"Kill them!"
"Kill them!"
"Don't let those fellows get away! We have the advantage in numbers, we'll crush them to death! "
"Kill! — — "
… …
On the official road to the east, although the bandits had lost more than twenty people in an instant, the continuous deaths had also aroused the viciousness in the hearts of the bandits.
If Wang Chong's group had hundreds or even thousands of men, the bandits might still be fearful. However, there were only seven of them. No matter how many men they had, it was impossible for them to stand against the six to seven hundred of them.
In an instant, hundreds of bandits swarmed over from all directions, reducing the space that Wang Chong's group could operate in.
Even if they had to, they had to exhaust Wang Chong's group to death.
"What should we do?"
Amidst the dense crowd, Bai Siling turned to look at Wang Chong. Her sword moved swiftly, and the war steed beneath her feet pulsed with halos, sending the surrounding bandits flying.
Bai Siling was a True Martial realm expert, and her strength was on par with Marchioness Yi and Wang Zhu Yan. However, even she felt the pressure from such a dense encirclement. Her smooth forehead was filled with sweat, and her stamina and Origin Energy had been greatly depleted.
"Don't panic!"
Wang Chong said calmly as he observed the movements in the surroundings. Of the group of seven, his cultivation realm was the lowest, still at Origin Energy realm.
But in this chaotic battle, Wang Chong had an easier time dealing with the situation than Bai Siling. This was the environment of the battlefield, and Wang Chong's bloodline and bones had long gotten used to being surrounded by enemies.
Furthermore, it wasn't as if he couldn't make use of the chaos.
At the very least, Wang Chong's' Sword Qi of Life Slaying 'became even more difficult to defend against in this environment.
Index finger, middle finger, ring finger … Wang Chong's ten fingers moved in turns. Strands of extremely dense sword qi crisscrossed the air, constantly shooting out and shooting into the forehead, neck, and heart of the bandits.
Moreover, there were many times when Wang Chong's sword qi was clearly aimed at a single bandit, but in the next moment, these sword qi as thick as a finger would pass over that bandit's shoulder and shoot into the body of another bandit ten meters away.
This kind of pointing and attacking made Wang Chong's lethality increase exponentially. Among the seven of them, in terms of the number of kills, perhaps only Bai Siling, who was the strongest and had the highest realm, could compare with him.
"Almost there!"
Wang Chong kept his eyes and ears open, sensing the situation of the bandits surrounding him. When he felt that the situation was about right, Wang Chong sat on the back of his horse and clenched his right hand into a fist. He raised it up high, leaving only his thumb sticking out and pointing it at the sky.
"Boom!"
Just when the bandits were about to drag Wang Chong's group into the sea of people and completely surround them, the five cavalrymen of the second echelon suddenly leaped out from the rear of the formation. It was as if a mountain had collapsed.
Boom! They covered a distance of fifty zhang in a single leap. The five cavalrymen of the second echelon were like five sharp blades, charging into the sea of bandits with an unstoppable momentum.
The same thing happened once more. Before the charging cavalrymen, one bandit after another was knocked into the air, sent flying by the True Martial Halo.
The Steel Cavalry's speed could no longer be measured by their own cultivation realm and strength. Under their high-speed charge, their strength had increased by at least three realms.
At the very least, before their speed decreased, none of the bandits would be able to block their blades.
"Ah! — "
Like five invisible blades plowing into the bandits, screams rang out incessantly. The encirclement that had just closed up was instantly torn apart by the charge of the regular cavalrymen of the imperial court.
"Let's go!"
When the five cavalrymen of the second echelon had broken through the encirclement, the first and second echelons converged, forming a line of ten cavalrymen of the Tang dynasty. With a loud boom, they pierced through the bandits' defensive line from the inside out. Like a flood dragon, they charged forward, leaving behind a trail of corpses.
"Damn it! Don't let those bastards get away! "
"After them!"
"Kill them!"
…
The bandits were so furious that they felt like their lungs were about to explode. So many of them had died, but not only did they not manage to kill a single person, they even allowed them to escape.
How could the bandits take this?
Whoosh! A dense mass of bandits chased after Wang Chong's group. The bandits with warhorses were the first to bear the brunt of the attack. They charged out from the crowd, galloping in pursuit.
Ten cavalrymen and two children. Not a single one of them had died, but they had killed at least forty bandits!
At the back of the crowd, the Iron Cloak Highwayman and the military advisor frowned silently.
Even though they intended to use Wang Chong's group to intimidate the bandits, and at the same time, test the strength of Wang Chong's group, the loss of so many bandits in a single encounter still left them with a heavy heart.
"This group of cavalrymen possesses frightening destructive power!"
