Genshin Impact: Rise of the Desert

Under normal circumstances, most of the desert people in the eyes of the Liyue people are gilded guilds, opportunists who are good at getting together but bad at dispersing.

However, even a group of weak slimes can cause a terrible disaster, let alone the desert people who are even more ferocious than slimes.

Seeing that the desert people had sent out archer cavalry, Zhou Chen quickly dispatched crossbowmen to stand on the beach to provide support.

Ivan also saw the crossbowmen leaving the city and sent another team of Buddhist monks to cover Huo'erchi.

Most people lack upper body strength, so they need to use their feet to cock the crossbow. It is extremely powerful, and can create a large hole in an unarmored target with a single shot. Even now, the crossbow is still used by the military.

Liyue's crossbows are much stronger than Sumeru's crossbows. Even if some people in the army are using crossbows smuggled by Liyue merchants, they are products that the Thousand Rock Army has discarded.

As Zhou Chen issued a series of orders, instructing the Thousand Rock Army to buy time for the Thousand Rock Heavy Infantry, continuously sending soldiers to the island to deploy defenses, and dispatching crossbowmen for cover.

Ivan appeared calm on the surface, but his heart was in turmoil.

If he makes even the slightest mistake in his subsequent command, then this expedition can be declared over.

Ivan sighed, “The barbars of Teyvat are as endless as the crucian carp in the river.”

Subsequently, Ivan dispatched Zerberle and Rahman to the central island, preparing to launch a strong attack on the island closer to the Liyue base.

.....noon......

The Thousand Rock Army crossbowmen never went to sea. If they were too close to the land, the desert cavalry wouldn't charge over; if they were too far from the land, the Thousand Rock Army crossbowmen would have no chance of escape if the desert cavalry charged.

On the central island, the localized battle had ended. No one paid attention to the corpses that had begun to smell foul. Everyone was recovering their strength and preparing to fight for the next island.

Jade lay beside Jeberlele, panting heavily and unable to speak.

To minimize casualties, she has been using water elemental attacks, and now she is so exhausted that she can't even lift a finger.

Jeberle sat next to Jade in a daze. He didn't know if participating in this revenge war was the right thing to do. He only knew that the money he got could be used to buy parts, and Jade could get new parts for Benben, which would make Jade happy.

Not far away, Rahman was enthusiastically leading his people to lick corpses, rinsing the good stuff off the Liyue people with seawater before putting it on themselves, busy and having a great time.

Dixia fell into deep thought. She had never participated in a war with more than a thousand people, where the dead piled up like mountains and no one cared. Moreover, the Thousand Rock Army saw themselves as invaders, and she knew very well that they were wrong.

But when she looked at the others, all the desert people, including her brothers, agreed that they were simply going to retrieve what was right from the swindlers.

After some time, all the cavalrymen in the sea returned to the central island, and Nanka led three commanders, a total of four thousand men, to the central island.

The resting, gilded brigade knew that a tough battle was coming.

Nanka led his men to throw the bodies of the Thousand Rock Army down the waterfall and arrange the bodies of the Desert People.

At this point, the guards, who had suffered more than half casualties, returned to the camp and were replaced by another squad of guards, because Ivan did not know whether the Thousand Rock Army would send out cavalry again.

Futu and Huoerchi suffered few losses and did not return to defend, but Ivan sent out two more teams as a precaution.

The island was defended by heavily armored soldiers, so Ivan decided to go all out and sent a thousand ranged troops as reinforcements.

Then, he led all the infantrymen across the sea in silence.

Escorted by cavalry, Nanka Cairang led 4,000 Tuluhua, a gilded brigade of over 7,000 men, 3,000 Huoerchi, 3,000 Futu, 1,000 guards, and 1,000 archers, totaling 18,000 men, in a fierce attack on the island.

When South Carolina led his men away, Ivan began to have the remaining infantry land on the central island, while the rest of the cavalry remained stationary.

The central islet is less than a kilometer apart from the smaller islets, and Nanka quickly led his people across the sea.

