Chapter 1331 - 326: Stars

Chapter 1331: Chapter 326: Stars

Here they were still chatting, dreaming about the stories of the seven calabash brothers or the seven Snow White princesses;

But over there,

The battle had entered a new phase;

Oh no,

To be precise, it had entered a new phase of trench filling.

The muddy pits in the outer areas had been filled, but the closer and more critical sections couldn’t be filled so brazenly, they had to give the Chu army on the opposite side some face. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ

Next, it was the cavalry charge forward, and once close enough, using the momentum of the horses, they drew bows and fired arrows, mostly using parabolic shots.

The Chu army in the encampment was struck by a volley of arrows, which wasn’t very lethal due to the long distance, yet quite a few unfortunate Chu soldiers got hit.

The frontline spearmen, wearing little armor and protection, were hit more frequently, while the shield bearers from previous pit-filling efforts were somewhat relaxed, making their formation less dense so arrows managed to hit some of them. However, because these soldiers wore rattan armor, it wasn’t a serious problem.

The rattan-armored soldier formation wavered a bit.

Of course, the wavering was not a collapse, just a sudden attack by the arrows, causing panic as comrades got hit.

The soldiers of the Bai Family weren’t so incompetent.

From a distance, after the Yan army’s first round of parabolic shots, they quickly turned their horses around, while comrades continued to carry soil forward with sacks to fill the pits.

Because the distance was dangerously close, Chi Mingyi gave the order to shoot.

"Raise — Shoot!"

"Woosh!"

Arrows were released from the Chu army formation.

However, the Chu men fired from stationary positions, naturally lacking range, and even if a few arrows fell into the Yan formation, the moving Yan cavalry, paired with their fine armor, made the arrows merely scratch with a crisp sound before sliding off, leaving only a groove or pale mark.

Snow Sea cavalry, Snow Sea cavalry, you’re not worthy of the name if you don’t have a few pounds of iron on you!

Know that Lord Zheng genuinely cares for his armored soldiers; it’s not hard to muster farmers as soldiers.

Yet doing so, though seemingly imposing, is actually weak;

Moreover, it goes against the aesthetic of Lord Zheng and the devils;

Imagine advancing with the army, raising the flag, behind you a bunch of slaves in sheepskin, tsk, really inappropriate.

The Yan people began advancing with rounds of parabolic shots and trench-filling;

As the distance narrowed further, the effectiveness of both sides’ arrows began to manifest.

Chi Mingyi finally ordered the two ranks of spearmen at the front to retreat into formation, while shield bearers advanced to protect the bowmen and crossbowmen in the rear.

The Yan army’s three thousand wildmen cavalry led by the wildmen king stopped trench-filling operations and remained at the rear, dismounted, sitting cross-legged.

The wildmen king, sitting at the forefront, started singing and dancing the Star Dance;

His dance looked odd to outsiders but carried the essence of a star conductor to the wildmen;

His singing, scratchy yet resonant with the mood.

Ahead, the thunderous hooves continued, but the wildmen’s gazes fell upon the wildmen king.

The blind man once said Gou Moli’s greatest trait is his truly terrifying learning ability; he served as auxiliary troops for years in the Northern Frontier Army to study cavalry tactics, and he also knows the essential skills of the snowfield priests.

He would never miss any chance or gap to imbue the three thousand riders he led with killing intent, even if only a tiny bit more.

Because this was his life-betting battle;

In this fight, he needed to prove his worth to that Lord at the rear.

He had previously proven his worth, albeit negatively.

Even the ambitious Yan Emperor only kept "him" imprisoned in Yanjing because for centuries, the wildmen of the Skybreak Mountains and the snowfield were playthings easily toyed with by the Jin people, until he came along, nearly changing the whole eastern Zhuxia situation.

Gou Moli’s task was to make the Lord clearly see that he could be a sharp sword in his hand.

As for harming oneself, Gou Moli felt the Lord had a broader view than the Yan Emperor on this matter, because even though the Lord was always preparing, you could even say he began from scratch aiming for that goal, he and his associates seemed fuzzy on the concept of "Family Under Heaven."

Gou Moli couldn’t believe they were ignorant, but they might truly not care.

Sang Hu watched the "singing and dancing" wildmen king silently,

For a moment,

Tears began to glisten in his eyes.

As if everything had returned to the very beginning.

When they first met, he tied up the wildmen king, made him perform the star conductor’s ritual dance, which he did;

Back then, he was his captive;

Afterward, he became his most loyal subordinate.

Sang Hu didn’t grasp the concept of destiny being a circle, but he experienced something similar.