Chapter 404

Chapter 404 Fight to the Death, Never Retreat!

“The Yuanwei Gang had long obstructed the Yamamoto Group’s operations across the three northern provinces of Huaxia. If not for them, perhaps the Yamamoto Group would not be finding it so difficult to expand its reach today.” The black-clad warrior standing at the front spoke in a low voice: “We have come to Huaxia on the orders of the Chairman not only to avenge the ten senior ninja, but also to send a warning to these Huaxia gangs.”

“Since our unit has happened to run into the Yuanwei Gang here, let us use the blood of these men to consecrate our blades!”

As he said this, a deep and murderous aura had already spread across the black-clad warrior’s face. He swung his long blade and growled: “Leave no one alive!”

The moment his words fell, that massive mass of shadows began to stir and move!

The Yuanwei Gang members remained completely unaware of the danger that was closing in on them.

They had already been walking for more than ten hours straight, exhausted and worn out. Though they were only resting for an hour, after briefly replenishing themselves with food, the vast majority had drifted off to sleep.

Old Tian rested with his eyes closed. Wanyan Zhengyong had no desire to sleep. He looked up at the starry sky and suddenly noticed a large mass of shadows moving in the distant forest!

At first, the shadows did not catch Wanyan Zhengyong’s attention. He thought his eyes were playing tricks on him. But when he looked again more carefully, he spotted the cold glints of light flickering within those shadows!

It was the moonlight reflecting off the blades of the warriors’ long swords!

And by now, those rapidly moving shadows were less than a hundred meters from the Yuanwei Gang members!

“Ambush!”

An overwhelming sense of danger surged in Wanyan Zhengyong’s chest. He gathered all his strength and let out a thunderous roar!

The roar crashed like a thunderclap in the ears of every Yuanwei Gang member!

Many who had already fallen into deep sleep were jolted awake by Wanyan Zhengyong’s shout!

An ambush? How could there be an ambush at a time like this? Who would have the nerve to attack over a thousand of the Yuanwei Gang’s elite?

They opened their bleary eyes and saw a pale golden figure already leaping down from the hillside at the front of the formation!

The moment Wanyan Zhengyong finished his shout, he had already charged straight toward the mass of shadows!

Tian Bingyi was also jolted awake by Wanyan Zhengyong’s roar. His reflexes were lightning fast. Spotting the large crowd of figures in the distance, he launched himself off the ground and covered several dozen meters in a series of rapid bounds!

Even as the gang leader and elder of the Yuanwei Gang, they still led the charge in battle!

Wanyan Huazhong had also been wide awake before this. Seeing what was happening, he drew the pistol at his waist, fired a shot into the night sky, and shouted: “Everyone wake up, get ready to fight!”

The gunshot tore through the night and put every Yuanwei Gang elite on full alert! They drew their weapons and prepared for battle!

In that moment, the Yuanwei Gang’s combat discipline was on full display. If it had been the Desert Wolf Gang or the Heroes’ Association in their place, even if half of them had been mowed down by machine guns, those people probably still would not have known what was happening.

However, compared to the gleaming cold light of the blades in the darkness, the Yuanwei Gang’s weapons looked rather meager!

For this long journey, Wanyan Zhengyong had not had his men carry too many weapons. Aside from a small number of firearms kept on hand for emergencies, the rest of the guns and machetes had been left behind at several secret bases in Ninghai. What the men carried on them now amounted to little more than steel pipes, short blades, and daggers!

A Yuanwei Gang disciple standing on the flank of the formation was tensed and on guard when he suddenly sensed a dark figure lunging at him through the night at tremendous speed!

He watched helplessly as a flash of cold light swept across his chest, then plunged deep into his abdomen!

He struggled to raise the dagger in his hand to fight back, but the attacker had already pulled out the long blade and drove it into his chest a second time!

He clearly heard the sound of his own heart shattering. The Yuanwei Gang disciple managed to gasp out the words “Eastern foreigners” in broken syllables before collapsing limply to the ground!

At the same time, several other Yuanwei Gang elites had already come face to face with these Eastern warriors!

Against the warriors’ long blades, those who scrambled to fight back seemed to have little ability to resist! Almost every first exchange ended with someone being cut down with a severe wound!

These warriors had undergone specialized training and were individually stronger than the Yuanwei Gang’s elite disciples. On top of that, they had the advantage of a prepared attack against an unprepared enemy. At the start, it was like tigers tearing into a flock of sheep, with no one able to stop them!

The lead warrior from before stood atop a tree again, watching the chaos below with a trace of mockery and contempt in his eyes.

Watching those Eastern men harvest their brothers’ lives like cutting wheat, the Yuanwei Gang members were filled with burning rage! Never before had they felt the blood in their veins boil like this!

“Eastern bastards, go to hell!”

At that moment, Yuanwei Gang disciples who had been standing guard with firearms finally rushed over. Without even bothering to aim, they opened fire repeatedly into the rustling shadows!

Those shots wounded at least three Eastern warriors!