The Thousand Rock Army had already set up a defensive line on the beach, planting wooden spears in the ground, with the Thousand Rock Army just two or three spears behind them.

The first few dozen fighters who reached the shore tried to smash the wooden spears with their fist blades, but before they could even land on the spears, they were stabbed down by the Qianyan army with their spears.

This scene left the desert side at a loss for what to do.

A demonic rock servant approached Nanka Cairang and said, "Commander, let us use our gilded armor to break through the enemy lines!"

Nanka nodded and looked around to take attendance, when he suddenly spotted the shooting soldiers with guns.

"Marksmen, advance and fire!"

The archers stepped forward one after another. Under the command of the centurions, the first rank knelt on one knee, while the second rank stood up straight, holding their muskets.

The Thousand Rock Army had seen gunpowder from the Fools, and upon seeing this, they all splattered rock elemental oil on themselves, instantly creating shields of earthy yellow light.

"bump!"

"bump!"

"bump!"

The shooting corps pulled the trigger and fired. The first rank of shooting corps shattered the shields of the Chiyan Army, and the second rank of shooting corps hit the Chiyan Army.

The armor of ordinary Chiiwa soldiers was easily torn open by the guns, but since they had armor, the bullets got stuck in the bones and could not advance.

However, the armor also caved inward, squeezing into the flesh, causing the Thousand Rock Army to fall to the ground in pain, rendering them unable to fight.

Some of them were good at shooting, hitting one of the Thousand Rock soldiers in the face with a single shot, turning half of his head into a bloody mess.

The Thousand Rock Army, clad in heavy armor, were protected entirely by thick armor except for their eyes. They wore leather armor underneath several layers of scale armor, rendering gunfire completely ineffective.

When they discovered that ordinary Thousand Rock soldiers were being killed, the Thousand Rock soldiers put heavy armored soldiers in front. However, after being hit by two or three bullets from the musket, a layer of the heavy armored soldiers' armor would be penetrated, leaving them with less protection in close combat. So, their comrades in the rear kept throwing rock elemental oil at the heavy armored soldiers in front.

Firebird, the archer cavalry led by the Wind Hunter, was also called back by Nanka Cairang and kept firing arrows from the perimeter.

The crossbowmen's crossbow bolts did little damage to the heavily armored soldiers, but the Thousand Rock Army soldiers behind them were in for a rough time. The bolts fell from above and embedded themselves in their helmets, with some even piercing through the helmets and penetrating into their brains.

The essence of war is a contest of who is worse, who makes the first mistake.

The first to make a mistake was Zhou Chen, who failed to send his valuable crossbowmen to the island, resulting in the desert army trapping him like a turtle in a jar.

At this moment, the Wind Hunter also began to use wind element to shoot arrows.

They leaped from their warhorses, drawing their bows to their fullest extent while channeling wind energy. The wind energy disrupted the arrow's structure, gradually replacing the arrow with its own shape.

Using the wind element, the Wind Hunters could briefly float in the air as they released their bowstrings towards the beach where the Thousand Rock Army stood.

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

A series of whooshing sounds rang out as the wind elemental arrows missed everyone and landed on the beach.

Then, a strong suction force erupted from the center of the wind elemental arrow, pulling the Thousand Rock Army towards the center.

The heavily armored soldiers in front were alright, their armor weighing fifty or sixty pounds. But the ordinary Thousand Rock Army soldiers behind them only wore armor weighing about twenty pounds in total. As the powerful wind element pulled them down, it also knocked the heavily armored soldiers down.

The heavily armored soldier, who had been bumped, had difficulty maintaining his balance in the wind element and quickly fell to the ground. The main role of the Thousand Rock Army as auxiliary soldiers was to help the fallen heavily armored soldier up.

Because they wear armor weighing fifty or sixty pounds, heavily armored soldiers have a hard time getting up on their own once they fall.

However, the Thousand Rock Army's advance was blocked by the wind elementals, and just as they were throwing elemental oils on themselves in preparation to help up the heavily armored soldiers, Nanka launched a general offensive.