Chapter 100: The Mountain Rain is Coming and the Wind is Full of the Building (Part 2)

  As he urged his war horse to charge towards the enemy, Liu Yu instantly sheathed his long sword and took over the short spear with his right hand, again assuming a thrusting posture as he charged towards the enemy. This Frankish cavalryman was also thrusting a long spear at Liu Yu.

  Just before the collision, Liu Yu saw a golden light flash from behind the opponent and hit the opponent's right shoulder. The Farnese cavalryman was suddenly attacked and injured, and his right hand shook as he dropped the long gun to the ground.

  A loud "peng" sound of the spearhead piercing through the iron armor came, and Liu Yu, who was charging fiercely, easily pierced the opponent's chest with his short spear. With the force of the war horse's impact, Liu Yu knocked this Farnese cavalryman off his horse.

  "Hmm" After throwing off the opponent, Liu Yu immediately started to tighten the reins to slow down the war horse under him. He took a deep breath, his eyes wide open, and let out an exclamation of surprise at the same time his heart skipped a beat.

  "Ah, ah! Damn it! Scared me to death." Liu Yu, who had just dismounted his warhorse, took a few deep breaths and muttered under his breath as he looked ahead. It turned out that after he shot down the Farnese cavalryman with one arrow earlier, he was about to look up to see who helped him when several golden arrows came flying towards him at an incredible speed, leaving Liu Yu completely unable to dodge.

  When Liu Yu's name was mentioned, these arrows flew past his side. Liu Yu turned around and saw that the several Franconian cavalrymen who were about to surround him had all been shot dead, each with one arrow and no misses, showing the archer's strength at a glance.

  "The old master wants to fire you, is this how you serve your lord?" Liu Yu, who had just been frightened, turned his head and scolded the two beastmen cavalrymen, who were riding brown warhorses, holding longbows, and wearing light golden armor, and were waving at him from tens of meters away.

  Just now there were two arrows, but one left and one right grazed his cheek, Liu Yu could clearly feel the powerful aura of the arrow. If he was not careful, he would have fallen off the horse and immediately gone to hug the beast god.

  "Huh, no way! The old man's guard shouldn't be here." Liu Yu, who had been somewhat stunned, suddenly came to his senses. The light golden armor of the two beastmen cavalrymen from earlier was the standard equipment of the Beast King's Guard.

  "Hmm, hmm." Liu Yu, who had just discovered the change in situation, heard the beast tribe's military horn again. This time, the direction was north, which was also the direction of Emal Fortress.

  "Hiss, hiss," as Liu Yu raised his head to see a large number of cavalrymen in the north rushing towards here, rolling up clouds of dust along the way, Fanode's military horn also sounded. Liu Yu, who had fought against Fanode's cavalry many times, knew that this was the retreat horn of Fanode's army.

  "No one is allowed to pursue, no pursuit is allowed."

  "No pursuit"

  Liu Yu and his men, who had been holding back their anger, were about to take advantage of the enemy's retreat to capture a few stragglers, when they heard several loud military orders being repeated among the Beastmen army.

  "There won't be a next time." Liu Yu tightened his reins, gazing at the fleeing Farnod cavalry to the southeast, saying with hatred. The recent actions of the Farnod army had made Liu Yu hate them to the point of gnashing his teeth.

  Since the last time Farnode Imperial Guard appeared on the border, Farnode patrol teams have been attacking Beast patrols every day. Liu Yu has killed more than 20 Farnode cavalrymen in the past ten days or so.

  The warriors of the Beastman Kingdom, especially the Bimon Warriors, are warlike and naturally have no fear of such low-intensity battles. Many beastmen warriors become more courageous in battle. Liu Yue was also infected by the Bimon Warriors around him in the continuous conflicts, and his desire for war and slaughter grew stronger.

  But Farnode's cavalry didn't give Liu Yu and his men a chance to fight, even though the garrison had increased its patrol troops to one hundred Mongol warriors plus two thousand wolf riders. However, the forces mobilized by Farnode also increased significantly, with at least seven or eight thousand cavalrymen deployed in response, maintaining an advantage of about three times the strength of the beast tribe's army.

