Volume 10 Chapter 62
Chapter 62
Shangguan Yuanrang swung his sword to knock away a spear flying towards him, then reached out and grabbed a spear that was shot at him, swung his arm outward, and with a pounce, a Du Ji cavalryman who was about to rush to him fell off his horse.
Seeing that the enemy was approaching, Shangguan Yuanrang swung his sword and shouted: "Charge!"
At his command, the 4,000 cavalrymen behind him put away their bows and arrows, took off their spears from the victory hooks on the saddles, followed Shangguan Yuanrang, and rushed towards the Du Ji cavalry.
The two sides were cavalry against cavalry, and there was no advantage in the type of troops. What was being competed now was pure horse fighting skills.
The wind cavalry charged forward with spears, while the vanguard of the Du Ji cavalry used scimitars and sabers. During the charge, their spears and lances were thrown out.
When the cavalry of both sides came into contact, the sound of sharp blades breaking armor rang in the ears. The long spears in the hands of the wind cavalry pierced the enemy's body first. In an instant, hundreds of Du Ji cavalrymen with long spears still stuck in their bodies fell off their horses screaming.
This is how cavalry fights. Long weapons can only be used as disposable weapons most of the time. Long spears and spears are naturally gone after being thrown out. When it comes to close combat, the cavalry's momentum is too great. A spear or a spear pierces the enemy directly. There is no time to pull it out, so they can only abandon it and draw the sword or saber they carry with them to continue fighting.
This is what the Feng army is like now. Both sides are cavalry and charge head-on. Their momentum is amazing. The wind cavalry hold long spears and do not need to use force. They only need to aim at the enemy's part and use inertia to pierce the enemy.
After stabbing the enemy to death with a long spear, the Feng cavalry immediately let go of the long spear, pulled out the saber under their ribs, and chopped the surrounding enemies.
Shangguan Yuanrang was in front, and the cavalry were behind, and they started a close-range melee with the Du Ji cavalry.
The enemy was numerous and we were few, Shangguan Yuanrang used all his strength without reservation. He first released a cross-cut, crushing dozens of enemies in front of him, including horses and men, and then released a more powerful Lingluan·Ji. Under the flying spiritual blades, even the dust on the ground was rolled up high by the spiritual pressure. Within the attack range, people and horses were hard to escape.
After his Lingluan·Ji, looking ahead, the ground was covered with corpses of Du Ji cavalrymen, and several bloody war horses were still alive, struggling and screaming on the ground...
Seeing that Feng Jiang was extremely powerful, the three Du Ji generals quickly came over, and as soon as they got close, they all released their spiritual martial arts skills towards Shangguan Yuanrang.
But Shangguan Yuanrang did not dodge or avoid, but just repeated the same trick and released Lingluan·Ji again. The spiritual martial arts skills of the three Du Ji generals were all destroyed under his Lingluan·Ji, and the remaining spiritual blades continued to fly towards the three opponents.
The two Duji generals were unable to dodge and were scraped by the spiritual blades flying towards them. Their spiritual armor, armor, and clothes were shattered into pieces, and their bodies were covered with deep cuts that reached the bones. They both screamed and fell to the ground with their horses.
The remaining Duji general had never seen such a powerful spiritual cultivator in his life. He was so scared that his soul flew away. He dared not fight anymore and turned his horse to run away. Shangguan Yuanrang urged his horse to rush over, and at the same time, the spiritual sword in his hand shone brightly, and he chopped at the opponent with his shoulder and back. This time he used the Spirit God·Condensation.
General Duji had no time to dodge, so he could only turn around and block with his spiritual spear.
Clang! Snap!
His spiritual spear blocked Shangguan Yuanrang's spiritual sword, but how could he withstand the power of the fatal blow of the Spirit God·Condensation? First there was a crisp sound, and Shangguan Yuanrang's spiritual sword directly split the opponent's spiritual spear into two pieces, and then the blade continued to fall, and then chopped the opponent's shoulder. This heavy sword split the Du Ji general alive in two pieces, the blade entered from his shoulder and came out from his waist, the upper half of his body fell off the warhorse, and the lower half of his body was still sitting on the saddle. The warhorse screamed and dragged half of its body and fled.
On the battlefield, Shangguan Yuanrang could no longer be called a murderous demon king, but a cold-blooded killing machine. Various light-based large-scale attack spiritual martial arts skills were released continuously at will. Whether it was against enemy soldiers or enemy generals, he was a nightmare-like enemy.
The 5,000-man Duki vanguard cavalry was defeated by the 4,000 wind cavalry led by Shangguan Yuanrang, with no less than 2,000 casualties. The remaining nearly 3,000 Duki cavalry saw that the enemy was extremely brave and unstoppable, so they turned their horses around and retreated one after another.
This is the difference between the Duki army and the Besa army. In Besa, as long as the officers above did not give the order to retreat, they would never retreat even if they fought to the last man. However, Duki was not like that. They were used to fighting in the desert. Their fighting idea has always been to fight if they can, and retreat if they can't, avoid the enemy's edge first, and then make plans. This is fine as an overall fighting idea, but it was abused by ordinary soldiers, making the Duki army seem to be not tenacious enough and lacking discipline.
Seeing the Duki cavalry retreating on their own initiative, Shangguan Yuanrang would never miss the opportunity to beat the enemy. He waved his sword forward and ordered his cavalry to chase and kill the enemy, not to kill them alive, and to kill as many enemies as possible.
