Even Silver Wolf's expression turned sour.
"Brothers and sisters, be prepared for a bloody fight!
"Archers, get ready to fire!"
He can only shout his commands to calm them down and increase their morale.
During that critical moment, clear gallops could be heard coming from the back of the army, and whoever the rider was quickly rushed into the crowd. "I'm back!"
It was Little North, and while he made a ruckus, he was recognized by the members at the outer ring. They made way and said, "Big Brother Little North! Where's Happy?"
Little North did not stop moving. He rushed straight to the frontlines.
At that moment, the people from Class One Hall had just moved over the sentry line, but they were not at the area sixth-tenths of a mile away from the army just yet.
Silver Wolf hastily went to meet him. "Where's Happy?"
"At the back!" Little North panted while he placed his hands on Silver Wolf's body. He began rambling, "Quick! Extinguish the torches! Log off! The Mongolian cavaliers are coming!"
Chapter 850 - Extinguish the Torches, Fight at Night
Boom! BOOM!
The tens of thousands of people from Class One Hall moved like a great wave. They generated an orderly qi flow that appeared after they activated their qi realms, and it went suppressing the twenty thousand men from the four great sects.
At that moment, Class One Hall had completely occupied three great advantages. The climate was in their favor, they had geographical advantage, and their own army supported this movement greatly!
They had the darkness hiding them. Their enemies were in the light, and they were in the dark, and they can take the initiative to attack.
Their enemies were fearful, and their army were filled with powerful people. They were also several times larger than their enemy army. Hence, their momentum was as great as a tidal wave!
If they clashed into each other and still could not win, it will make absolutely no sense.
However, just when they already treated the army of twenty thousand as targets they will absolutely be able to defeat, something unexpected happened.
Hiss! Hiss!
The hundreds of torches around the large army suddenly began extinguishing starting from the center.
In the beginning, this did not catch many people's attention. After all, this was a large camp, and it was not strange or eye-catching that a few torches were suddenly extinguished.
But within just a few seconds, the torches in the camp across them started being extinguished from the center, and the other torches by their sides also started being extinguished rapidly.
In an instant, hundreds of torches in the large and bright camp were extinguished. One-third of the camp sank into darkness.
"This is…"
The Class One Hall members who led the charge were the ones who were affected by this sudden wave of darkness the most.
They were originally less than one-third of a mile away from the main camp, and they were about to be able to draw their bows to attack, but they did not expect that the people across them would be so smart as to extinguish the torches straightaway.
And this situation quickly spread to the entire camp.
Just like how a city would fall into darkness when it suddenly experienced a power failure, a large area swiftly became dark.
Even some of the torches situated further away were extinguished by those who had sharp eyes and deft hands, who shot them down so that the flames were extinguished when they fell to the plains.
It was as if a violent wind blew through the area.
To Class One Hall, it was as if they lost their light and their targets.
"What the heck is going on?!"
"Damn it, is Mu Clan prepared to fight in the dark against us?"
Even though they had an advantage in terms of numbers, when they faced this sudden change, the vanguards were still unable to help themselves but slow down.
The large group of enemies ahead of them suddenly vanished.
Without any visibility, if they continued charging forward blindly, they will lose their geographical advantage. After all, charging forward blindly will cause them huge losses!
Besides, when it came to war at night, they will be unable to tell whether the people beside them were friend or foe, and the situation was incredibly troublesome for them.
"Why are you daydreaming?! Continue with the charge! Those at the back, light up your torches!" Blood Robes shouted at the back of the group.
While he spoke, firelight swiftly rose from the crowd.
Since they had decided to launch an ambush at night, there was no way Class One Hall did not make full preparation. Practically everyone had a torch in their hands.
And now, dense waves of people were gathered around the firelight. They were all people from Class One Hall.
The hundreds of torches swiftly made it seem as if they were about to set the plains ablaze. It illuminated the Class One Hall members around the area, and it also made Class One Hall's imposing aura reach its peak in an instant!
"Kill them!"
"Charge!"
With the illumination from the firelight, not only could the people across Class One Hall see the situation at their side, it also allowed the Class One Hall members to know just how many people their higher ups mobilized to this place. When they saw that there was a large, black mass of people behind them, and that the group was so large that the end could not be seen, the imposing aura around them instantly became even greater.
"We'll destroy those bastards from Mu Clan and Chivalry Sect!"
"Kill them!"
Their morale increased to the peak!
The grass all over the plains swayed under the firelight that numbered to more than one thousand.
The crackling firelight swiftly positioned themselves into streams of firelight while the people carrying the torches charged forward, and if anyone looked down from the sky, it will seem as if the entire plains had begun moving.
Those with keen eyesight might be able to notice that the tens of thousands of people were surrounding the enemy camp from three directions in the form of a giant pocket. With a momentum that could devour everything whole, they went to envelope the darkness at the center.
