Dai Hao, who was originally stationed in the Mingdou Mountains, was suddenly transferred by Xu Jiawei to Tianxing City, the westernmost city of the Star Luo Empire.
Although he didn't say anything on the surface, he was quite resentful.
No marshal would be happy to be suddenly transferred away from his main battle zone and sent to an unfamiliar defense zone.
Because he came in a hurry, he couldn't bring all his White Tiger Guards with him, only some old comrades.
Xuanji Douluo was worried about Dai Hao after hearing this, so he temporarily resigned from his position as commander of the First Soul Master Legion and came to Tianxing Port with Dai Hao.
Moreover, because the navigation technology of the Douluo Continent was not advanced, the four land countries were playing a game of warring states, and they had no contact with the other two continents.
Each continent had its own things to do.
Sea soul beasts were also notoriously dangerous. There were no fewer than five 100,000-year-old beast kings in the near sea. Unless there were special circumstances, no one wanted to venture out to sea.
Various reasons have led to the Star Luo Empire's coastal cities being quite underdeveloped, completely unlike the golden age of his previous life. Advanced cities on the Douluo Continent were generally surrounded by a forest of spirit beasts.
The troops stationed there often lacked timely supplies, their meals consisting entirely of fish. Only recently, due to the Sea God family, had they received excessive subsidies.
The Star Luo Empire was relatively better off; the Dou Ling Empire didn't even have coastal defenses, leaving its gates wide open, allowing pirates to come and go as they pleased.
The Tian Hun Empire, in a sense, had no sea at all; its closest neighbor, the Ice Sea, bordered the Sun Moon Empire and the far north.
The Ice Sea was also home to the dominant mermaid race; only pirates with a death wish would dare to raid there.
At this moment, Dai Hao's dissatisfaction with the Star Luo Emperor vanished instantly. He finally understood why Xu Jiawei was so alarmed.
The radar and high-altitude detection soul guides showed the western sea area teeming with sea spirit masters and sea spirit beasts!
Their density rivaled that of a medium-sized beast tide that had erupted in the Star Dou Great Forest in the past.
If these guys get ashore, the western part of the Star Luo Empire will definitely be in turmoil!
"Pass on my orders!"
"Attack them to the death!" "
Open all Dream Coin reserves! Full power supply!"
"While they're densely packed, bombard them with fixed-position soul-guided cannon shells!"
Dai Hao waved his hand in the command center, and all orders were quickly transmitted to all units via the magic network and communication soul-guided devices.
The numerous self-locking enemy soul-guided cannons deployed on the shore had already completed their charging. After receiving the unlock command, the entire west coast was suddenly filled with light, and the sea soul masters and sea soul beasts rushing towards the shore thought it was dawn.
Soon, this thought might become their last thought in this world, as the scorching white light instantly enveloped a large area of the sea.
"Sizzle"
In the darkness, the seawater evaporated a layer of white steam due to the high temperature, and the painful howls of the sea soul masters and sea soul beasts immediately echoed throughout the entire sea.
The intense heat scorched their skin, and the scorching steam damaged their internal organs.
Numerous white, yellow, and purple spirit rings rose from the ocean, creating numerous light sources that illuminated the terrified faces of the vanguard spirit masters.
They had been at sea for too long, and without a magic network to gather information, they were unaware of the true extent of development of land-based spirit tools.
After the main cannon of the self-locking spirit tool turret cooled down, the surrounding spirit tool machine guns began unleashing bullets carrying various attributes into the sea.
This weapon, combining the structure of machine guns from his previous life with the characteristics of spirit tools from the Douluo Continent, would be considered a level six spirit tool according to spirit tool rating standards.
However, this level six spirit tool was far more powerful than a level seven one, and its cost was drastically higher.
These bullets were also specially made; Huo Yuhao, lacking knowledge of chemistry, simply used spirit power and miniature spirit tool arrays instead, since high-precision spirit tool machines could mass-produce them anyway.
The total cost of these bullets was even higher than the self-locking spirit tool turret, but their effectiveness was undeniable.
The entire coastline lit up with deadly chains of fire, each chain incorporating soul power of all attributes, ensuring it could counter all types of soul power defenses.
Bullets possessing both kinetic and energy properties were the most efficient killing weapons.
In an instant, the entire sea was a scene of carnage, with the remains of soul beasts and humans flying everywhere, and numerous soul rings illuminating the waters.
Painful screams briefly drowned out the howling sea wind.
The Sea God Clan's vanguard immediately attempted a counterattack, throwing various ranged soul skills at the coastal firing points, but they were either too close or intercepted by the Star Luo Empire's coastal defense forces.
"Boom boom boom!!"
The fixed-mounted soul-guided cannons at Tianxing Port also roared, countless cheap fixed-mounted soul-guided shells, costing approximately 500 gold soul coins each, rained down on the sea.
Thanks to the advent of soul-guided machine tools, level six fixed-mounted soul-guided shells, originally costing 50,000 gold soul coins each, now cost only 2,000 gold soul coins, and level five and four were even cheaper.
The Star Luo Empire had purchased a large number of fixed-position soul-guided cannonballs, and they were using them without any regard for cost.
The fixed-position soul-guided cannonballs, coupled with the continuous barrage of fire, turned the nearshore waters into a complete meat grinder.
Sea Soul Masters and Sea Soul Beasts couldn't even get close; their only thought now was survival.
The deeper waters further back were somewhat better, but in the nearshore waters, there was truly nowhere to hide.
Even if a Soul Emperor-level Sea Soul Master forcibly erected a soul power barrier to resist the engulfing fire, the saturation bombardment of soul-guided cannonballs would instantly shatter their internal organs.
"This is slaughter!"
