Ming Dynasty: pacifying the rebellion and defending the border, dominating the world

Chapter 377 Tian Ce Mansion VS Siamese Ace
"Strategist, the Siamese... are they planning a desperate last stand, or a fight to the death?" A commander of the Tian Ce Army looked down at the Siamese army formation below the mountain, which resembled a giant anthill, and a cold, mocking smile appeared on his lips.

On Zhu Jianqiu's lean face, that habitual, all-knowing smile reappeared, as faint as a breeze: "Even a cornered beast will fight, its plight is pitiful, but its actions... are utterly foolish." His voice was gentle and calm, yet it carried an absolute confidence of being in control of the entire situation, "Give the order: Arrowhead formation, break through."

There were no rousing war drums, no earth-shattering shouts. Zhu Jianqiu simply pointed his seemingly more decorative than practical sword forward with an extremely slight gesture, as elegant as a scholar adding ink to a brush.

"Yes, sir!" The three thousand Tian Ce soldiers shouted in unison. Their voices were not loud, but they were condensed into a chilling killing intent that instantly pierced the silence of the mountains and forests.

The next moment, three thousand figures clad in armor shot out like three thousand blood-red arrows released from a bow!

There was no probing, no detours, only the purest and most ferocious straight-line charge!
Their speed exceeded the limits of the Siamese garrison's imagination. Despite wearing heavy armor, they left only very shallow marks on the ground. Before the dust they kicked up could rise, they had already rushed down the mountain ridge like ghosts!

“Enemy attack—!!!”

A shrill, distorted scream finally erupted from the Siamese outpost, instantly igniting panic throughout the valley.

"Fire! Fire now!" the Siamese officers shouted hoarsely.

A sparse rain of arrows rose into the air, shooting towards the rapidly approaching crimson tide with desperate shrieks.

However, these arrows, which would normally be enough to pierce leather armor and even threaten light cavalry, were deflected when they struck the iron armor covering the Tian Ce soldiers. A few of them landed on their exposed arms and parts not covered by the armor, and a faint golden light flashed across them.

Besides the crisp "clinking" sound, the arrowheads twisted and broke, and the shafts shattered!

It then poses no further threat.

This scene caused the soldiers shooting arrows on the Siamese city walls to shrink their pupils and reveal expressions of utter horror.

"Vajra... Vajra Realm, it really is all Vajra Realm!" Many Siamese soldiers who witnessed this scene were mentally broken. Even though their arrows could hit a willow leaf from a hundred paces away and could travel a distance of three hundred paces!

So what?

The sight of the enemy charging forward under a hail of arrows was just as impactful as when they faced an army of hundreds of thousands besieging a city.

"boom!"

The city walls trembled amidst the tremendous crash.

The three thousand Tian Ce soldiers were like a sharp knife, tearing apart the defenses below the city. Even the city wall, which weighed several thousand pounds, was cleaved open. What made the Siamese soldiers even more desperate was that the enemy had not prepared any siege equipment.

But...

They would just leap up and jump onto the city wall, or over their heads, and launch an attack from inside the city.

"Do not!!!"

Streams of deadly blades and spears, barely perceptible to the naked eye, crisscrossed and flashed.

The Siamese soldiers' simple iron armor and shields were as fragile as paper in the face of the chilling light that contained terrifying power!

A flash of light, and men and spears snapped, shields shattered, and weapons twisted and flew away!
Immediately following was the muffled sound of flesh and blood being mercilessly torn apart!
Severed limbs mixed with scalding blood shot into the sky!

When three thousand Vajra Realm experts unleash their killing intent, they become three thousand peerless weapons, invincible and unstoppable. No matter how many armies block their path, no matter what kind of impregnable defenses they face, with a single strike, both man and shield are shattered.

"Those who lay down their weapons will not be killed, and those who surrender will be spared death."

"Those who lay down their weapons will not be killed, and those who surrender will be spared death."

"Those who lay down their weapons will not be killed, and those who surrender will be spared death."

A voice rang out from the Tian Ce army, and some Siamese soldiers hesitated. Many wanted to throw away their weapons, but the surrounding atmosphere was like that of tigers and wolves, filled with resentment, madness, and shouts. The morale of their comrades and the people supervising the battle from the rear all made those who were tempted stop their advances.

