by Fang Xiang
The three division setup was equalized, had outstanding defense, and great developmental potential over time. It was a very popular and classic opening method. Yu Heng’s three divisions had a few changes focused on the combinations of soldier types, combinations that had made people’s eyes light up in awe. The troops he used to defend and those he reserved to act freely could freely interact and support each other. This unique adjustment caused the Yu Style’s Three Division Opening Method to become even stronger. All the spectators changed expressions upon seeing this, and it was possible to see how skilled Yu Heng was.
But Yu Heng who was skilled in all kinds of strategies never thought the other would charge straight to his door like a brute.
Was he suicidal?
Pausing, Yu Heng instantly reacted.
The offensive power of the Three Division Opening Method was not extremely strong, but the defensive power was not weak. So Yu Heng felt disbelief but he did not panic. His main base had been finished, and the defensive capabilities had been increased. Even if the other’s entire army came to attack, he had enough confidence that he could hold against the other.
However, he still was cautious. Using just the power the other had, it was an impossible mission to attack a completed main camp. Yu Heng believed that Xiao Mo Ge also understood this. Even more, he kept on feeling that Xiao Mo Ge’s purely Flame Boring yao army was a scheme.
Xiao Mo Ge definitely had something else planned, and that would be the true killing move!
He believed his judgment. He did not believe that Xiao Mo Ge had only picked Flame Boring yao. Yu Heng was careful as he directed the troops to advance as he prepared to counter against any move that would appear.
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On the other side, Gongsun Cha’s mind was unprecedentedly focused.
Other people only saw him pursuing Yu Heng’s scouts. They did not know that inside the seemingly smooth flow of troops, Gongsun Cha was continuously familiarizing himself with this new troop formation. Every bit of familiarity he gained could add a small chance of success.
Fortunately, he had pondered the snowflake formation for a long time and was not completely unfamiliar with it. As he raced all this way, it became easier to move everything according to his will. This pursuit was like warmup. When he reached Yu Heng’s main base, just having finished his warmup, Gongsun Cha’s presence and attention was at its peak!
The snowflake flood that just reached the outskirts of the main base suddenly accelerated!
They were like a bundle of saw blades that suddenly tore at the main base.
At the same time, Gongsun Cha’s eyes suddenly lit up. His spread out consciousness shook. This vibration seemed to create ripples and rapidly transferred to every corner of the consciousness web.
Woosh!
The red snowflake’s center suddenly lit up and gave off a blinding red light. The red light spread at astounding speed. It seemed to be like flowing metal liquid that flowed along the pathways of the snowflake originating from its center, and quickly reached the tip of each snowflake branch.
When more than eight hundred Flame Boring yao cast fire yao arts at the same time, the heat produced twisted the air. This caused the shape of the snowflake to look somewhat warped.
What was even more stunning was that each Flame Boring yao was situated among the high-speed spinning snowflake!
Each was like a burning hot blade that was furiously humming!
Everyone was shocked at the presence given off by the Flame Boring yao. Everyone had used Flame Boring yao before, but they had never seen such an intimidating presence.
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Yu Heng’s expression changed dramatically as his troops were struck. The presence suddenly exuded by the enemy surpassed his imagination.
Why was it like this?
He had always assumed that the enemy’s first wave of attack was definitely a feint. The true threat to him was the ambush that was to come later, so he had only sent a small portion of his army to face the enemy. The majority of his troops were waiting for the hidden enemy.
The suddenly fierce attack was like a storm that came without warning!
Six large snowflakes with burning and sharp howls furiously charged his base.
The moment the two sides collided, countless blinding lights shot up! Like six burning red saws, in the midst of ear-piercing shrieking, sparks shot out like a rain!
The sky seemed to be illuminated by the rising fire yao arts.
Not good!
Yu Heng’s heart skipped a beat. His body wavered. In his wide pupils, a thread of disbelief flashed.
The other really was using only Flame Boring yao! The other truly was attacking with all of his forces!
All of his predictions, all of the judgments, they were all wrong!
Two successive basic assumptions had been incorrect. From any angle, these were likely fatal!
In order to reserve more to face the later attacks of the enemy, he had preserved the majority of his power. This meant that the number of combat yao on the front lines that were facing the Flame Boring yao was too few. The difference in power was too large. Famed for its attacking power, the Flame Boring yao pressed their advantage to their limit.
The six troops were like six snowflake shaped heated saws that penetrated his troops like butter, cutting through them without any effort!
Forced to the precipice, Yu Heng displayed his outstanding tactical training. Facing this situation with his troops on the verge of collapse, he rapidly calmed down. Even though he had not expected that the other would use all his power on the first wave of attack, but he also did not hesitate to engage with all of his forces.
His expression resumed normality as he quickly adjusted the troops.
The troops under his command seemed to explode. They turned to several hundred little troops that quickly spread out into every corner of the base.
Relying on the defensive capabilities of the base, these little teams were very nimble. Like packs of wolves, they continuously harassed the enemy troops.
The situation quickly stabilized. The snowflake formation that encountered resistance had slowed down its advance.
