Chapter Eighty: Total Defeat and Li Yuanba's Madness

  Li Yuanba was practicing infusing his spiritual energy into each of his moves, which was a new experience for him. The true qi could be felt, but this intangible and elusive spiritual energy was difficult for Li Yuanba to grasp! For example, the use of spiritual energy by the three schools of Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism, with Wang Ting's school being the most prominent, where a loud shout could stir up the power of the heavens, striking down evil spirits and dispersing demonic forces!

  However, the practice of this spiritual power requires a vast accumulation of knowledge. For someone like Li Yuanba who doesn't love learning and still can't even recognize traditional Chinese characters up to now, it's fundamentally impossible for him to learn such a technique!

  After the participation of tens of millions of people's spiritual power, Li Yuanba is still unfamiliar with it, but he has also understood a bit of its skills! So, Li Yuanba uses this spare time to continuously experiment with integrating his spiritual power into his true energy, allowing himself to have even greater destructive abilities!

  The Great Tang army stationed on the border of Byzantium, making the Byzantine state very uneasy at this time. So they sent people everywhere to inquire about the sudden appearance of this army, what it was for, whether it was an enemy or a friend, and how strong its combat power was!

  But the news they heard was worrying, too terrible! This is simply a devil's army, no wonder nobody can come out of Egypt in recent years, it turns out that everyone has been slaughtered! From the mouths of those survivors, even the guardian gods inside the pyramids were eliminated by them. According to their usual style, this time they should be waiting for follow-up reinforcements. It seems that seeking peace is not possible, and we can only resort to war!

  The Byzantine Empire also sent people to negotiate, but the language problem was a major obstacle! The envoys were all thrown out by Li Yuanba because of the language barrier.

  In fact, the Byzantine Empire has a deep connection with ancient Greece. The sect they believe in now is also a branch that split from the ancient Greek sects, and the population is mainly composed of Greeks and Turks!

  Their main combat force is the heavy cavalry corps! With the most loyal beliefs, once launched an attack, all knights will launch a large auxiliary buff called Holy Father's Descent due to their faith. The most powerful knight can even independently launch Angel's Guard! These buffs have a special feature, just like mythological-level abilities that condense the power of heaven and earth to create a virtual shadow behind them, but here the virtual shadows are mainly composed of angelic images, extremely infectious and charming!

  Moreover, this blessing has no upper limit, the more people there are, the greater the power of the blessing! However, this blessing requires a very high level of faith. If it does not meet the requirements, it will instead weaken, so the personnel in this unit need to be cultivated from an early age, and with time, full-body equipment, and warhorses, the human and material resources spent are astronomical!

  The total number of troops in the Byzantine Empire was around 10,000. Once such a force is deployed, it means that no battle can be lost and no city can be taken!

  Li Yuanba's spiritual power can almost be added to every move at will, and he couldn't help but test its power! Without waiting for his wives to arrive, on a day six months later, the army set out to attack the city. This is also because the grain and grass of his own army of several thousand people are insufficient, and they have to launch a war to supplement them!

  The language was unintelligible, and Li Yuanba and his men had not left any money to buy fodder, so Li Yuanba launched a war without understanding the situation of this empire!

  The Byzantine Empire, which has been monitoring the situation in the Tang Dynasty at all times, is also a battle-hardened country. Within half a year, Li Yuan and his men will have hardliners who want to take the initiative to attack, at least to test the true strength of this leader described as an evil demon!

  However, under the obstruction of conservatives, it has not been implemented for a long time, and they have been arguing with each other for half a year! But after careful consideration, this army's grain supply is absolutely insufficient, and it may launch an attack to supplement its grain at any time. The surrounding cities are all prepared in advance by this country, and the city has maintained several days of food. Once the opponent launches an attack, the garrison troops will send out a thousand-man team to test their combat effectiveness, while stopping the supply of grain transportation teams and burning all the grain in the city, and the whole city will retreat! This is a tactic that Li Yuanba had to make beyond their recognition due to his prestige! This is also our traditional classic tactic - Empty Fortress and Clear Field! This is also why Li Yuanba was described by Egypt as too terrifying after destroying the guardian god of the Great Pyramid. For these countries that consistently advocate for hard-hitting tactics, implementing this unprecedented measure is indeed a miracle!

  Li Yuanba takes the lead, with his troops following tens of kilometers behind! The thousands-strong army deployed by the enemy is baffled, but once they engage Li Yuanba in battle, they regret joining this unequal war.

