After much discussion, Bai Qi and two others each took three million elite soldiers, forming the vanguard and charging into the troll's barrier.
At the same time Bai Qi and his men entered the troll's barrier, three powerful meteor showers struck the center of the forest, directly shattering the three barrier nodes marked by Xiao Hanyi.
These were the attack formations of the Immortal race, a long-range strike guided by the positioning of the formation disks.
As the Immortal formation's attack landed in the center of the forest, the Demon Empress, who had been feigning sleep, instantly opened her eyes and said:
"An offensive Immortal formation. The Human race is truly going to great lengths, even having Xian'er build something like this."
"It seems this war will be difficult indeed. I wonder how effective Rommel's strategy will be."
On the other side.
Meng Tian led the Stone Army, holding a shield in one hand and a spear in the other, responsible for clearing the path. Behind the shield-bearing soldiers were the ranged units armed with repeating heavy crossbows.
Bai Qi led the God of Slaughter Army, following closely behind the Stone Army, with the Leng family's mastiffs patrolling the surroundings.
Old Master Leng Ao received a telepathic message from two dragon mastiffs and said to Bai Qi with a grave expression:
"Ancestor, the great dragon said the scent here is wrong and warned us to be careful. It has detected the scent of the undead."
Bai Qi's eye twitched. The Undead race was definitely the one the Human race least wanted to encounter in army battles.
While their individual strength was not high, their numbers were vast. Especially the skeleton soldiers, which were cannon fodder. As long as there were skeleton mages, they could summon them endlessly.
Once the Human soldiers' strength was depleted, the endless tide of skeleton fodder would be the most terrifying.
Before Bai Qi could speak, sounds of fighting erupted from the Stone Army ahead.
"It's a skeleton tide! Everyone, form up, tighten your formations, and defend. Heavy shields in front, crossbows in the rear."
Meng Tian commanded the army's defense while warning Bai Qi and Wang Jian behind him.
Upon receiving the news, Wang Jian led his soldiers and began constructing a defensive line on the spot, with anti-air cannons installed on makeshift platforms.
Once everything was ready, Bai Qi, wielding a blood-red halberd, led the warriors also using blood halberds in a charge.
They directly scattered the skeleton soldiers surrounding the Stone Army.
"Stone Army, stand like Mount Tai, retreat."
The entire Stone Army reversed their formation, with the rear becoming the front, maintaining their formation as they retreated towards the makeshift defensive line.
Only Meng Tian, with his heavy shield soldiers, remained steadfastly defending the line, slaying the charging skeleton soldiers.
Seeing that all the troops had retreated to the makeshift defensive line, Bai Qi said to the blood halberd warriors, "Battle formation, Blood Wave."
The ten thousand Blood Halberd Warriors merged their vital energy into a single stream. Waves of blood-red energy surged from the formation, instantly slicing down the skeleton soldiers in front.
After unleashing the Ten Thousand Blood Wave, the blood halberd warriors ran back towards the defensive line without looking back.
Meng Tian and the heavy shield soldiers also seized the opportunity to retreat to the makeshift defensive line.
Seeing that all the troops had withdrawn, Wang Jian shouted to his army: "Deploy oil, range from 200 to 1500 meters ahead."
Two thousand catapults directly hurled bags of specially formulated fire oil into the forest ahead.
When the skeleton soldiers crossed the 500-meter mark from the formation, Wang Jian gave the order: "Flame arrows."
Hundreds of thousands of archers lit their arrows and fired them into the area covered with fire oil.
Fierce flames instantly erupted, igniting the skeleton soldiers within the oil-covered area.
After all, the skeleton soldiers in this skeleton tide were not strong. The highest were gold-tier, and most were silver-tier.
Given the current concentration of spiritual energy returning to the world, the levels of human warriors were also skyrocketing.
The era when silver-tier was considered elite and gold-tier was considered a true warrior was long gone.
Now, many children around ten years old had already advanced to the gold-tier.
Take Lin Zhan's younger sister, Xiao Tuanzi, for example. This five-year-old child was already at the peak of the gold-tier, and even her contracted Snow Spirit Mink was a gold-tier spirit beast.
Therefore, these skeleton soldiers were merely cannon fodder in the eyes of the human warriors, easily killed in swathes with a single blow.
However, despite their low individual strength, the skeleton soldiers' sheer numbers were staggering, otherwise, they wouldn't be described as a skeleton tide.
The 1300-meter fiery zone not only incinerated the skeleton soldiers within but also prevented newly arriving skeletons from traversing the more than a thousand meters of inferno.
Wang Jian signaled his soldiers. As the fire subsided, they threw more fire oil, maintaining the blaze.
After all, Minister Zhang from their logistics department had no shortage of resources.
Regardless of which army was dispatched, bringing several giant spatial bags of war resources was the minimum standard.
In Wang Jian's words, he had never fought such a well-supplied war in over 2,000 years.
Bai Qi and the other two met up, saying with a helpless expression: "Brothers, the three of us originally wanted to have a grand battle. How did we end up encountering these things? How can we even fight this?"
Wang Jian sighed, then his eyes lit up as he said to Leng Ao: "Old man Leng, how many of your family's mastiffs have you brought?"
Leng Ao was stunned. Old man Leng?
"Ancestor, our family only has 300,000 in total, and over 10,000 have fallen in battle. We have over 3 million mastiffs with good intelligence left. As for those with less intelligence, they have special uses. If released now, they might even bite us."
Wang Jian was taken aback: over 3 million?
He then looked at the endless sea of skeletons and said, "Your 3 million mastiffs would be eaten to death."
Bai Qi sighed and said, "Alright, stop overthinking. The three of us old geezers have embarrassed ourselves to the point of no return. I'll contact the Marshal, and Old Wang can contact the young Jiang."
Lin Zhan, who was far away at the command center, was studying the relocation of the war fortress to the outer edge of the troll forest when he received Bai Qi's message.
Upon learning that Rommel had resorted to the skeleton tide tactic again, Marshal Lin jumped for joy. Sultan Novel Network.
"Good, very good! The three Old Ancestors, I have nothing more to say. This time, you three will be credited. You've finally lured these bastards out."
Lin Zhan then quickly contacted Jiang Zheng, asking him to bring his men to support Bai Qi and the other two, preparing to burn the troll forest.
He then informed them about the relocation of the war fortress.
Jiang Zheng roughly calculated the volume of the war fortress and swallowed hard.
"Holy crap, that giant thing can actually move? Damn it, the entire outer edge of the troll forest can't even fit it."
"This Lin Laohai has hidden too well; he didn't let any of this information out."
Then, with a command from Jiang Zheng, the entire army set off to support Bai Qi and the other two in the center of the forest. Otherwise, if the war fortress landed, wouldn't everyone be crushed into meat paste?