Chapter 919: The Best Defense Is Offense

Transcendent Laboratory!

Three hundred floors underground!

"Your Majesty, what do you mean by suddenly ordering the entire army to attack Red Water City?"

The five Eighth Realm War Gods practically felt that Lin Lei had gone insane, Xuan Zheng said:

"Just a mere Red Water City, the enemy numbers are less than two million. We only need to send four million, and in half a day we can annihilate the enemy and take Red Water City. Using the full strength of the Eternal Kingdom to attack Red Water City—isn’t that making a mountain out of a molehill?"

Lin Lei sat on the sofa, smoking, leisurely saying:

"I’ve figured it out. Huang Quan is definitely planning to turn Red Water City into Headquarters. So all the grain in the Grain Storage Base in the Royal City, as well as the enemy’s grain, are in Red Water City. My order to use the full national strength to attack Red Water City has three purposes:"

"First, annihilate the enemy forces inside Red Water City;"

"Second, seize all the grain in Red Water City and bring it back;"

"Third, for over two thousand years, the Eternal Kingdom has never had a war. I want all Martial Artists on King Island to go to Red Water City and experience what war feels like, and at the same time raise morale a bit."

After hearing this, the five Eighth Realm War Gods finally saw the light!

Xuan Zheng dropped to one knee: "Your Majesty is wise!"

The other four Eighth Realm War Gods also went down on one knee: "Your Majesty is wise!"

Lin Lei put out his cigarette, stood up looking completely relaxed and said:

"Let’s go, we’ll go watch the show."

Xuan Zheng and the other four immediately followed Lin Lei out of the Transcendent Laboratory, unhurriedly drove out of the Royal City, and stopped beneath a signal tower eighty li east of the Royal City’s east gate.

The six of them climbed the 250-meter-high signal tower, and with one glance saw the densely packed more than twenty million people, roaring as they charged toward Red Water City from all directions.

Because it was nighttime, and on top of that they were too far from Red Water City, they weren’t worried at all about being seen by the people in the city.

"Magnificent sight!"

Lin Lei sighed once, then laughed as he said:

"Ever since the enemy broke into Biluo Island, this is the Eternal Kingdom’s first counterattack. This battle concerns the confidence of all Martial Artists on the island, so it must be won. Of course, there’s absolutely no reason we could lose, right?"

"Facing more than twenty million Martial Artists, even with Huang Quan sitting in Red Water City, they still won’t be able to hold." Xuan Zheng laughed.

The other four Eighth Realm War Gods also laughed.

"Boom!"

Right at that moment, the sound of a cannon opened the curtain on the war.

Then a dense series of explosions rang out.

In the sights of Lin Lei and the five Eighth Realm War Gods, Shells continuously fired from inside Red Water City, falling into the crowds charging toward the city from all sides, countless corpses and severed limbs blasted skyward.

Lin Lei chuckled: "Looks like Huang Quan has been pushed to the limit and has no choice but to use Shells and other hot weapons to kill. But after the previous battle, how much ammunition does Red Water City still have left? With this little Elixir, how many people can they kill? I’m afraid before they finish firing off all their Elixir, at Martial Artists’ speed they’ll already have rushed up to the walls of Red Water City."

Xuan Zheng laughed and said: "Really wish we could take a closer look at the enemy troops in Red Water City, at their despairing expressions. Huang Quan’s face must be spectacular right about now too!"

"Hahahahaha!" Lin Lei and the other four Eighth Realm War Gods burst into wanton laughter.

Tut-tut-tut-tut...

Just then, the sound of machine guns rang out.

That meant the enemy vanguard had already approached Red Water City, entering machine gun range.

"That is..." Xuan Zheng suddenly cried out in shock.

Lin Lei and the other four Eighth Realm War Gods were also greatly shocked.

They saw countless arrows formed from flames, earth, and water, shooting together with the machine gun bullets toward the King Island Martial Artist army.

