Chapter 156: A War Of Equals
The person who understands pigs best is usually the pig butcher, the person who understands cattle is naturally the cattle butcher, and the person who understands sheep must be the sheep butcher. Therefore, at this moment, the person who understands the Gui Fang people best is none other than Yun Ce.
The blade cut through the Gui Fang people’s skin, fascia, and tendons, and after making intimate contact with their bones, it mangled their internal organs, extinguishing the life force of a Gui Fang person.
Yun Ce felt that the reason he could kill so many people with such a lack of psychological pressure at this moment was that the Gui Fang people never valued their own lives.
They have no fear of death. Even though Yun Ce’s horse spear had already killed one Gui Fang person, another immediately jumped out to take his place. Yun Ce didn’t even need to change his position or posture; as long as he thrust his horse spear forward again, he could harvest another Gui Fang person’s life.
Yun Ce suddenly began to understand why Zhang Min had sustained so many scars on her body. When facing people who didn’t care about their own lives, one would hesitate after killing too many. More importantly, you couldn’t retreat. Once you retreated, they would advance further, and your companions on either side would be attacked at the position you vacated.
Therefore, he could not retreat, even if he was exhausted. In the end, it became a matter of exchanging his own injuries for the opportunity to kill the enemy.
Yun Ce could feel Zhang Min’s despair at that time, watching herself take hit after hit, killing enemy after enemy, yet the enemies continued to charge the position she was defending, as if they could never be killed.
Zhang Min was in despair, but Yun Ce was not. His horse spear was sharp, his saber was sharp, and he possessed great strength that seemed inexhaustible. Thus, in a short time, the four side-box carriages he was guarding were piled high with the corpses of Gui Fang people.
These corpses were almost level with the side-box carriages. The Gui Fang people no longer had to laboriously build human bridges; they could simply step on the corpses to attack Yun Ce directly.
Gradually, Yun Ce’s saber strikes began to miss. Originally, after he thrust his saber to the left to kill a Gui Fang person attacking from the right, he would have to swing his saber to the left, and a fearless Gui Fang person would appear to fill that gap.
The saber strike missed not because the Gui Fang people had become smarter, but because there was no one behind them anymore.
Just as Yun Ce was looking at the empty surroundings, considering whether to go and help in the distance, he heard the warrior leader’s flat, emotionless voice from behind.
“With the armored vehicles one, two, and three as the sharp edge, all armored vehicles belonging to the hundred vehicles, attack!”
Yun Ce looked down at the numbers on the side-box carriages and immediately understood that he was part of the damned armored vehicles one, two, and three. The “sharp edge” meant being at the forefront, and “attack” meant leaving the vehicle formation and launching a counter-charge against the Gui Fang people.
Hearing this military order, Yun Ce felt a fire in his chest that needed to be vented. He couldn’t help but throw his head back and let out a long cry. However, when the sound came out of his throat, it wasn’t a clear and melodious howl, but a muffled, killing intent filled “Roar!”.
This cry was like a fierce beast breaking free from its cage.
His heavy body advanced, trampling on the soft, still slightly warm corpses beneath the side-box carriages. After advancing less than three meters, a cold glint shot out from the darkness, heading straight for Yun Ce’s neck.
After hearing Doggy’s warning, Yun Ce ignored this deadly strike and focused all his attention on the imminent fierce attack.
As expected, the white light that had been aimed at his neck, just as it was about to strike, made a ninety-degree turn in mid-air and slashed towards his right hand, which was holding the horse spear.
The white light struck Yun Ce’s anti-stab gloves and then fell there. Upon closer inspection, it was revealed to be a beautifully crafted butterfly-shaped weapon.
Yun Ce casually put it into his Dragon Pearl. E Ji would surely like such an exquisite item. If it were fitted with a lock buckle, E Ji could wear it in her long, dark hair.
It’s just a bit sparse; one butterfly wouldn’t be enough for her hair.
Before Yun Ce could finish his thoughts, cold light erupted in front of him. Seven or eight flying wheels, accompanied by an irritating clatter, crisscrossed towards him. At the same time, more white butterflies filled the gaps between the flying wheels, densely attacking Yun Ce.
He couldn’t dodge. On the blood-soaked path behind Yun Ce, formed by the corpses, thirty warriors who had also received the order were following behind Yun Ce, ready to launch a counter-charge against the Gui Fang people as soon as they landed.
If Yun Ce dodged, they would be the ones to suffer. Therefore, Yun Ce began to twirl his horse spear. Initially, it was a ring the size of a basketball, but in an instant, this ring-shaped flower exploded, forming a shield about one meter in diameter. The forceful flying wheels struck the spearhead flourishes that erupted from Yun Ce’s horse spear and were immediately repelled. When the flourishes disappeared, Yun Ce dropped his horse spear, clenched his fist, and punched the last flying wheel.
The flying wheel emitted a sharp “buzzing” sound as its momentum was dissipated, and it stuck into the mud at Yun Ce’s feet.
