"Well, I do have urgent business today, let's postpone it to another day." Upon hearing Wang Han mention the sparring match, Lü Bu immediately shook his head and said, but he showed no intention of leaving.
“There’s no rush. A little sparring won’t take long,” Wang Han said, taking off the cloth covering the head of the spiked club.
"This..." Lu Bu felt a chill run down his spine when he saw Wang Han's weapon, which weighed at least a thousand catties. Looking at the three-inch-long spiked club covered with dense, gleaming barbs, he knew that if he were hit by it, half of his body would be torn off. "There's no need for a sparring match. I have military duties to attend to and dare not delay any longer."
"There's no rush," Wang Han said, shaking his head. "Let's spar a few times and then leave."
"Get out of the way immediately! My general has already said that he has military affairs to attend to and cannot spar with you. Delaying military affairs and letting the fugitive escape is a capital offense." A cavalryman standing nearby saw that Wang Han was so tactless, and Lu Bu was in a dilemma. Fearing that if he wasted too much time, Cao Cao would escape, he stepped forward and shouted.
"Shut up," Lü Bu immediately snapped. Lü Bu naturally knew Wang Han's purpose in appearing here. The pursuit of Cao Cao was hopeless, and he was still trying to find a reason not to give Wang Han a chance to make a move, wasting time until Wang Han moved aside before pursuing Cao Cao. He was just putting on a show. With your aggressive tone, aren't you just handing over the reason and forcing Wang Han to make a move?
"Since that's the case, then let's not say any more and save time." Wang Han said to Lü Bu, and charged forward with his spiked club in hand.
Originally, Wang Han didn't want to fight the government troops right now; he just wanted to use the sparring match to waste time. In fact, this was in the same boat as Lü Bu, so neither of them mentioned Cao Cao, since they both needed to return to Luoyang. But now that things had come to this, and Wang Han was determined to help Cao Cao escape, he had no choice but to take action.
"Charge!" Seeing Wang Han charging towards him, Lu Bu knew that a fight was inevitable and that he and his men were no match for Wang Han. He immediately ordered the cavalry behind him to charge towards Wang Han, while he himself retreated.
"Bang..." The cavalry charged forward, and Wang Han swung his long-handled spiked club, knocking the first charging cavalryman off his horse and flying more than ten meters away. Judging from the flesh and blood clinging to the spiked club, the soldier who was knocked away was no match for him.
Then Wang Han charged directly into the cavalry formation, and with a powerful swing of his mace, several cavalrymen were swept away along with their horses.
Speed-up activated, 4x.
Wang Han's reaction speed doubled, and the cavalrymen's movements appeared to him as slowed down by four times. With his attack speed increased fourfold, Wang Han's spiked club left afterimages, leaving the cavalrymen no time to react. Before they could even raise their weapons, they were swept away by Wang Han. The barbs on the spiked club easily tore off pieces of flesh from their bodies. Even a mere glancing blow would result in massive amounts of flesh being ripped away, leaving neither the man nor the horse with any chance of survival.
"Giddy up..." Seeing that the situation was almost completely overwhelmed after Wang Han made his move, Lü Bu immediately turned his horse around and galloped towards Luoyang. He knew that he could not be a match for Wang Han, and he still valued his life.
"We can't beat him, retreat, retreat." After Lü Bu fled, Wang Han killed more than 20 of his hundred-strong cavalry in a minute. Wang Han was still not out of breath. The remaining cavalry were terrified and demoralized, and fled in panic towards Luoyang.
"Trying to escape? Is that even possible?" Wang Han put the spiked club into his spatial storage, took out a spare powerful bow, nocked an iron arrow, and aimed at a fleeing cavalryman.
"Whoosh..." A sharp sound of something cutting through the air rang out, and the arrow pierced through two cavalrymen.
Wang Han drew his bow again, nocked an arrow, and with a swift movement, chased after the fleeing cavalry. With accelerated speed, Wang Han's pace was no slower than that of the horses.
"Whoosh..." Another arrow shot out, and another cavalryman was killed. Wang Han continued to chase after the fleeing cavalrymen with his speed boost, shooting them one by one. Even after they split up to escape, it only took ten minutes for Wang Han to kill all the remaining twenty-odd cavalrymen.
After killing the cavalry, Wang Han did not clean up the battlefield. Instead, he used his speed boost to rush back to Luoyang at a speed of over 100 meters per second.
(Professional athletes travel at around 10 meters per second, the best racehorses at 20 meters, and cheetahs at 30 meters. These are extreme speeds.)
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After galloping back at full speed, Lü Bu finally returned to Luoyang. He now had a clearer understanding of Wang Han's strength and was genuinely afraid that Wang Han would catch up with him.
He had barely entered the city and hadn't even caught his breath when he saw Wang Han walking towards him with a spiked club that had been re-wrapped in cloth. The distance was less than ten meters, which startled him so much that he quickly reined in his Red Hare.
"My life is over." Upon seeing Wang Han, Lü Bu felt a chill in his heart. At this distance, and with them about to meet face to face, escape would be impossible.
Wang Han greeted him with a smile, "General Lü Bu, where have you just come from? Did you go to handle military affairs alone? I suppose you've finished your military affairs by now, General Lü Bu. How about we go and have a friendly spar?"
Seeing that Wang Han had no intention of making a move, Lü Bu breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly said nervously, "Military affairs are finished, finished. There's no need for a sparring match. I still need to go back and report to the Prime Minister."
"Is that so? Then let's spar another day. Go and report back," Wang Han said, making way for Lü Bu.
"Thank you." Seeing that Wang Han had made way for him, Lü Bu quickly spurred his horse and galloped towards Dong Zhuo's residence.
Only after returning to Dong Zhuo's residence did Lü Bu truly breathe a sigh of relief. After thinking it over carefully, he went to report back to Dong Zhuo.
"Fengxian, has Cao Cao been captured?" Dong Zhuo asked as soon as Lü Bu met him, seemingly quite certain that Lü Bu had captured Cao Cao.
"Father, Cao Cao has escaped." Lu Bu said with shame, "We were ambushed on the way to capture him. Apart from me, all the cavalrymen I brought with me were killed."
Upon hearing that someone had rescued Cao Cao and ambushed his cavalry, Dong Zhuo angrily asked Lü Bu, "Who was it that was ambushed? How dare they oppose me?"
"Those people were all dressed as ordinary civilians; I couldn't discern their identities," Lü Bu said, shaking his head. The reason Lü Bu dared to say this was because Wang Han had told him at the door that he was going on military business alone, implying that everyone else had already been killed by Wang Han. As for the claim that Wang Han had blocked their way and sent troops to besiege him, having witnessed Wang Han's strength, Lü Bu knew how terrifying he was. In Luoyang, with its numerous buildings, archers couldn't effectively utilize their abilities, and even two or three thousand ordinary soldiers might not be able to besiege Wang Han; they might even be routed by him. He also worried that if Wang Han escaped, he would come back to settle scores later.
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