Chapter 645: 641: Final Battle (1)
Chapter 645: Chapter 641: Final Battle (1)
The golden light barrier of the Divine Martial Array was suddenly, unexpectedly, opened. This caused the attacking allied soldiers to momentarily pause in confusion.
Then, they saw the roaring Inferno Flood Dragon and the realm-spanning Rulai Golden Palm.
The voracious Tang Clan warriors, filled with boundless killing intent, made a sudden impactful strike southeast, catching the Mi Clan’s coalition off guard.
In the camp on the South Mountain, the Sect Head, Mi Hai who had received the urgent news, was filled with both shock and jubilation.
He was shocked that the Tang Clan surprisingly, presented such a stance for a decisive battle. It was a scene he had never predicted. The Tang Clan had actually abandoned the idea of breaking out and instead took up a posture of a fight to the death.
This was delightful news indeed. A deadly smile spread across Mi Hai’s face, completely indifferent to the crimson casualty figures in the urgent report.
Facing the desperate courage of the Tang Clan with their back against the wall, he wanted to laugh aloud:
“Convey my orders, command the southeast guard to fight a retreating battle, inform all peaks to quickly dispatch Martial Ancestors for support, and let other generals lead the army to encircle them!”
“Transmit my command, order Wind Media to quickly send news back to the Clan, state that the Tang Clan is launching a full counterattack towards the southeast. Let the Clan Leader decide!”
“Transmit my command, tell the Great Elder of Great You Mountain, Xiao Clan, to quickly bring Leader Cao to Bao Ding Mountain to assist!”
“Transmit my command, using Bao Ding Mountain as a boundary, let the Tang Clan push forward!”
The importance of defending Great You Mountain is that it is a choke point that goes near the mountains in the north, but besides the Northwest direction, the remaining northern mountain areas aren’t a must-secure area!
After issuing several of the most crucial commands composedly, Sect leader Mi Hai, together with several Martial Ancestors, hurried to the front line, closely monitoring the troop movements of the Tang Clan.
Meanwhile, on the battlefield at Xiang Yun Valley, the originally muddy terrain transformed back into a golden, solid, rocky terrain under Tang Sen’s Earth Manipulation Technique facilitating the march of his clansmen.
The warriors of the Martial Hall were advancing southeast in groups. Numerous Flame Flood Dragons were wreaking havoc in mid-air, reducing everything they saw to ashes.
Above the sky were the top Martial Ancestors of the Tang Clan. They were making organized attacks at the incoming allied forces at various directions while guarding against the sudden attack by the Fierce Realm’s warriors on the large ground troops.
However, the Allied Forces’ Martial Ancestors, who had experienced the strength of the Tang Clan’s Martial Ancestors, would naturally not rashly block them. Instead, they kept their distance and slowly accumulated their forces above the Martial Hall’s troop-scale-advantage-on-ground.
Though the Mi Clan ground defense forces were retreating steadily, other than the Martial Ancestors involved in the fight at Xiang Yun Valley at that instant, none were critically injured.
After all, as warriors of the Fierce Realm if they decided to retreat, the Tang Clan’s martial ancestors would not be able to chase too deep since they also had to protect the vast ground troops of the Martial Hall. However, as more and more Allied Forces’ Martial Ancestors gathered, the Tang Clan’s Martial Ancestors too slowly started feeling the pressure.
Martial Forces Commander Tang Yi descended from the sky and said to the Great Elder Tang Siyuan in the center of the army: “Carrying on this way, in less than half an hour, we will be surrounded by the Allied Forces’ Martial Ancestors. We must break a part of these Allied Forces’ Martial Ancestors first!”
Just as Tang Siyuan was about to agree, he heard Tang Zhi, who was being protected in the middle of the formation, say: “Nevermind them, continue to the southeast!”
Hearing the command, Tang Yi gritted his teeth, rose quietly, and continued guarding against the Allied Forces’ Martial Ancestors’ sneak attacks.
Actually, until now, he was not very clear about Tang Zhi’s overall plan. But as a Clan Warrior Commander, obeying orders was his duty. Even if Tang Zhi commanded him to launch an attack on the South Ridge Beast Valley today, he would just follow the orders and attack!
