After the intense bombing of the all-stars forces which resulted in half a million to a million deaths, the soldiers that were left there were able to rally together with the remaining strategists to figure out a way to survive the rest of the blasts. However, with their leaders nowhere in sight, the high ranking officers under them were forced to temporarily take over and guide all of the remaining soldiers back to the Yellow Wang faction's capital base. The aerial bombing that they had just been through lasted no more than 2 hours, but the casualties were higher than anybody could've expected.
After Xuan Feng, Lun Hu, and Jiang Yan woke from their unconscious state, they were informed by Jie Zi Fang of what had happened while they were all knocked out. This came as a surprise to them, but they had been asleep for nearly a month. Meanwhile, there were many things that had occurred during that one month. First, Jiang Yan had to get them out of the enemy firing zone and so he took them all the way to the Yellow Wang capital base, which took him a little over a week. Then, he proceeded to go back to guide the rest of the troops to where the all-stars were resting. That took him a couple more weeks as there were many more bodies that had to be moved long distances.
Secondly, after the attack from who they presumed to be the Bair fighters, the actual Bair fighters bragged about who they just crippled for all of the strategists within the simulation to see. What they did next was something that everyone had expected them to do in some form or another for the past year or two while they had been busy keeping to themselves. The Bair fighters finally decided to start conquering the land. At first, they started relatively slowly just taking out their immediate neighbors. Followed up that act by taking out any of the other local threats, which to them was nothing more than child's play. Currently, they were taking on 3 mid-sized factions at the same time. Each battle that they coordinated they were vastly outnumbered, but somehow, they were able to pull off a win every single time.
Third, the Yellow Wang faction, Sun Alliance faction, and the Middle Kingdom factions all started to pick up their pace as well. All three had held their hand up to this point so as to encourage the more novice players to have a turn. However, now that the Bair fighters were making their move, every single one of the major factions did not hold back and started to take over as much land and territory as they could.
Fourth, with the rapid expansion of the most dangerous and powerful forces around, the small and mid-sized factions were quickly overrun and taken over. Even with a coalition of several of the most powerful of these smaller factions would never be enough to compete with these titans of warfare. Not to mention, the vastly superior blueprints that the top factions seemed to hoard whenever they got the chance.
Xuan Feng and the rest of the all-stars brought shame upon their faction name and they would be dealt with later, was what Lian Po said to Jie Zi Fang a few weeks ago before he left to go rampage into a battlefield. Lian Po was not only one of the leaders of the Yellow Wang faction, but he was also the all-stars immediate superior. Meaning that whatever orders he gave they would have to follow. There was some leeway if it was another one of the leaders, but there was absolutely none with Lian Po as they had a special relationship with each other.
(XF) "Jie Zi Fang, any more orders from our Lord, Lian Po?" Xuan Feng was a bit dissatisfied with their current situation.
(JZF) "Yes, he said to get whatever men we could salvage and meet him about a hundred kilometers northwest of here. He said that he might need some assistance with the foes that he was going up against. Apparently, he has chosen to fight with one of the more difficult opponents head-on. He has a 5 million man army at his disposal, and the enemy has over 10 million. We should get over there as fast as we can, I've already sent what remains of our army there just a few days ago." Jie Zi Fang said with a spy, he was really not looking forward to the punishment that he had to go through later.
(JY) "It was quite unlucky for us to be hit with an explosion that was able to knock us cold for so long. A real tragedy that we weren't able to detect them at all and let them disgrace us so shamefully." The normally calm Jiang Yan was beginning to get frustrated.
(LH) "Ah, what about that Baron fellow? Has anyone seen him around?" Lun Hu said as he looked at Jie Zi Fang.
(JZF) "No, I went to go check with one of the guards that led Baron to the cell. It was hit by an explosion right on top of it. The one that hit us was a few meters away and still knocked you three out for a solid month, I believe that Baron would have had no way to survive such a sudden blow. Especially one that was right on top of him."
(XF) "It doesn't matter what happens to Baron, he was never really a threat to us anyway. The only thing he was good for was testing our recruits. Though it really is a shame that we weren't able to find out anything about that blue beam weapon that you mentioned earlier Jie Zi Fang."
(JZF) "If it ever comes on the market, we should snatch it up right away, but for now there are more things to worry about."
