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Southern gate, Outer wall.
A group of five thousand cavalry, the core strength of blood wigg were currently stationed outside the gate.
The war was inevitable, and their side was the one with less numbers... So the pressure on them could easily be accessed!
Whoosh!
All of a sudden, a hooded figure appeared from shadows before the group, rounded around general over wall!
" General, a large army of sixty thousand soldiers are dispatched towards us! Should we engage them in a frontal battle... or defend? "
A half knelt assasin in old age, who spotted the enemy movements ahead had made his report, waiting for orders from his general before making his move.
General pondered for a while, looking at the distant charging army of enemies with a scornful gaze.
Whoosh!
The veins around his eyes constricted, and general who focused his vision to look afar was taken back as the march of beast men were as such!
Bunch of brutes!
" There is no exact formation in their charge! Seems like the enemies are not well adepted with battle formations, or their numbers are entirely made up with unfamiliar groups, or are they feigning ignorance to let my guard down? "
General paused for a second and said.
" Relay my orders, archers at position over wall, Calvary should be ready to be deployed! "
" Officers lead the front, and vice general intercept the enemy commanders, leave stronger ones to this general alone! "
General gave a set of orders and pressured his archers on walls to annihilate as much of enemies before they actually intercept them.
Following it the blood wigg cavalry started marching to the other side of wall, getting ready to intercept the enemies any second from now.
" Ready... set... release! "
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The officer who took charge of Blood wigg archers roared, shortly following which hundreds of arrows were released over the enemies, with an intent to make a kill.
Pu! Pu! Pu! Pu!
Pu! Pu! Pu! Pu!
One hundred... Two hundred... Three hundred... Five hundred!
Experiencing the rain of arrows from Blood wigg archers, the van guards of black armoured soldiers from orange rank base were taken a serious blow, and a little more than 500 were killed in the first release.
Though a large number of enemies were killed, it was still insignificant before the greater mass of sixty thousand.
The battle was yet to conclude and blood wigg archers were ready with the next set of arrows waiting for their commanding officer to order a release.
" Ready... set... release! "
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Pu! Pu! Pu! Pu!
Pu! Pu! Pu! Pu!
Same as before the arrows rained down and an another set of five hundred were killed which greatly enraged the enemies.
Few seconds later.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
...
...
Pu! Pu! Pu! Pu!
Pu! Pu! Pu! Pu!
Six releases were made and a great number of four thousand soldiers were purged by then.
Though their killing rate was great and a great number could be killed similarly, the commanding officer had ordered the archers to retreat and regroup with cavalry as the special arrows used to kill aura kings were half way depleted, and some needed to be reserved for later battles.
The church folk had buffed the cavalry beforehand, making them feel more energetic than earlier, which boosted they confidence to intercept their enemies despite their numerical disadvantage.
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" Interesting! We should probably start an archer unit out of our undead army! "
Watching the battle from high sky, Wendy who was flying next to Mark had exclaimed her thought with a mild laughter.
Even before the true battle was started, a large chunk of the charging vanguard was trimmed down making their morale hit hard which ultimately made their charging speed to reduce, dwindling their momentum.
Without enough momentum, the enemy cavalry could not be able to bring best out their numbers, making their front more prone to blood wigg army to break through.
The blood wigg general clearly know how to exploit this strategy, and didn't hesitate wasting his special arrows to decrease the morale of enemy soldiers.
" Wendy, their battle has already begun, seems like the ours is about to happen soon! "
Glazing at the fortress from afar, which had yet to dispatch five powerhouses of their strength, Mark warned her casually.
" If it was before, Wendy wouldn't be sure about victory. But now... Only two old chiefs staying reclusive in that fort could barely considered a threat at Wendy's power! "
Though she appeared proud and a bit too arrogant with her words. She Wendy had the capacity to stay proud, as she already have reached the peak of aura emperor realm. So, unless a half step transcendent or higher popped out, she wouldn't necessarily feel threatened.
Though she could kill those five, all by herself. Dealing with the aftermath was troublesome.
Hundreds of half mutants might probably be nurtured by those powers who could wreak havoc, and chances of western warlords palace to be wiped out the existence was prevalent.
" Seems they are more impatient than us! Wendy let's go to that fort, I wouldn't want the palace to be destroyed in our part of battle! "
Noticing the movements of those five who had exited they reclusion, Mark rushed towards them to prevent these old monsters from making the western warlords palace their battle ground.
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At the same time in the southern gate, the general had almost reached the enemy troops ready to intercept them.
1000 paces... 800 paces... 600 paces...
Both the armies marched at great speed and were few seconds away from contact.
Neigh!!!
Boom!
The general manifested his aura into a giant palm and released it directly over the marching army of the enemies.
Regardless to say, the momentum of blood wigg was higher than the other party as they were in charge formation, unlike the beastmen who are at random!
