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Chapter 431 Breaking the Door
Fang Tang's empty city plan worked much better than she had expected. For two whole days, the aliens did not make any moves.

Changming City was separated from the alien army by only a large golden light, and it entered a state of full alert.

Soldiers on the streets were running around in a hurry, the doors of every household were closed, and temporary isolation belts made of stones and debris were set up at every street corner in preparation for the upcoming street fighting.

"Your Highness, the energy of the Qiantian Tongming Array is only one-third of that left. It can only support the operation for another half an hour."

On the city wall of Jianyuan Gate at the north gate, Bilong said with a serious expression.

"We can no longer launch a massive attack like the one we launched yesterday."

Princess Changming stood in front of her, her golden red skirt dancing wildly in the wind. She wore a phoenix crown inlaid with pearls and jade. The phoenix crown looked like blood, and the pearls and jade looked like tears.

A slender girl stood alone on the city wall, holding her sword and gazing into the distance, feeling lonely and resolute.

"That's enough." Fang Tang said.

"I did everything I could to live up to the expectations of all living beings in the world, and I didn't bring shame to the Fang family."

"We have no choice but to do our best and leave the rest to fate."

The girl said indifferently.

Bilong's expression was extremely complicated.

Her eyes were slightly red, but she said nothing in the end and bowed and left.

The wind whistled in her ears. Fang Tang closed her eyes and the candlelight in Yingluan Palace flickered in front of her.

She still remembered the pleasant smell of her teacher and the feel of the cat's fur, but she no longer had the courage to deliberately recall these things.

Fang Tang's memory of the past has been particularly clear recently, and she remembered many little things that she had forgotten.

When Fang Tang was young, she once saw her mother crying silently in a corner of the courtyard. She asked her mother why she was crying. Her mother said at the time that she was still young and didn't understand. One day in the future, she would understand.

Mother stroked her hair and said these words with a smile and tears:

"Tangtang, if someone in the future can move your every smile and make you experience the ups and downs that you won't experience with others, then he must be your destined person. You must hold on to him well. Don't be like mother, who can only cry uselessly."

The tip of the girl's nose felt slightly sore.

But... I have lost him, mother.

In a trance, Fang Tang saw the dazzling golden light of the Qiantian Tongming Array in the distance.

The golden light was blinding, burning the girl’s eyes.

Don't cry, Fang Tang, you can't cry yet. You are the princess of the Great Zhou, you still have to lead them... to live!

The girl wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and tightly grasped the hilt of Xuan Yao's sword, as if the cold steel could bring her a sense of security.

She still had to live, to see her teacher, to say sorry to him.

No matter what, she couldn't die here.

Half an hour passed quickly, and the Qiantian Tongming Array began to collapse completely.

After the alien army sent out small troops to investigate repeatedly, they finally confirmed the fact that the formation had no energy left.

The unique horn sound of the Northern Desert was high-pitched and shrill, and the alien army began to move slowly towards Changming City.

"Finally they're here." Fang Tang's eyes narrowed. "Let the three-bow crossbow and catapult aim at the alien infantry in the front. No need to save arrows and bullets, fire at full speed!"

"Yes!"

As the strongest city in the world at that time, Changming City naturally had sufficient defensive equipment.

Incendiary arrows and projectiles shot out from the top of the fifteen-foot city wall, shooting towards the alien army like meteors.

The huge rock carrying high-speed kinetic energy instantly smashed a bloody gap in the alien army formation, and dragged a tragic trail of fire on the ground.

The crossbows and catapults continued to fire, and the damage suffered by the alien army was increasing.

The aliens' counterattack came soon.

Fang Tang saw the aliens push a strangely shaped long cylindrical object to the front of the formation, with the black hole of the long cylinder facing the direction of the city gate.

"Aim at that thing!" Fang Tang ordered.

"Yes!"

As the crossbow was loading arrows, a dazzling fire lit up from the huge mouth of the long tube in the distance.

At this moment, Bilong was on the beacon tower not far from Jianyuan Gate. She also witnessed the flames bursting out from the strangely shaped weapon.

