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That stunning face was as youthful and vibrant as that of a sixteen-year-old girl in her prime! Her full, rounded lips were tinged with a cool, frozen red, and her cheeks, smooth and lustrous, were flushed with a natural, peach-blossom-like mist. Even the texture of her skin from her jawline to her neck was as delicate as fine jade. The few fine lines at the corners of her eyes were not the marks of age, but rather like the subtle cracks in the ice under the moonlight on frozen ground, veiled in frost.
If it weren't for those icy gray eyes, the wisdom accumulated over a thousand years of ruthless conquest, as deep and unfathomable as an ancient, icy pool, and even a touch of mature and alluring charm, Huyan Zhuo would have almost mistaken Shi Wengong for him.
Where did she learn the art of preserving youth? Why does this seventy-year-old woman act like a virgin?
"Bang! Bang! Bang!!!"
After the third drumbeat, several trap carts were pushed out of the Zeng family's ranks and placed in front of the formation. Zeng Tu, leading the charge, pointed at the Liangshan camp on Mangdang Mountain and shouted, "You traitorous bandits, do you see our trap carts? In my Zeng family, killing you is nothing but a waste of your lives. I will capture you all alive, load you into these trap carts, and take you to Tokyo to be torn to pieces! You'd better surrender now, and then we can discuss things further!"
Then, a number of actors appeared in the formation and began to sing and curse at Mount Mangdang. Huyan Zhuo listened carefully and realized that they were cursing the formation.
"Shaking the iron bells, even gods and ghosts tremble in fear. Iron carts and iron chains, sharp nails at the top and bottom. Sweeping away Liangshan and Qingshui Marsh, eliminating Liu Hong and marching to Tokyo. Capturing Timely Rain alive, taking the Wise Star alive. The Zeng family has five tigers, their fame known throughout the land!"
"Damn it! Sister, please give the order! I'll be the first to rush out and slaughter these five Zeng family tigers one by one!"
Li Kui was furious after hearing this and brandished his two giant axes, ready to charge into the fray.
"Yes! Commander of the Army! You ordered a charge! These people from Zengtou City are truly hateful! Watch me capture them alive, stuff them into the prison carts they made themselves, and escort them back to Liangshan Marsh!"
Han Tao and Peng Qi, the two deputy generals, were also indignant and angered.
"No rush. The enemy is trying to provoke us so they can take advantage of the situation and come down the mountain. We will refuse to come down and wait a while longer."
Huyan Zhuo snorted coldly, unmoved by the provocation, and simply released a carrier pigeon to inform Liu Hong of the news from Mangdang Mountain.
After a moment's thought, Liu Hong immediately adjusted his strategy. He would continue to oversee the attack on Gaotang, but he would divide his cavalry into two groups: Lin Chong, Yang Zhi, and Huang Xin would go to defend the supply lines and guard against Dong Ping.
Qin Ming, Hua Rong, and Sun Li went to Mangdang Mountain to reinforce Huyan Zhuo.
Hu Yanzhuo was greatly encouraged by the imminent arrival of reinforcements. With Dai Zong's help, he began to contact Qin Ming, Hua Rong, and Sun Li, who were returning to reinforce. These four were among the top fighters in Liangshan and were preparing to join forces to tear apart Zengtou City's attack!
Chapter 313: Thunderbolt's Night Raid on the Enemy Camp
At this moment, Zengtou City's military strength had expanded to a terrifying 35,000 men. In addition to the initial 5,000 elite village soldiers, the Zeng family forcibly conscripted 30,000 laborers to fight in Mangdang Mountain and assist in logistics. Shi Wengong claimed to have an army of 100,000 men, and surrounded Mangdang Mountain in a completely impenetrable manner.
The most troublesome aspect was that Huyan Zhuo's Fourth Army was the latest to be established, and it was not only poorly equipped, with only two thousand matchlock muskets and one thousand suits of armor, but also had few men, only five thousand. Of these, only one thousand were heavily armored infantrymen of the Song Dynasty who had surrendered with Huyan Zhuo, Han Tao, and Peng Qi. One thousand were matchlock musketeers recruited from Liangshan, one thousand were scattered soldiers reorganized from the Mangdang Mountain headquarters, and the remaining two thousand were all newly recruited soldiers from Xuzhou.
