Chapter 150: Iron-armored Heavy Hammer

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Yuwen Hu, who had fallen completely into madness, erupted with astonishing fighting power . His whole body was covered in blood—some from the Blood Wolf Soldiers, some from the One-Horned Tiger, and some was his own.

If it were a one-on-one fight, Yuwen Hu might not really be a match for the One-Horned Tiger, but he had many Blood Wolf Soldiers fighting desperately alongside him. Those Blood Wolf Soldiers, even if they died, would leave some wounds on the One-Horned Tiger.

Dripping with blood, the One-Horned Tiger let out a tragic roar. A flash of lightning flickered within the single horn on its forehead. It took the shape of a thunderbolt, spreading outward.

Seven or eight Blood Wolf Soldiers besieging it were struck black all over by the power of lightning and fell to the ground twitching. But Yuwen Hu, relying on his powerful Fighting Qi, forcibly withstood the might of the lightning. His long-handled giant axe carved out a tragic beam of light, sweeping across the tiger’s back. The tremendous force inflicted a heavy wound, and at the same time, smashed its massive body, weighing over two or three thousand catties, causing it to roll sideways.

Amidst tragic screams, the One-Horned Tiger became even more ferocious and dangerous. Its huge figure rushed into the battle formation, rampaging everywhere. Wherever it passed, warhorses and Blood Wolf Soldiers were sent flying, with severed limbs and flesh scattering.

A Gold-rank One-Horned Tiger unleashing its power was truly terrifying. Moreover, its single horn possessed the power of lightning, which could fully recharge in a moment. A burst of electric arcs could often instantly harvest several lives.

On a distant hill, a torch moved like a dancing firefly, forming a flag signal.

It was the time before dawn; the sun had not yet risen, and the moon had already sunk. Darkness completely shrouded the earth. In the distance, a low sound of horse hooves rang out rhythmically, stepping on the earth. The sound was deep and heavy, faintly revealing an aura of metal and slaughter.

“Not good, it’s the Black Flag Regiment’s Iron-armored Heavy Cavalry.” Helian Bo’s expression changed slightly. This place was just below the chaotic stone ridge; apart from some rugged towering rocks, the terrain was fairly flat. However, the chaotic stones on both sides extended diagonally outward, like two pincers, invisibly pinching this concave valley.

If one looked down from a high position during the day, one could see that this terrain looked like a concave valley held remotely by two arms. Usually, nothing seemed amiss, but once an army had its retreat cut off here and was attacked from the rear, it became like a dead-end grave.

Helian Bo had a very deep impression of the Black Flag Regiment’s Iron-armored Heavy Cavalry. Each of them wore hard and heavy full-body iron armor, protected so tightly that not even a breath of air could pass through. Even the warhorses were covered in heavy chain mail.

With such heavy armor protection, it was very difficult to kill them. But they could recklessly use their warhorses to charge and trample. For such Iron-armored Heavy Cavalry, just that set of equipment and the high-quality warhorse capable of bearing such a load would cost four to five hundred gold.

To form this unit of one hundred and fifty Iron-armored Heavy Cavalry, at least one hundred thousand gold was needed.

In fact, Lei Qing had a total of two hundred and ten sets of full-body iron armor. Only his old subordinates brought from Fierce Tiger Ridge, as well as some Black Iron-rank and Bronze-rank experts, were qualified to wear them.

However, this time, in order to deal with the powerful Blood Wolf Army, Mr. Hao had ordered all the stock to be taken out. He also selected the most outstanding group from the new recruits to temporarily join the Iron-armored Heavy Cavalry.

This formed an Iron-armored Heavy Cavalry unit of over two hundred people.

The Iron-armored Heavy Cavalry could fight and withstand attacks. Their most powerful aspect lay in their unmatched impact force. Even a Gold-rank expert would absolutely not dare to face the charge of a two-hundred-man Iron-armored Heavy Cavalry unit head-on.

Cheng Xiao, a High-stage Bronze with a steady personality, was the current general commander of the Iron-armored Heavy Cavalry. He himself also possessed a set of leader-grade iron armor and heavy cavalry equipment that offered decent defense, so he did not need to take up a slot for the heavy cavalry.

In the recent training, the Iron-armored Heavy Cavalry were all equipped with long spears. At this moment, the two hundred plus riders formed a cone formation, the most commonly used formation in cavalry arrays.

Cheng Xiao took the lead, raising his long spear high, acting as the sharpest point of this cone formation. On his flanks and slightly behind were Du Yu and Wu Ji, both at the Entry-rank Bronze stage.

By the way, with the support of Lei Qing’s resources and his own efforts, Du Yu had broken through his shackles and advanced to the Entry-rank Bronze stage.

Further behind them were the Black Iron-rank experts acting as the blade’s edge. Speaking of Black Iron-rank experts, there were already nearly seventy of them in this Iron-armored Heavy Cavalry unit. Most were old subordinates from Fierce Tiger Ridge. That group was originally of bandit origin and possessed certain combat experience. With the support of Lei Qing’s Crystal Cores and hard cultivation, many had successively broken through to the Black Iron-rank. Of course, some were already at the Black Iron-rank to begin with.

There were also some Black Iron-rank experts who were new recruits recently recruited by Lei Qing. Those who could cultivate themselves to the Black Iron-rank were already individuals willing to endure hardship and were extraordinary. With a little training, they became good soldiers.

