Chapter 615 - Clash of Steel and Blood (2/2)
In just the blink of an eye, both parties were only less than two hundredat each other There were about seventy or eighty archers in the Shatu cavalry Likewise, there were also about seventy or eighty archers from Tie Yunshan’s party However, the ratio of archers to ordinary soldiers was relatively higher in Tie Yunshan’s party
The archers froe enee with bows, then switch to swords for close combat when they had closed in on each other
Yan Liqiang unsheathed the sword he carried with hi toward him Both parties suffered casualties, but the Shatu suffered heavier losses because Tie Yunshan’s men carried s arrows on them, most of them put their shi+elds up to protect their head, chest, and other vital body parts Hence, they sustained relatively se compared to the shi+eldless Shatu cavalry
After the first wave of sporadic shooting between the archers fro sounds were heard as another torrent of arrows ca down on the Shatu cavalry before they could even react They streaked across the sky like a dense swar locusts and landed on the Shatu cavalry that was rushi+ng toward Yan Liqiang’s party
The five hundred guards Yan Liqiang brought with hi about five hundred arrows at the same time The Shatu cavalry’s frontline was instantly reduced into a complete mess as cries were heard Dust flew as more than two hundred of them were knocked off their steeds Not only that, but when one of the rhinodrake steeds fell, the others behind tripped over it and stu at a high speed, the consequences of the two hundredat the front was disastrous to those at the back As soon as theirat the back immediately collided into the rhinodrake steeds in front of them This instantly disrupted their anized structure or well-established tactics for cavalry archers No one from the Shatu cavalry expected there would be so ’s party For the White Stone Pass cavalry, those who carried boould just attack their enee This was the same tactic that the archers frouards performed attacks in unison rhythmically Therefore, even with the same number of people, the destructive power of the coordinated attack was very different compared to the scattered attack Of course, this didn’t take accuracy into account
The Shatu cavalry was immediately stunned Before they could even react, the second wave rained down on theain By the tied each other in close couards had already performed three coordinated attacks The size of the Shatu cavalry was reduced by four to five hundred ed the White Stone Pass cavalry in a battle with the re three-quarters of the 1,700 men
The five hundred cavalry archers s as they avoided colliding head-on with the Shatu cavalry They rode past the beautiful arcs on the plains as they started to circle around their prey like a pack of stray wolves, looking for openings
“CHARGE…!” Yan Liqiang roared The sword in his hand gleamed, then transformed into a deadly rainbow that sent the head of a Shatu soldier in front of hi and his body off his rhinodrake steed
With another swing, his sword broke the spear that another Shatu soldier thrusted at hi with both of his wrists The Shatu soldier let out a blood-curdling scream as blood spurted out of his hands like fountains He fell off his rhinodrake steed and was kicked in the chest by Snowstor bones, the soldier was sent flying ten ’s sword gleaain as he split the body of a Shatu soldier in front of hians to slide out with a sickening noise, splattering on the back of his rhinodrake steed
Yan Liqiang and his sere unstoppable With every sword gleam, one Shatu soldier would fall off his steed In just the blink of an eye, Yan Liqiang rushed into his enemy’s troop and cut down more than twenty Shatu soldiers in succession
Tie Yunshan and wang Naiwu followed Yan Liqiang closely and flanked him Both of them also took downYan Liqiang’s bold and powerful moves instantly boosted the morale of the White Stone Pass cavalry They also raised their spears and swords against the Shatu soldiers Both parties intersected and Shatu people were cut down from their steeds continuously…