The next day, while everyone was still fast asleep, a large group of people slipped through the darkness and quietly surrounded the Flame Mercenary Group's headquarters.
They were members of the Iron Cavalry Mercenary Group.
After discussing it together, they had decided to launch a surprise attack on the Flame Mercenary Group under cover of darkness, when everyone's vigilance was at its lowest.
The Flame Mercenary Group had always known that cavalry was the Iron Cavalry Mercenary Group's trump card. Ordinarily, a surprise attack was all but impossible, since deploying cavalry caused too much commotion. Besides, cavalry posed far less of a threat inside the city. This had always been the Flame Mercenary Group's understanding.
They could never have imagined that the Iron Cavalry Mercenary Group would abandon its greatest strength to launch a surprise attack on them.
Once the fighting began, Xiao Fan and Han Jue only needed to work together to kill Zhu Yan. Then the Flame Mercenary Group would be fish on a chopping board, theirs to handle as they pleased.
But the Flame Mercenary Group's mercenaries were not all pushovers. When the attackers were still a hundred-odd paces from their headquarters, a mercenary stationed high above spotted the Iron Cavalry Mercenary Group's surprise attack.
He rubbed his eyes in disbelief.
Everyone knew how powerful the Flame Mercenary Group was in Desert City. Even with this happening before his eyes, he still found it hard to believe. Once he confirmed that someone really was attacking, terror made his voice hoarse.
"E-enemy attack!"
His anguished cry carried far through the night sky.
Xiao Fan also realized that the enemy had spotted their people, and he swept his hand forward.
"Everyone, charge!"
"Kill!"
"Charge!"
"Flame Mercenary Group bastards, your granddaddies are here!"
The fierce battle cries shattered Desert City's