  Fortunately, most of these were cavalry from the Fanoede Legion, if they were all Imperial Guards, the beast tribe's patrol would have been in a lot more trouble. However, the Fanoede cavalry, who had an advantage in numbers, would always charge and surround the beast tribe's patrol after they left the fortress to patrol, but as soon as the beast tribe sent out reinforcements, the Fanoede cavalry would basically flee eastward with their four hooves, refusing to fight or entangle.

  Out of caution, the beast tribe's officers never allowed their troops to pursue, after all, they didn't have much of an advantage, and recklessly pursuing would easily lead to falling into the enemy's ambush.

  On the other hand, Fan Duo's cavalry movements have become increasingly bold. Just a few days ago, they were attacking patrol troops tens of miles away from the fortress, and today they have reached within just over ten miles of the fortress. Every time he thinks about this, Liu Yu feels suffocated, as if surrounded by a swarm of flies that can't be driven away no matter how hard he tries to hit them or hide from them.

  So Liu Yu's greatest wish now is to have a fierce battle with these Farnese cavalrymen and vent the depression in his heart.

  "General retreat." With another military order, the beast tribe cavalry quickly regrouped and retreated to the fortress. Liu Yu's patrol was also interrupted by Farnode's cavalry and could not continue.

  When the troops retreated, Liu Yu did not forget the beastman king's guard who appeared suddenly when he was rescued earlier. In the kingdom of the beastman king, there is an independent equipment system and selection method for the guards, which does not belong to the formal standing army of the kingdom and is not managed by the military affairs office of the Grand Marshal.

  In Liu Yu's memory, the Imperial Guard rarely appeared on the front lines, and more than half of them were beastmen. The King himself would only appear when he personally led a campaign. Thinking of this, Liu Yu couldn't help but wonder if that old man, who was said to have not left the Earthfire Fortress for over a decade, had come to the front lines.

  After the troops formed a good formation, Liu Yu had been looking for the figures of those two guards. The fact did not disappoint him, the two guards he was looking for were all safe and sound in the front row of the troops, only with several hundred guards wearing light golden armor beside them.

  "Brother." Among the guards, Liu Yu saw a familiar figure, wearing light golden armor and a golden sword, the leader of the Wangguo Imperial Guard, his uncle Louis Weilin.

  The last time in the Desa mountain range clearing the cannibal tribe, Louis was wearing this equipment. Liu Yu had seen it several times before and was still very familiar with it. So even though they were far apart, he recognized Louis's identity at a glance.

  "Next time I'll be sure to cut off a few heads of those Farnese cavalrymen, I'll tear them apart."

  "Me too"

  "I still want to...", half a day later, Liu Yu and his men slowly returned to the Emal fortress. Just as they were about to dismount and return to their barracks, Liu Yu kept hearing the beastmen warriors' curses and swearing at the Farnod cavalry on the road. It seemed that after being harassed by the Farnod cavalry for several days in a row, these beastmen warriors also had a bellyful of pent-up anger.

  Listening to these words, Liu Yu initially still had a few smiles, but when he saw the beast warriors who mentioned the Fandor cavalry with disdain, he suddenly felt very strange. A few months ago, when they were on patrol, they would be very tense if they encountered the Fandor cavalry, but now that tension was gone.

  Days of continuous hand-to-hand combat without pain or itching had made the beast tribe warriors accustomed to this kind of battle, and they also underestimated the strength of the Farnod cavalry. Thinking of this, Liu Yu reflected for a moment, it seemed that he sometimes felt that the Farnod cavalry in front of him was easy to deal with, not like an enemy who could take his life at any time.

  "They are besieging us." Liu Yu suddenly turned his head, looking at the high black stone city wall of the pass, behind which was the east, and the territory of the Farnod Province garrison.

  "This time Farnod's commander is also a personal talent, don't underestimate him." Looking eastward, Liu Yu silently speculated about the thoughts of Farnod's commander.

  At the same time, behind the fortress of Emar, under a mountain covered with green grass, several Bimon warriors wearing black leather armor and looking somewhat tired completely sealed off the entrance to a cave.

  Going down along the somewhat desolate mountain cave, after passing through dozens of meters of caves, a circular venue filled with flames and capable of holding several horse-drawn carriages appeared.

  A golden-haired man in full armor with a gold-hilted sword at his waist was leaning forward, speaking to a figure sitting cross-legged on the ground.

  "Three elders, under Kayn Sorb, by order of Your Majesty and the Grand Marshal, have come to garrison the fortress of Emarben."