CHAPTER XLIV

The decisive force that changed the whole situation of the battle was not the 20,000 cavalry of Atbury, nor the 3,000 warriors of Suger, but the 2,000 "Black Tiger Iron Cavalry".

The 1,000 "Black Dragon Knights" led by Li Yuxuan and Li Fang each came out of the sparse forests on the east and west sides, and caught the Atbury army by surprise. Gomez was even more stunned by the sight in front of him, and even began to wonder if it was the Good Friday of the Atbury Army.

In fact, the "Black Dragon Knights" led by Li Yuxuan and Li Fang had long been ambushed in the sparse forests on the east and west sides, and only waited for the Atbury army to be exhausted before they came out to collect the effect of surprise soldiers. And looking around the entire battlefield, the addition of the "Black Dragon Knights" has indeed achieved the expected effect, and even surpassed.

The Atterbury cavalry, huddled in the narrow strip, was unable to organize an effective resistance in the face of these two new forces that were slaughtered from behind. Many of the horsemen were cut down by the enemy as soon as they turned their horses. Two black iron horsemen smashed into the enemy line in two cones. Li Yuxuan, Tang Xu, and Li Yuyang formed the "cone tip" of the entire Eastern Group, and everywhere they went, the Atbury cavalry was beheaded countless by them.

Especially Li Yuxuan, who was only at the forefront and was responsible for the frontal attack, a five-foot-long Panlong Ancient Sword became a life-threatening sword for the enemy's cavalry, and many people were even cut in two by people with swords. Countless people were beheaded in the enemy cavalry they fought, some had half of their heads cut off, and even more of them had their arms and legs broken.

A black armor has long been stained with the blood of the enemy, and the ruthlessness of his attack not only frightened the Atterbury cavalry, but even Tang Xu and Li Yuyang, who followed closely behind, saw him covered in blood, like the image of the god of war in hell, they were not shocked. It wasn't until today that they really got to see the horrors of the boss.

The snow was still falling, and the blood was still flying on the land. The despair that had gripped the hearts of the Atterbury soldiers began to turn into fear of death.

The 2,000 black-armored cavalry were demons from hell, and the Atterbury army was bleeding everywhere they went. And what makes more people feel terrified is that from the time they appeared until now, these two thousand black war gods have not even let out a single shout, and even if they die, they have fallen silently, and they can't even hear the painful moans that should have been. Their mission seems to be to kill, endless killing.

And the only bit of white ("Snow Dragon Pony") in this group of black war gods, Li Yuxuan, who is high above it, has become the emperor of the underworld in the hearts of the Atterbury soldiers. Wherever his five-foot sword pointed, the "black dragon" that followed it rushed in either direction, mercilessly devouring the young lives of the Atterbury soldiers.

After the repeated onslaught of the "Black Dragon Knights", the entire formation of the Atterbury Army has been shattered, and the soldiers have abandoned their weapons and begun to flee in all directions, hoping to escape the call of death.

In the face of the defeated enemy army, Li Yuxuan did not press too hard, after all, his number in this area was not large, and he could not ask for victory at a small cost. Li Yuxuan commanded his subordinates to continue to advance forward, and after about half an hour of fighting, they finally converged with Su Mi's troops.

On the other hand, the situation encountered by the 1,000 "Black Dragon Knights" led by Li Fang was similar. In Li Yuxuan, a quarter of an hour after the two armies converged, they also broke through the enemy's battle line. The three armies finally converged in one place according to the predetermined plan before the war.

By the time the battle had reached the present, the Atbury army had completely lost its morale, scattered and retreated, and the battlefield had completely transferred to the hands of Li Yuxuan's army. And when Lang Zhong rushed to Li Yuxuan with a bloody head, Li Yuxuan knew that he had achieved the first victory in his military career. That head was none other than Gomez, the commander of the Atterbury cavalry.

As the commander of the First Army, Gomez probably never dreamed that he would lose to an eighteen-year-old boy on the battlefield, and what is even more unexpected is that he would die under the knife of a twenty-year-old newcomer who went to war for the first time after more than ten years on the battlefield.

Of the 20,000 cavalry of Atbury, 13,731 were killed and 3,228 wounded, with a total of 16,959 casualties and 2,969 captured. Only seventy-two horsemen escaped back to Bollinger Pass.

