Chapter 2256: Seize the Opportunity

That's right! They only have thirty thousand, how could they possibly escape back with twenty thousand.

Even if we exchanged thirty thousand for fifty thousand of the Foreign Tribe, I'd still think it's worthwhile.

Zhao Hu agreed.

Li Xianying also wavered a bit, not knowing what to do.

Ye Liuyun immediately added: "If the situation is favorable for us, we might also be able to wipe out the Foreign Tribe's fifty-thousand-strong central army in one fell swoop."

By then, the result would be wiping out a hundred-thousand-strong Foreign Tribe army.

Just by tying them down a bit, we could achieve such a great result; we would be getting a fantastic bargain!

Li Xianying was quite shrewd and had plenty of experience, but she didn't understand battlefield matters; hearing Ye Liuyun speak in a confusing way, she could only temporarily believe his words.

Ye Liuyun was also respecting her, which is why he went to the trouble of fabricating so many reasons.

Actually, even if Li Xianying disagreed, Ye Liuyun would not let this excellent opportunity slip by.

If it were Ye Liuyun's own army, he certainly wouldn't need to send them as bait.

His newly built warship, relying on speed, could let him swiftly slip through gaps in the Foreign Tribe's encirclement, find targets, seek opportunities, and annihilate isolated Foreign Tribe armies.

Ruan Haotian came out to resist the Foreign Tribe, which was originally not part of Ye Liuyun's plan.

Ye Liuyun merely took advantage of this opportunity.

Since Ruan Haotian wanted to show his strength and fight the Foreign Tribe, Ye Liuyun gave him a tough bone to chew on, so he wouldn't think he could easily get a free benefit.

The Foreign Tribe's western army was pursuing Ye Liuyun from behind, while the central army adjusted its direction to intercept them.

Ye Liuyun, however, suddenly accelerated, heading toward the Eastern Region.

Upon seeing Ruan Haotian bring so many Human Race martial cultivators, the Foreign Tribe on the eastern front also began to contract and gather, and sent requests for reinforcements to their main base.

All the Foreign Tribe, based on Ye Liuyun and Ruan Haotian's direction of advance, thought the Human Race's main attack this time was on the eastern battlefield, so all Foreign Tribe armies quickened their march, heading for the Eastern Region.

Ruan Haotian's troop still didn't realize at this moment that they had been schemed against by Ye Liuyun.

They had not encountered any decent resistance; the scattered twenty-odd thousand Foreign Tribe in the Eastern Region, after gathering together, did not attack them but kept retreating.

They only occasionally sent out a small squad to block them.

So Ruan Haotian was also quite pleased, letting his troops pursue the victory and, in one fell swoop, take down all Foreign Tribe in the Eastern Region; thus they could also count as having wiped out a Foreign Tribe army, not being too far behind Ye Liuyun.

But just as they were advancing, they suddenly saw Ye Liuyun's army appear on their flank.

"They suddenly appeared here?"

"They see we're about to win and came to steal credit, right?"

Ruan Haotian and the martial cultivators beside him all first thought Ye Liuyun had come to steal credit.

Ye Liuyun merely had Li Xianying inform Ruan Haotian that they were about to be surrounded.

Ye Liuyun's army could cooperate with them to defeat the central route's fifty-thousand-strong army.

Ye Liuyun had long since figured that, given Ruan Haotian's jealous and envious nature, he would surely think Ye Liuyun was there to steal credit, making cooperation even less likely.

Sure enough, upon hearing it, Ruan Haotian simply did not believe it.

Despite Li Xianying's many assurances, Ruan Haotian still regarded them as being in league together.

"Even if there is a Foreign Tribe army, it's you who lured them here! You are responsible for intercepting them! We are fighting on the eastern battlefield and don't need your support; you must leave immediately!"

Ruan Haotian finally gave Li Xianying an order.

Li Xianying, helpless, could only return to tell Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun, knowing full well this would be the result, felt happy inside but still put on an act of regret to comfort Li Xianying.

Then he left behind the smallest-bodied mantis among the Demon Beasts and some tiny, inconspicuous Puppet Beasts to monitor the movements of the Foreign Tribe and Ruan Haotian's troops.

He then led the great army aboard the warship, shuttling through the void, advancing toward the northwest.

He prepared first to avoid the fifty-thousand-strong central army that was rushing over.

Behind those Foreign Tribe, a few days' distance away, there were another thirty thousand reserve reinforcements.

Ye Liuyun planned to first wipe out that reserve force.

Meanwhile, the western and central armies that had been pursuing Ye Liuyun suddenly discovered he was missing.

They didn't expect Ye Liuyun to thrust into their center; after sending people south to chase for a stretch, they still found no trace and thought they had fled.

Since the Eastern Region still had thirty thousand of Ruan Haotian's troops, they simply decided to encircle Ruan Haotian.

The central region's fifty-thousand-strong army would take the lead in attack, while the western region's fifty-thousand-strong army would handle interception and also guard against Ye Liuyun's possible return.

After Ye Liuyun withdrew, Ruan Haotian also had some doubts, sending people to scout the surroundings; he also felt the Foreign Tribe ahead might have been luring them into pursuit.

But at that time the Foreign Tribe's various armies had not yet arrived; the people sent out also shared Ruan Haotian's view, thinking Ye Liuyun was just alarmist, so after going out for a loop they all returned with nothing found.

Ruan Haotian also relaxed, having people monitor the central army's movements while accelerating the pursuit of the Foreign Tribe's twenty-thousand-strong troop.

One day later, the Foreign Tribe troop that Ruan Haotian was pursuing suddenly stopped fleeing and began a full-scale defense and resistance.

Because in half a day the central army could arrive here.

From their main base, they also dispatched twenty thousand Foreign Tribe garrison troops to come reinforce them.

The Foreign Tribe's western fifty-thousand-strong army had already begun to cut off Ruan Haotian's retreat.

At this point, Ruan Haotian was already surrounded.

These Foreign Tribe naturally had no need to flee any further.

At that very moment, Ye Liuyun had the warship accelerate and also discovered the Foreign Tribe's central reserve force of thirty thousand.

They immediately disembarked from the warship; this time Ye Liuyun controlled the Puppet Beasts to charge, Ye Tiandao's sharp-blade squad followed with an assault, and the Death Legion took charge of the main attack.

Thus, as soon as the battle began, that reserve force, which was inherently weak, was immediately scattered; they held a complete advantage, and Ye Liuyun no longer needed to worry about this fight.

"How many Foreign Tribe are there in total on this battlefield?"

Ye Liuyun suddenly asked Li Xianying about the situation.

According to Li Yuanlang's earlier account, the usual number should be two hundred thousand.

Even if they have hidden troops, at most it's a hundred thousand, and Ye Liuyun thinks that inside the Foreign Tribe's main base there shouldn't be many garrison troops left.

Li Xianying's reply was also similar to Li Yuanlang's.

Ye Liuyun tallied the numbers: the force heading east to surround Ruan Haotian totals 140,000, he has 30,000 before him, and adding the 50,000 he just wiped out, the Foreign Tribe's main base now has the weakest defense.

"With so many members of the Foreign Tribe, why don't they attack our base directly?"

Ye Liuyun was rather curious about that.

"Because of those coffins outside, if they don't fill them with tens of thousands of people, they can't even reach the outskirts of the base.

Even if they manage to reach the base, the Defense Array would cause even greater damage to them!"

Li Xianying explained.

"They have also launched attacks three times.

Once they reached outside the base, were repelled by the Defense Array, and then we counter‑killed them.

The other two times they were stopped by those coffins!"

Zhao Hu added.