Translator: ryangohsff Editor: Nora
Chapter 1014 – Breaking an Arm to Live
4th month, 13th day, Hai Van mountain range.
The mist bellowed on the Hai Van mountain range like a paradise. When the sun rose up, the mist faded, and the blood red earth was instantly revealed.
What kind of paradise was that? it was pretty much hell.
The bodies of the adventure gamemode players despawned, but the blood from the corpses remained. The blood stains seeped into the soil and onto the grass.
Within a night, 200 thousand of the south conquering army troops were destroyed, and only a few lucky ones survived.
This battle became the turning point of the Battle of Annan. Adding in the 500 thousand that were trapped in the path, out of the 1.6 million combat occupation players, close to half were wiped out.
Along with the south conquering troops being wiped, the fate of the 4th legion of Haiphong City became predictable.
With that, the 800 thousand guards troops housed in Hanoi were unharmed, while half of the player troops of Annan were wiped out.
The more terrifying part was that during this process, the Great Xia Army did not suffer any casualties.
The huge difference nearly caused the Annan players to collapse. When the news of the 200 thousand reinforcements being ambushed spread half to Hanoi, the entire imperial city was silent.
Fear, oppression, and anger; all of these negative emotions lingered over the city.
After the players calmed down, all of them pointed at Ruan Tianque and scolded him. There were two reasons for this.
First, if it were not For Haiphong City being too intense with their treatment of Tongchun Chamber of Commerce, this war would not have even happened.
Secondly, the faulty intel provided by Haiphong City caused them to be ambushed and caused the entire army to collapse.
One could say that Ruan Tianque was the main guilty party of this war.
Due to such considerations, the Annan players gave up hopes of reclaiming Danang City. Even to say they had given up hope on the entire south.
Half of Annan had fallen just like that.
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During the next few days, the Annan battlefield suddenly became quiet.
Without any reinforcements, with the poisonous smoke and food shortage, the fates of the 500 thousand soldiers trapped inside was easy to predict.
Some of them decided to kill one another for food, while others committed suicide.
It was a really depressing scene.
Mu Guiying’s forces in Danang City had completed their mission and followed down south to attack the remaining 4th legion.
Apart from that, there was no other action in the Annan battlefield.
On the contrary, in the China region, the Yanhuang Alliance breached the West Chu border, fighting an intense battle with the West Chu Army.
The Xiang Family was filled with many strong generals, and the army Xiang Yu personally trained was filled with elites. Furthermore, the West Chu Army was fighting for the hope of their group, so the strengths of both parties were equal.
Seeing that Great Xia was proceeding quickly in Annan, having taken down half of it so quickly, Di Chen and the others gritted their teeth, taking another 200 thousand troops from their own territories to throw into the battlefield.
This time, West Chu was in trouble.
The Yanhuang Alliance similarly did not lack famous general. Wuqi, Tiandan, and Lianpo; each one of them was all famous. Along with Xie Xuan, Hua Xiong, Zhao Zhuang, and the like, it was a star-studded lineup.
The Battle of West Chu entered its crucial period just like that.
Even so, no one felt that West Chu would lose so easily. In history, Xiang Yu was a person that created miracles and had won many unwinnable battles.
This battle could still be won.
At this very moment, another change occurred.
4th month, 14th day, the Great Xia Eagle Legion Corps led by Li Mu suddenly entered Fallen Leaf City territory and started a war.
At the same time, Fallen Phoenix City’s Blazing Legion Corps went east into Asura City territory. The Beijiang Formation was filled with activity at the Zhangwu Prefecture border, looking like it would enter Handan City territory at any moment.
All of a sudden, the China region was in chaos.
No one expected Great Xia to suddenly start a battle at this moment. When the Yanhuang Alliance was at their weakest, Great Xia worked with Fallen Phoenix City to try to take down Guanxi Province.
“Now this is interesting!”
As the Yanhuang Alliance had attacked Great Xia’s ally first, this was retaliation, and there was nothing wrong with this.
If someone had to be blamed, then it would be the Yanhuang Alliance.
Players with brains even understood that the Yanhuang Alliance had taken the chance when Ouyang Shuo went to Australia to take down Wannan Province and then attack West Chu when Great Xia attacked Annan.
The entire operation was closely connected, and this was obviously a huge plan.
On the surface, the Yanhuang Alliance was only trying to link up their territories, but the final goal was to build a dynasty that could face off against Great Xia.
Especially after Di Chen spent so much gold on the merit talisman, the Yanhuang Alliance’s ambition to establish a dynasty was revealed to the world.
