In this surprise attack, where the enemy had overwhelming numerical superiority, and whose fighting force had already lost nearly a third of its strength in the first volley of arrows, Zhang Tie, who had charged out of the elm forest with his troops, barely had time to get his hands dirty before the battle was over...
This hardly qualifies as a battle; it's nothing short of a massacre!
Upon witnessing what was happening here, the army of the Sun God Dynasty entrenched in Sorane sounded the emergency battle horn, and the entire Sorane was in an uproar.
"Kill them..." a soldier from the Iron-Blood Battalion shouted. Zhang Tie looked up and saw two officers at the back of the column, realizing the situation was dire, spurring their horses and fleeing towards Sorane. Several Iron-Blood Battalion soldiers gave chase, but the distance between them only increased. Other soldiers raised their light crossbows and fired at the two men. The bolts struck the steel armor on their backs, making a few clanging sounds before falling to the ground. The horses were also covered in armor, and because the distance had increased, the light crossbows were no longer effective against them.
The two officers from the Sun God Dynasty on horseback covered a hundred paces in the blink of an eye—a distance even Battalion Commander Reinhardt couldn't cover. Just when everyone thought these two escapees were about to get away, Zhang Tie made his move.
From the moment Zhang Tie joined the Iron-Blood Battalion until now, this is the first time anyone in the Iron-Blood Battalion has seen this renowned Iron-Blood Battalion Lieutenant make his first move.
A lightning-fast spear flashed past everyone's eyes, and then a Sun God Dynasty officer who had already run a hundred paces away suddenly screamed in agony. Even though he was wearing thick armor, a heavy javelin pierced through his back, and he fell off his horse.
The man's scream startled the person running in front of him. The person turned around just as another bolt of lightning struck down from the sky. Without uttering a sound, the javelin pierced through the man's body, and he fell from his horse once more.
"Good!" The soldiers of the Iron-Blood Battalion roared in approval, their morale soaring once again.
"Kill!" With a roar, everyone charged toward Sorane, which was less than a mile away.
Zhang Tie, who had just achieved his first victory on the battlefield, was also filled with excitement. Seeing Battalion Commander Reinhardt and his officers leading the charge to the front of the column, Zhang Tie mustered his remaining strength, and with a shout of battle, dragged his 300-kilogram sword and carried a javelin bag missing two javelins, and followed the others toward Sorane.
The Radiant Feather Legion reacted swiftly. Just as the Iron-Blood Battalion's thousand-plus men reached the small village of Sorane, the troops already gathered in the village had rapidly assembled a force of over a thousand. Their commander, equally undeterred, led his thousand-plus men out, clashing head-on with the Iron-Blood Battalion.
At times like these, only a well-assembled force can unleash its full combat power. The opposing commander understood this principle as well. When the Iron-Blood Battalion charged out, he had already assessed Iron-Blood Battalion numbers: over 1,000 men. This was slightly more than the Norman Empire's forces they had wiped out the previous day, but still only a small fraction. As long as the Radiant Feather troops in the village of Sorane could quickly regroup, their overwhelming numerical superiority would allow them to emerge victorious, even though they had been the ones ambushed.
The opposing commander's certainty only turned to panic when the two armies were about to clash head-on, and a huge, blood-red Battle Qi Totem rose from behind Battalion Commander Reinhardt.
This was also the first time Zhang Tie had seen Reinhardt's Battle Qi Totem. Reinhardt's Battle Qi Totem was a Giant Serpent Mercenary Corps, a blood-red Giant Serpent Mercenary Corps, a blood-red Giant Serpent Mercenary Corps with hellish flames burning all around its body.
Generally speaking, once a person reaches level six and becomes a Warrior, their strength and level can be roughly determined simply by observing the Battle Qi Totem they unleash. The Black Spider of a level six Warrior, the Centipede Beast of a level seven Warrior, the King Snake of a level eight Warrior, and the Blood Scorpion of a level nine Warrior —these Battle Qi Totem are all symbols of Warrior's strength and level throughout the human world.
Zhang Tie had seen Battle Qi Totem many times. The earliest one he saw was on Captain Colin, and the most recent one was on the dead father of Gelis, who had tried to assassinate him. Although the patterns of the two Battle Qi Totem were different, what they had in common was that their Battle Qi Totem were black. In the entire Black Flame City, Zhang Tie had never seen Battle Qi Totem of any other color. Until this moment, when he saw Reinhardt's Battle Qi Totem.
Reinhardt's Battle Qi Totem was not only blood-red, but what made it even more imposing was that the giant King Snake on Reinhardt's Battle Qi Totem Battle Qi Totem was actually emitting raging flames.
This is the most direct manifestation of the Iron-Blood Battle Qi on the Battle Qi Totem after successful cultivation. In addition to the totem's color changing from the black of ordinary Battle Qi to red, the entire totem also seems to be burning in the flames of hell, with churning flame patterns appearing on the Battle Qi Totem.
This is absolutely the unique mark of Iron-Blood Battle Qi.