To return to the main battlefield, the defending troops in the southeast of Xiang Yun Valley, after receiving Mi Hai’s orders, did not make useless defence against the Tang Clan’s ground troops, but fought a retreat towards the base in the southeast.
But the horizon’s Allied Forces’ Martial Ancestors gathered more and more, as Tang Yi had predicted. The ground, which was established that moment ago with an advantageous heart, naturally didn’t last as they saw the Martial Ancestors of the Mi Clan’s Allied Forces gather slowly. In addition, Tang Luo, the guard in mid-air who was performing the Immortal Wind Cloud Body Technique, constantly transmitted various messages:
However, these messages only circulated among the Martial Ancestors in the sky. The large group on the ground was still immersed in the aggressive invasion, completely unaware that the danger was slowly approaching the Tang Clan’s base.
“There are about five thousand people heading towards our position from the direction of Great You Mountain, about thirty miles away; there are about two thousand people heading towards our position from the direction of Zhen Wen Mountain, about twenty miles away; there are three thousand people heading towards our position from the direction of Dragon Horn Mountain, about twenty-five miles away; there are two thousand people heading towards the base from the direction of Bao Ding Mountain, right in front, about fifteen miles away!”
To the North, Northeast, Northwest, at Tang Luo’s warning, the Martial Ancestors of the Tang Clan seemed to see the large net laid down by the Mi Clan’s Allied Forces, and right in the center of the net were the warriors of the Tang Clan.
In order to escort the warriors of different ranks to retreat, the Tang Clan had already dispatched a large number of Martial Ancestors. Thus, at this moment, the number of accompanying Martial Ancestors was less than fifty. However, the total number of the Mi Clan’s Allied Forces’ Martial Ancestors exceeded two hundred.
This was also the biggest source of confidence for the Mi Clan’s Allied Forces. Regardless of how elite the Tang Clan’s Martial Ancestors were, when facing a force that was more than five times superior, the victory and defeat of this battle was already beyond doubt.
That’s why Mi Hai let the Martial Ancestors of the Allied Forces gather slowly, to swallow the Tang Clan’s troops in one go.
The thousand years old conflict between the Tang and Mi Clans was going to draw to a close that day, and Mi Hai firmly suppressed the excitement in his heart, steadily setting up the encirclement.
By the time the Tang Clan’s forces had pushed a few miles southeast, they finally met with the defense forces of Bao Ding Mountain. The number of Allied Forces’ Martial Ancestors in the sky had also exceeded one hundred.
A total of one hundred Fierce Realm warriors stationed in the void, surrounded the Tang Clan’s Martial Ancestors from all sides, and the sound of the ground troops’ marching was clearly heard at this moment.
The few major generals of the Mi Clan’s Allied Forces were closest to the Tang Clan’s position. Each of them had a bloodthirsty glint in their eyes, sizing up the distant rivals from top to bottom, as if they were inspecting a piece of meat on a chopping board.
And the Tang Clan’s warriors who had stormed more than twenty miles all the way from Xiang Yun Valley, also felt this pressure. They suddenly couldn’t move, as if they had fallen into a bottomless swamp.
Without the protection of the Divine Martial Array, the Tang Clan warriors were about to fight against enemies several times their number. Yet, not a single one showed cowardice on their faces.
As Tang Zhi had put it, they had known for a long time this was going to be a bloody battle, but they were not afraid!
Because dying in such a fight is fitting for a true warrior’s glory.
Most importantly, Tang Zhi burst into laughter, a laughter that echoed throughout the battlefield!
“Our enemies are gathering together waiting for death. It’s impolite to keep them waiting. So, it’s time for them to taste the flavor of slaughter!”
No one expected that facing an adversary several times larger than his own, Tang Zhi would be the first to sound the trumpet of attack. The Tang Clan’s warriors, like a pack of wolves, pounced towards the defense forces of Bao Ding Mountain.
It seemed as if they were the ones with the greater numbers. The several generals, well-versed in military strategy, looked down upon such impetuousness and coldly ordered “Kill!”
“Kill!!!!”
With the earth-shattering cries and the blasting sounds of Spiritual Arts collision, what will determine who becomes the lord of Xiling, the final showdown, started before the Bao Ding Mountain.