HPDBC Chapter 97 Recapture of White Tiger Fortress
Chapter 97 Recapture of White Tiger Fortress
Ye Feng stood there, arms crossed, motionless.
He was like a sculpture.
The veterans heard about it.
During that battle in Jiangcheng, Ye Feng gave them some kind of mysterious power.
This time, he gave it new strength.
This Major Ye has too many secrets that no one knows.
But that's not what they should be asking.
All they needed to know was that following Ye Feng meant they wouldn't die. That was enough.
The battle continues.
An hour has passed.
The beast horde was repelled three times, and the battle formation was breached four times, but the veterans plugged the breaches all four times.
Dozens of new recruits fell, but none died.
The most serious case involved a man whose leg was broken by an armored beast; the broken bone healed itself in less than ten minutes.
Two hours have passed. The recruits' performance has improved significantly.
Zhao Bing followed behind the veteran; for every enemy the veteran killed, Zhao Bing would kill one too.
Although his movements were still clumsy and hesitant in striking, at least he was accurate.
Three hours have passed.
The new recruits have fully adapted to the rhythm of combat.
Ye Feng stood on the high ground and noticed that the rate at which his kill points were increasing was accelerating.
From a few hundred points per minute at the beginning to over a thousand points per minute now, the growth rate has doubled.
It wasn't because there were more monsters, it was because the new recruits were killing them faster.
The training exercise yielded results that exceeded expectations.
In three hours, Ye Feng gained 100,000 kill points.
One hundred thousand points.
These kill points can be exchanged for health points.
With 100,000 points of health and vitality, his strength will increase significantly.
But Ye Feng didn't rush to add more troops. He looked at the three thousand men on the position, each one covered in blood, panting, and wounded, but none of them had fallen.
The one who was most seriously injured had his broken leg reattached and had already stood up and picked up a knife again.
That's about right. For the first real match, this level is sufficient.
Continuing to fight would not be training, it would be torture.
Soldiers need rest, to summarize their experiences, and to digest what they have learned today.
Ye Feng took a deep breath and then spread his mental energy outwards.
Thirty-six telekinetic weapons flew out.
He did not use the sacred-grade psychic weapon "Swallowing the Stars" that he had obtained through the lottery.
This is too small a matter to be taken seriously.
Thirty-six telekinetic weapons spun rapidly in the air, emitting a piercing sound as they hovered around Ye Feng.
It spun faster and faster, gradually forming a silver halo several meters in diameter.
"go."
Ye Feng waved his hand lightly.
The silver halo suddenly expanded, rapidly extending in all directions from Ye Feng's side, like a shockwave.
Wherever the light passed, the alien beasts that were fighting the new army fell like wheat being harvested by a sickle.
A bloody hole appeared on his forehead, and his brains splattered out.
Some were severed heads, with clean, mirror-like cuts on the necks, from which black blood gushed forth.
Some were cut in half at the waist, their upper bodies still struggling while their lower bodies collapsed on the ground.
Whether it was a first-tier wind wolf, a second-tier armored beast, or a third-tier bloodthirsty tiger, they were all killed with a single strike. There was no difference, no exceptions. Before Ye Feng's telekinetic throwing knives, their defenses were as fragile as paper.
[Ding! Killed a Tier 2 Armored Beast, gained 50 Kill Points!]
[Ding! Killed a Tier 3 Bloodthirsty Tiger, gained 200 Kill Points!]
[Ding! Killed a Tier 1 Wind Wolf, gained 20 Kill Points!]
[Ding! Killed a Tier 3 Bloodthirsty Tiger, gained 200 Kill Points!]
[Ding! Killed a Tier 4 Beast King, gained 1000 Kill Points!]
The system notifications blared incessantly, like a machine gun, so dense that Ye Feng couldn't hear a single one.
A silver halo spread from the center of the position to the edge, from the edge to the outer perimeter, and from the outer perimeter to the distance. Within a radius of three thousand meters, all the alien beasts still on the position were instantly killed.
The next second, the whole world went silent.
The roars of strange beasts, the shouts of warriors, and the clash of swords.
All sound disappeared.
Within a radius of three kilometers, only the sound of the wind could be heard.
Three thousand soldiers stood on the battlefield, their bodies stiff as they looked at the corpses of strange beasts scattered all over the ground.
The look in those eyes was no longer one of shock.
Shock is an understatement to describe their feelings at that moment.
That was reverence. Reverence for the divine.
Previously, they had only heard that Ye Feng had killed hundreds of thousands of mutated rats by himself.
They thought it was just boasting, a story made up by the military to boost morale.