However, Huyan Zhuo had many great generals under his command, including Zhu Wu, Han Tao, Peng Qi, Li Kui, Shi Jin, Fan Rui, Xiang Chong, Li Gun, Yang Chun, and Chen Da, all of whom were military advisors and commanders under the Fourth Army.
Therefore, despite the various provocations from Shi Wengong and the Zeng family's five tigers, Huyan Zhuo chose to ignore them. He continued training his troops, striving to make his five thousand men as elite as possible. He believed that as long as Qin Ming launched an attack, everything would be fine!
On the third night, Thunderbolt Qin Ming, Little Li Guang Hua Rong, and Sick Yuchi Sun Li each led 500 cavalrymen, totaling 1,500 cavalrymen, half of Liangshan's elite forces, to the battlefield!
The three generals patiently waited until the third watch of the night, when the enemy was fast asleep, and then launched their attack.
Liangshan's first wave of attack came from the sky. The dark night sky and starry river were suddenly burned into an eerie green by demonic flames. Qin Ming transformed into a vicious green meteor wrapped in demonic fire, flying, spinning, and howling, before crashing into the Zeng family's military tent. The moment it hit the ground, a terrifying shockwave, carrying a thousand-degree heat wave, spread out in a ring and exploded, crushing everything in its path!
The soldiers around the point of impact were like wax figures falling into a furnace, instantly turned into horrifying plumes of blood mist by the demonic fire! Those a little further away had their armor melted into molten iron by the lava and flames, which poured over their bodies, turning them into howling, splattering humanoid torches amidst chilling screams.
"Thunderbolt Qin Ming is here! Anyone who's not afraid to die, come at me!!!"
Qin Ming laughed heartily, dominating the battlefield in his obsidian form, over ten meters tall, the spot where he stood becoming a pool of molten blood! With each stomp of his feet, the ground exploded with spiderweb-like cracks in the magma, and gushing columns of sulfur fire pierced, burned, and hurled fleeing soldiers into the night sky like fading fireworks.
A massive ten-meter-long spiked club swung wildly beneath the green, burning sky, whipping up a swirling storm of blood and fire. Wherever it passed, flesh and blood flew, leaving mountains of corpses and seas of blood! Those struck by the club were either charred and broken in two, their skulls exploding, splattering blood that ignited their hair and beards. In densely populated areas, the club's heat and pressure ground them into boiling pulp, sizzling and roasting them on the scorching earth and stones, turning them into charred carpets. The entire military camp became a burning slaughterhouse! The air was thick with the stench of burnt flesh and the metallic tang of steel! Only the sounds of bones shattering into pieces in the fire and the agonizing cries of dying lungs filled the air!
At that moment, Hua Rong, Sun Li, and Qin Ming's deputy, each leading five hundred cavalrymen, charged forward in a mighty force! Six thousand hooves thundered as they approached. Three cavalry units of five hundred men each, from the left, right, and rear, were like three deadly spears, fiercely piercing the Zeng family camp.
In an instant, the sky shook, the earth trembled, and the sound of six thousand horses' hooves pounding the earth was like muffled thunder and war drums, resounding throughout the universe. The Zeng family soldiers, who had just been dazed by Qin Ming's bombardment, rubbed their eyes and looked at the dark plains. To their surprise, they saw a steel-colored horizon that was writhing and rising in the dim firelight, as if the sleeping Xuan Tie Mountains were awakening under the night sky!
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Enemy attack!!!"
The soldiers panicked and tried to issue warnings, but the steel tide formed by the armored cavalry had already smashed through the wooden fence like a mountain crashing down! Although Huyan Zhuo's armored cavalry had suffered casualties in the battle with Liangshan, their armor was intact, and they had plenty of spare horses and surrendered riders. As a result, Liu Hong quickly made up for the losses and restored the force to a thousand men.
