Chapter 133: The Shadow Wolf Guards Reappear
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At his left and right stood Zhao Yun and Gao Shun, two generals of the Wolf Shadow Guards.
“Your Majesty, the battle below has begun. Shall we make our move?” Gao Shun asked softly.
Liu Xie observed the battlefield once more before replying, “Have the soldiers prepare.”
“But there is no need to act just yet. We can decide later.”
“Yan Liang can still hold out for a while.”
He knew that Yan Liang was bound to suffer a crushing defeat in this battle. If they intervened now, their efforts would not have much effect.
Gao Shun turned and went down to organize the troops. Before long, all the Wolf Shadow Guards were fully equipped and ready to strike at any moment.
At the same time, Yan Liang was finally on the verge of collapse.
“Now is the time. Break through!”
“Remember, do not become entangled with the enemy. Charge straight for Cao Cao’s central command. You must move quickly.”
“Also, I will wait for you south of White Horse City. Once it is done, go there and rendezvous with me.”
“Go.”
At last, Liu Xie gave the order to attack.
More than seven hundred Wolf Shadow Guards charged out of the valley under the leadership of Gao Shun and Zhao Yun.
Apart from the seven hundred-plus Wolf Shadow Guards, even Gao Shun and Zhao Yun were dressed entirely in black.
Every man carried a long spear forged from pure iron, along with a curved saber, a hand crossbow that could be wielded with one hand, and a variety of other equipment.
Outside White Horse City, Cao Cao’s lightly equipped elite cavalry were still engaged in battle with Yan Liang’s army.
Gradually, Yan Liang began to retreat, while the soldiers around him fell in large numbers.
“It is over! We are finished!”
“That accursed Cao Cao! How dare he launch a surprise attack on us!”
Seeing that the situation had become hopeless, Yan Liang was filled with frustration.
“General, we must withdraw at once, or it will be too late,” his deputy urged as he rode up.
Yan Liang clenched his teeth. It was clear that he did not want to retreat.
But the situation had already become hopeless. If he did not withdraw now, he would die here.
“There is Yan Liang! Quickly, kill him!”
Before long, Cao Cao’s troops had reached a point not far from him. The moment they spotted Yan Liang, the lightly equipped cavalry charged toward him like madmen.
“General, retreat!” Yan Liang’s deputy shouted.
But Cao Cao’s cavalry were simply too fast. Even though Yan Liang fled in panic, the pursuers behind him drew ever closer.
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“Damn it! Am I, Yan Liang, really going to die here today?”
Yan Liang was filled with unwillingness.
The pursuers behind him were closing in by the second. Seeing the overwhelming force behind him, he was utterly disheartened.
“General, look!”
At that moment, one of his soldiers pointed into the distance and shouted.
Yan Liang instinctively raised his head.
Ahead of them, only a short distance away, several hundred black-clad men were charging toward them at full speed.
A murderous aura radiated from every one of them.
Their bodies were completely covered, with nothing exposed except their eyes.
It was a vast, dark mass of cavalry racing toward them.
“What is going on? Who are they?” Yan Liang was completely bewildered.
He had intended to rally his troops and fight back, but when he looked behind him, he realized that there were hardly any soldiers left around him—only a scattering of battered survivors.
He assumed these newcomers were also Cao Cao’s soldiers, come to kill him.
Yet when the Wolf Shadow Guards drew near, they did not slow down in the slightest. They simply swept past Yan Liang and the others without even sparing them a glance.
Yan Liang was even more confused.
Who exactly were these men? They were clearly not Cao Cao’s troops, but neither were they his own.
Where had this strange cavalry force come from?
While he was still struggling to make sense of it, the Wolf Shadow Guards had already clashed with Cao Cao’s army.
What happened next left Yan Liang utterly dumbfounded.
If one described this cavalry as merely a force composed of men and horses, Yan Liang felt that such a description was far from accurate.
To him, they were more like a genuine, razor-sharp sword.
When they charged into Cao Cao’s formation, they did not slow down at all. They continued to race forward at astonishing speed.
Yet even at such speed, every thrust of the Wolf Shadow Guards’ spears and every sweep of their curved sabers was perfectly accurate.
Wherever they passed, Cao Cao’s soldiers had not even regained their senses before bodies were strewn across the ground.
Some did not even realize what had happened.
They were simply too fast. In the blink of an eye, the Wolf Shadow Guards had already penetrated deep into Cao Cao’s formation.
Most astonishing of all, once they entered the enemy ranks, they moved as though passing through an uninhabited land.
Cao Cao’s cavalry were utterly incapable of resisting their assault.
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Seeing this, Yan Liang’s eyes widened.
“My heavens! Who are these people? They are unbelievably powerful.”
Even the usually arrogant and unruly Yan Liang could no longer remain composed.
“Indeed, General. These men are extraordinarily strong. I have never seen anything like them,” one of his subordinates said.
“But where did they come from? They do not seem to be our men, do they?”
The soldiers had also realized that these people were not part of their army.
Yan Liang, too, wore a look of confusion, unable to determine where they had come from.
But although Yan Liang did not know, Cao Cao certainly did.
The moment he saw the men’s attire, he understood.
“They are the Wolf Shadow Guards!”
“Quick, withdraw! They are the Wolf Shadow Guards! Move!”
Realizing their identity, Cao Cao immediately ordered a retreat without a moment’s hesitation.
“The Wolf Shadow Guards?” Yan Liang repeated, bewildered by Cao Cao’s shouts.
Then one of his subordinates suddenly remembered something.
“General, I have heard of the Wolf Shadow Guards,” the soldier said hurriedly.
“Oh? You know who they are?” Yan Liang’s interest was piqued.
“Reporting to you, General, it is said that the Wolf Shadow Guards are an army personally established by His Majesty, the Emperor.”
“They are also the Imperial Guard stationed at the Emperor’s side.”
“It is said that, in the past, eighteen Wolf Shadow Guards rescued Zhang Xiu and the others from Cao Cao’s military camp at Xuchang during the mutiny.”
“And it was also those same eighteen Wolf Shadow Guards who, while in Xu Province, rescued Lü Bu and all of his men.”
The soldier recited in one breath all the achievements attributed to the Eighteen Wolf Shadow Guards.
By the time he finished, Yan Liang was completely stunned.
“You are saying that the rescue of Zhang Xiu and the rescue of Lü Bu were both carried out by those eighteen Wolf Shadow Guards?”
Yan Liang found it unbelievable and asked his subordinate to confirm once more.
They had heard about Zhang Xiu’s mutiny at Xuchang and Lü Bu’s rescue, but they had never known the details of what had happened.
Now, it seemed that this was the truth.
Those eighteen men were truly terrifying.
“Yes, General. Everyone in the realm believed that the Wolf Shadow Guards consisted of only eighteen men. But now it appears…”
“Their numbers are far greater than eighteen. There are hundreds of them!”
The soldier tried to keep his voice from sounding too astonished.
Even so, Yan Liang remained utterly shaken.
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