Free Web NovelChapter 2149: Chapter 221: The Empress Knows Nothing of the Human World
The sky is severed, the earth is severed, the people are severed; intentions are severed, power is severed, the heart is severed; the Tao Path is fundamentally severed.
This is the fall of the seven gates, and the rise of Da Xia’s foremost Killing Array!
It serves as the Dao-embodied Killing Array of Da Xia’s True Man Tai Hua, the Seven Absolute Killing Formation!
On the night of January 3rd, a sky-rending Killing Array emerged from She Mountain, its terrifying power shaking Hui Ming Fu!
From then on, one of the thirteen peaks of Da Xia’s Jingxiu Mansion was forever missing.
Da Xia’s genius Tai Yin died in battle!
On New Year’s Eve of the 33rd year of Shenwu, Tai Yin defeated Bao Bozhao at Noon Sun City, slaughtering thirty thousand Qi Army soldiers.
On January 3rd of the 33rd year of Shenwu, Tai Yin ambushed Xie Baoshu and Ouyang Yong at She Mountain. In this battle, all ten thousand Xia Army soldiers perished. Under the Seven Absolute Killing Formation, Rong Country’s State Minister Ouyang Yong was the first to fall and die on the spot! Xie Baoshu resisted with a Battle Formation, nearly wiping out over thirty thousand Qi Army soldiers with only three hundred and seven surviving. The dead left no bones; the living were all wounded! The commander Xie Baoshu was unconscious.
Of course, even if he never wakes up, he cannot escape accountability for the battle afterward...
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The sounds of killing subsided once more.
The third time today?
Chi Mengfu sometimes felt as if he still lived on the small boat from his childhood.
Listening to the tumultuous sound of the tides, spending day after day rocking through one dream after another.
Those sounds of blood and fire, the ebb and flow of battle cries... like the river tides coming and going.
At this moment, no one spoke in the council hall.
The battle for Tong Yang City had already lasted for one month and thirteen days.
Even facing the repeated assaults of the three mighty armies - Spring Death, Autumn Kill, and Chasing Wind - Tong Yang City stood firm as a mountain.
They could hold out indefinitely—if the battlefield remained solely at Tong Yang City, if Cao Jie continued to conserve resources like this, if the National Defense Great Formation could perpetually provide power.
If there were... so many ifs.
Chi Mengfu sat quietly, aware that Liu Xiyi had glanced at him earlier, perhaps hoping he would speak, but he did not respond.
The main forces of Xia and Qi were deadlocked at Tong Yang City, maintaining a fragile balance. This was why Liu Xiyi, in a moment of anger, wanted to return alone to Danie Prefecture but was firmly restrained by the Wu King. Because the withdrawal of a True Man of the Age would inevitably break this balance. The consequences... are hard to imagine.
Let the northern battles be handled by the north, the eastern battles by the east. Their battlefield was at Tong Yang—this had been their guiding policy so far.
Using Da Xia’s vast territory to buy more time for intense battles, dragging Qi Country into the mire of a protracted war, wearing out this emerging Overlord Country—this was the grand strategy set by the Xia high command.
Such a war was not spectacular, but it was the most likely strategy to achieve eventual victory.
Regarding this war, these high-ranking officials, the smartest group in the Summer Country, had simulated countless times... there was indeed no other possible victory.
But just as Jianfeng Mountain fell too soon, and the National Defense Great Formation was forced into action too early, the northern and eastern battlefronts deteriorated far too quickly...
At this moment, the great scale, Hengzhou Plate, was laid out flat in the center of the hall.
This square artifact, like a sand table, reflected the details of the entire National Defense Great Formation.
The floating lights suspended over the Hengzhou Plate represented the nodes of the great formation covering the whole Summer Country. Each city standing in the vast mountains and rivers was a part of the National Defense Great Formation.
When it first lit up, the Hengzhou Plate was resplendent with lights like a star sea.
But as FengJie fell, LinWu fell, Youping fell, Feng Li fell... the lights dimmed one by one.
Today, the floating lights representing the cities of Wuxing Prefecture had all extinguished.
The cluster of lights at Hui Ming Fu also dimmed to a mere flicker.
Wuxing is finished, and Hui Ming is close to being finished...
"It’s time." State Minister Liu Xiyi couldn’t help but stand and say.
Chi Mengfu looked up at the high seat, where Wu King Si Jiao sat quietly.
After letting the silence continue for a while, he said, "Wait a little longer."
So the civilians and military officials in the hall could only wait a little longer.
What are they waiting for?
Of course, it’s to see the results of the first counterattack.
Of course, it’s to see if the hatred and strength accumulated over these days can tear a bloody hole in the colossal body of the Qi Army, to see if a change can occur in the Qi Army first...
Chi Mengfu very much didn’t want to admit it, but had to face the fact—Cao Jie’s current wartime strategy was almost unsolvable. freewebnoveℓ.com
Otherwise, why are so many of them stuck in Tong Yang City, unable to organize a decent counterattack?
Not afraid of the Qi Army’s unstoppable momentum, not afraid of their soldiers’ ambitions to achieve extraordinary feats, but afraid of their steady and unyielding approach, not giving a single chance.
Though Liu Xiyi is irritable, he is not the most restless and urgent person; he merely uses his temper repeatedly to vent the defenders’ anxiety in Tong Yang City... but this is by no means a fundamental solution.
Clearly, the Summer Country should be the side persisting in prolonging the war, while Qi Country should have been opting for a quick victory to avoid interference from other Overlord Countries’ powers.
Anyone with a rudimentary understanding of global affairs could analyze this. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com
But Cao Jie fights so steadily, without the slightest sign of urgency. What’s even more frightening—Jiang Shu openly claims a willingness to support Cao Jie for ten years!
Such words do not mean Qi Country truly intends to fight for ten years. Rather, Jiang Shu is expressing that even if the Jing Shepherd war ends early, even if Jinguo intervenes, he would still eradicate the foundations of the Summer Country!
