Chapter 157: One Hell Of A Show-off Ox Buttocks
The tactics of the Gui Fang Ox Cavalrymen seemed already extremely proficient. The war bulls were powerful, and their huge bodies were like walls that could move. As long as two walls crossed each other, the warriors squeezed into the narrow gaps would be ground into meat paste by these two walls.
The Gui Fang people warriors on the backs of the war bulls were also extremely fierce. Yun Ce threw out two short spears in succession, but they were all dodged by them or swept away with the extremely long spear-guan dao in their hands.
Yun Ce really wanted to save his partners, but unfortunately, no matter which direction he maneuvered, there would be a war bull specifically targeting him, while the other two war bulls took the opportunity to slaughter the people Yun Ce had brought.
“Doggy!” Yun Ce saw another warrior being dragged and ground to death alive by a war bull warrior with a spear-guan dao, so he couldn’t help but shout for Doggy to come out and help.
“I’d better not move. That butterfly-playing person hasn’t come out yet.”
“But they’re done for.”
“What’s that got to do with me? It’s not you who’s done for. The horse spear can’t pierce the war bull’s body, but your dragon claw can. Why don’t you use it?”
“That would expose us.”
“You mangy mutt, you’re afraid of exposure, but I’m not, right?”
Doggy cursed very filthily, but Yun Ce had no choice but to accept it. After all, just now, his successive choices had already hurt Doggy’s feelings—of course, assuming this guy had a heart.
1 Doggy’s reminder was also very timely. Yun Ce’s current bravery was still within everyone’s understanding. If a miracle-like dragon claw suddenly appeared, or bizarre metal wires, that would be incomprehensible.
1 Incomprehensible meant heresy, and heretics had to be burned to death. The world had always operated this way.
1 Yun Ce didn’t want to become a heretic, so he could only rely on his own strength to help his partners as much as possible.
1 Amid the despairing gazes of the remaining warriors, Yun Ce leaped high into the air. The horse spear in his hand was swung like a bent bow, smashing down fiercely toward the ox cavalryman’s body with tremendous force.
1 “Hoo hoo…” The ox cavalryman was clearly also a true warrior. Facing Yun Ce’s horse spear carrying a thousand jin of force, the ox cavalryman raised his spear-guan dao to hard block it. With a crack, Yun Ce’s horse spear broke in the middle. The ox cavalryman’s thick spear-guan dao also snapped similarly. Yun Ce, who had landed on the ox’s back, swung the now half-length horse spear and smashed it heavily onto the ox cavalryman’s helmet.
1 First strike, helmet shattered.
1 Second strike, skull shattered.
1 Third strike, the remaining skull drilled into the neck cavity.
1 Just as Yun Ce was considering how to control this war bull, he heard a shrill scream from not far away from one of his partners: Young Master, save me.
1 That was a scream from a warrior forced by a war bull with nowhere to escape. Yun Ce didn’t have time to think carefully. He only saw a huge bull buttocks. He threw the guy whose head he had smashed off toward the bull buttocks with all his strength, hoping to harass the war bull and see if he could save his partner from danger.
2 The corpse was as fast as lightning. With a “puchi” sound, that corpse actually smoothly embedded into the war bull’s rear haunches, leaving only a pair of feet sticking out.
2 “Moo—” The war bull, which had been very silent since joining the battle, suddenly let out a mad howl. It no longer continued to charge but instead bounced and jumped in place.
2 Yun Ce’s saber slashed downward, instantly severing more than half of the war bull’s neck beneath his feet. The war bull’s head suddenly drooped. When it hit the ground, it was stepped on by its hoof. With just a tear, the bull head was ripped off.
2 As the huge war bull corpse crashed to the ground, Yun Ce picked up that bull head with one hand and once again threw it with all his strength toward the war bull that was still bouncing in place.
2 With a “puchi” sound, the pair of feet at the bull buttocks disappeared, replaced by a bull head with blades on its horns.
2 The remaining ox cavalryman, seeing this, turned his bull’s head to flee. Yun Ce grabbed that ox cavalryman who had been flung off the back by the crazed bull. This time, he didn’t smash his head but knocked him unconscious, then threw him once more toward the war bull that wanted to escape.
2 In the terrified gazes of the remaining eight warriors, that ox cavalryman flew over a distance of more than ten meters and once again accurately impaled into the bull buttocks.
2 Previously, Yun Ce knew the bull buttocks were large, but he hadn’t expected it to be big enough to swallow a strong man. Seeing the spear-guan dao left on the ground by the remaining ox cavalryman, he kicked it. The spear-guan dao pierced through the body of the Gui Fang cavalryman embedded in the bull buttocks and then pierced the war bull’s body from the inside.
2 The ox cavalryman’s infantry combat ability seemed very weak, which was likely related to their pair of very short legs. Because their legs were short, they could stand steadily on the huge war bull’s back. After falling from the bull’s back, two warriors who had escaped death quickly surrounded him, tying this guy into a bundle. Without needing Yun Ce’s orders, they saw their brothers’ corpses scattered around, pulled out the spear-guan dao that Yun Ce had kicked over, and forcibly stuffed this captured ox cavalryman into the bull buttocks as well.
