Chapter 309 - 306: Great Victory
The emperor’s wrath leaves a million corpses on the battlefield and a river of blood for a thousand miles.
Gu Jinlai was not an emperor.
But holding dominion over Star State, Yellow State, and Jiangzhou State, with over a hundred million subjects under his control, his power was no less than that of the ancient emperors on Blue Star.
And given that this was a world where cultivators with immense power existed, once he was determined to wage war, a million dead was not mere hyperbole.
As it was now, there were definitely tens of thousands of corpses floating on the sea.
In order to force Lingxiao City into submission, the Eastern Sea Alliance Army had mobilized a hundred thousand troops, and as warship after warship was destroyed, more than half of these troops had become corpses.
If it were not for a large number of warships surrendering subsequently, less than one tenth of the troops might have survived.
This was the brutality of a naval battle.
Once a warship was destroyed, it often meant total annihilation of the crew.
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