538 Crippled Liu Ping, Beginning of Navy Warfare (1/2)
Everyone in the Sun Clan group wasn't worried about Lu Meng's notification since it was only a skeleton at first. As they had destroyed 20,000 evolved bone soldiers, they thought that it was another weakling that slipped through their nets.
However, another member of the group didn't let her guard down. Diaochan, as the leader of this faction, immediately checked this entity with her immortal sight.
And she discovered the person she was looking for!
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Diaochan: ”Heads up! That skeleton is the reincarnation of Emperor Liu Ping! Do not let him get away! Kill him before he causes more harm to our people!”
Although Diaochan wanted to capture Liu Ping's soul, the skeleton's evolution ability was a threat. She couldn't afford to let Ping get any stronger, or he would become a thorn to Tong and his allies.
For now, she wanted Liu Ping to be sent away to the reincarnation river. Even if he reincarnated again, she could apprehend him when he was a baby. Then, Tong, Medusa, and Friday could cripple or imprison him for the rest of eternity.
Diaochan: ”Shangxiang, use everything to kill Liu Ping!”
Sun Shangxiang: ”Roger that, dear mom.”
Diaochan: ”…”
Everyone: ”…”
…
Sun Quan, Sun Shangxiang, Huang Gai, and all generals rushed to help Lu Meng. When they arrived, they found the skeleton, who had climbed up from the moat. As for the zombie corpses, they already disappeared.
”What happened here?” Asked Sun Quan.
Lu Meng's face was dark. The damage in his lung wasn't completely healed yet, ”That skeleton is stronger than the rest of them. It can emit poison gas.”
Without waiting for others to make the first move, Sun Shangxiang activated her homing arrow skill and empowered it with her 7-wing aura. 50 Light arrows flew toward Liu Ping.
*BOOM* *BOOM*
*BOOM* *BOOM*
Liu Ping's skeletons shattered into pieces in an instant. 10 of the arrows destroyed Ping's skull.
Liu Ping was unable to retaliate. He collapsed on the ground, and his spirit eyes dimmed. The purple gas dispersed afterward.
”That's it?” Sun Shangxiang was disappointed, ”I thought he was stronger than this.”
Sun Quan shrugged, ”You're the strongest cultivator among us. If he's stronger than you, we would have died ages ago.”
Everybody nodded in agreement. If the skeleton could withstand Hua Shi's attack, then they would need Diaochan, Li Feihong, and Liu Yang's help.
”Bah, boring. Let's clean up the battlefield. We need to extinguish the fire before it spread.”
Sun Shangxiang led the generals to the fortress. They had a lot of work to do.
…
A month passed since the annihilation of the undead army.
Everyone believed that Liu Ping had been vanquished. He should have passed on, and the soul should have entered Lilim's reincarnation river.
*Pu*
5 meters underground, a piece of bone absorbed soil nutrition and the buried corpses.
Bones, rotten flesh, mud water, and rocks merged with the small bone piece.
From a small fragment, it increased its mass and transformed into a skull frame.
The skull slowly took shape as it consumed everything to regenerate. Two fireballs lit up inside the skeleton's eye sockets.
Liu Ping groaned as he opened his eyes.
He died, but his soul didn't enter samsara. Instead, he was trapped in this piece of bone.
His strength degraded to the previous state before he got his corruption aura and poison gas. He had to start over, and he had to regenerate his entire body back.
'…'
No one knew what the skull was thinking. He continued to heal himself in secret.
…
Without the threat of the undead army and Gan Ji, Guo Jia pushed the main forces forward. 200,000 Elites from the Immortal Legion and Crimson Angel Legion pressed southward. They loaded cannons on their battleships.
The current warships that Guo Jia's forces used were called Mengchong, aka covered assault ships. They were row ships that had a wooden roof to cover the ship from arrows. However, each of them was large enough to carry 50 – 100 soldiers.
But Guo Jia removed the space for soldiers to load cannons on the front deck, so the ships could become sailing artillery against Sun Ce Army.
The sight of 2,000 warships already intimidated the defenders enough, but Guo Jia wanted to give them despair. He sent a special unit in the water in advance and had them wait for instructions.
On the opposite side, 1,000 similar warships lined up in an array along the riverside, blockading Guo Jia's forces from crossing the Yangtze River.
Sun Ce's forces didn't consist of only 1000 mengchong ships, but they also had ram boats, floating fortress ships, and 18th-century galleys. They also had stolen cannons on the galleys and the fortress ships.
But Guo Jia's enemies weren't just Sun Ce and his subordinates. Huang Zu, who was the governor of Jiangxia, mobilized his forces east, heading toward Lujiang.
Xu Huang's legion and Sima Yi's former soldiers, numbered 200,000 men, dispatched from Lujiang, heading west to intercept Huang Zu's 50,000 men.
Number was in Guo Jia and Xu Huang's favor, but that was not their trump card.
Gan Ning: ”Our unit is at the entrance. Want me to enter the river?”
Gan Ning's fleets had reached the mouth of the Yangtze River, where the Yellow Sea met the flesh water. From this point, the fleets could change course from the sea coast to the river route.
Guo Jia: ”Where are Sun Quan's units?”
Gan Ning: ”They've boarded our ships. We're ready.”
Guo Jia: ��Ignore the river. Keep sailing south and land the troops on Wu shore.”
Guo Jia: ”@Sun Quan, your units will capture Wu, Huiji, and Jianye while their attention is on us.”