Douluo Dalu: Start with a Heavenly Fire Sacred Judgement

Chapter 454: Total collapse
As intelligence continued to come in, bad news came one after another. In order to allow the large army to withdraw from the coverage of the Sun-Moon Empire's soul guide artillery fire, Duke White Tiger led the White Tiger Guards to cover the rear. The losses on the front were extremely heavy. At the same time, the Western Army Group also suffered a devastating blow. The Sun-Moon Empire also used ninth-level fixed-type soul guide artillery shells.

According to conservative estimates, the Sun-Moon Empire used at least six level-9 fixed-type soul-guided artillery shells this time.

Hearing the bad news, Ji Lin shook his head, then looked up at the sky. There was not even a high-altitude detection soul guide in the sky of Yuming City. There were only some soul power detection soul guides on the top of the city. In terms of defense, it was much worse than the Sunrise City of the Sun and Moon Empire. This was the gap in technology! I don't know how long the Xingluo Empire can hold on. Don't worry, it will be defeated before it is ready. That would be no fun.

The Xing Luo Empire cannot be defeated so easily. It must at least hold out until the other two empires are defeated and until Ji Lin takes over the Xing Luo Empire.

With Xu Jiawei's cooperation, Ji Lin can completely establish a new empire based on the Xingluo Empire, but the prerequisite is that the old forces of the Xingluo Empire must be cleansed, and this matter cannot be done by Xu Jiawei or Ji Lin's Zizai Gate. It would be best to die in the war with the Sun and Moon Empire.

Soon, defeated soldiers retreating from the front line appeared outside Yuming City. It was really a crushing defeat! A large number of soldiers were retreating from the west with their heads down, many of them were injured, and even the team seemed a little confused.

As the defeated army entered the city, more detailed intelligence came. It turned out that this time the Sun-Moon Empire's surprise attack was even more brutal than he had imagined. The Star Luo Empire's air defense detection was so weak that the Sun-Moon Empire sent a large number of strong men into the Western Frontier in batches, and launched a surprise attack, firing level 9 fixed-type soul guide shells. After the terrifying power of the level 9 fixed-type soul guide shells wreaked havoc, these masters rushed into the chaotic military camp, killing officers and creating chaos, causing the Northwest Army to be in chaos.

If it weren't for the Duke of White Tiger's strict military discipline and strong control over the army, the defeat would have been even more tragic. The casualties on the front line have exceeded 70,000.

According to the defeated soldiers, after the horrific explosion, strong rays of light continued to fall from the sky, destroying the Xingluo Empire's stronghold on the top of the mountain. Then a large number of flying soul masters entered the Mingdou Mountains and launched a full-scale massacre.

This is a fighting method that paves the way with high-end combat power. Moreover, through the flying ability of the Soul Guide Corps and the absolute advantage of the Air Force, the Sun-Moon Empire has mastered air supremacy and fully utilized its own advantages.

The Xing Luo Empire had always known that there was a gap between them and the Sun Moon Empire in terms of soul guides, but it was not until the full-scale war began that they realized how big the gap was.

Yes, the gap is really too big.

Relying on the terrifying power of soul guides, the defensive fortifications in traditional wars in the past are far from enough to resist the offensive of the Sun-Moon Empire. The Sun-Moon Empire came prepared. Without the defense line of the Mingdou Mountains, the Star Luo Empire is in big trouble and may very likely be completely defeated.

Ji Lin lowered his head in thought, and after thinking for a while, he headed towards the Mingdou Mountains. He had to go to the battlefield to see the situation and get a direct understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Sun-Moon Empire's army. He had to assess whether the Star Luo Empire could stop it. If it couldn't, he would have to find a way to help. If the Star Luo Empire was destroyed first, it would not be of any benefit to him, but would be very troublesome.

Yuming City was only two hundred kilometers away from the battlefield. It didn't take long to fly. From afar, Ji Lin could already feel a strong fluctuation of soul power erupting in front of him. The sky had already darkened at this time. It looked even more obvious at night. Lights of different colors kept flashing on the other side of the border.

He soon noticed the changes in the Mingdou Mountains.

A huge gap appeared on the Mingdou Mountains. The gap looked rocky and extremely hideous, and the gap was charred black. This was clearly caused by the bombardment of the terrifying ninth-level fixed-type soul guide shells that mainly relied on explosive force. From a long distance, it could be seen that a large number of Sun-Moon Empire soldiers were entering the Xingluo Empire through the gap.

The defense line of the Star Luo Empire has completely collapsed, and the remaining troops of the Star Luo Empire have been defeated. About ten kilometers away in the sky, there are a large number of high-altitude detection soul guides and ground detection soul guides. Below, the soul guide positions built by soul masters have gradually taken shape, and the light that was occasionally shining before has gradually disappeared.

The Northwest Group Army's position was completely lost in just half a day.

