Chapter 113: Crushing Defeat

  Beyond the snow forest at the top of the slope, another downward slope appeared in front of the Falcon team, but its length was much shorter, only over a hundred zhang.

  Yun Zhiya led the hunting hawk team down the slope, while Xiao Yang led most of the Xuanjia heavy cavalry galloping over from the icy slope above.

  Setting foot on the slope, Lin Feng gripped his battle gun tightly and furrowed his brow with effort.

  Too quiet! It's really too quiet!

  After leaving the grassland and entering the mountain forest, he had been scouting the mountains on both sides of the road. Although there was no aura of a powerful human, the aura of small beasts was everywhere.

  And now, within his perceptual range, there was actually no energy fluctuation at all.

  It seems like this place is a dead zone!

  Lin Feng's eyebrows furrowed even tighter, holding back the Wind Chaser beneath him.

  "What's wrong, Lin Feng?" Yun Zhiya asked.

  "I'll go take a look!" Lin Feng shook his head and turned his horse around, galloping towards the snowy forest at the top of the slope.

  "Let's go together!" Yun Zhiya ordered.

  The Hawk Squad had only galloped out for over ten zhang when they immediately turned their horses' heads and returned to the top of the slope. At this time, Xiao Yang led the large squad of heavy armored cavalry to the middle position on the slope.

  "Yun Zhiya, how did you come back again?" Xiao Yang's voice came from afar.

  "Sir, I'm worried, let me go back and take a look." Yun Zhiya said.

  As they spoke, Lin Feng's eyes narrowed slightly, and he took out the Tianxing Bow, with three long arrows placed on the string.

  "Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!" The long arrow shot out, heading towards the right side of the mountain wall in the snowy forest. Three long arrows almost simultaneously struck the same position.

  "Through!"

  A dull echo, as if a heavy hammer had struck the drumhead!

  "Huh?"

  Yun Zhiya's eyes suddenly turned icy cold, and he let out a loud roar: "There's an ambush! Everyone be careful!" As he spoke, he urged his black horse to charge straight towards the mountain wall.

  The sound indicated that the cliff was undoubtedly hollow. And from the outside, there were no signs of caves, which explained everything.

  The knights of the Falcon Squad all had a chill in their hearts, tightly grasping their spears as they followed Yun Zhiya and charged forward.

  "What!" Xiang Yang's face turned extremely ugly in an instant as he was walking halfway up the slope!

  "Brothers, prepare for battle!" Xiao Yang had gone through countless bloody battles after all, and although he was still unclear about the situation, he had already given out orders.

  "It's now!" In the snow cave, Liu Quan tightly grasped his war spear and swung it with force.

  "Whoosh!" A brilliant light shot up into the sky.

  In the depths of the originally quiet and peaceful snow forest, at the edge of the slope, under the calm pine snow, a huge figure suddenly jumped out!

  "Red Tiger Army!" Xiang Yang's face turned extremely cold as he saw those heavily armed and armored knights.

  So many Red Tiger Army knights were standing there, yet he still couldn't sense their auras.

  This situation is really an extremely strange thing!

  The impact of the Falcon Squad was also forced to stop.

  They are now completely surrounded by the Red Tiger Army Knights.

  All around them were towering knights riding on red tigers!

  So many knights, it's not something a small squad of falconers can contend with!

  Moreover, these people... are fundamentally unable to discern their own levels. Because on them, there is no emission of any energy fluctuations, as if they were dead.

  Front and back, left and right, all are knights! A full eighty names of Red Tiger Army Knights, this is Liuquan's entire main force!

  "First squad, second squad, block the Hawk Squad of Yun Zhiya! The rest follow me to charge! You defeat the Hawk Squad and immediately reinforce!" Liu Quan looked at Yun Zhiya with an icy tone.

  Although this small team can be easily annihilated, Xiang Yang's 90 men are rushing up with all their might. If Xiang Yang is allowed to rush to the top of the slope, the situation will again lose control.

  "Yes!" Twenty Red Tiger Army knights grasped their war spears and slowly closed in on the Hawk Squad, while the remaining sixty Red Tiger Army knights charged down the slope with a loud roar!

  Liu Quan, as the only Tiger Fist Eighth Layer strongman, charged forward to the very front!

  The slope was cold, hard and smooth, but the Red Tiger walked on it with ease. On the slope of several tens of meters wide, five Red Tiger cavalrymen rode in a row, their speed instantly reaching its limit, whizzing down along the slope!

  "Damn it! Brothers, follow me!" Xiao Yang's eyes were red and he let out a loud roar.

  At this point in the middle of the slope, it's no longer possible to retreat. The casualties from retreating would undoubtedly be even more severe, and now the only way out is to push forward!

  Withstand the opponent's first wave of impact, wait until the Red Tiger Army slows down, and then fight to the death with the opponent. After all, there are only sixty Red Tiger Army knights rushing down, while there are still ninety people on our side on the slope.

  "Kill!!!"

  Ninety heavy cavalrymen in black armor shouted together and urged their black horses forward with all their might.

  However, on the smooth snowy slope, even if the speed is boosted to the limit, it's only a third of the original. And the Red Tiger Army, with the help of the slope, has its speed increased by twice as much!

  "Come on!" Xiao Yang shouted wildly, his war spear held high against the horse's body, pointing at Liu Quan who was charging down.

  An old opponent for many years, although he was wearing a mask, he could still recognize who it was.

  The war horse neighs, the red tiger roars.

  Just as they were about to collide, a sudden burst of eerie mechanical noise came from the snow-covered cliff on one side of the slope!