After a few breaths, she heard a sharp whistle as the air was pierced.

Then, a beam of fire fell from the sky, and a violent explosion occurred on the Jianyuan Gate Tower where Fang Tang was located. Brick and tile fragments flew everywhere, the three-bow crossbow was thrown high into the air, and the soldiers' screams were heard everywhere.

"Your Highness!" Bilong was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she hurriedly led the Luantai Guards to the city tower which had turned into ruins.

"Your Highness! Where are you?!"

"I am fine."

Fang Tang's voice came from behind a metal barrier.

An old man with white hair and a youthful face stood solemnly aside, and countless metal fragments were dancing in the air, carrying out the wounded from the ruins of the city wall one after another.

It was Shi Dangliu, one of the only three sixth-turn cultivators left in Changming City.

Bilong breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that Fang Tang was not injured.

"What is this?" Fang Tang asked.

She had never heard of a weapon with such great power.

"I don't know." Shi Dangliu's face was also solemn. "The alien race has a vast territory. Perhaps it is a strange weapon from the distant Western Regions."

The Luantai guards beside him shouted, "Your Highness, be careful, the foreigners are already within the range of their bows and arrows!"

Soon after she finished speaking, the archers in the alien army pulled their bowstrings to their full length, and dense arrows poured towards the city gates.

Shi Dangliu raised his hand, and a huge metal torrent condensed into a shield, covering the area several feet in front of him.

“Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding!”

The arrow hit the giant shield condensed by gold elements and bounced off, but just when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, a silver-white arrow actually penetrated the metal barrier and shot straight towards Fang Tang.

This scene shocked everyone present.

"Your Highness, be careful!" The loyal Luantai Guard beside Fang Tang subconsciously raised his shield to block in front of her.

The arrow was able to penetrate the elemental barrier constructed by Shi Dangliu, but it could not penetrate the wooden and iron shields of Luantaiwei, and finally landed safely on the wall bricks.

Shi Dangliu picked up the strange arrow, injected elemental power into it, and frowned.

"Your Highness, I cannot determine the material of this arrow. But it seems to be able to penetrate the elemental force barrier."

The old minister immediately advised:
"It's no longer safe on the tower. I hope Your Highness will retreat behind the city wall immediately!"

As long as she stood on the city wall, the fighting power of the Great Zhou army would be further enhanced. Asking her to leave the city wall now was no different from deserting the battlefield.
Fang Tang gritted his teeth, obviously unwilling to give in.

But the situation did not allow her to hesitate any longer.

"boom!"

As they were talking, another burst of fire came from the sky.

With a violent explosion, a ten-foot-wide gap was blasted out of a wall a hundred steps away from everyone. Stone chips burst out from behind the wall like flowers scattered by a fairy.

"Your Highness, please evacuate the city wall immediately!" Shi Dangliu bowed again.

"I understand." Fang Tang had no choice but to grit his teeth and agree.

"Master Shi, I'll leave this to you."

"I, as an old minister, will do my best!"

Shi Dangliu said.

"Master Yu, please protect His Highness."

"Yes!"

It was none other than Yu Shen, the “burning hard bone”, a great monk who had attained the sixth level of the five elements of fire.

"No! I have the Luantai Guards around me, so I don't need anyone to protect me." Fang Tang flatly refused, "Master Yu, please stay on the city wall. You are a Five Elements cultivator and can play a greater role in defending the city."

"But Your Highness..." Yu Shen was obviously not reassured.

"This is my order!"

Fang Tang didn't give him another chance to speak, so Yu Shen had no choice but to accept it.

Fang Tang retreated from the city wall under the protection of a group of Luantai guards. Her Royal Highness the Princess lifted her skirt and ran quickly, brushing past the soldiers who were climbing up the city wall.

"Protect Changming! Protect Her Royal Highness the Princess!"

The soldiers roared.

Fang Tang saw the surging power of gold and fire elements attacking, which was a sign that Yu Shen and Shi Dangliu were about to fight.

