Zhan Long

Chapter 1374: Despair 1

Heavy cannons could be heard as the first wave of Aotian Race soldiers were turned into ash. Their giant shields were burnt red by cannon fire and no matter how strong their bodies were they couldn’t handle the continuous fire of the cannons. Smoke billowed and covered the sky. They shouted as they charged, the giants behind them also charged more crazily.

“Block them!”

Drunken Spear held his spear and flew into the sky in god form. He ordered the Autumn Harvest Army to form up their defenses. The shield soldiers at the front raised their shields and the spear soldiers behind pointed their spears forwards. This was the only way they thought of to defend themselves.

“Aotian will crush the oceans!”

A giant charged and its legs were covered in arrows. It knelt on the ground and continued to crawl while swinging its broadsword to smack a shield soldier aside. But its stomach was stabbed by dozens of spears. Autumn Harvest Army’s soldier raised his blade and slash its stomach open. Its intestines and blood flowed out and it looked really cruel.

But more of the defence region was being broken through. Aotian Race giants waved their blades as they charged at the Autumn Harvest Army. They tanked the ranged players’ firepower to charge. Until their health was used up they all die. It was as if they didn’t fear death at all.

“They are mad!”

Yan Zhao frowned and held his sword to fly out in God Form. Wan Er, Dong Cheng, Li Mu and I all flew out. We all knew that their eyes were their weakness and if we blinded them, they would start attacking each other.

On the walls, Ling Luo held her bow and shot the left eye of one of them. She shot another and that blinded the right. She said towards the Dark Moon Elves around her, “Blind them, don’t attack other parts!”

The Dark Moon Evels were all natural archers. Arrows flew and the Aotian Race soldiers that arrived were all blinded. Along with cannons fired, I suddenly saw some hope of success.

“Pu!”

Butterfly pierced the neck and a blinded Aotian Race soldier. I raised my swords to slash and his head fell off. I actually beheaded him.

Not far away, Lin Wan Er and Dong Cheng Yue worked together to kill an Aotian Race soldier. Further away, Mocha used God Form to move between five of them. She restricted them and also dodged all their attacks. She was really bold. Her skills were really top in the world. This was something even top players like Fang Ge Que, Q-Sword and I had to admit.

“Peng!”

A giant explosion and I turned around, “What happened?”

Yan Zhao Warrior said loudly, “Not good, a hole appeared in our east gate. Xiao Yao bring people over. There are at least 30 thousand of them there, we are about to lose it!”

“En!”

I flew out and at the same time said loudly, “Zhan Long’s God Form players follow me!”

Behind me, Lin Wan Er, Dong Cheng Yue, Mocha, Li Mu, Wang Jian, Death God’s Elergy, One Second Hero etc followed. We charged towards the east and when we were there, we saw many of them slashing their axes at the wall. Each axe would cause stone to bounce off and many holes appeared on the surface.

“Charge in!”

An Aotian Race soldier sunk down and he actually smashed through the wall!

“Peng!”

He rolled and climbed in the city and waved his sword to slice a bunch of Heaven Barrier Army troops that weren’t ready. I flew over and said, “Wan Er, Dong Cheng, defend outside, leave this to me!”

“Okay!”

Everyone flew outside to intercept those that tried to come in. I charged into the city and used Wind Carrying Slash at this giant’s neck. Blood splattered and flowed like a stream. The Heaven Barrier Army soldiers were stunned and very quickly they knelt down, “Your Highness!”

“Continue to fight.”

I said a simple sentence before charging outside. I saw that the 30 thousand Autumn Harvest Army troops that were outside were about to get wiped. Moreover, to prevent the giants from getting close, many players that jumped out to fight were killed too. Corpses were all over. This Ghost City was really about to become one.

“Peng!”

Another explosion and another gate was opened up. A giant with a war hammer. Aotian Race’s soldiers were ten times stronger than us.

Powerlessness filled my heart but I still held my sword to charge to defend the hole for Royal Army. On the walls, Song Han led a bunch of Furnace God Cavalries over. They jumped off to act as the tanks to drag back the Aotian Race army. We couldn’t let them continue attacking the walls. Ghost City’s walls were covered in holes and one more charge and it would break down.

Without the walls, if we fought on the ground, we would all get wiped.

Aotian Race was far stronger on the ground. Our chinese cavalries being top in the world was a thing of the past. The strongest ground troop was definitely them. Moreover, not to mention their strong cavalries, just their infantry was top in the continent.

Dong dong dong, more cavalries appeared. I had no choice but to continue to order the cannons to lock onto them and not let them get close.

At that moment, the gates suddenly opened and a bunch of cavalries headed out.

“What is going on?” I asked.

Ye Lai held his axe and explained, “It is House of Prestige, they don’t want to die trapped and rather fight to the death outside…”

“Damn, they are asking for death!” I scolded but there was nothing I could do. Everyone had their own thoughts and I could only watch.

Quick Lightning Swift Wind was a real man. He led the 30 thousand of them out and went around their infantry, heading towards their cavalries. He saw a chance. Aotian Race didn’t have many cavalries, over 100. Although they rode beasts but their combat strength should be average right?

In the next moment, reality slapped our faces. 200+ of them surrounded one to attack but the roar charge of the beast killed them. In a blink, 200+ players all died but this beast had 40% health.

Despair filled my body and my voice was shaking, “What is that thing?”

Wan Er shook her head, “We definitely have no chance head to head, we need to use the cannons to kill them. Heavy cannons deal extra damage on the cavalries, one cannon deals 4 million. 15 can kill one. That is more efficient than sending players.

“En.”

I nodded, “Heavy cannons focus fire, aim the cavalries, don’t waste the cannonballs!”

Jing Yin cupped her fists, “Yes Your Highness!”

……

Very quickly, there were more holes in the south wall and the situation became really precarious.

Luckily, Aotian Race suffered huge losses too. Over 50 thousand of them fell at the walls. Their corpses had started to decompose.

This battle lasted for 5 hours. The conch sounds could be heard as they backed off. They gave off their siege advantage.

But we suffered heavy losses too. The walls were all dead players and NPCs, the number of losses had reached what we couldn’t handle.

……

Yan Zhao Warrior held his bloodied sword and sat on the green stone of the wall. The only thing he didn’t do was take out some cigarettes to smoke.

“How many of us are left?” he asked.

I stood at the side and said, “150 thousand players and around 300 thousand NPCs. We have less than half of what we started with.”

“Oh…” He muttered, his eyes were a little lost, “After taking over you my first war is so bad, what a huge defeat…”

I smiled, “Facing an unknown opponent, there is nothing much, let’s just not all die here.”

“En…”

In the city, there were injured troops all around. We had 300 thousand NPCs left but many of them were injured. We had to help them recover quickly or we won’t even be able to block one wave of Aotian Race.

Han Yuan, Xiao Lie, Jing Yin, Long Xing, Xia Ye etc Royal Army generals stood around me and waited for my orders.

“Your Highness, I have already sent men to break down the Great Shrine Hall to get stone to fix the walls but it needs time, at least two days to complete.” Jing Yin was worried, “I am a little worried if they would give us the time.”

I nodded, “No worries, just try your best.”

“Yes!”

I asked, “How are the cannonballs?”

Han Yuan said, “We have more than half so Your Highness don’t have to worry.”

“En, that’s good…”

I thought about it and said, “Send half of the remaining war hawk knights out and find an exit from the north. We must leave this place and not get trapped here.”

Xia Ye cupped his fists, “Yes Your Highness, I will do that!”