Chapter 210: The Godslayer Has Arrived
For soldiers, war is the most important thing, and victory is the most brilliant pearl on the crown of war. Whoever can obtain it can gain the highest honor.
For politicians, war is always the last resort. Clever politicians disdain war the most, because the essence of war is destruction. The harm a war does to civilization far exceeds people’s construction of civilization.
Yan Fei is a soldier, and at the same time, he is also a politician. The way such a person does things is to use military struggle to serve his political purposes.
They had clearly already discussed with Cao Kun to betray Tan Shou, but now he wants to take Yun Ce’s head to raise his status with Cao Kun.
Yun Ce never imagined that an arrow shot by a person could accurately pierce the enemy’s head after flying nearly eight hundred meters, and moreover, this arrow could suddenly rear up from skimming the ground at the last moment like a viper to kill the enemy.
Actually, that Hundred-man General Qian Tong was not originally Yan Fei’s target. It was just that Yun Ce liked to fidget while talking to people, and his fidgeting would make the person he was talking to fidget as well. Qian Tong didn’t understand this principle, so because it was convenient to talk to Yun Ce, he put his head in the spot where Yun Ce’s head was supposed to be.
Now, he was shot dead with a single arrow.
The pure black Thunder Smoke Beast that Yan Fei rode was very majestic, and it ran at an astonishing speed. This was completely intolerable for the Red Date Horse, that jealous maniac, so it immediately snorted and charged over, urging Yun Ce to get on quickly so it could join him in battling the horse and man coming from the opposite side.
Yun Ce had just mounted when Yan Fei arrived. At the same time, those Cao Clan Cavalrymen who had been lazily lying on the sunny slope recuperating no longer needed to recuperate, because a huge group of cavalry came from that side and trampled them all to death.
By the time Yun Ce faced Yan Fei, the Xiangcheng Cavalrymen behind him had already surrounded Yun Ce and Yan Fei in a circle with a diameter of a hundred meters.
1 A group of tall shield soldiers emerged from the gaps between the cavalry. The spikes at the bottom of the one-man-high Giant Shields were deeply embedded in the ground. Shield connected to shield forming a shield wall, and two-zhang-long spears protruded three chi from the ears of the Giant Shields. Once Yun Ce approached, these sharp spears would swiftly thrust out…
1 Seeing that Yan Fei had more men, Yun Ce took out the large Meteor Hammer looted from the Gui Fang Hundred-man General. This thing had some spikes on it. Although they occasionally made the Meteor Hammer’s rotation not so smooth, in terms of lethality, it was a notch above ordinary Meteor Hammers.
1 Doggy’s tentacles also emerged from the wristband, spreading over the Red Date Horse’s body like a tassel. The Red Date Horse, very familiar with Doggy, immediately relaxed, even its highly raised tail drooping relaxedly to cover its not-so-elegant buttocks.
1 “Why don’t you run?” Yan Fei was still somewhat puzzled.
1 “I plan to take an enemy general’s head amid ten thousand soldiers. Only then will it be worthy of my traveling two hundred li to participate in such a war.” Yun Ce smiled somewhat happily. He had originally thought that if Yan Fei didn’t come out, he wouldn’t be able to take Xiangcheng. Now it seemed that the heavens here were not unkind to him.
1 At least it allowed him to achieve the military merit of slaying a general among the Great Han’s four top military merits. According to Great Han military rules, whoever beheads the enemy main general on the battlefield, all the enemy main general’s possessions will become his. This had not changed for thousands of years.
1 Hearing this, Yan Fei smiled and touched his neck, saying: “This fine head is right here. Can you take it?”
1 Yun Ce swung the Meteor Hammer in his hand and said: “I’d like to try.”
1 With that, he whirled the Meteor Hammer overhead in circles. Just as the wind from the Meteor Hammer grew louder, Yun Ce suddenly stopped whirling the hammer and stared seriously at Yan Fei: “When is Cao Kun coming?”
