This was a fierce and bloody battle. Until midnight, neither side showed any signs of stopping.
Long Tenghai did not know what the Puppet Kingdom had up their sleeves, but he knew that once they broke through the enemy's front line, all their tricks would be useless!
Moreover, they were already in front of the enemy's front line. As long as they could rush forward, they could kill their way into the enemy's central army tent, or even directly attack the enemy's heavy artillery area!
The Apocalyptic Heavy Cannons and Magic Cannons of the Puppet Kingdom were extremely powerful, but their weight was also appalling. They were astonishingly slow to transport. If they were defeated on the battlefield, the heavy artillery positions would definitely fall. The Puppet Kingdom could either destroy their own heavy cannons or wait to be captured by the enemy.
No matter which choice they made, based on the attack power that the Puppet Kingdom had shown in this decisive battle, once they lost these Magic Cannons, it meant that the Puppet Kingdom would lose most of its combat power. At that time, the Puppet Kingdom would not only face defeat, but also... annihilation!
With the temptation of settling the matter once and for all and deciding the outcome of the battle before their eyes, no one would easily give up on it!
On one side, they had to defend with their lives, or else the country would be annihilated. On the other side, victory was at their fingertips. No matter which general it was, his eyes began to turn red. Both sides began to launch a terrible slaughter here regardless of the cost.
From the beginning of the two sides' probing attacks in the early morning until the Dragon Soaring Sea's central army pressed into the front of the enemy's central army, six to eight hours had passed. Just as the battle was about to begin, the soldiers quickly stuffed a piece of military rations into their mouths, chewed a few mouthfuls with cold water, and swallowed it.
This battle was so fierce that the wounded soldiers basically had no chance to receive treatment. Everyone was fighting in a mess. The two groups of soldiers had completely lost their formation and were fighting with each other. In some places, the Puppet Kingdom was crazily advancing, while in other places, the soldiers of Da Qi were killing all the way. Both sides were entangled with each other. Looking from above, the battle lines of both sides had completely merged, and there was no distinction between them.
In this battle of life and death, even the cowards let out beast-like roars. Everyone was fighting and killing for the sake of survival!
If the gun was bent, he would pull out his saber. If the saber was broken, he would punch and kick them. If they were tangled together, he would open his mouth and bite them!
Fresh blood flowed continuously from the bodies of the fallen soldiers. The boiling blood was so continuous that it corroded the cold ice surface and began to melt. Cracks even appeared in some places. Blood flowed down along these cracks. Some of the blood started to freeze into hard blood clots after flowing an inch, but soon, new blood flowed in and filled up the cracks.
However, the cracks that had just been filled did not have time to freeze back together. The weight and trampling of tens of thousands of people on both sides shook the cracks open again, and blood continued to seep into the ground!
However, no one noticed that when the blood continued to seep into the ground to a certain extent, it finally stopped flowing and formed a large black blood wall. On top of this blood wall, there were countless tiny black lines that were drawn out from the middle. They continued to wander downwards like black mist, and then converged with each other. Gradually, they formed a black stream, a trickle, and then a terrible river!
When this black river flowed to the bottom, it began to take shape in a small gap that was not filled with ice. At first, it was a black ball. Then, this ball began to expand and grow. Slowly, it turned into a black beating heart. This heart continued to grow red and black veins that looked like vines. It was connected to the black river that was continuously flowing in from all directions. It was like a crazily growing tree root that was constantly sucking nutrients from the earth.
There was so much nutrients that the black heart grew at a terrifying speed. From the size of a fist, it quickly grew to fill the entire gap. Then, it continued to press against the ice around it. Little by little, cracks began to appear on the ice, and the ice began to crack. The ice was being pushed away by this terrible force.
The people on the ground fought until midnight, but neither side showed any signs of retreating. The cultivators of the Da Qi Kingdom simply raised an artificial sun in the sky. A huge ball of light hung in the sky. It did not emit heat, but only emitted a light that was as bright as day.
This cold light shone on everyone's face, making them look like a group of zombies in a chaotic battle.
The first wave of soldiers had lost their fighting strength by midnight. Nearly forty percent of the soldiers had died in battle, and more than twenty percent were seriously injured. The remaining forty percent were almost all wounded. By the time they struggled to retreat from the front line, two more waves of soldiers had already entered the battlefield.
If it wasn't for Long Tenghai's strict management of the army, these soldiers would have immediately collapsed into chaos and turned around to attack the front line.
This kind of killing continued until midnight. The corpses on the front line had piled up to a very frightening level. The soldiers in the center had begun to fight on the mountain of corpses that belonged to their comrades and enemies. There were potholes everywhere, and it was impossible to find a flat ground to stand on!
Usually, after a battle like this, both sides would have a tacit understanding to stop fighting. They would send out a portion of their men to clean up the battlefield, and then return to their camps to fight again another day.
However, neither side was willing to retreat at this time. Both sides were afraid that the other side would suddenly use a trump card, and cause the situation to collapse. Then, the entire battle would be routed.
The soldiers who came later staggered up the pile of corpses, and then desperately tried to press the other side. Many of them were skilled in martial arts, but in this kind of situation, there were people everywhere. If they were not careful and stepped on someone's arm, their feet would tilt, and their body would stagger. The moment they lost their balance, a knife or an axe would appear out of nowhere and cut off their heads!
What was even more frightening was that when some of the soldiers tried to climb up the pile of corpses, the pile of corpses would suddenly collapse, and the corpses would come crashing down like a landslide, burying them underneath.
No matter how much they cried out for help, it was all in vain. This was because the soldiers who came later no longer had the time and energy to dig them out. This was because the enemy had already climbed up the pile of corpses, roaring and pouncing on the soldiers.
This horrifying scene played out one after another. At this time, they were no longer humans, they were the most primitive of beasts!
Li Chengfeng and the rest were already numb from watching. No matter how horrifying the battle or the scene was, it could no longer make their blood boil. All they saw was death, endless death!
It took eighteen to twenty to thirty years for a soldier to grow up. During this time, a husband and wife had painstakingly raised them, putting in endless effort.
But now, they would die here in the blink of an eye. Ten thousand, fifty thousand, a hundred thousand, even a hundred and fifty thousand soldiers had already entered this terrifying, bloody meat grinder. Yet, Long Tenghai and the Puppet Kingdom's marshal were still expressionlessly pushing their soldiers to their deaths!
"This is … terrifying …" Even Han Tianxing, who yearned for glory on the battlefield, could not help but shudder!
The war he had imagined and the scene in front of him were too different!
But now, he finally understood what a demon war was!