A force of around a thousand men, led by someone who has mastered the Iron-Blood Battle Qi, can only be the elite Iron-Blood Battalion, the ace unit of the Norman Empire's divisions.
The opposing commander finally realized who his opponent was, and as a result, the opponent reacted instantly.
As Reinhardt unleashed his fiery, iron-blooded Battle Qi Totem, a massive, ice-blue, Blood Scorpion Battle Qi Totem also erupted from the Sun God Dynasty. That too seemed to be no ordinary Battle Qi.
Then, behind both sides, a multitude of Battle Qi Totem Battle Qi Totem various sizes emerged. All of them were black or gray. The most dazzling Battle Qi Totem on the entire battlefield were the blood-red, burning King Snake and the giant, ice-blue Blood Scorpion. Judging from the number of people who unleashed their Battle Qi Totem, the Sun God Dynasty had slightly more people and seemed to have a slight advantage.
Upon seeing the giant, ice-blue scorpion, Reinhardt seemed to understand why the Empire's battalion there had been completely annihilated. The ice-blue Battle Qi Totem was the manifestation of the ultimate Sky Battle Qi that the Sun God Dynasty's charlatans had mastered. And the leader of this Radiant Feather unit of the Sun God Dynasty was no ordinary person either.
The icy blue Blood Scorpion and the burning King Snake accelerated instantly, breaking away from their respective groups and engaging in a fierce collision before the two groups clashed.
"Boom!" The huge explosion sounded like two trains colliding after accelerating to their maximum speed. On the grass where the two people collided, a crater with a diameter of more than two meters was instantly created.
Zhang Tie felt a strong gust of wind hit his face, and then the ground beneath his feet trembled. The two figures flew backward from the point of collision, each coughing up blood in mid-air. As soon as they landed, they were propelled back towards each other and collided again.
"Kill!" Both sides' troops instantly turned bloodthirsty.
When the two were only about 50 meters apart, Zhang Tie made his move.
One by one, the javelins from the scabbard on his back appeared in Zhang Tie's hand and were then thrown out by Zhang Tie.
Running at the forefront of the Sun God Dynasty's ranks, leading the charge, were seven Sun God Dynasty officers whose bodies emanated Battle Qi Totem —five Black Spider and two Centipede Beast —who were instantly spotted by Zhang Tie's javelin.
Zhang Tie's movements were simply too fast, and the javelin he threw was even faster. For the several level six or seven guys, their eyes couldn't even catch the trajectory of the javelin Zhang Tie threw, and their movements weren't as fast as the javelin either. As a result, they were instantly doomed.
Some javelins even pierced through two people at once, one from the front and one from the back.
The morale of the Iron-Blood Battalion soared once again, while the morale of the other side instantly plummeted.
Before the two sides clashed, Zhang Tie emptied his kite, killed seven enemy officers, and then neatly removed the Zhang Tie from his hands.
"That's enough!" Zhang Tie said to himself. With more than 100 kilograms less burden on his body, Zhang Tie felt lighter and his movements became even more agile.
The force of over two thousand men clashed instantly and without any finesse on a grassy hillside.
In an instant, the sounds of countless weapons clashing and cutting into bodies rang out.
"Kill!" A Black Spider from the Sun God Dynasty, who had long hated Zhang Tie, charged at Zhang Tie with bloodshot eyes. Without a word, he raised his broadsword and swung it at Zhang Tie's head. The man seemed completely oblivious to the Proof of Manhood that Zhang Tie was carrying behind his left hand.
"Fuck you!" Zhang Tie's eyes turned red as well. He gripped the hilt of his sword with both hands, and instantly swung the greatsword up from the ground to meet the Black Spider's large blade.
As it turned out, few weapons could claim to be "big" in the face of Zhang Tie's " Proof of Manhood "—that behemoth in Zhang Tie's hand was practically a two-meter-long guillotine used for chopping feed in a cattle pen. Under the power of Zhang Tie's Nine Wolves Seven-Power Fruit, it unleashed inhuman power. The large sword in the Black Spider's hand broke in two like chopsticks the moment it clashed with Zhang Tie's giant sword; it wasn't cut off, but rather smashed into two pieces.
Then Zhang Tie's greatsword swept past the Black Spider from the waist up without any hindrance...
The Black Spider instantly split in two...
After killing this person, Zhang Tie's mind went blank for a moment, and he instantly entered that state of absolute calm and calculation as an observer.
Zhang Tie swung his greatsword again, a simple horizontal sweep. The ferocious expressions on the faces of six Sun God Dynasty soldiers who were about to charge forward, standing more than two meters in front of him, froze instantly. Six limbs slid off, and then six columns of blood spurting from the waist appeared in front of Zhang Tie.
Such a sight startled not only the soldiers of the Sun God Dynasty on the opposite side, but even the Iron-Blood Battalion soldiers following Zhang Tie. The power of this Proof of Manhood in the hands of the mummy lieutenant was simply terrifying... (To be continued, please search for the novel for better and faster updates!)