As the only senior-ranked captain in the group, Happy will have the right to command the other soldiers as long as the other medium-ranked captains, junior-ranked captains, and 5-man commanders were willing to hand him their soldiers. Because of it, he was able to have everyone group together, just as he wished.
Everyone in the area had seen a large cavalier battalion numbering to one thousand people before.
But this was still the first time they saw a large cavalier battalion led by a player. Hence, quite a number of people were worried but also expectant of the operation Happy led this time.
Happy rode on a tall horse on the hill, and he was right in front of the thousand cavaliers.
When he looked down, he stared at the enemy camp ahead of him from the distance. The thousand cavaliers behind stood sternly, and they remained silent because of his orders while they waited for his next order. As soon as he gave his next order, he will charge forward madly, and this feeling was indeed very good!
But once he enjoyed this momentary vanity, Happy gradually scowled.
The quest he received this time was to pretend to attack the enemy camp as well as harass the flank. With the high mobility from the cavaliers, he was to lure out a group of soldiers from the enemy camp and subsequently destroy them.
The points received from destroying the Mongolian cavaliers will all be given to the commander who received the quest, regardless of whether it was the cavaliers who killed them or whether it was he who killed them. The points the commander received will even be doubled!
The description of the quest made it sound like a very relaxing quest.
But as the hardest quest released to the players at the current stage, Happy could already sense that this quest was the typical suicidal quest given by the system.
After all, the Mongolian army was different from the Chinese army.
The Chinese army was mainly made up of infantries!
Happy hesitated for a while before he suddenly looked at the sky. Then, he scowled even further.
If he still took no action, it will be dark soon.
"Thunderous Battle, be careful at your side. I'll be taking action now!" Right when he finished speaking, he raised his arm high into the air before he brought it down swiftly.
"Charge!" His tone was firm and resolute.
Boom!
More than one thousand cavaliers charged down the slope at the same time! They were like a flood that was released from a dam, and with thunderous hooves, they charged to the enemy camp with an indomitable spirit. They never once turned back...
Chapter 842 - Ten Thousand Horses Gallop Forward, Cavaliers’ Charge!
Boom!
Rumble!
Soon after the more than one thousand cavaliers began their charge, the Mongolian camp soon took action! The cavalier camp at the right wing was swiftly mobilized, and they rushed out of the camp with a monstrous momentum.
The sound of hooves thundered through the sky.
The momentum brought by that one thousand or so cavaliers was instantly drowned out. They were like moths charging into flames, and they looked so incredibly fragile.
However, fortunately for them, Happy had also circled round the area near the enemy camp with those thousand or so cavaliers. Right when the enemy camp made their move, they immediately turned around, and instead of saying that they were launching a charge, it would be better to say that they were leading their enemies, who had already taken up wars, to take a stroll around the place.
When they did, more than ten thousand cavaliers instantly rushed out of the main camp.
Rumble!
Armored hooves thundered against the ground!
The ground trembled!
When ten thousand horses galloped through the plains, they quickly formed a huge pocket formation behind the thousand or so cavaliers, and the distance between them was gradually closed. They looked like they were about to devour this group of cavaliers whole.
"Damn it, there're too many of them! Run!"
While Happy gave his orders, he fell back, and grabbed the Folding Bow he bought at Beijing's market. Its body was sturdy, and when it was unfolded, it was a strong bow.
He also grabbed a Recondite Steel Arrow.
Whoosh!
Once he aimed at the back, he fired. A black line shot to the army behind him, and the result was that this arrow that was worth ten thousand landed in the army behind him, he was unable to cause even a splash. The army's charge was still as loud as thunder.
'Well, that's embarrassing.'
Happy felt awkward, and he hoped that no one saw him. At the same time, he also became alerted to the fact that he will need to take some time to practice his bow technique, or else, he will never be able to do much by just relying on the low-grade Lancet Knife Throwing Skill.
At that moment, Eleventh Crane fell back from the army in front to arrive next to Happy. He turned his body around, and he drew his bow fully. Three arrows with a powerful sonic boom instantly crept into the enemy army behind him. Three Mongolian cavaliers fell to the ground as the sonic booms rose. Under the powerful inertia, even their horses fell to the ground, and Happy felt absolutely resigned.
The deaths of the Mongolian cavaliers caused an insignificant splash in the tidal wave formed by the ten thousand cavaliers. They did not affect the cavalier battalion's charge at all.
The distance between them slowly shortened.
Eleventh Crane did not remain idle. This was a good chance to obtain war achievements. Naturally, he will try his best to get those points. His expression was stern. His bow string released a twang, and without even looking at the quiver on his back, he grabbed three arrows, nocked them on the bowstring, drew the bow, and fired. His actions were done in one breath.
Eleventh Crane shot arrows while on horseback nonstop. When he killed at least seventeen Mongolian cavaliers, Eleventh Crane's continuous provocation finally angered the soldiers behind him.
Some of the Mongolian cavaliers started drawing their bows to counterattack.
But even though only some of them attacked, when that few number of Mongolian cavaliers came from an army of ten thousand, that meant around one hundred people decided to attack.
