Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 2731 Ghost Blade's Bitter Battle, Deng Qiang Charging into Battle

Chapter 2731 Ghost Blade's Bitter Battle, Deng Qiang Charging into Battle

Lancelot and Pallas helped Huang Mei intercept Ghost Blade Mingyou, allowing Huang Mei to concentrate all his efforts on dealing with Mad Axe Bull Overlord.

However, their actions may not actually be of much help to Huang Mei, and could even be described as well-intentioned but doing more harm than good.

After all, once they intercepted Ghost Blade Netherworld, the powerful group battle effect of Yellow-Eyebrowed Demon Buddha's skills began to fail.

Fortunately, this did not have a significant impact on the final outcome of the battle.

"A defeated opponent thinks he can deal with me just because he found a tortoise shell?" Ghost Blade Dark Netherworld coldly sneered at Lancelot, who had intercepted him.

After that previous battle, Mingyou had a good grasp of Lancelot's strength and knew that defeating or even killing him wouldn't be difficult.

On the contrary, Pallas was a real headache for Ghost Blade Mingyou. Although he had never fought Pallas, just by watching the battle between Pallas and Mad Axe Bull, and by Mad Axe Bull's account, he could intuitively feel how troublesome this turtle shell was.

However, once the fight actually started, Pallas proved to be more formidable than he had anticipated.

As to how much of a threat Pallas posed to him, that's not necessarily true. In fact, the threat Pallas could pose to him was far less than the threat Lancelot posed to him.

However, he also had no way to quickly break through the tortoise shell.

Martial artists who specialize in hard attacks are like iron tanks on the battlefield. Martial artists like Xuanwu and Pallas not only cultivate hard skills, but also use shields as weapons, even heavy shields. It can be said that they have put all their skills into defense, which is like putting another layer of turtle shell on top of a turtle shell, making it even more difficult to break through.

If it were just a one-on-one fight, that would be fine, since the two sides are quite different in martial arts level. If he spends more time, he can still find a way.

However, there was also Lancelot by his side. Lancelot could help Pallas cover his flanks, which made it impossible for Ghost Blade Dark Shadow to quickly get around to Pallas's flanks and back, and thus unable to avoid the opponent's shield and attack directly.

Even though Mingyou still had the upper hand when fighting two opponents at once, he just couldn't defeat them.

At this moment, Ghost Blade Mingyou finally understood the frustration of Mad Axe Bull Tyrant earlier. He was clearly stronger than his opponent, but he just couldn't defeat him.

In particular, Mad Axe Bull is a power-type frontal attacker, unlike Ghost Blade Dark Nether, who is an assassin who moves like the wind. Even in a one-on-one fight, the latter would never have the chance to bypass Pallas's shield and attack his flanks or rear.

Currently, in both battles on the battlefield, Ghost Blade Dark Nether has the upper hand, but it has yet to be able to completely defeat its opponent.

On Huang Mei's side, facing Mad Axe Bull, who had the advantage of combo skill enhancement, Huang Mei also found it difficult to defeat his opponent.

Even Lancelot, who was struggling alongside Pallas and Ghost Blade Netherworld, took a moment to observe Huang Mei's progress and even wondered if Huang Mei was putting on an act for him.

Judging from Huang Mei's situation, it's not even as fierce as when the opponent fought two against one.

It's no wonder Lancelot had this thought. He and Pallas were both from the Western Rong tribes, while Huang Mei was from Mahayana Buddhism. Neither side had any goodwill towards the other, and even though they were now on the same side, they only maintained a superficial relationship. However, although the battle between the fierce generals was still undecided, the advantage on the battlefield was gradually shifting towards the Han army.

Wu Qi led 5,000 elite troops as the first counterattack force, catching the unprepared vanguard off guard.

Under Wu Qi's command, these 5,000 men directly broke through the Qian army's vanguard. After all, during the pursuit, the vanguard could not maintain a disciplined formation, making it much easier to break through the enemy than under normal circumstances.

Furthermore, there was a qualitative difference between the generals of the two sides. The command ability of the vanguard general of the Qian army was simply incomparable to that of Wu Qi, and was several levels above him.

As for Jiang Chaofeng, although there was a qualitative gap between him and Wu Qi, the gap was not as large as that between the vanguard generals of the Qian Army. However, since he was not on the front line and was in charge of the overall situation, by the time he made a decision based on the battlefield situation and relayed it to the front, the situation had already changed. He could never keep up with Wu Qi's pace.

Under these circumstances, Wu Qi managed to defeat Jiang Chaofeng by relying on his own five thousand soldiers, who then mobilized almost all of Jiang's forces to deal with him.

Seeing this, Deng Qiang, the general who had originally mobilized his troops to encircle the enemy, decisively abandoned the tactics he had discussed with Wu Qi and made temporary adjustments after realizing that the battle situation had turned out this way.

A general cannot simply stick to pre-battle plans and fight a hopeless war; he must constantly adjust his strategy based on the changing situation.

On the battlefield, things can change in an instant, and anything can happen. If you stick to your pre-battle plan, how can you win a battle?

Deng Qiang was also a renowned general of that era, so he certainly understood this principle.

He simply handed over command of the entire army to his strategist Xun You, while he mobilized the elite cavalry in the army, intending to take advantage of the Qian army's unstable formation and attack Jiang Chaofeng's central command post.

Xun You may have been exceptionally intelligent, but his battlefield command skills were not necessarily outstanding. Otherwise, there would be no distinction between a strategist and a commander-in-chief; a good strategist is not necessarily a good commander-in-chief.

Even a good strategist, if forcibly pulled into the position of general, might just become another Ma Su.

However, according to the previous discussion between Deng Qiang and Wu Qi, the focus should be on Deng Qiang leading the various Han army units to carry out the encirclement.

However, after Deng Qiang made adjustments based on the battlefield situation, the focus shifted to having his cavalry quickly launch a surprise attack on Jiang Chaofeng's central army while the Qian army was in disarray.

At this time, all Deng Qiang needed was someone to help him stabilize the various Han army units and follow the original plan to deploy troops, thus continuing to lure Jiang Chaofeng into mobilizing his troops to respond. He didn't need to achieve any substantial victories.

In that case, Xun You could temporarily step in.

Of course, another key factor in choosing Xun You was that although the various generals of the Han army had arrived at Deng Qiang's side one after another, Deng Qiang could not find a more suitable candidate among the few people who could give orders immediately.

The situation on the battlefield is constantly changing, and Deng Qiang cannot afford to spend time forcibly pulling out a general on the battlefield. In that time, the situation on the battlefield may change, and it is uncertain whether there will be another opportunity to immediately attack the enemy's central command.

(End of this chapter)