Within the Purple Pattern Dragon Palace, after careful consideration, the Purple Stripe Dragon King meticulously selected fifty thousand elite troops from his palace's main force. He also brought along two of the three Water Clan Dao Realm generals Ao Bin had left behind in the naval camp. Activating his Dragon King Seal, he enveloped the fifty-thousand-strong army and sped toward the direction from which the largest number of grain-gathering troops were returning.
Ao Bin had brought a total of three million Five Hundred Thousand Water Clan troops to the Purple Pattern Dragon Palace. Apart from the two hundred thousand left behind to guard the naval camp and the three hundred thousand assigned to transport supplies, all of the remaining three million troops had been sent out to gather military provisions.
At present, the Purple Stripe Dragon King had confirmed that as many as three hundred thousand Water Clan troops had been surrounded and annihilated by Ye Zhen. Yet these were only the troops whose annihilation had been confirmed.
There were still over a hundred thousand troops completely out of contact. Though their deaths had not yet been confirmed, the Purple Stripe Dragon King knew that nine times out of ten, those lost units had already perished.
In other words, more than four hundred thousand, perhaps even five hundred thousand, Water Clan troops had been wiped out by Ye Zhen's superior forces while scattered apart.
For all the armies gathering military provisions to return to the naval camp, even at the fastest, would take another day and a half to two days.
If he did nothing during these two days, who knew how many of the remaining two and a half million troops outside would still be left?
Two million, or one million?
If the losses became too dreadful, how was