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"What’s going on?"

At Nan Ming Prefecture, the city’s defense faced the strongest assault since the calamity began!

Unlike the previous calm, the undead roamed everywhere in Nan Ming, recklessly throwing their lives away.

In just one night, the corpses outside Nan Ming Prefecture piled up like mountains, layer upon layer, almost taller than the city walls.

Such a spectacular sight, even the Governor-General and others who had seen the chaos of past battles were shocked.

Especially the Provincial Governor, who had managed to muster some resistance over the past few days, was once again overwhelmed by what he saw, haunted by the mountains of corpses and seas of blood every time he closed his eyes, preventing him from a peaceful sleep.

"Educational Governor, what... what exactly is this?"

The Provincial Governor sought answers from someone who was best at explaining.

Mu Hongqing was visibly exhausted but still patiently said, "Something big must have happened.

These undead are fighting desperately, even more fiercely than during the first siege, practically suicidal.

Even if they breach the walls, they seem to deliberately seek death.

Sir, look, our defenses already started to collapse at several points yesterday, but once those undead climbed the battlements, they acted as if they were waiting to be killed, with hardly any movement. I have a bad feeling about this!"

"This... isn’t this a good thing?" asked the Provincial Governor curiously. Although the undead hadn’t besieged the city for months, their presence outside was still a constant threat, like a blade dangling over one’s neck, always feeling like they might suddenly storm in at any opportunity.

But now this act of suicidal attack, wasn’t it a good thing?

"This might not be good news!" Mu Hongqing shook his head. "I just can’t think of the reason yet, but... I have a feeling, this is definitely not a good sign!"

The Governor-General beside him nodded as well, sharing the unease. From previous encounters it was clear that the undead’s leaders were intelligent, knowing well how to preserve their strength. It didn’t make sense for them to act so irrationally.

But it happened, and when things are out of the ordinary, there must be a demon at work. He needed to find out the reason quickly, because if this continued, something terrible would surely happen!

This suspicion didn’t last long, as the answer soon presented itself.

"Report!!"

Quickly, a squad riding Black Dragon Horses charged in from the distance, cutting through the sea of undead like a droplet of water entering the ocean.

This droplet, however, demonstrated overwhelming combat prowess, carving a path through the mountain of corpses and sea of blood, arriving at the city walls!

"Cover them!!" the Governor-General shouted urgently.

His inner unrest instantly reached its peak!

This cavalry unit was his most elite direct force, entirely composed of his family’s vassals and descendants, with Centurions and above, each a Fourth Rank Warrior, considered top-notch even among the Black Dragon Guard!

But only about a dozen of these elites were left!

He originally had two hundred of them!!

If just over a dozen could fight their way in, one could imagine how powerful the complete unit was. With two First Rank fighters leading them, such a force would even suffice to penetrate deeply into the Northern Ancient Wasteland Kingdom’s rear.

But now... not a single deputy general returned, and the one leading was merely an ordinary Centurion!

"General, a disaster has struck!" The leading soldier had just arrived and immediately tumbled off the horse, his body gruesomely mangled, eyes not yet blood-red, but from the terrifying wounds, it was clear that he was beyond saving!

"Don’t rush, speak slowly!" The general fought back his own urgency and immediately administered some Vital Energy to the soldier.

"New undead have landed on the coastline, completely different from before. The new undead wear the armor of the Black Dragon Guard and the Golden Dragon Guard, and their combat strength is extremely formidable. Particularly those leading them, each generals’ strength is on par with a First Rank Warrior.

Our men... nearly wiped out in an instant! "

"If it weren’t for General Lulan and his comrade fighting to the death to hold them off, plus those new undead not yet accustomed to the fierce sunlight on the docks, we absolutely couldn’t have made it back!"

"How could this happen?"

The general was stunned before turning to look at Mu Hongqing, "Didn’t you say, as long as the undead here are not cleared out, there won’t be any new..." His voice suddenly stopped!

In a flash, both of their faces turned extremely ugly, they understood!

The suicidal actions of the undead were like this, it was to sacrifice the lower-level undead to make way for the stronger ones to come ashore!

"But why haven’t they done this before?" roared the Governor-General impatiently.

Mu Hongqing lowered his head, pondered for a few moments, then ventured a guess, "It must have been impossible before. Just now the soldiers also reported that those new undead were wearing the armor of the Golden Dragon Guard and the Black Dragon Guard, it’s very likely.

.. that the Imperial Court’s support forces on the outskirts have met with disaster! "

"How is that possible?" The Governor-General’s first response was disbelief. The amount of force the Imperial Court had deployed was immense, and with the Duke of Qin personally leading the troops, how could there be a disaster?

Yet the situation before him left no room for doubt, so he quickly asked the soldier, "Did you see clearly? How many undead wearing the armor of the Black Dragon Guard and the Golden Dragon Guard were there?"

"So many!" gasped the soldier, "It was packed, you couldn’t see the end of it all, at the very least there must have been tens of thousands!"

"Tens of thousands!!" Both the Governor-General and Mu Hongqing gasped in shock, the number being in the tens of thousands... It wasn’t just a disaster, it was a catastrophe!

"But it seems they’re not all from the same group, they’ve been fighting each other for control of the docks since they landed, the battle is incredibly brutal, and it’s only because of this that we were able to make it out!"

"Is that so?" Mu Hongqing quickly thought things over and immediately called out, "Everyone stop, do not kill any more undead, retreat!!"

Mu Hongqing’s Technique allowed his shout to reach nearly every soldier’s ears. All the soldiers paused for a moment, but as they had all endured several months of combat, even the ordinary soldiers had become much quicker to react. They sheathed their weapons and began to retreat!

But as they retreated, the undead advanced, attacking ferociously. In the next instant, flesh and blood flew in the front ranks, and the soldiers had to resist fiercely again. But once they resisted, the undead stopped fighting back!!

Even more, they were exposed to the blazing sun, dispersing their black mist, letting the sunlight beam down on them. Over these days, it was clear that these undead had grown resistant to sunlight, and they were not dying easily!

The Governor-General’s scalp went numb upon witnessing this scene. Having served in the military for many years, he had never before seen such tactics, and for a moment, he was at a loss for what to do!

To fight... the shore would see the arrival of even more powerful undead, not fight... the current undead could take your life...

Whoever faced such a situation would likely not know how to fight this battle. What should be done?

"General..." In the midst of the Governor-General’s confused thoughts, the sinister voice of Mu Hongqing came through, "Retreat!"

"What did you say?" The Governor-General turned in astonishment, looking at the man who usually put great value on the lives of civilians, had just said what? Retreat?

"Where can we retreat to?" the Governor-General shouted sternly, "Have you lost your mind?"

"There is a place to retreat to..." Mu Hongqing’s face turned unprecedentedly grim, "Only by retreating can we live!!"