Qin Ming and his two companions led 1,500 cavalry, including 500 armored cavalrymen, all clad in iron armor on 500 dragon-blooded demon steeds, their eyes a vibrant blue like raging thunder! The dust kicked up by their iron hooves wasn't dust, but bolts of blue dragon lightning that transformed into serpentine forms, ready to devour their prey! The riders were covered in black iron scale armor, with only two burning crimson flames visible beneath their visors! Their long spears, like scythes that reaped souls, crashed fiercely into the Zeng family army!
In an instant, countless human bodies were smashed, torn apart, and flung away like rotten wood! Severed limbs and remains were hooked and dragged by fangs, crushed into a carpet of splattered flesh under the iron hooves.
Tents were torn up by the roots, and soldiers wrapped in canvas screaming were swept into the torrent of iron hooves, instantly trampled into shrunken corpses like tattered sacks.
The campfires were scattered by the iron armor, and the burning charcoal splattered everywhere like fireflies from hell, igniting the hair and leather armor of the fleeing people, turning them into human-shaped candles rolling and howling on the ground.
Rows of barricades and antlers flew through the air like children's building blocks. The heavily armored cavalry of Liangshan laughed at the anti-cavalry's antlers, completely unafraid. They simply rammed them, their thick armor ignoring the sharp spikes. Their terrifying weight shattered the wooden anti-cavalry positions into countless fragments! This allowed the heavy cavalry behind them, who were indeed afraid of the antlers, to pass through in single file.
The phalanxes of spearmen attempting to form ranks were equally doomed. Spears struck the demon steeds' iron armor, sparks flying, but before even piercing the armor, they were sent flying, spear and rider alike, the sound of bones shattering like popping beans. Those who landed were instantly trampled into a bloody pulp, indistinguishable from the earth, by the subsequent torrent of iron spears!
Chapter 314: The Armored Cavalry Destroys Everything in a Frenzy (Bonus Chapter for 3500 Monthly Tickets!)
At this moment, the soldiers of Zengtou City finally reacted and immediately formed ranks to fight the enemy. Shi Wengong was also suddenly awakened from her sleep. She looked around in astonishment and found that countless Liangshan cavalrymen were charging towards them in the dark. The entire army was in panic and chaos. It was just like decades ago when she was fighting against the Iron Falcons of Western Xia in the Guanzhong Army of the Song Dynasty!
"Don't panic! Everyone move towards me! Spearmen, hold the line! Archers, provide cover fire from the rear! Don't be afraid! The Liangshan army can't be that many! If they were, they wouldn't need to launch an attack at night when visibility is extremely poor to conceal their numbers. They should have used their massive army formation during the day to directly intimidate our morale!"
Shi Wengong calmly donned his armor, mounted his horse, and, seeing his commander's composure, his officers gradually recovered from their panic and began to direct their respective troops.
As the officers regained their composure, the five thousand elite retainers under their command gradually rekindled their fighting spirit.
Shi Wengong snorted coldly. What are these Liangshan cavalrymen? Back when I was on the front lines fighting the Western Xia cavalry, these bandits weren't even fully grown! Cavalry charges against me?! This is Shandong, there are no horse farms here. If there are cavalry, they're probably just lightly armored scouts. What trouble can they cause? Back then, when I fought the Western Xia Iron Falcons, both men and horses were fully armored. That was truly terrifying, truly devastating.
Shi Wengong calmly deployed the defenses. Although Zengtou City was large and had tens of thousands of weapons in private possession, it did not have any armor.
No matter, Shi Wengong instructed all the spearmen to take two spears. One spear was driven deep into the ground at an angle, while the tip was raised at a 45-degree angle. Then, the spearmen, hiding behind these spears, used their second spears to perform a second 45-degree angled volley, with the tip still resting against the ground to increase stability.
This doubled the thickness of the spear wall for the spearmen, making it rudimentary but sufficient to deal with ordinary cavalry. Forces are reciprocal; the harder the Liangshan cavalry charged, the more painful the impact on the spears. She could already see the Liangshan cavalrymen's mangled remains…
But just then, Sun Li, the "Sickly General," arrived with a cavalry unit sixty meters away from Shi Wengong. By the firelight, Shi Wengong saw that these Liangshan cavalrymen were all clad in gleaming armor. The lead cavalrymen charged fearlessly with long spears, while the cavalrymen on either side wielded crescent blades and slashed wildly. Even the horses of the outermost cavalrymen were clad in chilling, menacing steel armor! This terrifying sight made Shi Wengong feel as if he had returned to the past, to the difficult years when he and Zhou Tong fought side by side, leading the Song infantry to withstand the charge of the Western Xia Iron Falcons…
No way, where did Liangshan get so many heavy cavalry and armored cavalry?! Did Huyan Zhuo really lose all his Hedong and Shanxi cavalry to Liangshan that time? What kind of transport captain is that?!
