Chapter 401: Escape
The battlefield is too big, and the individuals are too small. Once you are in it, you can’t help yourself.
Zhang Yang could no longer get an overall view of the battlefield. He only felt that there were people everywhere, shouts of killing everywhere, the galloping cavalry stirred up clouds of dust, flames ignited the battlefield equipment, arrows flew everywhere, everyone was like crazy, blood and body parts became the most common scenery here.
Zhang Yang was a little panicked, not because he was timid, but because he was in awe of the miraculous effect of this national movement. Was this a war involving tens of thousands of people? He had commanded battles involving thousands of people before, but he was at the level of a commander and had never had the experience of being an insignificant soldier in the field.
At this moment, he suddenly had some enlightenment. He suddenly realized Jiang Rong's sword intent of Jiangshan and Li Guohuai's sword intent of the grass and wild.
He once thought he had fully understood it, but now it seems that he is still missing some of the most crucial things.
This can only be understood on the battlefield, can only emerge from despair, and can only be felt by this kind of small and chaotic emotion, and then one can understand what the iron-blooded country and the wanton wildness actually mean.
"kill!"
Tonks' roar pulled Zhang Yang back from his abstract thoughts. They had already broken through the enemy's formation and reached the Daxia archer in one breath.
Those 15 Sarleon Guards were really like a stabilizing force. They were too terrifying, and their equipment was too terrifying. Even though their bodies were shot like hedgehogs, it did not affect their ability to break through the obstruction of dozens of Dasha Sword Saints. They killed their way forward step by step, and defeated the Dasha archers in one encounter.
However, at this time, there were only 17 halberd soldiers, 42 assault swordsmen, 27 heavy infantrymen, and 13 militiamen left on their side.
Their archers had been completely wiped out, their cavalry, including the two barons, were nowhere to be found, and it seemed that there were enemies everywhere.
"Tonks, let me check your wound. I have to stop the bleeding."
Although Zhang Yang was a little distracted along the way, it did not affect his work. He had thrown away the large round shield that was already in danger and whose durability was about to be reduced to zero, and instead picked up a complete Dasha Imperial Guard shield. He also picked up two Dasha war dart bags and collected 24 war darts.
This thing is only 30 cm long and weighs about 5 taels. It is a throwing weapon of the Dasya people.
"Hey, we're out of time."
Tonks smiled with a pale face, his health bar was only one fifth left.
Zhang Yang was helpless. Indeed, a group of Dasha cavalry were charging towards their group of remnants on the battlefield.
"Form a formation! Form a formation!"
A guard shouted, and everyone quickly gathered together, with the guards in the front row, the assault swordsmen in the middle, the halberd soldiers on both sides, and the other soldiers in the back.
“Boom!”
The sound of horse hooves was deafening. More than 50 Dasha Yufeng Imperial Guards rushed over. They held a shield in one hand and a long spear in the other, and controlled the horse purely with their legs. This was a classic cavalry charge tactic.
"Shield formation!"
"Shield formation!"
Everyone was shouting, especially the 15 Sarion Guards. Rays of light appeared on the shields in their hands. They were activating the magic runes on the shields.
In the blink of an eye, a torrent of cavalry rushed over, and the dozen or so Dasha Yufeng Guards who were the first to bear the brunt flew directly, spitting blood, the spears in their hands broke and shattered, and their horses Xilulu fell down. This was a completely suicidal attack, an attack that hurt both sides.
But it also successfully destroyed 12 magic rune shields. Without the magic rune shields, the combat effectiveness of the Sarion Guards was almost weakened by half.
The moment the second batch of Dasha Yufeng Guards rushed in, the five Sarion Guards were entangled.
Five of these most expensive civilian soldiers in the entire continent died at once.
"kill!"
The remaining halberd soldiers on both sides rushed forward and slaughtered the stagnant charging cavalry. The assault swordsmen in the center also launched a charge.
This may be the last glory of this remnant army on the battlefield. Once the opposing cavalry loses its speed, they will be slaughtered.
Zhang Yang seized the opportunity. He held two dart bags in his hands. The Wanderer system turned on the health bar reminder. He found that the enemy's health bar was dropping rapidly, and then he immediately threw a dart and happily grabbed the head.
By the time this Dasha cavalry was completely wiped out, he had already captured 12 heads. Based on 375 experience points for each head, he had leveled up 2 levels and reached level 10.
This not only means that he gains two free attribute points, two free skill points, and 20 weapon proficiency points, but also means that he can change his job.
Transfer from a low-level militiaman to a mid-level professional soldier.
If the current environment was not on the battlefield, but the time for reward after the war, Zhang Yang would definitely choose to become a Sarion Armed Infantry, which is a transfer and upgrade route leading to the Sarion Guards.
Unfortunately, he had to survive first.
In this chaotic battlefield, two legs are definitely not as fast as four legs, so cavalry is the key.
When Zhang Yang met the Jatu people before, he had already improved his riding skills by 2 levels, but this was still not enough. At least he couldn't ride the mounts of the Dasha Imperial Guards, which required at least 4 levels of riding skills.