Yun Ce grasped his horse spear again and looked up at the faintly visible area ahead. A warrior, seeing that Yun Ce’s armor was inlaid with more than a dozen strange butterflies, couldn’t help but say, “Young Master, you are injured.”
Yun Ce collected the butterflies one by one. He couldn’t understand why they were thrown out, as they didn’t even have armor-piercing capabilities.
“Idiot, these things are poisonous,” Doggy’s indignant voice echoed from deep within his mind.
Since Doggy said they were poisonous, these things must be highly toxic. Poisonous things would not be suitable for E Ji, who was clumsy and a little fool. It would be terrible if she accidentally cut herself.
Therefore, these things were very suitable for Zhang Min, though there were too few of them to be considered a weapon.
Yun Ce let out a loud laugh, then, with his horse spear as the sharp edge, he led the thirty warriors who had just landed and plunged headfirst into the indistinct enemy formation in a wedge formation.
The old butler’s longbowstring vibrated continuously. Each vibration sent forth a thumb-thick arrow, and in the enemy ranks, an enemy would be shot dead.
After shooting through two quivers, the old butler stopped and breathed for a moment before asking the warrior leader, who was holding various flags, “Did Yun Ce break through?”
The warrior leader replied, “He has already followed the order and broken through, and has formed a wedge formation to go to the rear of the enemy formation.”
A smile appeared on the old butler’s face as he said to the warrior leader, “It’s truly joyful to encounter one or two reliable young people in these increasingly unreliable times.”
The warrior leader hesitated and said, “Yun Ce’s martial arts skills are unexpectedly high.”
The old butler gave the warrior leader a cold glance and asked, “Is he doing you, or is he doing the enemy?”
The warrior leader quickly replied, “He is killing the enemy.”
The old butler’s increasingly sinister gaze made the warrior leader dare not look up.
“Back then, during the Battle of Beicang Plain, I sincerely prayed to the heavens, hoping they would send a dragon to sweep away the enemy army.”
Cao Ling, you will be the military leader of the Cao Clan in the future. Since you are the military leader, focus all your thoughts on military matters and do not think about other things. Let me tell you, people with scattered thoughts are the most likely to die at this time.
Meeting a powerful partner on the battlefield is your luck. You must cultivate your good luck well; do not be jealous or worried, and do not think about the future. If you think too much, you might not live to see the future.
The warrior leader lowered his head and returned to his command post. He had been very scared just now, afraid that this old butler of the Cao Clan would kill him with a single blow.
After the warrior leader left, the old butler involuntarily cast his gaze towards a side-box carriage in the center of the vehicle formation. This side-box carriage was clearly larger and heavier than the others.
Cao Kun was in that carriage. The old butler had excellent eyesight; even from a hundred meters away, he could see Cao Kun holding onto the iron bars of the carriage’s iron window, looking outside with great hope. It seemed he truly wished to participate in the battle himself.
Children’s abilities vary in strength and weakness, just as Cao Kun cannot be compared to Yun Ce. The old butler was not disappointed by this; he had raised this child Cao Kun himself, and no one understood his temperament better than he did.
He is a kind and open-minded child, and most importantly, he is pure-hearted and treats others with sincerity.
The reason he stayed with the Cao Clan was not for the power of Cao Kun’s father; he stayed because of this child, Cao Kun. It was easy to die tragically following Cao Kun’s father, but by following Cao Kun, the old butler felt that he, a former wretch who had done countless disgusting deeds, should be able to live to a ripe old age.
The more cunning and experienced a person is, the more they tend to favor pure-hearted young people; this is almost a rule.
“Yun Ce, help me bring back a living young soldier—”
Cao Kun heard the order for Yun Ce to attack, so he grabbed the iron bars and shouted at the top of his lungs, hoping Yun Ce could hear him.
Yun Ce couldn’t hear him. As soon as he entered that strange area, he was surrounded by three cavalrymen. The Gui Fang cavalry were quite distinctive; they rode not Thunder Smoke Beasts or Great Horned Horses, but terrifying wild bulls. These creatures were much larger than Thunder Smoke Beasts. The Gui Fang people also attached knives to the horns of these war bulls and wore iron shoes on their hooves, making the ground shake when they ran.
With just one charge, the war bulls sent Yun Ce flying more than ten meters. When he stood up, he found that his thirty-man squad had been torn apart by the charge of three massive war bulls.
This was almost a one-sided slaughter. Yun Ce watched with his own eyes as a warrior who liked to fight alongside him was crushed between two passing war bulls, his bones broken and tendons torn, falling to the ground like a puddle of mud.
It was clear that they were waiting for the elites from the old butler’s side to leave the protection of the vehicle formation before attacking. Once Yun Ce’s elite squad was eliminated, they could use the brute force of the war bulls to push through the vehicle formation. With the enemy having lost a large number of elites, they would achieve victory in one decisive blow.