"Oh my God."
Shi Wengong gasped. The troops she commanded were just ordinary farmhands, not the main force of the Song Dynasty's Guanzhong region! How could I possibly fight such a thing?
"Shoot the arrow!!!"
Zeng Suo, the fifth son of the Zeng family, was fearless like a newborn calf. At his command, thousands of archers simultaneously drew their bows and formed a magnificent archery formation. The shrill whistling of thousands of steel blades and feathers tearing through the air wove a symphony of destruction across the sky! Thousands of arrows, like iron clouds obscuring the sun or a torrential downpour of iron hail, blanketed the heavens and earth, relentlessly striking the iron armor of the Liangshan cavalry!
"Clang! Clang! Clang!!!"
In an instant, countless metallic explosions rang out one after another, and sparks flew everywhere like a waterfall. Arrows, striking the extremely thick armor plates, futilely left blinding white marks, twisted, and flew away. Even the hard arrows fired from powerful bows lost most of their kinetic energy after barely penetrating the iron armor, only causing superficial wounds to the flesh inside.
Under the barrage of arrows, the Xuanjia cavalry's formation remained as impenetrable as ever, their speed increasing rather than decreasing. Man and horse, like a single, cast-iron siege engine, crashed into the imposing iron wall of spears before them with the force to crush mountains! The arrows that pierced their bodies, causing only superficial wounds, and the trickling blood, made these steel warriors appear as terrifying and horrifying as ghosts emerging from the gates of hell!
Thousands of spearmen tightened their throats, roared, and stomped their spear butts into the ground. The spear shafts trembled like a swarm of startled snakes. They followed the training manual that Shi Wengong had used to train them, and their spears formed a wall of desperate death thorns!
Thirty meters. The iron cavalry pressed down silently like a mountain, the soldiers' heartbeats louder than the high-frequency tremors of the earth being crushed by thousands of hooves.
Twenty meters. The spearman's pupils dilated, sweat soaking his palms as he gripped the pole!
Ten meters! The spear blade is almost upon them!
"boom!!!"
Amidst the continuous, deafening roar, the spearheads of the foremost rank slammed into the chest and neck armor of the warhorses.
In an instant, countless spear tips shattered, and spear shafts bent like bows! The steel-clad horse armor, bearing countless broken spears and tattered shafts, relentlessly pressed into Shi Wengong's army from the front. A multitude of dragon-blooded warhorses, surrounded by thunder and blood, mercilessly smashed through the chests, faces, and necks of the spearmen. The sounds of countless bones breaking were drowned out by the enemy's pitiful cries.
The cavalry, arriving in quick succession, surged forward like a tidal wave, overwhelming the enemy. The Zeng family soldiers' spears and arrows were utterly ineffective against these heavily armed cavalry, unable to breach their defenses. Meanwhile, the unarmored light infantry were easily crushed and trampled by the iron horses. Some had their chests pierced by the Liangshan cavalry's long spears, their torsos shattered by the crescent blades.
In an instant, all that could be seen were severed limbs flying everywhere and blood splattering in all directions. The once impenetrable iron wall of spears had been transformed into a churning pit of flesh and blood! Broken spear shafts mixed with severed limbs convulsed and danced in the mud like desperate seaweed. Countless corpses twisted and intertwined into hills, and boiling blood, like a furnace bursting its gates, soaked the scorched earth!
The sickly Yuchi Sun Li took the lead, unstoppable, and killed eighteen spearmen in succession with his long spear, until the spear blades became dull and stuck in the bones.
