Boiling Beast Bloodline
Chapter 279 - 54: The Battle, This is Just the Beginning_1

Chapter 279: Chapter 54: The Battle, This is Just the Beginning_1

Liu Zhenhan blew off the wood shavings from his fingers and inserted the carved wooden shaft into the pouch on his shoulder.

Avril handed him a rattan armor, but he pushed it away.

"Isn’t it a waste if it gets damaged in the battle," Liu Zhenhan said.

"What’s the next step?" Helen nervously looked at Liu Zhenhan.

The horn sounded loudly, and the raiders’ cavalry on both wings began to assemble. The team leader, a hundred raiders, rushed along the battle array, and the clash of his bronze halberd against the vertical cavalry spears produced a series of sharp noises.

The two Holy Temple Knights were strong, but they did not scare the raiders; after all, they had one thousand cavalry and ten Earth Badger knights, as well as four thousand infantrymen.

The former looked down from every angle at the military force in Heilongjiang, which at most, had only four to five hundred men, short and tall, in a disorderly arrangement. This boosted the raiders’ confidence.

"They are preparing for a cavalry charge!" Gortani warned what appeared to be a rather clueless overlord.

"We have no cheval de frise or deer fence! We have no trench! How do raiders have cavalry now? Obischillaci!" Vieri’s loud voice erupted yet again.

"A man’s glory lies on horseback!" Korina declared with a mad laugh, "I wonder if their cavalry can match ours?"

The raiders in a "V" formation advanced forward, and the loud clamor of wooden shields being beaten was powerful and intimidating. Half of the Gnome cavalry remained in their place, while the other half, under the banner bearer’s lead, spurred their horses forward, eventually picking up speed and aiming their attack towards the soldiers outside the bamboo forest in Heilongjiang’s territory from the left and right wing, each appearing as a sickle.

"The raiders have kept a reserve force!" Gortani warned their overlord urgently, "This reserved force is kept for the last strike. There are military experts among the raiders!"

Liu Zhenhan gave a cold snort. Gortani was puzzled by what he meant by it.

Upon Korina’s call, the mighty men of the Mammoth Clan all leaped onto their elephants. Little Vincent and a few other Mammoth youths also climbed onto their father’s war elephants, armed with a segment of a human steel spear, and clad in rattan armor.

"Let our children of the Mammoth Clan teach these gnome cavalries what true knights are!" Korina said with a mad laugh.

"You’ve only been a knight for a few days, and you dare say such things," Liu Zhenhan laughed.

At this point, the raiders’ cavalry had already entered the best rush distance. Once the short-legged horses picked up speed, their pace was not slow. The ten Earth Badgers were far behind. The only drawback was that after a hundred yards into the sprint, due to the poor quality of the gnome cavalry horses, their formation was disrupted.

The ground shook, and the wild grass trembled. Even though these were short-legged horses, their momentum when charging was still shocking.

"All present!" Gude raised his three-cornered Demon Hunter Spear.

The slaves and the vassal clan warriors were all swallowing hard. The gnome cavalries were 500 yards away. At this distance, they could already see the ancient patterns on the raiders’ bronze spears.

The robbers in a huge "V" formation were getting closer. Due to nervousness, some Hedgehog men had already thrown their spears at the beginning of the gnome cavalry charge. And like them, many Skunk men also swung their slings nervously, not caring about the fact that the "long-range firepower" with a range of only fifty yards could deal any significant damage to the raiders’ cavalry hundreds of yards away.

Korina’s hand was raised high. He was waiting for the last hundred yards distance – at this distance, the Mammoth long-haired elephants could launch their most powerful charge.

Cui Beixi patted the somewhat absent-minded Helen, and each of them summoned their own magical pets. The Komodo War Behemoth and a velociraptor appeared.

The sound of the "Blessing War Song" started to ring out. The sound of Helen’s cowhide war drum echoed through the sky, along with the clear ringing of Gortani’s triangular bell.

The red ribbon fluttered above Helen’s head. The Stone Skin War Dance also granted its effects to the militia closest to her.

The raiders’ cavalry on both wings were only three hundred yards away. It was obvious that the sudden appearance of the two terrifying magical beasts had shocked these cavalry. A good number of cowardly gnome riders fell off their mounts due to fear, and were promptly trampled into a bloody pulp. Truly, one had to be a good rider on a saddle-less warhorse not to fall off.

Liu Zhenhan picked up his concentrated formation, caught Katusha, and threw it at Ning Yu.

"If it disobeys again, you beat its butt!" Liu Zhenhan threw out these words and charged against the raiders’ cavalry.

One by one, stick-like objects were thrown at the raiders’ charging cavalry group. A burst of black and evil aura exploded, and the objects were thrown so far that every group within a few hundred yards of the gnome cavalry received some of these objects.

Vieri was the second to charge forward, and the tree badger, running madly like a deranged penguin, shook the daydreaming militia back into reality.

"Charge!" Korina spurred the long-haired mammoth with all his might, shouting hoarsely.

The raiders’ cavalry was thrown into chaos. A few shafts of black and purple aura flashed by; the short-legged horses that had been rushing forward slowed down immediately. Riders with insufficient horsemanship skills didn’t manage to rein in their mounts in time and fell off their horses.