Peace Order
Chapter 527 - 27 Fight! Fight! Fight!!!_4

Chapter 527: Chapter 27 Fight! Fight! Fight!!!_4

This person treated them as humans.

Fan Qing placed the bowl and chopsticks aside, with both hands pressing on the ground, his head heavily kowtowing.

He heard his own voice and those of many others responding:

"Gladly embrace death."

Dad, Mom, the seeds you left behind will surely have a day when they can continue to be sown.

Definitely.

In a short period, 1,800 people—with originally 600 possessing Inner Qi, and later, under the unlimited supply of Elixir Pills, another 600 stimulated by the medicine’s power and Exotic Beast Meat, had stimulated a thread of Inner Qi through the method of the "Taiping Book."

But before they could proficiently use this Inner Qi, Yuwen Tianxian had already arrived, bringing equipment for storming the mountain, yet Li Guanyi chose to make a judgment that astonished Pang Shuiyun at this moment.

He did not defend the mountain.

He actually arrayed his troops in front!

When Yuwen Tianxian’s scouts returned, even Yuwen Tianxian couldn’t believe it. What he found unbelievable was not that Li Guanyi dared to array his troops on open ground against him. Any martial artist with a preliminary understanding of the Military School formation would exhibit such contempt for the enemy; it was just foolishness.

What shocked him was the morale of those rabble!

Arraying on flat ground, facing a regular army!

Especially against Heavy Cavalry and Heavy Infantry, fear in the hearts of those rabble would overwhelm everything.

That Li Guanyi, could he have used some sort of bewitching art?!

When the Red Emperor and the Overlord confronted each other in the past, the military god under the Red Emperor’s command had operated in a way to place his troops in desperate situations to survive, and history is filled with feigned defeats and other strategies. But with insufficient morale and lack of trust in the Commander, a feigned defeat could turn into a true rout.

Those placed in desperate situations all truly died.

But now, on flat ground, facing Cavalry with Heavy Infantry while in no armor or Light Armor.

This was seeking death.

Yuwen Tianxian fell silent, feeling he had been played.

Li Guanyi’s early march, arraying his troops for battle, made the equipment prepared for assaulting the mountain redundant, but he still brought them, advancing slowly until reaching the battle lines. Yuwen Tianxian spurred his horse forward, but then he hesitated.

Something was off!

Li Guanyi’s troops, over a thousand men, were actually arrayed before a river, using Carriage Crossbows and War Chariots on the outermost peripheries to form a crescent shape, with the wide river protecting their rear, preventing Cavalry from executing flanking maneuvers.

Those so-called War Chariots were merely carriages placed horizontally, covered with giant shields. Beside each Carriage Crossbow stood seven soldiers in Light Armor, armed with long spears, crossbows, and bows, forming a Battle Formation. Behind them was the raging river, which deprived the Cavalry of their mobility.

Ships were even on the river.

Naturally, Jiangnan lacked no boats, carrying reserve troops, also armed with crossbows and bows. They were very tense, but they seemed to trust the young War General completely, which almost surpassed the level of morale imparted by famous generals.

Yuwen Tianxian even noticed that they knew they might die, but they still harbored a sense of worthy desperation.

"How... How is this possible?"

Li Guanyi, clad in Heavy Armor, stood at the very center of the Carriage Crossbow Formation. His eyes opened wide, his hair slightly lifted, already tinged with a thread of reddish-gold, watching the halted Cavalry and Yuwen Tianxian. The youth held the Battle Halberd, his heart also pounding wildly, yet his expression remained calm.

The battle began.

Even if it were just him, watching thousands of men clad in Armor advancing slowly towards him, he too felt fear, but he couldn’t retreat, only gripping his Weapon tightly, standing in the middle of everyone.

The Iron Futu armor could hardly conceal that tumultuous heart.

Li Guanyi cast his gaze downward, imagining a majestic man standing behind him.

The young man clutched his Weapon, thinking.

It was truly a gamble. Even with high morale and unity, the disparity in numbers, individual strength, and experience of the Commander were difficult to overcome. A head-on clash would likely lead to Annihilation, the difference only being how much damage they could inflict on the enemy.

So, please let me borrow your strength...

Li Guanyi opened his eyes, fear and weakness expelled.

Years ago, Liu Jinu with two thousand seven hundred infantries defeated Northern Wei’s thirty thousand Armored Cavalry. His victory shook the world and stood as one of the strongest infantry-over-cavalry formations in the history of Yanhuang warfare—the Moon-shrinking Formation.

After Li Guanyi proposed it and Pang Shuiyun perfected it, the formation appeared for the first time in this era.

Li Guanyi grasped his Battle Halberd, slowly raising it, pointing ahead.

Whether the edge of Moon-shrinking was as sharp as in the past, or Yuwen Tianxian’s Iron Cavalry was stronger, he took a deep breath. The Fierce Tiger Sky Shouting Halberd hummed faintly, as if it were his own blood.

Li Guanyi clenched his Weapon, with the White Tiger and Red Dragon Dharma Form roaring beside him.

"Come on!!!"