Chapter 402: The Wolf Knights Defeated!

"You may not believe me, but if I truly wanted to conceal something, would I have allowed him to deploy that 'Windbreaker'?"

"Furthermore, I do indeed have a granddaughter in the Southern Region, but she did not participate in this conscription! Therefore, I can affirm with certainty that among these minor nobles of the Southern Region, there are no offspring of our Hernande family!"

Duke Lieshi and the Legion Commander fell silent, for what Duke Hernande said held merit.

If he truly wished to conceal the truth, the 'Windbreaker' should never have appeared.

Seeing that the two no longer harbored doubts, Duke Hernande continued, "Now, I find myself increasingly interested in those minor nobles!"

"Moreover, I now find myself more inclined to agree with the viewpoint of Hou Jue Austin's heir; perhaps these minor nobles truly will not fail!"

And indeed, events unfolded exactly in this manner.

The Wolf Knight squad, having suffered heavy damage once again, immediately lost a full thirteen knights.

This caused the Wolf Knights, who had originally been full of confidence, to finally become apprehensive.

After all, they had not even touched the hem of the enemy's clothing, yet so many of their comrades had been slain; such a thing had never happened before.

Only the Wolf Knight Captain remained unwilling to yield. "No retreat! Charge forward! We must avenge the fallen Wolf Warriors!"

Hearing this, the Wolf Knights, though their fighting will was not strong, dared not disobey the order and immediately began surging forward once more.

"Spearmen, thrust forward!"

The Storm Guards reacted instantly.

They had already readjusted their stances to meet the enemy while standing.

At the command, the spears began to continuously thrust toward the Wolf Knights attempting to advance.

Although the forward thrusts were insufficient to inflict great harm on the demonic beast wolves, they did instill fear in the hearts of those who had witnessed their comrades' gruesome deaths, causing their steps to hesitate.

Of course, the Wolf Captain was clearly unwilling to let the battle remain at a stalemate.

For he knew that the peculiar weapons on the opposite side would launch another attack shortly.

Thus, while using his long blade to deflect seven or eight spears, relying on the wolf beneath him,

the Wolf Knight Captain and his mount leaped in a single bound, breaking through directly to the front of the first rank of spearmen.

"Die, two-legged sheep!"

Without any delay, the Wolf Knight raised his blood-stained long blade and slashed toward the nearest spearman before him.

Amidst the whooshing sound of the long blade cutting through the air, the spearman's face revealed the terror of impending death.

For at such close range, he had no chance to dodge; as for using his weapon to block, that was even more impossible.

Clang!

Just as the long blade was less than half a meter from the spearman's head, a long sword blocked the path before the spearman's face.

The spearman froze, turned his head to look, and saw it was Knight Commander Lei Meng.

It turned out that Knight Commander Lei Meng had been watching this Wolf Knight Captain all along.

For his strength was the greatest among all the Wolf Knights.

Thus, at the instant the Wolf Knight Captain charged forward, Lei Meng also reacted.

He had Knight Mi Gen lift him up, then used that momentum to leap, arriving beside the spearman in the same manner.

The Wolf Knight Captain, having not expected his killing blow to be blocked, was instantly filled with rage.

He was about to say something when he saw Lei Meng utter a single word from his mouth: "Die!"

As he spoke, the battle qi light on Lei Meng's body suddenly erupted; he swung his long sword with full force, directly knocking the Wolf Knight Captain's long blade aside.

Of course, this strike was merely that; it could not inflict harm upon the Wolf Knight Captain himself.

This made the Wolf Knight Captain even suspect whether the opponent's expression of a full-force strike was somewhat superfluous!

However, just as this thought had not yet settled, several humming sounds suddenly reached his ears.

It was the second wave of ballistae, having entered emergency reloading, that had fired.

The Wolf Knight Captain's pupils suddenly contracted.

For one of the massive arrows was actually aimed directly at him.

The Wolf Knight Captain instinctively wanted to swing his long blade to block.

This massive crossbow bolt, his subordinates perhaps lacked the ability to resist, but he himself could manage it.

However, in the next instant, his expression suddenly changed, for his long blade was suppressed by a force and could not be withdrawn to block.

"Do you think my word 'Die' was shouted in vain?" At this moment, the two-legged sheep knight's sinister and mocking voice came from his ear.

Now, the Wolf Knight finally understood that this massive crossbow bolt was the opponent's killing move.

The hair on the Wolf Knight's back stood on end, and an unprecedented fear arose in his heart.

For the moment he raised his blade had already wasted his only reaction time; now, even if he wanted to dodge, it was too late.

Watching the thick arrow draw ever closer, just as he accepted his certain death, a sudden change occurred: the mount beneath him leaped up violently.

Puff!

The massive body of the demonic beast wolf blocked the incoming arrow.

However, the immense power of the crossbow bolt also pierced through the wolf's body, and a large gush of fresh blood splashed onto the Wolf Knight Captain.

He was stunned for a moment; the next instant, his face revealed endless grief. "No!"

As Wolf Knights, they did not, like the human race, rely on master-servant contracts to bind their mounts.

Instead, they had spent day and night with these demonic beast wolves since they were cubs, thereby cultivating deep emotions.

Thus, even though he had narrowly escaped death, the Wolf Knight Captain felt no relief.

Lei Meng clearly had not anticipated such a situation, but his reaction was also swift; he immediately swung his sword and charged forward, preparing to slay this Wolf Knight Captain.

However, the Wolf Knight Captain reacted even faster; sensing the killing intent, he immediately suppressed his grief and quickly dodged away toward the direction of his comrades behind.

In the blink of an eye, the Wolf Knight Captain had hidden himself among his comrades.

Of course, although he had escaped the fate of death, the death of the mount beneath him made the Wolf Knights, who had already harbored thoughts of retreat, become even more terrified.

Lei Meng caught the situation and immediately roared: "Storm Legion, advance!"

The spearmen reacted first, "Spearmen, move forward!"

Then came the longsword guards, "Longswordsmen, begin combat!"

Shortly after, all the longsword guards, along with Mil and the others' serf soldiers, quickly spread out to occupy both flanks and, coordinating with the spearmen, launched an offensive.

At first, the Wild Wolf Knights thought these human longswordsmen on the two sides were soft persimmons, daring to break away from the spearmen's protection; it was simply suicide.

But as these human longswordsmen surged forward with a roar, their expressions changed drastically.

For among these human soldiers, many possessed strength that was in no way inferior to theirs.

Although they themselves had demonic beasts, wild wolves, facing more than ten people ganging up on one of them, they were utterly powerless to resist.

Amidst unwilling roars, in an instant, another four or five Wild Wolf Knights, due to carelessness, were surrounded and killed by the guards.

"Roar, Wild Wolf Knights, retreat!"

The Wild Wolf Knight captain had originally been reluctant to withdraw; seeing the enemy deploy longswordsmen, he still thought to fight on, perhaps changing the situation by harvesting these longswordsmen.

But he did not expect these longswordsmen to not be soft persimmons either; instead, in an instant, several more subordinates were lost.

This made his heart bleed, and finally he issued the retreat order.

Other Beasts could die and be gone, but the Wild Wolf Knights were the clan's most elite warriors; losing even one was a loss.