The uniform sound of horse hooves startled both sides, and the battlefield came to a standstill.
"It's the lord's flag. It's the Marquis. The Marquis has brought his personal guards to reinforce us." The soldiers of the First Brigade were overjoyed.
On the contrary, the morale of the allied forces had dropped to the freezing point. Military Kill Ripper and the other lords looked ashen as they muttered to themselves, "How could this be? How could the enemy's reinforcements arrive so quickly? This is impossible! This is impossible!"
The personal guards had set the record for the fastest march in Shanhai County. It only took them two hours to travel 60 kilometers from Shanhai County to the western barracks.
Ouyang Shuo was at the front of the team. After seeing the situation clearly, he led the personal guards to charge toward the sword and shield soldiers without any hesitation or rest.
Military Kill Ripper did not give up. In his last struggle, he ordered the sword and shield soldiers to give up on killing the enemy's heavy infantry. They lined up on the spot and raised their shields, ready to resist the charge of the cavalry.
The personal guards of the Shanhai County First Division were the best of the best. They were all equipped with Radiant Armor and rode on Green Beetle Horses. They were equipped with lances, Tang Swords, strong bows, and other main equipment. The average level of the soldiers was a terrifying level eight. There were even some level ten soldiers who had been through hundreds of battles.
Who could stand against such a powerful army?! The seemingly indestructible sword and shield soldiers' formation was broken by the personal guards in one blow like a piece of paper. They pierced through the formation from one end to the other, completely tearing the formation in half. Under the great inertia, the shining lance effortlessly pierced through the armor of the Blade and Shield Soldier. Blood splattered into the air, creating many bloody flowers. Just like that, an empty space appeared in the formation of the sword and shield soldiers. It was a road of blood that was piled up by countless corpses.
After the charge, the personal guards put away their lances, turned their horses around, and unsheathed their carefully forged Tang Swords. They were experienced warriors who rode the best and most intelligent warhorses. Before the enemy's sword and shield soldiers could react, when the sword and shield soldiers were still thinking about chopping off the leg of the horse, the personal guards' Tang Swords had already chopped off the enemy's head. Dead people were the least threatening.
The heavy infantry of the First Brigade was very effective in dealing with the light cavalry of the coalition army. However, if the light infantry wanted to use it against the heavy cavalry, it would be like throwing an egg against a rock.
The reinforcements of the personal guards greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers of the First Brigade. Especially when Marquis Ouyang Shuo took the lead, it greatly boosted the morale. At this time, if they did not fight with all their might, how could they face the Marquis?
In the middle of the army, the remnants of the First and Second Battalions, under the leadership of Battalion Commander Shi Hu and Shi Bao, began to focus on harvesting the trapped cavalry. Under the command of Brigade Marshal Shi Wansui, the 4th Battalion, who had temporarily retreated from the frontlines, broke into the center of the army and assisted the 1st and 2nd Battalions in killing the cavalry.
The personal guard camp took over the line of defense and carried out the tactic of encircling and suppressing the saber and shield troops of the coalition army, so that the saber and shield troops had no time to care about anything else and could only focus on self-preservation.
Behind them, the 3rd Battalion's cavalry archers were nearing the end of their encirclement. The blade and shield troops that followed were too few in number and were of no use. Adding on the fact that their morale was low, they were unable to stop the advance of the 3rd Battalion and could only follow behind and eat the dust.
The coalition army had a large number of troops, but they were separated piece by piece and could not form a unified whole. At this time, even if the commander of the coalition army, Military Kill Ripper, wanted to regroup his troops, it would be too late.
The scales of victory began to tilt in favor of Shanhai County.
War was a huge test for the willpower of both sides. This was especially so for the personal guard camp. They had just experienced a rapid march and were immediately thrown into battle. This was a huge test for the soldiers' stamina.
Perseverance, only perseverance could lead to victory.
...
At the eastern border of Shanhai County, an army of two thousand soldiers brazenly crossed the border and advanced toward the hinterland of Shanhai County. They were the other coalition army formed by Duanren Town, Yishui Town, and Gushan Town.
Out of some considerations of benefits, the commander of the eastern route, Ba Dao, did not cooperate with the western route army and attack Shanhai County at the same time. Instead, he waited until he was sure that the western route army and Shanhai County's army were engaged before he pretended to lead his troops into Shanhai County. In Ba Dao's view, the main force of Shanhai County's army had been restrained by the western route army, and the eastern route army should be safe.
Unfortunately, what Ba Dao did not know was that the newly formed Shanhai County First Division's Third Brigade was currently carrying out a mission to suppress bandits at the border. After receiving the warning order from the headquarters, the commander of the Third Brigade, E Lai, immediately sent out scouts to patrol the border.
Therefore, less than half an hour after the eastern route army entered Shanhai County, they were discovered by scouts and reported the information to E Lai.
E Lai received the information and sneered, "An army of less than two thousand soldiers dares to openly invade Shanhai County. They really don't know what's good for them. They don't take me seriously at all."
