Seeing the densely packed Jie people surrounding them, the cavalry soldiers unleashed a furious barrage of crossbow bolts.
There is no cover on the Gobi Desert.
Each volley of arrows took away hundreds or thousands of enemies.
Thanks to the formation they had just formed while avoiding the sandstorm, there was no need for the cavalry soldiers to reassemble into a new formation.
Faced with the Jie people swarming in from all directions, they were now fighting like zombies, competing to see who could shoot the most.
At the same time, they also experienced for the first time what a dimensional reduction attack is.
Before the enemy even got close, most of them had already been killed or wounded.
A crossbow is equipped with three units of bolts, approximately 72 bolts.
The cavalrymen didn't stop firing until the bowstrings were hot and soft.
Led by their cavalry captains, they moved like dragons and serpents among the dark mass of Jie people.
Wherever they went, the Jie people fell down in large numbers, like haystacks.
At this moment, Xue Rengui was already poised to act.
A thousand cavalrymen, each wielding a long spear and carrying a hand axe, mounted their horses and lined up behind Xue Rengui.
kill!
Xue Rengui thrust his halberd forward, and he and his horse charged into the Jie cavalry like a white lightning bolt.
Wherever they went, they brought bloodshed and carnage.
A thousand men were behind him, hacking and slashing indiscriminately.
Corpses lay strewn across the fields, and blood flowed like rivers.
The barren Gobi Desert was soon dyed a deep crimson.
At first, the Xianbei people put up a fierce resistance, but soon they were terrified and scattered in all directions.
Soon, Xue Rengui arrived in front of Hudu Balu.
This fierce Jie man, wielding a spiked club, was directing his troops as they charged forward desperately through a hail of arrows.
Xue Rengui saw a strong and robust Hu man who was different from the others, so he guessed that he must be a leader.
So he rushed towards Hudu Balu and smashed his halberd down with all his might, the snow-covered peak of the sky above him.
Hu Dubalu quickly raised his spiked club to block it.
boom!
The spiked club slipped from his hand.
Xue Rengui's halberd strike was as powerful as a thousand pounds.
Not only did they beat Hu Du Balu until he coughed up blood, but his mount also buckled at the ground and knelt down.
Hudu Balu's thigh was pinned down by his mount, rendering him unable to move.
Xue Rengui struck again with his halberd, stabbing him severely and causing him to fall to the ground and wail in pain.
With overwhelming force, Hu Du Balu's cavalry were also wiped out one by one.
These Jie cavalrymen usually roamed the Gobi Desert because of their large numbers.
Now that they've encountered the true demon Yama, they can only obediently be slaughtered.
Their weapons were extremely rudimentary, and they even had many thigh bone clubs.
Not to mention the armor they were wearing.
In less than half an hour, the five thousand Jie cavalrymen were shattered by Xue Rengui's one thousand soldiers, with dead and wounded everywhere. Those who survived were barely alive!
The Jie people following from the south and behind were stunned by what they saw.
As Lu Bao watched his people fall one by one, his anger turned to terror, and then to dread.
He wanted to leave, but it wasn't that easy.
Because two groups of a thousand cavalrymen had already reached them.
Using the same tactics, the two thousand cavalrymen, relying on their heavy armor and sharp hand axes, recklessly charged into the Jie tribe.
With a swift swing of the axe, his head was split in two!
The ten thousand Jie people had no formation whatsoever.
Two thousand cavalrymen charged back and forth, cutting through everything in their path, like a lump of tofu being chopped into tiny pieces.
Another thousand cavalrymen were carrying out the same massacre in the south.
Five thousand Jie people, like savages, used sticks and branches to block weapons. When they encountered heavily armed cavalry, they were like sheep encountering wolves, with no choice but to be slaughtered.
Among the crowd, the bandit leader Le Jie's hundred riders stood out like cranes among chickens and were immediately spotted by the cavalry battalion.
Normally fierce and brutal bandits are like trash in front of regular troops, utterly vulnerable.
Seeing that Le Jie looked like a leader, the cavalry did not kill him on the spot, but instead severely wounded him and captured him alive.
Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Lu Bao, the leader of the Jie tribe, immediately knelt down and begged for surrender.
An hour later, 70% of the 20,000 Jie soldiers had been killed.
The remaining less than six thousand men all threw down their weapons and surrendered. Xue Rengui gathered them together and put them under guard.
The military guide, who witnessed the entire battle, was so shocked that he was speechless!
Thinking back to how they were oppressed by the Jie people before, it feels so satisfying now.
Lu Bao, Le Jie, and Hu Du Balu were all brought before Xue Rengui.
Lu Bao and Hu Du Balu looked at Le Jie with eyes full of resentment and malice.
It's all that bandit's fault, that damned intelligence.
I should never have had that greedy thought; I should have stayed away from those evil spirits!
Now I've gained nothing, but I've also lost myself in the process.
However, now that he was a prisoner, he could only beg for his life.
So he started chattering away, gesturing wildly in front of Xue Rengui.
"What did he say?" Xue Rengui frowned.
"He claims to be the king of the Jie tribe. This is a misunderstanding. He didn't know that the heavenly army was passing by. He was bewitched and offended the heavenly majesty. Please, General, spare his life!"
“He was willing to offer up the women of his tribe, as well as gold and silver treasures.”
The guide understood Lu Bao's language and translated.
"Misunderstanding! Twenty thousand people surrounding four thousand of us is clearly premeditated. Isn't this ridiculous?"
"If we lose, it probably won't be as simple as a misunderstanding!"
Xue Rengui sneered, "Since you can understand their language, Military Commander, you two better get more information out of them!"
"It would be best to find out the whereabouts of all their people."
"General, what should we do with these six thousand prisoners?"
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