Seeing Sun Li's maneuvering, Zeng Suo, riding a swift horse and brandishing a steel spear, led thirty cavalrymen from Zengtou City to intercept the Liangshan iron cavalry and save the collapsing spear formation. The young Zeng family tiger charged forward with lightning speed, raising his spear to thrust!
But Sun Li, living up to his name of "Sickly Yuchi," actually abandoned his long spear and caught Zeng Suo's spear with his bare hands, leaving Zeng Suo stunned—"I charged at you on horseback with this spear, and you were also charging at me on horseback. In this state of irregular high-speed movement, how could you dodge the spear blade and catch the shaft at the same time?"
Sun Li snorted coldly, and with a sudden jerk, he snatched Zeng Suo's long spear with his right hand. With his left hand, he drew his steel whip and lashed it at Zeng Suo's chest, forcing Zeng Suo to draw his sword to defend himself. They then engaged in a fierce battle! Zeng Suo was indeed quite skilled. Although he was at a disadvantage at the start, Sun Li couldn't defeat him in a short time.
However, this cavalry force was only barely capable of fighting. Its thirty-odd riders were crushed by Sun Li's heavily armored cavalry in a single encounter!
Seeing the situation deteriorate to this point, Zeng Suo had no choice but to flee. Sun Li didn't even glance at him, focusing solely on charging forward—"I've been charging all the way from outside the camp to Shi Wengong's banner! Lin Chong, Lu Zhisheng actually exaggerated Shi Wengong's abilities so much? Watch me slay Shi Wengong and prove my bravery!"
Thinking of this, Sun Li raised his spear in his right hand and wielded his whip in his left, charging and killing his way through the chaotic army with unstoppable courage. He tore through seven layers of Zeng family defenses in succession, and, covered in blood, he arrived at Shi Wengong's command flag. Then, he saw a scene that chilled his heart: there was no one under the command flag.
Is this banner fake? Is Shi Wengong impersonating me? Is this a trap?!
In an instant, countless questions arose in Sun Li's heart. Fearing it was a trap, she subconsciously lashed out with her whip, breaking the flagpole of Shi Wengong's banner. After snatching this trophy, she was about to retreat: even if it was a fake, she couldn't leave it behind, since she was already here.
Unexpectedly, at that moment, the entire Zeng family army was thrown into chaos! Everyone was retreating, collapsing, staring at their own lines, and screaming in terror!
Sun Li was stunned for a moment. Judging from the extent of this collapse, this really was Shi Wengong's command flag. Where was she?!
"Commander! Look over there!"
A sharp-eyed Liangshan cavalryman pointed south and shouted. Sun Li looked in the direction he was pointing and saw that Shi Wengong, riding the Jade Lion Horse, had abandoned his army and fled! He had no intention of leading five thousand men of the same rank as the villagers to fight the Liangshan armored cavalry head-on.
Chapter 315: The Black Whirlwind Rages Before the Formation
Shi Wengong's escape not only threw Sun Li into disarray, but also threw the entire Zeng family army into chaos and panic. In the darkness, they could not see how many Liangshan soldiers were raiding the camp. After being raided, smashed, and torn apart by 1,500 cavalry, the entire camp was filled with great panic!
In an instant, the commander couldn't find his captain, the captain couldn't find his soldiers, and the soldiers? They had already started to flee.
At this moment, Huyan Zhuo seized the perfect opportunity, opened the gates of the stronghold, and led the Fourth Army of Liangshan out of the Mangdang Mountain like a torrent!
Leading the charge were the skirmishers of Li Kui, Li Gun, and Xiang Chong. These bandits from Mangdang Mountain were extremely brave, and they had upgraded their equipment at Liangshan, replacing their shields and javelins with matchlock guns with bayonets. They charged and fired at the same time. The soldiers of Zengtou City could only see the drums beating loudly on Mangdang Mountain, the shouts of battle, and then the continuous explosions!
The terrifying flames spewing from a thousand gun muzzles were even more numerous than the stars in the sky! Lead bullets rained down on the camp like a storm, smashing through the fortifications and piercing flesh and blood, completing the encirclement of Zengtou City on all four sides with the three cavalry squads.
"A blood sacrifice to Liangshan! A skull offered to the Great Sage!!!"
