Chapter 954: Chapter 6: Decisive Victory, Breaking the Shackles
Faced with the sudden charge, the warriors in the entire camp didn’t react with sharp swiftness; they even took several breaths’ worth of time just to prepare—
Earlier, sounds had come from all directions, causing the soldiers within the camp to be distracted, some went to investigate here, others to seek out over there, as if there was no one anywhere, and in the midst of this chaos, a peculiar cavalry force burst onto the battlefield.
When a man in luxurious clothing came out upon hearing the commotion, the warriors in his camp were just barely ready to respond to the invading cavalry, but just as they were preparing for a frontal confrontation, two loud booms resounded from behind!
Attack from the rear!
A sturdy man donned in leather clothing, with a square face, resolute and calm, riding a big horse, brandishing a large sword, led dozens into a charge, slashing heads instantly and killing several in just a few strikes.
Silhouettes flickered behind, the number of them unknown.
The so-called tactics of the Central Plains military school are not something that the noble hunting army of this small Western Regions city could withstand; a diversion tactic, attacked from the front and back, beginning with a small group of harassing cavalry causing chaos in the enemy’s formation, the main force charged from the front.
At the critical moment, the second elite squad charged in from behind.
Li Guanyi gripped the long spear in his hand.
In the art of war, to show capability as incapability, to attack where unprepared, knowing oneself and knowing the enemy guarantees victory.
Just as the opponent’s camp plunged into chaos, the ragtag cavalry under his command charged in, applying the strategies from the central plains’ military generals, directly shattering the intangible military evil qi the opponent had gathered, seizing their momentum and courage.
Li Guanyi felt an ease as if directing an arm with one’s will.
Accustomed to maneuvering within the extreme command of fifty thousand, now, commanding only a few hundred, Li Guanyi’s aura enveloped them completely, adjusting the rhythm of the charge, ultimately crafting a state of connected aura.
As if liquid mercury spreading across the ground, flowing smoothly.
In this instant, under the leadership of a famous general, these ragtag Western Region warriors reached the entry-level standard of a second-tier battalion from the Central Plains during the charge.
And even Central Plains’ second-tier battalions, which wouldn’t dare face the Qilin Army head-on, could not be rivaled by these noble hunting armies within the city-states of the Western Regions.
For hundreds of years, the Central Plains were filled with turmoil and the struggle for supremacy, producing countless heroes and figures rising from grassroot origins.
The Western Regions use the Buddhist Sect’s teachings to delude the populace and rule with bloodline, creating a class of noble alliance armies that fundamentally do not qualify to contend with the war generals forged in the turmoil of the Central Plains.
Only those honed with ferocious, wild nature in the desert are worthy opponents for the famous generals of the Central Plains.
Li Guanyi at a glance spotted a large man clad in heavy armor, abandoning others to spur his horse forward, wielding a long spear, effortlessly knocking away any foes standing before him, causing the barbarian general to react with great anger, grabbing a broad-backed knife and spurring his own horse to confront him.
"A Central Plains merchant!?"
"We are not match for the Wolf King’s son."
"Do you truly think any random Central Plains person can defeat us?!"
With just one swing, the spear twirled in the Central Plains person’s hands.
The barbarian general felt a jolt in his tiger’s mouth.
The heavy knife in his hand was punctured right in the middle; the spear, like a swimming dragon, appeared as nothing but a flash of cold light, piercing through the barbarian general’s throat. In that moment of confusion, he recalled the offense supplies being escorted to the front, where a famous general known for his bravery within a thousand miles was killed by the same spear technique by the son of the Wolf King dressed in white robes.
[Mountain Shattering]?!
He recalled the name of the technique in his mind.
His head exploded with the spear’s momentum, toppling over. In the midst of his confusion, only one last thought surfaced.
This Central Plains person’s Mountain Shattering.
Why.
Compared to that elegant and chivalrous Wolf King’s son, he was more domineering?!
Who is he?!
Leveraging the opposing force of two war horses clashing, Li Guanyi easily completed the goal of slaying the general, raising his long spear high, he proclaimed loudly in the Western Region’s language: "The enemy general has been slain by me!!!"
The Western Regions are different from the plains.
In the plains, if the centurion of Iron Futu dies, regardless of the reason, if his subordinates fail to kill the opponent for vengeance, it’s a capital offense. However, these noble allied armies of the Western desert city-states lack such aggressive spirit.
Fan Qing and Changsun Wuchou entered the battlefield from two other directions.
Using the Qilin Army’s specialty, even though only numbering a few hundred against two thousand, through momentum, formation, and generals, they managed to suppress them. Unfortunately, what Fan Qing excels at relates to Yuwen Tianxian’s lineage.
Using war chariots, heavy armored shielded infantry as a base, crossbowmen, and spearmen to execute multitype complex strategies.
In the field of cavalry general, expertise is less pronounced.
This is the domain of Ling Pingyang and Yuwen Hua.
This also relates to differences in generals’ personalities, with Fan Qing being stable, Yuwen Hua fierce, Fan Qing calm, and Yuwen Hua indulgent, as the military school says, "swift as the wind, gentle as the forest, fierce as the fire, firm as the mountain," Fan Qing embodies the mountain, Yuwen Hua the fire.
Li Guanyi suddenly recalled that unruly scion of the Yuwen Family, wondering amidst this turmoil, if they may meet again. He trembled slightly in his palm, blood dripping from his long spear to the ground, pondering this.
In a world in chaos, for you and me, if we do not perish, we shall surely meet again.
The battle swiftly concluded; after the first charge and the second cut-through, with over a hundred corpses left and even the main general captured, the morale had utterly collapsed.
The nobleman dressed in luxurious silk still wanted to leave, but Li Guanyi had already caught up, and with a raised hand, shot an arrow, employing the Xue Family’s divine shooter technique effortlessly, pierced through the nobleman’s hand. Though possessing martial skills, he let out a scream, clutching his hand and falling to the ground, wailing.