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On the East Gate tower, the Penglai general, who was personally directing the defense and resisting the fierce attack of Zhang Fei's "main force", was furious when he received an urgent report that the grain and fodder in the southwest valley had been burned. He smashed a crystal ball next to him, which was used to observe the battlefield, to pieces with one palm!
His face was ashen, his chest heaved violently, and his eyes burned with flames of humiliation and rage.

The offensive from the east was so fierce that he thought the enemy's main force was all there, but he never expected that the enemy had such a treacherous and vicious trick up their sleeve, directly piercing his logistical lifeline!
"We cannot let that cavalry unit get away with it!"

We must not allow the fire to spread and completely destroy all hope!

The commander forcefully suppressed the blood that was about to spurt out and roared hoarsely at the deputy commander beside him.

"Immediately! Draw troops from the reserves... no, detach a portion from the garrison at the east gate! Transfer five thousand, no, eight thousand elite troops! Get them out of the city at top speed and head to the southwest valley!"

First, investigate the situation and salvage any supplies that haven't been destroyed yet; second, catch up with that damned cavalry! I'll tear them to pieces to vent my hatred!

"General! The enemy's offensive at the east gate is fierce. If we divide our forces now, I fear..."

The lieutenant looked troubled and tried to dissuade him.

"Excuting an order!"

The commander interrupted him with a roar, his eyes fierce.

"The East Gate is protected by an evil formation, and I'm personally overseeing it, so it won't fall anytime soon! But if we lose our supplies, the entire army will be wiped out! Go now!"

Military orders are absolute, and despite his unease, the deputy general immediately turned around and went to mobilize troops.

Soon, the side gate of the east gate of Guzang quietly opened, and an elite force of eight thousand men from Penglai poured out of the city gate like a flood bursting its banks, rushing in a frenzy towards the area in the southwest that was still engulfed in flames.

All of this—the enemy forces at the East Gate being forced to divert their troops to reinforce their supplies after they were burned, and the subtle shifts in morale among the defenders on the city walls—

Every single detail fell into the eyes of Gu Rubing, who remained hidden in the northwest corner, calmly observing the entire battle like a cold, unyielding rock.

A cold, sharp smile curved at the corners of his mouth.

He knew that the opportunity he had painstakingly created and had been waiting for was almost here!

His gaze, like the most precise hourglass, was firmly fixed on the section of the city wall in the northwest corner.

The creeping, eerie moss covering the surface seemed to slow its movement slightly, and the flickering light of the runes was gradually and irreversibly dimming and fading—a process he keenly observed.

This is exactly what the intelligence obtained by the scouts at the cost of their lives described: the trough of the cyclical fluctuations in the evil array's energy, a sign that it is about to arrive!
Meanwhile, the feint attack from the east gate continued with tremendous ferocity.

Zhang Fei's troops launched wave after wave of fierce attacks, fearlessly charging forward. The massive battering rams repeatedly crashed against the light screen at the east gate, and the siege ladders were pushed down, with arrows raining down like a storm.

Despite the rising casualty figures, they successfully pinned the main attention and the vast majority of the defensive forces of the Guzang garrison to the eastern city wall!
All is ready except for the opportunity!
Gu Rubing slowly raised his right hand, which remained steady without trembling.

Behind him, all the elite soldiers who were lying in ambush, including generals such as Guan Yu and Ma Chao, held their breath, gripped their weapons tightly, their muscles tense like bowstrings brimming with power, and stared intently at the hand that was about to decide their fate.

When it strikes, it will be a devastating blow, marking the start of the all-out offensive that will determine the fate of Guzang and even the entire Liangzhou!
Thick smoke shot up from the southwest, almost dyeing half the sky an ominous dark red, and faint sounds of commotion and anxious shouts came from within the city, carried on the wind.

This inevitably caused some confusion and sluggishness in the command system of the Guzang City garrison, which was already on edge due to the fierce attack on the East Gate.

The contradictions in information and the hesitation in decision-making were magnified at this moment.

All of this was captured perfectly by Gu Rubing's sharp, hawk-like eyes.

His entire focus was now on the section of the city wall directly in front of him—the northwest corner of Guzang City!

There, the eerie light that had been flowing steadily was becoming increasingly dim and thinner, just as the intelligence that scout captain Li Gan had obtained at the cost of his life had accurately described!
The strange runes engraved on the walls, which channeled energy like the blood vessels of a living creature, began to flicker with unusually slow and sluggish frequency, as if an old man on his deathbed was struggling to breathe, or as if the energy source supporting the entire system had truly fallen into some kind of periodic depletion at this moment!

