As An Chenshang's commands continued to be issued, all the major organizations within the Dark God City seemed to come alive. Messengers could be seen everywhere throughout the city. Ordinary citizens of Tier 1 and 2 were all hiding in their homes with their doors tightly shut.
The God City required participants to be at least Tier 3 to qualify for military service, and this was only theoretical. Generally, the official soldiers of powerful God Cities required at least Tier 4, with most Tier 3 individuals being privately employed.
However, the soldiers of Dark City were apparently mostly at Tier 3, at least the city defense forces were almost all at this strength.
Five hundred thousand...
One million...
Two million...
As the soldiers of Dark City converged, even though the one hundred thousand cavalry far surpassed these soldiers in combat power, after several charges, the cavalry's speed had drastically decreased and they could no longer organize another charge.
At this moment, all eyes on the battlefield were focused on these over one hundred thousand cavalry. No one noticed that An Chenyu, the leader, had disappeared from the battlefield.
"Deputy Officer Sun! Deputy Officer Sun! Issue order, formation number one, hold your ground!!" Zhou Ningdong, watching the green dot disappear from the map, turned and roared behind him.
"Everyone! Formation number one!" The deputy officer's roar came through the command channel. These formations were their long-standing tacit understanding.
"Ao..."
A wolf howl echoed, and the charging formation immediately changed. The original cone shape rapidly transformed into a circle. The outermost three layers were all heavy armored melee cavalry, while the ranged attackers and support players were all protected in the very center.
"Hmph, a cornered beast!" Wu Tu, wielding his saber, stood atop a hundred-meter-tall building by the plaza. He looked at the cavalry surrounded by the city defense forces and snorted coldly. As the supreme commander of the city defense forces, failing to take down a mere over one hundred thousand human cavalry with casualties exceeding two million was undoubtedly a disgrace to his military career.
Moreover, judging by the current trend, it was uncertain if this army of tens of millions could even succeed!
"Messenger! Have all other city defense forces assemble and await orders to reinforce at any time!" Wu Tu ordered with a frown, his heart aching. The city defense forces were his greatest security in this city. Once his city defense forces suffered too many casualties, his own safety in the city could not be fully guaranteed.
After all, many resistance forces were currently watching him. There had been no less than ten assassination attempts before.
The sounds of killing shook the heavens, spreading for tens of kilometers around the plaza. Countless dark soldiers arrived from all directions. Meanwhile, the 'Thorn' forces, like machines harvesting rice, cut them down row by row. Nearly thousands of dark soldiers died at their hands every second, truly a massacre.
"Five million! Are these city defense forces made of shit? We've sacrificed a full five million and haven't even taken down a single enemy cavalryman!" An Chenshang emerged from the Qitian Tower with a dark expression. Despite being mentally prepared, An Chenshang found it difficult to accept. The casualty ratio wasn't even fifty to one, and looking at the trend, let alone fifty to one, sixty to one or even one hundred to one was highly possible.
"City Lord, these humans should be the true elite of their race. This subordinate believes that Fengle City must have sent their most powerful lineup here to achieve the objective of diverting the battlefield." Seeing An Chenshang emerge, a scholar dressed in a cloth robe stepped forward.
Being dressed in a cloth robe was a strange and peculiar sight in Dark City. Even the common folk in Dark City wore leather armor.
"If I understand Scholar Wen correctly, do you have any insights?" An Chenshang asked coldly, looking at the scholar in the cloth robe. Since taking office, he had always been disgusted with these civil officials. They lacked combat power and backbone. If it weren't for the considerable merits they had achieved through his father's influence, he would have wanted to execute all of them.
In An Chenshang's worldview, the Dark Race should be a nation of soldiers, with all their people taking up arms and following his lead to create the glory of Dark God City.
"City Lord, this subordinate believes that these one hundred thousand are absolute elites from that Human God City. As long as we contact the allied forces of the eight cities and relay the situation here, they will surely launch a major offensive against the Human God City. If the Human God City falls, then the allied forces will have no enemies, and these one hundred thousand humans will not be able to escape their grasp." Scholar Wen's eyes flashed with a hint of cunning.
"This is also a viable plan. I'll entrust this task to you." An Chenshang nodded, saying indifferently. His ambition had never been to share the Human God City with other God Cities, nor had it ever been to cooperate with other God Cities.
"Yes, this subordinate will depart immediately." Scholar Wen, seemingly not noticing An Chenshang's perfunctory tone, hurried away.
"Scholars are just scholars, always relying on others!" An Chenshang scoffed as he watched Scholar Wen and the civil officials leave, then returned to the Qitian Tower.
One thousand, one million!
In less than an hour, nearly seventy percent of the seventeen million city defense forces deployed by Wu Tu had been annihilated, while the enemy? Not a single one had fallen! The casualty ratio had reached a terrifying one hundred to one, and the trend suggested it would only increase!
An Chenshang watched the screen, almost spitting blood from anger. Even with psychological preparation, he had lost over ten million men, while the lowest health of the enemy's hundred thousand strong army was still at two-thirds. How could they be so monstrously powerful?
Twelve million!
Thirteen million!
...
On average, less than five minutes saw a million city defense forces fall to the hands of the humans. Eventually, even An Chenshang felt numb.
As the number of casualties climbed, Wu Tu, the supreme commander of the city defense forces, despite his grim expression, unhesitatingly sent in the remaining city defense forces!
At this point, he no longer had the intention of completely annihilating the humans. Instead, he was trying his best to stall them until the third and fourth legions returned to Dark God City.
"Have the third and fourth legions returned yet!!" An Chenshang roared, a hint of panic in his eyes. He hadn't expected his city defense forces to be so incompetent.
Seventeen million soldiers had only held on for a little over an hour!
Little did he know, the human legion commander was even more anxious than them.
"Everyone, speed up! We don't have much time left," Zhou Ningdong shouted, slaying several enemy soldiers with his sword.