Chapter 332 Fall of Wen Chou (1/2)
Chapter 332 – Fall of Wen Chou
Although this maze formation could devour Wen Chou's 30,000 horsemen into a trap of encirclement, they paid the price to complete this stratagem.
Facing the direct charge of the heavy cavalries, even knights in steel plate armor suffered injuries from the horse-charge. Furthermore, these warhorses wore bronze armor, which made the impact heavier than the usual.
As a result, several frontline knights felt as if they were hit by a truck, and they suffered internal injuries. The unlucky ones lost their footing and got repeatedly stomped by warhorses to death.
Still, these pay-to-win armors saved the life of the soldiers as no sharp halberd and spear could get through their thick steel plates.
In a few minutes of crashing, a thousand knights died from the charge impact, and over five thousand of them suffered injuries, such as broken bones or internal bleeding.
In exchange for that, all Wen Chou's 10,000 surviving troops were trapped in the middle of their army. The rest had either devoured by the maze or was still being stuck outside of the array.
”Damn you, Zhang Tong! Come and face me like a man!”
In desperation, Wen Chou challenged Tong into a duel.
Tong watched the battle from the most rear of the formation. He ignored the challenge, but he sent messages to his men.
”Don't bother capturing the general. Kill!”
Crossbow platoons on the back switched their weapons to javelins. Like the Roman soldiers, they raised their shield to blockade the horsemen while they threw the spears their enemies.
Most of the javelins could not penetrate into the double armor layers of these heavy cavalries. As armored riders in this era wore hard leather armor with sewed bronze armor, most of them did not suffer any injuries from arrows or projectiles.
However, these armors only protected the vital areas of their body.
Many javelins could still find the gaps between armors and pieced into the bodies of the horsemen, including the warhorses. By the first volley of javelins, another thousand horsemen fell.
”RRRAAAAHHH!!”
Wen Chou bellowed in anger. His horse charged at the nearest soldier while his halberd sent two knights flying. The direction he was heading was the location where Tong was.
”ZHANG TONG!! I SHOULD HAVE KILLED YOU THAT DAY!!”
Wen Chou kept sending all knights around him flying. As he was the only competent fighter, knights with spears and shields surrounded him in a few minutes, isolating him from the rest of his troops.
Though surrounded, Wen Chou still put up a fight like a cornered dog.
Tong rode out to see this old acquaintance. Between them, several hundreds of knights gathered in a pack, blocking Wen Chou's path.
Gazing at the desperate Wen Chou, Tong also felt melancholic.
Wen Chou was the one who taught Tong about military tactics in his early days when he fought against Han Fu. Although Feng Ji plotted against him at the end of that battle, Wen Chou was the only one who thought of Tong as a potential ally.
”You should have joined me when I asked you and Yan Liang that day. You can still do so today. Surrender, Wen Chou. We can still work together. Yuan Shao is not the end of the world or the last lord you can serve.”
”I DON'T WORK FOR THE IMMORTALS!! THIS WORLD BELONG TO MAN!! THIS COUNTRY IS NOT THE BATTLEGROUND FOR IMMORTAL TRASHES LIKE YOU!!”
Tong bit his lower lips.
Wen Chou was right. He and the other reincarnators should not have been sent here to interfere with their fates. As all otherworlders had changed the historical timelines and events, all residents here suffered difficulty.
Though Wen Chou and Yuan Shao were fated to lose and die in this civil war, they should have been living a comfortable life in the Northern provinces this year.
It was Tong's fault for ruining Yuan Shao and Wen Chou's life.
”I'm sorry.”
Tong pulled out his pistol and aimed at the struggling Wen Chou.
*BANG*
The 9mm bullet went through the skull of Wen Chou, ending this great general life.
”I'll bear this sin with me till the end of my soul. I'll carry your grudge, and I'll take them to the assholes behind this reincarnation.”
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Tong ignored the notification. He turned to Jia Xu and Xun Yu, gesturing them to finish this battle.
Xun Yu nodded in understanding. He bellowed, ”Soldiers of Wen Chou! Your commander is dead, and you're surrounded. Surrender now, or you'll face the same fate as your commander!”
Typically, these soldiers should have cowered in fear when they lost their commanding general. However, this did not happen with Wen Chou's army.
”NEVER!”
”WE'LL DIE WITH OUR GENERAL!”
”REVENGE!”
These elite troopers of Wen Chou were loyal to their general, and they refused to surrender in the face of death. All surviving riders charged toward to Tong's location, planning to kill Tong and revenge for their master.
Xun Yu and Jia Xu stared at these warriors in astonishment and pity.