Chapter 1178 Bloody White Horse
"These mountains are full of barbarians."
Ma Chao looked at the black line appearing on the horizon, his face full of mockery.
There are a lot of people, but they will probably all die soon. Since Ma Chao vented his excessive will, his IQ has increased and his thinking ability has been greatly enhanced, although he is essentially a fool.
But this Husky who has been staying in the snow and ice has not only lost his stupidity, but also has a bit of wisdom.
He already understood the significance of Huangfu Song's arrangement. Next, he would just act as bait and watch others perform.
Being a bait, he was very familiar with it.
He didn't know how many barbarians were in front of him, but he had an idea of how many would survive after the white horses and the super-heavy cavalry had killed them all.
There were about 200,000 barbarian troops from all over Rome. The strongest among them were not inferior to the Imperial Guards, and some were even super elite. Of course, their number was less than one percent, and if divided among various arms, the number would be even less.
Those with double talents barely account for more than half, and the remaining half are just barely single-talented according to the classification. Moreover, in comparison, their weapons and equipment are far inferior to those of Rome's regular citizen legions.
Simply put, the heavy infantry of the Roman citizen legion had a decent set of armor, a shield of acceptable quality, a long spear, and three short spears for close combat and javelin throwing.
The barbarians' heavy infantry, except for the best ones who had weapons and equipment similar to those of the Romans, most of them had an oak shield and a spear with an iron tip. As for the other equipment, the Romans said, you can figure it out by yourselves.
By the way, to put it bluntly, except for the iron spear head which was probably provided in bulk by Rome, the oak shield and other things were most likely made by the barbarians themselves...
However, even so, these barbarians still went to the battlefield, eager to make military achievements and become the supreme barbarians.
He blended into the ranks of Roman citizens and became one of the respectable nobles in the Roman Empire.
At least that’s what Rome promoted, and that’s how those role models lived.
Moreover, driven by interests, the fighting spirit of these barbarians is unexpectedly high, but when they encounter tough opponents, this fighting will dissipate very quickly.
However, they were somewhat fearless in chasing after the remnants of Ma Chao, and even several cavalry legions rushed over. However, with their average strength and only double talents, they could not stop Ma Chao at all.
Just as Ma Chao was running, the person he was waiting for also arrived at Zhang He's side.
"General Gongsun! I didn't expect you to come in person!" Zhang He was a little embarrassed. It was really shameful for them that Gongsun Zan came to support their Yuan family.
"Hmph, you, Zhang Junyi, haven't changed!" Gongsun Zan looked at Zhang He. Although he posed no threat to their Bai Ma, he was indeed a powerful legion.
Gongsun Zan had always been brooding over Zhang He's charge with white horses. Now, seeing that Zhang He had assembled a heavy cavalry that was not afraid of a frontal attack, Gongsun Zan couldn't help but make a few sarcastic remarks.
"Thank you, General Gongsun, for leading your troops to aid our Yuan family. The entire Yuan family is grateful!" Zhang He could only pretend that he didn't hear it. After all, they were reinforcements, and he could only endure this old matter.
"Hmph!" Gongsun Zan stopped mocking. He was an upright soldier. Since the imperial court had ordered him to come and kill the barbarians, then he would come.
I happened to be killing so many skeletons in the north that I was almost sick of it, so I might as well come here for a change of taste.
"General, General Ma Chao has led the enemy into the encirclement!" The two men chatted incoherently, and several scouts rushed back and reported to Gongsun Zan.
"Come up from behind!"
After saying this, Gongsun Zan disappeared like a gust of wind on his white horse.
The corner of Zhang He's mouth twitched, and then he began to travel slowly with the super-heavy cavalry. He really thought that all these people were his White Horse Volunteers, and that they could still join the battle after traveling at high speed.
The white horse travels very fast. Ever since it broke through to the third talent, its speed has surpassed before.
Moreover, while speeding , the speed threshold they can control is getting higher and higher, and the speed that was once uncontrollable is being mastered by them bit by bit.
However, when they opened fire at full speed, they still couldn't control it. After all, they were no longer running, but flying. Their speed was no longer based solely on their physical fitness, but more on the speed of controlling the wind.
"General! The enemy is thirty miles due west!"