1 Yan Fei’s laughter was provoked by Yun Ce’s question. He pointed at Yun Ce and said: “If you can hold out for one hour, Cao Kun will arrive. At that time, it won’t be easy for me to kill you.”
2 Yun Ce sighed and said: “Cao Kun didn’t tell me that he had already made a deal with you. I’ve been complaining that the troops he gave me were too few.”
2 Yan Fei laughed: “I haven’t fully agreed to Cao Kun either. I just said I’d see how his combat power is, and he sent you. I thought Zhou Cheng could kill you, but that waste not only failed to kill you, he also cost me two thousand elite soldiers. In the end, I had to come out myself to kill you and save my own face.”
2 Yun Ce casually adjusted the iron chain on his chain hammer and said: “Wouldn’t it work if you didn’t kill me?”
2 Yan Fei shook his head: “If you don’t die, Cao Kun will use you to drive down my price.”
2 Yun Ce had just finished retracting the iron chain on the chain hammer when the Red Date Horse impatiently lunged forward, opening its mouth to bite at the neck of the Thunder Smoke Beast under Yan Fei’s crotch.
2 At the same time, the Meteor Hammer hanging low at Yun Ce’s side smashed toward Yan Fei’s face under Yun Ce’s swing. Yan Fei chuckled lightly, turned his head to dodge the Meteor Hammer, and instead of slashing at Yun Ce with the horse spear in his hand, he chopped like a bolt of silk toward the Red Date Horse’s long neck.
2 The Meteor Hammer that had just flown behind Yan Fei suddenly swung back under Yun Ce’s pull. Yan Fei had no choice but to block the iron chain beside him with the butt of his horse spear, letting the Meteor Hammer graze his ear once more and return to Yun Ce’s hand.
2 The Red Date Horse was also startled by the incoming horse spear and quickly withdrew its head, but its reaction was a bit slow, and it actually got a tuft of its topknot mane chopped off by Yan Fei’s horse spear.
2 The Red Date Horse neighed loudly, reared up on its hind legs, and its two copper-hammer-sized hooves stomped down viciously toward Yan Fei once again.
2 Yan Fei praised: “Good beast.” Before the horse spear could fully retract, it rolled halfway along his arm, and the horse spear with its red tassel drilled toward the Red Date Horse’s chest like a drill head.
3 The Meteor Hammer in Yun Ce’s hand had long since come smashing down like dark clouds covering the sky. Yan Fei stepped lightly, dodging Yun Ce’s ferocious strike. The Red Date Horse also switched its supporting forelegs while rearing, landing on Yan Fei’s right side and once again evading Yan Fei’s strike.
3 By the time the two faced each other again, neither made the first move.
3 Yan Fei said: “You are someone with real talent and learning. Zhou Cheng’s death at your hands was not unjust. Now, I’ll give you a chance to live. As long as you kneel and surrender, from now on, I will be the main general, and you the deputy.”
3 Yun Ce pointed at his crotch and said: “I have a good one down there that’s working fine. If I become your deputy, I’m afraid I won’t have any prowess in bed anymore.”
3 Yan Fei did not get angry, but said with a gloomy face: “You’re asking for death.”
3 The black Thunder Smoke Beast surged forward rapidly. Faster than the Thunder Smoke Beast was that horse spear. The Meteor Hammer arrived later but struck first. The two successively dodged the horse spear and Meteor Hammer. Just as the two horses crossed, the Red Date Horse once again viciously chomped toward the black Thunder Smoke Beast, while the spear grip behind Yan Fei’s horse spear suddenly flew out straight toward Yun Ce’s chest ribs.
3 Yun Ce laughed heartily. The other hammer head of the Meteor Hammer flew out from under his ribs, smashing away Yan Fei’s spear grip and ferociously smashing toward Yan Fei’s chest.
3 Yan Fei blocked the Meteor Hammer and was about to counterattack when he heard a miserable cry from the Thunder Smoke Beast under him. His body involuntarily stalled, and Yun Ce’s recovered Meteor Hammer smashed onto Yan Fei’s back with a “pa” sound.
