The Demon Swordsman 2
Ch. 228 - War of the Scouts
The wind from the west blew, peeling among the sturdy fortifications that became an important defense of the Valley of the Gods, the horses were tied in stables. Xin Chen deliberately bought it, for the cavalrymen who would advance at the very forefront. Supplies were put into the building located at the end of the valley. And the hardest to reach. Meanwhile some important points had been perfectly fortified. Oil barrels and arrows that will later be burned with fire are ready to be used. Just wait until the Four Surveillance Units come.
It was just that one day passed without any sign of the enemy appearing, there were no suspicious reports. In the meantime they have not finished completely to arrange all sorts of things. Xin Chen stood on top of the tallest tower, his robe moving slowly in the wind. The young man's eyes were fixed on the road in front of the main gate, staking out the place vigilantly.
"Are they really coming?"
This time he questioned his own calculations, or perhaps the Four Surveillance Units were planning a ploy to carry out a surprise attack. Xin Chen can't be off guard. The cold afternoon breeze coming from behind the valley did not calm his heart, Xin Chen remained standing there until night came.
Lan Zhuxian called out from below, putting on a panicked face. "Young Master! Young Master!"
Xin Chen descended quickly down, finding dozens of his soldiers falling down lying in pain. He furrowed his brows in astonishment, without saying anything immediately approaching the bodies of those laid soldiers. Some groaned in pain, until unconsciousness.
"They were poisoned ..." Xin Chen turned his gaze to Lan Zhuxian, "Don't I already order you to take care of our supplies?"
"Already, Milord. Miss Yin looked after her ... Sorry, my mistake was not checking back." Regretfully looking on Lan Zhuxian's face, Xin Chen could not scold her. Preparing the fort in one day was a tough job. Lan Zhuxian was too busy to hold many things at once, and Nan Yin herself. Xin Chen suddenly stood up. Break through the ranks of the soldiers that surround them.
"Prepare defense! Enemy's coming!"
Sure enough, in a sudden fire arrows shot forth from the tall fence. Dozens of sources of fire burned the buildings surrounding him, Xin Chen noticed from above, with a lightning bow in his hand.
Behind the tall trees, Xin Chen could see how many archers were hiding in the forest near the gate. They shoot fast and hide. And at one point inside the headquarters, Xin Chen saw a suspicious person pull out oil barrels and run. The fire arrows from outside hit the oil barrel, causing a huge explosion. The oil barrels snatched the other barrels until a series of explosions occurred. Xin Chen admitted, it was never expected that the people of the Four Surveillance Units were already a step ahead of them. Thirty of his soldiers were poisoned, the rest began to fall during the attack in the night blind.
The Spirit Controlling Book was floating beside him, emitting a pitch-black aura that was about to encircle the Valley of the Gods, while Xin Chen was aiming at the archers who were unaware of his presence. There were only two more left before the spirit power managed to cover the Valley of the Gods before arrows came rushing at his back.
"Your opponent is me!"
From the gate that was already broken and destroyed due to the chaotic defense, ten people walked leisurely. Look at the fearless face and smile lightly, they were all ten wearing the same uniform. One of them was holding an arrow and had just attacked Xin Chen, a 40-year-old man and his face was covered by a mustache and beard.
The man stalked Xin Chen from below, until the young man flopped down and disappeared in the dark of the night. He was quite surprised, but the report he received a few days ago, that their main enemy was a spirit user made him realize who they were facing.
"Five split! Kill them all, without any leftovers!"
"understand!"
On the other hand their side ran out of a lot of troops in a short period of time, the fight was still going on unequal - to be precise, Xin Chen did not take into account that each of the warriors the Four Surveillance Units brought was at least equivalent to Li Yong's strength. His insignificant army was about to run out in the near future, Xin Chen did not want to lose many of his comrades anymore.
"Am I wrong to rely on myself?"
That feeling appeared again, his father used to be furious as Xin Chen tried desperately to fight without wanting to involve others. He did not want to see more lives fall and wished one life was worth it to take the place of hundreds of others.
Xin Chen's hand continued to slash at the enemy, taking down two of the ten core members of the Four Surveillance Units. The ten people had different levels of strength from their troops and were quite difficult to take them down. Those ten people were the quickest to kill, Xin Chen was drowning in a sea of enemies. Until one of the attacks came close to hitting him, the dagger nearly tore through his stomach before the arrows from the other direction killed the person who was about to stab Xin Chen.
Xin Chen threw a glance up, a reliable archer belonging to the Emperor who defected and broke away from the Empire. Lao Zi, he was hiding perfectly and shrillly invisible. At the same time, Xin Chen was able to see so much of the spirit of his troops even though the chances of them winning were only small. Troops were reduced to about eighty, soldiers lying in towers due to poisoning were killed indiscriminately by them.
"Retreat!" xin Chen's shout made the others stop wondering.
"Well, gee? Are you just giving up?"
"Pull the troops back!" Xin Chen reigned once more, they retreated without asking much. As the battle came to a halt, at the same time the eight core members dressed in all-white armor came, as well as ten others who had strength that was far ten times stronger than the previous one.
Xin Chen noticed the increasingly chaotic situation. The enemy army of about 400 men only reduced by twenty while his own exceeded half. Then they were increased by three units at once consisting of 10 people each, four were dead and only 26 people were left now. The Four Surveillance Units themselves have four divisions of the strongest swordsmen group, and each group is only filled by 10 people except the main unit which only has 4 people. Two of them were killed in the first raid when Xin Chen was with Mou Zhueyang and two more were killed in the battle today.
Lan Zhuxian nailed in disbelief, the situation was already out of control. He was certain this time if Xin Chen insisted then he would die. He himself did not expect the Four Surveillance Units to drop three core units at once to attack them.
Not getting there, now they are again visited by four very, very creepy people. The strongest unit of the other three, and they were the four current leaders that one of them had met with Xin Chen.
"How are you, Second Young Master Xin, long time no see?" He laughed seeing his strategy go smoothly, this time Xin Chen would not be able to run anywhere else.
"Call remember me?"
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