173: Chapter 173 Heavy Losses

Two yellow-black Frog Tribe members with countless venom sacs on their backs quietly left from behind the short old man.

The two frogs exchanged a look; one leaped toward the middle battlefield, and the other leaped toward the right battlefield.

Their speed was neither fast nor slow, and they converged their Aura, blending in with the countless jumping frog swarm, making them inconspicuous.

Wei Chengyue was in the center, with seven Martial Ancestor experts under his command forming an arc, like a curved blade slicing into the frog swarm.

With every step they pushed forward, hundreds of Frog Tribe corpses were left on the ground, and any remaining survivors who weren't quite dead were harvested one by one by the more than four hundred Martial Masters behind the eight of them.

For a moment, this side formed a beautiful harvesting scene, causing the many Martial Masters and Martial Artists of the City Guard in the central battlefield to look over with envy.

If it weren't for the need to maintain their military Formation, they would have flocked here en masse; no one wanted to risk their lives if they could just hang back and earn battle merits.

Under this slaughter mode, Wei Chengyue's squad, as expected, was the first to complete the task assigned by Governor Sun Rui, killing a Fourth-Stage Early Stage Green-Backed Poison Frog that was commanding the attack on the front line.

Once this Green-Backed Poison Frog died, the Frog Tribe at a certain position on the central battlefield suffered a brief collapse, and a large area of the Frog Tribe retreated, causing a commotion.

Later, a Fourth-Stage Middle Stage Frog Tribe member leaped several times to the front of this collapsing frog group, and with a few croaks, stopped the retreating frogs and reorganized the attack.

The collective action of Wei Chengyue and his eight men, slaughtering low-level Frog Tribe members, enraged the Elders of the Frog Tribe.

These low-level Frog Tribe members might well be the descendants of one of them; how could they allow Wei Chengyue and his eight men to slaughter them wantonly?

Without waiting for the short old man to command, the Frog Tribe's overall battle commander immediately pulled two Fourth-Stage Frog Tribe members from the City Guard side, supplemented by five Fourth-Stage Frog Tribe members from the rear, and rushed over to fight the eight men.

Upon contact, they broke the eight men's curved blade Formation, splitting them into three circles to engage in battle.

Wei Chengyue and his eight men were scattered, and the four hundred or so Martial Masters following them were immediately engulfed by the overwhelming number of frogs.

Caught off guard, they left behind over a hundred corpses before breaking through the encirclement and reuniting with the City Guard.

After this painful lesson, the remaining two hundred or so Martial Masters finally learned to be smart.

Following the example of the City Guard, they formed several small military Formations, cooperating with each other, advancing and retreating in an orderly manner, and no longer suffered large-scale deaths.

The members of the City Guard finally understood the words of their Captain just now: "Do not envy them, as they would soon have their own share of suffering; unless one or two hundred people died, don't even dream of walking out of the encirclement alive."

In such a large-scale meat grinder, if they didn't form a military Formation, with hundreds of people fighting on their own and straying hundreds of meters away from the main force, it would be strange if there wasn't a major problem.

Did they really think the eight people holding the front could provide them with protection forever?

Compared to the curved blade of Wei Chengyue's squad in the central battlefield, Wang Jingcheng on the left and Ye Jiesheng on the right were much more cautious.

From the beginning, they ordered their subordinate Martial Masters to form fifty-man phalanxes, organizing frog-killing squads that cooperated with each other to resist the Frog Tribe's attacks, greatly reducing the deaths of the Martial Masters on their sides.

Not to mention that forming fifty-man phalanxes was a highly artistic command decision.

Since the fifty people were all brothers and sisters of the same clan, they could naturally trust others with their backs; this point alone greatly increased the combat effectiveness of the frog-killing phalanxes on the left and right sides.

As for the death order issued by Governor Sun Rui to kill one Fourth-Stage Frog Tribe member per day, both men had their own strategies.

Wang Jingcheng used one of his Early Stage Martial Ancestor experts as bait, placing him at the very front to lead the charge, enticing the Fourth-Stage Frog Tribe members in the rear to make a move.

When the Fourth-Stage Frog Tribe member could no longer hold back, revealed its figure, and attacked the Early Stage Martial Ancestor, Wang Jingcheng would then strike forcefully, killing it with lightning speed to complete the day's task.