Suger's side suffered 1,573 casualties, of which the "Black Dragon Knights" suffered only 104 casualties.

The casualty ratio between the two sides reached an astonishing ten to one, and while marveling at Li Yuxuan's genius strategy and tactics, it was also possible to see the attack power of the "Black Dragon Knights".

With the victory of this battle, Li Yuxuan established his supreme authority in the army. Another thing worth mentioning is that Lang Zhong, who was only twenty years old, began to gain Li Yuxuan's trust and reuse after beheading Gomez, the commander-in-chief of the cavalry of the Atbury Army, and became famous in the world in the name of "Blood Knife".

It was also in this battle that Li Yuxuan changed the military posture of Luo Pingyuan, and with this as a turning point, the initiative of the war began to shift from the Atbury side to Li Yuxuan.

The destruction of 20,000 cavalry not only means that one-third of the troops will be wiped out for Atterbury, but more importantly, the loss of its mobile forces will directly affect the deployment and deployment of the Atterbury Army in the future. In terms of the mobility of the troops, Li Yuxuan's side undoubtedly occupies a certain advantage.

On November 23, 173 A.D., Remel, who was on the march, received a report from the scouts ahead. The numbers above simply made Rimel, who had been a soldier all his life, believe that this was a fact. All 20,000 cavalry were wiped out, and the commander General Gomez was killed in battle. But the two reports that followed also confirmed that this was an unquestionable reality.

Twenty thousand Atterbury soldiers, twenty thousand young lives were laid to rest in a foreign land, and Rimmel's eyes moistened. But after all, he is a veteran who has fought for many years, and he is the commander-in-chief of Atterbury's expedition, and he has to consider the lives of the remaining nearly 40,000 soldiers.

After sobering up, Remel had to face up to such a reality: after Xu Shouyi, he had another terrible opponent in front of him, even more terrible than Xu Shouyi. If he is careless, he is likely to make the Atterbury expedition fall short.

In the evening of the same day, Rimel's more than 20,000 infantry arrived at the town of Deno, where the troops rested and sent scouts to Sugal in order to grasp the actual situation of the opponent and decide on the next step.

Li Yuxuan, who returned to Suger, did not celebrate the victory with his generals, but locked himself in his study alone.

At this moment, what was placed on the table in front of him was the Sword of the Ancient Sword of the Coiling Dragon Heavenly Dragon.

Just last night, the sword in his hands claimed the lives of hundreds of Atterbury soldiers. On the way back to Suger, I have been thinking about what kind of sword this is, which can control the minds of people.

From the time Li Yuxuan used this sword to cut off the head of the first enemy last night, he had sensed the fierce murderous aura attached to this sword, and its momentum even exceeded the fighting aura he exuded. Every time he killed an enemy, Li Yuxuan felt that the murderous aura on his sword was a little heavier. Later, it was no longer Li Yuxuan who was swinging his sword to kill the enemy, but the sword itself was leading him to keep killing. Although Li Yuxuan's body was no longer under control, and he was only almost numb in fighting, the little consciousness in the depths of his soul remained clear and unaffected by the murderous aura of the sword itself.

When the whole battle was over, when Li Yuxuan raised the sword in his hand and cheered the victory with all the soldiers, Li Fang and the others around him all exclaimed. The original dim sword body of the Panlong Ancient Sword was crimson, and the dragon-shaped blood pattern on the sword body was as if blood was flowing in it, radiant and dazzling.

Li Yuxuan, who was pensive, held the hilt of the sword again, and pulled out the blade of nearly five feet, and at this moment, the Panlong Ancient Sword regained its appearance and became dim. But Li Yuxuan's feeling was different from before, and the entire sword body actually trembled, making a "buzzing" sound. To this day, Li Yuxuan knows why ordinary people can't use the Panlong Ancient Sword, if it weren't for the complementary combination of the Divine Dragon's heart and the Dragon's heart, I am afraid that the Panlong Ancient Sword will take away his mind and become a thoughtless killing machine.

With the killing of the Panlong Ancient Sword, or Li Yuxuan's continuous killing, people and swords are becoming more and more in tune, and slowly, people and swords are fused together, exuding a domineering aura that people can't force to look at, this is also a change in Li Yuxuan's invisible central realm, does this also have anything to do with the Divine Dragon Heart Technique?