Afterward, Xie Chongguang immediately gave the order!
"I will personally deploy the defenses along the Ice River!"
"If the river defenses are breached and the defenses on both banks can no longer hold, then the Ice River will become a sharp dagger deeply thrust by Cang Wu Kingdom into Ying Shi City!"
Speaking in a solemn tone, Xie Chongguang led a group of generals and rushed out of the hall!
Fang Hongyi gripped his iron sword awkwardly in his left hand, his slightly dark face filled with pain and weakness.
His right arm had been severed at the shoulder. Though the flow of blood had been stemmed after he took medicinal pills and received hasty bandaging, blood still dripped through the thick gauze.
During the previous fierce battle, the warship under his command had been Gu Mu Kingdom's last ship to be destroyed.
He naturally knew that if they lost their warships, the Ice River's defensive line would be utterly incapable of stopping Cang Wu Kingdom's powerful warships from pressing forward.
Once the Ice River was completely lost, Cang Wu Kingdom's warships could drive straight in along the river and penetrate deep into Ying Shi City!
Ying Shi City, once solid as an iron barrel, had been torn open by a severe breach. The consequences it would trigger were extraordinarily grave.
Because he understood those consequences, and because the position he had defended had become the enemy's breakthrough point, the grief-stricken and despairing Fang Hongyi had ordered all his subordinates to set sail while he alone intended to sink into the Ice River alongside the warship.
But his comrades had stopped him.
As a result, during the retreat, the comrade who had dragged him back died.
Even Fang Hongyi himself had had his right arm sliced away by the enemy's