Chapter 160: The Quick Knife Squad vs a Silver
The Steel Bone Knight fishman thought of retreating, but that wouldn’t be easy.
He was already surrounded by the Quick Knife battle squad.
Whenever he tried to charge out, the battle squad leader Kuai Tui would bar his path.
Although Kuai Tui was an iron level, with the aid of his comrades in arms, he could break any attempt of breaking out the Steel Bone Knight fishman did.
The Steel Bone Knight fishman had a strong exoskeleton, natural heavy armor.
It was always advantageous in ocean combat.
Because the ocean didn’t have fire and an environment capable of forging metal.
Of course, the fishmen clan had their own forging techniques. They used them to create obsidian weapons.
Obsidian was a type of ore that was easy to break and process, often used to make sharp blades or spear tips.
Of course, it was easy to break.
In the ocean, the Steel Bone Knight fishman mainly dealt with enemies armed with obsidian weapons and could maintain an invincible position.
At the same time, seawater was buoyant while alleviated his weight.
But on dry land, the Steel Bone Knight fishman felt different.
He felt how heavy he was.
When one had abundant stamina, such a feeling was indistinct. But now, as his condition was declining, every time he brandished his lance, he felt how sore and swollen his arm was.
The mount beneath him felt tighter.
The lizard, who had spent its life in the sea, not only had to adapt to the gravity of dry land on itself, but also the gravity on its master too.
The lizard’s injuries were more severe than the fishman knight.
The Quick Knife battle squad was targeting it!
The iron level magic beast really was bearing too much.
Its condition fell to an all-time low, and it was only hanging in by a breath.
When it charged, it had no strength and naturally had no speed either.
Another crucial thing.
The state of the battlefield.
They were battling on a ship deck; how much space was there to move on a ship deck?
There was the masts and the ship cabins, the fishman knight didn’t have enough room to accelerate.
As a heavy armor knight, if the Steel Bone Knight fishman didn’t have speed, he would be in an awkward situation.
The Quick Knife battle squad grew braver!
They had never battled a silver level enemy before.
Ordinarily, even if Zong Ge did battle with them personally, such training wasn’t as good as actual combat.
Real combat concerned victory and defeat, life and death, its stimulation was absolutely real.
“We can resist a silver level cultivator!”
“The other party isn’t just a silver level; they also have an iron level mount.”
“We actually have the strength; we can fight a silver!”
The more the dogmen fighters attacked, the higher their morale rose.
It was just so; they could really impede the Steel Bone Knight fishman.
The fishman wanted to escape, but he couldn’t.
Upon seeing this, the onlookers were all stupefied.
“The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps actually has a battle squad!”
“So strong, wit just an iron level and some bronze levels, they are able to sequester a silver level heavy armor knight.”
“The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ commanders are powerful, they once faced Rou Zang directly! Calculating in this battle squad, the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps can be considered a quasi-gold group.”
The onlookers felt astonishment, admiration, and even jealousy.
Ordinary powers didn’t have a battle squad.
The White Bandage and Iron Club Mercenary Corps were veteran mercenary corps, and they didn’t have a battle squad between them.
Rou Zang had plundered the seas for ten years and had assembled the Sword and Shield Thrower Soldiers through arduous effort. When he fought the survivors, this battles squad was slaughtered, naturally making Rou Zang extremely angry.
It wasn’t easy for him to see ten years of accumulation go up in smoke!
Battle qi techniques were easy to gather, but battle squad organization methods were all kept confidential.
Even when they were circulated in the marketplace, they were almost all badly damaged and incomplete.
The main problem with battle squad formation was that it was hard to find talents for it.
Bloodline tightly restrained those that could cultivate the same battle qi technique.
“Did the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps just establish it? How do they have a battle squad?”
“Those are dogmen, beastmen. I heard the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps recruited them on Snake Rat Island.”
“What is this luck!”
Many mercenaries lamented from the bottom of their heart.
It had to be said that Zong Ge running into and recruiting these dogmen was lucky.
From a different point of view, the survivors having Zong Ge was also lucky.
Neither could do without the other.
“Zong Ge is absolutely an army training master!” Cang Xu also lamented.
Upon seeing the Quick Knife battle squad’s excellent display, he had no choice but to exclaim in admiration.
Despite Cang Xu complaining about and being wary of Zong Ge, those facts didn’t influence his praise and judgement of the latter’s talents.
Even if the Dragon Lion mercenary Corps had battle squad organization methods and the dogmen, without Zong Ge’s training, the Quick Knife battle squad wouldn’t have been like this in so short a time.
Thinking about this carefully, how long had this battle squad existed?
With such battle strength!
It really was surprising.
Cang Xu was once a noble steward and had some scope of vision. Thus, despite not being an army officer, he knew what Zong Ge had achieved was of astounding quality.
More praiseworthy to him was how loyal the Quick Knife battle squad was!
At this crucial time, they welcomed difficulty and didn’t fear their powerful enemy to defend the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps, this embodied the dogmen’s loyalty to the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps.
