The Dragon God Swordsman
42. The war began (4)
“What did the two of them do?!”, Patih Purno wondered in his heart when he saw Aryo and Subani who had stopped and quarreled while the planned retreat was underway. “This is bad, the time required is no more!”, the curse is in the heart.
Patih Purno saw clearly the distance between his two comrades with the enemy's cavalry was close. With a heavy heart he ordered the old man to release an arrow towards the opposing cavalry. No wait long old man gave a cue to his archer troops, “Now!!!”, the old man orders.
Thousands of arrows slipped from his bow and floated above the air towards his opponent. Patih Purno ordered that the arrow should be aimed at the rear of the opposing cavalry. Because of the dust that blocked the opponent's view, the arrows quickly plunged down and finished off the opposing forces that were behind.
As the carelessness of the mysterious man left his army in disarray, the troops at the front who were with him were not affected from the opponent's arrows. But the line behind had received a crushing attack from the opponent's arrow earlier.
“Gawat!!”, a mysterious male grouse saw his army fall due to an opponent's attack. He cursed the actions of his opponent, “Don't stop! Continue forward”, the troops who can still ride their horses continue to advance forward chasing the retreating rebel forces.
“The iron horse force is advancing!!”, Patih Purno shouted to his horsemen. Patih Purno came forward with his troops to face the opposing cavalry, when their distance was almost close without the command of his cavalry split into 3 directions. This strategy is used to flank the opposing riding team, although it looks trivial but this strategy in fact works.
The meeting between the horsemen of the two armies at war finally took place. The horses collided, weapons met, and the victimized soldier fell to the ground along with his horse. The atmosphere was no less great than the previous fight, with the riding skills of his troops Patih Purno managed to bulldoze anyone he met.
His spear quickly pierced and slashed at his opponent, while his opponent struggled in the face of flanking attacks from his troops. His horse continued to advance without anyone to hold it, this was because the horse he rode was the best horse that was devoted to being taken to the battlefield.
In the atmosphere of war Patih Purno approached someone who came with his horse. Patih Purno saw the arrival of the man, but the thing that surprised him was that there was a rope tied to his horse and the other end of the rope tied the legs of the young man wearing red clothes with a circular holster on his waist. Patih Purno sighed softly, finally he knew the reason for the quarrel of his two colleagues just now.
“It is fitting that they stopped earlier, it turns out that one of the troops that Subani brought had been the victim of this man's cruelty”, Batin Patih Purno spoke. That person was none other than the mysterious man, he had come to meet Patih Purno intending to duel with him.
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“I must admit you are very good at strategizing, but this will not go your way again!”, the mysterious man began to speak to Patih Purno whom he responded with a smile.
“What makes you so sure that our plan will fail?”, Patih Purno asked his opponent.
“The squad behind us with a large number will come and help us, it is only a matter of time all your plans will be destroyed!”, a mysterious man grumbled to his opponent for being very upset.
The soldiers clashed with their opponents, not caring about the surrounding comrades who had fallen. Soldiers who are victims are constantly falling, cuts or stab scars gap wide and continue to bleed. Not a few soldiers died from blood loss due to their wounds, because the chaos of war made their own friends unable to help them.
It had been quite a long duel between Patih Purno and the mysterious man took place. The two continued to exchange attacks with a murderous appetite fixed on their respective opponents. Patih Purno with his spear skills managed to dominate the attack, the attack pattern he launched was so complicated and dangerous. Just a little bit of making a gap quickly the spear would target that gap.
The mysterious man with his battle experience as a swordsman was actually able to match his opponent's attacks, although his current opponent dominated the attack but he was able to defend with the ability he had. But not for some time his opponent's attacks become complicated for him to withstand, because the range of his opponent's long spear makes the fight finally unbalanced and results in sideways weight.
“Where are the relief forces that are behind?”, the inner mysterious man speaks. It had been quite a while since the fight between them had taken place but help had not come.
Seeing his opponent who was like he was thinking about something and unconsciously made a gap finally made Patih Purno take advantage of the opportunity. He then raised the tempo of his attack to be even faster and was now eyeing towards his opponent's vital point.
“Founder!”, mysterious man swears due to a surprise attack from his opponent. It was only a second too late that he fended off and dodged then his life would definitely drift today. He held onto his ear which continued to bleed due to the attack from his opponent.
“Becah!!! Coward!!! Are you that weak to attack when your opponent is not ready!?”, the mysterious man stared intently at Patih Purno while holding his ear. The pain began to strike in his injured ear, swearing by a rude swearing he was addressing to Patih Purno now.
“I am not a warrior like you, the task as a soldier demands we must win in any way even take advantage of the weakness of opponent”, Patih Purno replied while playing his spear. “If there is a chance why it should be wasted”, he continued with a mocking smile towards his opponent.
“Sneaky bastard!!”, strangle the mysterious man to Patih Purno. Patih Purno laughed off hearing the insults from his opponent to him. Now that his opponent had been stirred up by emotions, he was sure that it would not take him long to end the duel between them.
“Not cunning but intelligent, you must learn in choosing the right words for a person like ku”, Patih Purno keeps trying to make his opponent angry with the words he spewed. His efforts are not in vain, it does not take long he can feel the appetite kill directed to him, “Anger will make you blind to look in front of him”, Patih Purno again said.
His words were ignored by his opponent, his opponent now with a burning anger then jumped from his horse and attacked Patih Purno brutally. Patih Purno who was originally calm was now shocked, his opponent's attack made him have to hold his breath as his spear tried to hold the sword from his opponent.
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