new head of the Fan family, Fan Yubin, actually also has a very good innate divine weapon?"
Looking at the tree-shaped artifact that flashed out from the opponent's body and hovered above her head to protect its master under the suppression of the innate sea-covering formation she had set up, Hongmei said inwardly with some surprise.
The Military Intelligence Department of the Fuxing Army had already collected the latest intelligence on the Fan family, including more than one copy of the portraits of the core members of the Fan family, including Fan Wencheng and Fan Yubin.
As the chief steward of the Renaissance Army, Hongmei had naturally seen their portraits. It was not surprising that she could recognize the two leaders of the Fan family at a glance.
However, she really could not have imagined that the Fan family, which had been repeatedly suppressed and targeted by the commander-in-chief, actually had such a foundation.
This is enough to prove how huge the family fortune accumulated by the Fan family was in the past.
"All the warriors of the Fan family, listen up. Follow me and launch a concentrated fire attack to break the enemy's formation!"
Realizing that the Fan family was in danger of extinction, Fan Yubin tried to struggle desperately. On the one hand, he was using all his strength to activate his own divine weapon, the Money Tree, to resist the crushing of the opponent's innate formation. On the other hand, he used his full spiritual power and shouted loudly, so that his voice could be clearly heard by all his warriors on the scene.
This legendary general manager of the Renaissance Army, Hongmei, is powerful and has a set of innate magical weapons, but she is just a human being.
If we launch a counterattack in time, we will most likely be able to break the innate formation set up by the opponent.
"Ha ha……"
"Ridiculous!"
Hongmei smiled coldly, and used her full spiritual power to communicate with the thirty-six Dinghai Divine Pearls of her life artifact, and immediately activated the innate magical formation that came with this artifact!
Although there are more than 10,000 warriors from the Fan family gathered here, they are not elite soldiers, but just a group of rabble.
If they wanted to launch a counterattack, it would be impossible for them to do so as quickly as the elite soldiers.
To put it bluntly, even if Hongmei asked them to form a formation, it would take at least an incense stick of time.
Will Hongmei watch the other side form a formation and counterattack?
This is of course impossible.
"Buzz..."
When the many warriors of the Fan family, led by Fan Yubin, began to flash and fly, preparing to form a formation to meet the enemy, the innate sea-covering formation that Hongmei had already arranged, and the killing power was fully activated!
"Woooo..."
One after another, azure blue gem artifacts, each dozens of feet in size, began to flash around the entire Fan family manor, making a whistling sound in the wind and drawing extremely mysterious tracks. They rose and fell, and began to bombard the Fan family members in the formation!
The speed of these Dinghai Divine Pearls was as fast as lightning. With the help of their own magical power formations, they continuously bombarded groups of Fan family members!
"puff!"……
In an instant, countless members of the Fan family, servants and guards were smashed to pieces on the spot, turning into blood mist that spread out, and the Fan family manor, which was enveloped in the entire formation space, turned into a hell on earth!
The Innate Sea-Covering Array, as the name suggests, can even overturn the ocean. Even with Hongmei's current level six mid-stage cultivation, she can only mobilize a trace of its power, which is simply not something that the Fan family can withstand.
"what!"
"No!"……
The large convoy consisting of tens of thousands of Fan family warriors and tens of thousands of Fan family personnel that had been assembled was bombarded to pieces in an instant. They were simply unable to organize themselves into a formation to fight back, and more than half of them were killed or injured in just a few moments!
"Bang!"... Fan Yubin, who was the main target of Hongmei, was hit by a series of critical strikes from twelve Dinghai Divine Pearls. Not only did the light shield formed by his innate divine weapon become shaky, but under the critical strikes from the Dinghai Divine Pearls, he was like a ball being kicked back and forth, his body rising and falling back and forth in the air, without even the slightest ability to fight back.
"Master, our Fan family is finished, it's finished!"
Fan Wencheng, who was protected by Fan Yubin's innate divine shield, saw the one-sided battle and screamed in agony with a pale face.
At this time, he could no longer withstand the continuous bombardment of the Dinghai Divine Pearl. He vomited blood mouthful after mouthful. Various fragments of his life flashed through his mind. There was a lot of unwillingness in his dazed and frightened eyes.
“Bang!”…
At this moment, the twelve Dinghai Shenzhen Pearls, driven by Hongmei's full strength, formed a long string of azure light, like mountains, bombarding the protective light shield formed by the money tree one after another!
"Crackling..."
Fan Yubin, whose internal energy had been exhausted, no longer had the strength left to maintain the energy provided to his natal artifact. Under the continuous bombardment of the gems, the golden light shield formed by the money tree protecting its master shattered!
"what……"
"No!"……
Amid the miserable screams of uncle and nephew Fan Wencheng and Fan Yubin, a Dinghai Divine Pearl with a radius of one hundred feet hit the two men who had lost the protection of their own divine artifacts, blasting them all on the spot and turning them into blood mist that drifted away!
"Dinghai Divine Pearl, suppress!"
"Innate Spiritual Fire, Purification!"
After Hongmei successfully killed Fan Wencheng and Fan Yubin, uncle and nephew, she saw that the tree-shaped artifact that had lost its owner was trying to escape through the air, so she immediately activated the twelve Dinghai Divine Pearls to form a small innate covering sea formation, which suppressed it firmly.
