Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 207 The Killing Fields of Men
No one responded to Yun Ce's passionate shouts.

They were extremely nervous; the number of enemies arriving far exceeded their expectations.

Originally, they thought the general had the foresight to lead them into the woods in advance to prepare for a surprise attack on the enemy.

Looking at it now, what's the point of a surprise attack?

The cavalry of Xiangcheng were numerous yet silent, their horses' hooves bound with thick cloth. They had surrounded them from all directions. Not only were their hooves bound with cloth, but their weapons were also wrapped in cloth, so much so that even the cold moonlight could not reveal a trace of their gleam.

This was a well-trained group of men who dismounted upon entering the woods. They divided into six teams of two hundred men each, spaced an arrow's width apart, and slowly surrounded the enemy. In the shadows behind them, eight hundred cavalrymen stood silently under the night sky, waiting for the enemy in the forest.

Yun Ce's plan to launch a surprise attack was clearly impossible. The six teams appeared loosely organized, with gaps in the middle. Neither Yun Ce nor the several experienced centurions of the Cao family chose to take advantage of these gaps to break out.

Because the most terrifying killing move is in the gaps. As long as Yun Ce dares to move, he will be met with a rain of arrows from the enemy troops on both sides, and the crisscrossing rain of arrows is the most lethal.

Yun Ce drew his saber; today he intended to use this saber to make everyone in the Han Dynasty see him in a new light.

The hilt fit snugly in his hand, providing a comfortable grip. This must have been a saber with a rearward center of gravity specially crafted for him by Yun Linchuan.

A saber with its center of gravity at the back is well-suited for defense.

It seems that Yun Linchuan, a man who has spent his whole life charging into battle, is unwilling to let him go into battle.

But today, Yun Ce had no choice but to charge forward.

For some reason, just as the fierce battle was about to begin, Yun Ce suddenly remembered what Yun Linchuan had once said.

"Men are inherently combative and cruel, which has nothing to do with a man's cultivation or knowledge. I have seen a refined professor who stabbed three Japanese soldiers to death with a bayonet. Although he was also stabbed twice, he was extremely happy and told me that it was the most enjoyable moment of his life."

A man's natural duty is to plunder and seize. This doesn't mean we are born bad people, but rather that when the blood of men is passed down to you, the genes of tyranny flow in your veins.

Because your ancestors used their tyranny and cruelty to ensure that their bloodline was passed down from ancient times. As for those who were kind and compassionate, they died long ago in the long course of history.

Generally speaking, people will only get worse, not better, because passing on virtues is a painful thing, while passing on bad things is often a joyful thing.

Pain cannot overcome pleasure; this is an inevitable conclusion.

Every man should participate in a life-or-death battle at least once in his life, because you'll never know whether you're brave or cowardly until you're on the battlefield of despair.

Yun Ce didn't know why these words suddenly popped into his head at this moment. Perhaps it was because he had awakened many memories after being burned by the Shehuo performance some time ago.

He stood up from the hidden bushes, carrying his saber. This was a forest, not a convenient place to ride a horse, and he didn't know where his chestnut horse had gone. But it didn't matter; if he needed it, the chestnut horse would come running back.

"General, how do we kill the enemy?" The centurion's voice trembled slightly as he looked at the enemy troops gradually closing in.

Yun Ce laughed and said, "Once people are on the battlefield, just kill them."

Then, the hundred men saw Yun Ce carrying a slender knife, walking towards the enemy, stepping on the dappled moonlight on the ground.

The Xiangcheng army realized that their surprise attack plan had been seen through when they failed to find any scouts from the Yun Ce army.

At the command of the deputy general, several soldiers carrying fire baskets removed the cowhide coverings from the baskets, and the archers used the fire baskets to ignite the fire arrows, nocked their arrows, and shot them into the woods.

As soon as the dense rockets took off, Yun Ce appeared in front of a hundred-man general. With a fiery red background behind him, Yun Ce gave the hundred-man general no time to react, and gently sliced ​​open the hundred-man general's throat with his saber.

As the hundred men threw down their weapons, clutched their throats, and collapsed in despair, more enemy soldiers charged toward Yun Ce, stepping over withered branches and fallen leaves.

The saber is not suitable for large-scale battles, especially military battles, where everyone is wearing armor. In such situations, the best way to fight is to use a mace, spiked club, or meteor hammer.

Tonight, Yun Ce still plans to use a saber, because enemies killed by sabers don't look so gruesome, unlike the corpses that have been hit by meteor hammers, which sometimes make it hard to tell who is who.

Back at Ghost King Mountain, Yun Ce used a meteor hammer. Firstly, it had a wide killing range, and secondly, Yun Ce's martial arts were still developing, so he needed to maximize his strength advantage. Now it's different. Yun Ce prefers to use a saber. This weapon is not only light and convenient but also extremely sharp. It can slice through the enemy's body through the weak points in their armor and the places they can't reach with almost no effort.

