Genshin Impact: Demon God of Shura

With a salvo from the third-generation Returning Machines, the three large transport ships and two medium-sized transport ships of the Ocean Alliance were hit hard on the spot. After a violent shaking, the ships all tilted to varying degrees and began to take on water.

The ship tilted and seawater rushed in from one side, making it difficult for the helmsman to control the ship's direction. As a result, it veered off course and collided with surrounding medium-sized transport ships and numerous small boats, causing many soldiers to fall into the water or the ships to be damaged and broken.

Unfortunately, one of the large transport ships, apparently due to the large amount of flammable materials it was carrying, caught fire inside its cabin after the first salvo from the final aircraft.

Even with the torrential rain, it would be difficult to extinguish the fire inside the ship's cabins in a short time.

Due to low productivity, warships currently in use during wartime are generally made of wood.

The third-generation Returning Machine uses crossbow bolts filled with a certain amount of black powder, which explode upon hitting a target.

Therefore, if a single crossbow bolt pierces the hull and causes an explosion inside, it could theoretically ignite the supplies inside the ship's hold, thus causing a large fire.

As the battle for the seawall defense line began, even from several kilometers away near Tianheng Mountain, Luo Xue and the others could clearly hear the distant explosions.

Looking back, one can see the densely packed shapes of ships on the distant sea surface illuminated by the flames from the burning transport ships.

From Luo Xue's perspective, the Ocean Alliance troops who had landed on the beach further away could also see the battle unfolding in the distance.

Without exception, many people were dumbfounded by Gui Xiuli's technological firepower when they saw their own fleet suffer such a strong attack.

Many people swallowed hard, their foreheads beaded with cold sweat, seemingly relieved that they weren't on the attacking ships.

On the Ocean Alliance side, even though they had anticipated that the firepower on the seawall would be fierce, they were still taken aback when they saw Gui Xiuli destroy or damage about 10% of their ships with just one salvo.

Even the usually calm Carrie was unsettled.

"What's going on? How come Gui Xiuli's firepower is so much stronger than we expected? Answer me!"

Dozens of kilometers above the battlefield, Carrie grabbed the one-armed scout who was the last to return to the Ocean Alliance from the ship's deck below and questioned him with eyes blazing with fury.

The scout, who was being grabbed by the collar by Carrie, was a little dazed. When he came to his senses, he broke out in a cold sweat and said in a flustered voice:

"My God! It's absolutely true! This is the information I heard with my own ears during the last time I was with the team leader! It's definitely not wrong!"

Upon hearing her scout say that, even if Carrie was stupid, she realized what was happening. In a fit of anger, she twisted the scout's neck and snapped it on the spot.

Click!

"Good...very good, we've fallen into Gui Xiuli's trap!"

Carrie threw the corpse into the sea, her previously relatively calm face now filled with a gloomy and suppressed rage.

"This must be a scheme by Rolsheus. We're in a very passive position now!"

Not only Carly, but also the demon gods behind her, such as Oser, looked quite grim.

They all made a fatal mistake: they underestimated Gui Xiuli's overall combat strength. As a result, after obtaining firsthand information, they were too arrogant to choose to send people to verify the information.

"What do we do next? Should we continue to probe?"

Ba Che glanced at the battlefield in the distance ahead and frowned.

Under the three salvos of the Returning Machine, only about half of the various transport ships survived. After struggling to break through the wreckage of their own ships floating in front of them, they braved the barrage of Returning Machine fire and reached the shore. Allied forces had already begun to land on the coast.

"Um……"

Upon hearing this, Carly rested her chin on her hand, thought for a moment, then turned her head to look in the direction of Tianheng Mountain, frowning as she asked Osel beside her:

"Is there anything unusual in the direction of Tianheng Mountain?"

Upon hearing this, Oser flew down to ask the scouts below, and then flew back up a moment later.

"According to the news that just came back, the scouts at Tianheng Mountain have only found about a thousand heavy infantrymen led by a general guarding Tianheng Mountain, and have not found any opportunity to return."

Oser reported the truth to Carrie, and then his expression turned somewhat strange.

Not only him, but even Carrie and Ba Che looked strange.

"Is this Asura God crazy or just arrogant? Knowing that we might launch a fierce attack on Tianheng Mountain, he only sent a little over a thousand people to guard it."

One of the demon gods beside Ba Che felt provoked and said indignantly.

"Something's not right, something's very wrong. Even if Tianheng Mountain is a natural fortress that's easy to defend and difficult to attack, how could a mere thousand men possibly stop our 50,000-strong allied army from landing there?"

Carrie rubbed her forehead, utterly baffled, completely unable to understand what Gui Xiuli was up to.

"Wait a minute, why is there a ceasefire on the seawall side?"

Just as Carrie was brainstorming, a demon god who was always watching the seawall behind her interrupted her thoughts.

"Ok?"

The others, drawn by the demon's words, turned their attention to the distant seawall.

Meanwhile, at the seawall defense line.

The tens of thousands of allied soldiers who had been crawling on the beach, dodging the firepower of Gui Zhongji and the arrow rain of Shura Archers, were all bewildered when they saw that the resistance on the defensive line had stopped.

After waiting several times and confirming that Gui Zhongji and Shura Archers were no longer providing long-range fire suppression, the allied soldiers cautiously raised their heads and looked ahead.

At this moment, the only Allied soldiers closest to the seawall were a few small teams of dozens of men who had crawled with difficulty to the back of the rocks a few hundred meters from the coastline.

The vast majority of the remaining soldiers were scattered on the beach, lying around each other with the bodies of their fallen comrades who had been shot by arrows, or with limbs and equipment blown off by the crossbow bolts of the Returning Machine.

The entire coastal battlefront fell silent for a time due to the ceasefire initiated by the Returning Stars.

The two armies stood facing each other across the vast beach.

This caused Carrie and the others, who were watching from the rear, to frown.

"What do they want to do?"

Carrie was filled with doubt.

Several hours passed just like that.

As the torrential rain poured down, some Allied soldiers began to lose their composure and quietly rose up to advance the front line inland.

Behind them, the second fleet carrying the landing troops arrived and docked.

Just as the second wave of landing troops began to land, and the Allied soldiers on the beach advanced two hundred meters toward the seawall, a sudden, sharp shout broke the tranquility of the storm.

"Riders! Prepare the grenades! Throw them!"

This is the voice of Ranger General Love.

As soon as Love finished speaking, thousands of Asura Knights hiding in the tunnels beneath the beach pushed open the rain shelters above their heads, pulled the pins on their defensive grenades, and threw them at the Allied soldiers on the coastline.

Before the coalition soldiers could react, the coastline was once again filled with a dense barrage of explosions.

"Damn it! They have a backup plan!"

Carrie's face turned extremely pale; she realized she had completely fallen for their trap.

"Cease the attack immediately and readjust the strategy!"

She immediately gave the order loudly.

However, at this point, the battlefield situation had become difficult to control.

In the distance, the Returning Machine roared again, and the ships that the Allied forces had landed on the shore had not yet had time to evacuate before they were hit and sank in a new round of attacks.

The Allied soldiers on the beach were also blown up by the defensive grenades thrown by the Shura Knights, and were in dire straits.

The Ocean Alliance's attempt ended in a crushing defeat, and Gui Xiuli's true strength was only just beginning to be revealed.