Chapter 336 - The Defeat of the Luohai Kingdom and the Resolution of the Crisis (1/2)
Chapter 336: The Defeat of the Luohai Kingdom and the Resolution of the Crisis
With Shan Congwen’s death, the morale of the Wan Kingdom’s troops thoroughly collapsed and they were soon trounced by the army of the Great Yue.
Yuwen Tong was walking through a crowd of soldiers, and Yao Yi was hurrying towards him, followed by a group of men. All of a sudden, the situation took a turn for the dangerous.
“Watch out, Marshal!”
Several men in black appeared out of nowhere and came at Yuwen Tong from different directions with sabers in their hands.
Eyes going cold, Yuwen Tong did a twirl like greased lightning, brandis.h.i.+ng his long knife, generating an elemental outward wave of internal energy which deflected the couple of sabers and at the same time forced away all soldiers within a several-dozen-meter radius around him.
The four black figures flew at him once again. The expressions in these people’s eyes were obviously different from those of common solders. They were apathetic and ruthless and were aiming to kill with their every blow, and they didn’t seem to care about their own lives at all, as though determined to achieve their ultimate goal of taking Yuwen Tong’s life at all costs. These people were neither solders nor common kung fu experts. They were professional killers who would stop at nothing to get the job done.
Yuwen Tong could tell at a glance what these four men were capable of. The reason why he had used his long knife to force the others away from him was because he didn’t want any innocent soldiers to get trapped in this ring of encirclement. Then he heavily stuck his long knife into the ground, causing a violent quake with his powerful internal energy, throwing the four killers backwards once again. While they were uncontrollably backing off, Yuwen Tong gave his long knife a kick, which was sent rotating and shooting towards one of the killers. Meanwhile, Yuwen Tong launched himself forward, grabbed the hilt of the long knife, gave a downward slash and with that the blade went into that man’s shoulder!
When the long knife approached him, the man was moving backwards and, unable to dodge the blow, he had no alternative but to raise his saber and swing it at Yuwen Tong’s long knife. However, his countenance changed drastically as he felt the dauntingly potent internal energy spreading from the knife. His saber was snapped in two and he himself received a downward slash from Yuwen Tong and died of the grievous wound on the spot.
A companion dead, the three surviving killers were evidently much more cautious, their attacks growing quicker and more callous. They were not scared of Yuwen Tong’s long knife, and neither was any of them afraid of death. All they wanted was to deliver a lethal blow to Yuwen Tong. Faced with this kind of suicidal fighting style, Yuwen Tong, naturally, wouldn’t let any of them get close to him. Fortunately, his weapon was a long knife, and when he brandished it, an airtight s.h.i.+eld of internal energy was formed, keeping the three killers from closing in on him.
At this moment, Yao Yi and some others had hurried over and joined the fight.
The three killers’ kung fu skills were pretty good, which showed that they were top-notch professionals hired at high prices, but there was not much they could do when the opponent was Yuwen Tong. In addition, Yao Yi and some others had arrived in time. Under their concerted attack, all the three killers were disposed of.
“WATCH OUT!”
As the last killer was seriously wounded and the crisis was about to be resolved, an urgent voice came from rear of flank and at the same time a long knife was heavily hurled over!
CLANK!
An almighty clang was heard.
An arrow was violently parried by a saber thrown from a distance. The sharp arrowhead hit the flat of the saber, making a harsh sc.r.a.ping sound.
Yuwen Tong jerked his head around just in time to see the saber deflect the arrow, and then he caught sight of a Luohai archer sitting on the back of a tall horse far away, who was staring at him coldly. Meanwhile, the second arrow had been fired, heading squarely for his heart.
“MARSHAL!” Yao Yi yelled.
Yuwen Tong’s eyes fell cold and he wielded his long knife and fended off that arrow. “Yao Yi, parry his arrows,” he instructed.
Yao Yi finished off the killer with a cut and then turned around to deflect the arrows shot from the distance with the others. Yuwen Tong jabbed his long knife deep into the ground, conveniently took the bow and the quiver of arrows from a dead archer lying on the ground, and then fixed the Luohai archer in the distance with a glacial stare.
“Marshal, he’s that marksman of the Luohai Kingdom,” said Yao Yi anxiously.
Gazing in the direction of that archer, Yuwen Tong said flintily, “Stand still.”
Yao Yi and the others, though confused, subconsciously braced themselves by adopting the Horse Stance. Then Yao Yi felt a gust of wind soar up behind him and with that someone stepped onto his shoulders and almost at the same time fired three arrows in rapid succession, all of which whizzed towards that Luohai archer with unstoppable momentum at an amazingly great speed!
The Luohai archer gave a start and abruptly tried to dodge. However, he had just sidestepped the first arrow when the second and the third ones arrived, leaving him no time to dodge. There arrows were far faster then he had expected!
“ARGH!” An anguished cry issued from the distance. Two of his vital parts pierced by the two arrows, that crack shot of the Luohai Kingdom breathed his last and fell off from his horse.
Twirling in mid-air, Yuwen Tong shot all the arrows in the quiver before he landed on the ground. His last arrow was aimed at Dong Gao, the general-in-chief of the Luohai Kingdom who was in the farthest part of the battlefield.