The skirmishers at the forefront shouted and fought fiercely. Seeing that they were getting close to the camp and there was no time to reload, they used these matchlock guns with fixed bayonets as two-meter-long short spears to engage in close combat.
The Zeng family soldiers were stunned, their command chain severed by the cavalry. They had barely crawled out of the hail of bullets when bayonets pierced their chests, slashed their arms, and pierced their brains! Some of the stronger soldiers could even lift the enemy corpses into the air after a bayonet strike, then let out another chilling battle roar, brandishing their bayonets and launching a terrifying foot charge towards their next target!
At the forefront of the battlefield, Li Kui was going berserk. Her powerful slashing ability was useless against experts, but it was extremely effective against ordinary soldiers. As long as her two axes could kill one person, she could instantly launch an additional attack on another target within range! It was a fight to the death!
"Roar!!!"
Li Kui let out an inhuman battle roar, raised his battle axe high, and slashed fiercely at the enemy's head. The giant axe blade easily tore through flesh and bone, embedding itself deep into the soldier's brain.
Before the muffled thud of breaking bones and shattering flesh had even subsided, the axe shadow, propelled by the momentum of the strike, lashed out with a terrifying, illogical speed! It wasn't a deliberate withdrawal, but rather the activation of her ability—once a life had been reaped by her axe, she could disregard all physical laws and muscle limits, instantly unleashing a new, equally powerful, and ferocious strike! She could even move at high speed between kills, placing more lambs to the slaughter within the reach of her twin axes.
Thus, a bizarre scene of carnage unfolded at the front of the battlefield: Li Kui's figure was almost swallowed up by the black storm created by the swirling of his giant axes. It was no longer a human technique, but a black hurricane driven by pure killing intent and blood.
At the edge of the storm, the first few soldiers to suffer didn't even have time to scream before their clothes burst open like paper, their bodies torn apart and thrown into the air by immense force, or cleaved in two. The storm whipped up by the double axes was like a natural disaster.
Once this dark storm of slaughter began, it would never stop. Each axe strike merely ignited the fuse for an even more violent eruption! Where the axe blade pierced, severed limbs and shattered armor mingled with scalding blood, splattering everywhere. The ground beneath Li Kui's feet had been completely transformed into a crimson swamp, each step leaving trails of viscous blood. Her face and body were splattered with the enemy's hot blood and flesh, yet her eyes shone brighter with each kill, like wild flames burning from the depths of hell, her mouth emitting inhuman battle cries, a mixture of roars and savage laughter.
Where she charged, the enemy lines crumbled instantly. The swords and spears attempting to close in appeared weak and laughable before the rapidly swirling black storm—the moment they were thrust forward, they were knocked away by the mountain-like axe blades; any closer approach risked being instantly cleaved in two by the omnipresent arc of death. Screams rose and fell, and soldiers trying to escape even found themselves drawn back by an invisible killing force, involuntarily stumbling into the deadly axe shadows, only to be instantly torn to shreds!
That dark storm of slaughter advanced at high speed, centered on Li Kui, tearing through everything in its path. Wherever it passed, only mangled bodies remained, and the air thick with the lingering stench of death, thick with the smell of rust and gunpowder. This was not a battle; it was a one-sided, relentless reaping of human flesh.
At that moment, Zeng Tu, the eldest son of the Zeng family, saw Li Kui's weakness at a glance—this dark-skinned fellow, in order to conserve his strength and speed, had barely worn any clothes, let alone armor. Such lightly armored berserkers were vulnerable to arrows, so he immediately organized more than thirty people to shoot and kill Li Kui.
Just then, the eight-armed Nezha Xiang Chong and the Flying Great Sage Li Gun bravely stepped forward, protecting Li Kui on the left and right. They raised their shields high, deflecting the arrows and eliminating Li Kui's weaknesses. At the same time, they threw throwing knives and javelins at Zeng Tu's troops. These two demons were special; the damage from their throwing knives and javelins was even more exaggerated than that from firearms. In twelve seconds, they threw twelve javelins and twelve throwing knives, accurately killing twenty-four archers. The last few were so frightened that they abandoned their armor and fled in panic!
