Vol 9 Chapter 70 (1/2)

VOLUME 9 CHAPTER 70: DON’T TELL ME THIS IS THE BATTLE OUTSIDE XINYE CITY (5)

Li Dian POV

I turned back and saw her chasing after me but after a few paces, she got stymied by troops and was not able to catch up. I then continued to gallop about the battle front and swung my spear to deal with incoming enemies whilst looking for Lu Xiang. However, the enemies to our back had already begun to engage with our rearguard, resulting in a truly chaotic battlefield.

“Ah! 3,000-man general.” Just then, I saw my 3,000-man general and called out to her.

“Yes!” She responded but was not able to turn back as she was mired in battle.

“There’s no use in continuing to fight, did you not see our ambush behind!” I felt irritated and could not calm myself down as I yelled at her quickly, “Quickly! Quickly tell the vanguard to become the rearguard and the rearguard to become the vanguard and see if you can lead them to break through the surround!”

“Yes!” She replied and charged away. Though her capabilities are limited, at least she’s quick with her feet.

“Lord Li Dian!!” Just then, someone yelled out at me from behind. I turned back and saw that it was Lu Xiang who I was looking for.

“Behind!” Lu Xiang yelled out anxiously as she pointed in the direction where the ambush came from.

“No need to say any further.” I stopped Lu Xiang and drew the sword that hung by my waist and held it high above my head as I gave orders to the troops around me who were busy fighting Zhao Yun’s troops, “Everyone listen up! The rearguard will now be the vanguard! Begin retreating at once! We will break through their surround!”

After I finished yelling out the orders, I circled around the crowd and rode on with Lu Xiang in tow.

“Where were you?! I couldn’t find you!” My anger surged and I lost temper as I flared up at Lu Xiang, yelling above the racket, “Did you already notify the other 2 generals!!”

“They were with me, I already notified them!” Lu Xiang seriously responded and nodded, “After we charged into their formation, I began duelling with Zhao Yun but Zhao Yun did not engage me seriously and drew me away to the periphery.”

I see… So that’s what happened… The ambush was only sprung at the very last moment. They led us to be careless, making us think that we had an absolute advantage and charged in blindly. Our leading generals were then bogged down and separated. Finally, the ambush would be sprung and because we were separated, we could not respond immediately.

Kuh! We got thoroughly played. Looks like their entire strategy was watertight. But no matter what, I was far too careless. Even though I knew that they had more troops than what Zhao Yun commanded, I still gambled on the possibility that a rift had occurred.

And the ambush is led by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. These 2 will definitely do battle. Back when we were facing just Zhao Yun, I should have realised that something was weird when those 2 were not present!

Kuh… I even dared to give myself 30 points. From how things look now, even 0 would be far too generous.

“Lu Xiang! How many cavalry do you have left!”

“300, including my personal troops.”

I still have 100… And the other side is lightly armoured… I’ll gamble everything on this!

“Lu Xiang, see if you can get your cavalry to flank Guan Yu’s troops.”

“Alright!” Lu Xiang yelled and began gesturing with her hands, upon which a group of cavalry began separating from the chaotic battlefield and circling around it.

It&rs

quo;s not the time to consider how to achieve victory anymore. What we need to think about now is how to break through the surround and survive.

Ahead of us was the end of our rearguard. When I looked over, I saw that Zhang Fei and Guan Yu’s troops were also lightly armoured and in total, they numbered roughly 6,000 or so, the same as Zhao Yun’s troops.

So their total strength is about 12,000. But because of the chaos from the pincer attack, and the collapse in troop morale, it is impossible for us to mount a counterattack. Now, all we can do is see if the several hundred cavalry troops can tear a hole in the 6,000 strong force. At the very least, we need to break the formation and enemy lines on Guan Yu’s side before we can try to escape between Guan Yu and Zhang Fei’s troops.

However, even when we reached the battle front on this side, we still did not see mine or Lu Xiang’s battle flags amongst Guan Yu’s formation, which meant that the cavalry had yet to charge past enemy lines.

Kuh! Looks like the troops here have large s.h.i.+elds with them huh? If that were not the case, they would have charged through by now.

By now, we had already made our way to the battle front. Looking ahead, there were only “关” and “飞” flags flying about. Looking about, I found that though the rearguard had been successfully converted into a vanguard, the situation was not ideal in the least. From before up till now, we have not made much progress retreating at all, much less breaking through the surround.

The Guan-Zhang force on the other hand had charged into our formation and broke our defensive lines, with more pouring in every second. It was clear that their moral was very high. If it were not for the fact that our troops were caught between the enemy and a city, they would have likely deserted by now.

Kuh! Even though Liu Bei is already dead, just his will alone is enough to make people this zealous!?