The wind cavalry rode on Mo horses, which were known for their speed, and ran much faster than the Duki cavalry. The people followed Shangguan Yuanrang and chased them with all their might. When the distance was close, the wind cavalry slashed with swords and stabbed with spears, and when the distance was far, they shot with bows and arrows. The three thousand Duki cavalry ran and died along the way. Many soldiers were injured and fell off their horses. They didn't even have the chance to stand up and fight again. They were knocked away by the wind cavalry running behind them, and then trampled into meat paste.
Du Ji's vanguard cavalry was defeated in a mess. When they finally joined the main force and stopped the defeat, they counted the number of people. Only about a thousand of the three thousand cavalrymen who fled were left.
Shangguan Yuanrang looked up and saw that the Du Ji cavalrymen who were swarming in front of him were overwhelming. It was hard to tell how many there were. The number was so large that there was no need to fight. Just the overwhelming momentum was enough to capture people's souls.
No matter how brave and impulsive he was, he didn't dare to fight so many enemy troops easily. Shangguan Yuanrang reacted quickly. While reining in the reins of the warhorse, he raised the spirit knife in his hand high and ordered the whole army to stop chasing and killing. Then, he ordered the rear team to become the front team and retreat slowly back.
He asked his cavalry to retreat slowly not to wait for the enemy to rush up and kill him, but to wait for the enemy to enter his range. The whole army would shoot arrows. It didn't matter how many enemies they could kill. Then they would run at full speed for a while, slow down, and continue to wait for the enemy to enter the range, and repeat this cycle.
His move was extremely effective, and it also brought the advantages of the wind cavalry's speed and good archery to the extreme. Although it could not cause a fatal blow to the enemy, it could harass and disgust the enemy infinitely.
Kamal and Zoe, the two main generals of the Duki cavalry, were annoyed by Shangguan Yuanrang's tactics of running and fighting, fighting and running, but they had no way to deal with the opponent. The two could only order the whole army to advance at full speed. No matter how the wind cavalry harassed them, the speed of the whole army could not be reduced.
The two sides kept harassing, while keeping the same in response to changes, running and fighting. Along the way, many Duki cavalry were shot dead and wounded by the wind army, but the distance between the Duki cavalry and the main force of the wind army was getting closer and closer.
It felt that if the fight continued like this, the Duki cavalry would catch up with their own army in a short time. Shangguan Yuanrang had to change his tactics and ordered the whole army to stop retreating and follow him to counterattack the enemy.
Under his order, the 4,000 wind army re-arranged the battle formation and rushed towards the main force of the Duki cavalry.
This was another fierce battle, with soldiers from both sides engaging in a head-on hand-to-hand fight.
Shangguan Yuanrang was indeed brave. Despite his inferior strength, he managed to stop the advance of the Duki cavalry. He led the way into the Duki cavalry camp, with his three-pointed double-edged sword flying up and down, and his spiritual skills released from time to time. The Duki cavalry around him wailed and screamed one after another.
His presence was too threatening to the Duki cavalry. Kamal and Zoe called out and led five Duki generals to besiege Shangguan Yuanrang. These seven Duki generals were all outstanding spiritual practitioners, especially Kamal and Zoe, who were both Duki generals, brave and good at fighting, and had superior martial arts. These seven people fought with all their strength and finally held Shangguan Yuanrang back.
As soon as Shangguan Yuanrang was entangled, the 4,000 wind cavalry under his command immediately showed a disadvantage. After all, they had less than 4,000 people, while the Duki cavalry had more than 20,000. In addition, in the close-range fight, their speed and cavalry archery advantages could not be fully utilized, but the fierceness of the Duki cavalry in close combat was reflected.
After only half an hour of fighting, the wind cavalry was surrounded by the Duki cavalry. The original 4,000 cavalry were only about 2,000 people left at this time. Facing the huge crowds of enemies around them, the wind cavalry did not give up. All the personnel huddled together. The cavalry on the periphery resisted the enemy with their flesh and blood, and the cavalry inside kept shooting arrows and killing the enemy.
Shangguan Yuanrang, who was entangled by the Duki general, secretly looked at the situation on the battlefield. Seeing that his brothers were becoming more and more difficult to hold on, he shouted loudly, used all his spiritual energy, and used the spiritual transformation of the troops to slash each of Kamal and Zoe, who attacked him the most fiercely.
The two swords were fast and fierce, just like a mountain pressing down on the top of the head. Kamal saw the opponent coming fiercely, and his heart was chilled. He did not dare to parry, and directly abandoned his horse, threw off the stirrups, and jumped away. Zoe, on the other hand, was of a strong character. She also used the spiritual transformation of the troops, and held the long spear after the spiritual transformation horizontally to block Shangguan Yuanrang's heavy sword.
There was a loud sound in his ear, and Kamal dodged, but the warhorse under him did not dodge and was split into two pieces by the sword. Zoe, who took the heavy sword, was like a cannonball, and flew off the warhorse, flying five meters away before landing. After landing, he stepped back several steps and finally stabilized his body. He only felt his chest churning, his throat sweet, and almost spit out a mouthful of old blood. As for the warhorse under him, it had been shaken into a pool of blood mud.
After two full-strength sword strikes failed to injure the opponent, Shangguan Yuanrang sighed and gave up fighting. Taking advantage of the opportunity when the two opponent's main generals were forced to retreat, he turned his horse around, charged into the encirclement, returned to his own camp, and led the remaining brothers to break out.