Chapter 1319

No!

The Holy Son smiled gently and shook his head; that special voice and charm sent a shiver straight through the Holy Kingdom's commander, emptying his body and mind, so that the only thing he could hear by his ear was that single voice.

"The enemy is too powerful. The Holy King has once again displayed his might, summoning Holy Fire to baptize the enemy, thereby raising the soldiers' morale."

"Everything is the Holy King's arrangement…"

"Did you remember?"

The Holy Kingdom's commander slowly nodded.

"This is all the Holy King's arrangement." The vacant gaze cleared once more, and fury surfaced within it.

In a valley far from the Fortress of Colin.

The warhorses beneath Ming Ji and the other three were wrapped in a pale green magical halo, striding as if on wings—each step carried them nearly two meters. Only at such divine speed could Ming Ji and the others approach the Fortress of Colin in a single night; they estimated less than half a day remained before reaching it.

Before the Fortress of Colin.

After the commander and the Holy Son issued their orders, the Holy Kingdom's army began to withdraw directly.

Yan Liu, watching through a spyglass from the fortress wall, saw it clearly: the enemy had not fully withdrawn, only returned to camp and started cooking fires; he estimated they would not attack at noon.

As for the afternoon, he did not know!

As for evening, he did not know either.

But when that time truly came, even if it meant death they would have to hold the enemy back. If they could endure just one more night, they could create an opportunity for Lord Xuan.

Had Lord Xuan and the Thunder Shadow Corps joined up yet? And could they successfully take the other side of Nancheng? Lord Xuan Wuji and the others, advancing at full speed toward Nancheng, were naturally drawing ever closer to their destination; in just one more day they could link up with Lei Yi's Thunder Shadow Corps.

And the Thunder Shadow Corps should be about to reach the vicinity of Duoduo Luo City!

The closest city to Nancheng, apart from the royal capital, was Duoduo Luo City. Ever since the allied forces of the Taji Kingdom and the Lei Dun Kingdom occupied Nancheng, they had transferred all the soldiers from Duoduo Luo City over.

Now it was an empty city. Apart from some battered civilians, they knew full well that the soldiers in Duoduo Luo City could not withstand the Imperial Army's attack at all; rather than waste troops, it was better to pool their limited forces together.

In the afternoon, Yan Liu had people personally keep watch on the city wall, fearing the Holy Kingdom's army might make some unusual move.

For instance, some spatial mirror-image suddenly appearing above the Fortress of Colin—but in fact he was overthinking. Under such tense vigilance, this continued the entire afternoon. After barely resting a few hours, he heard soldiers bring word that the Holy Kingdom's army had made an unusual move and seemed to be preparing to dispatch troops to form up.

At the same time, soldiers reported that four people had also appeared behind the Fortress of Colin, said to be reinforcements sent by the Third Imperial Prince Li Chun. Yan Liu personally went to check their tokens and then let them stay.

He had seen these four before, but had not taken them to heart. An increase of merely four people—even if they were strong—would at most let them hold the city a little longer, nothing more.

Tonight would be a sleepless night!

"General Yan Liu, is there anything we Mennenggou Gang can help with?"

The order Ming Ji had received was to assist the corps in defending the city, but having only just arrived, she discovered that the Saidecheng Sect of the Fortress of Colin was gone? A huge breach had also appeared, and the city wall as a whole was split into pieces, looking as if it could not hold up much longer.

A large number of corpses had piled up at the breach—some theirs, some the enemy's—but relying on corpses alone to plug the gap was unrealistic.

They had come to help, not to throw their lives away.

"Just exercise your individual abilities."

Yan Liu glanced at the four, then withdrew his gaze to look elsewhere, unimpressed.

"Friendly reminder: please obey my command later… the enemy will use large-scale magic crystal cannon bombardments, very easy to die from."

"Magic crystal cannon? A mobile one?" Ming Ji was inwardly shocked, and the astonishment showed plainly on her face.

If it was a magic crystal cannon bombardment, then the reason such a huge breach had appeared in the Fortress of Colin also made sense.

As the strongest weapon of the era—the magic crystal cannon!

It was not something human power could contend with. Even an eighth-tier powerhouse, if focused-fired upon by more than ten magic crystal cannons, would fall on the spot.

Probably only a nation-protecting ninth-tier super powerhouse could ignore magic crystal cannon attacks.

"No. The enemy used spatial magic to teleport the magic crystal cannon's attack directly above us, so before the battle starts later, we must withdraw from the city wall's range, or we may die!"

"The enemy's third wave of attack will definitely first bombard the fortress wall! Can we hold it?"

"Everyone evacuate the city wall immediately!"

The moment an anomaly appeared in the sky, Yan Liu immediately ordered everyone to withdraw.

Before long, another spatial mirror-image appeared above the Fortress of Colin's wall, but this mirror-image was fully one-fifth smaller than the morning one, and it also formed more slowly than the previous one.

Clearly, the earlier casualties among the mage corps had to some extent limited the size and formation speed of the spatial mirror-image.

If they fought to the death to kill those mages, or reduced the mage corps' numbers as much as possible, would that amount to shattering the enemy's so-called magic cannon bombardment plan from another angle?