The more than one hundred people in the middle of the cone formation could not be called elite, but they could be considered fierce soldiers. However, they were either old subordinates of Lei Qing who had not yet broken through to the Black Iron-rank, or they were the best among the new recruits who were not yet at the Black Iron-rank. They were much stronger than ordinary new recruits.

Their job was to do some mopping-up and crushing work after the sharp troops in front had sliced open the enemy army. With the help of full-body iron armor and iron cavalry, even if they encountered Black Iron-rank elites, they might not lose the fight. Moreover, the greatest use of the Iron-armored Heavy Cavalry was to smash and crush all obstacles in front of them.

Helian Bo, whose confidence had already been completely shattered by Yuwen Hu, was now like a startled bird, having witnessed the might of the Iron-armored Heavy Cavalry. He knew that the equipment of this group of Iron-armored Heavy Cavalry was even better than that of the Iron Cavalry Regiment’s first elite regiment.

To prevent being stabbed in the back by the Black Flag Regiment’s Iron-armored Heavy Cavalry and crushed beneath them, he immediately let out a low whistle. He signaled the horse bandit leaders to immediately take their men and follow him to escape.

The horse bandits were all lightly equipped and lightly mounted. They were alert early on and extinguished their torches. With their lives at stake, the speed they burst out with was not bad. They narrowly evacuated this death trap of a concave valley just before the Iron-armored Heavy Cavalry came crushing over.

Helian Bo did not look back and directly led the horse bandit group to flee desperately toward the grassland. The pitiful horse bandit group ran here without fighting a single battle and fled in panic. Adding in those who were separated and those left in the concave valley who did not have time to retreat, the original force of nearly five hundred riders had inexplicably dwindled to less than three hundred.

Cheng Xiao heard the series of hoofbeats fleeing in haste and thought to himself that Mr. Hao’s calculations were indeed brilliant. He knew that Helian Bo was a cunning and cautious man, completely different from the irritable Yuwen Hu, and might lead the horse bandits to escape, so he was told not to worry about it. In the current situation, the fewer enemies, the better.

Immediately, Cheng Xiao pretended not to hear and continued riding his armored horse, killing his way into the concave valley at a steady pace. When they were less than a hundred zhang away from the enemy, Cheng Xiao turned his head and shouted in a low voice, “Lower your spears, charge at a uniform speed.”

The long spears, originally pointing straight up at the sky, were pressed down. The grim spear tips extended several feet past the horses’ heads and were held level in their hands. Under Cheng Xiao’s leadership, the warhorses’ speed began to increase steadily.

Dong dong dong~

As the warhorses stepped on this sandy land, the sound of their hooves became faster and heavier, like a series of rumbling thunder, causing the entire concave valley to tremble faintly.

The Blood Wolf Soldiers who were fighting the Gold-rank One-Horned Tiger at the climax of the battle woke up to the danger too late. Their originally messy battle formation was now in total disarray. Their commander, covered in blood, was in the most tragic stage of the fight with the One-Horned Tiger and could not spare any time or thought to issue orders.

His only thought was to kill this Gold-rank One-Horned Tiger, eat its heart and core, absorb its power, and make himself stronger.

One could say that although Yuwen Hu was a brave and skilled general, leading his subordinates into battle often quickly boosted the morale of the troops and plunged them into a violent frenzy. This allowed him and his troops to unleash terrifying destructive power.

But from any perspective, he was not a qualified commander. Once he encountered an enemy who was good at scheming to target his weaknesses, he and his troops could often be plunged into a desperate situation.

Because of the commander’s own reasons, fighting to the death against an inappropriate enemy at an inappropriate time, over a hundred Blood Wolf Soldiers had been severely injured or killed. Even Yuwen Hu himself had suffered many injuries, with two or three being fatal. Indeed, he could pile up the death of this One-Horned Tiger with his life and the lives of his soldiers, but what was the significance of that in the midst of the enemy’s schemes?

The Blood Wolf Army was now in a desperate situation. The Blood Wolf Soldiers at the rear of the battle formation felt a powerful cavalry force crushing towards them from behind. In the darkness, they could not see the figures clearly; it was as if a group of unknown monsters were rushing over in the pitch-black night. This instantly plunged them into bewilderment and helplessness.

Amidst the chaos and lack of unified command, some rode their horses forward to squeeze in, some rode their horses head-on towards the Iron-armored Heavy Cavalry, and a few scattered individuals shot arrows.

The arrows had no accuracy in the dark night. Even if they barely landed in the Iron-armored Heavy Cavalry unit and happened to hit someone, they would be deflected by the heavy iron armor. Arrows required angle and penetrating power; only arrows with strong penetrating power could barely penetrate full-body iron armor and cause some damage.

As for those scattered Blood Wolf Soldiers who crashed head-on into the cone formation, it was like eggs hitting rocks. They were hit by the Iron-armored Heavy Cavalry, knocked off their horses, and trampled into meat paste under the ruthless, cold iron hooves.

At this time, the speed of the Iron-armored Heavy Cavalry had reached the limit at which they could maintain their formation. Cheng Xiao looked grave and solemn, shouting in a hoarse voice, “Grip the spear shafts tight, clamp the spear handles firmly under your armpits, pay attention to the movements practiced usually. Any enemy who dares to block the way, crush them all. Hoo-rah!”

“Hoo-rah!”

With a burst of shouting that revealed a metallic aura amidst the low tones, the Iron-armored Heavy Cavalry, using the tip of the cone as their point of aim, fiercely plunged into the chaotic rear of the Blood Wolf Army.

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