Chapter 386: Chapter 134: Your Uncle Is Still Your Uncle

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Prepare for battle! Prepare for battle!"

Although Mendes was prepared to fight these humans again, that didn’t mean he was going to tell his soldiers who the enemy was.

’Wouldn’t that be foolish?’

War was all about momentum.

It could only be said that Prince Odoruo’s troops were truly the elite of the Beastmen. Upon receiving the order, the entire Beastman Camp was roused in an instant. The roars of Beastmen filled the surroundings as Soldiers converged on Mendes from all directions.

After a period of rest, Mendes had already reorganized the low-level Beastman Officers.

A routed army was called a routed army precisely because its basic organization had completely collapsed, turning the troops into a disorganized mob of stragglers. With ten parts of their strength, they could only bring one part to bear.

ROAR!

"A dragon! Look at the sky! And that strange bird!"

"A dragon... isn’t that..."

Following a dragon’s cry, the Beastman Soldiers all looked up at the sky.

A red dragon and a silver-white phoenix were flying toward them.

Huang Na and Everton were practically the iconic creatures of Robson’s army. Seeing these two, how could the Beastman Soldiers not understand who they were about to face?

Many of the Beastman Soldiers turned to look at Mendes, as if seeking an answer from him.

Mendes simply drew the scimitar from his waist, then took the lead and charged straight ahead.

"For the Empire! Charge!"

Mendes said nothing. This was his answer.

Seeing this, the Beastman Soldiers roared and charged forward.

...

Meanwhile, Robson led his army, estimating the distance between himself and the Beastmen.

Hearing the distant battle cries, Robson had to admit he was stunned for a moment.

Not only were the enemy not fleeing, but they actually dared to counterattack!

It had been a long time since Robson had seen Beastmen take the initiative to attack.

’Did I bring too few men?’

This was the only possibility Robson could think of. To clean up the goblins in the rear, Robson had left most of his Soldiers with Ais to deal with them—though the main task was actually to capture Kobolds.

Gazing at the distant glow of fire, Robson also drew the Knight’s Sword at his waist.

Lord Robson had always been a cautious man. If he dared to charge in with only four hundred men, he naturally had his reasons.

Three hundred Heavy Armored Sixth Rank Soldiers armed to the teeth, and one hundred Heavy Cavalry, among whom were nearly eighty members of an Extraordinary Team.

An army of this caliber, though small in number, was an absolutely crushing force against a group of Beastmen who could barely even scrounge up armor.

Of course, not everyone was as relaxed as Robson. For instance, he could hear Viscount Elton, who was beside him, swallowing nervously.

’Perfect. The new guys just joined today. Time to show them why Lord Robson can compete for dominance beyond the pass.’

"For the kingdom! For Affleck!" Seeing the Beastmen charge, Robson drew the Knight’s Spear slung across his saddle.

"For Affleck! For our Lord!"

Hearing their lord’s command, the Soldiers drew their weapons. In that instant, the morale of the entire army soared.

Robson said nothing more, only looking silently ahead.

"Charge!"

...

The two armies were on the verge of collision.

The moment Robson gave the order to charge, the human Cavalry immediately followed close behind him. The entire Cavalry Corps was instantly enveloped in a white battle aura—this group was composed entirely of Extraordinary Cavalry!

Everton and Huang Na, in the sky, were also prepared. Estimating the distance between Robson and the Beastmen, they unleashed a gout of Dragon Breath right on the spot where Robson’s cavalry was about to charge through.

"Agh... Hah! Fire! Quick! Save me!"

"Fire! It’s that dragon!"

The Dragon Breath and the phoenix’s blaze crisscrossed. Only a few Extraordinary Beastmen were able to resist for a moment with their extraordinary auras. The rest of the Beastmen and Dwarves perished directly in the sea of flames.

Mendes frowned, looking at the two beasts in the sky.

This was what was so disgusting about the dragon and the phoenix. If he had large ballistae, he would have some means to fight back against them. But the key was, forget ballistae—they couldn’t even find suitable bows and arrows.

At this moment, Mendes could only watch helplessly as the dragon tore open a gap in his military formation.

"Ignore them! Maintain formation and keep charging!" Mendes looked ahead, raised his scimitar, and continued to charge forward.

The thundering of hooves grew louder as the ground rumbled. The distant human Cavalry had, at some unknown point, closed in right on top of them.

And the target of the Cavalry charge, as it happened, was the exact gap that the dragon had just torn open.

’This was definitely premeditated.’ Mendes’s expression darkened, and he began to have his doubts again.

In that short time, the human Cavalry had already charged right up to them!

...

"For Affleck! For our Lord!"

"For Affleck..."

"Quick! Stop them! Stop them!"

Seeing the human Heavy Cavalry charge, Beastman Officers began to exert themselves, desperately trying to get their troops to resist the human attack.

