Chapter 625: Xun Yu Wields His Power, the Great Army's Battle Formation Suppresses Star Luo

"It seems there is one left." Dian Wei finished off the Earth-Shaking Douluo and turned his gaze toward the only remaining Elder of the Clear Sky Sect, the Heaven-Ling Douluo, Tang Ling.

Tang Ling was already trembling all over from fear; having traversed the continent for decades, he had never encountered someone with such high combat proficiency as Dian Wei.

As a Title Douluo, his insight was always much sharper than others; how could he not see that the biggest factor making Dian Wei so strong was not the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda? This pagoda was merely a catalyst; the key lay in Dian Wei himself.

To control one's own body so perfectly—even the old Sect Master Tang Chen... no, even the legendary gods, could they do it? Watching Tang Ling's fearful gaze, Dian Wei had no interest in him, but instead looked toward Tang San, who was currently exchanging blows with Nan Feiling.

Clearly, this person's life should be worth more than that of Tang Ling, a Title Douluo.

Tang San was locked onto by Dian Wei's killing intent, and in an instant, his hair stood on end.

Tang San exerted his full strength to force back Nan Feiling and shouted, "Not good, this madman's target is me! Hear my order: Heavy Armored Iron Cavalry, charge with all your might!"

He could not let Dian Wei get close to him, otherwise, he would truly be dead.

"Hmph, human wave tactics? I won't let you succeed. Eighth Soul Skill—Ice Snow Neon Dress!" Shui Bing'er froze a Star Luo Spirit Douluo who was fighting her with a single palm, then quickly flew into the battlefield, using a large-scale ice-attribute soul skill to freeze the enemy army, leaving a gap for Dian Wei to launch a surprise attack on Tang San.

"Tang San, the opponent of an army should also be an army. Frost Army, hear my order: Cone Formation, pierce through the Xingluo Iron Cavalry for me!" Xun Yu also issued his command.

He was the supreme commander of this battlefield, and the entire army was under his coordination; although he was not as skilled in military formations as Xun You, Guo Jia, and others, that did not mean he was weak in this regard.

If one were to say Xun Yu's internal affairs ability was S-rank, then in other areas, even if not S, an A-rank was never lacking.

Moreover, it was not that he lacked combat power; the number of Spirit Douluo in Star Luo was over a dozen.

At the start of the battle, Shui Bing'er took on three by herself, and he, in turn, took on all of the remaining ten or so.

He relied on the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation he had studied for many years.

One hundred and eighty soldiers, among whom one hundred and forty Spirit Masters served as the power providers stationed at the Rest, Injury, and Surprise gates.

The remaining forty Spirit Emperors: thirty stood at the Injury Gate, capable of unleashing power comparable to a Spirit Saint, and ten stood at the Death Gate, capable of launching attacks that could kill a Spirit Douluo.

That's right, Xun Yu was only a Spirit Douluo, but like Dian Wei, he could fight a bunch of experts of the same level by himself.

The ten Star Luo Spirit Douluo were almost entirely besieged and killed by him alone; to this day, not one had broken out of the formation. Anyone could see that if this continued, Star Luo's high-end combat power would inevitably be wiped out.

Furthermore, these soldiers of Xun Yu did not need to be managed after being summoned; they would fight on their own, and with Ye Lingling's Nine Heart Begonia, it was difficult to even die.

And Xun Yu himself could still spare the mental effort to act as the battlefield commander.

People on the Douluo Continent did not have high research into military formations; after all, the main force of power in this world had always been Spirit Masters. The Heavy Armored Iron Cavalry, which could be considered a formidable unit, could only deploy the most conventional square formation.

Thus, Xun Yu mobilized the 80,000-strong Frost Army of the Tianshuang Principality. This 80,000-strong Frost Army included 20,000 elite cavalry, 10,000 archers, 10,000 Pudao soldiers, plus 40,000 spearmen infantry.

Relying purely on a frontal charge on the battlefield, they would inevitably be unable to defeat the hundreds of thousands of Star Luo troops.

Therefore, Xun Yu's method was to use the Cone Formation, with the Frost elite cavalry charging into the enemy formation to scatter the opponent's ranks.

Then Dian Wei would force his way in, killing whoever he saw. At this very moment, with a wave of his dual Halberds, hundreds or thousands of lives were lost. In the stories of the Romance, the fiercest figure, Li Yuanba, killed 1.85 million soldiers down to 650,000 in one afternoon; the current Dian Wei seemed capable of doing the same.

"No, that Dian Wei is too terrifying. Bypass him." Tang San immediately gave the order. The hundreds of thousands of troops would not fight Dian Wei to the death, but instead changed their target to take only the enemy's center army, leaving only 100,000 to desperately entangle Dian Wei.

Before they achieved victory, it did not matter how many of these 100,000 troops were killed by Dian Wei; sacrifices for victory were worth it.

"Hehe, going straight for the center army, just as I expected!" Xun Yu smiled slightly and raised the blue flag in his hand; this was the command to change formation.

Even not counting the military supervisors, he had brought out a full 300,000 troops this time. Apart from these 80,000 Frost Army soldiers, the rest were the original main army of the Gu Lei Empire.

They had been trained by Nan Feihuang, and their elite status was even better than that of the Frost Army.

The center army was deployed in a Fish Scale Formation, one of the basic formations, utilizing the distinction between inside and outside to maintain the stability of the troops and the exertion of the soldiers' strength.

The 220,000 troops were divided into four groups of 70,000 each, with three groups composed of archers, heavy cavalry, and heavy hammer soldiers respectively.

The final 10,000 conventional Pudao soldiers protected Xun Yu in the very center.

When the Star Luo army charged toward the Gu Lei center army regardless of the cost, the Frost Army, which was fighting fiercely with the main army at the front, opened up from the flanks, deliberately leaving the middle path open to let the enemy advance smoothly.

Soon, the Star Luo army broke into the Fish Scale Formation.

With a wave of Xun Yu's hand, the heavy hammer soldiers immediately stepped up. The defensive power of Star Luo's heavy armored iron cavalry was very strong, so Xun Yu did not win with sharp weapons, but with blunt force strikes; this was the best way to break such heavy armor.

On the left and right sides of the military formation, the archers began to advance under the protection of the heavy cavalry.

While advancing, they frantically fired arrows at the enemy formation.

At this time, the archers' formation had changed to a Goose Wing Formation, spread out horizontally, with the left and right wings arranged in staggered rows forward or backward, suitable for flexible adjustment of the formation, covering the largest area, and favored by archers.

Tang San certainly would not watch them fire arrows so comfortably, and immediately ordered to solve the flanks first.

Xun Yu raised the flag in his hand again, and the formation changed once more.

Hook Formation: the front was a square formation, and the two wings curved backward into a hook shape to protect the safety of the flanks.

When the Star Luo army charged toward both sides, they found they could only continuously fall into the encirclement of the Gu Lei and Frost Army's elite cavalry, spearmen, and hammer soldiers, unable to touch the archer army at all.

After an unknown number of volleys, the number of Star Luo troops was decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the casualty count was at least five times that of the Gu Lei army.

One must know that their troop strength was only twice that of the Gu Lei army; this five-to-one death rate would cause the Star Luo Empire to collapse in a short time.

"Hehe, it seems the so-called Tang Sect is ultimately just a martial arts sect, not very adept at military command. Although my military formation ability is far inferior to my Gongda's, at least dealing with your mere Tang Sect is no problem!" Xun Yu laughed.

It was a pity he did not have a goose-feather fan in his hand right now, otherwise, he would be the typical image of a strategist planning and calculating within a tent.

(End of chapter)