Chapter 1304

This guess, once spoken aloud, was very likely to shake the army's morale.

At the same time, this was also a grand gamble for Lord Xuan Wuji—gambling on what the enemy's method truly was. A hundred thousand of the Eternal Night Legion were garrisoned at Colin Fortress; without some extraordinary means, it would be hard to overturn Colin Fortress. Whether such a means could wipe out the garrison inside Colin Fortress in one stroke—he dared not imagine it, and even less did he want to imagine it.

Those were all comrades he had once fought shoulder to shoulder with!

But he knew the importance of Colin Fortress was beyond doubt. Once Colin Fortress was overturned by the enemy in an instant, it would mean the allied forces' retreat was cut off, and their own rear would be encircled.

Counting on the Cilperi Kingdom was hopeless; they had already been badly battered, their fighting strength limited.

The Cilperi Kingdom being able to provide them with follow-up provisions was already the limit. The allied forces and the newly arrived unknown army—surely their target was them!

"The Western kingdoms wish to destroy our Emperor Tianwu; for a hundred years their treacherous intent has never died!"

When Lord Xuan Wuji sighed, a flash of sorrow passed through his eyes, which the Third Imperial Prince Li Chun noticed.

He vaguely guessed that Lord Xuan Wuji seemed to know more, but he could not think of it now, and instead felt a bit of panic in his heart.

The matter of the Cilperi Kingdom had already far exceeded his expectations. Retreating at this time would surely make his Imperial Father and the other contenders look down on him; if he wanted to climb to that position, he had to fight for it.

"Ming Ji!"

Biting his lip, Li Chun looked toward the woman beside him.

She was wrapped entirely in a black dress, the lower half a long flared skirt, a pair of black formal shoes on her feet, a long black veil over her face that concealed her features while also covering her neck; her entire body, one might say, revealed only a pair of dark, gleaming pupils.

"Your subordinate is here…"

"Besides Xiong Ba, take the others and go reinforce Colin Fortress—at the fastest speed! If necessary, you may use that!"

The woman named Ming Ji showed a flash of shock in her eyes, then quickly nodded.

"As you command, Your Highness!"

Afterward, Ming Ji took three others, mounted their horses, and swiftly departed.

Watching them leave, Li Chun felt a slight relief in his heart. With that group's reinforcement, even if everything was completely exposed it did not matter—as long as the merit outweighed the fault, there was no problem at all.

"Commander Xuan, Ming Ji is a rare summoning-type mage; she can summon some strange beasts. With her at Colin Fortress, I believe she should be able to help hold out for a time."

"Your Highness is most thoughtful." A faint smile squeezed onto Lord Xuan Wuji's bitter face; he did not mind.

In the face of large-scale war, the strength of an individual was very limited.

Seeing the smile on Lord Xuan Wuji's face, the Third Imperial Prince Li Chun also put on a matching smile, but in his heart he was truly aching. Those so-called "strange beasts" were only a pretext; in truth, they were the beastification experiments he and Tang Li had carried out in Beast Orchid City. The experimental sites were naturally more than one. The follow-up experiments had been forced to halt because of Master Jianong's suicide, but the personnel and specimens left behind from those experiments were still a precious asset, still capable of maintaining and producing beastification potions and beastified warriors.

So far, there were as many as 3,000 controllable beastified warriors, and nearly 10,000 uncontrollable beast-warriors. The original plan had been to use these uncontrollable beast-warriors to create unrest within the country, while he himself would play the hero who crushed the unrest.

Now that circumstances had suddenly changed, there was no time to worry about the follow-up plan—first, get through the present crisis.

Colin Fortress, another new day—but this day was not a beautiful one for Yan Liu, because before the Colin Fortress he was garrisoning, fifteen ten-thousand-man formations stood in neat ranks.

In the distance fluttered the kingdom's banners; he remembered which kingdom that banner belonged to—it was precisely the Holy Kingdom, the strongest among the Western Regions kingdoms! It was said the Holy Kingdom was also the leading kingdom and the faith kingdom among the Western Regions kingdoms.

The entire Western Regions worshipped one Holy King, who seemed to be the very first king of the Holy Kingdom! Yan Fei could not understand what was good about worshipping a dead man—admiration could be spoken of, but worshipping a dead man? Could that person be resurrected because of it?

Of course, he had actually always wanted to ask about this, but had never had the chance.

"…General Yan, it seems someone from the other side is coming over."

"I know… stay on alert!"

What his subordinate reported, Yan Liu naturally could see.

The other side had only one fat-headed, big-bellied fellow riding a horse, wearing a tall hat and a lavish formal dress, slowly riding toward the fortress from the command formation at the center of the army array. As expected, it should be some sort of envoy come to urge surrender.

But on their side, relying on Colin Fortress, they still had a hundred thousand elite soldiers! They were not necessarily no match! Watching the enemy's envoy steadily approach Colin Fortress, Yan Liu's face could not help but twitch once; in truth, he rather wanted to laugh, because the other side had not brought any large siege equipment at all.

One hundred and fifty thousand men—besides one mage corps, four cavalry corps, four heavy armor corps, and two archer corps, the rest were spearmen corps.