Chapter 1708 — Mountains Layered, Rivers Doubled, the Silver River Pours Down
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 5
Jingping had already mustered as many gods and demons as it could, yet set against the Azure Emperor of the Eastern Heaven's army of gods and demons, the whole strength of Jingping amounted to only one tenth of the Azure Emperor's host!
This time the Azure Emperor of the Eastern Heaven had brought sixty army marquises of the Eastern Heaven—Tianjiang, Dongxian, Xixian, Tianfu, Qiguan, Cheqi, Zhenche—all of them the Heavenly Court's mightiest marquis hosts of gods and demons! The Azure Emperor did not rush to give battle; instead, at the first moment he pitched camp and built ramparts, advancing step by step, inching ever closer, showing not the slightest eagerness to seek battle.
"The Azure Emperor's generalship leaks not a drop. " Jiang Baigui, the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping, gazed far off at the bearing of the Azure Emperor of the Eastern Heaven's god-and-demon host and said mildly, "Worthy indeed of being the tree of enlightenment of the Imperial Heavenly Venerate.
But it is a pity the Azure Emperor lacks wisdom. Give him thirty army marquises, as Emperor Haotian did, and I cannot defeat him.
Give him sixty, and he cannot control them, and he cannot defeat me! His talent does not match his station—that is the road to his ruin!
" Jiang Baigui waved his command flag and led his troops out from the city.
"Now we shall see whether my teacher wins merit first, or I do! " At that very moment, a divine being suddenly burst out from the teleportation portal of Jiangling, his face wild with excitement, crying out in a loud voice, "Victory! Wuyou Township has smashed the Heavenly River Fleet—a complete and glorious victory! " Jiang Baigui's eye twitched.
He said in a low voice, "Teacher, you are still one move ahead.
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Troops, advance—" The Jingping host of gods and demons at Jiangling surged toward the East Sea, each army dividing into formations of endless complexity, infinite in their transformations; the Jingping army shifted its formations even as it charged.
From the smallest five-man squad, the ten-man file, the twenty-man lance, the hundred-man company, the five-hundred-man brigade, the two-thousand-five-hundred-man division, five divisions to an army—every formation shifted without cease, from the smallest to the greatest, all within Jiang Baigui's control! His mastery of formations was meticulous beyond compare, surpassing even Yan Yunxi!
His control had reached the utmost pinnacle! "What a pity the Azure Emperor is too cautious. Otherwise this first great victory would surely have been mine!
" Word of the great victory at Wuyou Township traveled through one teleportation portal after another to the Southern Wilderness and the South Sea, to the Western Land, to Kan, and from there the tidings were sent across the Spirit-Energy Transmigration Bridges to the Western Pole Heaven, the Northern Pole Heaven, and all the other heavens and worlds beyond counting!
The Heavenly Court had come in menacing force to chastise the Yuan World.
In a single battle in the heartland of the Yuan World, the Heavenly River Fleet had been crushed by Wuyou Township; Wen Tiange had shattered the Heavenly River Fleet, Zhu Shaoping had fled with the broken remnants of his army, the Lady Taiyin had been wounded and had gone far away, and the host of the Five Chariots had been annihilated to the last man!
In that one battle, countless ships of the Heavenly River Fleet had been captured, the Heavenly Court's great treasures seized, its losses grievous, its captives without number! The waters of the Heavenly River had been dyed scarlet! The news spread of itself, shaking all the heavens!