Chapter 745: Chapter 302: Signs of Defeat Emerge, Snow Bamboo’s Trump Card
The defenders kept falling, even those at the Cold Resistance Level were beginning to die, the whole army was retreating, how long has it been, how long has it been...
It’s essential to know, due to the suppression from the main building’s three thousand archers, more than half of the three thousand Longyou Army were kept in the outer circle; the first wave of people who reached the vicinity of the main building numbered only just over a thousand.
Six thousand against a bit over a thousand, and they crumbled!
The second wave of Longyou Army on the outskirts, already bearing the arrow rain, had reached a position less than a hundred meters away from the battlefield, Yuan Cheng finally couldn’t resist shouting at Xia Chuan:
"Minister, we can’t delay any longer, any more delay and we lose!"
Clang......
Xia Chuan lifted the Black Blade in front of himself. Although he angled it to deflect Li Xuanling’s Longsword, he couldn’t resist the force transmitted through the sword. His tiger’s mouth was torn, and his body staggered, nearly collapsing to the ground.
If it weren’t for Chen Yingyuan’s spear quickly striking from the flank, interrupting Li Xuanling’s follow-up punch, even if he didn’t die, he would have had his skin peeled off.
"The difference in strength is too great, over twenty bristles, my elder brother alone can handle sixteen Cold Resistance Levels including Li Xuanling. Even when I team up with Chen Yingyuan, we can’t gain any advantage, damn it, damn it, damn it......"
The huge disparity in strength drove Xia Chuan nearly mad at the moment; the situation of the defending army was all too clear to him, he didn’t need Yuan Cheng to remind him.
"Where is Xia Hong? Where has your Cloud Jiao Army gone?"
At this critical moment, how could Li Xuanling not react, the Great Xia’s defenders were falling in heaps, Xia Hong and the Cloud Jiao Army hadn’t appeared yet, there was only one explanation...
That is, they aren’t here at all.
If they’re not here, where else could they be?
"You already have the answer in your heart, why ask me..."
Xia Chuan already had seven or eight bloody holes on his upper body, his left leg was also cut with three deep gashes, his injuries were evidently more severe than Yuan Cheng’s and Shi Ping’s, so he was panting heavily as he spoke.
But no matter how heavy his panting was, it couldn’t cover up the strong sense of triumph on his face as he uttered those words.
Li Xuanling’s pupils abruptly contracted, clearly, he had derived the answer from those words.
They are going to attack Long Mountain!
Xia Hong has taken the Cloud Jiao Army to attack Long Mountain.
How dare he, how dare he?
The shock on Li Xuanling’s face lasted less than three or four breaths, then he realized something, his expression returned to normal as a cold sneer emerged:
"Attacking Long Mountain, your leader came up with that, do you think Great Xia is the first to target my Long Mountain? Your Xia City is as solid as gold, is it possible that my Long Mountain station is made of paper? Xia Hong indeed has good skills, but with only him and those thousand Cloud Jiao troops, dreaming of breaking Long Mountain, in their dreams!"
"You’ll soon find out if it can be breached."
Xia Chuan, with natural trust in his elder brother, didn’t even have the desire to argue with Li Xuanling. He merely sneered and quickly turned his head back to the rear main building, shouting in rage: "Erect the bamboo screens, Zhao Long, lead everyone to charge out, the outcome hangs in the balance!"
Erect the bamboo screens...
What does it mean?
Not only Li Xuanling, but other Cold Resistance Levels of Long Mountain also heard Xia Chuan’s words.
"Ha, brothers, it’s our turn to exert now!"
Everyone’s expressions froze for a moment, immediately, they saw a voice booming below the main building. Over a thousand people cornering the main building quickly split into four teams, each standing at one side of the main building, subsequently, together they pulled three massive chains from the ground.
Clank clank clank ......
A total of twelve chains across four sides, all were buried deep in the ground.
And at the end of these chains were about a hundred meters outside the perimeter of the main building.
A total force of over a thousand people lifted them, in four directions about a hundred meters away from the main building, a fine white bamboo net rose vertically from the ground.
All four bamboo nets were square, approximately a hundred meters wide; however, unlike ordinary bamboo, these bamboos were all snow-white, and covered with a layer of densely packed spikes more than ten centimeters long.
The Longyou Army, the second wave that hadn’t charged below the main building’s edge, was just standing by the edge of these bamboo nets. Xia Chuan evidently seized this opportunity before prompting the thousand-plus people surrounding the main building to act and pull up these bamboo nets.
Despite the bamboo nets being exceptionally tightly woven, and each side being connected by thick chains, they were fundamentally made of bamboo, so when raised, many standing over it broke the nets to a considerable extent.
Swish swish swish swish swish......
"What is this thing!"
"The burrs on these bamboos can shoot out."
"The impact force is only ten thousand pounds, can’t break my war armor, it’s fine."
"Too many, watch your eyes!"
......
The spikes covering the surface of the snow bamboo automatically sensed and launched out.
As the bamboo nets rose from all four sides, countless spikes were triggered and shot wildly towards the soldiers of the Longyou Army ahead and behind.
But the power of the snow bamboo spikes was only above ten thousand pounds. Apart from initially breaking some war armors or poking the eyes of a few unlucky fellows, the rest of the Longyou soldiers quickly realized, these spikes at best might scratch the skin, couldn’t inflict substantial injury.
"Is this your trump card? Ridiculous, Great Xia will undoubtedly be defeated tonight!"
At this moment, Li Xuanling also understood, Yuan Cheng’s previous roar, Xia Chuan’s shout, including the over a thousand people that remained around the main building throughout and hadn’t taken action, all were for these four bamboo nets.
The question is, what change can these four bamboo nets bring?
The Longyou Army soldiers, their cultivation had all surpassed the thirty thousand pound limit, some had already begun Reshaping Skin, spikes with ten thousand pounds of impact force, regardless of the number, couldn’t cause significant harm.