The King of Siam issued a death order: in this war of national annihilation, all Siamese citizens must fight bravely and never surrender. Those who retreat on the battlefield will be executed, and their families... will be exterminated.

"Stubborn!"

"Kill!" Despite the collapsing morale of the Siamese soldiers, they were still organized to charge forward recklessly.

The Tian Ce soldiers stopped trying to dissuade them, silently advancing, wielding their swords, advancing, and wielding their swords again!

In the battles of war, there is no distinction between good and evil, right and wrong.

It was a choice between life and death.

Each flash of the blade brought with it a bloody storm, leaving behind a crimson path paved with mangled corpses and desperate cries!

The 70,000-strong Siamese army that occupied the border was like a lamb to the slaughter in front of them, and was wantonly slaughtered and trampled!
"Elephant troops! War elephant battalion! Charge forward! Stomp them to death!" The Siamese prince in the rear, his eyes bloodshot, issued a hysterical order. Even though there were still a large number of Siamese soldiers holding back and surrounding some of the Tian Ce soldiers, he disregarded them and ordered the war elephant battalion to charge forward.

The heavy footsteps sounded like muffled thunder, and the earth began to tremble.

Nearly a hundred war elephants, clad in heavy rattan armor, charged out from behind the chaotic infantry formation like moving mountains, driven mad by their mahouts!
"Is this the Siamese war elephant battalion?"

"They are indeed much more majestic than our Tian Ce warhorses."

"Nonsense, he's riding an elephant, not a horse."

"How to do?"

A Tian Ce soldier asked urgently, “The ground trembles every time the giant hooves of the war elephants fall. Who wouldn’t be envious of such mounts?”
Although it is completely different from the cavalry charge that Tian Ce learned.

But they're so cool!

The elephant handlers who rode the war elephants into battle were extremely envious.

"Of course, all of Siam belongs to His Highness."

"These war elephants are naturally... spoils of war for our Tian Ce Mansion."

One of the Tian Ce vanguards, seeing the war elephants charging towards them with their sharp, spear-like tusks bared and roaring, did not hesitate for a moment. He fired his spear high into the air and then spun around and kicked out.

The spear pierced the air like a sharp arrow, piercing through the mahout on a war elephant like a string of candied hawthorns, and carrying him backward, ultimately pinning him to the ground.

Meanwhile, the Tian Ce soldier's aura surged, and he charged towards the war elephant, which was no longer being driven by its elephant handler, with an astonishing momentum.

This scene inspired many Tian Ce soldiers.

They all followed suit, kicking their spears to kill the elephant slaves, and then charged towards a war elephant.

The sight of such a massive herd of elephants charging together would have instilled fear in ordinary soldiers. Yet, the dozens of Tian Ce soldiers at the forefront remained calm and unmoved as the enormous elephant hooves thundered down upon them.

One by one, they suddenly lowered their backs and sat firmly on their horses, their feet rooted to the ground!
They unleashed the ultimate technique of the Tian Ce Mansion, the Iron Prison Law, to its fullest extent. Their blood surged, and their bodies emanated faint blood-red true energy fluctuations. One by one, they reached out and grabbed at the huge ivory.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..."

A series of dull, resounding impacts, like heavy hammers striking a drum, rang out!

On one side were the enormous hooves of elephants and their charge, a force as powerful as ten thousand pounds; on the other side was the sound of bodies that had reached the Vajra Realm, harder than steel, and the protective aura of the Iron Law colliding with the brute force of the war elephants!
The scene that the Siamese soldiers had expected and imagined—a bloody carnage and the Tian Ce soldiers being thrown away—did not happen!

The dozens of Tian Ce soldiers who were facing the giant elephant head-on only swayed slightly as the solid ground beneath their feet cracked and sank, sending rocks flying everywhere!

The Iron Cage True Qi surrounding them fluctuated violently, yet it withstood and neutralized the terrifying impact with unparalleled resilience! On the contrary, the war elephants went berserk, frantically trying to break free of their bound tusks, but to no avail.

With their simple minds and limited understanding, they cannot even imagine what kind of being they are attacking.

In nature, they are enormous creatures, the undisputed kings of the land.

However, this does not mean that in the martial arts world, in front of the many Tian Ce warriors composed of Vajra Realm and Finger Profound Realm experts, they are still the kings of the land.

(End of this chapter)