Chapter 212: The Fall of the Fortress Wall
Chapter 212: The Fall of the Fortress Wall
September 25, 2017
From the moment the elite family alliance entered the fortress, Gao Shun and Pan Feng each had their own combat missions.
Pan Feng's task was clear: to lead the charge and break through the enemy lines with thousands of elite family alliance troops, and eradicate the mountain camp.
Gao Shun, bringing up the rear of the formation, certainly couldn't sit idle. He had a mission of his own: to capture the fortress wall.
As Pan Feng led his troops to within hundreds of meters of Lu Hai Kong, Gao Shun began his assault on the wall. There were over a dozen entrances leading up to the wall, each with a spiral staircase more than a meter wide.
These staircases were relatively easy to defend; a dozen or so soldiers blocking the entrance would make it nearly impossible for those below to ascend.
Gao Shun had only about five hundred troops, while the wall was defended by the First Battalion, including several members of the Flame Battalion and a hundred or so soldiers from the Second Battalion.
In terms of sheer strength, Gao Shun's side was at a disadvantage. His soldiers' individual prowess couldn't compare to the First Battalion, which included dozens of Flame Battalion members, and even the Second Battalion, with their simplified version of the Wild Wolf Body Tempering Fist, was no less formidable than Gao Shun's troops. Moreover, Gao Shun was on the offensive.
Under normal circumstances, with the presence of the First and Second Battalions' hundreds of warriors, it would take several thousand soldiers continuously attacking for a couple of hours to capture this wall.
But these soldiers were unlucky; they had the misfortune of encountering Gao Shun, a true maniac.
Despite being at a disadvantage from every angle, when the offensive began, it was Zhang Yi's side that quickly crumbled. Zhang Yi couldn't understand what was happening. Gao Shun's troops weren't exceptionally strong, so why couldn't they hold their ground?
If it were Gao Shun, the historical warrior who had broken through the threshold of seventy strength after months of arduous training, leading the charge, it would be understandable. But it was the Shanwu County troops who took the initiative.
"These guys are like madmen!"
Even Zhang Yi, a Data NPC, couldn't help but exclaim, revealing the sheer madness of Gao Shun's soldiers in battle.
The only ones who could match Gao Shun's soldiers were the Second Battalion warriors. These rookies, many of whom had never seen bloodshed, faced the frenzied assault of Gao Shun's troops with not a hint of fear but rather an extreme, passionate, and wild charge.
The dozen entrances leading up to the wall became a dozen meat grinders. After just ten minutes of combat, corpses littered the ground at each entrance.
On the wall, the clanging of weapons, the sight of blood and flesh flying, and angry roars filled the air, but cries of agony were rare.
Every Second Battalion warrior, upon receiving a fatal blow, knowing their death was certain, didn't scream in agony. Instead, they uttered the same words they had heard on their first day in the mountain camp.
"In life, we are the Huaxia People; in death, we are the Huaxia Ghosts!"
In contrast, Gao Shun's soldiers, as they faced their demise, shouted, "The spirit of the battle array, death without life!" as their final battle cry.
As these two resilient forces clashed, it was the Second Battalion that eventually succumbed.
It wasn't that their faith was wavering; on the contrary, their beliefs were the most steadfast. The soldiers under Gao Shun's command were clearly far from the legendary standards of the Dianwei Battalion, but with Gao Shun's presence, the final victory was still theirs.
When the second battalion of close-range fighters was nearly annihilated, Gao Shun's soldiers directly charged up the fortress wall.
In reality, Lu Haikong had been making a critical mistake without realizing it—separating his troops by their specialties.
On the surface, Lu Haikong's approach seemed reasonable, with clear divisions of labor that could better harness the potential and combat capabilities of different units. However, this approach also led to a fatal issue, as seen with the first battalion.
After the second battalion of close-range fighters was wiped out, the remaining first battalion, despite each soldier possessing a strength of 15, lost nearly 90% of their combat effectiveness against Gao Shun's advancing forces due to their inability to utilize their bows and arrows. The first battalion could only hold on with the support of several Flame Battalion members.
The Flame Battalion members were indeed powerful, and it was true that none of them had a strength below 40. But could they truly overpower Gao Shun?
Initially, they managed to hold off Gao Shun's soldiers, but when Gao Shun personally intervened, the situation reversed immediately.
In an environment like the fortress wall, the Flame Battalion members couldn't utilize their numerical advantage to collaborate. As a result, they could only be defeated one by one by Gao Shun.
Gao Shun, with a strength over 70 in his prime, was no longer the same man who had been outmaneuvered by Lu Haikong's tactics, taking advantage of environmental and numerical superiority, and even defeated through ambush. His strength was overwhelming, and he single-handedly annihilated dozens of Flame Battalion members.
According to the Flame Battalion's doctrine, they should have abandoned this losing battle, but to protect the remaining forces, the usually astute Flame Battalion members chose to sacrifice themselves, one by one, under Gao Shun's blade, to buy time.
Fortunately, the Flame Battalion's sacrifice was not in vain. Using the time they bought, Zhang Yi led the remaining Flame Battalion members and the first battalion to descend from the fortress wall, preserving the strength of the Mountain Camp.
However, this also meant that the fortress wall ultimately fell into Gao Shun's hands.
Gao Shun's combat mission should have been complete by now, and he was preparing to take a well-deserved rest after capturing the fortress wall. But shortly after his victory, Pan Feng's defeated troops fled towards him. Seeing this, Gao Shun's eyes flashed with determination, and his expression revealed his concern.
"It seems General Pan Feng has failed. This is going to be tricky. We must reorganize the fleeing troops below."
Gao Shun was well aware of Pan Feng's capabilities and was surprised that someone of Pan Feng's strength could be defeated. Gao Shun quickly descended from the fortress wall to reorganize the fleeing troops, just as Pan Feng would have done.
As Gao Shun was about to regroup the troops, Lu Haikong arrived with the second battalion.
The Elite Family Legion, which had been in disarray, seemed to be reorganizing once again when Lu Haikong faced their leader. In that instant, Lu Haikong realized who it was.
"It's you!"
(End of Chapter)
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