Chapter 2167 - City Defense Battle! (III) (1/2)
Chapter 2167: City Defense Battle! (III)
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
The enemy’s morale had already been damaged. There was no need for the Tang army to continue fighting.
“There’s no need.”
But to everyone’s surprise, Wang Chong rejected Abusi’s proposal without hesitation.
“It’s not time to withdraw the soldiers yet!”
Abusi was taken aback by Wang Chong’s words.
As the Tongluo Great General and the Emperor’s close aide, Abusi possessed an outstanding grasp of military strategy. In his view, the forty thousand Tang soldiers were in an extremely disadvantageous situation, but Wang Chong seemed to be speaking with great confidence.
For a moment, Abusi didn’t know what to say.
Just when everyone was about to ask what was going on, a momentous shift took place.
“Kill!”
“Master has ordered a full offensive! Deserters are to be killed!”
“Bastard! They’re only a few tens of thousands! I don’t believe that so many of us can’t kill them!”
“All soldiers, press forward and kill them all!”
The front line of the alliance army had regained order, and it had also realized that forty thousand soldiers had lost their ‘natural barrier’ and had been encircled. The soldiers roared, their eyes crimson as they charged at the forty thousand soldiers from various directions.
It was not so easy to break such a heavily defended fortress, but killing these forty thousand Tang soldiers was another matter entirely.
If they couldn’t even take care of this lone army of forty thousand, how could they handle the six to seven hundred thousand soldiers within the fortress?
In a flash, all of the alliance soldiers rallied, their bodies seething with killing intent as they charged.
From the sky, the forty thousand Tang soldiers appeared like a small splash of froth in the ocean, about to be dashed to pieces at any moment. Even so, the forty thousand soldiers stood firm like a rock, showing no signs of retreating.
On the contrary, they continued to advance.
“Kill!”
War cries filled the air as the armies crashed against each other like two waves.
“For His Majesty!”
“Conquer the Great Tang!”
A string of Goguryeon cries rose from the army, and from the left flank, thousands of Goguryeo soldiers with two black sabers in their hands charged out, savage and fierce expressions on their faces.
These Goguryeons, organized into teams, lunged like beasts of prey at a small group of Tang soldiers.
This group had only twenty-some people and was located at the very edge of the forty thousand soldiers. To the Goguryeon soldiers, these were lambs that had been abandoned. With their advantage in numbers, it would take only a few exchanges to kill them all.
Clangclangclang!
In a din of clashing metal, the two groups began to battle, their weapons glinting with cold light.
Blood gushed out and turned into crimson mist. This battle ended much faster than imagined, but the final result was not something these Goguryeon soldiers could have imagined.
With heavy thuds, the Goguryeon soldiers dropped their heavy sabers and collapsed to the ground in pools of blood, their bodies cleaved open.
“How could this be?”
The pale-faced Goguryeon captain looked around with disbelieving eyes at all the Tang soldiers that had suddenly outnumbered them. Blood spurted out of his back, his body went limp, and he collapsed to the ground and knew nothing.
At the final moment, he vaguely sensed that there was something odd about the Tang formation.
It now seemed that the twenty-some ‘isolated soldiers’ at the edge were not as simple as they had appeared.
This deceased Goguryeon commander had been rather sharp, but most of the alliance soldiers had been completely caught in the trap of ‘destroying the forty thousand Tang soldiers’, failing to realize what was going on.
“Kill!”