The beacon fire was quickly ignited, and the sentry suddenly pulled out an amplification talisman and shouted towards the camp.

The soldiers from the side camp were immediately mobilized, one beacon after another was lit, and one amplification talisman after another was thrown into the sky.

They rushed to find their weapons and then hurriedly assembled.

"What's the situation, how many troops are here?!"

General Peng Yule, guarding the granary, walked out of the command tent in terror and asked the orderly kneeling on one knee before him.

"General Peng, according to the frontline report, there is a large mass of iron cavalry from the east, estimated to be no less than eight thousand!"

The orderly's face showed signs of collapse.

"What?!"

Upon hearing this, Peng Yule felt as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over his head, making him shiver to the core.

"Eight thousand cavalry... This, this, we only have five thousand guards in our camp, and less than eight hundred cavalry!"

He panicked; Peng Yule never imagined that eight thousand cavalry could charge at the Celestial Martial Army's granary!

To know, their location was supposed to be deep in the rear of the Celestial Martial Army.

Who on earth had such audacity, bypassing so many guards to directly target the granary?

Peng Yule was thinking, but Gu Sha gave him no time.

The fast-advancing cavalry stormed through the guarding soldiers with great speed.

The rear-guard soldiers were not considered elite, especially when facing cavalry.

These colossal figures, nearly three meters tall when man and horse were combined, surged overwhelmingly. These infantrymen shivered one by one, and some couldn't even move.

"Great! This is truly the essence of my Gu Sha army!"

Seeing the Gu Sha army's fierce combat, as if one body with a single mind and slicing through enemy troops like cutting melons and vegetables, Gu Sha couldn't help but laugh upwards.

Ten thousand cavalry charged into the enemy camp, reaching the central tent in less than a moment.

General Peng Yule hurriedly soared into the air, unleashing the pressure of a Celestial Tier Martial Saint, determined to kill as many of the Gu Sha army as possible!

Unfortunately, though his thoughts were right, Gu Sha wouldn't just stand by and watch him act.

At the moment Peng Yule soared, a gigantic palm suddenly slapped the back of his head.

Before Peng Yule could exhibit his divine techniques, he immediately plummeted to the ground like a meteor.

The ground formed a large pit; his vision blurred, and his mind turned to mush.

In the last moment of his life, he looked incredulously at the Gu Sha Grand General walking step by step towards him.

"A Martial Sovereign, how could a Martial Sovereign be leading the team!"

"Who are you exactly, and how could you bypass the Celestial Martial Grand General and Jiuming Daoist to enter our army territory?!"

Gu Sha sneered without responding to Peng Yule.

His response was only a heavy punch with overwhelming power.

The brain splattered, the head burst open.

The highest commander of this granary camp, Peng Yule, at the Celestial Tier Martial Saint realm, was dead.

With the death of their general, the leaderless guards were no match for the cavalry.

These soldiers soon scattered, becoming deserters, abandoning the twenty granaries supplying one hundred thousand troops.

Gu Sha Grand General, holding a torch and surrounded by several thousand cavalry, laughed loudly.

"In today's battle, you all have earned meritorious service!"

"Set them alight!"

With one command, the soldiers of the Gu Sha army immediately set the nearby granaries on fire.

In no time, thick smoke rolled, dark clouds covered the sky.

Gu Sha was extremely excited; what do two armies fight for in battle?

Simply put, it's all about the grain supplies.

A hundred thousand people, a hundred thousand mouths, all need food every day.

Without food, who's going to fight for you?

At this moment, he destroyed the ten thousand grain supplies of the Celestial Martial Grand General, and the frontline soldiers, with empty bellies, wouldn't even mutiny!

Under Xia Feng's plan, the turning point of this battle was finally coming.

The news of the granary's breach quickly spread by the fleeing soldiers.

The elite troops stationed in Spirit City immediately rushed to the frontline.

At this moment, the main force of the Celestial Martial Army had been besieging the city for three hours, but the opponent was like an iron barrel, leaving them without any flaw to exploit.

The Celestial Martial Army had already suffered over five thousand casualties, yet not a single person had succeeded in getting onto the city wall.

The soldiers in the front lines were replaced again and again. This extremely tough siege made their once fiery gaze turn dim and despondent.

The Celestial Martial Grand General's face wasn't looking good; he didn't know how the Emperor's Son of the Great Xia Empire trained this invincible army.

But the opponent's soldiers also had casualties. The good part was thirty thousand wasn't too high.

At this pace, as long as it grinds slowly, at most two for one, seven days would be enough to take Hong City!

He didn't care about the cost.

What the Celestial Martial Grand General wanted wasn't Hong City itself.

It was Xia Feng, the Emperor's Son.

If he could defeat the Emperor's Son, it would undoubtedly be a major meritorious service.

If he could capture the Emperor's Son, he believed even if he was a Yellow Tier Martial Sovereign, he would be exceptionally promoted to the Nine Middle Emperors, enjoying endless glory and wealth!

Unfortunately.

In the rear of the camp, a rider was galloping madly towards the Celestial Martial Grand General.

"Battle report! Battle report!"

"An unknown Martial Sovereign is leading over ten thousand cavalry and has already breached our granary!"

"Grand General, what should we do?!"

The moment this scout reached the Celestial Martial Grand General, he immediately knelt down, his face full of panic.

Upon his words, the faces of the Celestial Martial Grand General and Jiuming Daoist changed.

Not just the two of them; the expressions of the other high-ranking officers also became increasingly grim.

"The granary is entirely destroyed? Is this true?"

The Celestial Martial Grand General's pupils shrank, his heart in chaos.

He stepped forward, holding the scout's shoulder, doubting his hearing, and asked again.

"It's absolutely true, Grand General, a Martial Sovereign is leading the troops, and General Peng was no match for him at all."

"According to the fleeing soldiers, the person slapped General Peng to death with one blow, then ignited our granary with niter, and their men used flame martial techniques to burn it all to ashes..."

"We are out of grain in the rear. The Spirit City troops can only hold for five days, Grand General, what should we do?"

Cai Feng no longer paid attention to the scout's almost crying voice.

He paced continuously in the tent, his eyes filled with resentment, clenching his jaw.

"I knew it, I was missing a Martial Sovereign. That wretched Gu Sha... dared to attack my rear!"

"So, this means Hong City's defenders are only twenty thousand?" Jiuming Daoist frowned, then suggested.

"General, why don't we attack the city with full force, sixty thousand against twenty thousand, if we disregard sacrifices, one day is enough to take Hong City!"

"Our current grain can only last for two days. If we cannot take Hong City, this war of ours will fail!"

Jiuming Daoist's words were not unreasonable, and the Celestial Martial Grand General, as an experienced veteran, couldn't think of any better solution at this moment.

"You go make arrangements, increase the number, quicken the attack pace, we must breach Hong City before dusk today!"

The Celestial Martial Grand General's eyes turned fierce, holding a grudge against Xia Feng and Gu Sha, wishing to tear them to pieces!

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