Chapter 40: Heavy Losses (Part 1)
"Kill!!!" The morning sunlight had just spilled over the mountains when a burst of killing sounds erupted at the entrance to Tiger Valley.
"Let's fight!" Shi Hu drew his sword and shouted.
"Kill!" The two sides' horses were about to collide, when suddenly a cavalry of about a thousand men burst out from behind the enemy and charged straight at the beastmen's rear.
"I've been waiting for you." The tiger-like commander, Hu Lu, had a flash of sharp light in his eyes as he swiftly waved the flag in his hand. In the next moment, about two thousand soldiers suddenly jumped out from around the battlefield and charged towards this group of human cavalry who came to launch a surprise attack.
"Withdraw." The leader of the human cavalry was very cunning, and had been prepared for the beastmen from the start. Without saying another word, he led his thousands of cavalry to turn their horses around and retreat back down the road they came from.
Hu Lu saw the human appearance, and his eyes were even more filled with disdain. He waved his big hand and shouted to the two thousand or so soldiers: "Pursue them for me, and wipe them out completely."
"Yes, Captain." The two beastmen chiliarchs responded in unison. The next moment, the 2,000 beastmen rode their warhorses to pursue the retreating thousand or so people led by Leng Xuan. In an instant, the battlefield disappeared from view of the two teams.
"Give me the kill!!!" Batru saw that the thousand or so human cavalrymen were fleeing without a fight, and his confidence surged. He drew his sword and shouted loudly.
Two soldiers of different races entwined, the sound of metal clashing, blood splattering everywhere, bodies losing life falling to the ground, war continued.
One after another, different attributes of Dou Qi lit up on the battlefield, and the two armies clashed. These warriors were fighting desperately to kill each other. From the first day they entered the military camp, their battalion commander and company commander all said the same thing: "If you want to avoid being killed on the battlefield, then you must fight to kill the enemy; otherwise, the next one to fall will be you."
At this moment, behind the beast army, there was a thousand-man light cavalry constantly whipping horses and running, and behind these thousand men, there were twice as many pursuers constantly chasing after them.
"Brother Xing, Brother Zheng, let's proceed according to plan." Leng Xiao Yao called out to Xing Zi Xue and Zheng Xiao Hu who were riding alongside him.
"Good." Han Zixuan and Zheng Xiaohu nodded to each other, then simultaneously turned their horses around. The thousand-man army seemed to have a tacit understanding, immediately dividing into three streams of people, galloping away in three different directions.
"Grandma drop, what kind of trick does humanity want to play?" Two beastman leaders saw this scene, slightly furrowed their brows, and then the two nodded simultaneously. More than 2,000 people were divided into three teams in an instant, chasing in three directions.
"Hmph." Leng Xiao Yao saw that the pursuing beastmen only numbered six or seven hundred, and immediately understood that they had fallen into his plan. A cold smile involuntarily appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"Boom!!!!!!" The beastmen troops had just entered the area when a series of explosions erupted, sending soldiers and horses flying everywhere, triggering a chain reaction.
Leng Xiao Yao and the over three hundred people stopped their warhorses as soon as the explosion sounded. After the explosion, Leng Xiao Yao held a short sword in his hand and slapped the horse's buttocks, shouting: "Follow me to kill!"
"Kill!" Behind Ling Xiao, more than 300 soldiers drew out the swords they carried with them and followed closely behind him, charging towards the beastmen on horseback.
Clang, clang, clang! After the light cavalry broke through the enemy's ranks, this wave took away more than 200 lives of the enemy. Cold Tiao and others stopped their warhorses after charging forward, quickly turned around, and launched another charge.
"Kill!" Leng Xiangyou once again took the lead, charging into the beastman soldier group first. The short sword light flashed continuously, and wherever it passed, a splashing blood would be brought up.
This charge only took away more than 100 lives of the enemy, but after the two charges by Cold Blood and Beastman, they stabilized their formation. At least in this charge, the light cavalry lost ten soldiers' lives.
The cold and majestic figure gazed at the more than 300 beastman soldiers in front of him, raised the short sword in his hand once again, and shouted: "Follow me to kill!"
"Kill!" The light cavalry burst into a shout and followed Cold Blooded Qi into the enemy ranks once again.
Sword lights rose one after another, and Leng Xiangyao felt the long-lost refreshing sensation in his body reappear. A fine stream of heat flowed continuously within him.
Such a scene is not only on the side of Leng Xiao Yao, but also on the other two sides, where similar scenes have occurred, with some differences in losses.
Half an hour later, on the battlefield, except for those standing, were lying down. Cold Xiao Yao let out a long sigh, holding his short sword and scanning the people still standing on the battlefield. His eyes involuntarily dimmed, as in this battle, more than 100 of the over 300 men he led had fallen. This outcome left Cold Xiao Yao with a bad taste in his heart, and his eyes became moist.