Because the speed was too fast to control, Gongsun Zan and his White Horse Volunteers advanced almost at a leisurely pace. Even so, it was enough to leave the normal cavalry out of sight.
The horizon was visible about five kilometers away, so Gongsun Zan chose to start at fifteen kilometers. Although they accelerated very quickly, he was still used to leaving some distance for warm-up.
The Roman lookouts mixed in with the barbarian army also spotted the white horse the moment it appeared on the horizon.
"Enemy attack!" The lookout soldiers immediately issued a warning, "Move to the correct position, be on guard!"
However, it was useless. A long, long time ago, the speed of the white horses had reached an incredible level. Five kilometers took less than a second for a full-speed white horse. However, Gongsun Zan had not improved to that level. He was worried that he would kill Ma Chao with one blow.
So Gongsun Zan planned to take it slow. Although he thought so, it took less than half a minute for the white horse to rush from the horizon to the front of the Roman barbarian army.
Before the lookout's warning was delivered, the White Horse Volunteers had already arrived.
In just a breath of time, before the Roman barbarians could react, the blades of the White Horse Volunteers had already killed the barbarians on one side.
In an instant, the sword lights were bright, blood splattered, and the white horse rushed from one side of the Roman barbarian army to the other, cutting a bloody path through the barbarian army.
Nearly six thousand barbarians died under the sword, and this was just a warm-up for Gongsun Zan with his white horse.
Faced with the dazzling sword light that could cut vegetables even on a warhorse, even the super elite might not be able to block it, let alone a group of barbarians who are almost insignificant. Almost all defenses became a joke.
At this moment, the number also became a joke. Lucius and others who were watching from afar with the help of the Fifth Skylark soldiers could no longer laugh.
They stayed here to keep an eye on Gao Lan, and sent a large number of barbarians to chase Ma Chao. They originally found it quite interesting to see Ma Chao being chased around.
However, the flash of a knife made them realize the problem instantly.
"That's the White Horse Volunteers!!!"
For this purely speed-oriented white cavalry, Rome labeled it as an extremely dangerous legion, almost equating it with the Legion of Miracles.
"The Han Dynasty has gone crazy!"
Lucius began to flee with his legion in disbelief. As Rome's opponent, the Fourteenth Group imitated the White Horse Volunteers.
That is why they understand even more clearly the significance of the White Horse Volunteers. They are simply trash harvesters, the real White Grim Reaper.
After all, the first large-scale battle loss in the history of the Fifth Skylark was caused by the encounter with the Baima Yi.
They were sure that those hundreds of thousands of barbarians were doomed to die. If they didn't run away quickly, they would be the next to suffer.
"Call for help, call for help, send a message to Rome, the Han Dynasty has gone crazy!" Leonardo roared madly, venting the fear in his heart.
A three-talent legion is scary enough, let alone an ultimate speed legion.
The Second Augustus has already proved how terrifying the three-talented legions on a single path are, and now the White Horse Volunteers are even more terrifying.
Especially when Gongsun Zan rode his white horse around them and then turned back to continue killing the barbarians, these young legion commanders felt as if the god of death had grabbed their hearts.
Even a boundary-breaker like Lucius was eroded by fear. It happened too fast, so fast that only the generals like them could react, and their soldiers could only see a few traces.
But in reality, Gongsun Zan was also a little hesitant. The white horse was fast, but it was still a bit difficult to kill these guards and super elite soldiers.
The Second Augustus could hit these guys one by one with one punch, but the White Horses couldn't do that. Their extreme speed made their killing power mostly rely on inertia, so those weak barbarians were quite suitable for killing, but these legions with a little strength were not easy for the White Horses to kill.
Or not worth killing.
For Bai Ma, there is always a trick that speed equals power, and it is 100% capable of perishing together with any legion.
But just like the Fifth Skylark, their white horses can create more value, and there is no need to fight with others one-on-one.
After Gongsun Zan came back after making a circle, the barbarians here finally realized what had happened. But even if they knew what had happened, they had no way to stop the white horse.
The white horse moved in an arc, leaving a very smooth arc in the Roman barbarian army. The outer edge of the arc was full of broken arms and limbs, and blood splattered all over the surviving barbarians.
This almost extreme killing speed is the deterrence and efficiency that the White Horse Volunteers pursue. They are a true killing force!
