But by now, the Mount Liang cavalry that was supposed to come to their aid hadn't arrived, and these Mount Liang spearmen were also on the verge of collapse.
What made Wu Yan even more upset was that the Yi Province Militia had already transferred some of the Rong Province Battalion's Militia Private from the rear to support the left and right flanks.
As a result, some of the sword and shield soldiers from the Yi Province Militia, who were fighting on the left and right flanks of both sides, broke out and gathered in groups of twenty or thirty, circling around to the rear of the Mount Liang spear formation.
Once these swordsmen and shieldmen complete their flanking maneuver, Mount Liang's spear formation will have to change from a crescent formation to a circular formation, making the formation even more sparse and almost impossible to hold. It will only be a matter of time before it is defeated!
Mount Liang had even fewer men, and their reserves were almost exhausted, leaving Wu Yan with very few options.
He turned to look at Lu Yulin beside him, Lu Yulin immediately understood and calmly said:
"I'll leave the command to the strategist; I'm taking my men!"
Having said that, he picked up his spear, strode down from the platform, gathered his personal guards, and led Yan Xiaobing and Liang An, two First Rate experts, out to fight their way out!
Lu Yulin had more than two hundred personal guards, all of whom were dressed in heavy armor and carried weapons such as spears, long axes, or broadswords.
He rode his horse and led his personal guards toward the right flank of the Yi Province Militia's spear formation.
More than a thousand men had already been sent to intercept Mount Liang's cavalry in this direction, leaving the force relatively weak. Moreover, if no one were to intercept Lu Yulin, he could lead his personal guards directly to the rear of the Yi Province Militia First Battalion, completely breaking through their defenses and allowing his own cavalry to break in!
This is an attack on what the enemy must defend.
Since he had been forced to make the first move, Wu Yan needed to place his piece where his opponent had no choice but to respond.
Lu Yulin led his men out, encountering dozens of Yi Province Militia soldiers with swords and shields who were trying to flank them.
These swordsmen and shieldmen were mostly dressed in leather armor. When they encountered Lu Yulin's heavily armored personal guards, they were like grass and trees crushed by a flood!
They were slaughtered in the blink of an eye, leaving behind a field of corpses!
On the other side, Xu Jing saw a heavily armored infantry unit charge out from the opposite side, knowing that Mount Liang had used their last trump card. He turned and nodded to Wu Shuangren.
Unable to contain himself any longer, Wu Shuangren immediately grabbed his Mo Dao (a type of long-handled sword), rushed down from the high platform, and mounted a warhorse.
"Everyone mount up, two riders per horse!"
Wu Shuangren shouted loudly.
Having previously defeated Mount Liang's vanguard and captured twenty-seven suits of self-made heavy armor, Wu Shuangren subsequently increased his personal guard to one hundred and fifteen men.
Everyone is wearing heavy armor!
Besides the 115 personal guards, there were more than 100 reserve Militia Private around the high platform. Some rode on horseback with the guards, while others followed behind.
Wu Shuangren led over three hundred men and quickly charged towards the heavily armored infantry of Mount Liang!
After approaching the enemy by a hundred paces, Wu Shuangren reined in his horse and raised his hand, signaling everyone to stop.
"Dismount!"
Wu Shuangren said in a deep voice.
He himself did not dismount, but the others behind him did so and began to form a battle formation.
He did not intend to lead his personal guards in a direct mounted charge.
Firstly, although the guards wore heavy armor, their warhorses did not have armor, and neither the explosive power of the warhorses nor the riding combat ability of the guards were far from meeting the standards of heavy cavalry.
Secondly, even if he did have a heavy cavalry force of over a hundred men to directly charge the enemy's two hundred or so heavily armored infantry, the chances of winning would be very low.
Heavy cavalry is devastating against lightly armored or unarmored troops, but against heavily armored infantry, the effectiveness depends on the situation.
Wu Shuangren looked across and saw that only a dozen or so men at the head were on horseback, while the rest were fighting on foot in formation.
He immediately noticed Lu Yulin in the crowd, because the other person also had a blood-red Traits above his head—
[White Qilin]!
This is the fourth person Wu Shuangren has seen with Traits.
He guessed that this person must be the expert that Mount Liang sent specifically to deal with him, and whose strength was even greater than Lin Qian's!
He was not surprised but delighted, and looked forward to it very much.
"Kill!!"
Wu Shuangren took the lead.