Long narrow deep trenches suddenly appeared under the feet of the crowd of Martial Artists in the King Island army, countless Martial Artists stepped into thin air and fell into the pits;

From the ground surged out a mass of earth-condensed arms more than twenty meters long; with a casual sweep, each arm cleared the Martial Artists within a radius of more than twenty meters;

The water in Red Water City’s moat boiled up, transforming into Hong Feng, surging toward the King Island Martial Artist army;

Huge Fireballs with a diameter of two meters fell from the sky like meteorites, smashing into the crowds of the King Island Martial Artist army;

"Where did the enemy get so many Water System, Fire System, Earth System Totem Inheritors? There must be fifty or sixty thousand of them, right?" Lin Lei said in shock.

Just one wave of attack from so many Totem Inheritors would kill or injure at least two hundred thousand people in the King Island army.

"The enemy that attacked Red Water City before was nowhere near this strong. If the enemy had attacked the city with this level of strength from the start, the people in Red Water City wouldn’t have had time to retreat to the Royal City, they’d have been completely wiped out long ago." Xuan Zheng said harshly.

"Looks like when the enemy attacked before, they weren’t going all out."

"If it keeps going like this, even if we manage to take Red Water City and wipe out all the enemy forces, how many will we have to lose?"

"Those charging at the very front are all War Gods. Everyone below War God is running all over and following behind the War Gods. That is to say, those being killed or maimed are all War Gods."

"Fourth Realm War Gods are fine, they have copper skin and iron bones, at most they’ll be wounded. But First, Second, and Third Realm War Gods are in real trouble."

Lin Lei and the five Eighth Realm War Gods could no longer laugh; the strength of Red Water City was far greater than they’d imagined.

In fact, Ye Xiu hadn’t expected this either. He only told Qin Qing to stall for twelve hours, he didn’t expect Qin Qing to use offense as a means of defense.

"Crack!"

Right then, a bolt of Thunder fell from the sky into the King Island Martial Artist army.

Then dark clouds gathered in the air, Thunder poured down like torrential rain, instantly blasting a crowd of people to death.

"Huang Quan or Lei Busi has made a move."

Lin Lei’s face grew a shade darker.

"Your Majesty, let us make a move too. Any one of us can reduce the army’s casualties by a hundred thousand." Xuan Zheng requested to fight.

The other four Eighth Realm War Gods were about to follow and request to fight.

They were directly and decisively refused by Lin Lei: "No. Once we make a move, Huang Quan will personally take the field. If the six of us join forces, can we withstand Huang Quan’s attacks for one minute? If we make a move, we die for sure!"

Xuan Zheng and the other five fell silent!

Lin Lei was telling the truth!

But!

Their clansmen had also joined the attack on Red Water City. At this rate, how many of their clansmen would be left when the war ended?

"Not good, Your Majesty, our army’s charge has suddenly slowed, some local sectors of the battlefield are in chaos, some people have started fleeing in all directions..." Xuan Zheng suddenly said.

"Pass the order to attack at full strength. Anyone who dares to become a deserter will be executed, Sha Wushe." Lin Lei said coldly.

The faces of Xuan Zheng and the other five turned black on the spot, Xuan Zheng asked:

"Your Majesty, how do we pass the order?"

Lin Lei was dumbstruck!

There were no mobile phones, and the army wasn’t carrying telegraphs with them. His orders couldn’t be transmitted at all!

Shout?

Heh, don’t dare!

What if he shouted Huang Quan over?

"It’s bad, the fear of battle is spreading through the army like a plague. More and more people are stopping in place, or scattering and fleeing."

"The enemy’s offensive is too fierce, the destructive power too great. Our strongest are only Fourth Realm, there isn’t a single Fifth, Sixth, or Seventh Realm. Whoever rushes in front is the first to die, no one dares to charge anymore."

"The entire army has stopped and is retreating, no one dares to charge!"

Lin Lei’s face at that moment was so dark it could be wrung to drip two catties of blood.

Earlier he’d still been confidently saying it would be easy to annihilate the enemy in Red Water City, yet more than twenty million Martial Artists hadn’t even touched the gates or walls of Red Water City before suffering countless casualties, and all of them were too terrified to attack!

This was the Eternal Kingdom’s first counterattack;

This was the Eternal Kingdom’s first battle to boost morale;

It was just going to end like this?

No!

It absolutely could not end like this!