The southern front was the main attack direction for the Undead Army, with thirty thousand Undead troops and a sea of one hundred and twenty thousand Skeleton Soldiers surging toward Thang Long City like a tide.

Although there were sieges on the northern and western fronts, their forces were less than thirty percent of those on the southern front.

The Skeleton Soldiers were packed densely, spreading from the base of the city walls to several miles away, forming a vast, grayish-white ocean.

Undead Warriors and Undead Archers were mixed into the sea of skeletons, appearing and disappearing like reefs in the ocean.

Bone Dragons circled at low altitude, their wings blotting out the sky when spread, and their dragon breath sprayed onto the city walls, corroding large pits into the bricks.

Paul glanced at the time, his voice steady: "Ten minutes left. The Undead are launching their main attack on the South Gate with thirty thousand Undead troops and a sea of one hundred and twenty thousand Skeleton Soldiers. Our goal is to first rout the enemy on the southern front."

Time passed slowly. No one spoke; everyone hovered in the air, their gazes locked onto that grayish-white ocean.

Lin Feng's hand rested on the shaft of his Wildfire Spear, Jiang Zhaoyue's silver moon sky spear pointed diagonally at the ground, and Jiang Yelan's shadow moon blade swayed gently in the morning breeze.

Eight o'clock sharp.

A golden pillar of light lit up in the center of Thang Long City, shooting straight up from the heart of the city and piercing the clouds.

The pillar of light exploded in the high sky, transforming into a massive golden dragon. Its body coiled, its head rose, and it unleashed a deafening dragon roar—【Rising Dragon Roar】.

The sound wave spread from Thang Long City in all directions, kicking up dust that filled the sky and blowing the Skeleton Soldiers beneath the city walls until they stumbled and swayed.

Golden rain of light fell from the sky, enveloping all friendly forces within a ten-mile radius.

As it landed on the Ice Archers, a golden stream of light appeared on their bowstrings.

As it landed on the Great Qin Elite Soldiers, a golden halo lit up on everyone simultaneously.

Attack power increased, defense increased, and health points increased significantly.

The Army Formation effect had been activated.

【Divine Dragon Protection · Ten-Thousand Man Army Array buff activated.】

【Great Qin Elite Soldiers Army Formation effect: Overall defense +40, block probability when attacked +25%, attack power +30, health points +600.】

Lin Feng took a deep breath, withdrew his gaze from the Great Qin Elite Soldiers, and landed it on Paul.

He thought to himself: "It's stable."

A gleam flashed in Paul's eyes, and his voice exploded in the air like a thunderclap: "All troops, attack! First, rout the enemy army on the southern side of Thang Long City!"

On the ground, the fifty-thousand-strong army marched in unison.

One hundred White Elephant war elephants ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) formed three horizontal lines. As their hooves struck the earth, dust flew, and they crushed toward the Undead Army Formation outside the South Gate.

In the arrow towers on the elephants' backs, the Archers had already drawn their longbows.

Ten thousand Ice Giant Axe heavy infantry followed closely behind the war elephants, their giant axes held high, the blades gleaming coldly in the morning light.

The Delhi Sultanate Infantry of the Tieba Kingdom, the Yellow Turban Army of Zhenyue City, and the Kshatriya Warriors of the White Elephant Country advanced in the center.

Eight thousand Great Qin Elite Soldiers and five thousand Ice Archers deployed into skirmish lines behind the infantry phalanx. The Elite Soldiers had already cocked and loaded their Qin Crossbows, pointing them in unison at the sea of skeletons ahead.

Cossack light cavalry flanked from both sides—three thousand on the left, two thousand on the right. The cavalrymen crouched on their horses, holding their spears level, the sound of hooves thundering like thunder.

Twelve figures dove down from an altitude of four hundred meters, charging toward the Undead Army Formation outside the South Gate.

Lin Feng's gaze locked onto the black figure riding on horseback above the Undead Army Formation—Death Lord Akmond.

The sounds of horns and battle cries exploded behind them.

The Battle of Thang Long City had officially begun.

