Dark Sand: My Players Are All Actors
Chapter 317 - 222: Trial Passed! (10,000-word update, requesting monthly tickets)_6

Chapter 317: Chapter 222: Trial Passed! (10,000-word update, requesting monthly tickets)_6

The casualty ratio was too massive!

After this round of charge, although the Flying Tiger Army’s cavalry had a numerical advantage, they could barely cause significant damage to the armored cavalry.

But they had no other choice, as the Jin Army’s cavalry on both wings was already swooping towards the infantry phalanx, and once the infantry phalanx armed with Divine Arm Bows was breached, the cavalry of the Flying Tiger Army would find it difficult to retain the initiative on the battlefield.

In the distance, the armored cavalry had already turned their horses around, preparing for another assault.

These heavily armored cavalrymen, akin to ancient miniature tanks, had only one strategy against any enemy: push!

There was simply no need for any tactical maneuvers. As long as they pushed through, they won.

And the cavalry general in the front line, especially tall and wearing splendid armor, looked daunting.

He slowly raised his hand, holding a heavy lance with a banner fluttering at its tip.

Then, he slowly pointed the long lance towards the Flying Tiger Army.

All the armored cavalrymen spurred their horses in unison once more, and the thunderous sound of hooves resounded, shaking the earth like thunder.

Another charge had started!

At this moment, the general of the Flying Tiger Army had no strategy left, but he knew that they absolutely could not retreat.

Because the Flying Tiger Army was the backbone of this war, once the cavalry withdrew, the infantry would surely be doomed. And if the Flying Tiger Army was defeated, the other soldiers of the Qi Dynasty could hardly be expected to battle the Jin Army.

Once the positions on the riverbank were lost, even maintaining a navy might hardly reverse the tide of this battle.

"Each of you take a squad to intercept the Kidnapper Cavalry! The rest, follow me to hold off the armored cavalry!"

The deputy general of the cavalry immediately ordered, dividing the troops into two teams to intercept the Kidnapper Cavalry and to cover the infantry phalanx equipped with Divine Arm Bows. For only the Divine Arm Bow held the possibility of overcoming the armored cavalry.

Their task was to persevere until the Divine Arm Bows were reloaded and gradually shoot all the Jin soldiers dead.

During this process, the losses of the Flying Tiger Army would be extremely severe, but at this point in the battle, if they wanted to win, they could no longer spare any sacrifices.

The cavalry of the Flying Tiger Army tightly grasped their bridles, their horses’ hooves scrabbling at the ground.

However, just as they were prepared to desperately block the armored cavalry, a huge crossbow arrow, over two meters long, suddenly flew across from the distant river!

With a ’whoosh’, it seemed as if even the air had been torn by the sharp crossbow arrow.

The armored cavalry, gaining speed in their run, didn’t give this any thought, as they didn’t believe that a crossbow arrow shot from such a distance could have any significant effect.

Most likely, it would run out of momentum mid-flight and fall to the ground.

The leading cavalry general, holding his lance high and waving the banner, prepared to issue an order to push through towards the Flying Tiger Army.

And all the armored cavalrymen, very tacitly throwing their lassos, firmly locked three horses together.

A charge that would break through everything was imminent!

However, at that moment, the cavalry general suddenly felt a strong force hitting him from the side.

It was as if he had been struck by a collapsing mountain!

The sharp arrowhead pierced directly into his side armor, piercing through the two layers of armor he wore and drilling out the other side.

And the immense lateral force even sent him flying off his horse with both feet in the air!

His feet were caught in the stirrups, and the powerful force from the side even caused his armored horse to fall sideways onto the ground, deviating a long distance laterally.

This was a "drift" of the armored cavalry, sadly it was not an intentional move by any skilled rider, but rather an irresistible external force imposed on the rider.

If this had been a regular cavalry charge, the impact of the crossbow arrow wouldn’t have been so severe.

During a cavalry charge, the riders maintain a certain distance from each other, and even if one was to fall, it would only affect a handful of people.

But at this time, the riders of the Iron Pagoda were linked to each other with leather thongs, and the fall of this cavalry leader immediately brought down two other riders tied to him by thongs as well!

Adding to that, the Iron Pagoda’s charge aimed for a "push," intending to use their heavily armored cavalry to crush every enemy like an iron wall. Thus, their formation was denser than typical cavalry charges.

Amidst this chaos, the rear Iron Pagoda cavalry collided with the fallen ones, and the thongs on the fallen riders dragged down even more...

This virtually impregnable formation of armored riders strangely broke open from the center at the very front, spreading like ripples on the water and drawing the rear forces into the boundless dust.

"Fire!"

At the infantry leader’s command, the reloaded Divine Arm Bows shot out a torrent of arrows towards the chaotic Iron Pagoda cavalry!

What once was a massive entity of moving cavalry, creating an unstoppable momentum, now began to fall into disarray with an unexpected collapse.

It was hard for the rear cavalry to react flexibly in this situation due to being linked in threes. Even as they tried hard to avoid the fallen comrades in front, their speed was greatly reduced, dooming the charge before it could truly begin.

And then, these chaotic Iron Pagoda fell as mere targets for the Divine Arm Bows.

The cavalry leader of the Flying Tiger Army immediately shouted, "Charge! Slay all these Jin dogs!"

The cavalry thundered like a storm, and the infantry stood solid as a forest.

Seeing the Iron Pagoda at the front had fallen, and the riverine naval battle nearly turning into a one-sided slaughter, the Jin soldiers in the rear finally lost all will to fight and fled in complete disarray.

Li Hongyun excitedly used various crossbows and catapults on the warship to chase after the Jin soldiers until his view was filled with a line of system notifications.

[Trial Illusion: Wanting to Speak, Yet Stopping]

[Cleared!]

But this time, there was no clearance evaluation, only a few lines of broken poetry.

[A man’s heart is like iron until death. Testing his hand, he heals the breach in the heavens.]

[Exchanging my vast strategies for pacification, for the books of the eastern house on planting trees.]

[Wishing to be a frivolous boy from Five Tombs, born during the prosperous times of Zhenguan and Kaiyuan. Fighting roosters and walking dogs all my life, oblivious to the world’s peril.]

[Recalling the bustling competition of bygone days. Sighing outside the upper stories of the gate, grief follows successively. High above the ages past, idle regrets of glory and disgrace. Old tales of Six Dynasties pass with the flowing waters, just the cold smoke and withered grass remain green. Till now, the merchant’s daughter, still sings occasionally, songs left in the inner courtyards.]

[Now I know the full taste of sorrow... Wanting to speak, yet stopping.]

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