Right now, the only thing that displeased Class One Hall was that the area lit up by the torches was very limited. It will only light up the area around ninety-eight feet from the torch, and they could not see the area 164 feet ahead of them.
Hence, even though the light on their side shone brightly and they had a fierce momentum with them, they still could not see their enemies after they sank into darkness.
But based on how quiet the area ahead of them was and how there was not a single footstep or the sound of air being pushed, they could somewhat guess that the other side might have already made their preparations for defense and were ready for war. They will not dare to take even half a step away from the place.
But now, half a minute passed.
Class One Hall had already pushed more than one-third of a mile forward.
Even so, there were no signs of the enemy at all.
Based on what they saw previously, the spot where the army of twenty thousand were should be the spot where they were currently standing.
A large number of people, including blood Robes stopped moving and looked around.
Blood Robes was surrounded by Class One Hall elites. He stopped with a frown, and his eyes shone with puzzlement.
"That's impossible. There's no way there's no movements whatsoever when so many people leave."
He looked ahead and saw that the bright firelight and swarm of people were still pushing forward.
Class One Hall had decided to surround the area from three directions, so there was no way Mu Clan can vanish from their sight without a sound.
At that moment, thunderous gallops suddenly rose from the distance.
Firelight appeared in the direction of the hor
izon far away. It seemed like a large cavalier unit was heading to the place.
"Vice Hall Master Blood, what should we do now? Do we continue moving forward or stay here?" The person beside him asked in a tense manner.
This was something that Blood Robes understood more than anyone else.
Blood Robes gritted his teeth and gave his order, "Have one group of people remain and keep an eye on this place. The others, continue chasing after them!"
*****
The rumbling hooves and the sound of the ground trembling gradually grew clearer. In fact, it drowned out the sound of air being pushed forward when the one hundred thousand people chased after Silver Wolf's army.
Class One Hall's people naturally thought that the people from the four sects had decided to head to the direction of the enemy camp after they extinguished the torches.
"After them!"
"We can't let those from Mu Clan and Chivalry Sect escape!"
"Continue chasing after them!"
If Class One Hall surrounded the area from three directions, Mu Clan's people can only escape in one direction—the direction where the hundreds of firelight quickly became clearer.
As time passed, Class One Hall finally noticed that those were not Mu Clan's cavaliers… but Mongolian cavaliers!
What caught them even more by surprise was that as the firelight got nearer, they could clearly see the area ahead of them. There was no sign of a large group of people in front of them, but only one horse that ran ahead alone in front of the Mongolian cavaliers while it swiftly rushed to their side.
The twenty thousand people from the four sects had vanished without a trace.
If Blood Robes were in front of his army right now, he might be able to notice that the situation was bad and come up with an appropriate method to settle this problem.
Unfortunately, he had been held back at the camp for a while, and right then, he did not catch up to the group that charged forward. When Class One Hall saw more than three thousand Mongolian cavaliers rushing over, they were completely unbothered by them.
Since they had already lost the traces of the four sects, the one hundred thousand people already knew that it was now impossible for them to break free from the Mongolian cavaliers charging to them. Hence, they decided to get rid of these cavaliers first before they did anything else.
If the four sects can destroy around ten thousand Mongolian cavaliers with just twenty thousand people, there was no way Class One Hall will be afraid of only thousands of cavaliers when they had one hundred thousand people on their side.
"Kill them!"
Loud cries for murder spread through the plains.
Chapter 851 - Charge at the Formation
Under Happy's strategy, nearly twenty thousand people from the four sects logged off at the same time, causing the three thousand cavaliers chasing after Happy to travel across flat land until they crashed against Class One Hall's army.
Even though Class One Hall could vaguely guess that the person riding in front of the cavaliers had deliberately lured the Mongolian cavaliers over and fired a rain of arrows at him, to Happy, if he could affect the Mongolian cavaliers' arrows, there was no way he could not affect this arrow showed, which did not have a high accuracy rate because of the night.
He put away his Hoof Shadow. Some of the arrows turned around in the air while the night hid their tracks, and they returned to Class One Hall's army!
While Happy used Shifting Stars to avoid the arrow shower from the Mongolian cavaliers behind him, he could be merciful, but when he faced Class One Hall's army, he will not show any mercy.
Each arrow drew blood!
They pierced into the bodies of the Class One Hall members like lightning.
In an instant, those people were thrown off their horses, and they cried out nonstop.
With the protection of their body fortifications, only a limited number of Class One Hall members were injured, but it did manage to stir up Class One Hall's anger.
All of them thought that those were arrows fired from the Mongolian cavaliers, but it was not fake as well.
