The moment the bugle for the charge sounded, more than two million troops of Huaxia rushed out from behind the mountains all around.
They had witnessed their comrades' slaughter, and at this moment were already furious beyond control.
The Tenth Army's elite were in full condition, everyone filled with uncontrollable rage, charging at the very front, pouncing toward the M Nation's army.
Those M Nation soldiers looked in shock at so many Huaxia men suddenly emerging from all sides, simply unable to believe their own eyes.
"How can there still be so many people? They weren't injured at all!"
"Impossible, after just going through such a brutal battle, how can Huaxia still have so many men?!"
It was the middle of the night, visibility was very low, and the M Nation troops couldn't clearly distinguish how many Huaxia soldiers had suddenly appeared, whether they were really wounded or in full condition. The Tenth Army charging in front was like tigers descending the mountain, with extraordinary momentum, and naturally the M soldiers assumed that the army behind them was also such elite forces.
In their eyes, the mountains were filled everywhere with Huaxia troops!
The loud sound of the bugle for the charge suddenly made them feel a fear like never before.
"Kill!" Zhao Tiequan took the lead, rushing into the enemy formation. "Giant Strength God!"
Zhao Tiequan's power soared, his body instantly glowing faintly with a layer of golden light!
With his strength as a Five-Star Wanderer, it was enough to intimidate most of the enemy.
"Weak Point Attack!" At his side, Ouyang Jian followed right after.
Ouyang Yi's attacks had an extremely strong weak point targeting ability, often dealing a very serious injury with a single strike. As the strongest Arbiter, blood was already flying all around him!
Ruan Yu had already entered a drunken state, seeing countless "beautiful women," and instantly his heart blossomed with delight.
"Wowza, all blonde-haired, blue-eyed beauties, I want to eat Western food!"
As for M Nation players, they had never seen a profession like the Drunken Immortal. Ruan Yu's strange yet continuous movements caught them completely off guard.
Of course, Ruan Yu always pitied fragrant jade and was reluctant to kill these beauties, so the task of killing could only fall on Zhao Tiequan, who hated evil like an enemy, and Ouyang Yi, with his many murderous means.
While the three of them were slaughtering wildly, Hu Yan was already behind them stirring wind and rain!
Wind-Speech Spell! Again and again helping friendly troops within range escape danger, while also disrupting the opponents' movements.
The M troops weren't stupid, and in one glance saw how fierce the fighting strength of these four was.
"Kill these four first! Take down that one putting on ghostly tricks!"
Immediately, a dozen Cowboy-class players threw out ropes, trying to bind Hu Yan.
Just at that moment, behind those cowboys, a few figures suddenly darted quickly, and instantly three or four of them fell.
From behind them, four beauties walked out.
"It's you?" Hu Yan looked at the four in surprise—it turned out to be the Four Seasons Flowers coming to help.
Xia Hua said coldly, "We're all Huaxia people. Of course we'll help you."
Ruan Yu glanced at the four women, shook his head, and said, "These four are indeed outstanding in appearance, but I, who have seen countless women, am no longer interested in ordinary ones. Not exciting enough… I'll still have my Western food."
With that, he pounced on a burly, hairy M Nation man. "Beauty, you've got the real firepower, here I come!"
The Four Seasons Flowers looked at Ruan Yu in shock.
It was said Ruan Yu was extremely lecherous—could the rumors be wrong, and this guy was actually fond of men?
Naturally, they didn't know that Ruan Yu was more than fond of men…
When two armies clash, morale is of utmost importance. Though Huaxia only had 600,000 players in full condition, the Tenth Army among them was Huaxia's elite, with plenty of fighting strength.
The M Nation army never expected that what they thought was a huge bargain would instead turn into a heavy blow from Huaxia, leaving them utterly stunned!
At this time, Huaxia's warriors, their chests full of anger with nowhere to release it, just happened to have the M army come at this moment—perfect timing for a satisfying battle.