The Iron Cloak Highwayman spread open his right palm, and a miniature iron cloak floated in the air, flexing and flexing in his hand.
"Cavalrymen have to charge on their own to unleash their full potential. This is also the reason why I tried my best to intercept them and keep them in the forest, preventing them from entering the main road."
The Iron Cloak Highwayman's military advisor stroked his beard as he explained calmly. But after a brief pause, a subtle glint flashed across Zhou An's eyes.
"However, this group of cavalrymen is indeed stronger than the one we intercepted earlier!"
As the saying goes, 'Soldiers are fearless, generals are fearless'. The same soldier would behave differently under different generals.
Under the command of a defensive and conservative general, this soldier might appear timid. Under the command of a brave and resolute general, this soldier would become fearless and unstoppable.
This was the influence of a general's disposition and the environment.
At the very least, the ten cavalrymen led by Wang Chong gave him a completely different feeling from Xu Gan, Huang Yongtu, and the others on the slope.
"It seems like it's him."
A thought flashed across Zhou An's mind. He had already confirmed that it was the group on the main road to the east who had wiped out the bandits and forced them to submit to him.
"Boss, the forty bandits aren't a match for them. Send another sixty brothers over! "
Zhou An suddenly turned to the leader on the boulder and said.
In Zhou An's words, the only ones worthy of being called brothers were his own men. Sixty bandits, forty bandits, and the other bandits on foot. Their numbers were already several times that of Wang Chong's group.
The fact that they were able to dispatch so many men to deal with him was more than enough to show how much importance Zhou An placed on Wang Chong's group.
"Un."
On the boulder, the leader of the Iron Cloak Highwaymen nodded silently.
In the next moment, the sixty-odd Iron Cloak Highwaymen bellowed and whipped their horses. They circled around the sea of bandits and emerged from the forest on the right. Xi Yujian leaped onto the main road and followed closely behind the bandits.
The horsemanship and fighting prowess of these bandits were decent, on par with the official army! With so many of them, they were more than enough to crush Wang Chong's group.
"They're following us!"
On the main road, a cloud of dust billowed as the war steeds galloped. Bai Siling had been paying close attention to the movements behind her. Among the bandits and highwaymen, there were quite a few tall and muscular Turks, Goryeons, and short but ferocious Ouzan tribesmen.
In this wave, Wang Chong had gathered at least eighty to ninety bandits and highwaymen with him. Honestly speaking, this was the first time that Bai Siling had experienced such a situation. She was so nervous that her palms were drenched in sweat.
With so many people around, Bai Siling wasn't confident that she could deal with them at all.
"Don't panic! It's just eighty to ninety bandits, and they aren't even part of the official army. They aren't a threat to us yet! "
Wang Chong said calmly.
The army he led had even triumphed over invaders that were several times the number of bandits and highwaymen, let alone a bunch of bandits and highwaymen.
In the battlefield by the borders of the Tang Dynasty, it was normal for such a numerical comparison to be expected.
As a lady, Bai Siling couldn't help but feel flustered. However, to Wang Chong, he was more than familiar with such a situation. On a battlefield with complicated terrain, for a commander who was truly good at leading troops, numbers sometimes didn't mean anything.
"Chase! You won't be able to escape! "
"Even if you run to the ends of the earth, I'll catch you all!"
"Hahaha, that woman is blaming me. Don't you dare snatch her from me!"
"Kill them all!"
…
Strange howls sounded. Seeing how Wang Chong and the others were being chased by them, the bandits' faces contorted as they laughed excitedly.
"Neigh!"
After chasing for dozens of li, intense and high-spirited neighs of horses suddenly sounded from the two sides of the mountain. While the bandits were caught off guard, a well-disguised warhorse suddenly leaped out from the forest on the right. With lightning speed, it charged into the most vulnerable area between the forty bandits and the sixty highwaymen.
"Rumble!"
Riding on the terrain, the horse charged down the slope. Its speed and momentum were even more terrifying than charging on flat ground.
What kind of tiger was the scariest? The tiger that descended the mountain was the scariest!
Similarly, what kind of cavalry was the scariest?
The cavalry that charged down the slope was the scariest!
That kind of momentum was like an avalanche, unstoppable and unstoppable!
Rumble!
Before the dozens of bandits and highwaymen could react, they were hit by the cavalry that Wang Chong had set up on the slope.
"Ah! — "
Shrill screams pierced through the air. The long line was instantly pierced through. At least thirty bandits and highwaymen were caught off guard and died under the charge and thrust of the iron spears of the ten Tang Dynasty cavalry.
The originally orderly team was instantly thrown into chaos.
"Now's the time. Counterattack!"
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