483: The Sea Clan's Integrated Attack

In the underground world outside Shanhai Pass, an extremely crazy scene was unfolding. Countless Sea Clan members with sharp horns on their heads and slender bodies were advancing continuously. They used their sharp horns to break through the sand and stone underground, swimming toward Shanhai Pass at an extremely fast speed. Except for some extremely hard rocks along the way, almost nothing could stop their progress. They seemed to have merged into the underground sand, stone, and root environment, moving with extreme flexibility and ease...

These were the Eel Clan of the Sea Clan. Not only were their horns sharp, but their bodies were also sticky and wet. They were adept at digging holes and were perfectly suited to the underground environment. This operation was just a basic maneuver for them. Their plan was to attack the city from underground and coordinate with the army outside the city to strike from both inside and out!

Mansong, the leader of the Eel Clan who was overseeing the battle from behind, watched his subordinates advance with excitement, constantly screeching at them not to stop and to strive to drill directly into Shanhai Pass in one go.

He looked back, a look of smugness crossing his face. The Swordfish Clan couldn't possibly be faster than his unit, right?

At this moment, the sea area outside the pass was changing. The seawater gradually turned deep blue, then gradually turned black, giving people a highly ominous premonition...

The Great Ming defenders responsible for observing from the distant mountain peaks all wore grave expressions. They knew that the Sea Clan army predicted by the military headquarters was approaching, and the discoloration of the seawater was likely a reflection of their vanguard drawing near!

"Report! The Sea Clan has approached the beach!"

"Currently, it is impossible to distinguish which Sea Clan it is..."

"The Fusang Battle Team is organizing, and the enemy's siege equipment is being constructed!"

"Report! Anomaly! The Sea Clan has an anomaly!!!" An alarm sound suddenly rang through the frontline combat readiness meeting area.

Xu Yanran and the others were actually standing on top of the tower looking out. After hearing the alarm, they were also startled, wondering what incredible intelligence the scouts in the army had discovered.

"What anomaly? Speak!" Xu Yanran shouted lightly.

"Underground! A large number of the Sea Clan are lurking and advancing underground, and they are about to approach our underground ambush passage!" the alarm voice said nervously.

Xu Yanran was stunned. She had calculated everything, but she never expected that the Sea Clan would actually dig holes underground!

Originally, she and the veterans of the Combat Readiness Committee had formulated a strategy to lurk underground and then flank the Sea Clan from the rear. But now it seemed that this was a miscalculation, because the Sea Clan's army on the surface was only a part of it. They had actually taken the opportunity while negotiating with the Great Ming defenders to sneak an attack from underground...

In the end, it was because they knew too little about the Sea Clan. Who could have imagined that the Sea Clan could operate underground after leaving the sea, and could even drill underground to attack from dozens of kilometers away...

Xu Yanran's thoughts raced, and she quickly issued an order: "The ambush troops at the thirty-kilometer mark, prepare for battle! You must block the underground Sea Clan outside!"

"Yes!" Chu Cangming, Fang Qice, and Ye Haonan, who were responsible for overseeing the battle at the thirty-kilometer mark, answered simultaneously.

These three were the generals who had been sent to oversee the battle at the thirty-kilometer mark. They never expected that they would be the first to be attacked in this engagement. Fortunately, the scouts had discovered the incoming Sea Clan in advance, otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable!

Xu Yanran and the other high-ranking officials were thinking about how to deal with this sudden change, when they heard another alarm sound: "Report! A large number of unknown flying creatures are taking off from the sea and flying toward us!"

"What?! Unknown flying creatures?!" Xu Yanran and the others were all stunned.

However, because the distance was too great, they could not distinguish what the unknown flying creatures were. But Master Qing Yuan said very definitely: "It should be a species within the Sea Clan that is good at flying. We can understand it as an aerial attack by the Sea Clan!"

Everyone's expression darkened. First, it was underground, and now it was in the air, and the enemy army outside the city was deploying for a siege. The Sea Clan was conducting an integrated land-air-ground attack!

"Master Qing, what is the best strategy now?" Xu Yanran asked.

Master Qing Yuan stroked his long beard and pondered for a moment before saying: "Commander, our trump cards cannot be played too quickly! But we absolutely cannot lose air superiority. Let the archer team deal with the aerial Sea Clan, and the Xuan Gun team deal with the enemy army outside the city!"

"Good! What about underground?" Xu Yanran asked immediately after.

"The thirty-kilometer mark is the first line of defense, followed by the twenty-kilometer and ten-kilometer lines of defense. The retreating defenders will circle to both sides, waiting for the timing of the general offensive!" Master Qing Yuan quickly made the arrangements.

"This..." Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard this. Master Qing Yuan's tactics were extremely seasoned. He did not panic because of the Sea Clan's sudden changes, but instead adhered to the overall policy of actively counterattacking before the battle!

Xu Yanran took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Good! I wonder which Senior is willing to be responsible for the coordination of the underground battle teams?"

"Let this old monk do it!" Great Master Zhishen said.

"Thank you, Great Master!"

"My Buddha is merciful!" Great Master Zhishen chanted, and his figure quickly disappeared into the underground.

Outside Shanhai Pass, Nian Kuo and other main leaders had already retreated several kilometers away. For them, things like sieging a city were definitely something to let the cannon fodder go first, and the number of cannon fodder in the Sea Clan's hands was countless. He believed that even if they just piled up, they could bring Shanhai Pass down!

Of course, the rapid development of the Sea Clan over the past few hundred years had also greatly improved the level of the cannon fodder, and their combat power was incomparable to the past. If the cannon fodder could take down the city, that would be good too, and now Nian Kuo wanted to see if these cannon fodder in his hands could break through Shanhai Pass!

At this time, the Swordfish Clan was approaching Shanhai Pass at an extremely fast speed. Their speed had already exceeded that of the Eel Clan underground, and they were the first to enter the attack range!

The Swordfish leader was named Arrow Soar. His wings were five or six meters wide when spread, and with just a gentle flap, he could dash forward more than ten meters. He could also hover in the air, looking extremely dashing...

He looked coldly at the vanguard Swordfish unit and let out a sharp screech!

Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish...

Streams of slightly transparent water were spat out from the mouths of the Swordfish, shooting toward the defenders on the walls of Shanhai Pass at an extremely fast speed, weaving a transparent curtain of water in the air!

The defenders were well prepared. Shields had long been layered, building lines of steel defense. "Chichi, chichi, chi," those water streams shot onto the shields like arrows, making strange muffled sounds, and immediately splashed countless water droplets, flying in all directions!

At first, the defenders didn't notice, but after a short while, some people discovered something wrong, because they found that the Swordfish's water streams would actually corrode the shields. Besides the impact force where they were hit, the splashed water droplets acted like drops of venom, corroding the shields. And for those who were accidentally hit by the water droplets, their skin immediately showed signs of poisoning, not only turning blue, black, and swollen, but also becoming extremely painful, to the point that even veterans could not endure it...

"Fire arrows!!!" The garrison general Teng Yi saw this and stopped probing, ordering an attack on the Swordfish.

Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish...

The Great Ming's self-defense counterattack finally officially kicked off, and this scene was also being broadcast live on the internet...