"Fifty people go find some firewood, the rest of you follow me to gather up our brothers' bodies." Leng Xianyou gave the order, then himself was the first one on the battlefield to turn over the corpses and identify those that belonged to his side.
"Leader Leng, let us handle these things! You take a rest and bandage your wound." A squad leader ran to Leng Xiang's side and said in a low voice.
Leng Xiao Yao ignored the captain of the light cavalry, continuing to do his own thing, his tone extremely cold: "If you have time to waste on idle chatter, it would be better to get your hands dirty and try to settle the affairs of the brothers within half an hour."
"Yes, Captain Leng." The captain of the light cavalry heard Cold Skye's words and his eyes flashed with a hint of emotion. In the next moment, when he looked at Cold Skye again, there was a hint of respect in his eyes.
More than a dozen minutes passed, and Leng Xiangyao gazed at the 113 corpses piled up in front of him, his eyes involuntarily dimming. After staring for a moment, he waved his hand and said, "Light the fire."
"Whoa!!!” A flame suddenly sprang up, and after a moment, a ring of fierce fire burst forth from beneath the pile of 113 corpses, filling the air with a pungent smell of char.
Half an hour later, the flames gradually went out, and finally a thick layer of ash was left on the ground.
"Bring them all back!" Leng Xiao Yao left a sentence and turned around.
"Drive, drive!" Hundreds of war horses started again, galloping towards the previously planned assembly point.
"Whoa!!!" Leng Xiangyao reined in his warhorse, letting out a thoughtful gaze to observe the gathering point. He found that all around was quiet and still, as if he was the first one to return to the gathering point. Had something unexpected happened to the other two teams?
"Commander Ling, shall I have the brothers go and take a look?" The captain of the light cavalry asked in a low voice beside Cold Ling.
Leng Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "No need, you see everyone is already tired. Order them to rest in place except for the patrol team members. Those with injuries should bandage themselves as soon as possible."
"Yes."
After more than ten minutes, a shout came from the soldiers in the patrol team: "He's back, he's back."
"Ah!" The carefree and leisurely gaze that was looking up at the sky quickly returned to the direction of the sound, only to see over a hundred horses rapidly galloping towards his location.
"After a dozen or so breaths of time, this team arrived at the gathering point."
"Brother Xing, the situation is...". Leng Xiao Yao's face turned very ugly as soon as he said this word, because he saw that Weng Yang and Hua Lian, who were following behind Xing Zixuan, were holding a person in their arms. These two people had clearly lost their vital energy.
"Brother Xing, what's going on here?" Leng Xiao Yao asked with a trembling tone, his tiger eyes reddening as his body involuntarily released an astonishing killing intent, forcing Xing Zixuan, the intermediate swordsman, to retreat several steps before he could breathe again. As for the others, there was no need to mention them.
After Leng Xiao Yao spoke, the scene suddenly became quiet. Everyone's eyes were filled with surprise as they stared at Leng Xiao Yao, as if it was their first day meeting him.
"Tell me, what's going on?" Leng Xiao Yao shouted again in anger.
Qin Hao suddenly burst into tears, thudded to the ground and wailed: "Xiao Yao, blame me, it's all my fault. If Zhang didn't try to save me, he wouldn't have died."
Zhang Tao, in my impression, this partner is usually cheerful and always likes to say: "Not dead yet!" But I didn't expect that in today's small surprise attack, he actually died like this. However, his death was worth it, because he died for his partners, a glorious death.
"Get up! If it were me, I would have made the same choice back then." Leng Xiao Yao silently helped Qin Hao up from his kneeling position in front of her, and then asked again: "How did he die that day?"
"One day is dead for me." Han Zi Xue responded with a sorrowful expression.
"What's going on?" Leng Xiao Yao furrowed his brow, he didn't believe that if even the self-taught cultivators couldn't protect themselves, then what use would this high-level warrior be on that day. There must be some twist to this matter.
Qin Hao immediately responded: "Xiaoyao, that's how it is..."
Leng Xiao Yao finally understood why his team had suffered so little loss, and why he had felt a sense of unease during the sneak attack. It was because the team they had ambushed didn't have any powerful warriors, allowing him to slaughter them freely. As it turned out, Xing Zi Yue's team had encountered a Thousand-Man Commander, and Xing Zi Yue himself had been entangled by the enemy commander from the very beginning of the battle. This led to both sides being leaderless, resulting in chaos. However, one person had managed to delay the Beastman Thousand-Man Commander's movements at the cost of their own life, allowing Xing Zi Yue to land a fatal blow and kill the Beastman commander.
"Terrible..." Leng Xiang suddenly changed his expression and shouted loudly.
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