"Defense, everyone defend!!!"
Several officers shouted orders.
These thousand people were not rookies who had never experienced battles. They immediately launched defensive spells to try to block the attack of the artillery regiment.
They believed that with the combined efforts of 1,300 men, they should be able to hold off the artillery regiment's offensive, and at least there would be no major casualties.
However, they thought Ye Li's tactics were too simple. The artillery regiment's spirit cannon attack was not aimed directly at the crowd, but exploded on the cliff below the mountain path.
After just one round of bombardment, the rock wall where the 1,300 people stood began to shatter one after another.
"Oh no, they want us to fall off the cliff!!!"
The officers of the Jinde Empire coalition forces finally reacted, but they were still a step too late. The talisman attack that followed the spirit gathering cannon completely collapsed the mountain road that had already been cracked by the explosion.
A series of screams echoed through the valley. Amid the neighing of horses and howling of people, a huge team of 1,300 people all fell from a height of nearly 100 meters.
The accompanying boulders hit their bodies hard. Even if some of them did not die because of the cushioning of their companions' bodies when they fell to the ground, they could not escape the crushing of the boulders in the end.
The artillery regiment's second round of attack came immediately after the first round. It did not directly attack the falling people, but bombarded the rock wall again.
The rock wall, which was bombarded by powerful forces one after another, finally could not hold on. Huge rocks fell from the sky and directly buried the people who fell to the ground.
Dust and gravel were flying everywhere, almost covering the entire valley.
Several of the enemy's minor officers had the strength of the divine level. They were struggling to fly up during the attack, trying to escape from here.
However, the 255 spirit-gathering cannons and the five masters in the team gave them no chance at all.
The fighting power of the two masters in the Divine Appearance Stage was extremely strong. With just one encounter, they stopped the seven people who were about to escape in mid-air.
The three masters of the Divine Spirit Stage coordinated their attack with the Spirit Gathering Cannon and killed two enemies in the Divine Spirit Stage in an instant.
The remaining five people wailed and tried to fly out of the area like headless flies.
But with Ye Li's proper arrangements, they had no chance of escaping the siege. In less than half an incense stick of time, they were all killed and fell into the pile of rubble on the ground.
Hundreds of thousands of tons of boulders on the ground buried half of the valley. The people of the artillery regiment stood at a distance, looking at the occasional broken limbs exposed from the rocks, with an inevitable look of horror on their faces.
Although they were the ones who caused all this, killing 1,300 people at once is somewhat difficult to accept.
Even Ye Li, the person who planned and arranged all this, found it difficult to calm down for a moment.
After taking a deep breath, he looked at the rocks and corpses on the ground and swallowed.
As the leader and commander of the legion, most of the 1,300 lives were attributed to him.
If it weren't for the special circumstances of the battle, it would have been very difficult for him to issue such an extremely cruel order to kill all these people.
"Master, this... this tactic is considered a success!"
Kaidi originally wanted to tell Ye Li about the uncomfortable feeling in his heart, but when he saw Ye Li's slightly pale face, he immediately changed the subject.
He knew that Ye Li was young after all, and that he couldn't have experienced more than them. If he killed 1,300 people in an instant with just a single order and there was no ripple in his heart, it could only mean that he was a murderer.
It was obvious that Ye Li was not that kind of person, so he should be the one with the greatest psychological pressure. Kai Diwen had no intention of expressing his feelings and causing trouble for Ye Li.
Ye Li nodded and said, “I… I didn’t expect the tactics to be successful to this extent.
"Huh..."
Exhaling deeply, Ye Li quickly calmed down and said, "This choice is also a helpless one. After all, we are each other's mortal enemies. If they don't die, our people will be killed.
After a war, the number of deaths in our coalition forces will be even greater than that here."
Ye Li seemed to be comforting himself.
Pierre also came over at this moment, and after hearing Ye Li's words, he nodded and said: "Master, you did the right thing, you are now the head of the legion, and every time you kill an enemy, it is equivalent to saving one person on our side.
If you can kill all the enemies, then there will be no more casualties on our side. Killing and saving people is a matter of a fine line."
Pierre also saw that Ye Li was not feeling very comfortable, so he spoke to comfort her.
Ye Li felt a little better after hearing this, nodded, and said: "Actually, I understand all these principles, I just felt a little uncomfortable for a while, but I'm fine now.
Okay, send the scouts over right away so we can discuss our next plan."
Hearing Ye Li's instructions, Kai Diwen and the other two nodded hurriedly, and then called the scouts over.
Ye Li glanced at the leader of the five and said, "Zach, the number of people we just killed, plus the number of people killed in the previous camps, has added up to nearly 1,800.
However, according to my observation, the number of enemy troops is about 400 to 500 people, which means that if they have 40 troops here, there will be nearly 20,000 people. It seems that the number of people we have killed now is far from enough.
Do you know how many of our people are still in here, and where they might be hiding?"
Zack is the sergeant among the five scouts. After Ye Li had several conversations with him, he had become quite familiar with him.
After listening to Ye Li's words, he said: "Captain, what you just said is wrong, it's also my fault that I didn't explain it clearly.
In fact, the eight troops whose exact whereabouts we know are the enemy's largest troops. Indeed, each unit has four to five hundred people, and the total number is about four thousand.
But apart from these, the number of people in each of the other thirty-two troops was at most half that, about two hundred people, and the total was less than seven thousand.
In other words, the total number of enemies deployed here is less than 11,000.
We have just killed more than one-tenth of their troops. Your plan is so successful. This is something we could never do on the front battlefield before."
Ye Li was stunned when he heard this, and said: "It turns out that they only have about 10,000 people, I thought they had more than 20,000 people.
Our plan this time was indeed very successful, but it was also based on their complete lack of understanding of our strength.
In fact, if we really went to the frontal battlefield, with our strength, it would be impossible to achieve such a great result. Our few spirit gathering cannons are much less than those of the Jinde Empire.
The only thing we can use is our mobility advantage to attack the enemy with tactics and strategies. We will never win by fighting head-on.
Okay, tell me quickly, how much do you know about the situation of His Majesty the King and his men?"