Chapter 239: Breaking into the Formation
The battle near the enemy camp lasted less than five hours from the time the corpse ambush appeared, which was significantly shorter than expected. However, in such a short period of time, not only the 30,000 troops of the four 7,500-strong regiments that were initially put into the attack, together with the fifty-six commanders and deputy commanders, were almost completely wiped out under Zhang Fan's continuous pursuit and killing, and even the two regiments as reserve forces were also subjected to Zhang Fan's continuous purges.
Under Zhang Fan's unique psychic power illusion, some ordinary minions who are not the chief and deputy commanders seem to have the illusion that they are dying and are about to strike the last blow, and their own situation is very good, which allows Zhang Fan to reap the results of the battle more efficiently without spending a lot of energy chasing around.
In this way, the 45,000 corpse army, including more than eighty officers, was almost completely wiped out in just one day's engagement. Even in some key offensive years, the "full-front engagement day" reached this level of loss, and the whole army only paid the price of more than 40 casualties, including more than 10 killed, and more than 20 people were reduced.
Obviously, this result is actually a level stronger than Zhang Fan's previous record of only being able to help the legion solve the crisis. Looking back on the entire battle process, the reason was not unexpected: although theoretically speaking, the Refining Void Extreme Realm was only about fifteen grades ahead of the enemies whose average strength was about the seventh grade of Refining Void, and theoretically could only deal with a combined formation of about 32,000 people, but in fact, because of the unique attack method limitations of this Refining Void Realm, it was difficult for more than 2,000 troops to act on the same point at the same time, not to mention that when the difference in cultivation reached a certain level, it would also have an invincible immune effect on those monks who were too low-level. In this way, Zhang Fan only showed the strength of refining the Void Extreme Realm, and the comprehensive effect it brought was not 32,000 people, but a combat group with more than 500,000 troops.
After the end of the war, the actual command of the entire 185th Army undoubtedly fell into the hands of Zhang Fan. Although it seems that there is no such rule on paper, Guo Kun and the others certainly understand that a master of the Void Refining Extreme Realm is only inferior in status to the legion leader who is forbidden to enter the Void Refining Battlefield, and of course has a great degree of dominance over the entire legion.
"Do you want to continue to attack the right flank?" Guo Kun suddenly asked at this time. On the entire front, the 185th Army was located relative to the left flank, only not on the far left. In the eyes of many people, the best option to maximize the battle success is to attack along the battle line, constantly breaking the opponent's army along the way, so that even in the unfavorable situation of the battle, you can withdraw to the front at any time.
"The strength of the whole army has increased greatly because of me, and I estimate that the weight of strength is about one-tenth of the total strength of the enemy. If our army continues to carry out a war of attrition on the front line without the possibility of annihilation of us, I am afraid that it will not be long before the upper echelons of the other side are likely to raise objections to us, and at that time I may have to leave the battlefield prematurely and have to go to the battlefield of the legendary Fusion Plane. At the same time, I am also very worried that too much change in the battle line will cause many troops in the rear to forget the overall strength of the two sides and act rashly. And if we go alone, we risk attracting more enemy forces to engage our army, giving them reason to think that they can annihilate us... When Zhang Fan said this, he suddenly remembered something, and changed his original mind.
Obviously: the current self is like a top master in the martial arts world who can rival the army of ten thousand armies suddenly appeared in the historical overhead, this kind of character may be okay in the main battle of hundreds of thousands of troops, if it is like Li Ling to lead a team on an expedition alone, it is definitely the most wrong use.
"Hurry back to the camp now! Don't worry, I don't have the status of a commander, and even if I have a huge record, I will definitely have your share. If you follow me, you may be able to inflict great losses on the whole team at any time, and during the march: your speed and even concealment ability cannot keep up with me, so it is easy to affect the characters who bring the most damage to the enemy camp. It might be more convenient for me to go into enemy territory alone to do something... ”
Hearing Zhang Fan say this, Guo Kun and the others, who were not stupid, also understood a thing or two, and there were no complaints. After all, a master of the Void Refining Extreme Realm who was far from the same level as himself was qualified to say so.