When he saw the arrow shower that came at him from the back, Happy, who had been frustrated for a while as he watched Eleventh Crane's performance, instantly had his spirits lifted. With one Shifting Stars, more than one hundred arrows instantly turned around in the air back to the army.
Those leading the charge had the arrow shower hit their faces.
Neighs could be heard nonstop. Dozens of Mongolian cavaliers crashed to the ground with their horses. Pained screams could be heard nonstop. Finally, the Chinese army was able to cause quite a bit of trouble and chaos to the army behind them.
Eleventh Crane immediately felt a little speechless.
After working so hard for so long, he only managed to shoot down around twenty people, but Happy had easily killed more than ten of them in one instant.
He cast Happy a strange glance. Eleventh Crane thought in his heart. 'No wonder he has so many points! He's clearly stealing their arrows and shooting them with it!'
The system notifications telling him of the points he obtained rose continuously in Happy's mind.
More than ten thousand cavaliers was not something that an army formed by twenty thousand cavaliers and players can handle.
He immediately continued luring the Mongolian cavaliers to shoot at them, and he used the Mongolian cavaliers' arrows to whittle down the strength of the Mongolian cavalier battalion.
But even after he used Shifting Stars a few times, he did not manage to kill a lot of people. He only managed to kill around two hundred of them, and to the battalion of more than ten thousand cavaliers, it was like taking a cup of water out of an ocean.
In a normal charge, a Mongolian cavalier battalion of five thousand was already enough to crush the reinforcements they left behind to pieces! Happy knew very well t
hat if he cannot split up this battalion or completely destroy the momentum of their charge, when the twenty thousand people behind him was engaged in a battle with them, the chances of them losing will be higher than them winning.
"What the heck, they sent way too many cavaliers… I reckon that this is the workload for two large cavalier units. Happy, what should we do?" Silver Wolf rode next to Happy, and his expression was slightly tense.
Right now, they were less than sixth-tenths of a mile from the spot where their reinforcements were stationed. To cavaliers, they will be able to close this distance within the blink of an eye.
At that time, their army of two thousand will have to face the oppression from more than ten thousand cavaliers, and they will definitely die. Besides, they were in the depths of the vast plains. It was impossible for them to even think about fleeing!
"We'll have to fight with everything we have!" Happy cast a glance at the thousand or so cavaliers who were charging in front of him. His irises were slightly bloodshot. "Even if we end up losing all one thousand and two hundred cavaliers today, we must get rid of the Mongolian cavaliers' momentum in their charge!"
As he spoke, he cast a glance at the enemy cavaliers behind him. They were like a black dragon in the distance, chasing after him, and this sight made his pupils shrink a little.
"Silver Wolf, I'll leave commanding the cavaliers to you! When there's a need for it, have the cavaliers all charge forward! You must absolutely block them!"
"Understood!" No matter what, Silver Wolf came from the army, and he had some understanding to military strategies, and he could catch up to Happy's rhythm. Once he took over command, he did not stop but went straight to the slope from before.
At the same time, Silver Wolf fired a signal flare.
In the distance, the twenty thousand or so elites from Mu Clan, Chivalry Sect, Wind Assault Tower, as well as Wind and Rain Alliance responded to the call. They summoned their steeds and jumped on them.
"When we attack a group, we attack the leader! Kill them!"
When Thunderous Battle gave his order, more than twenty thousand elites released thunderous shouts that shook the skies.
"Charge!"
"Kill them!"
"My brothers and sisters from the alliance, don't embarrass me now!"
"My friends from Chivalry Sect, the time has come for us to fight in the battlefield. Those who are brave, follow me!"
When Night Rain Follows Wind and Lin Xiao shouted at the top of their lungs, they had multitudes of people respond to them, and their voices shook the clouds and the sky.
Wu Kuo cast a glance at Phantasmal Shadow, and he did not back down. "My friends from Wind Assault Tower, we won't lose to them! Go! Charge forward!"
Boom!
More than twenty thousand people had their horses stomp against the ground.
Even though the teamwork between the players was not good enough, and they did not move in an orderly manner, the power they released when they were united was still not something a bunch of misfits could hope to compare to.
They surged down the hill like a tidal wave, and they charged down in a dense wave.
At the same time, Silver Wolf had already resolutely ordered the cavaliers to set up their formation in the slope ahead of them! He looked down while he received the Mongolian cavaliers.
Once Happy handed over command, he turned around resolutely and rushed into the black wave of Mongolian cavaliers thundering toward him.
He had his qi surge into his Hoof Shadow, and his horse's speed instantly increased explosively. He fused together with his horse, and together with his horse, they charged forward like an arrow fired from a bow. Like the wind, they charged into the area where the Mongolian cavaliers could shoot them!
Chapter 843 - Enter the Enemy Fray Alone
The large-scale quest he activated to bother the enemy flank this time will allow him to gain double the points for any Mongolian cavalier he killed near the enemy camp, but Happy did not expect that he will manage to lure out more than ten thousand Mongolian cavaliers.
