Back then, from high in the air, Xie Chongguang and the others had seen the runes on a section of wall roughly a hundred zhang long destroyed. Under the savage bombardment, that entire stretch of wall had collapsed, smashed by the powerful Cang Wu forces into countless chunks of shattered stone!
Immediately afterward, more than a thousand soldiers of the Cang Wu Kingdom had formed a battle formation and forcibly charged through!
Half an hour had already passed since the breach was made.
Yet when Xie Chongguang and the others arrived at the scene, they discovered that the defenders of Ying Shi City in this direction had not collapsed. Instead, relying on the buildings behind the wall, stones hauled over from nearby, and the bronze-wall-and-iron-rampart resolve of the soldiers, they were blocking the invading Cang Wu forces!
The Cang Wu Kingdom's troops had only pushed roughly two hundred zhang into the city.
Though they were still advancing without pause, their progress was exceedingly slow, almost inching forward one zhang at a time.
On one hand, the defenders of Ying Shi City were extraordinarily steadfast. But it had to be said that the Crimson Flame's earth-shaking performance earlier had also inspired everyone. The flames in their hearts had not gone out; they had only burned more fiercely.
The battle here had naturally reached an utterly feverish pitch. Nearly the entire battlefield had been dyed red by the blood of fallen soldiers. Spiritual light of every color erupted wildly across the cramped field, grinding against one another and producing even more terrifying shockwaves of battle.
The Cang Wu Kingdom's army was cold and powerful beyond measure. Like crazed machines, they carried out the task of advancing, advancing, advancing with cruel obsession, even if every bit of progress could only be measured step