Chapter 871 Birds in danger will peck, beasts in despair will fight back (1/2)

The sun set in the west, the dense iron cavalry swiftly traveled toward Fire Elephant City. Under the setting sun, the city was dyed in a layer of blood. In truth, this city was surrounded in fresh blood. To take down this city, the China and India servers lost many players, and their overall losses had reached ten million.

Looking out, smoke bellowed from within Fire Elephant City. It wasn't the red-colored smoke clouds from the Flame Dragon Cannons and Dragon Crystal Cannons. Looking at my expression which was filled with doubt, Lin Wan Er laughed, ”Q-Sword's sneak attack succeeded. Last night we used a million players to attack, attracting their players and NPCs. A portion of the assassins that Q-Sword sent entered and burnt their seven large granaries. The smoke still hadn't faded till now.”

I was delighted, ”As expected, Q-Sword didn't let the China Region players down. As long as we burn down their granary, the city basically belongs to us. Based on our rest time, two days have passed in the game. There are so many NPCs in there and they definitely would have no food. Who knows? They might already be killing war horses for food.”

Wang Jian carried the sword and moved forward on his horse, nodding and smiling, ”Yes, we have received news that the Wing Searching Army, the Clear Current Army, and the Autumn Leaf Army have started slaughtering horses for food. However, there are simply too many people inside. Just NPCs alone there are over four hundred thousand troops. War horses can't support that amount. With that, the Fire Elephant City NPC cavalry would be greatly weakened and wouldn't be able to be comparable to Tian Ling City.”

The Fire Dragon Cavalry, the Steel Blade Cavalry, and the Royal Army swept across the city wall region and when we passed through it there were dense amount of Tian Ling City players and troops forming a defense line. They had already surrounded Fire Elephant City in many layers. Many trebuchets and long distance weapons have been smashing at the walls. We were just waiting for them to counter attack.

We arrived at the front of the [Zhan Long] camp. Fox led his men to camp here, he smiled and nodded, ”Little Li you are finally back. Tsk tsk, you finally killed Clear Black Eyes?”

I smiled. ”Your news spread so fast?”

”Bullsh*t, it was said in the guild chat, I'm not even deaf and blind.”

”Haha.”

”Don't laugh, you all used Dragon Crystal Cannons to kill Clear Black Eyes. Although you did well you also pissed this woman off. She set a post on the India Region to declare war on [Zhan Long]. She said that even if she lost Fire Elephant City she would kill our entire [Zhan Long]!”

Song Han's sword brows loosened and smiled, ”Just let her come if she wants, our [Zhan Long] will wait for her to try to wipe us out!”

I smiled and didn't say a word. For Clear Black Eyes to place all the blame of White Wood Forest's defeat on [Zhan Long] wasn't a good thing. The country war was still underway and I was still hoping for the [Zhan Long] players to obtain more Country War Achievement Points to obtain high rewards. Now that Clear Black Eyes was eyeing me, this was destined to not be a good thing.

I turned around and let the horse move slowly forwards towards the south gate of Fire Elephant City. This was the tunnel towards Flaming Cloud City. The other few gates needed them to charge out several layers of encirclement to escape. If I were them, I would come out from here. The ones in charge of this were the Fire Dragon Army and Royal Army, or the two strongest armies.

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On the city walls, the Flaming Cloud Empire troops seemed to be exhausted and out of strength. Most of them were holding up iron pots to brew leather to feed their hunger. They pretty much went crazy from hunger.

I could even hear many clanging bone scraping sounds. A bunch of soldiers were scratching off the meat pieces to appease their hunger. Some even shattered the bones and swallowed them. No matter how I thought about it, I didn't think that would taste good. The few archers on the city walls in charge of defense all sat on the ground. No one showed their heads and only the players were pumped up and defending there.

The God Dragon Horse slowly made its way to the center tent which faced right at the south gate. Queen Pearl sat there and when she saw me a smile appeared on her face, ”General Li Xiao Yao is finally here!”

I nodded my head, ”Your Highness what is the situation?”

Pearl said, ”This is the third day since they’ve run out of grain, and most of them probably can't take it anymore. An army with over five hundred thousand people can't last for very long without food.”

Louis laughed coldly and said, ”If my guesses are correct after they finish the war horses they will kill the craftsmen and slaves.”

I couldn't help but feel a chill down my spine, ”They won't right?”

Louis said, ”It isn't like things like this haven’t happened before. It has happened more than once in our long history. Like when Rob went to attack Moon City's Lingyue City. It was surrounded for eleven days and after the leather and grass were eaten they started to kill people for food. First were the people, the craftsmen, and then the women. When the city was broken the three hundred thousand men city was left with seventy thousand. Then Emperor Rob ordered to kill them all!”