  This man is simply a never-stopping killing machine, several thousand people were killed by Li Yuanba's terrifying destructive power in just one glance. Even the most basic battle array was not used and they lost their lives in shock...

  But when Li Yuanba occupied the first city, he found that there was not a single grain of food here! Even the water had been poisoned, which made Li Yuanba feel depressed.

  "I've never heard of such a classic tactic in the West!" Li Yuanba was misled by later generations to think that Western countries were all about fighting to the death in siege warfare, and rarely used tactics like this!

  Death is one of the things that any living being fears, and it can be said to be the most! But this battlefield art, only ancient China was the best in the world, without exception!

  The unknown is what humans fear the most. Under Li Yuanba's influence, people here will only utilize their greatest strengths when they can't gauge his true abilities, using wisdom to preserve their greatest assets and uncover the truth about this army that seemingly appeared out of thin air at the smallest cost!

  Without food, Li Yuanba could only lead the army to attack and capture cities until they got food. Several months of war finally made the opponent understand their strength!

  Each time it was one person who took the lead in attacking, and the strength of the remaining few thousand people should also be ordinary! This is the conclusion they drew after ambushing and probing the rear army of Li Yuanba.

  The strength of that lone gunman is unfathomable, but as long as he's human, there should be a limit! Judging from the battle situation, this person's defensive and offensive capabilities are extremely strong, once you take care of him, everything else will be easy!

  So, when Li Yuanba's army invaded the Byzantine territory, the king finally unified everyone's opinions and issued a beheading order! He dispatched the empire's most powerful heavenly troops to annihilate Li Yuanba, while other armies took advantage of the momentum to attack Li Yuanba's rear forces, sparing no one! This was also because they feared that this mysterious army might have supporting troops, and if they didn't kill them all, once their reinforcements arrived, it would be a disaster. It was just like how their constant slaughter showed that this was a nation of people who, once war broke out, would fight to the death. People from such a country could never bear to be captured...

  In 655 AD, the strongest army of the Byzantine Empire clashed with a single man! Meanwhile, tens of miles behind them, dozens of people were also engaged in a war against thousands.

  Li Yuanba, apart from himself, the entire army was annihilated! Li Yuanba struggled to fight against this group of troops that were comparable to his own defensive strength. When he saw tens of thousands of troops appearing behind him, Li Yuanba knew that he was truly fighting a lone battle on this continent!

  "Damn it! How can this army of knights surrounding the Birdman be so troublesome?!" Li Yuanba had been fighting with these heavy cavalrymen for several hours, but his own attacks could only repel the contacting cavalrymen, and killing them relied on occasional critical hits that appeared after thousands of attacks, occasionally taking out one person with a double-hammer attribute!

  "What a terrifying person! Doesn't he know what exhaustion is? Our support of over 10,000 people was actually broken through and killed by him, it's too scary! However, with the blessing of the Holy Father, even if we all die in battle, we must kill him! We are the country's strongest force, sworn to defend the nation to the death!" Every single one of these heavenly soldiers had made up their minds to fight to the death, determined to grind this terrifying devil to death.

  Li Yuanba saw the army surrounding him from behind, and his mind went blank! The people I brought are all dead here?! Unforgivable!

  Enraged Li Yuanba finally summoned the Flame Battle Armor, he wanted to use his full strength to kill all of the annoying Birdman army.

  However, the angelic projections floating above this army can be divided into four, symbolizing the four elements of fire, water, wind and earth, known as the Four Great Sovereigns: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel!

  Under their blessing, Li Yuanba's fire attribute and spiritual attacks are all immune! That strong defense like Li Yuanba also makes Li Yuanba powerless, this battle can only be won by endurance, see which side can't hold on!

  Surrounded by a group, Li Yuanba had to withstand attacks from all sides every time. However, his defense was infinite, and these attacks, even if they exceeded his strength, could not cause him any harm. Moreover, the attribute of rebounding 100% made it uncomfortable for the opponent as well, just like slapping one's left hand with the right hand, both sides would hurt, but it wouldn't be fatal!

  Moreover, once they attack, they retreat to the rear, with tens of thousands of people taking turns attacking, and when it's their turn again, the pain has long since recovered!

  At this time, Li Yuanba thought of his wife Du Lingyue being besieged and helpless, but now it was just him. Tormented by his past mood, he had only one thought: "Come on! All come! I want you all to roll down to hell for me!"