The Dragon God Swordsman

44. The war began (6)

The enemy reinforcements came in droves towards where their cavalry were. The troops advanced quickly and even seemed rushed, they shouted loudly preparing for the fight against the enemy.

Patih Purno regrouped his troops to prepare for the upcoming opponent. The battle of fellow cavalry from both sides had reduced his army by a quarter. With the number of troops far from the enemy forces in fact the troops led by Patih Purno were able to win their battle.

Patih Purno was in the front row with one of his chosen soldiers on the side carrying a flag. This flag is useful as a message sender for the army of male-led archers.

The roar of steps that met the dusty ground was heard in every ear of the rebel forces. His enemy ran as fast as possible towards the battlefield with so many numbers, intending to make the rebel forces become his guts. But all in vain, the rebel forces are already so eager in the face of this war.

“In a moment, soon”, Patih Purno's mind continues to say those words repeatedly. From afar he kept watching his opponent's movements. When his opponent was already in the sea of horse corpses that were the first victims of the rebel attack, the soldier beside Patih Purno who was holding the flag then asked him.

“How's Patih? Is it time?” ask the soldier because the opposing army is now within range of their archer troops.

“Still not yet, wait for them to go deeper after passing the corpses and the horse!”, Patih Purno explained his point, “Wait a minute, just briefly”, just, Patih Purno spoke to his soldiers but his gaze was not diverted from the enemy troops moving towards them.

The enemy troops continued to advance forward, and, although it was difficult because the road was covered by a sea of corpses but half of them managed to pass through it and the other half was still stammered in walking through the sea of corpses.

When half the enemy troops have passed through the sea of corpses, Patih Purno then exclaimed to his soldiers, “Send a message immediately!!!”, Patih Purno's orders. The soldier then made a movement to wave the flag 3 times, the movement he repeated until there was a reply that the message had been received by their archer troops.

The old man who saw the message understood that he had to act as he should. He ordered his troops, “Friends are ready! Release three times!”, sepuh man orders immediately executed his troops. Quickly the arrows flew through the air in large numbers with one archer releasing three consecutive arrows.

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Seeing the cavalry on their side who had lost did not scare the reinforcements from the enemy. They still ran forward to face the horsemen led by Patih Purno who lined up neatly against their steps to advance forward. When they reached the sea of corpses and horses that were hit by arrows, their movements became a little hampered because the corpses were blocking their way.

“Take it! They are dead!”

“Do not stop, you guys have more important tasks!”

“Quick! Hurry along! Hurry along!

With great difficulty they passed through the sea of corpses, but they were finally able to pass through it but with considerable effort. They then connected their runs to narrow the distance with the cavalry from the other side. But to their surprise a moment later, thousands of arrows seemed to fly towards them, they fell from the sky like rain.

The vanguard who saw thousands of arrows then raised their shields intending to hold off the enemy arrows. In fact, the arrows were not fully able to be held back with their shields, this was because their leaders did not have enough experience in dealing with this kind of situation.

He only ordered that his soldiers raise their respective shields, useful but only temporarily. Because of the large number of arrows made his troops have to receive many casualties as well. The atmosphere was so chaotic, cries for help echoed in the air. Soldiers wounded by the opponent's arrows continued to scream in pain as the arrows were stuck in their bodies.

The leader of the enemy reinforcements was lucky, out of thousands of arrows he was not hit by any of the arrows shot down towards them. He looked at the surroundings that were currently filled with corpses as well as arrows that stuck in the bodies of his soldiers and that stuck on the ground.

The scene turned for the worse when he saw thousands more arrows flying in the air, his body trembling at the sight of it. Just finished one attack, now that the next attack had come and led to them. He fell in a kneeling position, then closed his eyes ready to accept the fate that would happen next.

In fact, thousands of arrows never fell into their place but passed through it. The attacks of thousands of arrows were now aimed at the troops who were in the sea of corpses and horses that were struggling to pass through the place. Because their limited movement made the troops in that place easy targets of thousands of arrows earlier. More than half of the enemy reinforcements had to fall for not being able to do much to even survive.

Seeing the second strike successfully made Patih Purno exclaim to his troops, “Give them a lesson they will never forget for good!”, give them, with the command of the hand movement Patih Purno ordered his troops to advance to the enemy position. The enemy who survived and suffered minor injuries then stood up to face the cavalry led by Patih Purno.

But as they prepared, from afar they faintly saw thousands more arrows hovering in the air and heading towards them again. The troops who had been preparing to face the cavalry were now preparing to hold thousands more arrows. Their leaders who initially did not know what to do now understand what to do, “Thanks to the shield up and close your ranks, never lower the shield!”, do not, his orders to the troops he leads.

Patih Purno who saw it smiled on his way, “It turns out they are also quick to learn”, his mind speaks. The opposing forces raised their shields as high as possible with a close line.

Not long after that thousands of arrows were plunged towards them, this time also many victims had to be killed but not as much as before. When a soldier is injured or killed, the other soldiers replace their positions so that their shields continue to be in contact with each other.

The opposing forces were too focused on surviving the attacks of thousands of arrows that shot towards them. They had just breathed a sigh of relief but a moment later they only realized that another danger was heading towards them at this moment. Patih Purno's cavalry was only ten steps away from the opposing army, with such a close distance that it made his opponent unprepared to face his troops.