...

On the ground, the war elephants were the first to launch a charge.

When the war elephants were still one hundred meters away from the Undead Army, the eight thousand Great Qin Elite Soldiers formed into skirmish lines behind the infantry phalanx and fired their Qin Crossbows in unison.

The crossbow bolts poured down like a rainstorm, shooting deep into the sea of skeletons; each volley took the lives of hundreds of Skeleton Soldiers.

Those Necromancers attempting to resurrect skeletons had their throats pierced by several crossbow bolts simultaneously just as they raised their withered wood staves, their soulfire extinguishing as they turned to ash.

Five thousand Ice Archers followed closely behind, firing their longbows in high arcs. The arrows streaked across the sky, landing in the rear ranks of the Undead Army Formation.

The Skeleton Archers began to retaliate, their volleys of tens of thousands of arrows blotting out the sky.

A black rain of arrows rose from behind the sea of skeletons, arcing through the air and falling toward the Allied Forces' lines.

The arrows were dense, like a swarm of locusts passing through, momentarily blocking out the sunlight.

With the Army Formation buff, the Great Qin Elite Soldiers had +40 defense and +25% block probability; most arrows were deflected, and the few that struck their armor plates left only shallow marks.

The infantry phalanx in the front row was not so lucky.

The Delhi Sultanate Infantry of the Tieba Kingdom, the Yellow Turban Army of Zhenyue City, and the Kshatriya Warriors of the White Elephant Country—their blocking efficiency was far inferior to that of the Great Qin Elite Soldiers.

Although the Skeleton Soldiers' bone arrows only had 50 attack power, their numbers were overwhelming.

A Kshatriya Warrior with 800 health points would fall if struck by sixteen arrows.

A single volley consisted of tens of thousands of arrows; distributed across the phalanx, everyone had several arrows raining down on them.

The shields of the Delhi Sultanate Infantry were bristling with bone arrows. Some were struck in the left arm, others had their calves pierced; their comrades immediately pulled them to the rear and swapped in fresh troops to fill the gaps.

Screams and groans rose one after another, but the formation did not break.

The earth-yellow cloth armor of the Yellow Turban Army had over a dozen bloody holes; some covered their shoulders, gritting their teeth and refusing to retreat.

A few who were too severely wounded were dragged to the rear.

Even more lethal was the shooting of the Undead Archers; the black arrows of the ten thousand Undead Archers carried shadow energy, firing faster and with greater power.

With over 160 attack power per arrow, it only took four or five arrows to take down a low-level special unit with 800 health points.

A Kshatriya Warrior was struck in the chest by five consecutive black arrows; he stumbled two steps, looked down, and then fell straight backward, never to rise again.

A Delhi Sultanate Infantry soldier was shot through the neck, collapsing to his knees while clutching his throat; blood gushed from between his fingers, and within a few breaths, he was silent. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

The Ice Archers were also suffering casualties; a black arrow struck an Ice Archer in the thigh, and he knelt on one knee, gritting his teeth as he continued to draw his bow.

His comrade beside him helped him pull out the arrow, and he stood up again.

But many more were not so fortunate; one Ice Archer was struck in the face and fell backward without a sound.

Another was pierced through the abdomen by two arrows simultaneously, lying in a pool of blood and twitching.

The distance was rapidly closing: eighty meters, seventy meters... the war elephants began to accelerate.

Ten meters.

One hundred five-meter-tall giant beasts stepped into the sea of skeletons simultaneously.

Elephant hooves crushed white bones, and elephant trunks flung skeletons away; before the White Elephant war elephants, the Skeleton Soldiers were like paper, getting knocked away and trampled.

The Archers on the arrow towers were high above, their arrows like rain, pinning the Skeleton Archers attempting to climb onto the elephants' backs to the ground.

But the sea of skeletons had the low-level Ten-Thousand Man Army Array buff, and the health points of each Skeleton Soldier jumped from a little over one hundred to five hundred.

Originally, a war elephant could crush one with a single step, but now it required two, or even three steps.