Wu Shuo sprinted wildly from behind. From the best angle, he saw Xianyu Dan pierced through the chest. Bracing his iron spear, he urged his warhorse forward with all his might.
Because Lan Ji's mount was faster, Wu Shuo arrived only at the instant Xianyu Dan fell. He saw Lan Ji had already leveled his spear and assumed a charging stance.
Young as Lan Ji was, his reactions were swift. Merely by listening to the hoofbeats, he could roughly pinpoint his opponent's position.
In the flash of lightning and spark of flint, Wu Shuo thrust out his spear.
Lan Ji seized the reins in his left hand and turned. The jujube-red horse beneath him neighed fiercely and reared up on its hind legs, while the Azure Dragon Army-Breaker Halberd rose one-handed above his head—an enhanced version of the halberd technique, "Covering Strike."
The tyrannical force of it was like a mountain collapsing. It not only startled Wu Shuo into wetting himself, but made his horse's front legs go limp, sending both man and horse dropping forward to their knees.
Swept up by the tremendous impact, the warhorse rolled once across the ground before collapsing, unable to rise again.
Wu Shuo had just been flung from the horse. His head struck the ground, snapping his neck and killing him on the spot.
Facing two alone, Lan Ji had not only effortlessly slain one general, but frightened another general and his horse to death. Such a sight was practically unheard of in Jiangdong.
Fervent cheers erupted from Lan Tian's side, while the soldiers on Lu Fan's side stood with their jaws dropped, unable to close them for a long while.
Sixteen years old—was he even human? That was the question in every Jiangdong man's mind.
Three corpses already lay between the two