Chapter 243
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Chapter 243: Cavalry Battle
A deafening roar of battle shook the heavens!
The largest war in Luo Ji’s world’s history officially commenced at this moment, seemingly proclaiming that from this moment on, he had truly stepped onto the battlefield of the Bronze Age!
The shield-axe soldiers at the forefront of both armies instantly clashed, and a face-to-face slaughter immediately unfolded!
As bronze battle axes swung down, large splatters of blood flew across the battlefield.
Fallen corpses were instantly trampled into bloody messes.
The ruthlessness of the battlefield and the fragility of life were vividly displayed at this moment.
The same troop types, the same weapons and equipment.
Luo Ji faced this kind of battle for the first time with basically no discernible advantage.
Not only did he have no advantage, but the enemy’s troop strength might even be considerably higher than his.
The battle was momentarily fierce and tangled.
Luo Ji, riding Liaoyuan Huo, charged and killed his way through.
A top-tier warhorse clearly boosted his combat power, making him seem divinely assisted.
At this moment, even if he encountered fierce generals with 4-star bravery, he could probably fight them for a few rounds.
With a bronze spear in hand, he thrust out continuously, easily killing several enemy soldiers in succession.
Then, with a cold glance, he instantly locked onto Zhou Dongnan in the rear.
As a murderous intent flashed in his eyes, Luo Ji brandished the bronze spear in his hand and directly spurred his horse to charge forward!
Zhou Dongnan clearly noticed Luo Ji’s approach at this moment.
On this entire flat battlefield, at a glance, there were only a few mounted individuals.
Not to mention Luo Ji’s Liaoyuan Huo, which possessed astonishing might, charging all the way, crushing countless ordinary soldiers along the way.
It was impossible not to notice him.
Having reached this point, what reason did Zhou Dongnan have to back down?
Not to mention he had already spent over 100,000 in military expenses for this trip.
How else would he recoup his costs if he didn’t get Liu Ye’s reward?
Sun He’s fire had directly burned all of West Plains City’s armaments to the ground!
Breaching a player’s main city and not seizing any resources, only getting a bit of grain?
This matter, if spoken of, would simply make other players laugh him to death.
How could there be such a shabby main city?
Yet who could have known that West Plains City was not Luo Ji’s main city at all?
As thoughts rapidly spun in his mind, Zhou Dongnan pulled the reins of his black warhorse and, wielding the crescent halberd custom-made for him, directly attacked!
“Die!!”
As their figures intersected, Luo Ji suddenly released the reins and switched to holding the spear with both hands.
Then, with a shake of his arms, the flexible advantage of the spear was revealed without doubt in his hands at this moment.
Under the scorching sun, the cold glint of the spear tip darted towards Zhou Dongnan’s vital throat like a spirit snake flicking its tongue!
Facing such an exquisite spear thrust, Zhou Dongnan’s heart jolted.
Without time for much thought, he quickly leaned back to dodge while clamping his legs to the horse’s belly to steady himself.
Subsequently, the two figures on horseback separated.
In their first exchange, Zhou Dongnan, caught off guard, didn’t even get a chance to make a move.
However, this was not the end.
The Silver-grade Horsemanship Mastery skill made Luo Ji exceptionally adept at mounted combat at this moment.
At the moment of passing by, he lightly kicked his horse’s belly, then suddenly turned around, actually thrusting a backward spear strike directly at Zhou Dongnan’s unguarded back!
Luo Ji’s backward spear strike came incredibly suddenly, catching Zhou Dongnan completely off guard, and he was hit instantly!
At the same time, Liaoyuan Huo beneath him cooperated perfectly, quickly turning its head as he thrust the backward spear, charging towards Zhou Dongnan, who didn’t have time to turn around!
Zhou Dongnan, struck in the back, was greatly alarmed.
In this round, he had lost the initiative and only wanted to urge the black warhorse beneath him to gallop away quickly, temporarily disengaging from the battle, to return after he had adjusted his state and regrouped!
“Don’t think of running!”
But how could Luo Ji give him this chance?
Although Zhou Dongnan’s mount was also a fine horse, it was clearly a level below Liaoyuan Huo.
Moreover, the initiative of this battle was firmly in Luo Ji’s hands, making him always one step faster than the opponent.
In just a blink of an eye, before Zhou Dongnan could rush out, Luo Ji, riding Liaoyuan Huo, had already charged to his side!
Then, with a swing of his single arm, he thrust out another spear!
At that moment, only a metallic clang was heard, and the tiger-head helmet on Zhou Dongnan’s head immediately flew off.
At that instant, a surge of annoyance welled up in Luo Ji’s heart, that spear thrust had missed due to his slip-up!
Zhou Dongnan, having narrowly escaped death, flashed a lingering fear in his eyes.
He quickly swung the crescent halberd in his hand, attacking Luo Ji who was pursuing him from behind, attempting to force the opponent back.
However, the crescent halberd, throughout the entire cold weapon era, had always had a very low appearance rate.
Its most famous user was arguably Lu Bu, hailed as the strongest general of the Three Kingdoms.
The saying “Among men, it’s Lu Bu, and among horses, it’s Red Hare” almost elevated Lu Bu to the pinnacle of an era!
It also proved that the crescent halberd was not a useless weapon, and it simply demanded extremely high requirements from its user!
Under this premise, could Zhou Dongnan possibly meet this “extremely high” requirement?
Evidently not.
Considering it from a modern person’s perspective, Zhou Dongnan custom-made a crescent halberd for himself primarily for showing off, rather than for truly exceptional skill in using it.
Thus, how could Zhou Dongnan, whose formation had already been disrupted by Luo Ji’s series of backward spear strikes, effectively use this crescent halberd, which demanded such high requirements from its user?
His attacks were undoubtedly full of flaws, hardly posing any effective threat to Luo Ji.
However, what was strange was that Luo Ji’s own attacks also seemed to weaken afterward.
Although he pursued relentlessly, he failed to deliver the same continuous, life-threatening offensives as before.
What was going on?
And although Luo Ji was not a weakling, how did his strength suddenly become so fierce?
The actual situation was that his previous burst was equivalent to Cheng Yaojin’s ‘three swings of the axe’ once done, it was gone.
It was quite impossible to drastically improve one’s strength in a short period, but he could take an alternative approach, and intensely practice a few specific moves and master them!
Luo Ji, upon thinking of this method, decisively used his leader’s privilege to call Bai Ze over and asked Bai Ze to teach him a spear-fighting style for mounted combat, which were the three moves he had just demonstrated.
According to Bai Ze, as long as those three moves were mastered, and used by surprise, there would be a chance to kill any fierce general in a single round!
The facts proved that he hadn’t practiced well enough, far from it.
He himself knew, without anyone else needing to tell him, that the first thrust was decent, but by the second backward spear strike, his strength was clearly insufficient.
And the third move was originally supposed to be a three consecutive thrusts, but with his current strength, he could only manage one thrust, and it even went awry.
