385 Facing Off (2/2)

Besides, he also personally preferred killing enemies with his own saber to staying behind the battle line.

By now, the battle line of the tribal troops had already been twisted into an asymmetrical arch line, since both of its flanks had surpassed the troops in the middle and the left flank was a little bit ahead of the right flank.

The nobles of the Land of Fragrance had a certain responsibility for this mess, as all of them had followed the Shili family's example and promised to pay a double bounty to the tribe who killed the most enemies.

On the other side of the battleground, the conscripted savages felt slightly nervous, because this was the first time for them to fight a battle on a plain. Although the Dragon King had ordered them to shoot together, some of them still shot their arrows ahead of the fixed time. As such, they failed to achieve the desired effect in the first round of shooting.

Fortunately, the conscripted savages' excellent archery skills successfully remedied this fault. They preferred aiming at the targets before shooting to shooting randomly.

In the first round of shooting, many of their arrows missed their targets because of the long distance, but in the second round, almost every arrow hit its target. The right flank of the tribal troops suffered heavy casualties and soldiers kept falling down to the blackened ground one after another.

The noblemen on the slope all turned pale at the sight, and the noblewomen turned their heads away from the revolting scene.

The winner of the writing competition continued reading out his work, but his voice got weaker and weaker. In the meantime, his audience started to flee.

There were no bowmen in the tribal troops, and all the soldiers in the troops wore only crude leather armors and were even less armored than swordsmen from the Great Snowmountain. Therefore, the 300 conscripted savages easily kept the tribal soldiers at least 30 meters away from the Great Snowmountain troops with their bows and arrows.

The tribal soldiers swiftly retreated backward. After they got out of the range of the arrows, they stamped their feet with rage while loudly accusing the Dragon King of playing dirty tricks on them and criticizing that the Great Snowmountain soldiers were not real men.

Compared to the locals in the Land of Fragrance, these tribal soldiers were not so ignorant. Most of them had heard various kinds of rumors about the Dragon King before, but none of them had taken these stories seriously. They belittled the Dragon King's achievements even more when they heard that he had been defeated by the Golden Roc Fort and abandoned his camp to flee southward.

Upon seeing the tribal soldiers' reaction, Gu Shenwei ordered his army to get ready for a close combat. The savages immediately put their bows and arrows away and picked up their swords and machetes.

The tribal soldiers were thrilled to see their wish come true and could not wait to show off their power in front of their generous employers. Therefore, they repeated their mistake and acted independently again. After running only less than 20 meters forward, they lost their formation. When seen from afar, their battle line looked like an earthworm struggling on a dry ground.

Contrary to them, swordsmen from the Great Snowmountain were all seasoned warriors.

To maintain their formation, they started by walking.

Gu Shenwei walked in the middle and put most of his time and efforts marshalling his soldiers instead of observing his enemies, preventing his men from advancing rashly.

When he saw the tribal soldiers leading the charge come within 10 meters of his army and was even able to clearly see how many teeth the enemy soldiers had, he finally lifted up his Five Peaks Saber and blew his horn, which was tied to a shoulder strap he wore.

Thousands of soldiers from the Great Snowmountain instantly blew their horns to answer the Dragon King's call.

The horn sound shook the ground and vibrated the air. This sound had conquered the Land of Fragrance before, and now it made the people of the Land of Fragrance start to tremble with fear once again.

The young writer stopped reading his story out and stood agape. His mouth dropped open, but words no longer came out of it.

Many nobles ordered their slaves to stay here until the battle ended and tell them the result after the battle, while they themselves stealthily left the place.

The tribal soldiers were also shocked by the horns, but they did not shrink back. Instead, they emitted various kinds of shouts, trying to psych their opponents out and build their own courage up.

When the Dragon King and his swordsmen put their horns away, the horn sounds were still reverberating. After the horn blowing, they all held their weapons high, making their formation now look like a giant hedgehog who suddenly erected all of its spines.

The two armies quickly got into a close combat.

No epic in the Land of Fragrance had described such a fighting scene before. The nobles, who were watching the fight from the slope, all got stressed out and escaped upon seeing the blood splattering over the battleground. Even the seven sons of Shili Molo, the nominal commanders of the tribal troops, also fled and left everything to their slaves who felt their legs getting weaker at this moment.

A professional general would dismiss the battle as a street brawl but he would definitely be astonished by the brutality exhibited in the latter half of the fight.

The tribal soldiers were evidently weaker than the swordsmen from the Great Snowmountain in terms of kung fu and teamwork skills, and their numerical superiority could hardly make up for these disadvantages.

As such, the battle soon turned into a massacre. The swordsmen got all the bad emotions, which had been stored up all this while, out of themselves and began to slaughter the tribal soldiers.

Due to the large number of the tribal soldiers, this fight might have lasted for several hours, but someone's screams suddenly interrupted the battle. ”The Great Snowmountain troops are raiding our camp! They're raiding the camp!”

When the tribal soldiers looked back at their military camp where they stored all their valuable items, they were surprised to see that it was engulfed by thick smoke.

Upon seeing that, they hurriedly ran toward their camp. As such, the first battle fought in the Land of Fragrance in this century had lasted for only less than half an hour until this moment.

However, the battle would not end here, as Gu Shenwei intended to annihilate all the enemy forces. He wanted to keep his army's stay in the Land of Fragrance a secret for a longer time.