Not only in the northwest corner, but also as the energy at this critical point rapidly diminished, the translucent evil array shield that enveloped Guzang City also produced clear, violent fluctuations like water ripples, with its light flickering and emitting a low, seemingly unbearable hum!

The time has come! A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
Gu Rubing's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and he no longer hesitated!

He suddenly drew his sword from his waist. The long sword, weathered by war and gleaming with a cold light, drew a resolute arc in the air. The tip of the sword, with an indomitable spirit, pointed firmly at the northwest corner of the city wall, where the light was dimmest and the fluctuations were most intense!
"All troops—charge!!"

With a thunderous roar, the elite main force behind him, which had been poised to unleash its full killing intent and fighting spirit, suddenly raised its ferocious head like a primordial dragon awakening from its slumber!

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Unlike the war drums that were somewhat bluffing during the feint attack at the East Gate, the drums beating outside the Northwest Corner now were heavy, deep, and full of primal power and a death wish—the drums of a general offensive!

The deafening drumbeats, seemingly striking directly at everyone's heart, instantly drowned out all the noise from the east, becoming the sole main melody on this bloody battlefield!

"Hansheng!"

Gu Rubing's voice remained clearly audible amidst the drumbeats.

Huang Zhong, who had already led the archer battalion to the best firing positions, moved upon receiving the order!

His beard bristled with rage, and his hands, as steady as rock, suddenly drew the bow, and a specially made warding arrow, its shaft engraved with cinnabar talismans, rested firmly on the bowstring.

The target was the black-robed sorcerers on the northwest corner of the city wall who were the first to react and were frantically waving their staffs, trying to chant incantations to reinforce the formation!
"Whoosh—!" The bowstring rang out, like a thunderclap splitting the sky!
The warding arrow transformed into a golden-red streak that was almost invisible to the naked eye, like a shooting star chasing the moon, carrying a sharp whistling sound that tore everything apart, and traversed a distance of hundreds of steps.

With an almost fateful precision, it pierced the head of a black-robed sorcerer who had just raised his staff and whose fel energy was just beginning to gather!
"Pfft—Boom!"

The arrow contained a special power to ward off evil spirits, which was instantly unleashed!

The sorcerer didn't even have time to let out a short scream before his head exploded like a watermelon smashed by a heavy hammer!
Red, white, and black filth mixed with broken bone fragments flew everywhere, terrifying the surrounding sorcerers to the point of utter panic!
This is just the beginning!
"Boo! Hah! Hah!"

Huang Zhong's bowstring twanged repeatedly, and several more Evil-Slaying Arrows, like death warrants, flew out of the bowstring with a shrill whistle!

The archers behind him also drew their bows at the same time, and a rain of arrows poured down on the city walls like locusts!

Those sorcerers and defenders who attempted to activate their evil spells or maneuver their ballistae were immediately met with devastating blows! Screams rose and fell as the evil magical light that was trying to gather on the city walls was repeatedly interrupted and extinguished!
Several ballistae, which had just been adjusted and aimed at the assault troops below the city, were shot in the throat by accurate heavy arrows before they could even fire, or had their key mechanisms jammed, rendering them completely useless!
The long-range suppression force on the northwest corner of the city wall was temporarily suppressed by the precise strikes of Huang Zhong's archer battalion!
"Yun Chang! Yi De! Meng Qi!"

Seizing this fleeting opportunity, Gu Rubing once again gave a stern order!
"Order!"

Guan Yu, who could no longer contain himself, let out a deafening roar, and his powerful inner force surged out like a volcanic eruption!

He spurred his horse forward, and the Green Dragon Crescent Blade let out a high-pitched dragon roar that reached the clouds. The blade burst forth with an unprecedented, dazzling green light that almost burned people's eyes!
A colossal, condensed azure blade of energy instantly materialized, carrying the supreme will to annihilate everything and cleave through chaos. It tore through the air, emitting a piercing shriek, and fiercely slashed towards the city wall area where the evil array's light was dimmer and the fluctuations were most intense!

"Open it for me!"

Zhang Fei unleashed his fury at the same time, his roar like that of a savage beast so powerful it hurt people's eardrums!

His muscles bulged and twisted like dragons, and he poured his violent power into the eighteen-foot spear without reservation!
The dark spearhead emitted a solid black light over a foot long. He used the spear as an indestructible siege hammer, and man and horse became one. With an unstoppable momentum that could shatter mountains and split rocks, he crashed into the same target like a black meteor!

