"For the Emperor!!!"
Amid the battle cries, the Imperial Guard soldiers' gazes were resolute as they gripped their crystal-iron spears and thrust them in unison at the charging greenskin soldiers!
In an instant, the spears were stained with blood!
The soldiers of both armies soon became locked in a brutal melee, and the battle fully erupted at that moment.
At that very moment, Zhou Xu, stationed behind the battle formation and confirming the situation while directing the fighting, could not help feeling an intense surge of relief.
He was relieved that Zhou Chongshan had desperately held this canyon pass and prevented it from falling into the greenskins' hands.
This naturally defensible terrain, easy to hold and difficult to attack, gave them, as the defenders, a tremendous advantage.
After their previous battle had deprived the enemy of the ogres—their ace for breaking through a deadlock—they now only needed a small number of troops to block the entrance with a spear formation, allowing them to repel the greenskin army's attacks with relative ease.
Under the cover of night, several waves of attacks by the greenskin army were all beaten back by their spear formation.
Restricted by the narrow space at the canyon entrance, the enemy's numerical advantage was completely useless at this moment.
Zhou Xu had originally thought that the greenskins, having seen the situation clearly, would choose to withdraw for the time being.
That would undoubtedly have been a good thing for them. After all, they were not in good shape, and their main reinforcements had yet to arrive. They had no desire to fight the enemy at all.
However, what Zhou Xu had not expected was that something in the enemy's greenskin army had apparently gone haywire. They simply refused to retreat! Their entire offensive showed no sign of stopping!