This made the necromancer Cang Xu feel warm inside.
“amngalmglmagnmllngm”
The spiky fishman furiously roared as he charged at the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps once more.
He felt anxious again.
The Steel Bone Knight fishman’s reinforcements made him think that’d he’d be able to capture the port.
But good things didn’t last forever, and now the Steel Bone Knight fishman was surrounded.
Perspicacious people could see him failing to break out of the encirclement!
The Quick Knife battle squad’s appearance and battlefield performance caused the spiky fishman’s heart to shake greatly.
The high spirited Steel Bone Knight fishman who had ridiculed him was now in a worse state that he!
One could see that every leg of the lizard had been crippled.
This Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps simply was poisonous!
Kuai Tui’s tactics were wise.
The Steel Bone Knight fishman could no longer go on the offensive and was wearily defending himself.
He didn’t want his beloved mount to die in battle.
But he was unable to break out and his mount was growing increasingly worse, the anxiety of it caused his entire body to sweat.
He was an expert at charging through the battlefield, hit and run attacks. But now, he was fighting a dozen enemies alone, and because he wanted to save his mount’s life, he was using his weaknesses to attack the enemy’s strengths.
He felt strength within him, but the fact that it couldn’t be used against enemy made him very sullen.
The deck had been cleared already, this was their battlefield alone.
Not only had the mercenaries retreated, but the deck’s masts and forecastle had been reduced to ruins.
The Quick Knife battle squad hadn’t lost a single man!
The more they fought, the smoother they became.
It had to be said that actual combat was the best thing to temper people with.
Past arduous training had established a strong foundation and cultivated a tacit understanding.
Now this tacit understanding had become deeper.
Under the spark of real combat, this strong foundation was faintly trending towards a qualitative change.
This change increased the confidence of many of the battle squad!
Through the baptism of combat, they had stimulated the precious temperament of being elite troops.
“Be careful, the spiky fishman is charging over again.”
“Block them, don’t let him get close!”
Upon seeing the spiky fishman attempting a rescue, the other members of the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps immediately acted to bar his path.
The Quick Knife battle squad’s fantastic performance boosted the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ morale greatly.
But the discerning people knew that surrounding one silver level was their limit.
If another one got in, they were sure to collapse.
Alchemy arrows and bullets interweaved through the air in a tempestuous show of firepower.
The spiky fishman didn’t hide in a bunker this time.
He had to save the Steel Bone Knight fishman.
Without this powerful battle companion, he would definitely be defeated!
It could be said that the fight between the Quick Knife battle squad and the Steel Bone Knight fishman would decide the result of the port battle.
The spiky fishman chose to fight on with gritted teeth!
The layers of firepower caused onlookers to watch on fearfully in the face of disaster.
The spiky fishman was soaked in blood head to foot yet stubbornly rushed out of the net of firepower.
The potion he took before was still in effect, causing his injuries to quickly heal.
This time, he had to charge!
Retreat was not an option.
The spiky fishman thoroughly displayed his dauntlessness.
In fact, his heart was filled with remorse.
If he had known earlier, he wouldn’t have turned his spearhead towards the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps.
This mercenary corps was poisonous, too poisonous.
He seemed to have weak defense, but as a matter of fact, he was a hedgehog. If one recklessly bit him, heedless of the consequences, those that attacked would surely be pierced by his spikes and choke on their blood.
It was too late for remorse, and with his vicious nature stimulated, the spiky fishman’s charge speed increased somewhat.
“galma!”
He shouted, finally approaching the battlefield where the fishman knight was.
The spiky fishmen suddenly felt the pressure on him suddenly lighten.
At last, the Dragon Lion mercenaries were unable to fire at will.
They were liable to affect allies.
The Quick Knife battle squad were many, compared to the two fishmen, and regardless of whether it was the Steel Bone Knight fishman or the spiky fishman, both had tough skin and thick flesh.
If firepower covered them, the Quick Knife battle squad would be worse off by far.
Only those rare sharp shooters confident in their accuracy could continue to give the Quick Knife battle squad some sporadic assistance.
This couldn’t compare to the flood of firepower earlier.
The spiky fishman laughed out blood as he readied to climb onto the ship.
Just as the Quick Knife battle squad was about to sink into peril, a wall of fire suddenly rose from the ground, blocking the spiky fishman resolutely.
Cang Xu’s figure now appeared on another ship.
“It’s Lao Zhong.”
“Lao Zhong finally acted!”
“If you’re here Lao Zhong, where is Hong Teng (Zi Di)?”
The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps had two magicians; this information had long been known to everyone.
Under the pseudonym Lao Zhong, Cang Xu used a voice amplification spell to shout, “Persevere, the auction hall has had an unforeseen incident, Feudal Lord Hun Tong and the commanders are trapped inside.”
“But only temporarily.”
“These insignificant fishmen can’t hold some gold levels and won’t hold Lord Long Fu and Shi Qi.”
“Without a gold level cultivator, these fishmen will all die!”
Cang Xu’s words were like a cardiac stimulant, and all of the human fighters’ morale on the port rose.