Chapter 58 Battle of Anping – Decisive Battle Part 1 (2/2)
Zhou Cang with his giant blade cleaved three of the incoming soldiers sideway in one swing, and he continued to repeat the same motion on the other incoming soldiers.
Tong used his sword in his right hand to chop down any soldier that came close to him, while his other hand aimed his pistol toward the others that were out of his sword range.
Within the first line of trench, all trench squadrons retreated back to the second line of defenses while they kept their head down to avoid all incoming rocks and arrows from the alliance army.
Tong and Zhou Cang stood their ground for little over five minutes before Tong shouted an order at Zhou Cang.
”Withdraw to the hole! Stop them there!”
Because two of them could not hold all enemies from crossing the firstline, they had to retreat.
Afterwards, both of them cleared up the enemies in front of them and dashed back to the second trench line, in front of the destroyed wall.
Zhou Cang jumped into the trench and disappeared from the sight of Zou Jing and Guo Dian troops. However, Tong stayed behind.
”You go no further.”
He turned around and resumed shooting his pistol at any soldier that came into his range.
”That's the enemy general! Kill him!”
The archers of Guo Dian saw this chance, they ignored their friends who were within the arrow range and launched a barrage of arrows at Tong's location.
Seeing the black rain of arrows coming toward him, Tong grabbed a nearby corpse and lift it up as if it was his shield and covered his head.
The arrow rain made contact with fleshes of the corpse and the soldiers in front of Tong. Five arrows slipped through his guard and penetrated into his arms and legs.
Tong gritted his teeth and glared at the incoming forces as he activated his regeneration skill. Light shone on his wounds and all arrows that were stuck on him were ejected with mysterious strong shockwave. His wounds closed itself and disappeared as he had never gotten any injury.
Blood got into Tong's eyes, his adrenaline rushed into his blood vessels. He forgot about his existence and all his thought. Killing any enemy in front of him was the only thing in his mind.
Hundreds of Guo Dian and Zou Jing troops rushed at Tong, but sword afterimages mowed down everyone that moved forward.
However, there were troops that bypassed Tong and attempted to rush into the hole in the wall. Zhou Cang who had retreated back reappeared in front of the collapsed wall with his infantry unit. He shouted to Tong.
”THE TROOPS ARE IN POSITION, SIR!!”
Hearing what Zhou Cang shouted, Tong snapped out of his zone and took a step back to withdraw from the front.
*SSIK*
But before he ran back another step, a spear was thrown and pierced through Tong's chest!
Tong shuddered from the shock of pain, then five more spear were stabbed into his chest by the nearby imperial soldiers of Zou Jing.
*SSIK* *SSIK* *SSIK* *SSIK* *SSIK*
Tong's vision turned yellowish from the lost of blood and pain from his cracked bones and pierced lung, yet he gritted his teeth and activated his regeneration skill once more.
”AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!”
*WINK*
Light flashed from his body and released a circular shock-wave which pushed back all attacking soldiers. At the same time, his wounds disappeared again.
But more soldiers who wanted an achievement for killing the enemy general kept coming at Tong. They stabbed out their spears at him once more.
”TIME STOP!!”
A loud shouted came out from Tong, after which ten soldiers around him became headless as their head flew up the sky. Meanwhile, Tong reappeared at the surface behind the third line of defense, and he ran back to regroup with Zhou Cang.
Guo Dian and Zou Jing who observed from afar behind their men were shock at the sight.
”Monster …”
”Is he really an immortal?”
Those were the words they uttered before a scout rushed in and reported an urgent message.
Wen Chou troops were spotted on the east of this battlefield and they were heading this way. They estimated that they would arrive here at noon.
Zou Jing immediately looked at the position of the sun. They had roughly less than two hours before Tong's reinforcement arrived.
Guo Dian and Zou Jing ordered their light cavalry to sortie and head east to intercept the incoming Wen Chou Army. Three hundred horsemen of Guo Dian and a thousand horsemen of Zou Jing charged out.
While monitoring the invader and firing her arrows, Hua Shi saw this movement. She whistled and sent a relayed flag signal to Bo Cai who was hiding in the west three kilometer away with his 200 light cavalry.
Bo Cai saw a flag signal that was waved on top of a tree, he ordered his men to charge out. Their targets was the backline trebuchets and the archers.
After sending the signal, Hua Shi continued to display her archery skill and her light arrows, but two of the stray arrows flew toward her.
*THUD*
One of the two arrows pierce her shoulder!
*THUD*
The other one pierced her chest!