CHAPTER 587: CHAPTER 586: NATIONAL WAR

Nightfall descends, and the encampment atop the ruins of Lin City remains brilliantly lit.

From afar, spies from many other countries can still be seen secretly investigating, while within the camp, the people from Earth are equally busy.

Inside the large tent, Lin Hao’s face is somber, and Zhou Pangzi’s expression isn’t looking much better. Lin Guodong leads his men in setting up a huge sand table map inside the tent, placing various markers on it.

Reports from various locations are continuously laid in front of Lin Hao, who looks over each one and then marks them on the sand table.

"The troop movements of the Six Countries are not a matter of one or two days. Currently, the armies of the Six Countries have not yet entered the territory of Gu Country, but they will surely reach Gu Country Imperial City within five days."

As Lin Guodong speaks, he places markers representing the armies of the Six Countries onto the map.

"With only our firepower, we can’t withstand the armies of the Six Countries. Even if we use up all our ammunition, it’s not possible to annihilate all of their forces."

Zhou Pangzi has been well these two days, looking healthier with a strong voice and a brisk step when walking. Avril, with her cute face blushing, stands coyly by Zhou Pangzi’s side, agreeing wholeheartedly with what he says.

"Our Elf Country’s army can move faster, but it will also take about five days, and..."

Avril doesn’t finish her sentence, but Lin Hao knows what she wants to say.

Elf Country is already besieged and depleted; their combat power cannot be relied upon.

Thus, they are nearly as good as isolated and helpless.

Still, all the talented individuals that could be found are gathered in the large tent, continuously speculating and planning, only to realize that all scenarios lead to the same likelihood of depleting ammunition and ultimately being annihilated.

"Are we doomed to die?" Zhou Pangzi throws a stick into the sand table despondently, quite indignant.

"We don’t have the capacity to confront the armies of the Seven Countries alone. We lack ammunition and heavy equipment." Lin Guodong also sighs and, after a long pause, says, "How about we resort to guerilla warfare?"

Guerilla warfare might indeed be the best and most effective method at present.

"How easy is it to conduct guerilla warfare? We have over 160,000 people; such a large target, how can we move? This is the Cultivator Plane, not the Mortal World." A member of Dragon Needle immediately objects.

"So what do we do? Without supplies, and the weapons forged from the materials here are not powerful enough, if this goes on, death is inevitable." Some support Lin Guodong’s suggestion and the debate ensues.

"Enough."

When the noise in the large tent has almost subsided, Lin Hao gently waves his hand: "Whether we can conduct guerilla warfare is not the issue. The issue is, giving up like this is all harm and no benefit to us. This battle, we must fight!"

Fight, we must.

But the question is, can we fight?

Inside the large tent, nobody speaks up.

However, Lin Hao still has some confidence in his heart. During the debate just now, as Lin Hao thought about the events of these days, he already had some ideas.

"Send out the order."

At this moment, Lin Hao is about to make a decisive decision, and everyone in the tent becomes serious, looking towards Lin Hao.

"Form the Heavy Shield Formation, the army must be able to form the formation within three days. Four days later, the army will move out to attack Gu Country Imperial City!!"

Fight!

Lin Hao’s order is quite straightforward, although there are still doubts and questions in the hearts of the people, they can only obey.

Lin Guodong and a few others frown deeply; they are to engage in guerilla warfare, and now they can only strive to arm those 160,000 people and form the Heavy Shield Formation.

After Lin Guodong and the others left, Avril finally couldn’t help but say, "Our Elf Country’s army cannot arrive within four days."

"We can’t just wait. If we keep waiting and the Six Countries’ armies arrive, we will truly have no chance of winning." Lin Hao’s eyes were resolute. He walked to the sand table, looked at the Gu Country Imperial City, and a cold light flickered in his eyes: "We must take down the Gu Country Imperial City before the Six Countries’ armies arrive!"

"Doesn’t that mean we have less than a day to launch an attack?" This time, even Liu Chuixue was incredulous.

"Let’s create a miracle." Lin Hao suddenly looked towards Liu Chuixue, then closed his eyes, as if thinking of something, then appeared confident.

Create a miracle?

How to create a miracle?

Inside the tent, aside from Avril, the rest were Lin Hao’s own people. They knew Lin Hao inside out but now, they really couldn’t conceive how this miracle would come to be.

"Unless someone brings more equipment and ammunition from Earth." Zhou Pangzi muttered.

No one in the tent answered, clearly thinking Zhou Pangzi’s idea was too idealistic. There were no experts on Earth right now, and it was very unlikely that so many weapons and ammunition could be manufactured again in such short notice.

Even if they could, traveling from Earth to the Upper Realm Plane lands one at random locations.

"Let’s do that, go help train the Shield Formation, prepare for the great battle." Lin Hao didn’t explain, and there was indeed no need for an explanation.

Pre-war preparations were intense, and the people on the ruins of Lin City were working around the clock.

That very night, one hundred and sixty thousand newly liberated slaves began to practice the Heavy Shield Formation. Fortunately, shields were not difficult to come by, and by the next morning, a formation that could provide frontal defense for an army of one hundred and sixty thousand was already formed.

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Four days later, at the Gu Country Imperial City.

Lin Hao was troubled these days; so was the Gu Emperor.

They had already decided on a plan, but putting it into practice was very difficult. The armies of the countries were slowly arriving, and what the Gu Emperor needed now was for the Earthlings to win, not for them to lose.

That wouldn’t be hard, but to have Gu Country lose flawlessly, to preserve vital forces, and yet await the attention from the Divine World, that was very difficult.

Over these days, the Gu Emperor didn’t even inquire about the Gu Country Mine being taken; he had all his troops moved to the Imperial City, readying for a decisive battle while still pondering how to fight this war.

It was not simple to show the Divine World how loyally and fiercely he was fighting, while also showing that he still had strength and could fight again.

Today, the scouts have already reported that the Earthling army is fifty li outside the city; they would soon reach and commence the siege. The Gu Emperor was prepared to go all out and fight to the death.

At noon, outside the Gu Country Imperial City, a dense and mighty army appeared on the horizon.

With a few thousand core members in armored vehicles as the main force and one hundred and sixty thousand equipped with a small number of firearms and mostly forming the Heavy Shield Formation as the rear troops, Lin Hao rapidly advanced towards the Gu Country Imperial City.

In the forefront of the troops, more than two hundred modified tanks advanced in a line, their presence formidable.

Lin Hao stood on top of the central tank, his gaze fixed on the distant Gu Country Imperial City.

"Are you sure, those one hundred and sixty thousand people behind us are just a cheering squad, there to boost morale?"

Zhou Pangzi turned his head to look behind him and even now, he could hardly believe Lin Hao’s mad decision, using one hundred and sixty thousand people to boast might as a cheer squad, using a few thousand as the main force to assault, how could this possibly take down the city?

And at this moment, on top of the Gu Country Imperial City, the Gu Emperor had already taken his place on the city wall.

Looking at the approaching Earthling army from a distance, the Gu Emperor’s lips curled up into a grim smirk, and he coldly commanded, "Go, bring all the Earthling female slaves in the city up to the walls!"

A battle was coming, a bloody battle!

The Gu Emperor had decided, to first kill all fifty thousand Earthling women in the city as a show of power!!