The mysterious world: Start working hard from the beggar camp!

Chapter 534: Zhou Yuji's surprise attack is effective, and the battle situation on the river is reversed
"Crush it for me!"

A troop formation led by Zhou Yuji personally stepped on the waves on the river at a very fast speed. In the blink of an eye, they arrived at the side of the enemy's large fleet and attacked with a magical move by raising their hand!
"boom……"

The red divine bird transformed by the killing array magical power emitted a red divine light, which bombarded the protective array shield of a high-quality treasure ship in front, instantly blowing it up and turning it into star-like stream of light and disappearing.

The protective magic circle of this high-quality treasure ship could not withstand such a high-intensity violent attack and could not even hold on.

This is the terrifying aspect of the large-scale military killing formation and the killing power it unleashes.

This level of attack power is at least equivalent to the concentrated fire attack of a thousand psychic cannons. When used on a mere treasure ship, it is undoubtedly an overkill.

However, this is exactly the effect Zhou Yuji wanted.

"A powerful enemy is attacking from behind our fleet!"

"Not good! They have formed a large military formation and used killing array magic to attack our treasure ship. Our ship can't withstand the opponent's random attack at all!"

"Quick! Report to the eldest master!"

"It's over. We are being attacked from both sides by the enemy. This is dangerous!"...

In the blink of an eye, the large fleet of the alliance of aristocratic families, wealthy merchants and tycoons was suddenly attacked from the rear by an enemy force. In an instant, more than a dozen large treasure ships were lost, including two high-quality treasure ships, which immediately frightened the soldiers on the ships who were composed of servants and guards.

There is no way not to be afraid.

It was really because of the terrifying attack power of this sudden enemy force.

The four large killing formations they formed would, with every attack, blow up a large treasure ship they encountered along the way. Not only did they break the protective formation on the ship, but they also suffered heavy casualties among the officers and soldiers on the treasure ship!
Originally, their large fleet of the Southern Aristocratic Family Alliance was in the middle of a decisive battle with the large fleet of the Imperial Court in front of them. They were completely unprepared for the enemies that attacked from the rear, and were caught off guard, so they were inevitably approached by the enemy.

Once such a large-scale military formation gets close to them, one can imagine what will happen to these treasure ships.

It's like using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut, and each time you hit it, it hits the target.

"Everyone, split up immediately and charge in all directions. Try to blow up as many treasure ships as possible and completely disrupt the enemy's fleet formation!"

Zhou Yuji maintained a rapid attack and continuously manipulated the military formation's magical powers to blow up and sink the enemy treasure ships one after another. At the same time, he loudly transmitted orders to the main generals of his three armies of 100,000 men.

"Yes! Grand Commander!"...

Zhou Sanba, Wang Chengsi, Niu Jianhu and other three main generals quickly sent messages to agree.

Among these three main generals, except Zhou Sanba who was Zhou Yuji's subordinate, Wang Chengsi and Niu Jianhu were the powerful generals under Sun Chuanting.

Wang Chengsi, Niu Jianhu and Sun Jian are known as the Three Tigers of the Sun Family Army. They are Sun Chuanting's most capable assistants and can be regarded as his left and right arms.

Among them, Wang Chengsi and Niu Jianhu are good at cavalry combat, while Sun Jian is the commander-in-chief of the infantry. The three have different divisions of labor.

The three received Zhou Yuji's military order and quickly launched surprise attacks separately. The military killing formation they presided over was like three hurricanes, sweeping towards the three directions of the enemy's fleet.

The killing array they manipulated had magical powers, and they transformed into various mythical beasts. Wherever they leaped on the river, there was chaos. Treasure ships of all levels were sunk one after another after their protective arrays were destroyed!
This undoubtedly caused the formation of the Southern Family Alliance's fleet to quickly become chaotic, instantly alleviating the huge pressure faced by the imperial fleet ahead.

At this time, the two sides launched a frontal concentrated fire attack. The second round of head-on shooting only carried out three waves of psychic artillery bombardment, which had not reached the limit that each treasure ship could withstand, and the imperial fleet did not suffer any losses for the time being.

"Damn it!"

"How come there is another imperial army suddenly attacking from the river bank behind us?"

Just when victory seemed in sight, four large enemy military killing formations came from the rear and suddenly attacked their large fleet. The situation was reversed in an instant, and Xie Youming was so angry that he cursed loudly!
It was the first time that he experienced the huge gap between heaven and hell, and it was good enough that he did not go crazy on the spot.

This battle with the imperial court was different from the previous one in Changzhou Prefecture. It was a decisive battle with no retreat.

Neither side can afford to lose.

