On the city wall several zhang high.
Chen Sanshi did not wait for the enemy army to reach the city. Instead, he rose abruptly into the air amid surging flames. When the black-tide-like enemy army was still roughly five hundred paces from the walls, he crashed down like a meteor from beyond the heavens.
Rumble—
After a violent tremor that shook the mountains and earth, a massive meteor crater remained outside the city gates. Broken earth flew everywhere, sand and stones filled the sky, and amid the billowing smoke stood a black-armored figure wreathed by a Fire Dragon. Runes flowed across his armor, shining brilliantly.
"Anyone who takes one step forward—"
"Dies!!!"
That single word, die, was like an arrow piercing the heart.
It actually brought the advancing steps of two hundred thousand troops to an abrupt halt. Heavy siege engines such as battering rams and Cloud Ladders stopped dead as though they had crashed into a wall of bronze and iron.
One man, one spear.
He had shouted two hundred thousand troops into retreat!
Among those two hundred thousand soldiers, not one dared take another step forward!
"There are only seven thousand defenders in this city. You have merely two hundred thousand men—why have you not surrendered?!"
Chen Sanshi spoke again, his voice like Thunderous Roar:
"We were once brothers-in-arms!
"It is only because the court is muddleheaded and treacherous ministers hold power that we have been forced to turn our blades against one another again!
"This king has no wish to slaughter. Why not lay down your weapons, turn around, and join my Northern Liang iron cavalry in fighting our way to the outskirts of Chang'an, restoring a bright and clear world beneath heaven?!"
The battlefield fell deathly silent.
The Central Plains soldiers looked at one another, then