At this moment, Zeng Jun was completely routed. Only Zeng's five sons and Su Ding were able to protect six small armies and slowly retreat. The rest had already scattered! Shi Wengong was the first to run away, thanks to his Zhaoye Jade Lion Horse.
When the Liangshan generals gathered together and learned the situation, they couldn't hold back any longer. Thunderbolt Qin Ming, Sickly Yuchi Sun Li, Little Li Guang Hua Rong, and Double Whip Huyan Zhuo, the four generals, were all unconvinced. They acknowledged that Lin Chong and Lu Zhisheng were powerful, but when the two of them praised their senior sister, Shi Wengong, as invincible and even stronger than themselves, their competitive spirit, unique to martial artists, was fully aroused.
There's no first place in literature, but there's a clear second in martial arts. Is Shi Wengong really that powerful? A coward who ran away before the battle even began? If we defeat Shi Wengong, wouldn't that mean we're stronger than Lin Chong? From now on, even the instructors of the 800,000 Imperial Guards will have to bow to me!
In a moment, the four men made up their minds to entrust the entire encirclement and sabotage operation to their deputy generals. The four generals quickly gathered the nearby cavalry and went straight to chase after Shi Wengong!
At this moment, Shi Wengong was starting to doubt his own existence. What the hell? He was in the heart of the Central Plains, and he was experiencing what it felt like to fight the Western Xia people on the border?
Chapter 316: Thunderfire Hellfire Descends
"The one riding the white horse in front is Shi Wengong!"
Hua Rong focused his energy, drew his bow, and nocked an arrow. A hundred meters away, the blurry white light on the horizon rapidly contracted, focused, and transformed into a high-definition image of Shi Wengong fleeing on a white horse in Hua Rong's eagle-like vision.
She abruptly held her breath. The clamor of battle seemed to vanish in an instant, leaving only that tiny white dot and the thunderous thud of a heartbeat. Hua Rongyu's hands deftly strummed the bowstring, and with a twang, twelve steel-tipped arrows were released! The arrows pierced the air, almost one after another, emitting a sharp buzzing sound; twelve deadly streaks tore through the air, all aimed at Shi Wengong's back and the top of his head!
As expected of a top expert, Shi Wengong's sharp, whistling sound as he pierced the air behind her head was enough for her to sense the danger from a hundred meters away. Her supple waist unleashed astonishing power as she twisted sharply backward. The Extreme Cold Ice Bow, which had appeared in her hand seemingly out of nowhere, was instantly drawn into a dangerous full moon!
Shi Wengong, using his grassland archery skills, drew his bow and nocked an arrow with a backhand and fired rapidly at Hua Rong behind him! The afterimages of his fingers danced, and twelve steel arrows, like poisonous dragons emerging from their nests, shot out at even more cunning angles—not to dodge, but a tit-for-tat counterattack!
In an instant, twenty-four cold stars suddenly converged in the air several feet above the ground!
"Dang! Dang! Dang!"
In an instant, the arrowhead struck the arrowhead precisely, the shaft cleaving fiercely into the arrow shaft. Sparks flew like a torrential downpour, creating a brief but blinding burst of crimson-gold starlight in the air. A dense cacophony of metallic cracking, scraping, and snapping sounds mingled into a piercing, teeth-grinding clang, as if the very void itself were being torn apart by this ferocious force. Shattered arrowheads, flying splinters, and twisted feathers, like withered ephemeral flowers, fluttered down from mid-air.
In the span of a single breath, twenty-four arrows, imbued with the deadly intent of two top archers, clashed and annihilated each other in this confined space of less than ten feet! Only the acrid smell of burning iron filings wafting through the smoke and the fleeting trails of sparks in the air silently recorded this astonishing exchange of fire.
"Excellent archery skills."
Qin Ming exclaimed in admiration, then suddenly leaped into the air, unleashing his demonic transformation. He became a hellfire meteor, once again turning the entire night sky into a sea of evil green demonic fire. Then, his true form roared, flew, and spun, tearing the green sea of fire above everyone's heads in two before crashing down from the sky. The landing point was precisely Shi Wengong and the white horse of the Jade Lion Shining at Night!
"Thunderbolt Qin Ming? He's indeed troublesome."