Once the winner is determined, the overall situation in Jiangnan will basically be determined.

If the Xie family were defeated, it would be a miserable situation, at least much more miserable than other Jiangnan families.

All three brothers of the Xie family came for this battle.

Moreover, he brought 200,000 of the family's 300,000 White-Clothed Guards, and also had the family's strongest trump card: the Xie family's secret guards composed of a thousand Qi Refining Realm masters!

It is no exaggeration to say that more than 70% of the Xie family’s combat power and practitioners are gathered here!
"I'm going to fight the tyrant!"

"The imperial court must pay a huge price in casualties!"

Xie Youming's powerful divine sense had already detected that since their fleet's formation had been disrupted by the enemy, they could no longer form a concentrated fire attack on the imperial fleet.

As a result, not only was the danger completely resolved for the imperial fleet, but as the losses of the fleet grew, the advantage in the number of treasure ships was basically lost.

Chongzhen and Sun Chuanting, who had been planning for a long time, had even activated the military killing formation they had prepared for a long time on those top-grade treasure ships. They jumped off from the top-grade treasure ships one by one, thinking of launching a close combat attack on their side!
What’s even more terrible is that the fleets of both sides, which are sailing towards each other, have mixed together, forming a tense battle situation where you are in me and I am in you.

This caused the psychic cannons and crossbow carts of both sides to basically become ineffective.

You can't just shoot randomly without thinking, right?

What's more, there are still protective magic arrays on each of the treasure ships, and the imperial army soldiers who rush out from the ships are also protected by the military arrays.

Facing the sporadic attacks of artillery shells and crossbow arrows, it was like being tickled, without any effective killing power at all.

In this situation, if the army of the aristocratic family alliance headed by the Xie family does not want to fail, they have no choice but to fight back.

So even though Xie Youming looks like he is furious now, this is actually his only choice.

As for ordering one's own large fleet to retreat?

Judging from the current war situation, this is no longer possible.

Once the order was given to our own treasure ships to set sail and evacuate faster, we would immediately suffer a great defeat and be hunted down even more miserably by the enemy.

In all the major wars, the heaviest casualties were generally not in head-on battles, but rather when the enemy took advantage of the situation to pursue the enemy after a defeat.

The defeated soldiers were in panic and could only exert 30% of their full combat power. Once they were caught up by the enemy, they would be slaughtered.

"Second brother, third brother!"

"There is no way out now. We must fight the enemy desperately to survive!" "Otherwise, if we allow the imperial army to attack us from both sides, our morale will soon collapse and a defeat is inevitable!"

"Most of our Xie family's elite troops are here. We can't abandon them."

"If that happens, our Xie family will be finished!"

"Qian Kun Tu, show up!"

In shock and anger, Xie Youming shouted to his second and third brothers on two top-quality treasure ships not far away, then he moved his mind and summoned his natal artifact, the Qiankuntu.

This innate and top-grade artifact was the clan artifact obtained by our ancestor Xie Jin ten thousand years ago. It is extremely powerful.

It is also a space artifact, which contains a cave world of the Xie family!
However, this cave world cannot be used to store living things, and no tribe members live in it, because only seven layers of the seal of the artifact have been lifted, leaving the most core seal unreleased.

It is precisely because this innate magical weapon has not been completely unlocked and cannot exert its powerful power, that Xie Youming cannot defeat Zhou Yuji and Sun Chuanting who are at the same level.

Sun Chuanting and Zhou Yuji's natal divine weapons are different.

Chongzhen spared no expense in expending a great deal of the country's fortune to forcibly break the seals on these two artifacts. Naturally, the power they unleashed was more powerful than the Qiankuntu.

It's not just that.

The innate magical weapons of Qin Liangyu and Lu Xiangsheng were also broken by Chongzhen not long ago.

Although a great deal of Ming Dynasty's luck was lost as a result, the recent large-scale conquests gave the Ming Dynasty complete control over more than double the territory and the people's livelihood. The lost national luck was replenished.

The reason why Emperor Chongzhen was able to do all this was because after he obtained his natal artifact, the Witch God Temple, he used this top-level innate artifact to suppress the national destiny.

In the ancient mythological period, the Temple of the Witch God was able to suppress even the fortune of the Witch Clan, a top mythological force, let alone a mere Southern Ming Dynasty?
When it comes to the ability to suppress luck, the Witch God Temple is not inferior to the Chaos Bell and the Human Emperor Cauldron, and it is even more powerful than the Haotian Tower.

This is also the fundamental reason why the Southern Ming Dynasty has been going smoothly and achieving its goals in recent years.

Luck is too mysterious. Whether it is the cultivator himself or the powerful forces themselves, great luck is indispensable if they want to rise against the trend.