"How can we land?! We can't even get close to the nearshore waters; whoever goes will die!"
The Sea Soul Masters in the rear were nearly driven to madness.
Watching their comrades charging forward being turned into mincemeat within minutes, even a regular army would suffer a collapse in morale, let alone these Sea Soul Masters who usually only fought when things went smoothly.
"Fuck you! I'm not fighting anymore, this is suicide!"
The first to flee weren't the sea spirit beasts, but the sea spirit masters. Driven by their survival instincts, many sea spirit masters about to enter the nearshore waters ran backwards.
They were safe once they reached deeper waters.
Under the illumination of countless spirit rings, high-altitude detection spirit tools captured the battlefield.
The sea spirit masters and sea spirit beasts at the front suddenly collided with those behind them.
The sea spirit masters at the forefront, terrified, began indiscriminately slaughtering their comrades behind them, wanting only to escape the meat grinder of the battlefield.
The entire nearshore area was transformed into a sea of blood within just a few hours, littered with severed limbs, indistinguishable between humans and spirit beasts.
The brilliance of countless spirit rings almost obscured the dawn's light.
Dai Hao and his men at the rear command post were dumbfounded.
This battle was the first time they had relied entirely on spirit tools.
In the past, when they fought against the Sun Moon Empire in the Mingdou Mountains, they relied on traditional swords and spears and powerful spirits to fight the Sun Moon Empire to a standstill.
Even now, Dai Hao's camp had many bows and spears; their understanding of spirit tools was still limited to their role in assisting combat, not in determining its outcome.
This time, the main reason was that Dai Hao's White Tiger Guards were all landlubbers, completely ignorant of naval warfare, and the entire Star Luo Empire's coastal defense force had little experience in naval battles.
Many coastal troops still held the mindset that naval warfare consisted of cannon fire followed by boarding maneuvers.
After all, that's how their ancestors, following Lan Hao Wang Tang San, fought against the Spirit Empire.
None of them knew anything about naval warfare, so they decided to test the waters with the soul-guided devices sent by His Majesty the Emperor, hoping to weaken the enemy as much as possible.
Once the enemy landed, they planned to have a real battle and show the sea creatures the power of land-based soul masters. The result was astounding.
They only needed to utilize their soul power as charging stations, press buttons, and intercept enemy ranged soul skills. The self-locking enemy soul-guided turrets, combined with radar and high-altitude detection soul-guided devices, went on a rampage.
The interlocking firepower wouldn't let any enemy trying to break through the defenses escape, and the fixed-position soul-guided shells in the rear left the advance force that had reached the nearshore area with no way to retreat.
"This, this is simply a slaughterhouse."
"What kind of soul tool is this? Why have I never seen it before?!"
Xuanji Douluo stared at the rapidly disappearing red dot on the screen, and at the horrific scene on the sea displayed by the high-altitude detection soul tool, his lips trembling uncontrollably.
Not only the enemy, but they themselves were also terrified by these soul tools.
The terrifying firepower combined with the fixed-position soul-guided cannons was more efficient in killing than any soul skill.
Just thinking about what would happen if he led the First Soul Master Legion to face this situation made him tremble.
They probably wouldn't be much better off than these sea soul masters.
Even if he used the Xuanji Umbrella to defend the legion, they would probably face level eight or even level nine fixed-position soul-guided cannons in the next second.
Dai Hao stared intently at the row of self-locking enemy soul-guided turrets that had stopped attacking and said,
"Did our Star Luo Empire make these?"
"I must ask His Majesty to get dozens of them for the Western Army Group when I get back." "
Installing these artillery positions in the Mingdou Mountains, and building permanent fortifications there, with a Soul Guidance Division stationed behind them to provide high-level fixed-position Soul Guidance shells for bombardment—that would be an absolutely impenetrable defensive line!"
Of course, the last thing called an impenetrable absolute defensive line was the Maginot Line.
If Otto wanted to attack, he probably had a hundred ways to turn that thing into junk.
A general from the coastal defense forces next to him said respectfully,
"Marshal White Tiger, these were produced in Xilu City."
"His Majesty spent a lot of money to order them from the Tiandou Plain, but due to the rush, the coastal defense forces have limited ammunition."
After calming down, Dai Hao asked him,
"How much is left?"
"Can it last until sunset?"
The general nodded and immediately said,
"Absolutely no problem!"
"Marshal! Something's wrong!"
"The Soul Power detection device and radar have detected a high-level Soul Power reaction!"
An observer shouted in panic at Dai Hao.
Dai Hao's eyes narrowed, and he shouted sharply,
"Explain the details!"
Several observers began rapidly operating and calculating on complex instruments, their voices trembling slightly as they reported:
"A total of eight high-level reactions!" "
Four belong to humans, one at the Super Douluo level, and three at the Title Douluo level!"
"The other four belong to soul beasts, all at the 100,000-year level!"
Dai Hao looked at the sea situation displayed on the high-altitude soul-guided device and said solemnly:
"The other side is completely serious."
...
In the Western Sea, Sea Dragon Douluo looked at the chaotic advance force below, his eyelids twitching wildly.
His bronze skin flushed red with anger, and with a sudden wave of his hand, all the sea soul masters and sea soul beasts attempting to rush back exploded into a cloud of blood mist.
The entire advance force was instantly stunned by this tactic and returned to calm.
"I don't understand!"
"Why did I only drink for a while! And now this Western Sea has become the burial ground for my advance force?!"
"Tianxing Port has always been a strategic location fought over by military strategists! How come it's now so dangerous?!" "
No matter what, the advantage is in my hands this time!"
"Everyone, charge with me!! Take Tianxing Port!"
(End of Chapter)
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