Facing such a situation, Great Xia looked like it had no reaction, but in truth, it was waiting for the moment to strike.
Before the year, Great Xia easily merged with Jiangchuan Province, balancing out the influence of the Yanhuang Alliance taking down Wannan Province. At the same time, both sides moved toward the borders in a standstill.
The next move was even more vicious.
Great Xia still gambled and attacked Guanxi Province whilst it was attacking Annan. One could foresee that the moment Guanxi Province fell, even if the Yanhuang Alliance took down West Chu, its strength would not rise.
“Vicious! Accurate!” Players gave Great Xia the thumbs up.
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The moment the news of the battle spread, Fallen Leaf City Lord Wandering Magic and Asura City Sha Pojun panicked.
Their two territory armies only had 150 thousand troops. Now that one legion was moved away for the Battle of West Chu, they only had 80 thousand troops left.
Be it facing the Eagle Legion Corps or the Burning Legion Corps, they had no way to fight back.
Even if they wanted to recall the West Chu troops, it was already too late. These troops were already deep in West Chu territory and were tangled with the West Chu Army.
Pulling his troops out now might not allow him to make it on time, but it might cause the advantage built up by the Yanhuang Alliance to collapse. If it went bad, they might have a full-scale collapse.
Hence, no matter what considerations were made, Di Chen would not allow them to take back their troops. Without their approval, there would be no teleportation formations they could use, so they had no way to pull out their troops.
In desperation, Wandering Magic sought from protection from Great Tang whilst Sha Pojun sought protection from Great Qin. They wanted to borrow the strength of those dynasties to survive this encounter.
The replies from the two dynasties pushed them into the depths.
“Denied!”
Their views were all in unison. They did not even bother to meet the envoys from the two territories, chasing them out.
“Plot, this is a huge plot!” Sha Pojun was closed to going crazy.
Wandering Magic was still okay. He was a commoner player, and he only got into the Yanhuang Alliance because he was closed to Xiong Ba.
Even if he failed, he had no regrets.
Sha Pojun was different. Asura City was not just a territory. It was the lifeline of his entire family. If it fell, it would be catastrophic.
Even when the Feng Family lost Swordsman City, the outcome was not that serious. After all, they were a martial arts aristocratic family. As a result, they could do well even without a territory.
Sha Pojun’s family had no way out.
At the crucial moment, Di Chen showed his leadership, summoning the five of them to Handan City to discuss how to settle the situation.
The six people discussed, and there was only one way. With their strength, it was either they gave up on West Chu and protect Fallen Leaf City and Asura City, or they give up on the two territories and focus on West Chu.
To focus on both sides was impossible.
How to choose?
Di Chen, Chun Shenjun, and Zhan Lang naturally supported taking down West Chu. The Yanhuang Alliance struck out and tried so hard for so long. Wasn’t this all for the success of Plan Z?
The key to Plan Z was crushing West Chu.
Hence, how could they give up halfway?
From a relationship standpoint, Xiong Ba naturally did not wish to abandon Fallen Leaf City. From a personal interest point of view, Fallen Leaf City’s presence was a support for Xiong Ba.
However, Xiong Ba was a true mighty Lord.
All of them knew how to give and take.
Compared to preserving one Fallen leaf City, Plan Z was more important. Thinking about it, Xiong Ba not only supported attacking West Chu, but he even personally settled the issue with Wandering Magic.
Wandering Magic only survived because he relied on Xiong Ba’s family. Whilst he rose up in the wilderness, he lost his autonomy. Since Xiong Ba persuaded him, Wandering Magic could only accept it.
As the only commoner player Lord in China left apart from Ouyang Shuo, for Wandering Magic to last until today was not only a result of luck but also his own skill.
His way of doing things was to follow the flow.
Since the Yanhuang Alliance was going to give up on Guanxi Province, Wandering Magic would not go against it. Not only was it not beneficial for him to go against it, but it would even tear apart his relationship with Xiong Ba.
On the contrary, if he agreed, it would be giving Xiong Ba face. As an aristocratic family child, Xiong Ba would definitely repay him.
This was where Wandering Magic was smart.
At last, everyone looked toward Sha Pojun.
This representative figure of the grey region went from looking forward, to struggling, to despair.
Now, only depression was left.
This was a result of his ambitions being destroyed. His future was gone.
Seeing Sha Pojun like that, Di Chen and the others felt down too. Although his relationship with them was bad, to see him fall to such a stage felt bad.
Ouyang Shuo brought a deep and intense pain to all of them.
When Di Chen saw that, he suddenly said, “Guys, I have a suggestion.”