"Well done!"

"Once you come this time, don't even think about leaving!"

"It just so happens that I am still missing two of my life artifacts, so I have to complete them this time!"

Emperor Chongzhen had just led a military killing formation consisting of 100,000 soldiers. He activated the killing formation's magical power and transformed into a gigantic red divine bird. It flew out from his flagship, the Great Treasure Ship. Then he saw a gigantic phantom of a divine beast also rushing out from the enemy's flagship, the Great Treasure Ship.

This white wolf mythical beast, which Chongzhen was very familiar with, had a scroll artifact floating above its head, which clearly revealed Xie Youming's identity. Chongzhen was so delighted that he couldn't help but shout out loud.

Over the past year, Chongzhen has claimed to be the best master in the world, but he only has one natal artifact. Naturally, he has been thinking about completing his three natal artifacts.

He had obtained some magical artifacts during this period, including the Linglong Tower from the secret realm of Purple Mountain in Jinling.

However, it was just an acquired artifact of the highest quality, and Chongzhen looked down on it, so he gave it to Zhou Yuji.

When he was in Changzhou City, he saw the innate divine artifacts of the two brothers of the Xie family and had been thinking about them ever since.

He has made up his mind to seize these two innate artifacts and make them his own.

However, the national treasure, the Haotian Tower, stolen by the Xu family has not been exposed until now, so Emperor Chongzhen is still unaware that Xu Bengao, the head of the Xu family and one of the culprits that caused the rapid decline of the Ming Dynasty, has the Haotian Tower in his hands.

This is also the reason why the Xu family was so decisive in evacuating from Changzhou City.

There was no way. At such a sensitive time, once the Xu family exposed the national treasure, the Haotian Tower, it would not only completely infuriate the Southern Ming court, leading to an immediate and relentless hunt for the Xu family, but would also cause dissatisfaction among other Jiangnan aristocratic families and various forces, making it possible for them to become public enemies of the world.

This is not exaggeration, it is the truth.

As we all know, all the major forces in the nine provinces of China today, including Li Dingguo, although they are now against the court, they all admire Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of this dynasty.

Anyone with insight will admire from the bottom of their heart the Ming Emperor Taizu, who was the most righteous ruler since ancient times.

Without him, the nine provinces of China would probably still be under the rule of foreign races, let alone restore such a vast territory.

Even though Zhu Yuanzhang came from a humble background, had a narrow vision, and made many mistakes in his later years, it did not affect his lofty status in the hearts of the Han people.

The real decline of the Ming Dynasty undoubtedly began when the Tartars and the internal civil service group jointly killed millions of elite soldiers and generals at Tumu Fortress.

Moreover, due to the theft of the national treasure, the imperial power declined, and the situation of civil officials controlling the government as in the Song Dynasty was restored. The Ming Dynasty began to decline rapidly.

The whereabouts of the national treasure, the Haotian Tower, has always been an extremely sensitive topic.

Even if it was the Xu family, if the Haotian Tower was exposed, one could imagine how much of a stir it would cause.

Xu Bengao, the head of the Xu family, was naturally no fool, so he adopted a strategy of retreat in order to advance, shrinking his own sphere of influence, defending his old nests in Guangde Prefecture and Huzhou, sitting on the mountain and watching the fight between tigers, and watching the Southern Ming court and most of the aristocratic families headed by the Xie family suffer losses on both sides.

"Brother, that tyrant is too powerful. The two of us will each lead 100,000 White Guards and use our own divine weapons to besiege him!"

Just as Xie Youming started to act, another killing formation consisting of white wolf beasts transformed by magical powers rushed out from nearby. The leader of the formation was his second brother Xie Liming.

"Alright!"

"In this way, if we brothers join forces, we will be able to protect ourselves even if we face an attack from that tyrant king leading a hundred thousand soldiers in formation!"

As the newly-appointed head of the number one family in Jiangnan, with endless wealth and glory waiting for him to enjoy, Xie Youming, who has always lived a life of luxury, is of course very afraid of death.

It was just that due to the current situation, he had to lead his army personally to fight against Chongzhen.

Now that my second brother has arrived in time, it couldn’t be better.

He agreed hurriedly, and the two brothers each led a large army consisting of 100,000 white-clothed guards from the family, and went to encircle Chongzhen who was attacking from the front from the left and right!

The two brothers' natal artifacts, the Qiankuntu and the Mulingzhu, shone brightly, and cast down light curtains that transformed into soldiers, giving the Xie brothers a great boost of confidence.

In their opinion, no matter how powerful the tyrant was, he could not defeat two armies of equal size led by their two brothers.

(End of this chapter)