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Chapter 533 - 29: Great Victory, Annihilation!_2

Chapter 533: Chapter 29: Great Victory, Annihilation!_2

Yuwen Hua’s body was violently thrown into the air and smashed down onto the ground, where he coughed up fresh blood. As a General borne from a Military School, he had a fiery spirit. Even as his palms split open and his Inner Qi circulated, he desperately reached for his sword, intending to engage in close combat. However, the Battle Halberd pressed directly against his throat.

Yuwen Hua’s eyes widened with fury as he reached out and tightly grasped the sharp edge of the Battle Halberd.

Suddenly, he thrust it towards his own throat!

Li Guanyi raised his hand to withdraw the soldiers.

Yuwen Hua’s palm was cut open, creating a fierce wound, yet it did not reach his throat. The Battle Halberd penetrated his shoulder, and as his blood drained, Yuwen Hua finally lost the strength to end his own life.

Li Guanyi gasped heavily, the smell of blood at the tip of his nose. The duel techniques of the Martial World and the brutal combat of the battlefield were absolutely distinct. The young man raised his weapon high and shouted, "The enemy General has been captured by us!"

"Those who lay down their weapons, we will not kill!"

Fan Qing kicked over an iron-armored infantry in front of him and yelled, "Those who lay down their weapons will not be killed!"

"Those who lay down their weapons will not be killed!"

In the Martial Artist’s approach to combat, attacking the mind is paramount, and it is crucial to first conquer their spirit.

Soon, the shouting grew louder, like thunder roaring. Seeing their Main General fall from his horse and the Heavy Cavalry galloping across the battlefield, nobody knew who started it first, but the sound of weapons hitting the ground rang crisply without end. The infantry had completely lost their will to fight.

Li Guanyi sat atop the Qilin, taking deep breaths as he observed the chaotic battlefield.

Fan Qing, and Mr. Lei Laomeng, along with many other strong young men forced up the mountain, gripped their weapons tightly. Only now, as their adrenaline kicked in, did they realize their hearts were pounding so fiercely that it felt like it would deafen them. Their palms uncontrollably clenched their weapons tightly.

Gasping heavily, their minds went blank.

They saw their Main General sitting on the back of the Qilin, raising his weapon.

It was then that Fan Qing realized he was gripping something too tightly, his palms uncontrollably trembling, completely different from the fervor of fighting officials. He gripped his knife even harder and looked at the young General.

Hearing him yell out:

"Wind!"

They too raised their weapons in unison.

Shouting: "Wind, great wind!"

There were no battle drums or military music.

The heart under their chests pounded wildly, the sound of rushing blood ringing by their ears.

That was their battle drum!

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After the battle, they regrouped the troops and then stripped the surrenderers of their battle armor, helmets, and weapons completely. This task was assigned to the hastily arriving Pang Shuiyun, who was a core strategist within the original Taiping Duke Army.

He was very familiar with these tasks.

It was his suggestion to spare the lives of Yuwen Tianxian and Yuwen Hua.

For subsequent uses.

Ling Pingyang and his five hundred Heavy Armored Cavalry had surged through the enemy lines without a single loss, displaying a level of ability second only to the three great cavalry corps. Ling Pingyang and his five hundred Heavy Cavalry dismounted, and the thirty-something-year-old Cavalry General removed his helmet and saluted, saying:

"I am Ling Pingyang. Hearing that General Li was trapped and leading his troops, five hundred cavalry have come under the General’s command, ready for dispatch."

The five hundred Heavy Cavalry saluted in unison.

The solemnity and the clad in Heavy Armor made them seem like fierce beasts of steel, strict and imposing, their unyielding discipline exuding a terrifying dominance of an elite force.

Li Guanyi and others under his command, including Fan Qing, watched these steel monsters clad in Heavy Armor with awe.

The five hundred Heavy Armored Cavalry silently observed these mostly unarmored, partially Light Armored men. They lacked such fine armor and weapons, but there was also a quiet Qi Mechanism encircling them, their expressions now devoid of a civilian’s fearful unrest.

Calm, solemn.

Ling Pingyang could see the curiosity in these men’s eyes.

That curiosity also carried an instinctive thought of how to defeat such foes.

This was no longer a submissive look of cattle or sheep, but one of predators with bared fangs, who had tasted blood and victory.

Among the 1800 men under Li Guanyi’s command, 500 were elite private soldiers from the City Lord Mansion, mostly entering Realm Threshold archers, and a group of Martial Artists entering the realm.

The rest had been bandits driven to revolt, who had already been rigorously trained by thirty-three old Taiping soldiers found by Pang Shuiyun before Li Guanyi and his men arrived.

Even just one month of training, coupled with the days Li Guanyi spent traveling, and the time the Yuwen family took to deploy, amounted to just over a month. But only an elite force knows.

Besides long-term, systematic elite training.

There is another method to rapidly mature recruits in a very short span of time.

The battlefield.

A Martial Artist who rolls through the brutal field of cold weapons and doesn’t die, becomes an old soldier, experienced in blood, no longer fearing the melee of swords. The change in mindset at this level is extremely crucial.

This battle against a secondary level infantry corps, although relying on the "Moon-shrinking Formation" with minimal losses, was also bloody and lethal.

These were no longer mere rabble.

They were a pack of wolves.

Changsun Wuchou, who had led the Light Cavalry in flanking maneuvers, had no choice but to continue his logistical duties after returning. Minimizing losses and assessing gains took time, but he promptly submitted his report.