The first wave was indeed Class One Hall's arrows, but Happy used the Mongolian cavaliers' arrow shower in the second wave. The arrows from the cavalry archers were much greater than the power in the arrows of the archers from Class One Hall.
"Kill them!"
When they saw that their friends had been attacked, the people at the back burned with rage.
Of course, Happy will definitely not forget to steal while he was at it.
After all, while he charged over to the place, he saw that the plains was filled with people from Class One Hall. Bright firelight and a black mass of people practically occupied the entire plains, making it seem like the Mongolian cavaliers seem as if they did not have enough power to fight against Class One Hall.
Subconsciously, Happy had the thought to help the weak and get rid of the strong.
Clang!
He squeezed his way into the crowd, and before the people inside could react to his actions, he executed a dazzling sword force that was more than one hundred feet long and more than thirty-two feet wide at the densest part of the vanguards in the crowd where he was.
Caught off guard, a large wave of Class One Hall members were sent flying away by that sword force!
"Who is it?!"
"What's going on?!"
"Damn it! I heard the system telling me that Happy just attacked me!"
"Careful, Happy is among us!"
"That person just now is Happy!"
"On guard!"
A person's reputation was very great in affecting the actions of others.
Surprised shouts rose and fell, and countless people had their charge freeze up. Because of it, they overlooked the Mongolian cavalier battalion that came at them with thunderous stomps.
The speed from the Mongolian cavalier was astonishing.
Even though they faced Chinese players with torches that seem as if they could set the plains ablaze, Demon General Zhao Deyan knew just how these martial artists acted.
When the Mongolian cavaliers were alone or only had around ten of them together, they might not be these martial artists' enemies.
But when they were gathered together, ten thousand martial artists can be completely annihilated by just one thousand cavaliers!
Boom! BOOM!
Two dense waves of arrow showers charged into the crowd. Then, while galloping forward with thunderous stomps, the cavaliers charged into Class One Hall's army while their vanguards were thrown off their horses.
The advantage of the Mongolian cavaliers while they were on horseback was instantly revealed.
Their composure, calmness, and imposing aura fused into one.
They brought out their weapons, sharp hatchets, scimitars, and morning stars, then used the powerful inertia from their strong warhorses to charge into the crowd.
Boom!
Almost half of the vanguards were lost. The chaos Happy created continued spreading. Before they could react to the two rounds of attacks from the arrow showers, the Class One Hall elites were already violently thrown off the ground by a huge force.
Bang! BANG!
One, two, ten, fifty.
The Mongolian cavaliers were like a sharp awl that pierced into Class One Hall's formation fiercely.
The people standing in front were shoved to the back, creating even more chaos. When the cavaliers swung their weapons, their actions were even fiercer than before. They swung their weapons at the people's necks, and they brought with them bloody lines that sprayed high into the air.
"Damn it!"
"Ignore Happy first and get rid of those cavaliers!"
It was only then that Class One Hall noticed that while Happy brought them great damage and shock, his true trump card was the Mongolian cavaliers behind him who can kill without blinking an eye.
They now faced a charge from more than three thousand Mongolian cavaliers. If they did not think of a
way to stop the cavaliers, even if Class One Hall managed to emerge from this as the victor, they will definitely suffer a lot of sacrifices.
"Attack them!
"Get rid of those Mongolians first!
"Have someone else pay an eye on Happy! Just make sure he doesn't run away!"
There were a lot of elites in Class One Hall.
Even though they allowed the Mongolian cavaliers to force their way into the army because of a mistake and had nearly one thousand of their people killed right at the first clash, Blood Robes' shout quickly calmed them down.
"Kill the horses first! If we want to kill them, we have to kill their horses first! Without their horses, they're nothing!"
Someone in the crowd quickly responded to the situation.
They rushed near the horses and seeped under the horses' bellies, though it was obvious that they were just copying what Happy did in the battle replay.
Unfortunately for them, this was something other people will find hard to do.
Without Petite Dragon and Arhat Body, even though they managed to avoid the Mongolian cavaliers' hatchets, there was no way they had tank the Mongolian cavaliers' pincer attack. After all, they could move around dexterously.
Most of the hundreds of people who rushed near the Mongolian cavaliers were torn apart by the arrow showers and hatchets behind these cavaliers.
Even if they managed to get close, the effect was not great.
When the axes came cutting at them, their momentum froze, and they were hacked into bloody pieces on the spot before they fell back.
"What the heck?!"
Crack!
The horses' legs were broken as the sound rose. Blood gushed at the attackers' bodies. The war horses w.h.i.n.ed shrilly, and a few Mongolian cavaliers fell to the ground pathetically.
However, these Mongolian cavaliers' reaction time on the battlefield was definitely not average. They rolled on the ground and crouched down when they got to their feet. They grabbed their weapons and cut at the head of the person who brought them down.
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