94: Chapter 94 A Series of Defeats
"Followers of the Wolf God, my brothers! The enemies opposite us want to destroy our homeland and turn our wives into slaves. They want to steal our wealth, take away our loved ones, and destroy our faith. Do you agree?" General Ajige roared loudly.
"We do not agree! We do not agree!" It started with just a few voices, followed by countless roars.
"Do you still want to return to those dark, sunless days, living like beasts of burden?"
"We don't want to! We don't want to!" Already fierce, the various Half-Wolfmen were stirred to boiling blood by General Ajige's words, their Killing Intent soaring to the heavens. They did not want to return to life under the rule of the Mad Wolf Tribe; they wanted true freedom.
"For our homes, for our loved ones, for ourselves. The Wolf God is supreme! Brothers, charge!" General Ajige raised his bronze scimitar high and roared.
"The Wolf God is supreme!" The Wolf Cavalry began to urge their mounts forward.
It started as a trot, then gradually accelerated. The Wolf Cavalry surged forward like a raging tide breaking through a dam.
General Ajige, along with a few experts, served as the tip of the arrowhead formation, leading the massive Wolf Cavalry to charge toward the right at a very slight angle.
The opponent's wild punches couldn't kill an old master; seeing the opponent had left no reserves, Right Guduhou sneered coldly. He commanded his main force to press forward with the vanguard. As long as they could entangle them for a while and wait for the flanks to outflank and encircle them, he could capture these rebels, every single one of them.
"Shhh... Shhh..." The sound of sharp weapons tearing through bodies was everywhere, as were the screams.
As a servant of the gods, General Ajige's strength was unquestionable. His body radiated a faint white light, and the sharp blade forged by the Qin Kingdom was coated in a white glow, making it unstoppable.
His scimitar slashed across several Wolfmen's bodies, cutting them in two. His mount, a wolf beast, was also extremely miraculous; it swung its sharp claws and fangs in alternation, knocking back and sending flying the enemy's mount wolves while remaining unscathed itself.
With such a capable leader, the soldiers' morale was high.
The Wolf Cavalry followed the General's banner, thrusting straight into the heart of the enemy army.
"What a pity!" General Ajige still had the leisure to sigh at the bravely fighting army, which was clearly holding back.
The Mad Wolf Tribe's vanguard and main force totaled over nine thousand men. Due to General Ajige's intentional dragging, the thick cavalry formation was not pierced, and the Wolf Cavalry quickly fell into a bitter struggle.
Once cavalry lost its speed, it turned into stationary slaughter. The soldiers in the center could not break through, and the soldiers on the perimeter were constantly trading blows, with casualties on both sides.
Watching the flanks gradually closing in, Right Guduhou couldn't help but let a smile touch the corners of his mouth. "We have won."
General Ajige took a breath; a mysterious connection from underground told him the military situation in the distance. A smile appeared on his face, and the white light that had extinguished on his body reignited. "Follow me and break out!"
A trapped beast will still fight! When one man fights with his life, no one can withstand him.
The Wolf God Khanate's army was not in the center of the heaviest part of the Mad Wolf Khanate's formation. When they exerted their strength at this moment, they quickly broke out of the heavy encirclement, leaving behind thousands of corpses, and fled in panic.
"A step too late!" Right Guduhou clenched his fists and gritted his teeth. He was unwilling to let it end like this and, wanting to expand his victory, urgently ordered the entire army to pursue.
The Wolfmen following closely beside him were about to stop him, but Right Guduhou suddenly said, "I am the nephew of the supreme Ruler, and I am deeply favored. Do you want to become future Danghu or Left and Right Rulers?"
The two Wolfmen hesitated for a moment, but the military order had already been rapidly executed, so they had no choice but to pursue helplessly.
The armies of the two nations, one in front and one behind, galloped at full speed. Both were light cavalry, so their speeds were similar. Therefore, the Wolf God Khanate did not suffer many more losses, except for a few unlucky ones whose wolves stumbled and fell to the ground, only to be trampled into meat paste by the pursuing enemy forces.
When the Mad Wolf Khanate's army charged over a small hill, as they watched the enemy's remnants kick up clouds of dust, two squads of light cavalry charged out fiercely. An ambush!
The momentum of the Mad Wolf army stalled. Right Guduhou smiled coldly and waved his claw sharply. "Just as I expected!"
His personal guards following closely beside him howled in unison, instantly drowning out the noise of ten thousand wolves galloping. Two squads of Wolf Cavalry, wearing leather armor and wielding heavy hammers, emerged from the ranks; this was Right Guduhou's trump card.
These cavalrymen were equipped with hard-won leather armor and weapons, and even the giant wolves they rode were clad in armor. They were one of the few heavy cavalry units of the Mad Wolf Khanate.
When light cavalry and heavy cavalry charge at each other, the result is predictable. The ambush force that the Wolf God Khanate had managed to scrape together was quickly scattered.
"The overall situation is settled, all troops charge!" Seeing the enemy retreating with no room for a comeback, Right Guduhou no longer maintained the formation and ordered the entire army to charge with all their might.
"Awoo!" The victorious Mad Wolf Khanate army scrambled forward, eager to gain greater military merit. The carefully maintained formation was no longer complete; each hundred-man and thousand-man unit, fearing that their own people would steal the credit, didn't care if they protruded from the formation and chased after them in a rush.
In their view, the Wolf God Khanate, whose ambush force had been defeated, had used up all its trump cards, and there would absolutely be no other surprises.
The terrain gradually became undulating, and the army had gradually left the flat plains during the long-distance pursuit. The massive shadows of mountains began to appear in the distance.
Even for the world-dominating Wolf Cavalry, after such a long-distance gallop, the giant wolves' limbs began to tremble, and the pads under their claws became overloaded and cracked.
The pain of their beast kin forced the Wolf Cavalry to slow down. Fortunately, the situation of the Wolf God Khanate army in front was about the same; both sides subconsciously slowed down, and the two armies turned from cheetahs chasing antelopes into turtles chasing snails.
Watching the merit within his grasp about to slip away, Right Guduhou felt great regret, but he also knew that his subordinates were extremely exhausted, and it was time to stop.
At this time, because of the intense pursuit, the distance between the Mad Wolf Khanate's vanguard and rear army had far exceeded the thirty li stipulated by the Ruler. Even as the Ruler's own nephew, Right Guduhou had to consider the Ruler's military orders.
Just as he was about to order to stop the pursuit, he heard a crackling sound all around.
Looking from the sky, the Mad Wolf Khanate army was stretched into a spindle shape. Outside this moving spindle, small, round holes suddenly blossomed like a hundred flowers blooming in unison.
From these holes, a large number of troops swarmed out. In the blink of an eye, a huge encirclement had been completed.
These soldiers held long weapons, and after quickly running out of the holes, they began to rapidly form rectangular military formations. These soldiers were mainly infantry, and they were of all shapes and sizes, varying in height and weight.
Among them were Kelo People, Half-Wolfmen, Bearmen...
It was the main force of the Half-Wolfmen that had been missing all along!
The Wolf Cavalry of the Mad Wolf Khanate could not help but stir in front of the neat military formations. The enemy was several times their number, and the Wolf Cavalry's speed was restricted; were they doomed to be slaughtered?
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