"Where are Feihong and Luoying?" Fang Tang asked.

"Feihong is at Shuangqiao Gate in the south main gate, and Luoying is at Liuting Gate in the east main gate." Bilong answered. The talents of these women carefully selected by Fang Zun for Fang Tang are beyond doubt, and Fang Tang has entrusted them with important tasks, all of which are high-ranking officials in the Luantai Palace. Once Fang Tang ascends the throne, this position is equivalent to the Assistant Censor of the Censorate and the 34th Shangshu of the Shangshutai.

This time, the alien race besieged the city with the most open north as the main attack direction, and gathered most of their forces here, so Fang Tang was in charge personally.

The south and the east are next, so Fang Tang appointed Luoying and Feihong to guard them.

As there were no foreign troops nearby in the west, Fang Tang assigned some gate guards to guard there, and ordered three thousand Jinwu guards to stay in the western inner city, ready to provide support at any time.

"Your Highness! Your Highness!"

The Jinwu Guards' beacon patrol riders dismounted hastily and reported in a hurry:
"Your Highness, the new city gate has been broken!"

This news came like a bolt from the blue, shocking everyone present.

West Gate, the new city gate.

"How was the new city gate breached?" Fang Tang shouted angrily, his heart shuddering. "Were the gatekeeper Ma Yang and his 1,500 men just for show?"

"Your Highness! General Ma Yang took the initiative to open the new city gate!" The Jinwu Guards knelt on the ground and cried out in grief, "He has betrayed us!"

As if all the strength had been drained from him, Fang Tang took two steps back, his face turning pale.

There was no one from Fang Tang among the gate guards, and she was not familiar with Ma Yang, the gate guard general. Fang Tang had originally planned to take it slow, and at this critical moment of the siege, he must not easily change the commander.

But unexpectedly, it was this horse trouble that caused the problem!
The new city gate at West Gate 5 is the northernmost gate besides the Chaohui Gate at West Gate 6. Once this gate is lost, the foreign army will directly threaten the northern city wall defense line!

"Where is Feng Xiren?" Fang Tang asked anxiously.

General Feng Xi of the Left Jinwu Guard, with three thousand Jinwu Guards, was stationed in Chonghuafang in the west of the city. They should be the troop closest to the new city gate at this moment.

"Lord Feng is already engaged in battle with the aliens!"

With only Feng Xi's 3,000 Jinwu Guards, it is very likely that they will not be able to retake the new city gate, and the war situation will then be completely out of control.

She can't detonate Qiantian Tongming so easily. Now is not the time!
After thinking for a moment, Fang Tang made a prompt decision:

"Let's go too! Take back the new city gate as soon as possible before the foreign army completely enters the city!"

She is also accompanied by more than a thousand Luantai Guards with stronger combat power, and they are the only force that can rescue Feng Xi.

"Yes!"

All the Luantai guards responded in unison.

……

……

The fourth gate on the east side of Changming is Liuting Gate.

The attacks from foreign races here were obviously much weaker than those at the North Gate, but without the sixth-turn Five Elements cultivator in charge, the defense force in the direction of the Great Zhou was also stretched to its limits.

At this moment, the foreign army had already reached the foot of the city wall, the ladders had been set up, and the battering rams began to hit the main gate of Liuting.

"Lord Luoying, we can't hold on any longer!"

On the city wall, Luantai Wei spoke hastily to Luoying.

Luoying said loudly to the soldiers behind him:

"Pour the prepared tung oil down! Destroy the ram!"

"Yes!"

The soldiers on the city wall poured tung oil and one of them threw down a torch. The battering ram with iron sheet and wooden core burst into flames that shot up into the sky. The foreign soldiers were on fire and scattered all over the place, rolling on the ground howling in agony.

"Good burn!"

"Burn these bastards to death!"

The soldiers of the Great Zhou were excited!

But the good times didn't last long, as the foreign troops continued to pour in. They saw more battering rams!

