Chapter 344 Zhao Zilong, MotherfOOker! (2/2)
*BOOM*
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A change occurred on the opposite side of their location. Gongsun Du's ambushing forces had broken through another front.
While Tadun organized a battalion to attack the back of marching troops, Qiuliju also led another force of 5,000 men to lurk within the west of Liyang.
As Tadun attacked from the east of Gongsun Zan's forces, Qiuliju assaulted from the west in silence.
Their timing was impeccable. At this rate, Qiuliju would reach the empress!
Tian Yu and Zhao Yun looked the collapsed front in shock.
”Not good! We gathered most of our elites here!”
Tian Yu wanted to rush to the other side and protect the Empress carriage, but he could not. Tadun's remaining forces were pressing on them.
”ZILONG! GO HELP THEM!”
”I KNOW!”
The horse of Zhao Yun galloped toward the pack of the chaotic battlefield while his spear swept the hostile forces, clearing the path for his rush.
On his way, Zhao Yun reached Tian Yu's side, who were engaging in a battle with five riders.
Five spear thrusts got rid of the soldiers around Tian Yu in an instant.
”Come with me!”
”Who's going to command them, then?”
It was ironic. Just a moment ago, both of them did not want to command the troops. Now, Tian Yu wished to stay behind and oversee them.
”Alright. Stay safe, brother.”
”Aight. You too, Zilong.”
With haste, Zhao Yun departed.
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At the middle section of the battlefield, Lu Zhi's phalanx formation and Gongsun Du's horse archers were at a stalemate.
The long marching lines of Gongsun Zan was initially separated into three sections, the northern front, the middle, and the southern rear.
Gongsun Zan controlled the northern front, but all front battalions had been annihilated.
Lu Zhi managed to organize the middle section and formed a 12,000-men phalanx array.
For the rear, the empress caravan was there along with Zhao Yun, Tian Yu, and Gongsun Zan's strategist, Guan Jing.
The longer the fight continued, the more worries Lu Zhi had. As Gongsun Du avoided fighting with Lu Zhi head-on while Lu Zhi focused on his defense, it was clear as days that Gongsun Du was a decoy.
'Bastard. This ambush was planned! They wanted the empress!'
Lu Zhi opened his clan chat and was about to warn Zhao Yun and Tian Yu. Then, he remembered that both of them had not joined Tong's clan yet.
”Messenger!” Lu Zhi bellowed.
”Sir?”
”Send words to Zhao Yun and Tian Yu! Beware of a surprise attack and protect the empress!”
”Yes, sir!”
The messenger departed from the formation, galloping toward the southern units.
Gongsun Du noticed the movement. He grinned, ”So weak, Zhang Tong's dogs. What's immortal? They are just a farce and a fairy tale. Did you see, my soldiers? No one in this world is mighty and invincible. All forces will crumble once we hit their weak point.”
The horse archers of Gongsun Du sneered and laughed at Lu Zhi's battalion while they kept shooting arrows at from a distance.
Lu Zhi could not chase after them, and his archers ran out of arrows.
There was nothing he could do at the moment.
'Zhao Yun, Tian Yu, please!'
His last hope was placed on the hands of two youths.
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When Zhao Yun got back to the palanquin of the empress, he cursed himself for being an irresponsible bodyguard.
As a bodyguard, he should have been by He Xing's side at all time. Yet, for the sake of thrilling, he jumped into a battlefield and discarded his duty.
The palanquin was broken and riddled with arrows. He Xing and Liu Xie also were not there!
Everything was in chaos. Gongsun Zan's soldiers fought in a disarrayed formation while the horsemen of Qiuliju decimated everything in their path.
As soon as Zhao Yun observed the enemy's formation, he noticed a group of horsemen who were carrying a woman and a child.
”YOUR MAJESTY! YOUR HIGHNESS!”
Zhao Yun screamed in a panic. He galloped forward and charged into the formation of horsemen.
”GET OUT OF THE WAY!!”
Like before, his spear cleared away all opposition. As his adrenaline injected into his brain, his attacking speed increased from three to five strikes a second to five to seven attacks a second.
Moreover, he subconsciously accelerated his brain process and perception, activating Tong's personal skill, the overclock.
Zhao Yun used a bullet-time, and his speed increased by another gear.
Within five seconds, he mowed down forty soldiers!
The phenomenon alarmed Qiuliju and his soldiers.
”Get rid of that rider! Archers, get him!”
Light cavalries transformed into horse archers. A hundred riders took out their bows and arrows, aiming at Zhao Yun.
”HAH!!”
The spear tip of Zhao Yun entered the stomach of a Qiuliju's soldier. Zhao Yun exerted his force and carried him up with the spear.
Then he slashed down, throwing the soldier at a pack of archers.
”What!?”
Although Zhao Yun disrupted a few archers, he could not stop all one hundred soldiers. Almost a hundred arrows flew into the air, targeting Zhao Yun.
Zhao Zilong peered at the oncoming arrows. He shifted his spear handling to the center and spun it as fast as he could.
A rotating spear became a shield of Zhao Yun, which it deflected the arrows from himself and his horse. After the arrow rain finished, Zhao Yun came out unharmed.
Qiuliju looked at the scene as if they saw a ghost.
”What … is he!?”
Fortunately, Qiuliju was commanding his troops at the center of his formation. Meanwhile, his subordinates were handling He Xing and Liu Xie.
Zhao Yun chased after the empress instead of going after the general.
He roared, ”LET HER GO, OR I'LL KILL EVERY SINGLE OF YOU!!”
The subordinate general, who was carrying He Xing, turned around and sneered.
”What are you going to do here alone? Kill us all?”
He placed the kidnapped empress to his colleague and rode back, coming to confront Zhao Yun.
”I'm Liu Yi of the Gongsun Clan! Who do you think you are!?” Shouted Liu Yi as he charged at Zhao Yun on his horse.
*PU*
Like what had happened to Tadun, a spear tip found its way inside Liu Yi's neck.
”Zhao Zilong, motherfOOker!”