In this way, Zhang Fan quickly flew out of the camp, even if the gravity environment on this refining battlefield was different, he seemed to have returned to the era of being an inner master on the West Sea Continent, and the speed of running at full speed was enough to have the speed of the cheetah's limit, and in less than three hours, about six hours or so, he came to an area where the center of the corpse army's entire front was the most densely populated.
On a 1,500-kilometer front, the opposing side has deployed a total of 400 corps of about 7,500 men with about 3 million troops, and within an area of only about 50 kilometers in the most dense central direction, in addition to the 75,000 troops of the 10 scattered army corps, there are also 40 corps with a total of about 300,000 troops. If the strength of the Boundless Continent on the entire front is relatively strong as it gets closer to the two wings, then the Corpse Clan's side is obviously the strongest in terms of strength and even the elite level, but it is in the central direction.
In fact, with Zhang Fan's existing spiritual power cultivation, if he used the stealth technique, he could be completely invisible in front of opponents at these levels, even if the opponent's commander or even the master of the main army was difficult to discover. It's just that if that happens, Zhang Fan is very suspicious that the high-level on the other side may not be able to continue to stay on the battlefield of refining the void with the fact that he actually has the ability of a merging stage cultivator.
Therefore, Zhang Fan only allowed his stealth ability to maintain the opponent's stealth ability while slowing down slightly, and it was difficult for ordinary soldiers to find out, and those who had the ability to discover their abilities outside the effective combat distance were only some masters of the other party's main and deputy commanders, and some of the more prominent personal soldiers around the opponent's main and deputy commanders. In this way, his actions were quickly discovered by the enemy camp.
The enemy's Chinese army array, with the same ability to communicate ideas, obviously made an effective response in the face of the arrival of such a strange master, and made the entire army concentrate at a faster speed, and in a not too long time, the 300,000 troops were densely concentrated in a distance of only about 700 meters.
In this case, in addition to the four hundred or so masters who were concentrated on the periphery and even some other personal soldiers and other masters in the enemy camp, there were 200 masters who cultivated on average to the realm of refining the Void Fourteen Rank and fifty people were one foot, forming a four-way street, surrounded Zhang Fan with a general fan, and it seemed that they also had a good speed on the whole. Zhang Fan actually lowered his speed when he was close to the area within the opponent's reconnaissance range, and at this time, he suddenly accelerated under his feet and caught the opponent off guard.
Soon, Zhang Fan cut into the battle formation of those strong enemies from the nearest flank, and under his lightning-like attack, almost every second, one or two opponents who refined the thirteenth to fifteenth rank or so were directly broken by himself to break through the key point in the central palace position of the henchman. Subsequently, the body materials of these people were also packed into special storage bags by Zhang Fan.
Of course, this also affected the speed of cleaning up the opponent to a certain extent, after all, in the realm of refining the void and barren, there is only a gap of about seven to nine grades, and it is not easy and fast to solve the opponent as easily and quickly as killing some ants in seconds.
After killing and injuring the forty or so corpse clan monks in one of the fifty teams in less than half a minute, the corpse clan armies in other directions also gathered at this time, forming a fierce phalanx of about one hundred and fifty people, and when the guidelines within a range of only ten meters cooperated with each other to defend with group javelins, even Zhang Fan easily broke into this range without revealing his true cultivation to directly confront the opponent's close formation. Obviously: in the face of the Void Refining Extreme Realm, the hundreds of people formed by the Refining Void Fourteenth Rank Cultivators were far from being comparable to the thousands of military formations of the Refining Void Seven or Eight Rank Cultivators.
Of course, Zhang Fan also quickly discovered the flaw: for himself, although the mid-range frontal combat ability of these enemy formations is very strong, it is a completely different matter in the face of throwing attacks...
