Chapter 2258: Making a Contribution

Ruan Haotian harbored deep resentment, and at this moment he still needed Ye Liuyun's reinforcement.

He simultaneously called for everyone to retreat and dispatched people to request aid from Ye Liuyun.

"Where did Ye Liuyun's forces go?"

Send someone for aid quickly! We'll pull back immediately on our side and hold as long as possible.

Ruan Haotian instantly sent out more than ten strong individuals to search for Ye Liuyun.

Moreover, he explicitly told them not to provoke Ye Liuyun, to plead politely, lest Ye Liuyun become angry and disregard their lives.

However, before the dispatched strong ones could locate Ye Liuyun, the fifty‑thousand troops in the central road had already pressed forward.

And the twenty‑thousand Foreign Tribe they had previously fought also clung tightly to them.

At the same time, Ruan Haotian discovered another twenty‑thousand Foreign Tribe troops rushing toward them from behind.

Yet the sent men couldn't even find a trace of Ye Liuyun's army.

Having no choice, Ruan Haotian could only contact Li Yuanlang and ask him to summon Ye Liuyun back.

Li Yuanlang immediately inquired about Ye Liuyun's location.

"I went to warn him before; he didn't believe me and wouldn't let me stay, so I had to leave! He made me go, but now I'm too far away to return."

Ye Liuyun explained.

"How far are you from his location?"

Li Yuanlang asked urgently.

"I have half a day left to reach the Foreign Tribe's main base! Their forces are thin there, and I plan to strike them while I can."

Only then did Ye Liuyun tell Li Yuanlang his plan.

"Nonsense! Even if the base's troops are lacking, there are still countless strong ones; aren't you courting death?"

Li Yuanlang indeed disagreed with Ye Liuyun attacking the Foreign Tribe's base and ordered him to retreat immediately.

Ye Liuyun, of course, would not abandon his goal, and he defended himself: "But if I retreat now, I won't be able to rescue him in time.

Perhaps striking the Foreign Tribe's base might actually break the siege for him?"

"You..." Li Yuanlang was left speechless, angry at Ye Liuyun.

At this point, Ye Liuyun returning for rescue would certainly be too late.

It would be better to let Ye Liuyun attack the Foreign Tribe's stronghold; perhaps they would indeed pull back troops to reinforce.

But he feared that Ye Liuyun might not succeed and could risk his life.

"Master, don't worry; even if I can't win, I can still escape!"

Ye Liuyun could only comfort Li Yuanlang in this way.

Li Yuanlang, helpless, could only reply honestly to Ruan Haotian.

But Ruan Haotian calculated the time and assumed Li Yuanlang was deliberately refusing to save.

He didn't know Ye Liuyun had a Xingkong Warship, and thought that in such a short time Ye Liuyun couldn't possibly reach the Foreign Tribe's main base.

This wasn't his fault; even Li Yuanlang didn't know the Xingkong Warship could move that fast.

However, Li Yuanlang, unaware of the situation, naturally wouldn't doubt Ye Liuyun.

Ruan Haotian was also helpless; he had previously let Li Yuanlang down many times, and when Li Yuanlang was surrounded, he repeatedly failed to provide aid, so Li Yuanlang's revenge was understandable.

Thus he didn't force it, thinking the Southern Region still had a gap; even with heavy losses, they wouldn't be completely annihilated.

But soon, he realized his mistake, for the gap in the Southern Region was quickly blocked by fifty‑thousand troops arriving from the western front.

At that point, Ruan Haotian panicked completely.

He simultaneously ordered the Martial Cultivators in the base to rush in with full force and begged Li Yuanlang to have Ye Liuyun come to reinforce.

But no matter how Li Yuanlang explained, he wouldn't believe.

Finally, Li Yuanlang, helpless, decided to take his own people and personally go to reinforce Ruan Haotian.

Ye Liuyun had previously set up a scout post and already knew Ruan Haotian was surrounded.

"Even if you contributed to resisting the Foreign Tribe!"

Ye Liuyun never intended to rescue him.

Moreover, from the overall battle perspective, Ruan Haotian indeed contributed to fighting the Foreign Tribe, holding back one hundred and forty‑thousand enemy troops.

He also didn't tell Li Xianying this information, to avoid causing Li Xianying worry.

He now needs to concentrate his energy to prepare to deal with the Foreign Tribe.

His Golden Pupil can already see the Foreign Tribe's main base walls from afar.

"Deploy the Warship, form ranks!"

Ye Liuyun calmly ordered all soldiers to prepare for battle.

He didn't dock the Warship; instead, he had Liang Xue lead a thousand Death Legion soldiers to operate the Warship during combat, using its Energy Cannon to bombard the Foreign Tribe's main base Defense Array.

The half‑beast legion placed all war chariots and Puppet Beasts at the front, followed by a line of soldiers bearing Energy Cannons.

Yuan Hao led Death Legion soldiers behind the half‑beasts, and then Ye Liuyun led a spear‑troop ready to charge out at any moment.

The Warship followed at the very end.

All soldiers were arranged in a stepped formation, ensuring each had sufficient attack angle.

The gilded armor's small Energy Cannons were already linked to Crystal Stones.

Ye Liuyun estimated that a simultaneous volley from these soldiers could wipe out tens of thousands of Foreign Tribe, and even the strongest would be suppressed.

Magic Vines had already burrowed into the ground outside the enemy city, setting an ambush.

Once everything was ready, Ye Liuyun ordered the army to maintain formation and advance.

Inside the Foreign Tribe city, after spotting Ye Liuyun's forces, troops on the walls began moving back and forth, visible from afar.

Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil also saw the Foreign Tribe mobilize tens of thousands of Corpse Demons, preparing them for a charge.

The number of Foreign Tribe inside the city was guessed correctly by Ye Liuyun; the number is not large.

Besides these ten thousand Corpse Demon, there are only over twenty thousand guard troops.

However, there are not a few strong ones here; at least over a hundred strong ones.

Even among those Corpse Demon, there are over twenty strong ones.

Ye Liuyun also feels a bit uneasy.

With so many strong ones, his army might suffer heavy losses this time.

However, retreat is no longer possible now.

This is also a contribution Ye Liuyun needs to make.

Once the Foreign Tribe's main base is taken, the remaining Foreign Tribe army will be isolated and helpless, and Human Martial Cultivators will thus see a great boost in morale.

At the same time, the Foreign Tribe surrounding Ruan Haotian immediately learned that the main base had been attacked, so they committed all their forces and launched a frenzied assault.

The Martial Cultivators led by Ruan Haotian immediately panicked.

Everyone knows that there is no surrender in the battle between the two sides; their outcome is either death in battle or becoming Corpse Demon.

"How did these Foreign Tribe end up like this?"

"So crazy!"

"Send for help quickly, we can't hold on much longer!"

Ruan Haotian also became completely dazed.

He never expected that his strike against Ye Liuyun would provoke such a vicious retaliation from Ye Liuyun.

Before, his schemes against others were only small-time; at most he'd let a single person go to their death, but he dared not scheme against so many at once.

This time, however, he brought thirty thousand men, never expecting Ye Liuyun would actually dare to scheme against him.

He inquired of the people he had sent out to look for Ye Liuyun, but they all said they hadn't found Ye Liuyun.

He then had to tell everyone that the Martial Cultivators inside the base were rushing to reinforce, and then he led all the Martial Cultivators to break out to the south.

But everyone also knew that even if the Martial Cultivators inside the base came at full speed, the earliest they could arrive would be three days later.

Faced with such a fierce assault by the Foreign Tribe, they simply could not hold out that long.