Chapter 442: Heroes, No Matter Alive or Dead!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The shower of blood rained down with increasing fury, turning the ground red, but none of it so much as dripped on the thirty thousand men of the Steel Cavalry – what sort of speed and efficacy did it need to possess to achieve such unbelievable terror?
Wang Dingguo was still in the vanguard; his mind was blank at this point, thinking about nothing except the enemy that was in front of his eyes.
There was only the enemy ahead of them to consider.
It was, to some extent, a true embodiment of the term marching forward dauntlessly!
"Yutang's Steel Cavalry!" Wang Dingguo roared.
His body was still tilted forward to save the horse's energy, but the long saber in his hand was already spinning, forming a ray of light. In that single move, forty to fifty heads flew into the sky, while dozens of upper bodies were flung everywhere, streams of blood spluttering upwards.
When the corpses had dropped to the ground, Wang Dingguo was no less than a thousand feet away, along with his horse. He was that fast, moving in at a speed that indicated that he was both fearless and nonpareil.
"Peerless in the world!"
The frenzied growls of the thirty thousand men behind Wang Dingguo followed him. The Steel Cavalry tailed Wang Dingguo closely, like a surging tide, not breaking apart as they advanced.
A total of thirty thousand people rode as one – it was definitely a high point in the history of cavalry war!
"Kill!" Wang Dingguo's voice turned hoarse eventually, he had shouted too much; however, his imposing aura did not wane in the slightest.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
The Steel Cavalry howled in a crazed frenzy; ten thousand people had their weapons pointed forward, the other ten thousand people had their weapons pointed to the left while the remaining ten thousand people had their weapons pointed to the right. The slew the men that stood in their way without disrupting their orderly advance.
With a loud 'clang', an enemy general in front of Wang Dingguo was flung thirty feet away by the latter; both the horse and the man were bleeding through their seven orifices as they looked at Wang Dingguo hopelessly. Wang Dingguo spared them no glance, leaving only clouds of dust behind him.
The enemy's blockade, paid for with his life, did not even earn a glance from his opponent, stripping from him the luxury of resting in peace as he died.
"Woo~ Woo~"
A strange horn was being blown incessantly.
Wang Dingguo could guess that it was their enemy reshuffling their archers, gathering them together to let fly their arrows with precision. He did not think much about it though, only having one thought in his mind.
"Breach!"
Wang Dingguo let out another bellow, leading the Steel Cavalry and charging in a straight line across the army where two of the enemy's troops were assembled. Everywhere they passed, horses fell and men were flung away; heads rolled off, limbs were scattered indiscriminately, and blood coursed in streams!
The momentum gave chills to all the Dongxuan soldiers who had to face Yutang's Steel Cavalry. The sting of that chill was much more intense than the wintery cold they had to endure physically.
Were these humans that were attacking them?
Another loud clang greeted their ears. Wang Dingguo had slashed the three Dongxuan soldiers in front of him into six different parts with one strike. Suddenly, he felt an inexplicable sense of relief; his vision was clear.
He had breached the enemy's base!
The first half of their operation was completed!
It was a complete success!
Wang Dingguo did not turn about immediately. His speed remained constant as he sped forward another twenty thousand feet before steering his horse to make half a round – in front of the tip of his saber lay the base of Dongxuan.
The thunderous gallops still resounded, it was still an orderly formation. Thirty thousand men of the Steel Cavalry followed Wang Dingguo in making half a round almost without any loss of speed, all of them facing the Dongxuan army, bathed in blood.
Each of them had fresh blood smeared all over their helmets and their heads; all of them were red, blood red!
As if tens of thousands of killing machines had suddenly greeted the human realm, the sanguinariness exuded by this team of elite men was not only intimidating, it was terrifying!
Wang Dingguo did not linger, he roared to signal his start to the second wave.
"Yutang's Steel Cavalry! Kill, all the way back!"
"Kill, all the way back!"
Behind him, the Steel Cavalry's roar resonated uniformly. Their feet clapped their horses' abdomens, their bodies leaving the saddles to stretch forward; each of them howled as if possessed. They raised their weapons and followed closely behind Wang Dingguo.
The uniform formation turned, yet again, into a black tornado, a black arrow, in just two breaths after they charged. They were still indomitable and unstoppable in their mighty advance.
"Children of Dongxuan! Who dares to fight with your father?"
Wang Dingguo felt his blood burning to the point of no return, the adrenaline pumping through him made him incredibly ecstatic as he roared into the sky continuously, as he charged into Dongxuan's formation once more.
