Chapter 2213 - Another Fire Attack! (1/2)
Chapter 2213: Another Fire Attack!
Seeing Bahram carve a bloody path across the battlefield and return to the Tang camp, Zhangchou Jianqiong breathed a sigh of relief.
“Come on! Let’s get back to the steel fortress and wait for orders from His Highness!”
“Mm!”
Bahram said no more, leading his Aswaran Cataphracts through the open gates.
Boom!
The giant gate had pulled up all the way, and soldiers constantly flooded in. While retreating, however, they did not forget to lay traps outside.
A few moments later, Zhang Shougui’s army returned, almost seventy percent of his men withdrawing into the fortress.
Seeing that the retreat was just about done, Zhangchou Jianqiong immediately said to Xue Qianjun, “Tell Li Siye and the others to immediately retreat. We can’t lose any more men!”
Xue Qianjun, Xu Keyi, Zhang Que, and Li Siye were all trusted subordinates of Wang Chong, so it was best if they were the ones to tell the Wushang Cavalry to retreat.
“But what about His Highness?” Xue Qianjun sternly said. Compared to this battle, he was more worried about Wang Chong, who was still battling Genesis Supreme in the depths of spacetime.
“There’s no time. Experts of that level aren’t something we can deal with. If not even Wang Chong can deal with that man, we certainly can’t. We just have to trust him!” Zhangchou Jianqiong sternly said.
The situation on the battlefield was constantly changing, and though the Great Tang had been about to crush the alliance army in the initial stage of the battle, Zhangchou Jianqiong could tell with a cursory glance that as the Tang army fell back, the alliance army was slowly regaining its vigor.
If they didn’t retreat now, the alliance army would have a chance to join with the Yeluohe, and then the Wushang Cavalry wouldn’t be able to leave even if they wanted to.
“Hold them! No matter how many we lose, we can’t let them get back to their fortress so easily!” A sharp cry came from the alliance army. Cui Qianyou’s eyes were blazing as brightly as the sun as he surveyed the battlefield.
Cui Qianyou could clearly see that the Tang were withdrawing their army into the fortress, but he did not do his utmost to stop all of them.
This was partially because the alliance army had not yet recovered from the earlier chaos, but it was also because he was waiting for the right opportunity.
The weakest Tang armies had already retreated, leaving only the elites to cover the retreat, only the best of the best. Now, if he advanced his army to hold the elites down and then exterminate them, they could win the war early.
Following Cui Qianyou’s orders, all of the Youzhou armies began to converge on the Wushang Cavalry from two sides.
“Good move!”
The Khitan King understood what was happening and ordered his Khitan braves to also charge.
“Go!”
Yeon Gaesomun and Ozmish Khagan didn’t mince words. The eyes of these two sovereigns glinted coldly as they ordered their men forward.
Both the Eastern Turkic Khaganate and the Goguryeo Empire had suffered large, almost unimaginable losses in this battle, and Yeon Gaesomun and Ozmish Khagan had been greatly weakened. But the two of them no longer cared about such things.
“This is a rare opportunity! No matter what, we must defeat the Great Tang!”
Seated atop an Eastern Turkic steed, Ozmish Khagan fearlessly charged forward.
There was no going back to the Eastern Turkic steppe. The ice and snow had only made that a path to demise.
The cold wave had pushed the Eastern Turks into a dead end.
Ozmish Khagan could even tell that the chill in the air had grown even colder.
The cold wave was continuing its advance to the south.
Defeating the Great Tang and occupying the Central Plains was the Eastern Turkic Khaganate’s only path of survival, at the very least buying them a chance to catch their breath.
As for the price that needed to be paid for this, Ozmish Khagan had already considered this factor.
Sacrifices were inevitable in war!
So long as they could avoid this calamity, then regardless of how great the sacrifice had to be, the survivors would flourish and reproduce, allowing the mighty Eastern Turkic Khaganate to emerge once more.
“Out!”
Just when all of the alliance was anxious to complete this task, a massive roar came from the heavens, and then a terrifying torrent of Stellar Energy slammed into the alliance ranks.
Screams erupted as the Stellar Energy blasted countless soldiers into the air, sowing chaos and mayhem in the alliance ranks.
That single strike had slain thousands of soldiers.
“Bastard! It’s him!”