(XF) "Right, let's make our way our Lord, Lian Po and assist him in any way we can. There is no time to waste."
All four all-stars made their way to their lord, Lian Po. He was a big part of the reason why they were able to become so prominent in this community, these four would do anything for him. As such, once he called, they would have made sure his every order was to be carried out perfectly. It took them merely a few days to get to their master, but their army would require another week until reaching the rendezvous point that Jie Zi Fang had set up. They immediately went to go pay respect to Lian Po the moment that they arrived.
(XF) "Master, apologies for our late arrival." Xuan Feng had nothing but respect for Lian Po."
(LP) "Not to worry, you should all know that I don't really care about such things. I'm just glad that none of you bit the dust, that would be quite embarrassing, hahaha." Lian Po responded.
(LH) "Master, how is the battle going on so far? Do you even need our help?" Lun Hu asked.
(LP) "I'm not going to lie to you, Lun Hu, I don't really need you here, but it sure does help. You see, if taking out these fools who stand in our way was the only thing I had to worry about, then I would have let the four of you do whatever you wished for a little while longer. That is not the case though. I need to break through them in two weeks time, and if I can't take over their capital base within three weeks, the grand stratagem that I and the other Yellow Wang faction leaders thought up would go up in flames."
(JZF) "We must disappoint you further, Master. Our army numbers roughly half a million, and there are a further half a million still in the process of recovering after that last battle. The advance team will get here in less than a week, but that might be cutting it close if we wish to take care of the enemies before us in such a short timeframe." Jie Zi Fang said regretting to Lian Po.
(LP) "Not to worry, the four of you here is still a great help in and of itself. To me, the four of you is worth more than half a million men."
(JY) "Then what do you wish for us to do, Master?" Jiang Yan asked.
(LP) "Haha, isn't it obvious? What you four were born to do. Xuan Feng, you will take over as my second in command. Jiang Yan, Lun Hu, and Jie Zi Fang you three shall take a detachment of however many men you want and go hunt me some strategists. It doesn't matter if you three decide to form one team or not, just remember that the more you take out, the better."
"As you wish, Master." All four of them shouted at the same time while bowing to show respect. Then, they got up and headed to their stations to prepare for their upcoming tasks. Lun Hu gathered a team of fighters that numbered almost 10,000 strategist fighters and another 15,000 regular soldiers to bulk up their numbers. Jie Zi Fang and Jiang Yan decided to team up and gathered 5,000 elite fighters from their personal armies, along with 40,000 soldiers of varying skill sets and set out alongside Lun Hu. As for Xuan Feng, he followed along with his Master to the place where both of them would take command of over 5 million soldiers.
Once the three fighters of Lian Po's all-star lineup came out to play, the enemy ranks were so ill-prepared that it was embarrassing. In just the 5 or so hours that Lun Hu, Jiang Yan, and Jie Zi Fang went out to take care of business, they had taken out thousands of enemy strategists alone. By the end of the night, the four of them along with their Master took the time to properly catch up with each other on the events since the start of the tournament. They all drank wine and had a good few laughs before they retired for the night. There was still much to be done before the start of the next day, after all.
The very next day, Lun Hu, Jie Zi Fang, and Jiang Yan continued to hunt for strategists on the front lines, but they were not as successful this time around as the enemy was now prepared for them. However, all the three had to do was to switch up their strategy up a bit and they were once again coming out on top even more than they were yesterday. After a few more days of this, the all-stars' army finally showed up and they were finally able to show their enemies their true devastating nature. With such a dominating force at Lian Po's fingertips, he utilized them along with his own army and they were able to secure victory 3 days before their deadline and the multi-million man army headed for their opponents' capital base.
The capital base was the most important base in all of ones' territory, this was the place where the command center of an entire territory was stationed, without this base, the territory was as good as taken over. While they marched to the capital base, the 4 all-stars took their own personal armies to go around and conquer all of the other irrelevant bases that dotted the territory that they were in. The four of them were not the only ones to be given this order as over 2 dozen more armies split from the main one with the same task.
If a base was strong enough, they would be able to last a day or two against each one of these armies sent out by Lian Po, but the problem lay with there being too many of them, although they didn't pose much of a threat to Lian Po's large army, he would rather be safe than sorry. In this world, that was one of the golden rules.
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