Chapter 754: Chapter 306: Rebel Collaborators, Chaos and Opportunism, Long Mountain Changes Hands
The second year of Great Xia, the sixth day of the seventh month, at the stroke of midnight.
The wind and snow cut like knives, the cold seeping into the earth.
The Long Mountain garrison resounded with roars at this moment.
"The rebels have broken into the main building!"
"Long Mountain will not retreat, brothers, even in death we must hold back the Xia Army!"
"We can’t let them break in, the leader’s reinforcements will arrive soon."
"Long Mountain has fallen, surrender and be spared!"
"The Xia Army is trying to disrupt our morale, brothers, hold them off."
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On the eastern outer perimeter of the Long Mountain garrison, there are hundreds of five-cornered iron piles with an eight-meter length on each side.
These iron piles extend from the ground, with just the parts exposed above ground standing fifteen meters high. Each pile’s interior is connected to a thick iron chain, evidently used to control its expansion and contraction underground.
Hundreds of iron piles extend north and south from the mountainside, aligning to connect on the eastern outer perimeter, forming a fan-shaped iron stake wall twelve kilometers long, firmly guarding the Long Mountain garrison within.
Regrettably, at this moment on the northern side, close to the mountainside, two iron piles failed to extend from the ground; on the left side of those two, another iron pile emerged only halfway, with the exposed part bizarrely bending inward a great deal.
Each five-cornered iron pile measures eight meters on one side, and with three piles failing to emerge from the ground, it equates to opening a twenty-meter-wide breach in an otherwise impenetrable wall.
Surrounding the gap in the iron piles, the ground is littered with corpses, an intense stench of blood almost forming a tangible mist in the air, causing the snowflakes falling from the sky to be stained red, further intensifying the piercing chill in this world.
Evidently, this breach just inflicted a devastating blow to Long Mountain.
A swarm of people had already charged through the gap.
The entire Long Mountain garrison echoed with the sounds of slaughter and roars.
Over ten thousand Earth-digging Realm fighters in civilian clothes with sharp weapons were frenziedly advancing toward the core main building of the garrison, while thousands of retreating Longshan Garrison soldiers attempted to block their path.
Despite more and more Logging Realm personnel and even ordinary people emerging around the main building to fight for their lives, they could not stop the retreat on Long Mountain’s side. The attackers were getting closer to the main building, soon just less than five hundred meters away.
Moreover, voices continually shouted "Surrender and be spared" from the attacking side, visibly eroding the Long Mountain defenders’ morale. Many common people started fleeing into the garrison’s housing units, and as signs of retreat appeared, they quickly spread among the crowd, accelerating in speed.
In contrast to the raging battle cries within the garrison, the outer perimeter remained eerily quiet. Near a tall building close to the iron stake wall, several hundred soldiers clad in pale golden battle armor gathered.
However, these individuals were not in the best condition. Most of their war armor was in tatters, more than half of them bore injuries, and dozens lay on the ground gasping heavily, clearly in critical condition.
Yet, despite this, their faces showed unparalleled excitement. They intermittently looked toward the Longshan Main Building, occasionally glancing at the top floor of the nearby tall building, their expressions filled with excitement, their pupils brimming with exhilaration.
"We really breached it, we actually... breached Long Mountain!"
"It was the leader, the leader was too strong. Our insider couldn’t initially succeed, but the leader managed to bend that iron pile directly, allowing us to enter smoothly and help the insider release the other two piles; otherwise, the large army outside couldn’t have come in."
"Indeed, the leader fought against overwhelming odds, severed Li Tiancheng’s arm, killed Li Xuankong, and gravely injured three Cold Resistance Level opponents. If it weren’t for the leader holding back Long Mountain’s experts, how could Yuwen Sizheng and others focus on leading us to storm the city?"
"There was an insider in Long Mountain, I guessed it. Recently Hanqiong saved so many people in Long Mountain and Zhaoyang, yet how could the Earth-digging Realm of Changning, Song Yuan, and Yucheng suddenly defect and desert Long Mountain?"
"I just heard that during the Longyou conference in April, the leaders of these three houses were all killed by Long Mountain, and they were forcibly annexed by Long Mountain. Many loyalists were imprisoned in Long Mountain’s dungeon; they were internally dissatisfied. Our insider quietly released them. After convincing this group, the more than three thousand Earth-digging Realm fighters who had already surrendered from the other three houses quickly defected and joined us."
"They truly accomplished a great feat; who is this insider? They’re incredibly strong!"
"Four days ago, among the over five thousand people Zhaoyang brought to Long Mountain, more than three hundred were prearranged by Lord Hou Jing, and there seemed to be a Cold Resistance Level hidden among them."
"Not just this group, Long Mountain also had two, named Yang Zhong and Li Hu, who seemed important. That Li Hu was captured by Li Tiancheng, and Yang Zhong is now upstairs, just summoned by the leader."
"Such merits are tremendous, the leader might heavily reward him."
"With the defeat of Long Mountain, won’t all of Longyou belong to our Great Xia in the future?"
"Hahaha, Long Mountain, mainly Long Mountain, the three resource regions of all Longyou, from now on, belong solely to our Great Xia!"
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Unlike the joyous enthusiasm of the Cloud Dragon Army downstairs.
Upstairs on the top floor, Liu Yuan and Peng Bo stood guard outside a chamber door, their expressions also excited but clearly suppressing their emotions, consistently maintaining silence, only occasionally glancing inside.
Behind them stood Yang Zhong, his face incredibly anxious.