Chapter 1095: Utterly Routed

"Retreat!"

Prince True Essence sensed something was wrong, as if they had fallen into a trap, so he immediately ordered a retreat.

They abandoned these thirty thousand soldiers directly, without sending reinforcements, and instead ordered the fleet to retreat.

But just as the fleet turned around, another fifty warships rushed out from Yi Cheng, chasing after them.

The fleet's marching speed was not determined by the fastest Super Warship, but by the speed of those Level 1, 2, and 3 Warships, and even lower-level ones.

Although the warships that rushed out from Yi Cheng were few in number, they were all Super Warships.

After these warships were modified by Du Yan and others, the enemy could not see inside them, and their speed, defense, and attack power all increased.

Soon, Ye Liuyun's fleet caught up with them and launched a fierce assault.

An enemy warship was struck by an energy beam, and the soldiers inside were instantly turned to powder.

Afterward, the entire warship exploded, leaving no survivors inside.

"Send out combined warships to intercept them!"

At Prince True Essence's command, several Super Warships immediately set out, accompanied by nearby escort Level 1-3 Warships, and engaged Ye Liuyun's fleet in battle.

However, these forces could not possibly withstand Ye Liuyun's fleet of Super Warships.

Even when Super Warships bombarded each other, they did not gain an advantage.

Ye Liuyun's warships first blocked the attack with a Defense Array, then with their thick hulls, blocking another wave, completely stopping the assault.

Meanwhile, Prince True Essence's warships had both their Defense Array and hull pierced directly; the energy beam shot in, causing a surge that destroyed everything blocking it.

"Ah!" came the miserable cries of enemy soldiers from within the warship.

Ye Liuyun's Super Warships barely paused for a moment before firing again, directly destroying the enemy's attack weapons.

The enemy's attack weapons, after firing once, had not yet recovered and could not fire continuously.

Normally, a Super Warship, after being hit a few times, would be completely wrecked.

Thus, several Super Warships, feeling utterly stifled, were annihilated by Ye Liuyun's fleet.

Naturally, the soldiers aboard them could not escape either.

Afterward, Ye Liuyun's fleet again formed up in neat formation and pursued them.

Super Warships are inherently fast, but Prince True Essence still had to consider the other Level 1-3 Warships, so his fleet was quickly caught up by Ye Liuyun's fleet again.

"Better to sacrifice the pawn to save the chariot! Their warships are far stronger than ours; if we continue like this, we won't even be able to escape," Prince Pingnan advised.

Prince True Essence also saw this, and gritted his teeth: "You little brat, I'll remember this grudge!"

Immediately, he ordered all warships except the Super Warships to turn around and intercept Ye Liuyun's fleet.

Meanwhile, the remaining Super Warships began to accelerate and flee.

"Head straight back. We can also strike Yonglie Island or his land base on the way," Prince Pingnan suggested.

Their preparations were actually not thorough.

First, they did not expect that the assassination attempt by a Martial Cultivator of Tian Zun Yi Chong would fail; a little girl had somehow appeared out of nowhere.

It seemed she had little cultivation, yet with a single palm she froze the Tian Zun.

Second, they did not anticipate that after the assassination plan failed, Ye Liuyun would quickly launch a counterattack.

According to past precedent, they at least could have had a chance to withdraw and rest before making further plans.

But Ye Liuyun had obviously planned this in advance, giving them no chance to catch their breath.

Ye Liuyun not only had strong soldier combat power, but his warships' combat power far surpassed theirs.

Whether comparing personnel or warships, they were no match for Ye Liuyun.

Thus, all these unexpected developments forced them to abandon the slower warships.

Ye Liuyun's Super Warship fleet was finally halted by these low-level warships.

But the situation was basically one-sided; Prince True Essence's warships had no chance of victory.

Level 2 Warships bombarding Ye Liuyun's Super Warships couldn't even break through the Defense Array. Level 1 Warships were not much better than Level 2; they could only reach the hull level, yet posed no threat at all.

These warships also knew they had been abandoned, so they all held a death-defying resolve, covering the main force's retreat.

Thus, this battle was fought with extraordinary cruelty.

The enemy's warships simply used their hulls to block Ye Liuyun's warships from advancing; relying on numerical superiority, they stubbornly halted his Super Warship fleet.

Until Ye Liuyun's super fleet blasted these warships to pieces, leaving the battlefield littered with broken corpses and ship debris.

"Withdraw now, we can't catch up!" Qin Peng also stopped insisting, and directly ordered those warships to retreat.

Afterward, Qin Peng issued another interception order.

A fleet of a hundred thousand troops suddenly sprang into action, charging forward at high speed.

"Full speed, full speed..." On the other side, Ye Liuyun, based on the information sent back by the Longying siblings, controlled the marching speed of this hundred-thousand-strong fleet.

When they met Prince True Essence's fleet, they happened to use their ramming speed to cut his fleet in half.

Afterward, they immediately began bombardment.

"Run fast, there's an ambush!" Prince True Essence, now also frightened by the fighting, dared not linger and fled in panic.

The half-fleet that was intercepted naturally became another sacrifice; it can be said that Prince True Essence has now been beaten to the point of utter collapse.

Among the intercepted warships, a commander decisively decided: "Abandon ship. Our warships are no match for theirs; staying aboard means only waiting to die."

Thus, the nearly hundred thousand people who had been intercepted all disembarked and charged toward Ye Liuyun's fleet.

Faced with these scattered soldiers, even with the warships' firepower at full blast, they still could not form a blockade.

Thus, Ye Liuyun's soldiers also decisively disembarked, formed up in neat ranks, and met the enemy.

These soldiers were Qin Peng's main force.

Just now, those on the city wall were merely filler conscripts.

The warships that had withdrawn returned to the city, and the number of soldiers disembarking from each was less than five hundred.

On the Warship, only the most basic piloting and control personnel were equipped. Not even a single extra soldier.

As soon as the two sides engaged, Prince True Essence's great army was directly routed.

They were originally a defeated army; they simply couldn't organize an effective attack, and by now they had already been scattered, unable to find even their own Team Leader and Commander-in-Chief—how could they possibly compare to Ye Liuyun's neatly ranked great army on the other side?

Soon, soldiers began to surrender, no longer making futile resistance.

Afterwards, the number of those surrendering grew ever larger. And those who refused to surrender, Ye Liuyun's great army showed no mercy, striking them down directly, leaving no future trouble.