The Emperor Reigns Them All

Chapter 285 The Power To Turn Tides

Chapter 285 The Power To Turn Tides

At early dawn, Li Ye came to the river bank. He wasn’t riding his horse because his cultivation had reached the Spiritual Master Realm, he no longer needed a horse.

Ere dawn, all was blue, the Yellow River was vast and expansive, and the opposite bank was hidden in the fog. None could predict what kind of unknown danger was lurking.

Hundreds of soldiers who were preparing to build the bridgehead section of the pontoon were ready and standing before Li Ye. Behind him, there were three thousand elites of Wolf-tooth Troops in a neat formation, and guards were silent with piercingly cold eyes. Even the horses were silent. Every now and then, the odd snort could be heard. And behind them were waves of soldiers which looked like an ocean of armor.

Li Ye slowly rose to mid-air, looked askance at the other side of Yellow River. The sound of his command was spreading far and wide like the morning bell and evening drum, “Repair the bridge!”

Hundreds of green-robed blades men took the first step, the flew from the pontoon to the other side. Hundreds of soldiers followed with all kinds of supplies, they then orderly rushed up on the pontoon.

At the other side of Yellow River, behind the woods, over a hundred Qi-refining cultivators gathered with ten thousand elites that had just arrived under the cover of night. At the forefront of these men, Cao Xijin was staring at the Yellow River on horseback .

“Report! Pinglu Army has begun to build the pontoon bridgehead! We estimate that the pontoon will be built completely in an hour!” The scout spurred his horse and galloped to report to Cao Xijin.

Cao Xijin was serious and silent, his deputy asked, “If Pinglu Army finish building the bridgehead, their army will cross the river. Do we need to send cultivators to give them a sharp warning and destroy the pontoon?”

Cao Xijin was confident and added, “No. Let them build the bridgehead. I’ll just attack them half way!”

“Very wise, General!”

Cao Xijin sneered. “The Yellow River is wide enough to bury a million bones. As long as the Pinglu Army dares to cross the river, this will be their gravesite!”

The sky was gradually brightening and the morning sun rose from the east. Morning light scattered everywhere.

Li Ye stood at the bridgehead facing the surging river. He bathed in the morning light and the cool river wind blew his robes and hair. He was still calm as usual.

“Report, military commander! The pontoon is complete!” A young officer ran back from the pontoon and held a fist in salute to Li Ye.

“Shangguan Qingcheng, cross the river!” Li Ye waved his hand.

In front of the three thousand Wolf-tooth Troops, the generals in white robe and silver armor lifted the Cloud Splitter Spear and shouted, “All Wolf-tooth Troops, cross the river!”

The guards gently nipped their horses’ bellies, and three thousand elite cavalrymen slowly began to move. They gradually split into three strands and stepped on three pontoon bridges. The pontoon bridge was quite large, which allowed several horses to move in parallel. Each pontoon bridge bore a thousand elites, and it would not take a long to reach the other side of the river.

Li Ye floated beside Shangguan Qingcheng, and followed the army.

Shangguan Qingcheng looked steadily forward, but out of the corner of her eyes, was full of Li Ye’s figure. Her freakishly white face became paler and paler as if she were about to become transparent. Her red-hot lips were more vivid as if they were burning.

With Li Ye’s protection, although the Wolf-tooth Troops were silent, the soldiers’ breathing was gradually heavy. It was a clear sign of their boiling conviction and fighting spirit.

Three strands of elite cavalry almost embarked on the river bank at the same time. The torrent of iron armor moved on the bank of the river and gathered together, then they restored to one complete Military Formation once again.

But just at that moment, a sudden strange vibration passed through the ground and earth-thunder began rolling. Everyone’s eyes followed the source of the sound. A black wave gradually emerged and swiftly swept across the riverbank behind the forest in the distance. It was the running Military Formation of the cavalry!

Listening to the battle, you would know that the opponent had strong soldiers and sturdy horses, and exceeded the Wolf-tooth Troop by a large number. They launched an attack first and took the lead. The Wolf-tooth Troops had just went ashore and not yet fully gathered. The Yellow River was behind them, which meant there was no room for retreat. So they had totally lost their position advantage.

Shangguan Qingcheng remained calm, and the Wolf-tooth Troops also turned a blind eye to the dangers before them. They did not have the consciousness of being in danger, and still gathered in an orderly manner.

Li Ye lifted up in the air, as his field of vision gradually widened, he took in a million elites on the ground with a glance. That was a big river, one that formed with the torrent of iron mantles. The clatter from the horses’ hooves was powerful enough to shake the earth and mountains. It was not hard to imagine that if they fought how lethal they would be.

However, Li Ye’s order to Shangguan Qingcheng was to fight against them.

“Three thousand to ten thousand, this is the first battle since the Pinglu Army entered the Weibo Army, Wolf-tooth Troops, you must win!” Li Ye’s voice was clearly heard by Shangguan Qingcheng and the three thousand soldiers.

“I shall not dishonor your commission! Wolf-tooth Troops, fight!” Shangguan Qingcheng roared in a low voice without hesitation.

The cultivation of the military general allowed her command to be heard by everyone. Three thousand elites that had not yet fully gathered together suddenly began to accelerate and head towards the ten thousand Weibo cavalry.

In the rapid rush, the Wolf-tooth Troops were still perfecting their formation, displaying extraordinary fighting knowledge. Of course they had the Militarism Formation to fall back on, so any ordinary cavalry categorically did not dare to do so.

Cao Xijin led his army and saw that the Wolf-tooth Troops did not have an ounce of panic after being suddenly attacked. Contrarily, they headed for him. He was amazed and laughed. “They really have no idea. Are they trying to show their willingness to die? I’m gonna die from laughter. How could three thousand soldiers contend with ten thousand elites of my Weibo Army?”

