Dragon's Soul Chapter 47: Young Phoenix

But he did not stop there. Currently Shu Shang could be seen leading all of his men to the center of the arena. He knew that the blue team was moving in from two sides in a large circle so to avoid their detection he had to move to the center and waits e them to pass. One they passed then he could move in and take over the towers that they had just taken.

"They shouldn't have left too many guards behind to guard these towers so it should be fairly easy to take them." Shu Shang thought.

Shu Shang knew he could only take the towers that were just taken because the blue team had a group of soldiers that were left in the rear. These soldiers would move up and block out paths to the towers behind them.

Once they turned back Shu Shang would move and take other towers they had just taken.

"That prince Shu Shang sure lives up to his reputation." King Huang He said as he watched the scene of events from a balcony above the arena.

"Had he not been born second in line to the throne then the kingdom of Shu would most likely grow very powerful and maybe become an empire." Huang He said.

"Indeed." King Huang He said while watching the large screen in the sky.

Ming Jiang although possessing only a few soldiers was able to repel Zhang's soldiers. He had retreat into the tower and had his men barricade the gates of the tower.

"You can't hide in there forever you bastard!!" Zhang yelled up at the tower.

"If you got the guts come down here and fight!!" Zhang yelled back up.

"So be it!"

"Yes my lord!!" Zhang's men yelled as they took their spears and jabbed into the brickwork of the tower. Although the weapons they got from the kingdom could not injure other people physically like real weapons they were still fairly decent weapons. The spears Zhang's soldiers had were like regular spears but without edges.

"Once they get in move back to the staircase and deploy shields!! We must prevent them from coming up or else we will lose!" Ming Jiang yelled to his men.

"What the…" Zhang murmured.

From above the tower Ming Jiang saw this happen too. A hint of hope appeared on his face.

As Zhang was preoccupied with Ming Jiang the audience above was preoccupied watching the scenes unfolding elsewhere. On another screen Ling was moving up the back line of their army with her troops. While she did that one of their towers was captured.

However, before she could make it to that tower another tower across on the other side of the arena changed colors from blue to green. Currently the green team held onto five towers while the blue team has three and the red and black team each have one.

The green team had successfully added more chaos to the already chaotic arena by consecutively taking towers from the blue team. And with roughly one hour left meant that there was not a high possibility of anyone obtaining all ten towers.

This would allow for her to sweep through the forest in a crisscrossed way creating almost a net as her other soldiers continued moving forward.

Then suddenly from the woods yelling could be hard.

Once the voice rang through the air hundreds of green armored soldiers rushed out from the woods and began attacking Zhang's men from behind. As they were caught off guard Zhang's men suffered heavy losses.

One by one Zhang's soldiers began retreating and soon only green armored soldiers were left standing below the red tower.

"Me work with you? Do you take me for a fool? Fuck you Shu Shang I know quite well that the minute I hope these gate then you'll attack." Ming Jiang replied. He knew that Shu Shang would definitely not cooperate with him due to their pass enmity with each other.

"You're lucky you still have some use if I left you in the tournament you fool." Shu Shang murmured as he left. Ming Jiang could still be used to stall Zhang's team so Shu Shang left him alone instead of attacking the tower. And ironically he had Ming Jiang agreed to it he would have cooperated with him for a while at least.

"Whoever is on the other side of the arena sure works quick." He praised.

"We will be splitting the army into two. One group will stay here and secure the location and the other will follow me in echelon formation and sweep down to the other side of the arena. The other team must be down there somewhere." Yuying said to her soldiers. (Echelon formation is when units are arranged diagonally from one another.)

"Let's move! Quickly!" Yuying yelled.

"Sis!"

"Why are you guys here?" Yuying asked.

"Then they most likely moved to the other end of the arena back to their towers." Yuying said.

"Yea we should go meet up with brother but before that we must reinforce the towers we already have taken or else they will be taken away." Yuying said to Ling.

"I have about one thousand myself. But before we can meet up with brother we have to take the black tower." Yuying said as she pointed to a tower emitting black light not too far from where they were. Head Ling and Ai not come upward she would have moved without bothering to take the black tower but now since they knew the enemy was no longer threatening their rear towers it was time to advance once more.

"There is thirty minutes left before the final stage of the tournament concludes."

"Everyone let's move no need for formations now with our numbers we can take whoever we meet head on!" Yuying yelled as she led everyone toward the black tower.

"Ming Jiang! I'm back and this time I really will beat the crap out of you. Even if Shu Shang comes he won't be able to help you." Zhang yelled up at the tower.

Thus Zhang's soldiers began chipping away at the wall once more. But not only did they do this they began attacking the hinges of the iron gate.

"If I had only brought more soldiers along with me on the trip then this wouldn't have fucken happened!" He yelled as he stomped his feet at the ground. Ming Jiang was the one that had hired the most soldiers from Zhang unknowingly. Had it not been for the few extremely skilled soldiers that came with him from the Ming kingdom then he would have been knocked out of the tournament along time ago.

"You fucker the time limit is almost up you think you can get to me before then?" Ming Jiang yelled down at Zhang.

"The gate is down!! ATTACK!!!!!!!" A soldier yelled out as he rushed into the tower.

"Pull them out and break their glass plates." Zhang order his men. Had he left those men there they would have died from being trampled over by his men as they stepped on the iron gate to get inside.

"Form tortoise shell formation!" Zhang yelled.

The soldiers lined up and overlapped their shields until they were able to imitate the shape of a tortoise's shell with Zhang in the middle of it. Then they began moving closer and closer to the wall of shields made up by Ming Jiang's soldiers until their shields touched.

His soldiers that were not at the very front collapsed the formation as pairs of soldiers held up shields forming a mini staircase. Zhang and a few other soldiers stepped on these shields and jumped behind Ming Jiang's soldiers and began dispatching them.

"I have you now." Zhang said while looking at Ming Jiang who was at the top of the tower alone.

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