Chapter 739 - Crushing Defeat (2/2)

After they repulsed the fifth attack, dawn broke Mo Lin re of a lethal issue: their arroere running out

This was the precise reason why the enemies had surrounded the for the Dragon King to run out of soldiers

Only a united arlanced at histhat they were ready

“Half in the front, and half in the back Get ready to retreat”

Mo Lin issued a quick order and led the way in the front with 200 common cavalrymen Gu Shenwei and the Court Attendants Arroups was not far, and at a ap in the northeast

This was also another co the eneet into escaping

During a retreat, there is a constant desire to speed up blindly, which would stretch the combat lines and eventually cause it to fall apart and with it, the arht back until every soldier just becoidly controlled the roups could support each other at any given point in tione by now, and long-distance shooting had become wasteful, so Gu Shenwei ordered the archers to shoot only when the enee The enemy had retreated with more than ten bodies left behind, but several cavalrymen besides him were also downed

When dawn finally broke Old Man Mu stood on his horse’s back, and suddenly pointed at the flags in the distance “Eek, that’s not the bird king’s army”

When the enemy had ambushed theri’s retinue without any discussion, including Gu Shenwei

“That’s… King Rizhu’s flag,” Old Man Mu said, astonished

King Rizhu had died in the Royal Court, and his generals had taken their surviving troops and retreated ho in the thousands still here, and how had they evaded the extensive patrols of the many scouts?

Gu Shenas also confused, but noas not the ti around five or six miles, Gu Shenwei’s arers that he had sent to get reinforcements had been killed and their bodies in

There’s no backup that they could count on Shulitu’s army was the closest but there was still tens of miles between the out now

Mo Lin caht a request of the soldiers “Your Majesty, we’d like you to leave first We can still handle another round of attacks”

Old Man Mu showed an expression that wordlessly indicated ‘What took you so long’ Then he said, “I’ll protect His Majesty Once we get a bit further aon’t even need horses Just jurass and hide Who will be able to find us? Old dog, you’re out Your lightness skills are too laet with your funny crutch that’s taller than a man Spare us froreed

The Dragon King gave his consent so willingly that Old Man Mu suspected that thisRizhu’s arain They had realized that their ene out of arrows, so they pushed forward faster

“The Dragon King’s running away!” someone yelled

As expected, twoar’s attire, and the other was short, undoubtedly the Dragon King’s bodyguard Old Man Mu

The pursuers split into two groups One group continued to attack, and the other began to chase after the Dragon King quickly

Mo Lin assumed coe towards the northwest, where Shulitu’s !” soe batch of the encircling arh the blockade and accelerated their retreat Their arrows had run out and they no longer had the power to resist their enemies

A soldier had volunteered to swap clothes with the Dragon King, and accoe number of their enemies

Initially, Mo Lin orried about whether this little trick would work, but the results went better than he expected and King Rizhu’s army was fooled easily But they quickly realized the truth because the disguised Dragon King wasn’t able to ride far before being shot and exposing the truth

Gu Shenwei had tried his best to avoid fleeing, but as done was done Other than fleeing at full speed, they had no other options now

King Rizhu’s ar the to outflank and intercept them, which was a tactic that he couldn’t be et, there’s no need to fight at close quarters; just shoot continuously froet down

Arrows fell down onto their heads like a downpour of cold rain, each salvo killing another batch of soldiers

Gu Shenwei had witnessed wars between Norland arap between the two parties had been far s the forrassland archers Sabers and swords becaainst those hard bows He parried several arroith his saber, but was unable to savein the center and intercepted most of the arrows for him with their own mortal bodies

Gu Shenwei had suffered a crushi+ng defeat and was starting to question his for while retreating’ had really been the right thing to do

More than half of his 500-men army was dohen an unexpected reinforcement finally appeared