Lu Yulin noticed Wu Shuangren immediately. Although the other person was completely covered by armor and his face was not visible, he had a feeling that this person was Wu Shuangren!
"Kill!"
Lu Yulin also urged his horse forward.
The Lu family is a renowned martial arts family in Hebei Circuit, but when they raised Lu Yulin from a young age, they didn't intend for him to become a great hero in the martial arts world. Instead, they were training him to be a fierce general in the army, hoping that he would join the army, make meritorious contributions, and bring glory to the family!
Therefore, Lu Yulin learned marksmanship and mounted combat from a young age.
Whether in mounted or foot combat, he was unparalleled in Mount Liang!
The warhorse he was riding was also a top-notch steed, capable of reaching peak speed within a hundred paces. His body rose and fell with the horse, and he brandished his spear, perfectly incorporating the horse's momentum into his movements.
It's also about man and horse becoming one!
The two drew closer and closer. In the final ten steps, Lu Yulin spurred his horse forward, his spear trembling and emitting a buzzing sound like a dragon's roar.
Most martial arts in the world imitate animals. Lu Yulin practiced horse-like footwork, dragon-like fist techniques, and a combination of both in his spear techniques.
The warhorse charged forward, leaping off, and his spear thrust out in tandem, its tip implying an upward thrust.
The horse-shaped form ascends and transforms into a dragon-shaped form; the dragon and horse combine their attacks!
The force travels from the horse's back to the waist and hips, then twists from the waist and hips to the tip of the spear, layering up in layers.
In Wu Shuangren's eyes, it seemed as if a giant dragon was soaring up, baring its fangs and claws, with the tip of the spear as its head, tearing at him!
Such marksmanship and such momentum were something Wu Shuangren had never seen before.
When he locked [Match for One Person] onto Lu Yulin, the enhancement brought by the Traits was unprecedented!
His "Method of One Person" was enhanced to a new peak, and his horsemanship and swordsmanship were also strengthened!
Facing Lu Yulin's spear thrust, which resembled a dragon raising its head, Wu Shuangren horizontally. The blade's light was like a tiger's tail slashing, and the moment it touched the spear shaft, the blade trembled and transformed into a soft, misty force.
The powerful force transmitted from the gun was deflected by the blade, sliding to one side along the back of the blade, like raindrops hitting a lotus leaf and rolling down in beads.
Clang!!!
The sound was like a thunderclap on the battlefield, almost drowning out the sounds of tens of thousands of people fighting.
Lu Yulin felt a rotating force coming from the gun, pulling the gun upwards along with his rising momentum.
He immediately lowered his elbow and pressed down on his spear, turning around and sweeping his spear horizontally at Wu Shuangren as the two warhorses passed each other.
Wu Shuangren turned around on horseback almost simultaneously, his Mo Dao swirling back, striking the front middle section of the spear with the back of the blade.
Neither side gained an advantage in this attack.
After exchanging blows, the two spurred their horses forward, simultaneously traversing an arc and charging toward an open space to the side.
Lu Yulin was followed by more than a dozen riders, some of whom charged toward Wu Shuangren.
Wu Shuangren clashed with three riders in succession, sweeping his Mo Dao left and right, cutting one of them off his horse!
"Don't interfere, I'll handle him!"
Lu Yulin turned his horse around and shouted loudly.
Upon hearing his command, the remaining riders who were about to charge at Wu Shuangren turned around and avoided Wu Shuangren.
Wu Shuangren's eyes lit up, and he rode his horse around an arc, charging towards Lu Yulin once again.
Behind the two men, their heavily armored infantry clashed!
This was the heaviest collision of the entire battle.
Both sides were heavily armored and wielded long weapons. Spears pierced the armor plates, while axes left deep marks on the iron armor.
A series of dull thuds rang out, sparks flew, iron filings fell, and armor plates deformed!
Muffled groans, shouts of battle, and the cracking of bones mingled together.
The heavy armor worn by the more than two hundred heavily armored infantrymen of Mount Liang was almost all homemade, while more than forty of Wu Shuangren's personal guards wore infantry armor.
These forty-odd people acted as the spearhead, charging at the very front!
Xu Yu- handled broadsword, Xu Yu moved like a mad tiger, using his divine strength to cleave through the armor of a Mount Liang heavy infantryman with a single strike, felling him to the ground!
