Now.
The vast majority of the troops in Liangzhou City were trapped within the barrier.
Only three camps of troops remained outside!
Those three camps had been forcibly deployed only because of Chen Sanshi's insistence!
Had things gone according to Cao Huan and the others' plans, there would likely not have been a single soldier outside now. All one hundred thousand-plus troops would have been trapped within the Great Wall.
"General Fang!"
Cao Huan sighed with feeling. "Thankfully, you stood your ground. Otherwise, we really would have had no choice but to wait for death."
"Even so, the situation is far from optimistic."
Zhao Wuji spoke.
Even with three camps of troops outside.
They still had to find a way to establish contact.
With the entire sky covered, message-bearing beasts like Sea East Greens could no longer pass through at will.
"Eldest Brother!"
Second Senior Brother Cheng Wei leaped several times until he reached the fog wall. Gathering his mighty blood and qi, he shouted outside, "Lu Ji! Can you still hear us from out there?!"
Beyond the barrier.
Lu Ji and Nie Yuan had led their troops less than twenty li away from the Great Wall when an anomaly suddenly erupted behind them.
They saw it with their own eyes.
From the skies above the Luotian Mountain Range, it was as though the heavens had been torn open. Scarlet blood mist gushed forth, staining the entire Sky Curtain red before descending as a barrier.
Liangzhou City had been trapped!
Neither man nor beast could escape!
"Eldest Brother..."
Nie Yuan reined in his horse. "Wh-what is going on?"
"The Luotian Mountain Range."
Lu Ji quickly reached a conclusion. "I had wondered why Master was not participating in this war at all. So the problem lay at the heart of the