2 Yun Ce held his saber vigilantly, watching the thicker fog farther away.
3 He knew someone was watching him from there. Doggy had been eyeing that guy for a long time.
3 “Catch him. Think of your children. They want to become the strongest. You have to catch that guy. He’s much stronger than that ten-man general.”
3 Hearing this, Yun Ce walked forward two steps, looked back at the remaining eight warriors, and finally sighed, saying, “We’ve killed the war bulls. We already have a reason to withdraw.”
3 A clever warrior immediately chimed in, “Young Master is divine and mighty. It was our incompetence that dragged you down from establishing new merits.”
3 It was at this moment that a low ox horn sounded from the wagon formation side. This was the retreat signal. Yun Ce glanced at the dead bull on the ground and said to the warriors, “Collect your brothers’ corpses.”
3 After saying that, he shouted into the distance, “No chance to fight you this time. What a pity. Next time we meet, I will surely kill you.”
3 He thought there would be no response, but then a pleasant voice like a yellow oriole came from the opposite side.
3 “General’s divine strength. Mo Li admires it. May I ask the general’s great name?”
3 Yun Ce was about to say his own name, but the image of Cao Kun’s battle-hungry face suddenly flashed in his mind. He couldn’t help but shout loudly, “I am the eldest young master of the Cao Clan of Qiuhe Prefecture, Cao Kun.”
3 No sooner had the words fallen than the cold yet pleasant female voice from the opposite side rang out again.
4 “Young Master Cao’s humiliation of the Gui Fang Ox Cavalrymen, Mo Li has noted it. Next time, there will surely be repayment.”
4 The moment the voice rang out, Yun Ce had already drawn his bow and nocked an arrow, firing three arrows in succession toward the source of the voice. Unfortunately, the arrows missed. He could hear the arrows hitting trees, but no person was hit.
4 The battle on the wagon formation side ended even earlier than Yun Ce’s. When a group of warriors searched to this point, they didn’t immediately help collect their partners’ corpses. Instead, they gathered in groups behind the buttocks of the three dead war bulls, whispering. Occasionally, they cast awed glances at Yun Ce, who was sitting on a stone drinking water.
4 The first to charge out would naturally be the last to return to camp. This was the rule on the battlefield. By the time Yun Ce returned to the wagon formation, the corpses around it had been cleared. The warrior leader was reallocating forces.
4 The old butler stood at the wagon formation entrance. Seeing Yun Ce return, he chuckled, “How did the Gui Fang Ox Cavalrymen taste?”
4 Yun Ce laughed, “Just slaughtered clean. Didn’t have time to taste.”
4 The old butler laughed, “One bull heart, ten jin of beef. You can enjoy them freely.”
4 Yun Ce smiled and saluted, “Thank you for the reward.”
4 With too much blood on him, Yun Ce stood on the ground as several warriors who had survived with him rinsed the bloodstains from his body with bucket after bucket of ice water.
4 Cao Kun came running over like a lapdog from afar, ignoring Yun Ce who was taking a cold shower, and hugged him, saying, “I heard you stuffed an ox cavalryman into a bull buttocks to send to me?”
5 Yun Ce was annoyed by his hot breathing and pointed to the camp gate, “It should be here. Go quickly, or it’ll suffocate to death soon.”
5 Hearing this, Cao Kun scurried to the camp gate to wait for his long-awaited Gui Fang little soldier.
5 After washing off the bloodstains, those warriors helped Yun Ce remove his armor. Maintaining the armor naturally fell to them too. Back in his tent, he wiped his body again with warm water, then leaned lazily on a wool pillow, waiting for the afterglow of the battle to fade from his body so he could sleep.
5 “What a pity. You didn’t catch that Gui Fang woman. If you had, it would be great. I can feel the energy on her is a very advanced energy, far more advanced than that ten-man general’s.”
5 Doggy’s incessant words rang in Yun Ce’s mind.
5 “This is Iron Enclosure Pass, the focal point of battle between Great Han and Gui Fang people. It’s easy to encounter the kind of advanced energy you mentioned here.”
5 “Don’t worry. We’ll have plenty of opportunities.”
5 “Alright, better to be cautious. Recently, I’ve sensed a new energy. This energy carries a bit of exploration intent, very similar to the feeling when I faced Shehuo directly.”
5 “There’s no Shehuo in Iron Enclosure Pass. I hear there’s only Huo Qubing’s leftover battle will, and some strange things left by the Dragon God. When we get to Iron Enclosure Pass, we can carefully explore these energies. I really want to know why Yellow Emperor, Huo Qubing, and others all have their own energies, but I have nothing.”
5 “Probably because you’ve been here too short a time. Stay longer, and you’ll surely discover something.”
6 Just as Yun Ce was too lazy to continue chatting with Doggy, Cao Kun rushed in again. As soon as he entered, he said annoyedly to Yun Ce, “Such a good ox cavalryman. Why not tie him up and bring him back? Why stuff him in the bull buttocks? Now he’s suffocated to death.”
6 Yun Ce laughed, “On the battlefield, I encountered a Gui Fang woman with a very pleasant voice. She asked who I was. I told her, I am the eldest young master of the Cao Clan of Qiuhe Prefecture, Cao Kun.”
6 “How about that? Did I boost your reputation?”
6 Cao Kun’s little tongue trembled with excitement. He grabbed Yun Ce’s sleeve and said, “You really said that?”
6 One more chapter coming soon. Keep begging for votes.
