Chapter 360
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Chapter 360: A Distressed Army is Bound to Win
As an army skilled in frontal assaults, no one could deny the beastman army’s pushing power.
Despite the astonishing firepower suppression from Shangyuan City, they actually pushed their way through.
Indeed, these beastmen could not be measured by human standards.
Seeing the beastmen army about to reach the base of the city wall, Zhao Pan had already begun to command the soldiers to prepare to throw rolling logs and massive stones.
Luo Ji, seeing this, also stretched his limbs, then spoke.
“Zhao Pan, the city wall here is in your hands.”
“Your subordinate accepts the order!”
Even a defensive battle wasn’t just about one-sided defense, and sallying forth to meet the enemy was also part of it.
Luo Ji ordered Zhao Pan, Zhou Ming, Liu Tao, and Zhang Lue to continue commanding the defending troops on the wall.
Luo Ji himself, accompanied by Luo Yong, Liu Meng, and Zhou Yi, walked towards the city gate.
Without a doubt, he intended to sally forth and meet the enemy!
Otherwise, unilaterally defending the city wall would be too passive, and the city wall would eventually give way.
Behind the city gate, the army had already assembled.
Luo Yong, Liu Meng, and Zhou Yi quickly commanded their soldiers to arrange the predetermined formation behind the city gate.
At the same time, the battle on the city wall still hadn’t stopped.
The soldiers fiercely defended the wall, continuously smashing down massive stones and rolling logs to resist the beastmen’s invasion.
Zhao Pan’s gaze, however, remained fixed on a more distant position.
He had been watching the movements of the 4 Elephantmen the entire time because he knew very well that the greatest threat to Shangyuan City’s wall was those 4 Elephantmen!
While other beastmen were also very strong, they couldn’t directly pose an effective threat to the city wall.
But if those 4 Elephantmen reached the base of the city wall, Shangyuan City’s wall would be in danger.
As his thoughts raced, Zhao Pan, seeing the Elephantmen in the distance resume their movement after a pause, waved his hand, signaling the nearby messenger soldier to blow the horn.
Hearing the horn sound from the wall, Luo Ji mounted his horse.
After stroking Liaoyuan Huo’s mane, he let out a loud shout.
“Open the city gate! Sally forth to meet them!”
Luo Ji, having boosted morale, directly raised the morale of his army to near full capacity.
As the city gate slowly rose, Zhou Yi likewise drew the bronze longsword from his waist.
“Strong assault formation, charge!!”
“Kill!!!”
A low roar, full of determination!
The soldiers who had retreated from Iron Wall City swore to wash away the humiliation of Iron Wall City’s fall at this very moment!
The Phalanx almost completely blocked all movement space at the city gate, mercilessly delivering a head-on blow to the charging beastman army!
Facing this spear formation that filled the entire city gate space, even the tough-skinned Minotaurs were forced to flinch for a moment.
The gleaming sharp spears instinctively made them retreat.
The aggressive spear formation quickly opened up a maneuvering space outside the city gate.
Afterwards, the sword-shield soldiers guarding the flanks rapidly moved in to encircle.
The formation switched incredibly quickly, fully demonstrating the soldiers’ excellent training.
In a few blinks of an eye, the entire formation had already switched from a Phalanx to a more classic ‘Spear and Shield Combination.’
Evidently, they did not intend to use the Phalanx to charge the beastmen army.
As mentioned before, the Phalanx was not flexible enough, and its flanks and rear were weak points.
During the night raid on Iron Wall City, they basically only needed to deal with Kobolds.
In that case, deploying a few squads of heavy shield soldiers on the flanks and rear for defense was generally sufficient.
However, now, the opposing Minotaurs looked very fierce.
That defensive line probably couldn’t hold at all.
It was better to be decisive and directly switch to a more stable formation.
The moment they pushed out of the city gate, the soldiers maintaining the formation immediately clashed with the beastmen army outside.
Not counting the previous night raid and several rounds of defensive battles fiercely guarding the city wall, this was probably the first true frontal confrontation between humans and beastmen.
The battle cries shook the heavens.
As the saying goes, a distressed army is bound to win.
The grief-stricken and indignant soldiers instantly overwhelmed the enemy in terms of morale.
For a time, the human soldiers, despite being physically weaker, were not at a disadvantage in their engagement with the beastmen army.
“Squad 1 and 2, focus on cover! Squad 3 and 4, keep up! Push them out in one go!”
“All shields up, defensive formation! Pay attention to the enemy’s attacks!”
Behind the military formation, Zhou Yi and Liu Meng, one commanding the spearmen unit and the other the sword-shield unit, maintained the spear and shield combination, continuously impacting the opposing beastman army’s formation.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on the outskirts of the battlefield, Guo Zhen, using the vision provided by his binoculars, saw that the fight had already broken out at the city gate.
He swung the bronze battle axe in his hand, ready to lead his troops into the fray.
After waiting so many days, he was already a bit impatient.
However, just as he made a move, he was pulled back by Guo Jia, who was beside him.
“Wait, it’s not time yet.”
“Not time yet? The battle has already started! We can’t just stay here and watch, can we?!”
At a critical moment of life and death, Guo Zhen’s tone was tinged with urgency.
“Don’t rush. It’s just the beginning. At this moment, they are at the gate of Shangyuan City, they can attack or retreat. What could happen?”
Guo Jia, who was also observing the battle, remained calm.
“Now is the most unstable moment of the entire battle. If we rush out without clearly assessing the situation, we’ll only cause chaos.”
“Let’s wait a bit. Once the situation becomes a little clearer, we’ll seize the opportunity to act.”
Guo Zhen felt vexed with his younger brother, yet he had no choice but to obey, because countless facts had proven that whenever he and Guo Jia had differing opinions, Guo Jia was always right.
Thus, the army led by the brothers Guo Jia and Guo Zhen continued to lie in wait.
Now, the perspective shifts to Li Yuanjie.
His beastman army, which had always been invincible, was fighting with exceptional difficulty against Luo Ji.
It would be a miracle if Li Yuanjie’s mood was good right now.
To be honest, this invasion battle was truly unbelievable for him.
It felt as difficult as fighting those top 100 bastards in the Bronze tier to the death.
Watching the fierce battle at Shangyuan City’s gate, Li Yuanjie’s brows furrowed tighter and tighter.
Accustomed to relying on the beastman army’s advantage, to brutally crush any opponent in a direct frontal assault, Li Yuanjie now found himself struggling to come up with any tactics.
However, the current situation clearly required him, as the Great Chieftain, to do something.
Otherwise, this battle might indeed be a bit precarious.
His beastman army would lose to humans? What a joke!
As his thoughts raced, Li Yuanjie, almost racking his brains, suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
“I’ve got it…”
