The Human Emperor (200-400)

C345: Wang Chong's Edge! (2)

Hong long long!

The earth trembled and mountains shook. It was impossible to describe the furious might of thirty Great Tang cavalrymen charging in an arrow formation as they slaughtered their way through the bandits and highwaymen.

The neighing of the horses was intermixed with desperate screams, dull collisions between bodies, crisp fracturing of bones... It was nothing short of an extremely gruesome scene.

In just a short moment, more than twenty highwaymen suffered great fractures and were knocked into the air by the force of the charge.

At this moment, the disparity between a normal horse and a military war steed was shown very clearly. Be it in terms of strength, endurance, or bulk, the military war steeds were far superior to the tamed horses of those highwaymen.

At the same time, the purpose of Wang Chong in luring the highwaymen and bandits onto the main path, and stretching their formation out narrow and long was also showing through.

Typically, the full might of cavalry could only be displayed in vast plains. However, for a small platoon such as Wang Chong's, a narrow area like this would prove to be be more effective instead.

The main path was only sufficiently wide to allow six war steeds to pass through simultaneously. No matter how numerous the highwaymen and bandits were, only six of them would be able to face off with Wang Chong's troops at any given time. This had placed them in an advantageous situation, especially considering the superior strength and coordination of the Great Tang soldiers.

Neighhhhh!

With the collapse of the frontline, the highwaymen had already lost the momentum to rival Wang Chong's troops. At the current moment, they were no different from weeds standing in a straight line, waiting to be reaped.

Pu pu pu!

The spears of the thirty Great Tang cavalrymen swiftly pierced and retracted from the highwaymen standing in their path, and on an average, each highwayman would suffer around six to seven stabs. Wherever they stormed through, gruesome corpses with holes punched right through them would be left behind.

This seemed to be perfectly normal for Wang Chong and the thirty cavalrymen, but to Bai Siling, who had never witnessed such a scene before, this was completely unimaginable.

On the other hand, for the bandits and highwaymen, the thirty Great Tang cavalrymen were no different from machines of slaughter. Watching as the cavalrymen slowly approached them, it felt like an intangible noose was slowly tightening on their necks. They were in a nightmare they couldn't wake up from!

Before long, the forty highwaymen in the forefront were reduced to corpses lying along the road. Crimson blood and pieces of flesh were splattered all over the area.

One should never gauge a sizeable cavalry force just by its numbers. On flat plains with limited obstacles, it was possible for an army of 10,000 cavalry to subdue an army of 300,000 infantry.

Those who failed to understand this much would only find themselves crushed.

"Kill!"

Before the sixty Iron Cloak highwaymen behind could react, Wang Chong's thirty cavalrymen had already merged together with the ten cavalrymen planted on the slope previously.

With the addition of another ten cavalrymen, Wang Chong's already powerful force was bolstered even more.

Hong long!

Without any hesitation, Wang Chong's forty cavalrymen continued charging ferociously into the group of sixty highwaymen. From the start of the retaliation to this point, barely a few seconds had passed.