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“Powerful!”
Sang Nan couldn’t help but clap and praise. Xiao Mo Ge’s intimidating attack had almost got him to stop breathing. Yu Heng’s following reaction was based on the principle of using to softness to subdue hardness. To be able to stabilize the situation in such a chaotic state, Yu Heng really lived up to his reputation!
This collision was short, but extremely fierce!
After the short exchange, Yu Heng only had two thousand and six hundred combat yao remaining. His losses could be called immense. Xiao Mo Ge had four thousand combat yao left. He seemed to have the advantage of numbers, but their speed had been halted by Yu Heng. Adding on that they were deep in enemy territory, they now had to face the defensive weapons of the enemy camp. Flame Boring yao were very weak defensively, and it was undoubtedly very dangerous to be caught in such a situation.
Looking at it that way, the two sides had once again reached a certain equilibrium
All the battle generals were staring unblinkingly. Such a fierce collision usually only happened in the final stages of a match. Many of them even forgot to breathe. None of them had expected that seemingly pretty but useless snowflake formation would be so sharp!
All of the battle generals were stunned!
No one doubted Xiao Mo Ge’s battle general skills any longer. Such an extreme break through, if it appeared on the battlefield, was the nightmare of the enemy!
However, battle generals with some skill could see the danger that Xiao Mo Ge was now facing.
Yu Heng had relied on his experience as a commander to transform his main base into a quagmire. Even the sharpest saw was bogged down while facing this swamp.
What would Xiao Mo Ge do?
This question appeared in the observer’s minds at the same time.
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But no one knew that Gongsun Cha who appeared to be in a dangerous situation did not feel he was in danger. Once the two sides had engaged, Gongsun Cha perceptively realized that his opponent was not the mystery expert he usually faced.
The two’s styles were too far apart!
Most importantly, Gongsun Cha could not feel the overbearing pressure that was usually present, did not feel like there was a rope constantly strangling his neck!
Being used to Pu Yao’s suffocating pressure, Gongsun Cha felt he was a fish in the water when he faced Yu Heng and was able to breathe freely.
Everyone thought that Yu Heng had stabilized the situation, and Xiao Mo Ge had landed in danger.
What they did not understand was that for a battle general like Gongsun Cha that struggled constantly under Pu Yao’s abuse, what would it mean when there wasn’t enough pressure put on him?
It meant that Gongsun Cha’s hands were unbound!
Having such freedom, how terrifying could Gongsun Cha be?
Before today, no one knew!
Lacking this pressure, Gongsun Cha felt it was very unfamiliar. This unfamiliar feeling deeply stimulated Gongsun Cha. His eyes became brighter. As his messy hair brushed across his face, a light bashful smile came to the corner of his mouth.
An imperceptible vibration passed to every Flame Boring yao along the invisible consciousness web.
The strangulation had started!
Chapter 413: Snowflake Strangulation Kill
Snowflake Strangulation Kill!
This was the name Gongsun Cha gave to this new battle tactic. Today was the first day he showed off its edges. Just as everyone was sighing over the powerful charge it had made, none of them knew that the reason Lil’ Miss had created the Snowflake Strangulation Kill was to compensate for the fact that the three section wave killing charge lacked lasting power.
In other words, the charges and defensive line break throughs that everyone exclaimed over was not the best attribute of this battle tactic.
Its best quality was—Strangulation Kill!
The six large snowflakes suddenly crumbled and turned to many smaller snowflakes. They did not move in a defined formation anymore. These tiny snowflakes were like a flood that streamed into every pore and crack.
Their rate of advance was not quick, but gave people the feeling their advance was unavoidable.
The small snowflakes composed of six Flame Boring yao furiously spun. Fire yao arts were prepared on their hands. Once they encountered an enemy, they would attack. Their attacking method was very unique. As they spun quickly, the six Flame Boring yao would move and while rotating positions to release the fire yao art in their hands
It became a ruler straight stream of fire!
This was a stream of fire composed of fire yao arts. When the last Flame Boring yao finished releasing the fire yao art, the first Flame Boring yao had finished casting a new fire yao art, it was the a continuous cycle of fire yao arts.
The stream of fire was endless.
In front of this endless line of fire, the defensive yao arts of the defensive troops were fragile as paper. They were not even able to delay the advance along enough to buy time for their comrades before dying. The combat soldier types that lacked protection died even quicker.
Even more frightening was that each small snowflake would not fight by themselves. They would always have two to three little teams beside them. The middle team of the trio would fall back, and form a reverse triangle. They would half-surround the enemy and engulf them in their web of fire.
The fire web made from the fire streams of the three teams increased their killing power. If six or seven fire snowflake’s fire streams shot out together, the fire web that formed robbed the enemy of all hope.
The advancement of the Flame Boring yao was not fast. They were moving slowly like molten lava. Everywhere they passed, everything turned to ash, and nothing was able to stop them!
The fire streams criss-crossed like an enormous web!
The enemies within the large web furiously casted yao arts, but they were like insects caught on the spider’s web. Any struggling was useless.