Cao Xijin’s plan was to suddenly attack the Pinglu Army when their numbers reached five thousand soldiers or so. In his opinion, with the strength of ten thousand Weibo elites, they could easily crush five thousand. Then, they could truly harm the Pinglu Army.

It was the mature deputy’s constant persuasion that made Cao Xijin give up on his plan. The moment when he saw that three thousand elites dared to charge at them, Cao Xijin did not regard them as a worthy opponent.

As the two armies charged, their respective cultivators did not join the fray. They were watching from the side.

The two armies met very soon. Then, the Militarism Formation of the Wolf-tooth Troops was finally fully formed. Shangguan Qingcheng quietly clenched a fist, and immediately, an eruption sounded from her body. Soon, the sound of the explosion was heard one after another from the Militarism Formation behind her. It was the cultivators in the formation breaking out the power of their cultivation simultaneously. Circuits of invisible wavelets of Spiritual Qi were swaying from the cultivators, which then quickly gathered into a whole.

This was the signature of the Militarism Formation. Under the leadership and control of the warriors, the entire barrier of generals and soldiers were unified. And the Spiritual Qi of the entire barrier of cultivators resonated. This was also the threshold for reaching the Militarism Formation.

As the sound of the explosion rang, light rose from the Military Formation. It looked like burning flames.

Shangguan Qingcheng’s eyes were like iron, and the three thousand soldiers had that murderous look in their eyes. The iron armor rolled down like a ferocious tiger coming down the hill.

Two formations intersected.

Cao Xijin’s face suddenly changed like he saw a ghost, and he cried in fear, “The Military Formation of Militarism?”

When the Wolf-tooth Troops rushed into the Military Formation of the Weibo Army, Cao Xijin’s brain swayed as though he hit a big tide. The heaven and earth shook hard, and his mind went blank. His ears rang like ten thousand flies screaming, and he almost lost the hold of the reins. His feet nearly lost grip of the horse belly, the Spiritual Qi in his body was violently bumping around, and the blood flowed out from his nose and mouth!

As the general that headed the charge, he was obviously at the forefront of the formation. He almost fell off his horse from the energy of the formation!

Painful screams broke out from the soldiers around Cao Xijin and they fell off their horses one after another. They were buried in the dust from despair, buried under the hooves of the Wolf-tooth Troops’ horses!

Those soldiers were hit by the energy wave. Many of them were not touched by Wolf-tooth Troops’ long spears at all, but they were stumbling like being struck by lightning. The weaker soldiers were vomiting blood, the stronger soldiers were also unstable. Only those real warriors could sit tight on the horseback, but what faced them next was the mountain like forest of horse spears!

Cao Xijin screamed and finally stabilized his mind and body. At this moment, he was clear-minded, but his heart was full of horror. He almost couldn’t refrain from screaming, “The Militarism Formation is so powerful? The guy leading the army, who is he? Could his cultivation be even higher than a Militarism warrior?”

Cao Xijin didn’t have time to think because he had to face the Wolf-tooth Troop cavalry before him. The pressure he felt was as heavy as a mountain.

In the mid-air, Li Ye watched the two armies clash. He was calm as usual, only his mouth was slightly moving, outlining a little triumphant smile.

Three thousand Wolf-tooth Troops rushed into the barrier of ten thousand strong elites. And just the Militarism Formation’s ‘energy wave’ was enough to wipe out half of the Weibo Army. Countless cavalrymen had fallen off their horses and were trampled into minced meat.

Afterwards, when three thousand elites entered into mid-formation, by way of the increase in fighting power from the Formation, they knocked off many Weibo guards. When they entered into the end-formation, the Militarism Formation’s power had been weakened. But the Wolf tooth troops were well equipped. And their soldiers were strong and ferocious, much more so than the squeamish Weibo soldiers, who hadn’t battled for a long time. They knocked off countless Weibo soldiers off their horses.

Weibo Army soldiers fell off their horses one after another but their horses were still running. In Li Ye’s sight, the neat formation obviously had a lot more gaps than before. It was just like the night sky, revealing star-like gaps.

When Militarism warriors had reached the cultivation of the general level, their formation possessed the power of ‘energy wave’ and ‘energy mountain’. The former was the Charging power, the attack was strong like waves; the latter was the defensive power, where the formation was immovable like a mountain, thus the name.

After a round of battle, the Wolf-tooth Troops rushed through the Weibo army with only a few casualties. However, the power of the formation was almost exhausted. After all, it took a lot for three thousand troops to attack ten thousand. But the Weibo Army had nearly lost nearly a quarter of their troops, and their formation was already in a mess, at least in Li Ye’s eyes.

Next, it was the actual battle between the two armies. The power of the Militarism Formation had been exhausted. If without rest and recuperation, it would be difficult to have the power like before.

However, the Weibo Army clearly had a morale collapse. In a normal war, when casualties reached a quarter or a third, it was considered to have lost its strength and needed to be pulled down for rest. For Weibo Army, losing a quarter of their soldiers facing three thousand troops with ten thousand in a brief glimpse, their morale was bound to collapse.

Cao Xijin adjusted the direction of the horses and led the formation to make a big turn. He was still badly shaken with full of panic when he looked at the Wolf-tooth Troop’s formation.

His shoulders sustained a large wound, and the blood had died his battle robes red. And his left arm was almost useless. He was almost killed when he faced off against Shangguan Qingcheng.

Cao Xijin was really lucky that he was alive. But his deputy was not, he had died in the Military Formation.