Thinking of this, Zhang Fan took advantage of his maneuvering speed to attack the main formation of the enemy battalion, and did not pay attention to those ordinary minions, but went straight to a car formation where javelins were hoarding, and directly fixed the seventy javelins with the corpse of an enemy commander and carried them behind him to re-approach the enemy formation. This time, Zhang Fan still seems to have a certain advantage in mobility.
"I don't know if this javelin, which usually comes to deal with small soldiers, is good at dealing with these thousand-commander level masters in my own hands at this time... ”
Thinking of this, Zhang Fan's heel sank firmly into the soil with a little force on his hind legs, and the javelin in his hand attacked the target in just about a second at a speed like a sound, and under Zhang Fan's obvious superior control, the standard javelin accurately hit the middle part of the opponent's body. Some javelins are blocked by shields, while others are not, and in most cases, when hitting the body of a corpse commander who is far from being comparable to ordinary soldiers, the lack of strength of the javelin, which is specially planned to attack ordinary soldiers, is exposed, and it often shatters one after another from the blade to the spear shaft when it hits the enemy's shield or the strongest armored part of the body.
However, under the huge kinetic energy and even impulse, the javelins that were constantly destroyed finally formed a random mass and continued to impact forward, and finally formed countless small and concentrated fragments, like a high-pressure flow of water, bending the opponent's armored and shielded body and breaking through the defense... From the outside, it looked as if it had been attacked by some kind of exploding javelin.
Under such a continuous attack, in just a minute or so, sixty-five strong enemies were either killed or injured under their own attacks, and less than one percent were lucky enough to resist or dodge.
When the number of the enemy formation dropped to less than 100 people, it was obvious that his threat ability was greatly reduced, at this time, Zhang Fan did not care to attack the large array that still had more than 90 commanders and deputy commanders, when the opponent's level of masters exceeded 100 people, it may be more difficult, but when the number of opponents gathered was less than 100 people, Zhang Fan seemed to be at ease without exposing the cultivation beyond the cultivation of the Refining Void Extreme Realm, flexibly walking through the edge of the opponent's effective attack distance, constantly capturing the javelins thrown by the opponent and continuously throwing them back。
At the very beginning, Zhang Fan was still hitting the snake-headed javelin that flew over one after another, and he had to spend some energy on his body to take the initiative to pretend to make some traces, but when the number of the other party was weakened to less than seventy, Zhang Fan seemed to have absolute control over the entire scene, and began to be not afraid to attack these opponents with higher efficiency through flexible footwork and even continuous attacks at a very close distance. After a fierce battle of less than five minutes or so, this group of enemy masters who were gradually gathering were wiped out by themselves.
Of course, taking advantage of this opportunity, the enemy's battalion formation seemed to have made a decision that was difficult to make up before, especially seeing that Zhang Fan's strength was able to resist the siege of two hundred commanders and deputy commanders forming a complete battle formation, and won the upper hand in such a short period of time.
Zhang Fan was glad that the speed of clearing the previous opponent was quite fast while maintaining the Refining Void Extreme Realm, and at this time, he quickly changed his previous train of thought, and began to use his illusion with all his might, and to contain the rout of the enemy army formation that had just had a tendency to collapse to the greatest extent.
All of a sudden, many ordinary soldiers of the corpse clan army seemed to feel that the reinforcements from the rear were coming, forcing the legendary Terran master to show his form, and he was constantly suppressed. The clarion call for regrouping seems to have sounded at this time.
Zhang Fan changed his previous strategy, first of all, he did not pursue the complete elimination of the other party, but used close mental power attacks to continuously make the ordinary enemy soldiers around him fall into a brief coma, so as to give himself the opportunity to control the enemy's rout to the greatest extent, and give himself time to clean up the other officer leaders in the enemy army with continuous javelin attacks. Of course, Zhang Fan also understands that perhaps only in this way can he maximize the results in this crucial battle.