But the human Cavalry were heavily armored and well-equipped. With a dragon clearing the path for them beforehand, how could the Beastmen possibly organize a formation to counterattack?

"AHH!"

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!"

The human Heavy Cavalry plunged into the Beastman formation like a sharp blade. The Heavy Cavalry trampled their way through, leaving a trail of corpses in their wake.

The Beastmen only had about eight hundred men to begin with, so their formation was not very deep. Now, facing the human Cavalry—a group of Extraordinary Heavy Cavalry at that—they had no ability to resist whatsoever.

The entire Beastman formation was torn apart by the humans. In an instant, the Beastman Army was thrown into chaos.

This was the power of Heavy Cavalry—to charge into and shatter enemy ranks, utterly unstoppable.

However, it had to be said that this batch of Beastmen truly lived up to the name of the Prince’s personal guard.

After Robson led his men to shatter their formation, it wasn’t long before they began to reorganize.

And this was at night! A time when an army’s ability to organize is severely diminished!

Robson looked back, observed the Beastman Army’s reaction, found a weak spot, and immediately turned to charge back in.

...

"For Affleck! For our Lord! Charge!"

As Robson continued his charge into the Beastman Military Array, the human Infantry on the other side finally caught sight of the distant Beastmen.

Their leader, Hans, his body radiating a battle aura, looked behind him and commanded his troops.

"For our Lord! Charge!"

As the Beastman Soldiers appeared, the eyes of the corps’ soldiers gleamed with greed. Organized by their squad leaders, they roared and charged forward.

Under the merit system, it no longer mattered who the enemy was. In their eyes, there were only two things: high-level merits and low-level merits.

Clearly, this group of Beastmen before them was the high-level merit they had been dreaming of.

With such dazzling merits laid out right before them, how could they not devour them?

The Beastman Army, after so many days of fleeing and fighting, had long been bottling up their frustrations.

A battle was a contest of spirit. Both sides could now be considered to have soaring morale. The next clash would naturally be a contest of raw power.

Mendes stood at the very front of the Beastman Army, scimitar in hand, and charged furiously at the humans.

"ARGH!"

Seeing the human Soldiers just inches away, Mendes roared. It was as if he wanted to unleash all the frustration and turmoil of the past days, and he directly entered a berserk state.

"Damned beast, your opponent is me!"

Seeing Mendes charge, Viscount Elton immediately drew his Long Sword and went to meet him.

Viscount Elton’s entire fortune had been more or less destroyed by the Beastmen before him. The blood feud was deep; Viscount Elton had to have his revenge.

Facing Viscount Elton’s head-on strike, Mendes reacted quickly and barely dodged.

From that one strike alone, Mendes could basically tell that the man before him was his equal in strength.

Their strengths were similar. To determine a winner, they would have to see what level their soldiers were at.

The human Soldiers were silent, merely advancing on Mendes with their large shields raised. By the looks of it, they intended to corner and trap him right there.

A fine sweat broke out on Mendes’s forehead. He realized that he couldn’t find a single flaw in the human Soldiers’ Shield Array!

At that moment, Mendes was suddenly reminded of the fear of being dominated by these humans before.

’Top-tier equipment, top-tier soldiers...’

One could see the coming of autumn from a single falling leaf. The human Soldiers before him were enough to illustrate the gap between human Soldiers and Beastman Warriors in this entire battle.

Mendes hastily retreated a few steps and looked around.

Sure enough, the entire battlefield was now a chaotic melee between humans and Beastmen.

From the looks of it, the Beastman Soldiers still held the upper hand due to their numerical superiority.

However, Mendes could still see the disparity between the two sides.

The human Soldiers had formed up and were fighting the Beastman Soldiers on even terms. Every so often, a couple of Beastman Warriors would fall in a pool of blood.

The humans’ sharp swords could easily pierce the Beastmen’s bodies, but the scimitars in the Beastmen’s hands were useless against the human Soldiers’ armor.

This wasn’t a fight between equals at all.

Mendes immediately realized that things had gone wrong! ’Even if your grandpa is only half of what he used to be, he’s still your grandpa!’

If the fight continued like this, barring any surprises, the Beastman Soldiers would soon break down and start routing all over again.

He couldn’t even deal with the human Soldiers right in front of him, to say nothing of the two magical beasts in the sky and the human Heavy Cavalry Corps in the distance.

’So, it wasn’t that these humans underestimated their enemy. It was that I’m just this pathetic.’

"Tighten the formation! First and Second squads, cover the rear! Retreat! Retreat!" Now Mendes was truly convinced. He didn’t even hesitate to give the order to retreat.

’If you can’t win, you run. Save as many as you can.’

Here in human territory, there was no such thing as reinforcements.

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