Then he raised his hand and sent out a golden and red spiritual fire, which began to burn and purify the blood mist floating at the scene!
The strength of Hongmei's innate spiritual fire is only slightly weaker than Li Dingguo's, and even stronger than Wan'er's.
After the flames swept across the sky, not only was all the blood mist at the scene burned away, but even the tree-shaped innate artifact that was suppressed by the twelve Dinghai Divine Pearls was wrapped in the blazing flames and burned and purified.
Most of Hongmei's spiritual power was still in control of the innate sea-covering formation, launching indiscriminate attacks on the remaining members of the Fan family.
About a quarter of an hour later, all the enemies in the huge Fan family manor were killed by the astonishingly powerful innate formation, and this one-sided battle finally ended.
The tree-shaped innate divine artifact that was suppressed by the Dinghai Divine Pearl formation was also burned and purified by Hongmei using her own spiritual fire.
Of course, this only cleared the imprint of Fan Yubin's spiritual thoughts and blood essence. If one wanted to completely eliminate all the unknown hidden dangers in it, he would have to hand it over to Li Dingguo and use the internal innate formation of his natal artifact, the cauldron, to carry out a thorough burning and purification.
"receive!"
Hongmei then summoned her own divine weapon, the Earth Emperor Stone, and stored this tree-shaped artifact and the carriages, horses, treasures and supplies left by the Fan family at the scene in batches into the internal space of the Earth Emperor Stone.
The three space artifacts of the Fuxing Army are now in the hands of Li Dingguo, Wan'er and Hongmei respectively.
Hongmei has now removed seven seals on the Earth Emperor Stone, and the internal space of the artifact has expanded to a radius of ten thousand feet, which is enough to easily store the wealth and supplies here.
"Fan family, hehe..."
This time, the Fan family was officially exterminated. The few remaining members of the Fan family scattered throughout the interior were just side branches and would never make any waves again.
As the Fusion Army continues to capture cities and territories, they will not be able to hide for long before they are caught and cleaned up by the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which has now expanded to a million people.
After destroying the great enemy, the Fan family, Hongmei suddenly felt refreshed. Then, with her mind fully focused, she plundered the large manor once again. She then flew onto the back of her mount, the golden eagle, and continued to fly towards the surrounding areas of Shengjing City.
A total of twenty brigades of the Fuxing Army, consisting of fifty thousand soldiers, were sweeping around Shengjing City. Countless Tartar villages and pastures were cleared out and wiped out.
The area around Shengjing City at this time was not much different from hell on earth.
In less than ten days, the number of Tatar soldiers and civilians wiped out by the one million soldiers of the Renaissance Army exceeded tens of millions!
The reason why such fruitful results were achieved in such a short period of time was mainly because after the Tatars captured Liaodong, at least 30% of the Tatar soldiers and civilians chose to live in Shengjing City and its surrounding areas, and the density of entrances was very high.
If Huang Taiji knew all this, he would most likely vomit blood and faint on the spot.
However, this round of blitzkrieg against the Tatars has just begun.
Another three days passed, and the million soldiers of the Renaissance Army, who had completed the cleanup of the area surrounding Shengjing City, had gathered outside the four gates of Shengjing City and surrounded it.
"General Manager, the Tartar soldiers in Shengjing City, after urgently evacuating more than one million Tartar soldiers and civilians from the surrounding areas into Shengjing City, chose to close the city gates and hold on."
A hundred miles outside the south gate of Shengjing City, Li Mei, the commander of the Imperial Guards, reported to Hong Mei, "I saw that Daishan, the leader of the Tatars in Shengjing City, knew that he was no match for our army, so he chose to hold on and wait for help."
"He wants to delay until Huang Taiji returns to the army, hoping to turn defeat into victory."
Since taking over as the commander of the Royal Guard Corps, Li Mei has gone through countless battles and has long been a qualified corps commander.
She had done a lot of research on the Tatar Prince Li Daishan and understood some of his character.
"Humph!"
You Shilu on the side snorted disdainfully, "Daishan has a nice idea, but can he defend Shengjing City just because he wants to?"
"Our army has gathered more than a thousand field artillery here. As long as we bombard continuously for several days, I believe we will be able to break the defense formation of this Tartar capital!"
"All the spirit birds that flew out of Shengjing City have been hunted down by several level six spirit birds of our army. It will take at least half a month for Huang Taiji to get the news of our blitzkrieg in Liaodong."
"Plus, Huang Taiji's army has penetrated deep into Goguryeo, and the journey back is more than 100,000 miles. How can they rescue Shengjing in time?"
Although there is no wall that is impenetrable, Liaodong is the Tartars' old nest and has a large population. It is impossible to hide the news of the Fuxing Army's violent offensive for too long, but it is not a problem to at least delay it for a while.
The Fuxing Army had made full preparations for its surprise attack on Liaodong this time, and had long considered the top priority of capturing Shengjing City.
During the past half month of the major cleanup of the area surrounding Shengjing City, the logistics department has not been idle. It has found ways to urgently transport thousands of land-based artillery specifically to target the Tartar's city defense formation.
The concentrated fire attack launched by thousands of psychic cannons would forcibly break Shengjing City’s defense formation in no time, even if it was very powerful.
(End of this chapter)
