No matter how much Ou Lin and Wu Yongda schemed, they still had to worry about the positions they held.
They knew perfectly well that if they didn't give it everything they had this time, these might be their last days in those positions.
The two forces still had some fighting power. Their earlier failures hadn't been purely due to a lack of ability; their negative, lackadaisical attitude had also been a major factor.
Once they committed themselves fully, and given that the strongholds under their command were widely considered the easiest, they could still do some damage.
The 93rd Army and the Independent Brigade had also held up their end, launching fierce assaults on the strongholds assigned to them. For a time, fighting erupted all around Yun City, with flames and gunfire everywhere.
The Yangcun Town Stronghold brought in another round of bombardments and kept pounding the stone monument's base. In the end, they did manage to make some headway.
Without the spiritual energy supplied by the Bizarre Tree's network of roots, and without the protection of the formation's wards, the stone monument bases, though incredibly sturdy, were eventually blasted open by the force of the terrifying bombardment.
With the fall of the Yangcun Town Stronghold, the counteroffensive in Yun City officially entered a whole new phase.
Without the Yangcun Town Stronghold causing trouble, the agents and tree spirits at the other strongholds, though resisting to the death, had lost the protection of the Bizarre Tree's roots and their guiding force. In the end, they found themselves steadily pushed back.
Of course, even as they lost ground, most of the agents and tree spirits remained fanatically loyal. They dug in at the most defensible points of their respective strongholds and waged a war of attrition against the human forces.