As expected, when he gained a great fortuitous chance, it will be accompanied by great danger.
If he wanted to get double the points, he will have to face even greater danger than usual.
He can no longer rely on the one thousand and two hundred cavaliers, because they cannot control the situation! In fact, since they were difficult to hide, they became a dangerous factor that caused his enemies to come after his life.
Now that things had progressed in this manner, Happy will naturally not hold back any longer.
He can sacrifice those one thousand and two hundred cavaliers, but he cannot have too great of a sacrifice among the twenty thousand or so people behind him, or else, they will not be able to fit into this plains.
Once Happy slaughtered his way into the enemy camp, the first thing he did was not to charge forward and kill, but to use his fastest speed and bring out the saber glare from Flying Dragon Sword Technique.
The sword glare was sharp and domineering, and it swept out like a full moon!
The nimble war horses instantly had their legs broken. Groups of horses neighed in pain, and around one hundred Mongolian cavaliers crashed to the ground with their horses.
The war horses neighing in pain on the ground immediately became obstacles because they blocked the path for the Mongolian cavaliers behind them! Only a small number of cavaliers were able to rush out from the gaps. They drew their bows and shot their arrows, while those who fell off their horses brought out their fatal hatchets.
When Happy faced the attacks that came from everywhere, he did not panic. While he dodged, he stuffed a Small Reversion Pill into his mouth and activated Shifting Stars.
The arrows and hatchets chased after Happy, but soon, they gathered together and flew to the Mongolian cavaliers.
Happy did not try to get points. Instead, he attacked more war horses and reduced even more Mongolian cavaliers into infantries.
Rumble! Boom!
The cavalier unit did not stop moving forward because of Happy bothering one direction of their battalion. Many of the Mongolian cavaliers' goal was still the one thousand or so Mongolian cavaliers on the slope. They circ.u.mnavigated the chaotic flank at the frontlines, and with thundering hooves, they rushed to the slope.
At that moment, the twenty thousand or so Chinese players had already appeared outside the battlefield. They showed up like a tidal wave behind Happy and went to the Mongolian cavaliers with a frightening momentum!
This scene immediately caused the Mongolian cavaliers to be a little shocked. The battalion at the back bypassed the cavaliers in front from another side and were prepared to launch their charge again!
Meanwhile, the cavaliers who charged to the slope had decreased slightly.
On one side were more than one thousand people, and on the other side were enemies that filled the entire plains. As long as the Mongolian cavalier battalion's commander was not an idiot, he should know where he should place the focus of his attacks.
When he saw this, Silver Wolf no longer hesitated.
"Charge!"
With just one order, the one thousand and two hundred legitimate cavaliers moved.
Horse hooves thundered against the ground, and dust danced in the air.
Under Happy's forceful intervention, the Mongolian cavalier unit that numbered more than ten thousand started showing signs of splitting into two groups.
There was the clash by the one thousand two hundred cavaliers led by Silver Wolf and Thunderous Battle against the Mongolian cavaliers, then there was the bloody battle between twenty thousand or Chinese players against nearly ten thousand Mongolian cavaliers!
Happy believed that with Silver Wolf's commanding skills and strength, it will not be hard for him to gain the upperhand. But once the near ten thousand Mongolian cavaliers decided to spread out, the twenty thousand or so players will have a hard time trying to save the situation.
He continued charging forward!
Happy gritted his teeth and did not care about the hundreds of Mongolians chasing behind him. He broke out of the encirclement by the Mongolian cavaliers regardless of the cost and fiercely blocked the flood formed by the Mongolian cavaliers' charge on the right wing.
At this moment, if a group of people tried to block them, they will definitely suffer through the fiercest attacks from the Mongolian cavaliers.
Unfortunately for the Mongolian cavaliers, Happy was alone, and he did not even ride on a horse. He mingled around the chaotic army, and the weaknesses of the Mongolians were completely revealed.
But when they faced a tiny target, they will feel resigned, like how a cannon will feel when it was used to fight against a mosquito.
They cannot hit him.
Even though the Mongolian cavaliers had great teamwork and can react quickly, when they swung their weapons, Happy can quickly slip through the gaps. Sometimes, when he was surrounded by a few people, he can slip under a horse, and when he left, he will not forget to cut their horses' legs.
Even when he was forced to the point that he can truly not flee, he will withstand their attacks and force his way out. When he only had to face a few Mongolians, they were not at all a threat to him.
As he circled round the Mongolians and slaughtered his way through, Happy did not give the Mongolian cavaliers a chance to surround him. He continued moving forward and continuously avoided their attacks while creating trouble to the Mongolian cavaliers. He was so sneaky in his movements that he caused chills down his enemies spines. Wherever he went, not a single war horse will remain in good condition.
The Mongolian cavaliers who were forced off their horses were of no use. They shouted in anger and charged forward from the back in groups. Unfortunately for them, they simply could not speed up, and they cannot catch up to Happy.
In their anger, some of the Mongolians gnashed their teeth and threw their hatchets, but most of the time, their hatchets will only injure their own soldiers, and it just helped with the spread of chaos in their army.
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