Chapter 523 - 256: A Notch Above
Chapter 523: Chapter 256: A Notch Above
General Gavin never expected to hold out for long. After charging into the human camp with his Personal Guard, he threw himself into the slaughter.
Fortunately, the Beastman Wolf Cavalry was world-renowned. Besides the individual strength of the Wolf Riders themselves, the structure of their army was also something to be noted.
After General Gavin departed, the Beastman Wolf Cavalry did not immediately descend into chaos.
As the battle raged on, the battlefield continued to expand.
The Wolf Cavalry behind the wedge formation also began to charge forward.
However, the formations of the two sides had now completely swapped.
The Human Race’s Cavalry still maintained their wedge formation.
The elite Cavalry Team led by Robson was like a powerful fist, smashing violently into the flat line of the Beastman Wolf Cavalry.
The lead Warrior at the head of the Beastman Wolf Cavalry’s charge was struck down by this punch.
The Beastmen’s formation gradually shifted from a wedge to a flat line, and in the end, they couldn’t even maintain the line.
Robson’s punch had been too fierce; the Beastman Wolf Cavalry’s line was smashed into a concave shape.
But it had to be said, the Beastman Wolf Cavalry was truly one of the world’s rare Elite Armies.
Even so, Robson’s punch had not broken through them. Instead, the soldiers on both flanks proactively moved to fill the gap.
At that moment, the Beastman adjutant was still within the army, blinking as he watched the scene before him.
’Is this the true Elite Army of the humans?’
’I’m afraid only the Beast God’s ten-thousand-strong Wolf Cavalry from Madar Mountain could match them.’
’But that army had also taken a painful beating before, so Kemal had recalled them to Madar Palace.’
"Hold the line! Hold the line!"
"Second squad! Fill the gap, now!"
The adjutant was still doing his best to shore up the line, trying to prevent the formation from being truly chiseled open by the humans’ punch.
Unfortunately, he forgot that the enemies on the battlefield were not just the humans in front of him.
"Fengman! Charge!"
Just as the adjutant held his breath, staring intently at the ordinary human Soldiers in front, the Fengman Knight Order came swooping in to encircle them. On the Beastmen’s left and right, Knight Commander Elon and another Great Knight of the Fengman Clan each led over two hundred of the clan’s Extraordinary Knights.
"This is bad!"
The adjutant’s expression changed dramatically.
His Beastman Wolf Cavalry had no Extraordinary powers; they were basically just ordinary Soldiers.
The human Cavalry in front were already so difficult to deal with. If a group of human Extraordinarys were added to the mix, the adjutant didn’t dare imagine how terrible the situation would become.
"Prepare to retreat! Prepare to retreat!"
At this point, the adjutant couldn’t care less about General Gavin.
The general had taken his Personal Guard and charged straight into the human formation. No matter how you looked at it, he had gone to his death.
The adjutant didn’t want to die yet.
"Seventh and eighth squads, retreat first..."
"Sir!"
The adjutant understood they couldn’t just stay here and be ground down, but just as he issued the command, alarm bells screamed in his mind.
He turned to see a human Knight drawing his bow to its full moon shape. His silver-white battle aura was as noble as the Celestial Father’s.
SWOOSH!
A silver-white arrow, its battle aura so dense it had almost materialized, was flying rapidly toward him.
!
The adjutant wanted to dodge, but there was no way.
"Urgh!"
The arrow pierced straight through the adjutant’s chest and continued on behind him.
The arrow pierced five more men without stopping, only then flying off toward the edge of the grassland.
"Sir!"
.....
After the adjutant’s death, the entire Beastman Wolf Cavalry’s ranks fell into a brief period of chaos.
In that brief moment of chaos, the Fengman Knight Order had already circled around to the rear of the Beastman Army.
"Charge!"
"Victory to Affleck!"
While Knight Commander Elon’s flank was causing a huge commotion, Robson was also relentlessly advancing.
When Robson saw the entire Beastman formation fall into disarray after he shot down the shouting and yelling Beastman, he knew he had hit the right target.
With this realization, he immediately raised his lance and began cutting through the Beastman formation like it was nothing.
On the battlefield, seizing such a momentary advantage is everything!
Having briefly lost their command, the Beastman Wolf Cavalry couldn’t recover from Robson’s charge and were punched straight through by his Cavalry Team.
It had to be said, the Beastman Wolf Cavalry were indeed worthy of being the Beast Emperor’s army.
Even under these circumstances, the Wolf Cavalry’s military structure held, and commands could still be issued.
Seeing that the tide had turned, the leaders of the various Beastman Wolf Rider units knew that a protracted battle would lead to no good outcome, and they began to lead their troops in a retreat.
"Retreat! Retreat!"
"First and fifth squads, stay behind! The rest of you, retreat!"
.....
After about two hours of fighting, the human Cavalry had shattered the Beastman Wolf Cavalry’s formation.
"ARGH!!!!"
General Gavin, still caught within the human formation, was now covered in blood—some of it purple, some of it red.
The surrounding human Cavalry were staring at him intently, as if looking at some great treasure.
General Gavin didn’t understand this kind of gaze.
These humans’ will to fight seemed too tenacious. Although he was trapped in a perilous situation, his opponents were charging forward recklessly, as if they had drunk a blessing from the Beast God.
With this kind of morale, it was no wonder Robson had risen to fame on the Beastman Grassland.
Though he didn’t understand it, General Gavin felt exhilarated.
The fight was absolutely exhilarating.
By now, the ones surrounding General Gavin were no longer just ordinary Soldiers from the Cavalry Team, but also countless noble lords.
Valentino, Claude, and a crowd of other nobles who had rushed over all wanted the glory of felling him.
Gavin felt his battle aura diminishing and knew he was not far from death.
In his final moments, his mind unexpectedly drifted back to the Beast Emperor, back to the time he had broken five human armies in a row, and Kemal had clapped him on the shoulder with a smile.
At that time, he had been named an Imperial General.
’I’m still a general now, yet I haven’t made any progress at all...’
.....
Before long, General Gavin and his hundred-plus Personal Guards were killed under the humans’ siege.
Just then, a rumbling sound echoed from across the great grassland.
Hearing the commotion, the noble lords all looked around.
They saw a black line beginning to appear where the grassland met the horizon.
The line rapidly expanded, charging forward at a terrifying speed.
As the things drew closer, the noble lords could finally see what they were.
Carriages, and Robson’s infantry legion.
It had been a long time since Robson used carriages to transport Soldiers.
After all, using carriages like this on the grassland meant that even the finest quality Magic Carriages produced by the Gauss Clan would struggle to last a month.
But this was, after all, the final battle. None of that mattered anymore.
’If we don’t wear them out now, how can we report the expenses later?’
The Cavalry Team, for its part, still had to deal with the Beastmen’s Wolf Cavalry.
The infantry legion seemed to know that the battle here was ending in a human victory, so they had no intention of stopping to help their Human Race allies, and the leaders continued to drive their carriages onward.