  On the snow-covered mountain wall, huge rock caves suddenly appeared. Hundreds of cold iron giant arrows shot at a terrifying speed, densely shooting towards the dense charging heavy armor knights!

  These giant arrows shot from the bed crossbow were about one zhang (a unit of length) long, as thick as a duck egg, and their speed was simply indescribable.

  If it were on an open battlefield, the heavy cavalry could have easily avoided it, but now all the knights are in a dense formation, charging along the slope. The giant arrows shot at the most densely populated area of the knights, and only tens of meters away from the heavy cavalry, there was no way to avoid them!

  Following Xiang Yang, the strongest of the ten husbands, they shouted and raised their war guns, smashing the giant arrows flying over. The knights behind also held up their war guns, desperately resisting the falling arrow rain!

  However, the giant arrow shot by the bed crossbow was also impossible for an eighth-level strong man to withstand!

  The giant arrow easily pierced the knight's body, or directly pierced the black stallion. The sturdy symbol equipment was as fragile as a piece of paper in front of the speeding giant arrow.

  One by one, knights were nailed to death on the snowy slope, and one by one, black horses fell down in front of their masters!

  Deep red blood, instantly flowing freely on the snowy slope.

  Xiao Yang struck the two giant arrows with all his might, and even though his arms were numb from the shock, behind him there arose a series of dull groans and the sound of blades slicing into flesh.

  Xiao Yang's eyes widened in shock!

  Behind him, the originally dense heavy cavalry in black armor had now fallen by more than half!

  This giant arrow even resisted by Xiao Yang is extremely laborious, those sixth-level and fifth-level knights are simply unable to resist. The extremely dense formation, combined with the even denser arrow rain, together resulted in such consequences.

  The giant arrow pierced through the symbol of the war armor without any effort, and one by one, the knights or black-faced horses were nailed to the snowy slope.

  All the fallen knights and warhorses had black blood flowing from the corners of their mouths. These giant arrows were actually poisoned!

  Both sides had not yet come into contact, but the dead heavy cavalry of the Xuanjia army were as many as forty-five people. Among them, three people were actually the ten-household heads beside Xiao Yang!

  And twenty-three knights also lost their mounts!

  In such a battle, without warhorses, heavy armored knights are basically powerless!

  This wave of giant arrows' attack actually caused such severe consequences! The knights beside Xiao Yang, who were still on the black stallion, had only twenty-two people left!

  Xiao Yang looked at the warriors in the cave on the rock wall, who were tightly loading the second wave of crossbow arrows, and his mouth was also slightly bitter. These warriors were right in front of him, but he still couldn't feel their breath!

  As if they didn't exist at all, and as if they had no life.

  Such means is simply unthinkable!

  After this wave of crossbow bolts, the formation of the heavy cavalry was completely disrupted. Not only did their numbers become sparse, but the distance between each other also became very far, and it couldn't be called a formation at all. The originally not high speed had also decreased.

  At this time, Liu Quan led sixty Red Tiger Army soldiers and charged down from the snowy slope like a thunderbolt, their war spears pointing at the Xuan Jia Heavy Cavalry!

  "Brothers who have fallen off, hurry up and change horses! Other brothers, follow me to the top!" Xiao Yang roared crazily, urging the black horse to speed up desperately, pointing towards Liu Quan.

  This battle is undoubtedly lost, and it's a crushing defeat!

  If he could drag down one of Liu Bei's sons before the warriors arrived, then Xiaoyang would not have died in vain!

  The heavy cavalry in black armor behind him shouted in unison, desperately trying to keep up with Xiao Yang's pace, while the fallen knights were busy searching for their lost black horses and trying to mount them.

  However, the black stallion and its master had a deep bond. Now that its master has died tragically, it hangs its head in mourning, where is there still any will to fight?

  Everything happened in an instant, from the bed crossbow revealing its might to both sides colliding, all within a span of two breaths.

  Xiao Yang's war spear and Liu Quan's war spear finally collided heavily!

  A dull thud of "Dong!" sounded, and Xiao Yang's black horse retreated repeatedly, almost unable to stand on the snowy slope, while Liu Quan's charging speed also slowed down.

  At the same time, dozens of Red Tiger Army cavalrymen galloped swiftly past Xiao Yang's side, their war spears dense as a forest fiercely colliding with the remaining Black Armor Heavy Cavalry.

  The red tiger's terrifying weight, combined with its terrifying speed, makes its power naturally extraordinary.

  A sixth-rank Tiger Form Fist master, a Xuan Jia Heavy Cavalry Knight, had his war spear sent flying high into the air as he fell off his horse, and before he could even get back to his feet, he was pierced through the throat by a single thrust of a spear from an incoming Red Tiger Army knight.

  Another heavy cavalryman was directly hit by a war spear in the chest, his armor dented and his breastbone broken, with fresh blood spraying from his mouth.

  Like a flood hitting the embankment, but this embankment was really too fragile, and it was immediately swallowed up by the flood.

  When the Red Tiger Army finally slowed down, only fifteen of the remaining Black Armor Heavy Cavalry were still alive on the snowy slope, and only seven of them were still on their black horses!

  Among these seven people, five of them were decurions. They weren't like Yun Zhenya, a centurion, but the strongest among this batch of heavy cavalrymen in black armor, so they survived just like Xiao Yang.

  And another one, although not a captain of ten, is also a strong man in the seventh rank of Hu Xing Quan.

  Ryūsen's Akatora Army had lost only six low-ranking knights and still had fifty-four men alive.

  The lives of seventy-five heavy cavalrymen were exchanged for those of only six low-ranking knights! For Xiao Yang, this was an unprecedented defeat!