Liang An charged at him on horseback, but at the last second he stepped to the left and used his longsword to sever the front leg of Liang An's horse.
At the same time, Liang An's twin swords struck Xu Yu in the back!
Liang An leaped off his horse, Xu Yu turned around, wiping the blood that had spilled from the corner of his mouth.
These two old acquaintances clashed again.
On the other side, Yan Xiaobing, on horseback, wielding a long spear, knocked several of his personal guards, dressed in infantry armor, flying one after another!
He practiced his marksmanship with Lu Yulin, and he also practiced mounted combat with him, so his mounted combat skills were quite good.
First Rate- tier expert can lift an object five times their own weight, and with the strength of a horse, the power they unleash is terrifying.
These heavily armored infantrymen, weighing over 200 pounds each, were like puppets under Yan Xiaobing's spear, being sent flying one by one with a single thrust!
Wu Shuangren's side had the advantage of having more than forty sets of infantry armor and more men.
Mount Liang's advantage lies in having more skilled fighters, especially since no one can currently restrain Yan Xiaobing, allowing him to display an almost invincible momentum!
The two streams of iron collided violently.
Some were knocked to their knees by axes, while others were rammed by warhorses, sending them flying, but the horses also neighed and collapsed to the ground...
With Yan Xiaobing as the spearhead, the heavily armored infantry of Mount Liang quickly routed the troops of the Yi Province Militia!
However, the men Wu Shuangren brought were either his personal guards or elite veterans. Although their formation was disrupted, they did not collapse and continued to fight.
Some people spontaneously banded together, forming a small group of a dozen or so.
Ahead, more than two hundred militia Militia Private from Yi Province Militia ranks and charged towards this side with long spears!
However, Xu Jing then transferred two battalions from the two Rong Province Battalion in the rear to provide support.
With over a hundred heavily armored infantrymen at the core, supported by over four hundred Militia Private in leather armor, it was five hundred against two hundred.
Even though they are still at a disadvantage, at least they can hold out for a while.
Xu Jing turned his gaze to the open space on the other side, where two men were charging at each other on horseback.
The key to victory or defeat lies in whether Wu Shuangren can defeat the enemy's commander before his own men are routed.
Xu Jing had assumed that the opponent would choose to fight Wu Shuangren in a battle formation-based manner, with everyone leading their respective subordinates in a fierce battle.
Unexpectedly, the opposing commander was so arrogant that he chose to fight Wu Shuangren one-on-one.
This shows that the opposing commander is very confident in his own abilities!
On the open ground to one side, Wu Shuangren and Lu Yulin soon faced off in their second duel.
Lu Yulin drew his spear again, the tip leaving seven or eight afterimages on the horse, each one resembling a dragon's claw reaching out, making it impossible to distinguish between reality and illusion.
Without any hesitation, Wu Shuangren slashed out with his sword. It seemed slow but was actually fast. The blade swept upwards, passing through several afterimages, and collided precisely with Lu Yulin's gun!
The two men rode past each other, and Lu Yulin flicked his wrist, twisting the shaft of his spear in an attempt to entangle Wu Shuangren's gun.
Following the momentum of his spear, Wu Shuangren spun his broadsword, his strength shifting from hard to soft, achieving a unity of yin and yang.
The two men clashed on horseback, rapidly spinning their weapons. The spear moved like a coiling dragon, and the knife like a biting tiger, producing a series of ear-piercing metallic scraping sounds and sparks flying everywhere!
Soon, as their warhorses moved forward separately, their weapons parted once more.
"Good!"
Lu Yulin couldn't help but shout from his horse; he finally understood why Lin Qian couldn't defeat this man.
Wu Shuangren's swordsmanship, horsemanship, adaptability, and even Internal Skill were unparalleled in Lu Yulin's life!
This gave Lu Yulin, who was invincible throughout Hebei Circuit and was also the best among all martial artists after arriving at Mount Liang, a long-lost excitement.
At his level, it's already very difficult to find an opponent of equal strength.
After exchanging the first blow with Wu Shuangren, Lu Yulin had a vague intuition—
If I can defeat my opponent in today's battle, I might be able to break through the bottleneck that has kept me stuck for so long and take a crucial step towards the Grandmaster realm!
This is also a major reason why he shouted for everyone else not to interfere, insisting that it be a one-on-one fight between him and Wu Shuangren.
He was confident in himself and full of anticipation and desire for a higher level of martial arts!