Chapter 1708 — Mountains Layered, Rivers Doubled, the Silver River Pours Down
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 5
"At this moment, on whichever battlefield, a single victory—one great victory—could reverse this unfavorable situation!
" Yue Tingge exhaled a breath of foul air and lifted his head to watch the Heavenly Court's ravening host come pouncing down from Shangcang.
Suddenly he clenched his teeth. "No matter what, we must hold out, hold out until word of a great victory arrives!
" North of the Yuan World, the ice plains of Kan, Shuofang City.
Here it was bitterly cold, a world of ice and snow; the divine cities of Kan were cities of ice, one and all. Wei Suifeng stood in the frozen wind of Shuofang City, gazing across the distance, where he saw the Black Emperor of the Northern Heaven, Nian Guanhe, leading forty army marquises and the allied forces of the Demon Ancestor, Mahakala. So many demons and gods were there that they blanketed the ice plains.
Behind Wei Suifeng stood the Feather Forest Army that had followed him in those years, and beyond the Feather Forest Army the garrison of Kan, wearing no armor, clad only in thick greatcoats that stuffed their bodies out roundly. On their backs they carried the Northern Emperor divine weapons of the Dark Warrior Great Emperor, the Five Thunder Gourds, and beyond that the treasure houses of the city were piled full of the Five Thunder Gourds, White Tiger divine weapons, Vermilion Bird war chariots, Azure Dragon sabers, and the like that Jingping had forged, all made in imitation of the Four Emperors' divine weapons.
Wei Suifeng rubbed his hands, scraped the ice from his eyebrows, and laughed. "This battle will be hard. Forty army marquises of the Northern Heaven, plus that old fellow Mahakala—they could flatten me by sheer weight.
The infuriating thing is that the Dark Warrior and the Northern Emperor still dare not descend in person to fight it out with the Heavenly Court! That pair of husband and wife are far too cautious! " Doo—doo— A clarion call of horns sounded, and the Heavenly Court's forty army marquises split into separate columns, skirted Shuofang City, and advanced upon the other divine cities of Kan! "Bad!
This is luring the snake from its hole!
Nian Guanhe, that old fox, sees that Shuofang's defenses are the strongest, and so he attacks the other divine cities to force me to come out and fight him in a decisive battle! " Wei Suifeng gritted his teeth, raised his battle flag, and the officers and men of the Feather Forest Army stirred their magic power as one.
The vast ice sheet of Kan split wide, and one after another magnificent warship broke through the ice. Wei Suifeng led his host out from the city, shouting, "Present the divine weapons!
" The Feather Forest Army and the garrison of Shuofang City charged behind him, and one by one the Five Thunder Gourds shot into the sky, their gourd mouths yawning wide, and the five great cloud thunders blotted out the sun. Upon the ice plains, thunder fell like rain.
Yet the forty army marquises' dividing their forces to attack the other divine cities was only a ruse to draw out the enemy.
The moment Wei Suifeng charged out of Shuofang City, the demon host led by Mahakala and the forty army marquises swept around to envelop him. Wei Suifeng answered the battle with composure, yet he knew that in this fight the Jingping soldiers of Kan alone could not hold out for long.
The support of the Northern Emperor Dark Warrior was essential. And what would make the Northern Emperor Dark Warrior and his wife resolve to act must be a victory unprecedented in all history!
That victory was the key to changing the course of the war! The East Sea.
Banners streamed upon the ships, and Jiang Baigui sat in command before the mighty pass of Jiangling in the East Sea, gazing far off to where the host of the Azure Emperor of the Eastern Heaven had appeared upon the horizon of the sea.