Soon, a series of artillery fire rang out, and the breakout troops had already engaged the enemy.
The moment both sides entered the range, the enemy's soul-gathering cannons fired, and one shot after another fell on the breakout troops' side. However, they did not use precise volley technology, so they could not penetrate all the breakout troops' defenses at once.
Moreover, most of the spirit-gathering cannons of the Jinde Empire are actually at the gestational stage, and their lethality is inherently lacking.
However, the strength of the Soul Gathering Cannon lies in its long range, short charging time, and rapid launch, so as soon as one shot ends, another one is immediately fired. Those in the breakout force whose defenses were broken have no time to continue to cast defensive talismans before they are killed by the impact force of the Soul Gathering Cannon, resulting in casualties.
After the second attack, almost everyone's spells were broken. Fortunately, all members of the breakout force defended at the same time, thus avoiding countless casualties in two rounds of artillery fire.
However, under such fierce artillery bombardment, their pace slowed down.
After all, the Soul Gathering Cannon's attack power will be greater the closer the distance is, and the closer the breakout troops get, the greater the damage they will suffer.
The breakout troops were somewhat hesitant in advancing and retreating, while the defending troops were attacking vigorously. The continuous artillery fire even reduced the defense by half and switched to attack spells. At that time, a fast force of about 500 people suddenly rushed out from the jungle on the side. This team was naturally the artillery regiment led by Ye Li.
The artillery regiment was extremely fast and quickly entered the range while the enemy had no time to react.
Half of the high-level soldiers gathered their defenses together, as if forming a giant shield in front of them.
The artillerymen threw the soul-gathering cannon from behind the horses to in front of them as quickly as possible and adjusted the muzzle to aim at the enemy.
The enemy also reacted at this time and tried to defend in a hurry.
However, the defense was a little late at this time. The number of Ye Li Artillery Regiment's Soul Gathering Cannons was greater than that of the enemy, and their power was also greater. After just one round of artillery fire, the enemy's defense was completely torn apart.
Before they could deploy their second round of defense, the artillery regiment, which had always been trained in the three standards of speed, accuracy and ruthlessness, launched its second artillery attack.
In a decisive battle between corps, the advantage brought by speed of action is huge. When the artillery corps launched the second round of attack, the enemy's defense had not yet fully deployed. Under Ye Li's deliberate command, the artillery corps' attacks were all directed at the opponent's spirit gathering artillery group.
The small-scale precise attack brought the power of the Soul Gathering Cannon to its limit, instantly penetrating all the enemy's defenses. Hundreds of explosions occurred in the enemy's Soul Gathering Cannon area.
Among them, fifteen spiritual energy shells from the Virtual God Stage Soul Gathering Cannons had an enormous explosive power, instantly killing nearly a hundred gunners and destroying seventy or eighty Soul Gathering Cannons.
The Soul Gathering Cannon of the Yuantai period was equally powerful. Every time a shell landed in the enemy group, it would not only kill or injure one or two people. With just one round of bombardment, the enemy's Soul Gathering Cannon group would be completely destroyed, leaving no force able to intercept the troops pretending to break out in advance.
The troops pretending to break out no longer needed to defend with all their might, but instead changed their spells to attack types.
The people in the front rows switched to melee combat mode and quickly approached the enemy group, while those in the back used various spells to attack the enemy, making it difficult for the enemy to escape and forcing them to defend.
The combined attack of the two teams was simply beyond the ability of this crippled troop to defend against, and in an instant they were almost completely killed or wounded.
However, the enemy made an extremely wrong decision at this time. In panic and desperation, they actually fired a ball of signal fireworks into the sky.
When Ye Li saw the signal firework, a look of joy appeared on his face, because the other party launched it too late.
Sending a signal so late would only cause great trouble to the other party's companions.
If the signal fireworks were launched at the beginning, the other enemy troops should have arrived here by now. Ye Li and his men who did not want to fight head-on would have no choice but to leave.
However, the other side did not react at first and was stunned by the artillery regiment, so they did not have time to launch signal fireworks.
If the other side had not launched the signal fireworks, their losses would have been limited to this unit. If they launched the signal fireworks now, their losses would continue to expand.
"Everyone, tie up each other and kill them all. Don't let any one escape.
After destroying them, we immediately retreated to the small hill on the right and waited for the enemy reinforcements to arrive!!!"
Ye Li used the power of wind to transmit a message to everyone.
After hearing the order, everyone immediately carried it out. The breakout troops had already become entangled with the enemy, and every melee soldier was doing his best to entangle the enemy's people and prevent them from escaping.
The rest of the people cooperated with the advantage of numbers to kill the opponent little by little, and the masters fought with each other. In less than an incense stick of time, the opponent was completely wiped out by Ye Li's two teams.
Knowing that the enemy's reinforcements were about to arrive, Ye Li hurriedly commanded everyone to hide behind a small hill on the side and hid there.
The breakout troops were incorporated into the artillery regiment and used as a defensive force, while all the members of the artillery regiment became attacking troops and stood behind the breakout troops.
They adopted a positional warfare format and waited for the enemy's reinforcements to arrive.
Almost just after Ye Li and the others stood still, hurried footsteps were heard from not far away. The enemy's reinforcements had finally arrived.
The other party arrived faster than Ye Li and the others had imagined, but it was still too late. When they arrived at the battlefield, corpses were everywhere.
The enemy reinforcements looked at the corpses of their comrades all over the ground and saw no enemies around, with expressions of extreme shock on their faces.
Their attention was completely attracted by the hundreds of corpses on the ground. The large army ran towards the corpses of their own people without any preparation, checking whether there was anyone alive while trying to recover the soul gathering cannon that had not been damaged.
The people from the Jinde Empire had not experienced a crushing defeat for a long time, and seemed to have forgotten how dangerous the battlefield was. At this moment, when they had no idea of the situation around them, they should have been on full alert, but instead they ran to clean up the battlefield and check on the dead.
In their habitual thinking, the coalition forces of the Frant Empire did not dare to confront them head-on, so they must have retreated by now.
However, just when they were careless and their attention was all attracted by the corpses of their companions on the ground, Ye Li raised his hand and waved, signaling everyone to start the attack.