Chapter 604

In just a short second, Lei Yi and the spirit pet Thunder Beast King of the same rank under him had already crossed the hundred-meter distance and arrived directly in front of the wooden gate.

"Not good! Stop him quickly!!!"

The soldiers on the wooden wall hurriedly drew their bows and arrows, wanting to attack Lei Yi below together.

It was already too late.

"Break for me!"

The long spear in his hand began to gather a large amount of spirit power. A powerful spear strike, accompanied by full inertia, a fierce and terrifying spirit power shockwave, like a tornado, destroyed the wooden gate and the obstacles behind the gate.

In an instant, the wooden gate was completely destroyed, and the sand and dust from the destroyed sandbags flew around. The violent explosion startled everyone in the entire fortress.

"Thunder Shadow Legion! Kill for me!!!"

Lei Yi, as the legion commander, took the lead and rushed into the fortress. Facing the four soldiers attacking from left and right, the long spear in his hand swept out from left to right. The fierce air wave directly lifted them away with huge force, and the other Thunder Shadow Legion cavalry followed closely behind, rushing into the fortress one after another.

"Yes!"

"Kill them!"

"Kill!"

Dang dang dang dang~

The alarm bell on the wooden wall was finally sounded by a Taki soldier, but the wooden gate below had already been broken, and cavalry were rushing into the fortress one after another.

"What's the situation?" The highest officer of the fortress hurriedly put on his clothes and ran out, his face gradually filled with terror.

But no soldier around could answer his question.

"General, let's retreat quickly!" A confidant ran over hurriedly.

"The Emperor Tianwu Empire's army has already broken in."

"Good... okay."

The Taki Kingdom general saw his own soldiers being ruthlessly slaughtered by the imperial cavalry. Instead of commanding the soldiers to re-form, he was anxious to escape with his confidant.

He had relied on some relationships with those above to be able to guard the relatively simple Heavenly Danger Fortress Canyon. Who could have thought that the imperial army's speed would be so fast? In the blink of an eye, his fortress was broken.

"Want to escape? Crawl for me."

Lei Yi circled around the fortress, incidentally cutting a wave of grass. When he came to his senses, he had unknowingly arrived at the back door of the fortress and happened to see several soldiers wanting to ride horses to escape. He directly pierced through with a spear, skewering three with one shot!

The Taki general and his confidant were directly finished.

Inside the fortress, there were originally only 3,000 Taki Kingdom soldiers. The fortress built of wood was their only reliance. Now that the wooden gate was broken, the soldiers who arrived one after another were not the opponents of the Thunder Shadow Legion's most elite cavalry, plus the Eternal Night Legion soldiers who arrived later. Within just one hour, the entire fortress fell into a fierce sea of fire, and there were corpses of Taki Kingdom soldiers everywhere.

"Didn't expect... it would be so easy to take down the garrison here at the Heavenly Danger Canyon." Lord Xuan Lord Xuan Wuji, on his warhorse, looked at the fortress burning with raging fire and sighed unexpectedly.

He thought the garrison here would have at least 5,000 people. He didn't expect there were only a mere 3,000. Was this a decision that they wouldn't come? No, perhaps it was just underestimating the importance of the Chilperic Kingdom to the empire.

3,000 people might be able to block a small force of 10,000 in the Heavenly Danger Canyon, but they definitely couldn't stop an army of 400,000 and two eighth-rank combat powers. This was half of the empire's combat power.

The enemy absolutely couldn't imagine it.

"Why care so much? Next, we should be able to encircle the Taki and Leyton Kingdom Allied Forces. The news just received is that the Taki and Leyton Allied Forces have only reached the South City of Silwen..." Lei Yi had learned from a Taki Kingdom soldier before; he seemed to have a high status, a captain level...

The South City of Silwen was already deep in the hinterland of the Chilperic Kingdom, only two days away from the capital, almost the last city of the Chilperic Kingdom besides the capital.

