Chapter 438
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Chapter 438: Driving Them Back
On a chaotic battlefield, horn calls are often used to transmit important signals and commands.
Hearing the horn calls from a distance, Zhang Lue, who was commanding White River City’s defending forces in a head-on clash with the barbarian army outside the city, maintained a calm expression.
As a general focused on strategy, a thorough understanding of each unit’s characteristics, their role on the battlefield, and their combat style was fundamental.
On the battlefield, a cavalry unit could not remain in one place and engage in prolonged entanglement with the enemy.
After a round of charging, they would invariably disengage from the battlefield temporarily.
However, the cavalry unit’s signal for this temporary retreat became the signal for Zhang Lue to launch a counterattack.
Luo Cheng’s previous assault was executed exceptionally well, greatly boosting the morale of the defending forces.
Zhang Lue seized the opportunity, decisively leveraged that morale further, instantly bringing his subordinate units’ morale to a high level.
Without the suppression of the Ice Bear warriors and the Mammoth, ordinary barbarian warriors, despite their numerical advantage, found it difficult to contend with them!
The combination of sword-shield soldiers and spearmen immediately forced the barbarians blocking the city gate to retreat step by step.
For a time, the entire situation seemed to be on the verge of turning around.
Facing such a situation, Hill, in the rear, maintained a frosty expression.
After helping the Mammoth Hak check its wounds, she decisively urged it to charge directly into White River City’s defending forces’ formation.
How terrifying was the Mammoth’s killing power against ordinary soldiers? Its mere proximity was enough to create a powerful oppressive feeling.
With a swing of its trunk, a terrifying force immediately sent the first wave of charging soldiers flying.
A thought of pursuit then flashed through Hill’s mind.
But when her peripheral vision caught the large patch of blood-soaked fur on Hak’s body, Hill decisively dismissed that thought and then coldly uttered one word.
“Retreat!”
The barbarian army retreated, and Zhang Lue did not pursue further.
That long-haired monster posed a significant deterrent to them.
The soldiers who had been sent flying earlier were still in unknown condition, and continuing the pursuit would genuinely not be a wise strategy.
Thus, a battle concluded with the barbarian army’s temporary retreat.
As soon as Luo Cheng entered the city, before he could even settle his subordinates, he was urgently pulled into the combat meeting room by Zhang Lue and Liu Meng, under the pretense of discussing tactics.
As soon as the combat meeting room door closed, Liu Meng, who had been holding on the entire time, instantly collapsed into his seat.
Seeing Liu Meng’s bloodless face, Luo Cheng, finally realizing what was happening, immediately changed his expression.
“General Liu, are you injured?”
“It’s nothing, nothing…”
Liu Meng waved his hand.
“The doctor has already treated me; I won’t die.”
“What exactly happened?”
Facing Luo Cheng’s question, Zhang Lue bitterly smiled and explained the entire sequence of events.
After finishing, he quickly pressed again.
“General Luo Cheng, I wonder, did His Majesty send any other reinforcements this time?”
Hearing this, a look of understanding immediately flashed in Luo Cheng’s eyes.
He had also witnessed that Mammoth and the Ice Bear warriors.
A head-on confrontation, even with the 500 cavalrymen he brought, might not be enough to contend with them directly.
This time, it could only be said that they had achieved miraculous results by using the bloodletting spears.
This had aroused the barbarians’ caution, forcing them into a retreat.
However, it was uncertain if all the thrown bloodletting spears could be recovered.
At the same time, if those barbarians attacked again, after this defeat, they would surely be prepared, and it would likely be difficult to achieve an easy victory again.
Thus, to hold White River City, they would undoubtedly need more reinforcements.
“Generals, please rest assured. On my way here, your humble general has already conscripted the Beastmen army along the route. By my calculations, they should arrive at White River City by tomorrow morning at the latest.”
Upon hearing this, Liu Meng visibly relaxed.
Now he could truly be at ease.
As soon as the Beastmen army arrived, White River City would be well-staffed with troops, and at that point, it wouldn’t matter if his injuries were exposed.
Holding on so strongly today, truthfully, had been more taxing than he anticipated.
Making him endure for a few more days, he truly might not have been able to handle it.
Meanwhile, in the northern mountains after nightfall…
After treating Hak’s wounds, Hill sat by the campfire, seriously examining a bloodletting spear in her hand by the firelight.
This was taken from Hak’s wound.
After it was pulled out, Hak bled profusely, forcing her to use a large amount of herbs to stop the bleeding.
The shocking wound filled Hill with curiosity about this weapon.
The weapon was heavy and cold to the touch.
She had even deliberately tested it earlier and found its texture to be extremely hard.
But it wasn’t polished from animal bone; instead, its material was somewhat similar to a type of stone found in their Bitter Cold Land.
That stone would not melt when burned, and because it was too hard and difficult to polish, they couldn’t fashion it into weapons using their methods.
So, over time, those stones were simply discarded as waste by the people of their northern tribes.
When Hill first became the leader of the Winter Tribe, she had clearly also considered those stones.
Unfortunately, she experimented for a long time without any results.
In the end, she could only give up.
But she never expected to see weapons of similar material in the hands of the southerners, and quite a variety of them.
As thoughts raced, Hill put down the bloodletting spear and picked up a bronze sword.
As her palm brushed over the cold blade, she accidentally felt a sharp pain in her palm, and the keen blade had already left a cut.
Blood flowed from the wound on her palm.
This minor injury was naturally not enough to alarm Hill, but it plunged her into deep shock.
Weapons polished from bone simply couldn’t be this sharp.
“How many such weapons did we capture?”
“Probably a few dozens.”
Hearing Hill’s question, Harold, who was also examining a bronze sword, casually tossed it to a subordinate beside him.
The weight of this bronze sword was a little too light for him; a bone hammer was more satisfying to swing.
“Harold, it seems we underestimated those southerners.”
Hearing this, Harold was silent for 2 seconds, then nodded.
“Those southerners are much stronger than we expected.”
After speaking, Harold looked up at Hill, who was lost in thought.
“So, do you have any ideas?”
“Ideas?”
A trace of contemplation flashed in Hill’s eyes.
“Hak is injured, and your tribe’s Ice Bear warriors seem to have suffered significant casualties as well. Let’s rest for 2 days before discussing further…”
