Records of the Human Emperor Chapter 2165: City Defense Battle! (I)

Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr

Thwishthwishthwish!

With another deafening howl, the Great Tang master archers loosed another volley, their faces cold and confident, as if they were performing a regular training drill.

This time, however, their targets were not wooden dummies, but the sea of alliance army soldiers outside the fortress. And they were aiming not at the soldiers in front of them, but the rear of the army, more than three thousand feet away.

Boomboomboom!

Shrill screams erupted from the rear. Tens of thousands of Youzhou soldiers, Goguryeon soldiers, Eastern Turkic cavalry, and Khitan and Xi braves were nailed to the ground, splashing snow and blood into the air.

The charging alliance army had already been thrown into disarray by the moat, and the tens of thousands of losses inflicted on the rear further expanded the chaos. The region between five thousand and seven thousand feet from the fortress also fell into disarray.

Although the alliance army was vast, the hindrance at the front momentarily rendered it unable to advance.

But things were far from over.

Bang!

With a great rumble, two steel mechanisms on the sides of the fortress suddenly broke out of the ground, sending dirt and snow flying through the air. Thick metal plates more than thirty meters long extended over the spiked moat to the other side.

The forty thousand armored Tang soldiers took up their heavy swords and crossed the steel planks to do battle with the disorderly front ranks of the alliance army.

Clang!

With a metallic clanging, dazzling war halos appeared beneath the feet of a Tang soldier and swiftly radiated to the rest of the army.

A defensive halo, a speed halo, a heavy sword halo, a strength halo, the White Ape Halo, the Boulder Halo… Under the power of these various halos, the forty thousand Tang soldiers swelled in power, and as they crossed over the moat, they plunged into the opposing army like tigers.

"All those who offend the Great Tang will be punished, no matter how far away they are!"

"Kill!"

These simple words fully d

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