The vanguard of enemies had almost caved back, splitting in middle to making way for general to charge through.
Though his attack would eventually be blocked by enemy powerhouses he didn't frown much, as all he needs was to push then back to slow them down.
" Maintain wedge formation for now, few seconds after contact assume five way split and regroup back into arrow head! "
" Remember, no slowing down. We are breaking past enemy numbers, and if your speed dwindle... You are as good as dead! "
Hearing the command of general, the blood wigg army got the gist of what their general was planning on and readied their horses to follow his plan.
The blood wigg cavalry was a massive body of five thousand mid order to high order aura kings.
So, when the enemy soldiers were principally of initial order aura king with their momentum being dwindled, they held ultimate advantage in killing when charging through their disordered ranks.
" Unit one charge 1000 paces to the left! "
" Unit two charge 1000 paces to the right! "
" Unit three and four, charge straight, and unit five clear the remanent and provide assistance to one and two if needed! "
Neigh!~ Neigh!~ Neigh!~ Neigh!~
Neigh!~ Neigh!~ Neigh!~ Neigh!~
Heading their ordered from General, the army divided into five groups of thousand and split into four bodies to battle their enemies.
SLASH!!
Haaahh!!!~~~~~
Boom!
Initially, when the armies collided, Blood wigg general swung his sword violently which overpowered the enemy commander and sliced through his armour killing him there at the first encounter.
Shortly following which he leaded unit three and four and used this opportunity while the van guard commander was missing to push his cavalry deep into their numbers to wreak havoc.
" Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! "
The blood wigg soldiers were killing enemies aggressively as if they were on dosed by adrenaline.
The bluff given by Cela and her people were showing up, which made them feel less pain and strike back the enemy with much greater power as they stretch and powers was enhanced.
The five way split formation was revealing it's powers, making the might of Blood wigg army raise a level.
If not for the advantage to deploy formation and exploiting it against the enemies, given him hundred tries the Blood wigg general would seldom advance his cavalry in a reckless way and engage in a battle where the enemies had outnumbered them by a dozen times, which could ultimate lead to death.
Comming back to the present, war cries were heard everywhere and the impact of the battle could very well be sensed by the ones in the palace, who started praying their god( Merclaive ) to grant them a miraculous victory against their enemies.
The five units of blood wigg cavalry though were split into four flanks were equally displaying there might regardless of the enemies who were charging over them.
With the absence of several hundreds of aura emperors in the enemy numbers which were killed by Mark before, the orange rank bases were seriously lacking them in number which led to the current situation where the Blood Wigg general could led his cavalry freely and avoid multiple causalities by using his elites.
The unit one served as left flank, so did unit two which assumed the right to keep the enemies at a bay for the army to charge without much resistance.
Unit three and four used this advantage thoroughly and wiped the incoming solders who were powerless against their charge, with general killing their powerhouses indiscriminately at first notice.
Unit five as commanded was dealing with the left overs and also to guard the rear to prevent unexpected situations from arising.
All in all each unit had their specific role and without it this humble group of five thousand cavalry would long since been devoured, just with the sheer numbers of enemies they had to face.
Five minutes later.
The blood wigg cavalry had broke through enemies rear guard and reached the other end of battle field with the same moment they once had charged in at the beginning.
But the only difference was their numbers! Both the flanks of right and left were almost annihilated, and only with the rear flank of fifth unit that filled in those lost numbers, the blood wigg cavalry was able to charge out despite their disparity in numbers from the beginning.
" General! Thousand six hundred of Blood wigg cavalry had died in the charge! Do we still have a chance to further our plan? "
The tanned vice general, whose armour is almost destroyed in the previous charge had asked for his generals suggestion.
Looking at his tanned old friend, who had suffered injures all over yet tries to act tough, the general gave a casual laugh before exclaiming.
" How about our enemies? "
" More than fifteen thousand! "
The tanned vice general immediately gave out enemy status which caused the expression on generals face to turn better.
" Since we had sacrificed thousand six hundred to reach here how could we abandon our plan at the end? "
Without pondering much, the blood wigg general had commanded his army to March straight towards the enemy fortress, which now was almost deserted without much of soldiers to block their charge.
The enemy soldiers who had suffered heavy causalities had turned around to catch up to the blood wigg army to wipe away their shame.
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Author's notes:
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Status:
# Mark - 7th stage of refinement! ( High order aura emperor equivalent )
# Wendy - Peak order aura emperor!
Wendy's undead forces
1. Initial order aura king - 20,000( peak-initial)
2. Middle order aura king - 5,000(peak-mid)
3. High order aura king - 1,000(peak-high)
4. Peak order aura king - 400(nearing HSAE)
5. Half step aura emperor - 900 ( mostly piled up from half mutants and green rank base leaders )