Many foreign soldiers have climbed up the city wall from the top of the ladder and started fighting with the Jinwu Guards at close range, with swords and sabers flashing and shadows forming a continuous battle.

Their fearless fighting tactics really brought great psychological shock to the Zhou army.

A foreign soldier was wounded more than ten times and lost both arms, but he still rushed into the Zhou army like a madman and fought for his life. The bloody scene would make even veterans' scalps tingle.

The strengthening of the Holy Blessing turned these soldiers into man-eating beasts.

"No, we can't hold on if this continues."

Luoying was anxious as he watched the battle line of his own soldiers being compressed step by step.

"Where are the reinforcements?! When will they arrive?"

"There are no reinforcements, sir!" Luantai Wei said bitterly, "Not only us, the entire Changming is under attack! Where can we get any reinforcements!"

"damn it……"

Luoying helplessly watched another battering ram gradually approaching, and a feeling of despair suddenly arose in her heart.

Just as the battering ram was about to hit the city gate, something unexpected happened.

Luoying heard a burst of high-spirited suona sounds.

"This is……"

Throughout the Zhou Empire, the signal for the entire army to attack was mostly the sound of war drums, with only one army being an exception.

"His Royal Highness Prince Guangling!"

she exclaimed, standing up excitedly.

Luoying stumbled to the city wall and looked towards the distant horizon.

The gray-white torrent flowed from the hills to the city, and the Bai Ze flag danced wildly in the wind under the setting sun. The cavalry led by Yu Hou charged towards the back of the foreign army in the setting sun.

The alien army was caught off guard. They had no idea that there was a large Zhou cavalry behind them.

"Free fire! Free fire!"

Chen Yuxian shouted loudly.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The cavalry led by Yu Hou were all equipped with Liuhuo guns, which were loaded with iron sand bullets. The power of the guns at close range was enough to penetrate metal and stone.

With the help of the Liuhuo Gun, the alien army fell like wheat being cut and was no match for the cavalry led by Yu Hou.

Fang Weihan, along with two sixth-rank masters Chen Yuxian and Zhao Erye, rushed into the enemy camp like three sharp knives stabbing into flesh.

Every time Zhao Yuan swings his sword, it will bring up a storm of stars and blood, strangling the alien soldiers into pieces.

"It's His Royal Highness Prince Guangling!"

"Prince Guangling has come to rescue us!"

"kill!"

Seeing the familiar Bai Ze flag, the morale of the Great Zhou army was greatly boosted, and many people were moved to tears.

"Open the city gate! Let's fight our way out!"

Luoying couldn't hide her excitement and gave the order immediately.

Soon, the Liuting Gate burst open, and the Jinwu Guards in the city took up their weapons and rushed out of the city gate.

Being attacked from both sides, the attacking alien troops soon suffered heavy casualties.

As soon as Fang Weihan turned over and got off the horse, Luoying came over in small steps, looking extremely excited.

"Your Highness! Thanks to you!" Luoying said incoherently, "You saved Luoying again!"

There was some admiration in her eyes as she looked at Fang Weihan.

Fang Weihan could only pat her shoulder to comfort her. After all, now was not the time to reminisce with her.

"Where is the princess?"

"Her Royal Highness should be at Jianyuan Gate now!" Luoying said hurriedly, "Her Royal Highness is at the main attack direction of the alien race, please go and help her!"

"I will. You should take your men back to the city immediately. The defense here will be taken over by the East Palace Guards." Fang Weihan said.

"Yu Hou will go first, Si Yu Shuai and Dian Qian Shuai will be here soon!"

"Miss Luoying, take care!"

"Your Highness..." After hearing these words, Luoying was so moved that tears welled up in her eyes again.

Fang Weihan sent a small group of troops to retreat with Luoying and the remaining soldiers here, and then he said to the rest of the people:

"Second Master, take the guards to Yingtian Temple and restart Qiantian Tongming! Yuxian, you and the inner guards come with me, we are going to find Fang Tang!"

"Hurry up, we don't have time!"

"Here!"

(End of this chapter)