486: Chapter 486 Horse Manure

The cavalrymen had thought that by charging in on their warhorses, these Khitan people would be trampled to death by the hooves even if they weren't hacked to death.

No matter how brave you were, weren't you still just flesh and blood? Could you really be stronger than a warhorse?

But when the clash began, they discovered that these enemies—who looked neither human nor ghost and had blood-red eyes—possessed speed and power that far exceeded their predictions!

A large number of Khitan soldiers leapt into the air like giant wolves, pouncing directly onto the cavalrymen's backs.

The impact of the warhorses failed to knock the Khitan people away; instead, due to the immense force, the cavalrymen were dragged right off their mounts.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of lead cavalrymen had been pulled down, engaging in a chaotic melee with the Khitan Army on the ground.

The battle that followed turned directly into a nightmare for the Zhenbei Army.

These Khitan people, who emitted a foul stench, were as strong as oxen and seemed to have no concept of pain!

Even when blades carved bloody gashes into them, these Khitan people didn't pause for a second. They would lung forward to seize the weapons and kill the Zhenbei Army soldiers in return.

Once these well-trained cavalrymen fell, they could hardly last two rounds before being slaughtered by the Khitan soldiers.

Commander Bai Buhei realized things were going south the moment he saw that the army's charge had failed to break the lines.

But it was too late; he himself was surrounded by the Khitan Army, barely able to protect himself.

"Damn it! Why don't these Khitan people feel pain?!"

"General Bai! We've been lured into a trap! These Khitan people are all martial arts experts!"

"Bullshit! Where would the Khitan get so many experts!? They're just fighting like savages!!"

"No... they're beasts! I feel like I'm fighting wild beasts!"

Commander Bai Buhei and his officers cursed loudly as they struggled through the difficult combat.

Although they had heard that these Khitan people were extraordinary this time, hearing about it and witnessing it with their own eyes were two completely different things!

Relying on their decades of cultivation and the empowerment of their Heaven Grade techniques, Xie Juner and Su Wansha were safe enough for the time being.

However, there were too many enemies, and in the chaos of the melee, they couldn't use techniques with a wide range of destruction.

Consequently, they could only watch helplessly as a large number of Zhenbei Army soldiers were slaughtered before they could even react.

"Have Wanying and Caiwei been fighting these monsters all this time?!"

Xie Juner and Su Wansha exchanged a glance, both seeing profound shock in the other's eyes.

"Sister Su, let's work together to carve out a bloodied path first, otherwise morale will collapse!"

"Alright!"

Just as the two women intended to join forces to break through, a sinister voice reached their ears.

"Little girls, your kung fu is not bad..."

The two felt a chill down their spines. Sensing two surges of killing intent, they hastily dodged to the side.

Immediately after, two scimitars trailing black mist brushed past them, nearly dealing them heavy injuries.

Yelv Heqi, who had shed his black robe to reveal shamanic vestments, came treading through the air.

With a wave of his hands, the two skull-adorned scimitars returned to his grasp.

"It seems the military strength of the Northern Border is depleted if they need women to charge the front lines."

Yelv Heqi grinned and spun around, sending two streaks of black blade-light straight for the women's throats.

Xie Juner's fingers brushed over her zither strings, quickly playing out two shockwaves of sound.

Su Wansha held her sword before her in defense, her true qi transforming into crimson flames.

With two loud 'bangs', the two women felt a sweetness in their throats as the blood and qi within their bodies surged violently!

"Sound-based techniques? Buddhist mental cultivation?"

Yelv Heqi was somewhat surprised. "The arts you two practice are quite unique..."

If they had used ordinary sword or blade techniques, those two strikes might have ended the fight.

But because both women's skills focused on internal strength, they had an advantage in true qi defense.

However, Yelv Heqi could also tell that their cultivation was not enough to oppose him; he could basically finish them within three moves.

He simply swung his blade to force Su Wansha back, then accelerated, rushing toward Xie Juner.

After Xie Juner's two consecutive sound waves were split apart by his blade, she watched helplessly as Yelv Heqi brought his blade down in a vertical slash toward her!

Her heart leapt into her throat. With one hand, she drew the thin sword hidden beneath the zither and scraped the blade against the strings.

*Zhirang!*—

Sparks flew from the strings, and a sharp musical note carried a piercing wave of sound-based sword qi.

*Ding!*—

In the nick of time, Xie Juner slashed upward diagonally. Relying on the combined power of her zither and sword, she forcibly parried Yelv Heqi's strike.

A flash of surprise crossed Yelv Heqi's eyes; he hadn't expected a sword to be hidden under Xie Juner's zither.

But it didn't matter, for his second blade was already hacking toward her!

*Keng! Keng!*

Two swords thrust in from the sides, intercepting Yelv Heqi's attack.

It was The Ma Brothers, who had rejoined the battlefield upon seeing the dire situation.

"Defeated underlings, you still dare come to seek death?"

Yelv Heqi glanced at the two mockingly.

"Your martial arts are high, but with four of us against one, you might not win!" Ma Jianlong said with a cold, stern face.

Seeing The Ma Brothers coming to their aid, Xie Juner and Su Wansha both felt a surge of joy.

They were originally the Hu Family's guards. Logically, since Hu Wengui was dead, they could have simply left.

But facing a foreign invasion, the brothers had still stepped forward, disregarding their own lives.

"Good, very good. Killing civilians is indeed quite boring."

Yelv Heqi grinned savagely. "I'll have some fun with you juniors. I'll let you watch with your own eyes as the Zhenbei Army is slaughtered to the last man by my Khitan warriors... Feel the taste of despair."

As he said this, the four of them realized that if the four strongest fighters among them only focused on fighting Yelv Heqi...

...then the two thousand cavalrymen who followed from the Zhenbei Army would likely be wiped out.

The continuous screams surrounding them left them feeling angry yet helpless.

"Engineering Corps! Charge!!"

Suddenly, Colonel Liu Kun, having received Xie Yu's orders, led over a dozen fully armed war chariots in an assault toward the battlefield!

Originally, because of the melee, it was inconvenient for the chariots to enter and disrupt the fight, but seeing that the Zhenbei Army's situation was extremely unfavorable, it would be too late if they didn't act now.

"Brothers of the Zhenbei Army! Everyone get out of the way! Move!!"

Colonel Liu Kun led the men of the Engineering Corps, shouting loudly as they drove their horse-drawn chariots into the battle formation.

Many of the surviving Zhenbei Army soldiers reacted in time.

Although they weren't sure what this Engineering Corps could actually do, they treated it like a last-ditch effort!

Because they were large targets, the Engineering Corps' chariots immediately attracted a large number of Khitan soldiers.

As the chariot driven by Colonel Liu Kun reached the front lines, two Khitan men immediately pounced toward him.

But Colonel Liu Kun was clad in heavy armor and had a fixing strap tied around his waist to prevent himself from being thrown off the vehicle.

So when the Khitan soldiers tried to tackle him off, they failed; instead, they crashed into him and ended up with bloodied heads!

At the same time, Colonel Liu Kun yanked a mechanism beside him, and from the lower layer of the rear carriage, six long blades popped out with a *sou-sou-sou*!

These long blades borrowed from the design of the Mo Dao, with varying lengths from front to back to ensure that enemies at different distances would be sliced.

As they sped past several Khitan soldiers, two of them couldn't dodge in time and were directly sliced in half by the immense force!

The Zhenbei Army soldiers were overjoyed when they saw this! This chariot actually had hidden blades!?

However, what they found even more bizarre was the scene that followed...

"What is that? Horse dung?"