Chapter 159: The Quick Knife Battle Squad Joins In!
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The spiky fishman leader hiding in the bunker replied back, he looked resentful and unreconciled.
The Steel Bone Knight fishman laughed uncannily, as if he were happy to see the spiky fishman leader being humiliated.
He first ordered his men to assist other regions, then with a growl, drove his four legged lizard directly at the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps.
Because the others feared the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ firepower, he decided to charge in alone!
“Oh no.” The Dragon Lion mercenaries felt things were about to go horrible.
The Steel Bone Knight fishman was very fast, and the arrows and bullets peppering him at most rocked his body.
His defenses far exceeded those of the spiky fishman leader!
When the spiky fishman leader saw the Steel Bone Knight fishman was attracting firepower, he too jumped out of his bunker.
The two silver level fishmen converged and charged the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ ships together.
“Sho, shoot!”
The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ firepower increased further.
Large amounts of arrows and bullets interweaved in a multicolored curtain that covered a large area.
The spiky fishman was shot all over, his injuries mounting rapidly.
He charged further in, but couldn’t endure for long, and was forced to hunker down to the side again.
But this time, the bunker he chose was unreliable, and the indiscriminate bombardment was quickly whittling it down.
The spiky fishman still had a chance to breathe.
He took out a potion and poured it into his big mouth.
The potion took effect instantly, and his wounds swiftly recovered.
The Steel Bone Knight fishman had superior defense and was speeding up.
He withstood the firepower and simply rushed to just beneath the ships.
Even though the four legged lizard had tough skin and thick flesh, it was covered in blood, for there were many bullets and arrows lodged in it.
Its ferocious nature was stimulated, and with talons on each foot, it launched itself onto the ship and grabbed hold to the hull. As it rapidly ascended, each talon would pierce the hull, allowing it to firmly affix itself to the hull and wasn’t repelled by the casks and other heavy objects the mercenaries were hurling at it.
After a few short seconds, the lizard carrying the Steel Bone Knight fishman busted onto the deck.
The Steel Bone Knight fishman gave an odd laugh, then rampaged on the deck.
The mercenaries on deck were not his match, and they were impaled by his lance or swept away, the sounds of horrifying fractures and falling bodies echoed around.
The mercenaries on deck quickly suffered serious casualties and their formation was thrown into disorder.
When the fishmen saw this, their vigor grew, and their offensive grew stronger.
“Are we not going to support the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps?” A mercenary on the White Bandage asked.
The first mate hesitated, then shook his head fiercely.
“We have to wait for the commander, we must believe in the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps, they are very strong!” The first mate superficially replied.
Helping recklessly was very risky.
It meant that support troops had to leave the White Bandage, fight through the fishmen on the port, climb onto the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ ship, and then once they were there, they had to face a silver level fishman knight.
If they helped, they would definitely incur big casualties.
If they caused a desperate situation because they divided their forces, White Bandage could be captured. The first mate didn’t want to undertake that responsibility.
More crucially, they weren’t sure how profitable helping was.
The Bandage Mercenary Corps and the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps didn’t have a deep relationship.
It was like how Cang Xu didn’t want the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps too much in the limelight, and for them to assume the pressure and losses Hun Tong was supposed to take.
The fishmen were a united people, and despite everyone being in danger, the humans naturally divided themselves into groups by battle strength.
The Iron Club Mercenary Corps was thinking the same way as the Bandage Mercenary Corps.
Since the two strongest groups decided not to, the other merchant alliance groups didn’t plan to provide support either.
For a moment, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ situation was becoming increasingly treacherous.
On another ship.
“Young clan elder, what should we do?” A dogman asked as he tugged Kuai Tui’s arm.
“They are a silver level, and our two leaders were at the auction!”
“They haven’t appeared yet; they just have had an accident.”
The dogmen gathered around Kuai Tui, without a leader, they couldn’t help but think of retreating.
They could only rely on Kuai Tui to come up with a strategy.
Kuai Tui was their young clan elder, their original leader.
The iron level dogman youth’s brows were tightly creased as he gazed at the fishman knight wreaking havoc on the other ship deck.
His expression flashed with hesitation, but it quickly faded out of existence.
“Without Commander Long Fu taking us in, we would still be slaves.”
“Our pestilence was also cured by the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps.”
“Here, Lord Shi Qi did his best to cultivated us. We established a battle squad; we were treated better than the humans!”
“If we cower now, I will despise myself.”
“We dogmen will not treat our benefactors this way, right?”
As he said that, he turned to look at his clansmen.
Some dogmen lowered their heads in shame, others raised their heads to look at Kuai Tui with admiration.
The dogmen’s morale was boosted by Kuai Tui, and one after the other, they expressed their support.
“Young elder Kuai Tui, you’re right.”
“We can still fight!”
“Commander Long Fu and Auxiliary Commander Shi Qi are strong, they killed Rou Zang, they must be rushing back.”
