When a section of the South City Wall collapsed, the Huan Kingdom Army began withdrawing along the entire front, retreating either to military strongpoints or to the four city walls to occupy favorable terrain and intercept the enemy.
Although many China Otherworlders and Jianghu patriots refused to follow the Huan Kingdom's orders, using terrain and buildings to wage guerrilla warfare against the enemy, the Huan Army neither pressured nor commanded them to comply. After all, these guerrilla fighters could also greatly pin down and weaken the enemy, serving much the same purpose as the arrow towers, archery bastions, city walls, and other military strongpoints the Huan Army held.
But as more and more enemies arrived and military strongpoints fell one after another, the Huan Army kept withdrawing and tightening its defensive lines. Those China Otherworlders and Jianghu patriots also had no choice but to fight as they retreated, staining the long streets with blood.
Within a single day, roughly twenty million beast troops poured into the city, occupying an area spanning over a thousand li. That was already with the king-grade city walls and countless military strongpoints inside the city fiercely holding them back. Otherwise, even more beast troops would have entered and occupied an even larger area.
As for the Bird Army, although the Investiture of the Gods Hall had destroyed or pinned down nearly five million of its troops, that amounted to only a quarter of its fighting strength. Roughly fifteen million bird troops still ravaged the skies, like a horde of demons dancing wild, constantly swooping down to harvest the lives of the Huan Kingdom's soldiers and civilians.
Several li outside the South City Wall, roughly seventy thousand elite warriors with fierce, powerful auras had gathered and stood on guard.
They were fifty thousand Luolong Guards from