Volley after volley of gunfire swept through the Sun Kingdom's forces, cutting them down in swathes. In mere minutes, vast numbers lay dead or wounded.
They had already lost three or four thousand fighting Ridge-Sea Academy's men. After Tang Wen's bombardment, their thirty thousand troops were reduced to roughly ten thousand.
Now Great Chu's morale surged, while the Sun Kingdom's forces fell into panic.
Tang Wen's snipers went into action, hiding in the shadows and steadily shooting down the enemy's Xiantian and Transcendent Grade experts.
Seeing their experts continually collapse, spitting blood, the Sun Kingdom scoundrels were scared out of their wits. Their ranks dissolved into chaos, their morale crumbled, and they scattered in terror.
Meanwhile, Linghai's officers and soldiers fought desperately to stay alive. Smoke rose everywhere, and blood sprayed wildly...
Tang Wen, He Tian, Shen Wu, and three Qi Nourishing disciples led a large force of experts into the slaughter.
With the Heavenly Insect's help, Tang Wen joined Shen Wu in specifically targeting enemy experts at the First-Rank Realm and above.
They left the rest to He Tian and the others. Outnumbered as well, the enemy was utterly routed.
But when they fled to the shore, they saw that they were finished: all their ships had been blown up. Some jumped into the sea to escape, but virtually all of them were killed by the Tang Family Army offshore.
Seeing Tang Wen's troops closing in, some of those remaining killed themselves. All the rest laid down their weapons and surrendered.
With a few strokes of his saber, Shen Wu cut down the enemy's supreme commander-Tengye Jiuhe.
The man was a deputy general in the Sun Kingdom's military. They had finally captured a "big fish" alive.
And Sun Gate's strongest expert, Murayama Akiya, was bitten by Tang Wen's Heavenly