Kuai Tui laughed, “Just understand that there is only us right now.”
“The other side is a silver level, leave the ordinary people behind.”
“Bronze levels with me!”
He took the lead, and with rope in tow, dashed across the side of the ship.
He leapt between the ships, his hands on the long rope.
The rope swung, carrying Kuai Tui into the air and over to the other ship.
Behind Kuai Tui, dogmen imitated him and used the rope to swing through the air.
This was a boarding tactic of naval combat.
This was one of the things Zong Ge had trained them on.
With the help of the rope, Kuai Tui and a group of his clansmen swung across a few ships and quickly arrived at the one where the fishman knight was wreaking havoc.
While in the air, Kuai Tui decisively relinquished his grip, and from the air, he dove at the Steel Bone Knight fishman.
Behind him, the dogmen also followed closely behind.
At the moment, there weren’t many mercenaries left.
Kuai Tui and the others weren’t moving quietly and the Steel Bone Knight fishman had noticed them.
He tilted his head up and coldly laughed.
Battle skill – Forest of Lances.
A moment later, the fishman knight brandished his 2 meter long lance.
Silver battle qi quickly worked inside him and a large amount of it simultaneously imbued the lance.
The lance thrusted so quickly and violently that it formed afterimages.
Countless afterimages filled everyone’s eyes, forming a forest of lances.
Every lance afterimage accurately targeted every dogmen in the air.
This was the fishman knight’s trump card, his strongest battle skill.
He wanted to stab each of these daring dogmen to death and make these weak beastmen have a taste of the bitter result of overestimating one’s capabilities against the strong.
Kuai Tui growled and took out his knife midair to face the lance images.
The other dogmen fearlessly drew their knives too.
A moment later, they used the same battle skill.
It had been verified through training diligently in past battlefields.
Every battle knife and lance image collied head on with the crisp tinkle of blades.
The dogmen fighters held back the lance images and tumbled to the deck, quickly getting back to their feet.
Kuai Tui was in good condition, but the other dogmen were spitting out a little blood.
After all they were just bronze levels, barely able to withstand a silver level.
The Steel Bone Knight fishman and his mount were forced back a step by the force of the clash.
The Steel Bone Knight fishman was greatly affected, he tenaciously glared at the dogmen fighters with astonishment.
He didn’t kill a single one of them!
He was a grand silver level, him using his strongest battle skill and not killing the iron level was already a defeat. Yet now, not a single bronze level was dead either.
“A battle squad!” The thought suddenly appeared in his mind.
The Steel Bone Knight fishman found it hard to believe, “They are actually a battle squad!”
Battle squads were established through ingenious methods that combined many low level cultivators so they could deal with cultivators of a higher level.
Although the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ long range firepower was fierce, there were many factors that influenced the power and expenditure of arrows and bullets.
If it was an Arrow Storm or a Bullet Hail battle squad, only 30% of the arrows, bullets, and battle qi would be used to achieve an even better battle result.
A moment before, the Quick Knife battle squad had withstood a silver level battle skill, none of them died because they shared the brunt together as an integrated whole.
Now on the deck, the Quick Knife battle squad immediately surrounded the fishman knight to do battle.
It was like a pack of wolves fighting a fierce tiger.
The fishman knight charged to the left, still bold and powerful.
Kuai Tui led his battle squad like a formless net that entangled the tiger.
Kuai Tui was the main attacker, he was the only iron level, the others were assisting him.
The fishman knight attacked Kuai Tui but couldn’t catch him for the time being.
If he attacked another dogman fighter, the latter would avoid his tip, while the rest attacked in every direction.
They attacked intelligently and were very tough.
The fishman knight felt he was being ambushed from all sides and attacked from all directions. At first, he couldn’t adapt, losing sight of one thing when he had to attend to another, and was struck by Kuai Tui several times.
Luckily, he had the Steel Bone Knight bloodline and had a solid natural exoskeleton.
Kuai Tui seized several good opportunities, but his bronze level battle knife only left scratches on his opponent, no wounds.
Kuai Tui noticed that it was hard to break through the enemy’s defenses, his heart shouting, “Cut down his mount!”
The Quick Knife battle squad shifted their target of attack.
Henceforth, the fishman knight’s mount immediately suffered a calamity.
It had been wounded heavily when it charged onto the deck, and its ferocity had been stimulated already, thus its condition had been constantly tumbling.
After several attacks and blocks, the lizard had many new cuts on it, and its blood covered a wide swath of the deck.
The lizard was not an ordinary beast, it was an iron level magic beast, however, it instantly collapsed under the Quick Knife battle squad’s onslaught.
If this continued, the lizard would die in battle!
The knight wasn’t injured much, but he loved his mount dearly and was thinking of retreating.
I’m not incompetent, it is just that the other side played dirty and attacked the one I’m riding!