Huaxia's sudden stratagem caught the M Nation army completely off guard. Facing the overwhelming Huaxia forces flooding in from all sides, the fear in the M troops' hearts finally exploded.
"How is it possible? These guys don't have any attribute boosts—how can they be this fierce!"
"Not good, we've been tricked! The Island Nation and H Nation didn't actually wear down Huaxia's strength much at all!"
"Retreat, full retreat!"
The M Nation army fell back in panic, retreating until most of their forces had pulled out four or five li beyond Huaxia's territory.
After forcing back H Nation and the Island Nation's attack, Huaxia once again drove off the M Nation army!
At dawn, watching the M Nation army retreat in disgrace, Huaxia's people cheered wildly, everyone shouting excitedly, their cheers echoing throughout the mountains.
"We won! Get as far away as you can!"
"So what if it's a three-nation coalition, they still got driven out by us!"
"Long live Huaxia!"
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On the other side, Zhang Xuan and Wang Xusheng were at the temporary command post, tallying the casualties of this battle.
The M Nation lost around 400,000 dead and injured, while Huaxia's losses reached 450,000.
In fact, when the general assault was launched, Huaxia had clearly held the advantage, perfectly suppressing the M army's strength.
Huaxia's main casualties came from that 500,000 vanguard force.
Those 500,000 were all severely wounded soldiers who had barely recovered, used to draw the enemy's attention and lull them into carelessness. Their fighting strength had already been greatly reduced, and when facing the encirclement of several million M Nation troops, the casualties were extremely heavy.
Zhang Xuan let out a sigh, looking at Wang Xusheng. "If this weren't the Ghost Star, but reality, I don't know how much psychological burden making this decision would take."
Wang Xusheng sighed lightly. "Even though it's the Ghost Star, I still have no face to face those who sacrificed for the nation in battle."
Taking a deep breath, Wang Xusheng lifted his spirits again. "Zhang Xuan, this battle—we've already achieved the most perfect result possible. If people want to scold us in the future, let them. For now, let's prepare for the next fight."
Zhang Xuan suddenly slammed a fist onto the table. "These countries have gone too far! If it were a fair and square battle, even if we had no National Soul, even if we lost, I'd accept it. But this kind of wheel war is just too much!"
"It was clearly supposed to be full-map war fog, yet they all acted like they had eyes, targeting our Huaxia together!"
Wang Xusheng snorted coldly. "This matter must be thoroughly investigated, to find out exactly what happened."
The subordinates brought in reports on the various armies' situations.
The Tenth Army performed heroically this time, but since they bore an important combat mission, casualties were inevitable.
The Tenth Army had 30,000 dead, 110,000 with fairly serious injuries, and the rest basically all more or less injured.
In this way, nearly the entire Huaxia army was trapped in injury and sickness.
"1.03 million plus 450,000, that's 1.48 million. Out of our Huaxia's five million troops, now only 3.5 million remain—and all of them are wounded." At the main camp, Xuanyuan Zhen looked at these numbers, frowning deeply.
Even a clever woman cannot cook without rice. Even though Xuanyuan Zhen, Zhang Xuan, and Wang Xusheng were all outstanding commanders, facing the current situation, they were still at a loss.
Before long, Zhang Xuan received word that they were required to once again hold off F Nation's attack.
By now, dawn was gradually breaking. The "grass and trees are all soldiers" tactic, with visibility improving, was greatly weakened.
And they had only one hour of rest.
In this situation, Zhang Xuan and Wang Xusheng made a bold decision.
"A head-on fight is impossible to win." Zhang Xuan looked at Wang Xusheng. "We can only bring out our traditional handiwork."
Wang Xusheng nodded. "That's right. We must preserve our living forces. Otherwise, even if we block F Nation's attack, it'll be hard to resist the other countries later. The Island Nation, H Nation, M Nation—they absolutely won't give us much breathing space."
"Pass down the order. Scatter the whole army—we'll play guerrilla war with F Nation!"
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