Brando didn't know what Audine was thinking.
However, as time passed, he continued to command the troops to move forward.
The slaughter seemed to have slowed down the passage of time.
The centaur elders' armors were dyed red with blood. The blood of the Winter Wolves and their own blood were plated layer by layer on the shiny silver armor. Hundreds of centaurs and Tree Elves advanced along a long and narrow mountain stream. When they looked up, two intersecting mountain shadows covered half the sky.
That was the Wolf Pass.
Another white wave surged from the front. More than a thousand Winter Wolves surged from the direction of the pass. Among the wolves, the Winter Lord raised half of its body and howled at the sky. Its snow-white mane fluttered in the wind, looking majestic. Amidst the rumbling of the earth, the wolf pack split into three groups. Snowflakes boiled under the wolf's claws. From the sky, it looked like a trident was charging towards the centaurs.
White shadows shot into the forest on both sides, like pale ghosts leaping through the forest. The wolves opened their jaws and surrounded them in an instant.
The leader of the Tree Elves, Quinn, raised his hand. Hundreds of Tree Elves drew their bows and shot. The interval between drawing an arrow, drawing the bow, aiming, and releasing the arrow was less than two seconds. Their movements were as fast as lightning. They were used to shooting freely, and even then, the arrows were as dense as raindrops.
The Winter Wolves on both sides were hit by arrows and fell to the ground. However, their advantage in numbers allowed them to continue to advance, gradually threatening the flanks.
"They're much harder to deal with than the black wolves!" Brando slashed a Winter Wolf pouncing towards him with his sword. He took a deep breath and exhaled a white mist.
He looked up and saw that the left wing was exposed to the Winter Wolves. He had no choice but to raise his sword and order a company of Fireclaw Lizardmen to enter the fray. They charged out from the side of the forest and collided with the Winter Wolves.
"Mister Brando!" Quinn shouted.
"Javelins!"
A row of javelins flew into the air and pierced into the Winter Wolves in front of them. The first three rows of Winter Wolves fell to their knees, and the monsters behind them leaped over the corpses of their companions. It was like a white wave crossing a dam.
The Centaur and the Winter Wolf were like two waves of snow rushing towards each other in the valley, as if they were destined to collide at some point in time. But at the same time, the snow-white wolf shadows in the forest formed an attack arrow that surrounded them.
Looking down from the sky, the snow-white trident was closing in on a vast area.
Less than one li away from the Wolf Pass, this was the last sprint.
There were more and more winter wolves in the forest, so they had to act quickly.
Brando raised his head and looked at Wyld. The Centaur Elder placed his hand on his left chest and nodded solemnly. Then, the centaur elder suddenly raised his halberd and sped up, leaping out of the centaur army.
"Warriors of Niya!" he cried.
A row of elderly centaur guards patted their left chests and followed behind him without a change in expression. An entire row of centaur warriors raised their halberds high in the air, galloping their horses as they followed closely behind Wade.
At that moment, the scene seemed to have formed a static balance in the midst of motion.
The unique movement of the centaurs attracted everyone's attention. Be it their Tree Elves or Druids, they all stared blankly as a third of the centaurs stepped out from the crowd.
Under Wade's lead, they formed an independent attack arrow in front of the charging army.
Count Audine was commanding Erouine's Knight to rush to the right flank to protect the Tree Elves who were exposed to the claws of the Winter Wolves. But when he turned around and saw this scene, he was stunned.
He was not the only one.
Erouine's Knight held their breaths. As soldiers, of course they knew what the centaurs were going to do next. At that moment, most of the Knight raised their hands to their left chests.
This was a blessing between comrades.
But on the other side of the battlefield, the Winter Lord also let out a long horn, and the Winter Wolves flowed like a tide. Some of the Winter Wolves leaped out of the crowd and formed an independent attack arrow in front of the army.
Their battle strategy was exactly the same as the centaurs.
"… Huff … Sly!" Under Scarlet's protection, the noblewoman who was out of breath from running stared at the Winter Wolves in a daze.
Quinn pointed the end of his longbow in that direction and shouted, "Open a path for our glorious companions!"
The Tree Elves immediately gave up on the flanks and drew their bows again. This was the first time the Tree Elves had shot in unison since they entered the battlefield. The huge Elven longbows were drawn to a full moon, and creaking sounds could be heard.
"Arrow of Life!"
"Strong Wind, East!"
"Two hundred feet, one hundred and fifty feet, Fire!"
The archers released their bowstrings in unison, and everyone seemed to hear a soft buzzing sound at the same time. A black shadow covered the sky and covered the earth, like a flock of migratory birds flying high into the sky.
