Chapter 394 The Empty Fort Strategy

"Commander Zhou, you will lead three thousand soldiers to charge from the opening of the right side of the fort wall to beguile the attention of the enemy. Commander Liang and I will lead the rest of the soldiers to storm the fort gate. The number of the remaining soldiers who preferred to guard the Wild Heaven Pass should be small. It should not be a hazard to us. All we have to work out is to get it performed in one strenuous attempt." Inside the camp, the three Commanders stood around the table to put their heads together about an approach as they took a closer view of the map that laid on the table.

"All right," Commander Zhou nodded in like-mindedness. It was a magnificent opportunity to reimburse for the shortcomings of his failure in the clamor of the Rough Slope. That fizzling out almost made him beheaded by the military law. He could survive until now only because Princess Alyssa exonerated him for the sake of his previous outstanding military service in the army of the Timber Deity Empire. Princess Alyssa also held him in high esteem as a talented spirit manipulator of the Heavenly Stage. Otherwise, he would have been dead at the time he failed in the clamor of the Rough Slope. He was under a constraint to the princess for his life. So it was of absolute essence for him to apprehend the Wild Heaven Pass as a reciprocation to the kind amnesty of the princess.

Later on, the three Commanders of the Timber Deity Empire batted around the plan before it was subsequently concluded. They then sauntered out of the camp to give pep talks to the thousands of soldiers who were muddled up for departure.

Subsequently, the Timber Deity Army of more than ten thousand soldiers set out as a tremendous flood for the Wild Heaven Pass upon the military order as the night settled in.

Commander Zhou led two squads of spirit manipulators, and three thousand soldiers went hell for leather horizontally to the right of the fort wall as they got closer to the Wild Heaven Pass. The wall opening on the right became very big and was jumbled up by the dead bodies of the soldiers. They climbed up from the fort opening and charged forward saber rattling only to discover that the fort was unoccupied. Taken by bewilderment, they paused and stood still as gormless as a guppy.

"Could it be feasible that the Crimson Dragon Army had ultimately turned their backs on the Wild Heaven Pass?" Commander Zhou was thrown off balance as he sent the message to tip off the other two Commanders. Even though the fort was unoccupied, he still conducted himself in extreme cautiousness.

The other two Commanders led the army to bombard the gate of the fort as they were provided with the message from Commander Zhou. As they had in prospect, the fort gate was defenseless that it did not make any effort to free it. Not any single soldier from the Crimson Dragon Army came into view as they stood in front of the open gate to observe the situation in the fort. The Wild Heaven Pass was literary an empty fort.

Not long thereafter, Commander Zhou went like

e severed from any secure of reinforcement.

"Seal the fort gate on the north!" Another order rang through the air from a calm voice like the sleep of a soul that was best at that moment.

In a split of seconds, two figures of beasts sprang up from thin air. They put on some momentum towards the north gate of the fort. They were none other than Uriah and Rubygon that were holding their horses there beforehand. They were also part of the program of this ambush.

Uriah ran off its feet to the north gate of the fort with lightning speed as its crimson scales stood up like a plethora of flames. They looked like a pair of fire wings as the speed blurred its movements. Uriah continued to burn up the road along the wall of the north gate as it blew up fireballs to the ground. Wherever it passed, it was set ablaze. The sheet of fire thus blocked the north entrance.

Meanwhile, Rubygon had shown up to the opening of the north wall in order to stop the soldiers who were making a quick exit. Those who took it on themselves to beat an expeditious withdrawal from the opening of the wall did not survive the claws of Rubygon.

The ordinary soldiers were not as compelling as the spirit manipulators, so they fell in all hell broke loose and disappeared in all directions in the fort in front of an incursion from such a beast.

"Everybody, assemble here. Fall in!" Commander Zhou drew out his sword as he shouted in a reverberating voice.

Many generals were first to comport themselves as they gathered quickly towards the direction of Commander Zhou.

At that moment, the log fire in the pass cast a figure which descended in a dignified manner from the south fort wall. It showed that the figure was gliding through the air that he looked well turned out and dignified as the wind blew through the robe. The figure put on his best leg went like lightning towards the center of the pass after his landing.

Commander Zhou felt that the figure looked a little familiar as he also noticed he descended from the south fort wall.