Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

“If Xia Chuan himself were here to issue the challenge today, Yang might still show him a measure of respect. Mu Longhe, you mangy cur, treacherous wretch who betrayed your lord to join the enemy—do you even deserve to bear the title of uncle before me?”

Yang Qin’s face was full of a cold grin. Two hundred meters away, he wasn’t worried that Mu Longhe would fail to see the expression on his face; his eyes were full of mockery as he continued: “You old thing, hiding behind another’s might—if you’ve got the guts, then…”

“Loose!”

“Already can’t hold your temper, huh? Hmph… Loose!”

Yang Qin hadn’t expected that at Mu Longhe’s age, his skill at maintaining composure would be so poor. Hearing the other side give the order to loose arrows, his reaction was naturally quick; he immediately followed up with his own order.

Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh………

The arrow formations of both armies shot forth at the same instant like horizontal sheets of rain from within the battle arrays, sweeping toward the other side like a sky-covering storm.

Thud thud thud……

When two armies clash head-on, the first exchange is inevitably of crossbow arrows—this is beyond doubt. But to speak only of the crossbow arrows is still a bit shallow; at a deeper level, it should be seen as a comparison of the two garrisons behind the armies, of their resources and forging level.

Just like Yang Qin, Mu Longhe had long since ordered the front ranks to raise their iron shields. Those arrows dense as raindrops, let alone piercing the shields, didn’t even manage to cause the front battle line to waver in the slightest.

Thump… thump… thud…

In contrast, on the Zhongyang Camp’s side, the two thousand men of the front ranks raising shields did block the vast majority of the crossbow arrows, but in less than three waves of arrow rain, their formation began to slowly retreat. There were even a very small number whose strength was too weak and had already started to topple backward; if not for the tightness of the formation and men behind them catching them in time, it would have dragged several others down in a chain reaction.

Whoosh……

When the arrow rain first swept in, Yang Qin did not remain hovering in midair, but directly landed atop the gate. He stared at the arrow rain, suddenly noticed something, his brows flickered, and he swiftly stretched out his hand to snatch a stray arrow. Looking down to examine it, his expression changed drastically, and he immediately turned his head and shouted harshly:

“Lower your bows and raise shields, focus on defense—don’t trade shots with them!”

Both sides were Cold Resistance Level armies, so the iron arrows they used were all of Thousand Forging Level. The surface area of the arrowheads was small to begin with, and the thousands of silvery forging patterns densely attached to them looked exactly the same color as silver.

When the two armies’ arrow formations were launched, Yang Qin had taken it for granted that the Xia Army used the same arrows as they did, all forged from Thousand Forged Iron.