“Men, lets go!” Zhang yelled to the men behind him.
His scouts had found the location of the Yu sect’s headquarters and they were currently leading him there.
“Debt of blood must be paid with blood.” Zhang murmured as he held the reins to his inferno wind walker. Of the one hundred guards who accompanied Zhang only twenty survived.
“I'll send their entire sect to accompany you guys to the afterlife.” Zhang thought about his dead soldiers as he gripped the reins in his hand tighter.
These men had died serving under him so their deaths must be avenged. The armies of Aurora left no blood debt uncollected.
“STOP!!!” Zhang bellowed as he pulled back the reins of his mount.
The thousands of horsemen behind him came to a sudden stop and awaited his command.
“We will be splitting into four units composed of roughly five thousand men each. These units will be led by Yuying, Ling and Lu Xun. Each unit will move into the mountain from a different direction. We will encircle the mountain and make our way up, a special unit of about five hundred men will be left to outside of the mountain to make sure no enemies get away. Make sure to not harm any civilians, our goal is the Yu sect and only the Yu sect.” Zhang yelled toward his soldiers.
“Yes my lord!” The soldiers of Aurora yelled back in response.
Moments later Zhang’s army split into four and went in separate directions heading toward the Tiger’s peak.
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A few commonfolk who lived in the Tiger’s peak, that happened to be returning home from a trip to the city, could hear the rumbling of thousands of hooves hitting the earth. Soon they could see many horsemen speeding toward the mountain.
“Who are they?” One man asked as the horsemen began to dismount.
After dismounting the soldiers brandished shields and spears and formed into neat rows and began marching. A young man in shiny black armor with a halberd resting on his shoulder could be seen walking at the very front of this army.
“Father we must get home quickly to warn the other villagers to run! Something bad is going to happen!” A youth yelled.
However they had been spotted by the young man, and before they could make it very far he was running toward them at full speed.
Moments later he appeared right in front of them and with a swing of his fist knocked them out.
“Tie them up, we don't want anyone giving away our arrival.”
“Yes my lord.”
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Lu Xun, Yuying and Ling each led their forces to a different side of the mountain and began the encirclement. Ai had been placed under Yuying’s command since she was not fit to command soldiers.
According to the plan, once they reach the designated area each commander will shoot a green flare into the sky. After the four green flares are shot, then a single red flare will be fired signaling the beginning of the battle.
And just like planned one green flare after another shot into the sky.
Zhang pointed the flare in his hand toward the sky and lit it, once the contents inside caught fire a dazzling red colored flare shot into the heavens.
“Attack!!! Leave no one from the Yu sect alive!” Zhang yelled. He had noticed that all the members of the Yu sect had one thing in common and that was their sects uniform so he ordered his men to kill everyone wearing the Yu sects uniform.
The villagers living on the mountains fell into panic as they saw the approaching soldiers with weapons ready. However the soldiers seemed to ignore them and just continued marching by.
“Everyone run!! Run for your lives!!” Some villagers yelled out as they made their way down the mountain.
Slowly Zhang’s army made their way up the mountain, every single member of the Yu sect they ran into was mercilessly slaughtered.
There were small pockets of resistance but most of the Yu sect’s forces were nowhere in sight.
“Everyone be careful there might be enemy ambushes!” One of Zhang’s soldiers yelled out.
However strangely there weren't any ambushes at all. The soldiers of Aurora were able to make it almost to the summit of the mountain without any resistance.
As Zhang led his soldiers up the mountain he eventually ran into Lu Xun’s men and Yuying’s men. They had formed a perfect encirclement of the Yu sect’s headquarters.
A sentry that guarded the outer grounds of the Yu sect could be seen frantically running inside once Zhang’s forces made their way toward the mansion.
“Everyone stand back!” Ai yelled as she whipped the Black Thorn whip using her essence to extend and increase its size drastically.
BOOOM!!!
Once the whip made contact with the walls of the Yu sect’s headquarters they crumbled into tiny pieces.
“Charge!!” Zhang yelled leading his men in through the broken walls.
Thousands of men swarmed through the broken walls and inside, ready to cut down anyone they happen to run into.
As Zhang entered through the wall it seemed like the sentry from before was just breaking the news of the mountain being surrounded to the rest of the sect.
A middle aged man could be seen standing in front of two corpses. One of these corpses had a sword piercing through it’s neck.
“Grand Elder! It was him! He was the one who killed the sect master! The one with the halberd.” A man yelled out.
“So it was you!” The middle aged man yelled out as he leaped toward Zhang.
“I don't know who you are but be it man, demon or god, anything or anyone that stands in my way will perish!” Zhang yelled as he jumped and smashed the sky piercer downward on the grand elder who had just landed in front of him.
“Hmph arrogant brat who does not know how high the heavens are.” The grand elder, Yu Jia sneered as he rotated his body to dodge Zhang’s halberd. Then with the palm of his hand he smashed into the side of the halberd changing its trajectory.
Zhang's halberd slammed into the ground creating hundreds of little cracks on the stone tiles that were laid on the ground. It had landed inches away from where Yu Jia was standing.
Before Zhang could pull up the halberd, a fist came flying toward him.
“Shit…” Zhang cursed in his mind as one of his hands grasping the halberd let go he rotated to the side with one hand still grasping the halberd to avoid the blow.
Once the fist missed it’s target Zhang used his free hand to grab Yu Jia’s fist. Then Zhang let go of the halberd completely and used his other hand to also grab onto Yu Jia’s fist with the intention of flipping Yu Jia onto the ground. However Yu Jia performed a sideward flip and broke loose of Zhang’s grip.
“Hmph!” Zhang snorted as he grabbed hold of his halberd with one hand and swung.
“Brat you think you can hit me with these simple swings?” Yu Jia sneered as he dodged Zhang’s attack. However suddenly a large shadow descended from the sky.
From up above a giant black whip came crashing down.
A grin appeared on Zhang’s face.
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Thank you Alec for proofing this :D. Thank you readers for reading O_O. Thoughts? I should have next chapter done in a few hours just gotta see if anyone is around to proof for me. If not perhaps if people are ok with it i'll post anyway. Then ask someone to proof it later.