Chapter 641 - 197: Reunion with an Old Friend
Chapter 197 [Reunion of Old Friends]
The sled team of the Fierce Beast Race reacted swiftly. With a series of urgent whistle sounds, the warriors of the Fierce Beast Race shouted with all their might, and soon the sled vehicles on the outskirts were pulled into action. After quickly circling in place, more than a dozen sled vehicles formed a semicircular arc outside.
As the Thunder Beast Cavalry charged forward, the warriors of the Fierce Beast Race jumped off the sleds and gathered behind the cart formation.
Quickly, with a buzz, the charging Thunder Beast Cavalry spread out, and the warriors of the Human Race on horseback released a volley of arrows.
This wave of attacks didn’t yield much of a harvest; the dense arrow rain was blocked by the sleds, and only occasionally did arrows penetrate gaps, striking a few unlucky souls.
After a few screams, only five or six among the Fierce Beast Race were injured.
The charge of the Thunder Beasts was almost less than a hundred meters away from the cart formation!
A hundred meters, reached in an instant!
As the Thunder Beast at the forefront, under the rider’s control, raised its front hooves and leapt, its massive body cleared the sled used as an obstacle, the rider separated to control the horse, while another knight acting as a warrior, brandished a long knife!
The downward slash from above instantly beheaded seven or eight warriors of the Fierce Beast Race hiding behind the sleds!
Subsequently, the following Thunder Beasts, with their sturdy bodies, forcibly broke through the sleds—not intentionally, but because they were too close, with no time to leap or dodge.
The sound of sleds shattering mixed with the low growls of injured Thunder Beasts and the noises of riders falling...
The battlefield was already in chaos!
The sled formation of the first row was utterly disrupted, and the cavalry of the Human Race also lost five or six Thunder Beasts, some falling and trapping the knights underneath, causing them to cry out in pain.
Some Thunder Beasts with broken hooves struggled on the ground.
Blood sprayed everywhere!
The warriors of the Fierce Beast Race swarmed out from behind the sleds, waving axes like creatures equipped with springs. Relying on their robust physiques, they jumped high in place, pounced on the backs of the Thunder Beasts, some even fiercely grabbing knights and rolling to the ground, then tearing with eyes turned red with fury!
Blades stabbed into necks, axes split open skulls, hooves trampled people into minced meat...
Shouts and screams resounded one after another!
After a wave of charge from the Human Race cavalry, the cart formation was completely shattered. Soon, the cavalry completed the penetration, with the large group of Thunder Beast Cavalry roaring past the rear of the Fierce Beast Race formation.
What remained of the battlefield was chaos, with bodies of both Human Race and Fierce Beast Race lying haphazardly across the ground in tens!
From one charge, the Fierce Beast Race’s numbers decreased by about thirty percent, while the Thunder Beast Cavalry that broke through the battlefield sped away, with the riders on horseback continuously shooting cold arrows backward, persistently harvesting the heads of the Fierce Beast Race.
The cavalry team, having run far off, seemed to plunge into the depths of the snowfield.
Yet they wouldn’t go far, as both the Fierce Beast Race and the observing Chen Yan understood, they merely ran off to a distance to turn and reorganize for the next wave of charge.
Though the Fierce Beast Race was crude and savage, they possessed rich combat experience against human cavalry teams. Taking advantage of this interlude, the whistle sounded again, and the remaining Fierce Beasts, bloodshot eyes roaring, disregarded driving the Hunting Beasts, instead relying on their robust bodies to move each sled back, rearranging a new cart formation.
Soon, through the wind and snow of the snowfield came the sound of horns again!
The Human Thunder Beast Cavalry launched a second wave of charge!
This time, they began shooting from afar, while the Fierce Beast Race hid beneath the sled wreckage. After a wave of arrows, three to five of the Fierce Beast Race fell, but as the arrows ceased, the Fierce Beasts, fearless of death, jumped up from behind cover, closing in on the first cart formation!
The cavalry team’s collision again!!
This time, nearly repeating the process of the first charge, the Human Race cavalry paid the price of four Thunder Beasts, then once again knocked open the cart formation. After the large group of Thunder Beast cavalry charged into the battlefield, the riders wielded long knives!
On the battlefield, it was life for life!
In truth, Chen Yan saw through it; the leader of the Human Race cavalry was using a calculated exchange of life losses.
In the charge process, how many lives needed to be sacrificed to break open the cart formation—how many lives could be harvested after breaking through.
It’s just calculated exchange!
The second wave of charge still completed the breakthrough, but more bodies were left on the battlefield!
There were the severely injured who hadn’t died yet, lying on the ground howling, casually finished off by the swiftly arriving Fierce Beast Race—regardless of whether they were their own or the enemy!
The second wave of charge inflicted even greater damage to the Fierce Beast Race. Chen Yan noticed that their numbers were already less than thirty percent, and almost everyone was wounded!
However, this time the Thunder Beast cavalry charging into the snowfield ran even farther...
Chen Yan speculated in his heart—they probably wouldn’t return.
In fact, from the start of the battle, Chen Yan had made a guess.
This Thunder Beast Cavalry couldn’t take down this batch of Fierce Beasts!
Although the Thunder Beast cavalry charge seemed fierce, that momentum wrapped with wind and snow primarily came from the running of the mounts, the massive physique of the Thunder Beasts themselves, coupled with the visual effect of six hooves trampling.