Chapter 271 - The Gift of the Saber (1/2)

Chapter 271: The Gift of the Saber

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A few years ago, akiller The forion and gather a tea the Golden Roc Fort He clai and felt that there would be others willing to join his cause The two of theain this very day on the battlefield

The ya, and the killer called hiya had built up a sizable team He drilled theiant formation Even so, he knew that he had too few , and thus he sent out trustedthe presence of his tea Huan’s re the people from the different peaks of the Great Snowya had observed the Great Snowet in touch with Yang Huan, the Dragon King He wanted to be sure that Yang Huan really had things under control and that he would be supporting the correct person After he was convinced that the peaks of the Great Snowmountain were truly united, he led his otten about the killer

He gave the order to his trusted ather at Shu-lik This took a lot of tiers were not familiar with the route to the Great Snowmountain, and were stopped by the Shu-lik army beyond their blockade When the machetemen finally arrived at the Great Snowmountain, they realised that the main body of its swordsmen had already set off for the battlefield

More and ya’s call to arya had originally wanted to lead theed his courseand his swordsmen were already headed to the eastern border of Shu-lik It took the’s forces as they had to take evasiveintercepted by the Shu-lik arroup created an preparing for a possible invasion They stood down only when the machete Wenshi+, he was fleeing ards after the appearance of the Golden Roc Fort’s reinforce rode one and a half kiloht about how he had waited for al a name for hiht not have another shot at it if he gave up on the Dragon King now He did not want to follow in the footsteps of the legendary Jiang Ziya, who only found a suitable person to serve at a ripe old age He was also afraid of having no inco

To avoid that, he knew that he had to ensure that the Dragon King would survive the battle, even if it would cost him all the swordsmen of the Great Snowmountain With this in mind, he rode back in a hurry to the Great Snowmountain’s base ca swordsed to say, “The Dragon King is in danger” Without waiting for him to finish, the swordsmen swarmed out of their camp and rushed to the scene of the battle

Just as the swordsya and his ot into blows as they did not know each other, and it was Boss Tuo who ot to the battlefield He explained to the swordsht his hted beyond words He could not help lifting his head towards the sky, secretly feeling grateful and lucky that he did not desert the Dragon King He did notand the rave danger of perishi+ng on the battlefield All he said was that they were engaged in combat with the enemy, and that the forces of the Golden Roc Fort were slowly retreating, therefore he had coather more men, so that they would have a chance to contribute

If he had ht have believed hi, not to on King was in dire need of their assistance, and once they heard that the machetemen were not their enemy, they hurried onwards to the battlefield without even bothering to greet their allies

Tuo Nengya understood that he had to reach the Dragon King quickly as well He ordered the 500 or so mounted machetemen to follow his lead and the rest ere on foot to proceed on a forced march to the scene of the battle

The mounted machetemen soon overtook the swordsmen and arrived first at the battlefield They could see both sides engaged in close co badly

They quickly dismounted, as they were not accustoe formation made up of seven‘Kill’ in unison

These 500and the main body of the Great Snowmountain that day If theand his h there were not many swordsmen from the Great Snowmountain left, the appearance of the machetemen proved that they still had reinforce to their assistance, the Golden Roc Fort decided to retreat and regroup

It took Gu Shenwei a while before he could identify who his reinforceot on a horse and rode up and down the battlefield, shouting orders to his swords enemy

The commander of the Golden Roc Fort was ht, and he orried that hisafter their opponents Intelligence provided after the battle proved that his deduction was correct—Dugu Xian had at least a 1,000 archers regrouped and ready to rain death on their pursuers

The battle was basically over when the machetemen and swordsmen ere on foot arrived They saw the survivors fro the bodies of the fallen comrades

Neither side declared itself as the victor, as both sides suffered heavy losses

The Great Snowmountain suffered about 700 casualties—about one third of their troops Gu Shenwei knew that even though he had won the battle, he had lost the ith the Golden Roc Fort so far Even though his reater losses on the enemy, they would be able to replenish their ranks quickly

Once the Dragon King and his swords they did was not to commemorate their fallen comrades, but to thank the machetemen who had coave the long-saber he was still holding on to as a gift to Tuo Nengya, presenting it to the n of respect All the swords out their most precious items, aside from their swords, and stacked them into a pile They allowed the macheteave up the best tent for their newfound allies to rest in