The saber's blade was incredibly sharp, cutting through the human body like tofu. When Yun Ce used the saber, he even had the strength to deliberately avoid anything that might injure the blade, such as bones. This caused the slight slicing sound of the blade cutting through flesh to echo densely throughout the forest.

Since stepping out of the forest, Yun Ce had been moving forward. With each step he took, another corpse appeared on the ground. Their corpses were very intact, except for large gashes. Some of the gashes were so large that it was hard to associate the wounds with a human. Normally, such wounds would only appear on a butcher's chopping block.

Despite being clad in heavy armor and appearing clumsy, the body encased in armor gives the impression of floating in the wind. A heavy hammer strikes the armor, but the warrior wielding the hammer feels no joy in smashing it; the hammer blow is more like hitting a fallen leaf, only pushing the leaf away without causing any damage.

The saber avoided the front of the samurai's shoulder armor, and even playfully jumped through the gaps in the shoulder armor to cut the leather rope under the shoulder armor, and then continued to advance until it cut the samurai's throat.

On the battlefield, there are always many forces that can be borrowed, such as the force of a spear thrusting, the force of a long sword slashing, and the force of a hammer smashing. Since being tempered by the Shehuo, Yun Ce has discovered that he has a new understanding of power.

Those forces that come to harm you are actually a good form of kinetic energy. If you just change the direction of this kinetic energy slightly, it will become a force that protects you.

Power itself is neither good nor bad.

A spear thrust from behind, striking Yun Ce squarely in the back. The spear aimed to pierce Yun Ce's armor further, but the spearman found that his strength seemed to only affect the surface of the armor. The excess force pushed the enemy forward, and along the way, the enemy's slender saber did not stop. He struggled forward five steps, and his five companions died under that saber.

Yun Ce was so engrossed in the battle that he became completely absorbed, even to the point of forgetting himself. As the battle intensified, his control over his power seemed to become even more refined.

How can we resolve two opposing forces?

The best solution is naturally to cancel each other out. If they cannot be canceled out, then we must clearly see which force comes first and which comes last. The approach of having the force first and then the force last is not good. There must be a better solution. Yun Ce couldn't think of one for the time being.

Yun Ce stared at the two corpses in front of him, and before he could think, he was met with a series of attacks from three sides.

The battle was intense from the very beginning. Neither side could find an opportunity to gain an advantage, so a head-on confrontation became the only option. Yun Ce was completely absorbed in killing the enemy.

Even after he had led some men out of the encirclement, seeing that some of Cao's cavalry were still struggling inside, he did not hesitate to turn around and charge back.

Each time he broke through the encirclement, he managed to bring out several wounded Cao clan cavalrymen.

The surviving hundred men saw that Yun Ce's armor was already soaked in blood, and he looked as if he had been pulled out of a pool of blood. Seeing that Yun Ce was about to charge into the encirclement again, they said to Yun Ce, "General, retreat. There's no need to save the rest. You've already done right by them."

Yun Ce merely glanced coldly at Cao's hundred-man general before once again drawing his sword and charging into the encirclement of Xiangcheng's army.

Perhaps inspired by Yun Ce, the hundred-man general shouted and followed Yun Ce back into the enemy ranks. The Cao clan cavalrymen who had been rescued by Yun Ce also cried out and followed Yun Ce into the enemy ranks of Xiangcheng.

Yun Ce has been trying his best to save people, but unfortunately, he is saving fewer and fewer allies, and the difficulty of saving them is increasing. Even so, Yun Ce still charges back and forth without hesitation, like a tireless killing machine.

When Yun Ce pulled the centurion out of the chaotic army for the fifth time, the centurion looked at Yun Ce in despair and said, "General, what are you trying to do?"

Yun Ce opened his mouth, revealing bloodstained white teeth, and laughed, "Naturally, we should kill all the enemies."

After saying this, he threw the hundred-man general into the pile of wounded soldiers, let out a howl, and charged back into the battle.

This time, Bai Renjiang did not follow. He collapsed helplessly on the grass, looking at the bright moon in the sky, and muttered to himself, "Madman, madman."

Deputy General Zhou Cheng discovered that his men were engaged in fierce fighting. At first, such fighting was understandable, but after half an hour, the intensity of the battle not only did not decrease, but actually became even more intense.

The woods were filled with the screams of his own men, and everywhere he looked, there were corpses, mostly his own.

Originally, with two thousand elite troops facing five hundred men, it wouldn't have been his turn as the commander. Two thousand-man generals would have been enough to wipe out the entire force.

Now, Deputy General Zhou Cheng plans to personally go to the battlefield to see what exactly happened there.

(End of this chapter)