Chapter 2232 - The Great Tang Defeated! (1/2)

Chapter 2232: The Great Tang Defeated!

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

Things were just beginning.

Thudthudthud!

The Formation Elder was standing on a metal platform in the rear. This area was heavily defended and was basically unaffected by the battle on the front line. It was one of the safest areas and also the core of the formation.

Standing here, the Formation Elder could control the energy flow of the formation. The platform also overlooked the entire fortress, allowing the Formation Elder to see any shifts.

Kerosene burned in the darkness, illuminating the fortress. In places the fire did not illuminate, bursts of light and explosions would occasionally erupt.

Each explosion indicated that a small formation that was a part of the large formation was shattering.

The first large formation had shattered, and the chain reaction was still not over.

The Formation Elder could sense that the second underground formation was in the middle of collapsing.

This fortress was completely exposed.

As the cold winds rushed in, the Formation Elder could see the frost rapidly forming on his beard and robes. And the Formation Elder could see that the kerosene fires were also sputtering in the face of the winds.

Even the ‘inextinguishable fires’ made from Arabian Kerosene were tested in this kind of weather.

Atop the metal platform, the Formation Elder chanted several spells as he attempted to push the formation and reverse this trend.

But a few moments later, the Formation Elder suddenly sighed and closed his eyes in despair.

“It’s over! Completely over!”

The Formation Elder slowly raised his head, his heart bleeding.

If this were a small mishap, he could still try his best, but he could tell that the Origin Energy that the formation had been drawing from beneath the earth was beginning to disperse.

The dispersion of energy was like removing charcoal from the furnace. Even if one had an igniter, it would be pointless. It would be impossible to reach the same scale again.

The fortress had three large formations. In a situation that he had never predicted, they had been shattered.

“Wang Chong, I’m sorry.”

The Formation Elder’s heart was stricken with pain and remorse.

This was not the only development within the fortress. During the construction of the fortress, in order to strengthen the defense against the alliance attacks, the Formation Elder had melded the three underground formations with the surrounding steel walls.

The three formations had long ago fused together with the toughening inscriptions and defensive formations of the fortress. Now that the three formations had shattered, so had many of the inscriptions and formations in the steel walls.

This meant that the steel walls had grown much weaker.

Boom!

Without the slightest warning, affected by the collapse of the large formations, a section of the walls in the northeast suddenly collapsed. The Tang soldiers atop it cried out in alarm as they crashed down together with it.

The same happened to a section of the walls in the northwest.

In the blink of an eye, two large gaps had appeared in the perimeter wall.

“The walls have fallen!”

The eyes of tens of thousands of alliance soldiers brightened as they exploded with cheers.

The army’s morale rose. These tall and thick walls the Great Tang had erected in the south were enough to make anyone despair. In the first battle, the alliance had suffered grievous losses because of these walls. Even now, when they had the assistance of the snowstorm, they had still suffered heavy losses. Now that they had two large gaps, the alliance cavalry could simply ride around the walls and charge straight into the steel fortress.

“Kill!”

With furious roars, the alliance army that had been charging at the walls split apart, avoiding the direct confrontation and surging toward the gaps in the walls.

Upon seeing this, Wang Zhongsi and the others paled.

If the formations had been destroyed but they still had the walls, the Tang would still have some way to recover, but now that the walls had fallen, the weak interior of the fortress was completely exposed.

More importantly, in this war, the majority of their soldiers had been stationed on the walls. All of their plans had been established around this point. The sudden collapse in two sections of the wall had completely upset their arrangements.

“Pass on my order! Immediately muster soldiers at the two gaps!

“Brother Zhangchou, Brother Zhang, Great General Abusi, it’s our turn now. No matter what, we must block those two gaps!” Wang Zhongsi solemnly said to those around him.

He keenly understood that the alliance would focus all the pressure on those two gaps. Without a Great General overseeing it, a force that had been mustered impromptu would never be able to withstand the alliance’s frenzied assault.

“Understood!”

The situation was dire and the tower was on the verge of collapse. Everyone in the fortress was in danger, and at this stage, they had to step forward.

No matter what they did, they could not prevent the formations from collapsing, and there was no more denying the fact that the fortress was bereft of defense!