Charisma-Led Troop Command Style

The Four Berserker Bears' performance was indeed dazzling, but Zhang Yang had no time to pay attention to it now.

There were simply too many enemies.

Even though the Four Berserker Bears had blown nine Jackalman captains to pieces the moment they met, nearly forty more Jackalman captains still climbed and leaped lightly onto the city wall.

The worst part was that, up to this point, neither Zhang Yang nor Wu Yuan had found the Jackalman village chief or hero.

Was the other side really so arrogant that they did not even need to personally lead the charge?

"Wu Yuan, cover me!"

Zhang Yang shouted. He had originally saved his ultimate move to deal with the Jackalman village chief or hero, but there was no time to keep waiting now.

The Soul Force Field activated in an instant, enveloping a fifty-meter radius. Every person, object, and even the movement of the air and the flight of blood were all under his control. This was his domain, his battlefield, and the greatest trump card he possessed in this battle.

One Imprisonment Spear after another shot into the air, leaving perfect arcs behind them. There was no beginning and no end. Everything happened in an instant!

Those Jackalman captains carried steel shields and broad blades and wore iron armor. They were ferocious and peerless in their leaps, but the moment they stepped into the Soul Force Field, they were as good as corpses.

Here, time and space seemed to have lost all meaning.

Or perhaps this was soul suppression!

Only someone with soul strength equal to or greater than Zhang Yang's could ignore the Soul Force Field.

That incredibly brief second passed. In everyone's eyes, the Jackalman captains had only just leaped onto the city wall, but in the next moment, a bloody storm erupted!

Zhang Yang exhausted all ten Imprisonment Spears within that single second, instantly killing thirty of the thirty-eight Jackalman captains who had charged onto the wall.

That was already his limit. Zhang Yang had originally thought that controlling the Imprisonment Spears within the Soul Force Field would not consume too much, but in reality, the Jackalman captains were far stronger than ordinary Level 1 Azure Wolves or Armored Deer Demons. As a result, they consumed much more Soul Power, and each Imprisonment Spear lost its durability and became useless after killing only three targets.

With a thud, Zhang Yang collapsed onto the ground, unable to move even a finger.

"Kill!"

Wu Yuan's battle cry rang out like thunder. His spear stabbed forward, smashing through a shield in one blow and killing a Jackalman captain.

The remaining soldiers surged forward as one, and then came a bloody scene.

Although seven Jackalman captains remained, they still inflicted the most terrifying casualties on Zhang Yang's side in the shortest time possible.

Two captain-level archers were cut in half before they could even react.

Three Elite Spearmen thrust their spears at two Jackalman captains, but the latter dodged with incredibly nimble leaps. When they landed, three heads shot into the sky. Captain-level and elite-level soldiers were simply on entirely different levels.

The bowstrings thrummed. Four Golden Eagle Armor-Piercing Arrows killed those two Jackalman captains, but in the blink of an eye, another captain-level archer was hacked to death.

Wu Yuan roared, his spear moving like a dragon. He had just stabbed a Jackalman captain to death when two other Jackalman captains closed in at the same time. One blade plunged into his abdomen and burst out through his back.

Abandoning his spear, he threw a punch and knocked one Jackalman captain unconscious. But another Jackalman captain had already leaped into the air and brought his blade down toward Wu Yuan's neck. Just as it seemed impossible to dodge—

"Phut!"

A crossbow bolt shot from somewhere and directly blasted through the Jackalman captain's eye socket, killing him on the spot.

Wu Yuan pulled out his spear and killed another. By then, the remaining soldiers had surrounded the last Jackalman captain and, together with Qin Yidao and the other archers, hacked him to death in a chaotic flurry of blades.

The entire process had taken no more than three or four seconds.

With Wu Yuan, a quasi-hero, leading them, they had still paid the price of seven deaths and six severely wounded. The three captain-level archers in particular had died an especially unjust death.

At this moment, below the city wall, the Four Berserker Bears had already clashed with the Jackalman elite infantry that had fallen a step behind, beginning a one-sided slaughter.

The gap between captain-level soldiers and elite-level soldiers was simply too great.

Before long, the remaining Jackalman infantry and Elite Archers scattered in all directions. They were incredibly fast, disappearing into the depths of the forest in the blink of an eye, beyond pursuit.

At this moment, Zhang Yang did not even have time to care about his side's tragic casualties. He was still brooding over one thing: the Jackalman village chief and no hero unit had appeared during the battle.

Otherwise, the outcome of this battle would have been completely different.

"Could it be that this Jackalman lord is using the Charisma-Led Troop Command Style?"

Zhang Yang could only reach this conclusion in the end.

And it should have been the reasonable explanation. Otherwise, if the Jackalman village chief itself possessed combat power as formidable as the Deer Demon, or if it had a hero as powerful as the Mountain Monster under its command, along with fifty or sixty captain-level soldiers, then its overall strength would absolutely have crushed the Deer Demon and swept across this entire region.

Why would it have waited until now to act?

But in reality, it and the Deer Demon had always exercised restraint, with neither side able to do anything to the other.

"That makes everything fall into place. The Deer Demon invested all its resources into itself. It followed the Strength-Agility Style and took the path of one-on-one combat, so it was extremely powerful. It could even activate the Hero's Trial and obtain a hero, but it had no captain-level soldiers—not a single one. It relied entirely on the advantages of its troop types to complement itself. Then it encountered me and was killed because it lacked powerful soldiers."

"Conversely, the Jackalman village chief followed the Charisma-Led Troop Command Style and took the path of commanding troops, using all its resources to strengthen and improve its soldiers. That was why it possessed so many captain-level soldiers. But because it was weak itself, it could not activate the Hero's Trial and thus could not obtain a hero. In the end, it encountered me and still lost after falling just short of success."

Zhang Yang breathed a sigh of relief, then hurriedly sent the severely wounded Wu Yuan into the Wood Demon Tower. The other severely wounded soldiers went in as well, while the lightly wounded had to patrol and stand guard on the city wall.

Although they had won this battle, the fighting had been brutal. Seven captain-level archers had died and two had been severely wounded.

Five Elite Spearmen had died, two had been severely wounded, and four Elite Sword and Shield Soldiers had been severely wounded.

There was also Song Dachui, who had been severely wounded again. The elite Jackalman archers had shot him until he looked like a porcupine. If not for the Mountain Monster Battle Tattoo and Wang Mumu's cover, he definitely would have been dead.

The recruits, however, had suffered no losses. Zhang Yang hurriedly sent that instructor surnamed Qin back to continue training. As long as training was completed tomorrow, he would be able to possess fifty captain-level soldiers in one go.

It was worth mentioning that the crossbow bolt that had saved Wu Yuan on the city wall earlier had been fired by this fellow. He had actually killed an enemy.

But Zhang Yang had no time to think about such things now. He had to hurry and organize the spoils, then expand at the fastest possible speed. From this day onward, this territory would bear the Zhang name.