At this moment, Wang Dingguo dared to fight without hesitation even if all the pinnacle experts of the world were gathered in front of him to stop them. The build-up of his momentum had truly reached an unsurpassable level – at the very least, their imposing aura was undisputed.
"Fight! Fight! Fight!"
The Steel Cavalry behind Wang Dingguo roared with equal fervor; they were also pumped with adrenaline, and they charged into the enemy's formation, advancing all the way as if entering a no-mans land.
This time, both sides of the Steel Cavalry were plagued by innumerable arrows, showering upon them like a black storm.
Dongxuan was obviously unprepared for the Steel Cavalry's ambush, but it was their only available countermeasure; the dense rain of arrows was the best counterattack they could muster right now. However, their desperate counterattack was not immediately effective.
The Steel Cavalry was shielded with heavy armor. As long as they were not unlucky enough to get shot right in the face, they would be fine; even if it were a rainstorm of arrows, the Steel Cavalry would not be deterred.
It was the same; wherever they had passed, men and horses flew away. There were even some Dongxuan soldiers who were terrified enough to try to avoid them and no longer had the heart to stop and fight them.
The ground further away shook – Dongxuan's elite troop, the Shadow Cavalry that was said to be equivalent to the Steel Cavalry was on their way, reeling in before unleashing their attack.
Wang Dingguo roared thunderously. He, who was at the frontal of the vanguard position, had basically intimidated the enemy's army all by himself. Throughout the battle, no one could stop him for even a second. Everywhere he went, he could be clearly seen as long as his saber waved in the air.
The horn sounded solemnly from the enemy's base. It was the command to fight to the death, the ignition of a forlorn and futile tactic.
It was obvious that Dongxuan's marshal was dead set on wiping out the Steel Cavalry, wanting to bury them all there! When such a military command was issued, each fighter in the Dongxuan army would immediately turn into a suicide fighter.
Under these circumstances, anyone who did not charge in would be penalized with military law – beheaded on the spot!
The battle turned fiercer because of this harsh law.
The Steel Cavalry continued dashing forward like a frenzied storm, but the counterattack they received became abnormally violent.
The consequence of an elite army facing an equally elite force was extreme devastation!
Countless members of the Steel Cavalry were unhorsed all of a sudden when Dongxuan's soldiers charged at them. Both sides would turn into a mush of flesh by the surrounding cavalry while their warhorses remained in the formation, still bolting forward in a berserk attempt to break free.
Faced with their comrades' sacrifice, Yutang's Steel Cavalry remained stoic, only looking forward – charging ahead in the grip of bloodlust.
Kill!
In such an atmosphere, falling from one's warhorse was the endgame. Any expert or top force could not revive the fallen ones from such a battle.
"Kill! Kill!"
Wang Dingguo was in the lead, chortling sonorously; his saber light glinted like sparkles of lightning. He was akin to a god of war who knew not of fatigue!
Heads rolled in front of him, accompanied by a crimson waterfall, comrades continued falling from their horses behind him. As the war gradually shifted to its climax, Wang Dingguo growled again before he felt a sense of relief again. He had once again charged out from the enemy's base.
Behind him, a black tidal wave surged ominously.
Their breaching tactic was once again successful!
Their operation had been successfully executed.
Wang Dingguo continued to speed forward as he whipped his horse; his muscular build suddenly straightened up on the horse. Pointing the bloodied saber towards the sky, he hollered, "Brothers, we have won this war! Follow me home!"
The words were not a command for the troop behind him. It was a spirit summoning ceremony of Yutang's Steel Cavalry for their fallen brothers after every war.
Behind their general, all of Yutang's Steel Cavalry who had charged through as well straightened up on their horses, their weapons pointed to the sky. "Brothers! Follow us home!"
"Roar!" Wang Dingguo bellowed.
The Steel Cavalry behind him shouted in unison, "Don't worry, brothers, I'm still here. Your family shall I shoulder. You have your merits, I have my life; don't worry about your elders and your young ones!"
This was the Yutang Steel Cavalry's routine.
After every war, the first thing for the survivors of each troop was to go to their comrades' families and take care of them well. It was also the last comfort to the patriotic souls who had fallen.
The steel-colored tide was still in the shape of a sharp, triangular arrow when it gushed out from the enemy's base, surging forward with an unstoppable force.
When we fight, we are fearless and menacing!
When we emerge victorious and return with our brothers' indomitable spirits, we are still as fearless and momentous!
Yutang's Steel Cavalry shall forever be Yutang's Cavalry!
Dead or alive, this shall never change!