The arrows flew to the highest point in the sky and swooped down like a bird of prey. The rain of arrows fell on the heads of the Winter Wolves as if the Grim Reaper waved his scythe, and countless Winter Wolves fell to the ground.
In an instant, the lone arrow of the Winter Wolves was nailed to the ground like a porcupine.
Then, the Winter Wolves at the back leaped over the corpses that had turned into statues. They no longer had the time to change their formation because the Centaurs had formed a straight line and were about to collide with them.
A dull sound of collision could be heard from the battlefield.
In an instant, the white wave and the silver line formed by the Centaurs collided.
Most of the Centaurs immediately fell to the ground and were swallowed by the white wave. The silver line only existed for a moment before disintegrating.
But at least the flood of Winter Wolves was stopped for a moment.
The white wave of snow stagnated.
Then, they realized that Brando's army was charging towards them. The Centaurs were not afraid at all. Instead, they sped up.
Brando raised his sword and shouted, "Assault Formation!"
He took the lead.
With him as the center, the tip of the arrow became sharp.
The army was charging forward.
At the same time, Quinn pointed his longbow behind him and shouted, "Warriors of the forest, stop the enemy!"
Whoosh! Vines emerged from the mud and stone slabs of the valley, blocking the rear of the army. The Tree Elves at the back threw away their longbows and turned around, unsheathing the long swords on their backs.
They turned around, stopped, and separated themselves from the army, forming a thin line of defense.
The Winter Wolves at the flanks immediately realized that there was a human wall in front of them.
Twenty feet.
The enemy was close. Brando gripped Halran Gaia with both hands as he charged forward. He could see every strand of white hair on their bodies trembling in the cold wind.
Less than half of the hundred Centaurs that Wade had led were left.
The Centaur Elder charged into the Winter Wolves alone. With a flash of his halberd, a Winter Wolf was sent flying.
Brando saw all of this. He took a deep breath and raised Halran Gaia. "Come, the blood of a warrior." Brando had not felt the blood in his body boiling and rushing to his brain for a long time. It was this feeling that made him persevere on this path.
The path of a warrior.
"That's why I say, to charge forward without hesitation." Brando closed his eyes, then opened them again. "This is the romance of a warrior!"
The moment he opened his eyes, he activated Charge. At the same time, he swung Halran Gaia in front of him, and a white light flashed parallel to him.
In the eyes of outsiders, Brendel was one man and one sword, charging into the pack of wolves with a flash of white light.
Wherever the sword passed.
Armor flattened, flesh and blood splattered.
It was as if a silver line had been drawn into the Winter Wolves. With this silver line as the center, the Winter Wolves parted to the sides. They did not take the initiative, but rather, they parted with a rain of blood.
Because of the speed, the power of Halran Gaia only exploded after the man and the sword had passed. It looked as if the ground behind Brando was cracking.
As soon as Brendel passed by, there was a rumbling sound of sharp rocks piercing the sky behind him.
A gap appeared in the Winter Wolves' defense.
Brando and Wydd passed by each other.
A Winter Wolf that had pounced on the Centaur Elder was immediately split into two. Its large head flew high with a rain of blood.
Wydd looked up and saw Brando's back. The Centaur Elder shook off the blood on his halberd and snorted softly.
Behind Brando, the Centaur Army, led by Scarlet and Kodan, pierced into the gap like a wedge.
Under the huge impact, even the Winter Wolves could not resist. Without the momentum, they could only retreat. Ropar's Fireclaw Lizards and Audine's Knight entered from the left and right flanks respectively.
The gap in the center of the Winter Wolves was finally torn open. Brando swung his sword forward, and a white wind blew away several Winter Wolves. He looked up and realized that he had killed a Winter Wolf.
There was a clear path ahead.
'They're here!'
Brando took a deep breath. He looked back and saw Kodan and Scarlet leading the Centaurs from the left and right. Then came the Tree Elves, followed by Erouine's Knight and Ropar's Fireclaw Lizards.
But when he looked behind him, his eyes suddenly narrowed. Wydd and his centaur vanguard had not caught up. The centaur elder raised his halberd and signaled for the remaining centaurs to move closer to him.
The Centaurs once again formed a human wall.
They were covering the rear.
With their own lives.
"Wydd!" Brando was shocked. This was not his original plan.
But the Centaur Elder only looked back and raised his hand to make a gesture. Almost no one understood the gesture, but Brando and Quinn understood.
It was the common language of the forest's citizens.
"We are the children of the forest —"
At that moment, Brando suddenly held his breath and closed his eyes.
… …
(PS: So today I'm putting up three chapters. There's still one chapter left. Huhuhu, it's so painful to pay off debts … I'm rolling on the ground.) (To be continued, if you want to know what happened next, please go to www.qidian.com. There are more chapters. Support the author, support the original reading!)
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