So Zhang Yang got determined and added two more points to the intelligence attribute, thus gaining 4 free skill points.
Two increase riding skills to level 4, and two increase healing to level 2.
Running away + saving his life, how come he just does what he wants?
As for his career, he decisively chose the mercenary cavalry, which had no future. This was a very rubbish upgrade and job transfer system, from mercenary cavalry to professional cavalry to mercenary cavalry commander, it was extremely rubbish.
But at this moment, once you change your job to cavalry, you will get an extra bonus of 1 point of riding skill, just like changing your job to infantry will have an extra 1 point of Iron Bone skill, and changing your job to archer will have an extra 1 point of Strong Bow skill.
This will allow Zhang Yang to directly possess level 5 riding skills.
To be honest, he really didn't expect that his first battle would be such a large-scale war. If it was a small-scale war, he would not have chosen this.
At this time, his attributes become——
Name: Theo
Age: 17
Level: 10
Main occupation: Mercenary cavalry,
Life: 62 Strength: 16 Agility: 12 Intelligence: 15 Charisma: 6 Long pole proficiency: 65 One-handed proficiency: 60 Throwing proficiency: 205 Skills: Iron Bone Level 1, Throwing Level 4, Riding Level 5, Healing Level 2, Surgery Level 2.
Equipment: Dasha Royal Guard Shield, Short Axe, Dasha War Dart, Dasha Long Sword.
When Zhang Yang finished upgrading his configuration attributes, another wave of enemies rushed up. This time they were not cavalry, but dozens of archers.
"We have to retreat." someone shouted sadly.
"Where is the Baron?"
"He has surrendered. I saw him being captured by one of the Khan's guards."
"He abandoned us?"
"Fool, he is a noble, and nobles have the right to be redeemed. We will just become a corpse and no one will care."
——
The veterans began to quarrel, morale dropped rapidly, and pessimism filled everyone's heart.
"Tonks? Tonks!"
Zhang Yang was rummaging through the pile of corpses. He was so busy trying to grab the heads that he didn't notice Tonks rushing up to him. As a result, he was gone after the battle.
This is not the result Zhang Yang wants to see.
"Form a formation and retreat. We can't panic! Otherwise we will be killed like pigs."
A Sarleon Guard shouted.
"New recruit, stop looking, Tonks is dead!"
A halberd soldier with a bloody face grabbed Zhang Yang and pointed out Tonks's location. He was pinned down by a dead warhorse and fainted. Yes, the blood bar above his head showed that he was still alive.
"Maybe he can still be saved. I'm a doctor, I can save him!"
Zhang Yang shouted that this was the only veteran who had a chance to raise his favorability to 80, and he didn't want to give up.
The halberd soldier glanced at him, then rushed back and moved Tonks out from under the dead horse. The Dashar people on the opposite side had already started shooting arrows. Zhang Yang held up the imperial shield and protected the two men as they retreated, but the speed was very embarrassing.
"Wait for me. I'll ride over here on horseback."
Zhang Yang threw away the short-handled axe, the Dasha long sword, and the dart bag. He handed the Imperial Guard shield to the halberd soldier and rushed to the left about ten meters away. There was a Dasha warhorse there. Its owner was a Yufeng Imperial Guard, but he was dead, so the horse was still lingering there.
When Zhang Yang approached, it looked alert and pricked up its ears.
“Whoa.”
Zhang Yang made a sound from his mouth, but his movements were not slow at all. He jumped onto the horse's back in a few steps. As a result, the warhorse immediately kicked up its rear. If it weren't for his level 5 riding skill, he would have been thrown off by it.
But now, it only took Zhang Yang a few seconds to control and calm the warhorse. He clamped his legs around the horse's belly, rushed over quickly, bent down and grabbed Tonks.
At the same time, he shouted to the halberd soldier.
"I'll be back to pick you up."
“Go!”
The halberd soldier roared and waved his shield to block most of the arrows, then launched a desperate charge against the Dashara people who had already rushed to a dozen steps away.
Tonks woke up at this moment and struggled violently.
"No, uncle!"
Zhang Yang suddenly realized something, and he used his legs to push the horse faster.
The level 5 riding skill is really like a fish in water on such a battlefield. The most important thing is that the Dasha warhorse under his crotch is really fast and runs like the wind.
Zhang Yang didn't care about other people and just moved between the groups of fighting soldiers on the battlefield. He didn't stop his horse until there were no more shouts of killing around him. Tonks had fainted again and he had to receive treatment and surgery immediately.
It was a very normal process to take off Tonks' helmet, remove her armor, stop the bleeding, remove the arrow, clean the wound, bandage it, and finally treat and replenish her blood. The abnormal thing was that while Zhang Yang was doing these normal things, Tonks' health was actually recovering slowly.
So this is the magical effect of level 2 treatment and level 2 surgery? The rules of this world are so cute.
Zhang Yang thought to himself, and happily accepted the 30 points of favorability that Tonks increased.
(End of this chapter)
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