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Yu Heng’s face was pale. The criss-crossing fire streams were like threads of death in his eyes! The number of troops under his command decreased at an astounding speed.
He could see that the Flame Boring yao were also continuously falling to his defence as well, but … …
Yu Heng’s mouth was filled with bitterness. The rate that the other’s numbers were lessening was far slower than his. Basically, three of his combat yao would be traded for one of the other’s combat yao. He almost couldn’t believe it, how was this the fragile Flame Boring yao?
The other’s consciousness was truly too strong!
The speed that the Flame Boring yao at the very front perished was very fast, but when one in front perished, another Flame Boring yao from behind quickly took its place. The other’s entire army was flowing smoothly like liquid! Other than that, every small snowflake still maintained its high speed spinning. At the beginning, there had been five thousand combat yao, in more than eight hundred small snowflakes!
Even with the losses they maintained the completeness of their troop formation, this meant that their abilities were only marginally reduced and lead to the staggeringly one sided ratio of damage each force was taking.
But how strong of a consciousness was needed to do this?
Yu Heng’s face was ashen, his eyes began to dim.
He knew he had been defeated, handily defeated. As the number of combat yao under his commanded lessened, the effectiveness of the base’s defensive weapons had decreased. The other’s Flame Boring yao were even able to pluck them out one structure at a time.
He accepted his defeat.
Even though Xiao Mo Ge’s move was completely different than what was in style now, but the person who could create such a battle tactic was undoubtedly a tactical genius!
He understood that his two incorrect judgments had caused him to land in a defensive position. But what truly caused him to lose was this new battle tactic, was the other’s powerful and un-yao-like consciousness! Even if he was prepared to meet this burst of red snowflakes, he did not know how to defeat it.
Yu Heng liked playing politics, but he had received a traditional battle general’s education. His pride as a battle general was etched deeply into his bones. At this moment, he did not think about the result of losing his reputation. His heart was filled with the frustration of defeat, and his heart was truly akin to being dead!
Because this was a defeat where there was no excuse.
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“Yu Heng is finished.” Sang Nan sighed lightly, and his tone was slightly sorrowful. Personally seeing the fall of a golden battle general, faint sorrow came into his mind. His intuition was far more sensitive than the average battle general. Without seeing Yu Heng’s face, he was still able to capture Yu Heng’s loss of spirit and dead presence from some near imperceptible details on the battlefield.
Each golden battle general had experienced countless tests, fights, and struggles. Maybe they had different backgrounds, and skill levels but each of them were truly the best.
Once the heart of a battle general was dead, that meant they had fallen.
Feeling that Yu Heng was probably dead at heart, sighs sounded out in many places, not just from Sang Nan. Many of them had anticipated this battle, but no one had expected this battle would directly cause the fall of a golden battle general.
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For the great majority of people, this spectacular and dramatic battle satisfied their desires. The cause of this battle had long been forgotten. What people discussed the most was, of course, Xiao Mo Ge. In their view, Xiao Mo Ge had to be a gold battle general to have defeated Yu Heng.
The prison-breaking battle and killing twenty six yao had given him the title of genius. Now they found this guy was actually a gold batt
le general! Xiao Mo Ge who stepped on the corpse of another battle general, this “gold battle general” was very substantial.
It was no wonder that many yao exclaimed, was this guy still yao?
Such a freak of a yao, how many years would it take for one to appear?
Freak! Too freaky!
If everyone’s discussion was limited to low-level yao, then he was a hot topic, his name truly spread to every corner of the yao world. In wartime, everyone knew very well what a gold battle general meant. Even more, he was also so young! Adding on that his own strength was very outstanding, he had great potential, and even the possibility of achieving the position of a Sky yao.
Such a youth, could you demand him to be even more freakishly talented?
Even the Genius Alliance that was said to have countless geniuses only had a handful of comparable geniuses.
But the discussion of this battle had just begun. The amateurs watched the spectacle, the insiders discussed the technique. In the eyes of the battle generals, this battle had risen to the level of a classic. Xiao Mo Ge’s use of the Flame Boring yao broke the norm. Before this, no one had ever thought that Flame Boring yao could be used like this.
The meaning of this battle was not just on the Flame Boring yao. To these combat yao, Xiao Mo Ge’s creativity had opened a new window for them. The power of an unrelenting attack had attracted the attention of all battle generals. How to maintain the firepower of a troop became the hot topic of study for battle generals.
When the battle generals came back to studly, they found that the requirements of the consciousness in order to complete Xiao Mo Ge’s snowflake tactic were very high. They suddenly realized just how terrifying Xiao Mo Ge’s consciousness was!
As the battle generals were studying, and the normal people were discussing interestedly, a piece of news struck like lightning. Yu Heng, whose heart had collapsed, had handed in his resignation and quit as the Commander of the Heavy Earth Corps.
Many of Yu Heng’s good friends came to visit in hopes of comforting him. But when they saw Yu Heng, all of them paled! Yu Heng had shut himself into a small room, his expression dazed and he did not react to anyone that spoke to him.