At the same time, Ma Chao led his most valiant Xiliang cavalry, like a torrent of steel bursting its banks, ignoring the sporadic attacks that might fall from above, and charged straight to the foot of the city wall at an astonishing speed!
The cavalrymen threw out the makeshift ladders and ropes they had prepared beforehand, hooked onto the battlements, then abandoned their horses and began to climb on foot, steel knives in their mouths, braving the falling arrows and stones!
There was no fear in their eyes, only a frenzied fighting spirit and a thirst for victory!

"boom!!!!!!!"

Guan Yu's earth-shattering azure blade energy and Zhang Fei's domineering black impact struck the crumbling evil array light screen almost simultaneously!

The combined power of the two men's lifetimes, along with their strongest attack seizing the moment when the evil formation's energy was at its lowest point, produced a qualitative change!

The already dim, thin, and violently fluctuating evil array light screen emitted a deafening tearing sound, like thousands of pieces of glass shattering at the same time!
The light screen twisted and deformed wildly, and the runes on it were quickly annihilated and disintegrated like snowflakes thrown into boiling water!
He held on for less than a breath.

"Bang——!!!"

An earth-shattering bang!

The eerie light curtain that shrouded the northwest corner of the city wall finally succumbed to the immense force and shattered!
It transformed into countless shimmering, rapidly dissipating energy fragments, revealing the true city wall behind it, now freed from the protection of the evil array and covered in wriggling moss!
The gap has been cleared!

"Follow me and kill us!"

Gu Rubing swung his long sword forward, taking the lead and charging ahead, leading the core elite troops of the central army like tigers released from their cages, surging into Guzang City through the forcibly torn gap!

"Stop them! Stop them now!"

The Penglai garrison commander on the city wall let out a hysterical roar.

A massive army of warriors surged forth from both sides like a black tide, attempting to block the newly formed breach with their own flesh and blood!
Logs, stones, scalding hot oil, and foul-smelling molten gold poured down from the city wall like a torrential rain, crashing down on Gu Rubing's soldiers who were pouring into the breach!

In an instant, this narrow area at the foot of the northwest corner of the city wall was completely transformed into a bloody and cruel meat grinder!
The walls, now free from the protection of the evil array, though still towering, could no longer stop the warriors charging in with their lives on the line.

The soldiers on the city wall, like puppets who knew no fear, frantically thrust their spears downwards and rained down arrows.

However, the breach has already been made! Physical walls, in the end, cannot withstand the torrent of will and steel for long!

"Charge! Capture the city walls!"

Gu Rubing's roar could be clearly heard on the chaotic battlefield.

He led from the front, his longsword transforming into streaks of chilling light, its sword energy raging and slashing, cutting several Divine March soldiers who attempted to lean over the ramparts to attack in two, along with their weapons! Warm blood splattered onto his already bloodstained armor, adding to his murderous aura.

Under his leadership, the elite troops of Gu Rubing's army surged up like a tide behind him, braving the constant rain of death, and fearlessly climbed up the ladders and grappling hooks, or charged directly into the gap that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei had blasted open!
Once they stepped onto the city wall, they immediately engaged in a fierce hand-to-hand battle with the defending troops!
The clanging of swords clashing, the dull thud of blades piercing flesh, the wails of the dying, the roars of madmen... all these sounds mingled together, forming the most primal and bloodiest battlefield symphony.

Unparalleled warriors like Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Ma Chao were like war gods descended to earth, carving out deadly zones on the crowded city walls!

Guan Yu's phoenix eyes widened in anger, and his Green Dragon Crescent Blade swung like a wheel. The green blade energy was invincible, and each slash was accompanied by a sharp whistling sound that tore through the air. Often, a single slash could clear an area of ​​several feet in front of him. Any Divine Army soldiers who dared to approach fell like grass!

Zhang Fei roared like thunder, his eighteen-foot spear transforming into a black whirlwind of destruction. Its power was unparalleled, requiring no skill whatsoever; it was pure, absolute force that crushed everything in its path!

As the spear swept across, men and horses fell, bones broke and tendons snapped, carving a path through the dense enemy ranks!

Ma Chao displayed the ferocity and agility of the Xiliang cavalry. He abandoned his horse and charged onto the city wall on foot. His tiger-headed, golden spear moved like a venomous dragon emerging from its lair, his spear techniques ruthless and precise, targeting vital points such as the enemy's throat and gaps in their armor. The spear tip moved like a whirlwind, efficiently felling the surging enemies to the ground. (End of Chapter)