Chapter 325
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Chapter 325: Enemy General, Prepare to Die
Decades of hard work, only to return to square one overnight, for players like them, nothing was more thrilling than this.
The troops you had nurtured for months, or even years, could be entirely wiped out in a single battle.
This was no exaggeration.
“Damn it! Luo Ji, you bastard!!”
At this moment, General Shang was undoubtedly experiencing the great ups and downs of life.
His 500-man archer unit, under the light cavalry’s second charge, died an utterly clean and swift death.
Just thinking about it made his heart bleed!
Training archers was not as easy as training ordinary infantry!
General Shang, unaware that the defending player was not present at all, thought this was a trap dug by Luo Ji for him.
He was so enraged that he cursed aloud, and his verbal attack inadvertently made Luo Ji, far away in Mirror City, take the blame.
“Surround them! Large shield-wielder units surround the entire formation!!”
General Shang continuously directed his large shield-wielder unit to form a defensive line while cursing Luo Ji in his heart.
At this point, the weakness of his ‘spear and shield combination’ was undoubtedly exposed.
Its almost pitiful mobility became a hard flaw that this unit could not escape.
Even changing formations became exceptionally difficult and troublesome.
During this time, Bai Ze’s light cavalry unit and Burigude’s horse archer unit did not stand idly by watching them change formations.
The two cavalry units, known for their mobility, continuously maneuvered and harvested.
These two, who always disliked each other and constantly thought about defeating the other, surprisingly cooperated implicitly when they held their noses and worked together.
Under the pressure of two cavalry units repeatedly harvesting his troops, General Shang, who had finally adjusted his formation, had a face so grim it almost dripped water.
Just moments ago, his total troop strength had shrunk by about 25%.
Fortunately, the formation was finally complete.
At this moment, General Shang unhesitatingly relied on a sufficient number of large shield-wielders to form an impregnable ‘iron wall’ formation.
At the same time, sharp long spears continuously thrust out from the gaps between the shields, clearly adopting a stance of “whoever approaches me, I will repel them.”
Realizing the threat of the long spears, Bai Ze and Burigude decisively led their respective cavalry units to retreat.
Burigude even signaled his men to switch their weapons back to bows and arrows.
Watching the two cavalry units constantly maneuvering around his ‘iron wall’ formation, General Shang’s facial muscles twitched inside the formation.
He secretly lamented his misfortune, knowing he was truly in a pickle this time.
He shouldn’t have been greedy for those warhorse resources.
According to Lin Leshi’s plan, after failing to conquer the city for 3 consecutive days, he should have retreated normally.
Fighting until now clearly violated the initial plan.
He was undoubtedly entrapped by his own greed.
Fortunately, the advantage of troop type counter still existed.
He couldn’t do anything to the enemy, and the enemy couldn’t do anything to him, unless infantry reinforcements arrived.
However, after his continuous days of siege, the defending forces inside that city had long lost the strength to fight again.
With this thought, a fierce glint flashed in General Shang’s eyes.
“Maintain the ‘iron wall’ formation, push up the siege engines, and forcibly attack the city!!”
He couldn’t escape now.
With this mobility, he simply couldn’t outrun cavalry.
Therefore, there was only one way out, conquer the city behind them, then block the city gates, defend the city to the death, and retreat after the 7th day.
At this thought, General Shang’s expression couldn’t help but become even more ferocious.
He had suffered huge losses this time. If he didn’t burn, kill, and plunder after entering the city, his anger would be hard to quell!
Watching the ‘iron wall’ formation advance, Bai Ze and Burigude’s expressions changed simultaneously at this moment.
The enemy’s intention was glaringly obvious, they clearly wanted to forcefully assault White Horse City.
The continuous days of siege had already left White Horse City’s gate crumbling.
Who knew how many more impacts from the siege engines it could withstand?
The defending general of White Horse City, realizing the same point, also had a sudden change of expression.
He subconsciously looked at the triple-bow bed crossbows on the city wall.
However, after many days of siege warfare, the heavy crossbow bolts specifically for the triple-bow bed crossbows had long been exhausted.
With no other option, he could only command the almost exhausted slinger unit to throw two more rounds of stone projectiles, but with little effect.
Neither the slingers’ arm strength nor the quantity of stone projectiles could hold up any longer.
Seeing White Horse City’s gate about to be breached by the enemy, just as White Horse City’s defending general was considering whether to burn the triple-bow bed crossbows on the city wall and preserve his troops for retreat, a soldier galloping wildly from within the city brought him the most anticipated news!
“Reporting, General! Reinforcements from Iron Wall City have arrived!”
“They have entered through the other city gate and are heading this way!”
Hearing this news, White Horse City’s defending general’s face immediately lit up with joy.
He then resolutely ordered.
“Listen to my command, open the city gates!!”
White Horse City’s crumbling gates slowly rose.
This scene not only stunned General Shang and his frantically attacking troops but also made Bai Ze, who had retreated some distance and was preparing to use the momentum of a charge to forcefully impact the enemy’s ‘iron wall’ formation to prevent White Horse City’s fall, pause in surprise.
“What’s happening? Why are the city gates open?!”
His gaze subconsciously went to White Horse City’s wall, and he just happened to see White Horse City’s defending general continuously making gestures to him.
“Reinforcements! Reinforcements have arrived!”
Understanding the message the gestures were conveying, Bai Ze’s spirits immediately lifted.
He then turned and shouted to Burigude.
“Reinforcements are in the city! Retreat some distance! Prepare to encircle and intercept!”
“Horse archer unit, follow me!”
Without further ado, Burigude, hearing this, directly led his horse archer unit to begin maneuvering towards the outer perimeter.
On the other side, although General Shang was confused by White Horse City’s actively rising gates, at this point, he had no retreat.
Two cavalry units were waiting for him behind him.
In other words, retreat meant a dead end! Advance, and there was at least a glimmer of hope!
With this thought, General Shang’s heart also grew ruthless.
“Maintain the formation, push the siege engine directly and ram it in!!”
However, to his surprise, the siege engine’s ram struck nothing.
“What’s going on? There are no defending forces blocking the gate behind it?”
General Shang focused his gaze.
Not only were there no defending forces blocking the gate, but there wasn’t even a single person!
Just as he was thinking this, accompanied by a dense sound of footsteps, a unit of infantry suddenly appeared from nowhere on the street directly facing the city gate!
The leading general, clad in bronze armor, glared furiously upon seeing General Shang’s troops rush into the city.
He dragged his Spring and Autumn Greatblade along as he charged forward.
“Enemy general, prepare to die!!”
