Lord of All Gods

Just as the Imperial Guard was charging against the blockade of the fire-assault vehicles, Yao Wanhao dispatched another two hundred thousand Gold-Armored praetorian from the rear army as reinforcements.

His plan was to seize that uninhabited planet with the Imperial Guard and hold it firmly, breaking through Ye Liuyun’s defensive perimeter.

Ye Liuyun had naturally already noticed his movements, yet seemed to make no significant countermove, merely transferring six thousand Black-Armored elite soldiers to reinforce Cui Daoran’s ten thousand men.

At this moment, the Imperial Guard that had just landed was still scattered and had not yet rallied together, making them perfect targets for the Black-Armored elites to cut down.

These praetorian were nothing but weaklings before the Black-Armored elites. The Black-Armored soldiers advanced in squads of five hundred, sweeping forward in a dragnet formation, leaving not even the corpses of the Imperial Guard behind—they collected the bodies as they killed.

Cui Daoran also stowed his fire-assault vehicles and followed behind the Black-Armored elites, sweeping up the scattered stragglers that had slipped through.

Meanwhile, the warships of the other two enemy forces never even managed to land before the new-model fire-assault vehicles stationed at the garrison camps blasted them out of the sky.

The destructive power of these new fire-assault vehicles was truly staggering. Even Void-tier warships had their defensive formations and hulls shattered in a single volley.

With fifty fire-assault vehicles firing in unison, the warships were riddled like sieves, and a great many soldiers inside were cut down. One commander was even blasted to death right in the control room.

The warships crashed straight down to the ground and broke apart on impact. The soldiers inside were thrown into a daze—many were crushed to death or killed by the fall—and the chaos within the ships was so complete that orders could not even be relayed.

The garrison also sent out thirty thousand of their strongest soldiers, advancing alongside the fire-assault vehicles to encircle the warships. The fire-assault vehicles kept up a relentless bombardment, expending energy as though it cost nothing.

Even soldiers of the Ninth Realm inside the warships, shields raised and desperately trying to charge out, could not withstand the barrage. Many never made it out of the ships before being blasted to death within.

The warships had already been reduced to heaps of scrap metal. Many soldiers who hadn’t been killed by the energy cannons were pinned beneath the wreckage, trapped so thoroughly they couldn’t break free no matter how hard they tried.

Ye Liuyun’s Golden Eyes helped them pinpoint the locations of the commanders inside the warships, directing them to focus their fire. Once the commanders of both forces had been mostly eliminated, Ye Liuyun left the rest to handle the surrenders on their own.

The fire-assault vehicles paused their bombardment and pulled back slightly, allowing the soldiers inside the warships to come out and surrender.

With the commanders of both forces blasted to death inside the warships, the soldiers’ contracts dissolved. Utterly shell-shocked, they crawled out of the wreckage one by one, completely incapable of resistance, with no choice but to surrender.

Every soldier who emerged from a warship was required to lay down their weapons and remove their armor—otherwise, they would be blasted by the fire-assault vehicles on the spot.

On the Imperial Guard’s front, the Black-Armored elites had completed a full sweep. Nearly half of the Imperial Guard had been wiped out, and their commanders had been specifically targeted and killed by the First Clone leading a dedicated squad.

The two hundred thousand praetorian dispatched by Yao Wanhao had all been preparing to land. But after learning that the other two forces had been annihilated, Yao Wanhao immediately ordered them to withdraw.

With neither of the flanking planets taken, these praetorian, even if they managed to land, would be caught in a pincer attack from both sides. Only now did it dawn on him that this uninhabited planet might have been a trap all along.

But those two warships were already very close to the battlefield. The moment the Black-Armored elites saw them turning around, they immediately deployed fire-assault vehicles, surrounded the two warships, and opened fire, bringing them down in just a few volleys.

A thousand Black-Armored soldiers remained behind with Cui Daoran’s ten thousand troops to guard the fire-assault vehicles, while the remaining five thousand continued sweeping the area to round up the scattered Imperial Guard soldiers.

The First Clone was moving among the soldiers, with a precise grasp of the commanders’ locations inside the warships. He immediately directed the fire-assault vehicles to concentrate their fire, eliminating the commanders first, then unleashing a relentless barrage to completely break the Imperial Guard’s will to fight.

These praetorian had little combat experience to begin with. Caught completely off guard, none of them even thought to charge out of the warships before they were already half-crippled. The cries of wounded soldiers—those thrown by the crash, those pinned under debris, those caught in the bombardment—filled the air in a chorus of anguished wailing.

Shortly after, Pei Yong arrived with his men at all three planets to collect the prisoners.

"What kind of equipment is this?!"

Yao Wanhao was utterly stunned. He had never imagined Ye Liuyun possessed such devastating weapons. The moment the battle began, five hundred thousand troops had been wiped out entirely, while the enemy hadn’t taken so much as a scratch.

And these fire-assault vehicles—when not attacking, their energy cannons were retracted, making them look no different from ordinary vehicles.

Each of Ye Liuyun’s armies had hundreds of vehicles parked outside, and they couldn’t tell them apart. They had assumed Ye Liuyun had a massive number of these weapons.

If just a few dozen fire-assault vehicles could unleash this much devastation, then with hundreds firing simultaneously, no amount of troops would be enough to stop them. For the time being, Yao Wanhao didn’t dare launch another offensive, and could only watch helplessly as the soldiers inside those warships were taken in by Ye Liuyun as prisoners of war.

At this moment, Yu Xiaofeng and Ye Liuyun in the central command tent couldn’t help but laugh.

"The firepower war chariots are far more powerful than I imagined! Tong Xin and the others truly didn’t disappoint me!" Ye Liuyun couldn’t help but praise.

"Haha, this battle was fought too easily. The Fire Seal Dynasty now only has a million troops left. From now on, it’ll be our turn to take the initiative!" Yu Xiaofeng also said with a hearty laugh.

It wasn’t just them. The commanders of the various armies, upon witnessing such formidable power from the firepower war chariots, were all elated. Even those commanders leading surrendered soldiers were now filled with confidence.

Previously, they had all worried that the forces they led lacked sufficient strength to defend their planets and would end up as cannon fodder. Now, no one worried anymore. These fifty firepower war chariots alone would allow them to easily handle a hundred thousand troops.

Some quick-witted commanders had already sent people to find Pei Yong, preparing to exchange personnel for surrendered soldiers.

Pei Yong also consulted Yu Xiaofeng and Ye Liuyun: "There are quite a few surrendered soldiers this time, probably over two hundred thousand. Should we still let the commanders pick freely?"

After discussion between Ye Liuyun and Yu Xiaofeng, they agreed that these commanders were all quite capable. Having them lead and train troops would be much more efficient than training soldiers themselves—they only needed to keep enough soldiers for their own needs.

Thus Ye Lioyun directly told Pei Yong: "First have Cui Daoran select four thousand soldiers for me to replenish the Black Armor Elite Corps. As for the rest, let them choose freely.

The lower-realm soldiers they use to exchange for prisoners, you keep and train first as reserves for the Death Legion. The soldiers you eliminate can all be handed over to the Demon Race Legion."

Pei Yong immediately followed Ye Liuyun’s instructions and announced the information.

Cui Daoran promptly went to select fifty thousand highest-realm soldiers and brought them into his spatial world for screening. They fought in groups of five until only one remained—only then would he pick them out and hand them over to First Clone.

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