3 Seeing Yan Fei spit out a mouthful of blood, Yun Ce laughed heartily. The other Meteor Hammer head was already smashing down on his head. Yan Fei raised his horse spear to block forcefully. The Meteor Hammer struck the highly elastic horse spear shaft, sank down, and the spikes on the Meteor Hammer had already pierced Yan Fei’s shoulder armor. Just as it was about to severely wound Yan Fei further, the Meteor Hammer was flung high by the horse spear shaft.
3 Yun Ce helplessly retracted the now powerless Meteor Hammer. As he prepared to gather strength for another strike, he saw the Red Date Horse tearing at a piece of flesh from the Thunder Smoke Beast, ripping forcefully. A large piece of flesh with skin two chi long was torn off by the Red Date Horse. The severely wounded Thunder Smoke Beast’s forelegs buckled, and it plunged headfirst toward the ground with Yan Fei.
4 He was overjoyed at the sight, and the Meteor Hammer, carrying wind, smashed violently toward the falling Yan Fei. With a boom, the Meteor Hammer once again struck the horse spear shaft that Yan Fei hastily raised horizontally. This time, the Meteor Hammer’s force was fierce; with a crack, it snapped the horse spear shaft. The head-sized Meteor Hammer smashed onto Yan Fei’s chest again.
4 Yan Fei let out a miserable scream, and at the same time, a mouthful of blood spurted three chi away. Before Yun Ce could deliver a second hammer, a rain of arrows from the surroundings assaulted him like a storm.
4 Yun Ce let out a strange yell and rolled off his horse. The Red Date Horse also lay down at the first moment. Only after the arrow rain overhead disappeared did Yun Ce whirl the Meteor Hammer and, with the greatest strength of his life, smash it onto the nearest Giant Shield. The Giant Shield immediately shattered. The hammer head with spikes smashed into the shield soldier’s chest, then burst out from his back with a spray of blood and flesh, knocking down a horned horse cavalryman before finally expending its force.
4 Looking back at Yan Fei, he saw this shameless one crawling and rolling toward the shield formation while roaring hoarsely: “Kill him.”
4 Yun Ce whirled the Meteor Hammer, smashing away one shield soldier after another. He didn’t know how many times his body was pierced by spears. In the gaps between killing and being killed, Yun Ce looked back and saw that the Red Date Horse had carefully lain down next to the fallen Thunder Smoke Beast. The soldiers surrounding them deliberately avoided the two horses; even those who couldn’t avoid them merely stepped on them a couple of times.
4 After all, this was a battle between people, having nothing to do with their mounts.
4 Only then did he roar angrily, whirling the two Meteor Hammer heads like a windmill. Under the unmatched fierce force, anyone touched by the Meteor Hammer was either dead or wounded.
4 Yan Fei, who had been desperately rescued back by the shield soldiers, looked at Yun Ce charging back and forth in the military formation, invincible wherever he went, and for the first time, terror appeared in his eyes.
4 As a general, decisiveness is most important. Seeing that he couldn’t beat Yun Ce, Yan Fei decided to return to the command position. That was where a general should be.
4 He forgot that when he moved, his military banner moved with him. This allowed Yun Ce, who couldn’t find Yan Fei in the crowd, to finally spot his target. The wheel of the Meteor Hammer, carrying gale, went straight for Yan Fei.
5 “Stop him, stop him.”
5 Yan Fei’s newly chosen Deputy General firmly protected him behind, using all his strength to command the guards to form one defensive wall after another in front of him.
5 Ignoring the cold arrows and spears from behind completely, Yun Ce poured all his internal breath into the Meteor Hammer. The Meteor Hammer whirled up again, no longer carrying wind or emitting terrifying whooshes, but with its omnipresent hammer head, declaring to the deadly enemy besieging him the arrival of the god of slaughter.