The gunfire in the darkness also gave away the shooter’s position. Just as he was about to pull the trigger again, a flash of cold light swept across his throat!

He felt a rush of cold air flood into his windpipe, and then a torrent of blood came gushing from the wound on his neck!

“Eastern… die…”

With every last ounce of his strength, he let out a hoarse roar and pulled the trigger one final time at the figure before him!

The Eastern warrior dropped dead on the spot, his heart blown apart by the bullet!

“Brothers, kill them! Even if you die, take one down with you! Kill one and you break even, kill two and you’re ahead!” Wanyan Huazhong roared! This young master of the Yuanwei Gang was no slouch in a fight himself. Pistol in hand, he charged back and forth and managed to take down several Eastern warriors!

“Kill them, we can’t let these bastards run wild on Huaxia soil!”

The thick smell of blood in the forest had fully ignited the fighting spirit of these northern men. Though they were at an absolute disadvantage in both skill and weaponry, their numbers were nearly double those of the Eastern warriors!

Though dozens had already been cut down, these northern men showed the fierce and unyielding side of Huaxia men to the fullest. Unless an Eastern warrior landed a killing blow, they would hold on with everything they had, dragging the enemy down to give their comrades a chance to strike!

They did not know why the Eastern warriors had come to slaughter them, and they did not care!

These men only knew one thing: someone had come to their door looking for trouble, and they were not going to make it easy for them!

One Eastern warrior had just driven his long blade through a Yuanwei Gang elite’s abdomen and had not yet had time to pull it out when a steel pipe came crashing down on his head. At the same moment, another dagger was driven straight into his chest!

Another Yuanwei Gang disciple had already been gutted, his intestines spilling out, yet he refused to give the Eastern warrior a chance to pull his blade free. He locked his arms around the man’s body and sank his teeth into his throat!

No matter how many times the warrior on the other side hacked at him, he refused to let go. He tore open the Eastern warrior’s windpipe with his bare teeth!

“Ahhh!”

Not far away, an Eastern warrior let out a scream, clutching the half of his ear that had been bitten off, staggering back two steps.

“Go to hell!” A Yuanwei Gang man with a long blade still buried in his body spat out the bloody ear, grinned wide, pulled the blade from his own stomach with one hand, and slashed off the Eastern man’s head!

A severed head went spinning through the air!

Even trading four or five lives for one, the Yuanwei Gang elites did not yield a single step!

Fight to the death, never retreat! Fight to the death, never flee!

Who said the people of Huaxia were the sick men of East Asia? Who said the people of Huaxia were weak and easily bullied?

Tian Bingyi used no weapons at all. His palms moved like the wind, and with every strike, an Eastern warrior fell to the ground and never rose again!

Wanyan Zhengyong’s pale golden robe had long since been soaked red with blood. His one remaining right hand swung a captured warrior’s long blade as he fought and directed the battle at the same time!

“No formation, not one step back!” Wanyan Zhengyong roared!

“Not one step back!”

Every Yuanwei Gang member present shouted in unison! Though nearly all of them were drenched in blood, not a single one showed any sign of fear!

This was the most dangerous and most unprepared battle the Yuanwei Gang had faced since its founding, yet they fought with the full ferocity of Huaxia men, holding the Eastern invaders’ advance to a standstill!

The lead warrior standing atop the tree saw that his side’s advance had been halted and casualties were steadily mounting. A cold and vicious look flickered across his eyes!

“Elite warriors of the Eastern Empire, it is time for you to act.”

The moment his words fell, several more figures burst out from the shadows of the trees behind him, moving at more than twice the speed of the five hundred before them!

In a short while, Tian Bingyi, Yu Ye, and the other top fighters of the Yuanwei Gang had already killed dozens of enemies. Though they had expended considerable energy, they were still managing to hold on.

Old Tian was faring better, but Yu Ye and the others had already sustained numerous wounds. Even ants can kill a man if there are enough of them, let alone that many Eastern warriors.

Old Tian swung both palms, pressing them against an Eastern warrior’s body. The powerful force of his qi pierced through the man’s exterior and shattered his heart directly!

He had just sent one man flying when Old Tian spotted two flashes of cold light crossing toward him from the front at tremendous speed!

A true expert had arrived!

With nowhere to dodge, Old Tian had no choice but to leap back several steps. It was the first time he had retreated since the battle began!

The two blade lights followed close behind, giving Old Tian no room to breathe or regroup, shadowing his every move!

Tian Bingyi let out a furious roar, seized an opening, and shattered one man’s arm with a single palm strike!

But at that moment, the other blade was already upon him, leaving a long gash across Old Tian’s right arm!

Ten years ago, Tian Bingyi might not have taken these two elite warriors seriously at all. But in recent years his physical strength had declined considerably. Though his technique continued to improve with each passing day, he had been fighting for so long that he was now running low on reserves. Otherwise he would never have been caught by that strike!

Yu Ye was in an even worse situation. He was being surrounded by four elite warriors at once. Though he had killed one and wounded another, a horrifying wound had opened up on his left leg!

That last blade had severed his femoral artery.