Outside the east gate of Sunshine City.
The Sunken Country's defense forces, numbering over thirty thousand, mostly hid in trenches, initially scattered and lax. But at this moment, most of them raised their heads.
At the forefront of the defense line.
Twenty thousand of the Xiao family army, in positions without trenches, also raised their heads to the sky, each and every one of them dumbfounded. Many looked like imbeciles!
In the sky.
Deafening sonic booms resounded!
An extremely dense barrage of artillery shells formed a net in the air, tracing beautiful arcs as they descended upon the defensive positions outside the east gate like a torrential rain.
"My god!"
Xiao Santai instinctively shouted.
"We've been tricked, retreat quickly..."
Xiao Sihai finally came to his senses.
But.
It was too late for anything!
Rumble...
Rumble...
Piles of artillery shells and rockets exploded within the defense positions, instantly turning waves of defending soldiers into chunks of flesh. Many perished without even knowing what happened!
"Run!"
"Hurry and run..."
"Shells are coming, aaaaaah!"
The Xiao family rebels were filled with screams.
Everyone knew Ye Zixiao had besieged the city. However, both the Xiao family army and the Sunken Army, under the king's unfazed demeanor, held onto a sliver of hope, believing Ye Zixiao would never attack the city.
But.
What was to come had arrived.
After the refugees retreated, Ye the Madman had no more reservations. He didn't care about international opinion at all. He intended to capture the Sunken Country's royal capital under the guise of saving his wife.
Shells rained down, wave after wave.
The land outside the east gate was scorched red over a vast area. Not to mention the defending troops on the positions, even the rats underground must have died countless times.
But.
This was only the beginning of the bombardment.
Although Ye Zixiao divided his forces into four routes, the main assault on the east gate had already prepared two hundred billion worth of artillery shells, not including the bomber formations yet to make their appearance.
Therefore.
The east gate of Sunshine City was bound to fall.
After thirty continuous minutes of fierce bombardment, the entire defense line outside the east gate had turned into scorched earth. Most of the defending troops were utterly destroyed, and even Xiao Santai was blown away.
"Quick, retreat!"
"Hurry and run!"
"The shells are coming, ahhhhh!"
Xiao Sihai, the last ranking officer of the Xiao family, leading less than a thousand loyal troops, finally reached outside the city gate after a frantic escape. But now, the city gate was tightly shut!
"Open the gate, hurry and open it!"
"Open the gate and let us in."
"Damn it, open the gate!"
The Xiao family soldiers roared frantically.
At this moment, the remnants of the Sunken Country's defending forces, about two thousand troops, also arrived. They rushed towards the city gate together, shouting while using manpower and vehicles to ram the gate.
But.
The city gate remained tightly shut!
It was obvious.
The army outside the city had been abandoned!
More than ten kilometers away from the city gate, a large number of refugees climbed trees. They looked at the patches of fiery scorched earth, and many were so scared they wet their pants, feeling fortunate they had retreated earlier.
"Terrifying!"
"They actually attacked the city!"
"Thank goodness..."
"Ye Zixiao is truly ruthless!"
These voices could be heard everywhere in the refugee camps.
On a large tree, the trembling gang leader Scar, with shaky hands, lit a cigarette and muttered, "Fortunately, I listened and withdrew. The special commissioner didn't lie to me; they really would shell!"
At the same time.
Outside the other three city gates of Sunshine City, all the refugees were retreating. The three routes of the Ye family army stood ready, and the relatively smaller artillery units were also prepared to open fire.
Twenty minutes later...
Zheng Tianhong issued another order.
"The boss said, all artillery units, fire all shells at once. We will use three hundred billion shells to completely blast down all the city walls of Sunshine City. Hit them hard."
"The boss said, after the shelling, the bomber formations will follow, also not to conserve firepower. No aircraft are to return to base without expending all their ammunition."
"The boss also said, after the bombers withdraw, the armored units will lead the way, followed by the infantry. We will take Sunshine City in one fell swoop, kill all the enemy invaders, save the boss's wife, save the boss's wife."
Zheng Tianhong issued three consecutive orders.
It was interesting that at the beginning of each of his orders, he was conveying Ye Zixiao's words, and he did not address Ye Zixiao as Commander-in-Chief, but as boss.
What did this signify?
This signified that Zheng Tianhong wanted to tell the entire Wolf Pack Legion that they were not only fighting for the Dragon Country but also for the boss. The boss was watching from above; no one should slack off.
Private armed forces, then!
The boss was even more formidable than the Commander-in-Chief!
The earth-shattering sonic booms sounded again, and a dense rain of shells ascended once more. This time, it wasn't just the east gate; all directions of Sunshine City were subjected to a baptism of artillery shells.
Three hundred billion shells!
Even a great power's regular army wouldn't dare to play around with such a volume, right?
But Ye Zixiao, who had no concept of money and was not greedy, in order to help the Dragon Country eliminate its enemy, to avenge the fallen soldiers and civilians, and to save his wife, acted without hesitation!
Within our positions.
The soldiers sang war songs in unison.
Ye Zixiao stood on the observation tower, a cigarette in his mouth, hands behind his back, silent. At this point, there was nothing more for him to do but wait for the army to capture Sunshine City and rescue his wife.
The fierce bombardment continued.
It lasted for more than another hour...
By this time, there were no defending troops left outside Sunshine City, and most of the city walls had collapsed. The defending troops inside the city walls were already in utter chaos.
No reinforcements.
The city walls have collapsed!
How could this battle be fought?
Just as the defending troops within the city were in disarray and unease, the artillery shells on the ground had finished, but the Wolf Pack Legion's bomber formations had arrived again, targeting the defending troops inside the city.
The sky was deafening!
Tons of airborne missiles landed.
Rumble...
Rumble...
With earth-shattering roars, raging fires erupted within the walls of Sunshine City. Many of the defending troops inside the city were directly incinerated. They had no power to fight back and could only suffer passively.
"Run!"
"Hurry and escape!"
"They are attacking the city, he really dared to attack."
"Damn king, you idiot!"
"!!!"
Inside Sunshine City, civilians fled in all directions. These so-called wealthy individuals were now far more miserable than the refugees outside the city. Bombings were everywhere, and people inside the city couldn't escape.
For a time.
A large number of civilians rushed towards the royal palace.
They cursed the king.
They yearned to survive...
Outside the royal palace, the king's twenty thousand personal guard troops tightly surrounded the palace. The soldiers drove away the civilians, and conflicts were staged constantly. Many soldiers even opened fire directly.
Chaos!!!
The entire Sunshine City was in utter pandemonium!
Inside the royal palace, Emperor Storm, clad in his pajamas, stood sweating profusely by his bedroom window. He held a satellite phone and roared at the head of the allied nations' embassy on the other end of the line.
"Damn it, where are your reinforcements? Bastards, you liars! You instigated me to attack the Dragon Country, and now the Dragon Country is retaliating. Where are your soldiers? Ahhh, liars!"
Storm had already shouted himself hoarse.
But there was no response from the other side.
Not long ago, the world's number one power, the allied nations, had instigated the Sunken Country's king to attack the Dragon Country, promising that as long as the Dragon Country retaliated against the Sunken Country, the allied nations would definitely send troops to protect them.
But now.
The Dragon army had arrived.
The city had fallen.
Not a single soldier from the allied nations had come!
At this point, the Sunken King, who had acted like a dog, finally understood that he had been abandoned by his master. The allied nations were outright liars; they would never help the Sunken Country fight the Dragon Country.
The dog was abandoned by its owner!
Could it still survive?