Ji Lin was suspended in the air, and he was extremely surprised. Although he knew that the military strength of the Sun-Moon Empire was far stronger than the original Three Douluo Kingdoms, he did not expect that the strongest combat force of the Star Luo Empire could be defeated so easily!
Ji Lin did not see the Duke of White Tiger's troops or figure on the way here. He thought that they were either annihilated or retreated in other directions.

The Northwest Army Group is stationed not only on the western border, but also close to the Heavenly Soul Empire. From here to the north, it is less than 500 kilometers to reach the border of the Heavenly Soul Empire. If the White Tiger Duke is still alive and has not retreated to Yuming City, he must have retreated to the north. Ji Lin thought for a while and smiled. He is worthy of being the White Tiger Duke. He has been fighting all his life and his battlefield sense is really sharp. This time, the Sun and Moon Empire suddenly launched an attack without declaring war. The White Tiger Duke must be one of the main targets. In order to kill him, the Sun and Moon Empire spared no effort. The strongest combat force should be aimed at him. He retreated to the north to divert this part of the combat force and give the defeated army time to retreat. Otherwise, the soul guide corps of the Sun and Moon Empire are flying in the air. For ordinary soldiers, the damage they can cause is too serious.

As a commander, not only did he not retreat first, but he risked his own life in order to buy time for the army to retreat. It is indeed not something ordinary people can do.

Putting aside his stance, the Duke of White Tiger is indeed a qualified commander. If possible, Ji Lin wants to conquer the other party. The lineage of the Duke of White Tiger has always been aware of the times, otherwise they would not have given the throne directly to the Xingguan Sect. This is not something that ordinary people can do. In this war, the lineage of the Duke of White Tiger will bear the brunt of the attack. After all, their foundation is the army. After this battle, it is unknown how much foundation the lineage of the Duke of White Tiger will have left.

Ji Lin was not worried about Duke Baihu. After all, if he could give up the throne, what else could he not give up?

Ji Lin flew northwards, and at the same time he turned on his spiritual detection. Sure enough, there were many traces of battles on the ground, some left by soul guides, some left by soul masters and the army. Occasionally, some corpses could be seen. From these traces, it can be seen that the battle was quite fierce, but the number of people fighting was not too large, no more than 10,000 at most, but these were undoubtedly the elite of the elite on both sides.

Although the Xing Luo Empire has fewer soul engineers and soul guides, the number of real soul masters is incomparable to that of the Sun and Moon Empire. On the Northwest Army side, there is at least a soul master corps of more than a thousand people, all of whom are real soul masters. Although they are not the White Tiger Guards, they only obey the orders and dispatches of the White Tiger Duke.

In the entire Xingluo Empire, there are a total of ten soul master corps like this. However, Xu Jiawei is not a fool. Although he trusts Duke White Tiger, it is impossible for him to give such a powerful force to Duke White Tiger to command. Several army groups are only assigned one such soul master corps.

When flying along the traces of the battle, the speed naturally cannot be too fast. The faster you fly forward, the more you can understand the murderous intention of the Sun-Moon Empire towards the White Tiger Duke this time.

From some of the corpses, he could tell that there were at least two soul guide groups chasing after Duke White Tiger and his entourage, and all of them were members of the Sun-Moon Empire's Protectorate.

Ji Lin recognized one of them. He was from the Evil King Soul Instructor Group, one third of whose members he had killed. The other one, judging from the military uniform found on the corpse, should be from the Terror Claw Soul Instructor Group.

As beast king-level soul guide corps, these two legions are equipped with top-level equipment and a large number of high-level soul guides. Their average combat power is above level four soul guides, and they are extremely good at cooperation between soul guides.

After flying for more than half an hour and at least two hundred kilometers, Ji Lin finally saw flashes of light in the distance.

The lights flashed at a very fast frequency, which showed how fierce the battle was.

From a distance, Ji Lin saw the flashing figures in the air. These people were mainly divided into two parts. One part was the members of the Evil Eye Soul Instructor Group whose flying soul guides were flashing blue light behind them. The other part was the members of the Terror Claw Soul Instructor Group whose flying soul guides were flashing dark golden light behind them.

The two soul guide groups dispersed in the air, and actually maintained their soul guide positions in the air. A dark golden light shield and a blue light shield were lit up to protect them. It can be seen that the soul power of these light shields came from a spike-shaped soul guide on the top of the flying soul guide behind them. Each person's soul power was outputting outwards, and when combined together, it became a huge light shield.

Just now on the road, Ji Lin saw a very small number of soul engineers, only a dozen in total, but there were too many corpses left on the side of the Xingluo Empire. Among them, the White Tiger Guards suffered heavy casualties, and many powerful soul masters died in battle.

The two soul guide groups suspended in the air were constantly shooting thick soul guide rays downwards. They were not attacking alone, and the soul guides they used seemed to have a certain combination effect. Three or five people in a group, each soul guide ray could cause a violent roar below.

(End of this chapter)