During the charge, Liang Cheng still maintained control over his cavalry, forcefully marshaling two cavalry troops to intersect after one breakthrough, once again cutting off a segment of the retreating Wolf Land Soldiers. In this maneuver, Lady Daxi and dozens of Wolf Land Soldiers around her were surrounded.
However, these dozens of clansmen beside Lady Daxi were likely her most loyal guards. At this moment, they remained fearless in the face of the cavalry and charged together, temporarily breaching the encirclement that had just closed.
Fortunately, Fanli arrived just in time. This stout man already had several arrows stuck in him—two in his left arm and one in his back—but thanks to his thick hide, the arrows had not penetrated deeply.
At this moment, Fanli brandished his giant axe, sweeping it through the air like Cheng Yaojin reincarnated. The tremendous force, combined with the axe’s inertia, directly cleaved several Wolf Land Soldiers at the vanguard, who were attempting to break out, in half at the waist. Instantly, blood splattered everywhere.
This was a true fierce general, a genuine "enemy of ten thousand" on the battlefield!
Previously, on a large-scale battlefield, individual martial prowess might have struggled to achieve significant results. But now, in this small-scale clash, strength comparable to that of a demon king was fully on display.
The Blind Man, A Ming, and Siniang began to make their moves.
The Blind Man’s mental power struck Lady Daxi’s horse. The animal instantly went berserk, knocking aside the Wolf Land Soldiers protecting her and charging headlong towards Fanli.
Fanli had already raised the axe in his hand. However, Lady Daxi kicked off the saddle with both legs and leapt from horseback. Holding a longbow, she drew it and nocked an arrow in mid-air, the arrowhead aimed directly at the space between Fanli’s eyebrows.
The arrow flew, but fortunately, Fanli managed to raise his axe above his head just in time.
The arrow was deflected, and Fanli himself stumbled back two steps.
He knew that an arrow hitting other parts of his body wouldn’t matter much, but a hit to the head like that, he reckoned, would truly be the end of him.
Before Lady Daxi could land, two silken threads wrapped around her ankles and suddenly twisted.
Lady Daxi lost her balance and fell. The surrounding riders swiftly cut down the Wolf Land Soldiers and began to press in further.
Zheng Fan hesitated, wondering whether to use the power of the Mo Wan to intervene.
But Liang Cheng directly roared,
Zheng Fan paused for a moment, taken aback, but still spurred his horse to follow Liang Cheng. Tʜe source of this ᴄontent ɪs novel{f}ire.net
Lady Daxi was already surrounded. With the Blind Man and the others there, no matter how troublesome Lady Daxi might be, dealing with her wouldn’t be an issue.
Meanwhile, the encirclement and segmentation of the routed enemy soldiers continued. However far the Wolf Land Soldiers had greedily pursued earlier, that was now the length of their desperate flight to escape death.
Just then, Liang Cheng led Zheng Fan as they spurred their horses out of the main engagement. Behind Liang Cheng, one hundred barbarian soldiers followed closely.
Soon, Zheng Fan understood what Liang Cheng intended to do. He means to... retake the city gate!
They had to reclaim what was lost from the very place they had lost it!
Ride the momentum of the routing enemy and charge back into the city.
This was an extremely audacious strategy, and at this juncture, it was also highly feasible.
The fastest few hundred Wolf Land Soldiers were already nearing the city gate.
Their courage had been shattered; they only wanted to flee back into the city.
On the city wall, Meng Geng gritted his teeth as he watched the routed soldiers return. If he could, he really wanted to scream curses at Lady Daxi to her face, but as things stood, it was uncertain whether she would even make it back alive.
"My lord, close the city gate!"
A captain from Mianzhou City shouted.
The routed soldiers had returned, and Yan cavalry were clearly following them. If the Yan cavalry charged into the city along with the fleeing soldiers, the situation would collapse all over again.
Previously, the Yan people had actually entered the city. If the Wolf Land Soldiers, fueled by a desperate, bloody valor, hadn’t driven them out from within the city walls, Mianzhou might have changed hands for the second time in just a few short months.
But the Wolf Land Soldiers were now shattered. When the Yan people stormed in again, who could possibly stop them?
This captain believed that neither he nor his subordinates possessed such capability.
In fact, these repeated setbacks had already dealt a massive blow to the morale of Mianzhou City’s garrison.
Furthermore, the last time the Yan people had entered the city, they had only killed officials, without massacring the populace or looting the entire city. This had undoubtedly sent a psychological message to these low-ranking soldiers.
Something along the lines of: Even if the city falls, I won’t die?
Perhaps the officials would be implicated, but as for them, mere low-ranking soldiers, how much could they possibly be implicated?
The soldiers of Qian State were also called ’bastards’; they were already the dregs of society. How much worse could things get for them?
Meng Geng, however, just chuckled.
If any other general were here, seeing this situation, they would undoubtedly order the city gate closed without a second thought. But he was Meng Geng.
Meng Geng pointed to the over one thousand Wolf Land Soldiers remaining within the city and said,
"Close the city gate now? Are you trying to incite an internal revolt first?"
The Wolf Land Soldiers were not bound by military discipline. That was why, after the previous engagement ended, over a thousand of them had stayed behind to clear the battlefield and collect heads, rather than joining Lady Daxi in pursuit.
And now, if Meng Geng dared to order the city gate closed, shutting out the routed Wolf Land Soldiers, the ones inside the city would neither understand his reasoning nor care about the bigger picture. Their blades and arrows would immediately turn on the Qian people.
If infighting broke out within the city, what would be the point of closing the gate then?