"Hope our rescue is in time, and hope Grand Duke Simon is still alive." Now Lord Xuan Lord Xuan Wuji could only pray for the Chilperic Kingdom to hold on until their arrival; otherwise, everything would be meaningless.

"Yes, now we can only pray." Lei Yi also thought so.

Only Third Imperial Prince Li Chun remained silent, his gaze flickering. The war situation in the Chilperic Kingdom seemed more serious than he had imagined, but this did not affect his plan.

"Order down, the army rests in place for half a day, and prepare to eat at the same time."

"Yes!"

The soldiers took Lei Yi's order and went down to execute it immediately.

"Someone."

"Here!" Lord Xuan Lord Xuan Wuji's deputy general also responded.

"Send a pigeon to the Chilperic capital! Tell them to hold on for five days, and we will arrive!" Lord Xuan Lord Xuan Wuji gritted his teeth and said a relatively extreme number.

Generally speaking, it takes at least seven days to reach the Chilperic capital from the Heavenly Danger Canyon, and even those seven days are all-out, as much as possible day and night.

If they wanted to arrive within five days, I'm afraid the only way would be for the army not to rest at all and march for five days and five nights. But if they encountered an attack by the Taki Kingdom and Leyton Kingdom on the way, the exhausted army would have no room to resist at all.

"Lord Xuan Wuji, five days—wouldn't that be too rushed?" Lei Yi asked, frowning in hesitation. He was inwardly astonished; even if his Thunder Shadow Legion marched day and night, they would barely reach the royal capital in five days, and by then, the legion would likely be too exhausted to fight.

"I know, which is why we must split into two groups."

Lord Xuan Lord Xuan Wuji certainly knew five days was not enough, but to save the Chilperi Kingdom now, they had to ignite the remaining morale of the kingdom's army so they might hold out until reinforcements arrived.

"What do you intend to do?"

As Lei Yi asked, the Third Imperial Prince, Li Chun, also looked over.

"My Evernight Legion's cavalry and your Thunder Shadow Legion can both march day and night. As long as we prepare dry rations in advance and replenish our energy on the road, plus take short rests, five days is absolutely enough to reach the royal capital. However, by then, our combat strength will likely be extremely limited."

"Hmm."

Lei Yi nodded; this was exactly what he was worried about.

But Lord Xuan Lord Xuan Wuji had a follow-up plan.

"Heavenly Danger Gorge is not far from Colin Fortress. My remaining Evernight Legion personnel and the Third Imperial Prince will go together to attack the technology fortress, cut off the logistics supply route for the Taki and Leidon coalition, and then rush over to support you. Without follow-up food supplies, the Taki and Leidon coalition can hold out for at most two days."

"If things go smoothly today, we can take Colin Fortress. Once we cut off the coalition's logistics, they will be worrying about food in three days. By the time you arrive, they will be too hungry to have any strength left, and naturally, they will be nothing to worry about."

"What do you think?"

Lord Xuan Lord Xuan Wuji's plan was undoubtedly the best approach at the moment.

On one hand, the imperial cavalry needed time to reach the destination as quickly as possible; on the other hand, if they did not cut off the coalition's logistics supply route, they could not weaken the coalition's strength, and even a head-on battle would come at a great cost.

War is about achieving the greatest benefit with the minimum cost!

To find the coalition's logistics supply route, the fastest way was to capture the cities along that route. Among the coalition soldiers stationed in Colin Fortress, someone must know the route.

Besides that, if they could run directly into the coalition's supply convoy, they would naturally find out. However, at this moment, heaven knows where the coalition's supply vehicles have reached.

To be safe, they would split into two groups.

Even if they couldn't find the logistics route, they had to start cutting off the enemy's food supply lines from now on.

The news of Heavenly Danger Gorge being breached would reach the coalition's ears in a few days, and they should have some misgivings.

They should also be very clear about the Empire's stance; if they insisted on destroying the Chilperi Kingdom, they would have to pay a heavy price!