After the last battle, Ye Jiesheng had a blessing in disguise; he consumed a Fifth-Stage precious herb, which not only restored his consumed essence, blood, and Origin Qi, and replenished his lost Lifespan, but his cultivation also advanced by one star, breaking through to an Eight-Star Martial Ancestor.

Therefore, relying on his profound cultivation, Ye Jiesheng charged into the right front-line command post of the Frog Tribe with just his staff.

He fought three Fourth-Stage Frog Tribe members alone, forcefully killed a Fourth-Stage Early Stage Frog Tribe member, and then withdrew to the rear.

His violent and forceful killing method made countless Frog Tribe members tremble with fear, and they dared not take another step forward.

At the same time, it greatly boosted the frog-killing Aura of the City Guard soldiers and the various Family Martial Artists on the right side, and they managed to carve out a vacuum zone.

Seeing this, a Fourth-Stage Late Stage Frog Tribe member decisively abandoned the lightly injured City Guard right commander, and with a few " quack, quack, quack" croaks, blocked Ye Jiesheng's advance, protecting the Fourth-Stage Early Stage Frog Tribe member that Ye Jiesheng was chasing.

It then commanded the low-level Frog Tribe members under its command to clear a space, intending to fight Ye Jiesheng to the death.

As soon as the man and the frog began to fight, they destroyed a small hill.

Gravel flew everywhere on the battlefield, hitting and grazing countless Frog Tribe members and Human Race warriors.

Although Ye Jiesheng and this Frog Tribe Elder tried their best to control the aftermath of the battle, they inevitably killed and injured a large number of Martial Artists and Frog Tribe members fighting around them.

The surrounding Martial Artists and Frog Tribe members saw that the two big shots were fighting with real fire, so they all retreated to further places.

As the crowd retreated, the space expanded once again, causing that yellow-black Frog Tribe member, which had been quietly approaching with countless venom sacs on its back, to be exposed to everyone's view.

Mixed among the crowd of frogs, it was inconspicuous, but when the frogs retreated and left it alone, its unique appearance could not have been more obvious.

Ye Jiesheng suddenly felt that something was wrong, and alarm bells rang in his heart.

He immediately retreated, flying toward the direction of the City Guard's Martial Ancestor Late Stage Captain, but it was too late.

A pitch-black frog palm crossed all obstacles and slapped him.

The Fourth-Stage defensive Talisman in Ye Jiesheng's arms was immediately activated, attempting to block the attack of this palm.

But the moment the frog palm fell, the protective shield formed by the Diamond Body Protection Talisman didn't even last a single breath before it shattered into dust and dissipated into the air.

The pitch-black frog palm still pressed unceremoniously onto Ye Jiesheng's chest.

Suffering such a heavy blow, not only was Ye Jiesheng not knocked away, but his body seemed to be stuck to that frog palm, unable to move.

"Three-Legged Poison Frog"

Frog Three shed all its disguises, and Ye Jiesheng finally recognized what kind of Frog Tribe member this secret attacker was.

"Star-Lifting Moon-Chasing"

After Ye Jiesheng recognized the Three-Legged Poison Frog, he was terrified, and immediately swung his staff out, striking directly at the frog hand stuck to his chest.

Seeing the staff attack, Frog Three had to retract its frog palm, which gave Ye Jiesheng a glimmer of hope.

After taking a tongue strike from another Fourth-Stage Frog Tribe member, he escaped into the Formation, and the whole person fell off the city wall, life or death unknown.

Wei Chengyue did not fare any better.

He had just used a secret technique to escape earlier, causing severe damage to his Origin Qi, which had not yet recovered.

In the process of fighting a Fourth-Stage Late Stage Frog Tribe member, he was caught off guard and successfully ambushed by Frog Two, who slapped a palm onto his back, almost causing him to perish on the spot.

Fortunately, a City Guard Captain, Wei Chengde, had just killed a Fourth-Stage Frog Tribe member and happened to come to his aid, giving him a moment to breathe, allowing him to escape the battlefield and retreat into the city.

"Vile beast!" Governor Sun Rui narrowed his eyes and glanced at the two ambushing Three-Legged Poison Frogs, but did not make a move.

Governor Sun Rui's only opponent was the short old man whose croak had killed hundreds of City Guard soldiers at the beginning.

Soldier against soldier, general against general; this has always been the way of war between the Human Race and Yao Beasts.

Unless one side's general falls, or there is no general, that's another matter; when high-level fighters fight low-level ones, the slaughter will continue as it should.