Today they saw it with their own eyes and realized that it wasn't just bragging.
Killing hundreds of thousands is merely the limit of the number of alien beasts, not the limit of the number Ye Feng can kill.
In just three minutes, all the tens of thousands of strange beasts that had been fighting them for three hours were wiped out.
This was even when Ye Feng was deliberately trying to avoid them while controlling his telekinetic weapon.
If Ye Feng were to kill without restraint, the battle could be ended within a minute.
For some reason, someone took the lead and shouted it out.
"Ye Feng! Ye Feng! Ye Feng!"
Three thousand people shouted at the same time, their voices shaking the heavens and the earth.
The surrounding monsters witnessed the massacre and collectively crashed.
They are not ordinary wild animals.
They are strange beasts, intelligent, though not highly intelligent, but intelligent enough to understand one thing.
That person in front is not to be trifled with; to provoke him is to die. Facing that killing god, continuing to charge means death, not charging also means death.
But if you rush, you'll die now; if you don't rush, you can live a little longer.
These strange beasts are not wild animals; they can think and weigh options.
This doesn't require any profound wisdom to make the choice.
run.
The strange beasts on the periphery turned and ran, several times faster than when they came.
Those strange beasts that were still watching from behind saw their companions running ahead and started running too.
The entire horde of strange beasts retreated like the receding tide, crashing and fleeing towards the White Tiger Fortress.
Ye Feng frowned as he watched the fleeing beasts.
Why did they all run away?
He hasn't killed enough yet.
Didn't they say that White Tiger Fortress had tens of thousands of strange beasts?
How many have been killed?
A little over ten thousand, at most twenty thousand.
What about the rest? What about the fifth-tier beast king?
Intelligence reports indicate that the White Tiger Fortress is guarded by four Tier 5 Beast Kings.
All the fifth-tier ones ran away; not a single one showed up.
Dong Sheng ran over from the other side of the position, covered in blood.
"Dong Sheng, where is the Beast King?" Ye Feng asked.
"They ran away long ago!" Dong Sheng said, panting heavily.
"The Beast Kings are smarter than ordinary people, and with their instincts for danger, they probably sensed your caravan as soon as it left Jiangcheng."
"The senses of a fifth-tier beast king are extremely sharp. They can smell the killing intent emanating from you from a great distance."
"What about these strange beasts?"
"They're all expendable pawns," Dong Sheng said with a bitter smile. "The Beast King abandoned them to cover the retreat. They knew you were coming, they knew they couldn't win, so they ran away."
"Leave these low-level beasts behind to hold us off and buy ourselves time to escape."
Ye Feng was speechless.
He brought three thousand men from afar, both to train them and to give the new recruits a boost.
They fought for three hours, and then the Beast King ran away?
"Just like that... we've recaptured White Tiger Fortress?" Ye Feng asked.
Dong Sheng looked at the fortress that stood quietly in the setting sun.
He nodded.
"It's been recaptured."
Ye Feng remained silent for a long time.
He looked at the White Tiger Fortress.
This fortress fell four years ago, and the people of Jiangcheng have been unable to retake it in four years.
He brought his men here intending to fight a tough battle.
As a result, the Beast King escaped, leaving behind 20,000 cannon fodder. The hard battle didn't turn into a training exercise.
"Then..." Ye Feng patted Dong Sheng on the shoulder, "let's send some good news home."
The news of the recapture of White Tiger Fortress came much faster than he had expected.
When the news reached Jiangcheng, the deputy was reviewing documents in the city lord's mansion.
His hand trembled, and the brush left a long ink mark on the document.
"What? White Tiger Fortress has been recaptured?"
"We've recovered it." The messenger stood ramrod straight, his voice brimming with barely suppressed excitement.
"Major Ye led 3,000 men and fought for three hours, annihilating more than 20,000 defenders. White Tiger Fortress is now under our control."
White Tiger Fortress.
That was Jiangcheng's treasure trove, supplying 70% of the city's ore and timber.
After the fortress fell, Jiangcheng's finances plummeted by 70%, and it never recovered. Now, it has returned.
"Good!" the deputy slammed his hand on the table. "Good! Good!"
He said "good" three times in a row, his eyes slightly red.
Meanwhile, the news spread throughout Jiangcheng.
"White Tiger Fortress has fallen! Major Ye Feng led the new army and captured it in a single battle!"
"I heard he killed 30,000 strange beasts! Ye Feng alone killed 20,000!"
"What about the four beast kings?"
"They ran away! They were so scared of Ye Feng that they ran away in a panic!"