E Lai immediately assembled his troops and set up an ambush on the enemy's path. E Lai knew that the Third Brigade had just been formed, and all of them were new soldiers. This was especially true for the barbarian warriors of the First and Second Battalions. They had only been formed for five days, and not only were they not equipped with infantry armor, they had not even fought a single battle.
Therefore, although the Third Brigade had the advantage in numbers, E Lai was not stupid enough to fight the enemy head-on. At the same time, he also reported the news of the eastern route to the headquarters in a timely manner.
Ge Hongliang, the commander of the Military Affairs Bureau, who was in charge of the headquarters, first received the information from the Eastern Barracks, and then the distress signal from the Western Barracks. After confirming that there was no movement on the grassland for the time being, Ge Hongliang decisively ordered the Second Brigade's First Battalion to reinforce the Western Barracks, the Second Battalion to reinforce the Eastern Barracks, and the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Battalions to remain in the Northern Barracks and continue to monitor the grassland.
The reinforcement of the Second Battalion gave E Lai more confidence to swallow the eastern route army in one go.
...
Just as the Third Brigade, under the leadership of Brigade Commander E Lai, was preparing to ambush the eastern route army, the battle outside the Western Barracks had entered a white-hot stage.
The first to break the stalemate was the First Brigade's Third Battalion. The avenging knights resolutely defended the honor of the Shanhai County army with their Tang knives and launched a frenzied massacre against the archers of the allied army. When more than half of the archers of the allied army were slaughtered, the soldiers no longer had the courage to resist and fled. Even the sword and shield soldiers who came as reinforcements gradually lost the courage to resist under the lead of the archers and fled in all directions.
Li Mingliang, the commander of the Third Battalion, was not going to let them go. The scattered deserters were everywhere, and the cavalrymen chased after them as if they were chasing a group of prey that was on the verge of death.
Every cavalryman of Shanhai County was equipped with a horn bow. The soldiers rode on their horses and continued to reap the lives of their enemies with the bows and arrows in their hands.
The arrows shot out from the strong bows made clear air-piercing sounds. Like Life-Death Talismans, they pierced through the enemy's armor, flesh, and bones, spinning as they shot into the enemy's internal organs and bones, creating muffled sounds.
The wilderness stretched as far as the eye could see, and there was simply no place to hide. The low weeds could not block the cavalrymen's vision at all. The cavalrymen were like a pack of hunting dogs, madly chasing after their prey.
There was nothing more terrifying than watching one's companions fall one by one. The sharp arrows behind them were like a magician's trick, accurate and endless.
In the end, the deserters could not run anymore. The rapid secretion of adrenaline had drained their last bit of strength. The soldiers were already in despair, so they stopped running and raised their hands to surrender.
Surrendering was like a plague. Once it was ignited, it would be unstoppable.
Following closely behind the Third Battalion were the First and Second Battalions. They were the trump card of Shanhai County. They were equipped with the most advanced infantry armor. They came from various mountain barbarian tribes and were the bravest warriors of the tribes. Mountain barbarian warriors regarded honor as their lives and could not be desecrated.
But today, because of the enemy's shameful sneak attack, the soldiers of the Second Battalion suffered an unimaginable defeat. If the First Battalion had not come to reinforce them in time, the Second Battalion would have been defeated by the enemy.
The lost honor and the humiliation could only be washed away on the battlefield with the blood of the enemy.
The soldiers of the First and Second Battalions were as close as brothers. They had a clear division of labor and cooperated well. Two of them surrounded a rider, one was responsible for cutting off the leg of the warhorse, and the other was responsible for killing the rider who fell.
Since the beginning of the alliance's cavalry, they had never encountered such a difficult opponent.
It was as if they had plunged into a quagmire made of iron. No matter how they charged, they would only encounter steel giants. When the iron pail began to revolve at a high speed according to a certain battle formation, it would immediately turn into a steel millstone, crushing them to death.
What was even more hateful was that there was a group of bastards with spears following behind and launching sneak attacks. These shameless spear soldiers relied on the advantage of their weapons to only stab the horses and not the people. It was truly too hateful.
They no longer had to look forward to victory. The cavalry that had fallen into this maelstrom only wanted to escape from the quagmire as soon as possible, to escape from this nightmare.
The cavalry wanted to escape, but the Mountain Barbarian warriors were not willing to let them go just like that. Their bodies were not stained with the enemy's blood. Their feet were not piled with the enemy's corpses. If they did not do this, they would not be able to wash away their humiliation. If they did not do this, they would not be able to defend their honor.
The soldiers wore close to thirty kilograms of infantry armor. Such a high intensity battle made them extremely tired, but they would not think of resting. They wanted to squeeze out every last drop of their potential and give these bastards a fatal blow. The Tang blades in their hands were still as sharp as before. The shields they held were still impregnable.
"Roar ~ ~ ~" The Mountain Barbarian warriors let out angry roars. This was the death sentence they gave their prey when they hunted in the tribe. Now, the target of the sentence had changed from tigers, leopards, jackals, and wolves to the enemy cavalry.
The angry roars spread throughout the wilderness, shaking people's hearts. (To be continued.)
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