Gongsun Zan felt no emotion at all, and even felt a little nostalgic, because that was how he killed the Hu people back then.
However, he was not so strong back then, and the Hu people were not as powerful as the barbarians today. But the result was the same, the knife struck and the person was chopped to pieces, without any surprise.
The limit of light cavalry, the synonym of speed, the embodiment of killing efficiency, the swift white horse!
There is hardly any legion in this world that can withstand this horrific killing method where most of its soldiers are wiped out by another legion in an irresistible frontal combat within a few breaths.
And when this happened twice, panic instantly took over the barbarian's mind, and his will to fight disappeared in an instant.
However, the barbarians' emotions did not mean much to Gongsun Zan. Whether they were panicked or not could not stop them.
A bunch of trash barbarians, kill them however you want.
Fear, fear from the heart, a great rout happened in an instant, but it was spontaneously stopped by the barbarians in the next second.
There was no way. The moment the barbarians on the left wing scattered, Gongsun Zan infiltrated with a white horse.
Almost in a breath, all the barbarians within the infiltration range were wiped out. How to describe the method? It was like a paintbrush brushing across the area casually. There was no other color left in that area, only pure red.
The white horses with three talents no longer need knives. When moving at high speeds, the wind they control will turn into sharp blades, and then kill their opponents by slow slicing.
But the good news is that a thousand swords are concentrated within one second, and the barbarians being killed will not feel any pain at all.
Once your eyes are closed, you can never open them again. This can be considered the last mercy of the white horse.
Ma Chao's heart sank. When Gongsun Zan passed by him on a white horse, he was a little worried. He was afraid that Gongsun Zan would be defeated. After all, he had never seen a white horse sweeping the map with his own eyes.
He had only seen the white horses led by Zhang He, half of which were taken away by Ju Yi in one wave.
But the moment he saw the barbarians being killed, Ma Chao's heart sank. For the first time, he truly realized how big the gap was between himself and the top legion.
"The Xiliang Iron Cavalry is so strong?"
A huge shock filled Ma Chao's heart. He wondered if it was because he had never fought against the Western Liang Cavalry head-on that he was unable to feel the horror of the Western Liang Cavalry.
White horses, iron cavalry and wolf cavalry have always been equally famous, and now Gongsun Zan led the white horses to show Ma Chao what a white horse is.
When Gao Lan arrived at the battlefield, Ma Chao was receiving prisoners of war. Although Ma Chao had only more than 2,000 men and there were tens of thousands of barbarians, no one dared to resist.
They waited in fear for Ma Chao's recruitment, because any barbarian who did not surrender would be killed by the white horse, and the entire battlefield was filled with bright red.
After killing the barbarians, Gongsun Zan left with the white horse. The white horse came and went like the wind.
The order he received was to kill half of the Roman barbarians. The mission was only half completed, so he naturally had to look for other barbarians.
Chapter 595 "How did you lose to Ju Yi back then?" Ma Chao asked Zhang He in a daze.
Zhang He opened his mouth but could not say anything. Although he knew that Gongsun Zan's white horses were outrageous, the fact that they had killed more than 200,000 barbarians in less than an hour once again refreshed Zhang He's understanding of the White Horse Volunteers.
Even Ma Chao could see that the Bai Ma did not try their best and easily killed all the enemies who were a big trouble for them.
Ma Chao was even very sure that among these surviving barbarians, less than ten thousand would be able to go to the battlefield in the future, and many of them would probably suffer from white horse phobia and would be extremely frightened when seeing a white horse.
By the time Rome received the news, half a million barbarians had almost been killed by white horses.
Rome held an emergency military meeting to discuss how to deal with the White Horse. However, everyone from the God of War to the Senators were at a loss as to what to do.
When a road reaches its extreme, there is nothing that can restrain it.
Just like the Second Augustus, the only way to defeat them is hard power.
"Let's send Group 14 over to fight back!" suggested an elder.
"The Yuan family doesn't have so many barbarians!" Penilence said unhappily. If you kill me and I kill you, the war will be escalated directly. The top priority now is to find a way to restrain the white horse.
The barbarians died and they died. The other side only killed 500,000 barbarians and left. This in itself is a signal .
What they need to study now is how to prevent this kind of situation from happening again, rather than retaliate.
Are we going to launch an expedition against the Han Dynasty just for 500,000 barbarians?
