Vol 8 Chapter 13.2 (2/2)

A rough count puts the defending contingent at about 100-200 troops so I’m not sure if Zhou Cang can break through them… Perhaps we should just charge in with all we have!

… No.

No, I can’t let the excitement from battle get to my head. We need to buy time so we have to conserve as many troops as we can.

“All other cavalry! Make your way around the defending contingent! Leave the head-on charge to Zhou Cang and her cavalry!” Realising I nearly forgot myself, I hurriedly gave supplementary orders after regaining my senses.

“Zhou Cang, don’t push yourself!” I yelled out at Zhou Cang who was several dozen paces in front of me. Just 100 paces from Zhou Cang were the lines of spears.

“Push myself?!” At this, she only returned the question back and didn’t say any further.

I didn’t know what she wanted to do, but in the next second, she vaulted from her horse and roared, “I never ever push myself!”

She somersaulted in the air and spun 2-3 times, accelerating with every spin and landed like a tornado amongst the forest of spears.

I couldn’t see her, but I could hear the clas.h.i.+ng of weapons after Zhou Cang landed and when I looked over, I saw that almost 20 spears were split into 2.

“Haa!” Along with a ferocious roar, and the glimmer of a blade, 5-6 people in the first 2 rows fell to the ground, their blood spraying in every direction as they did so.

And now, Zhou Cang’s majestic figure could finally be seen, as she held her machete with both hands and knelt on 1 knee amongst the broken spears and casualties.

With just 1 attack, she had torn open a hole in the defensive lines of almost 200 men. The ones who survived the initial attack tried to surround her but Zhou Cang swept her machete about and there was no way the enemy soldiers could surround her without getting sliced apart.

And by this time, the rest of the cavalry had caught up and swept away the defensive lines.

“Everyone! Charge ahead!” Seeing that the formation was broken, I yelled to bolster troop morale. When the ones around me heard my yell, they actually did seem invigorated and hastened their charge.

“Don’t get too deep! Let the enemies come to us! We’ll deal with them slowly!” Just then, Zhou Cang added on as well to prevent the troops from charging in too far.

I took her horse that she had left behind and headed to her.

“Zhou Cang, are you alright? I think you got cut.”

“Ah? This? It’s fine! I’ll just lick it when I get back and it will be fine.” She rubbed the bloodstains off her face and smiled as she gave me a thumbs up.

“Here, your horse. It’s better to continue on horseback. You’re not wearing plate so it will be easy to get injured.” I said as I handed her the reins to her horse.

“No, no need.” She rejected me swiftly, “I’m used to walking. Horses just get in my way during battles.”

When she finished, she didn’t bother listening any further as usual and leapt up beautifully once more before spinning and slas.h.i.+ng down toward the enemies, killing many at one go once more.

Looks like she’s one h.e.l.l of a ferocious warrior as expected. But I can’t lose out as well.

“Everyone listen up. Don’t ever let the enemy get around us! When attacking cavalry troops, be careful of your neck, and go for the horse first!” I did my best to be as vicious as possible with my words, just as Zi Long taught me. Of course, my viciousness can’t match hers.

“Ya!” Just then, a soldier leapt up at me and slashed down with his blade.

My mind went blank in that instant, and I just stared at the blade for a long while before realising the danger coming at me.

But it was only for a moment. For some reason, my body was able to react instantly as I twisted to the left and dodged the attack before raising my sword and stabbed him.

“Ah!” Following the attack was a gut-wrenching cry which unnerved me– My sword was stabbed into his abdomen. His face contorted and he shuddered once before he stopped moving.

“Ah…”

This wasn’t the first time I killed someone, nor is this the first time I’m seeing a dead person but I still couldn’t accept it. And so I concentrated on pulling my blade out slowly, and tried to calm my emotions as I did so.

Calm down… Calm down…

I told myself this over and over as I was now afraid at what I’d just done. I never thought that after some training, I can dodge and counter reflexively.

And… These are Sun Quan’s troops, should I really be doing this?

These are troubled times,

Ah.

In my mind, these words appeared once more. And this phrase was something I’ve heard over and over again ever since I came to this era.

Troubled times.

Yes, these are troubled times, and so these situations can’t be avoided. — Or so I told myself over and over again to convince myself.

… Alright!

“Keep at it, everyone! Be careful not to get in too deep! Don’t be drawn in!”

In order to forget about the more important problems, I concentrated on the danger before me to make myself feel better. I was in a perilous sotuation now after all, and if I were to die, I couldn’t deal with those problems even I came to a solution.

After we fought for a while, I looked into the distance, and saw that many of the enemy troops were heading for us, and Chen Dao and Chen Gong’s troops.

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