Mythical Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1670: Chapter 1609: Intimidation

Hua Xiong protected Chen Xi and Zhou Yu as they charged out. Although the time taken from the attack to breaking the formation and then meeting up and charging out was less than one quarter hour, it was enough time for the Miscellaneous Hun under the command of the Northern Huns to react appropriately.

”Duan Wei, regroup!” Hua Xiong cleaved a Northern Huns Centurion beside him with one strike, then shouted at Duan Wei, who was blocking the Miscellaneous Hun charge from the south and covering the rear.

Upon hearing the words, Duan Wei hesitated no longer, immediately turned his horse’s head, and shouted to Su Puyan nearby, ”Charge with me!”

Upon hearing the shout, Su Puyan immediately turned and left, relying on his exceptional warhorse, even moving slightly faster than Duan Wei and the others. After the two merged, Duan Wei led the Miscellaneous Hun towards the north, but the surging Miscellaneous Hun Cavalry behind them immediately charged up, and many Wuhuan Elite Cavalry who lagged a step were cut down from their mounts.

”Suppress with arrow rain!” Zhou Yu personally adjusted the aim, as thousands of archers, under the guidance of one arrow from Zhou Yu, launched a rain of arrows forcing back the pursuing Miscellaneous Hun army from the south, paying no attention to the incoming Miscellaneous Hun army from the west.

Facing the surging Miscellaneous Hun army from the west, Hua Xiong charged forward without hesitation, the Iron Cavalry thundered upward like a storm, and then Zhou Yu, with hands free, unleashed a storm of arrows towards the place where the Iron Cavalry and the Miscellaneous Hun were fighting.

”Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!” After Hua Xiong blocked the charge of the Miscellaneous Hun twenty times their number, Zhou Yu immediately led Cheng Pu and Li Yan to spearhead an attack towards the north, breaking through the Miscellaneous Hun who bypassed the Xiliang Iron Cavalry and charged north from the west. With the help of the Elite of Danyang, they quickly carved out a path to the north.

Chen Xi and Zhou Yu hesitated not at all, activated their Legion Talent, and charged towards the north while fighting and retreating under the escort of thousands of archers. However, compared to archery, the Eastern Wu’s rapidly trained mounted infantry still had an essential difference in riding skill compared to the Miscellaneous Hun.

Thus, regardless of whether the Xiliang Iron Cavalry repeatedly blocked the Miscellaneous Hun charges or Cheng Pu and Li Yan successively blocked the Miscellaneous Hun from sealing the northern passage, Zhou Yu and Chen Xi were always in a semi-encircled state by the Miscellaneous Hun. Of course, their personal safety was in fact not at all in question.

Even if Zhou Yu and Chen Xi were willing to abandon the Eastern Wu archers who had only recently learned to ride, under the protection of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, they would have already successfully charged out.

However, neither Chen Xi nor Zhou Yu mentioned this matter. For both of them, they weren’t yet at their wit’s end, and, out of pride, neither deigned to do such a thing.

”Gongjin, are you going to make a move or shall I?” Seeing that hundreds of thousands of Miscellaneous Hun were about to encircle them again, Chen Xi was also a bit agitated. By this time, circumstances were already quite different from before, Zhou Yu and Chen Xi had retreated several miles northwards, while fighting.

With the change of distance in these few miles, the east side of the armies led by Chen Xi and Zhou Yu was about to not be a fire field. This meant that if they did not come up with a solution, once out of this fire field and opening another direction, they would not just be besieged from the west and south.

Once in a state of being besieged on three sides, it meant that they would need to allocate troops to keep the northern escape route open, making it more difficult. Especially since the western line was visibly collapsing inward a bit. If it got blocked, they would really be in trouble.

”Let me!” Zhou Yu estimated the time roughly and the distance they had traveled thus far, immediately speaking up.

To be honest, this tactic should be avoided if possible, but now it’s about the desperate straits. They couldn’t let the Northern Huns, who have been observing them, underestimate them and start a desperate struggle now.

Speaking of which, Zhou Yu suddenly stood up, with the sound of the zither, Zhou Yu’s body emitted a genuine flash of Radiance from the Legion Talent, the blood-colored glow covered about three thousand archers, and all at once the archers’ actions quickened several times.

Then thousands of arrows were suddenly shot out, but before this wave of arrows reached its peak, another wave of arrows was discharged, and at the moment the first wave of arrows reached its apex, yet another wave of arrows was discharged by this group of archers.

At this moment, Chen Xi was watching the arrow rain in the sky intently. At this moment, there were as many as five volleys of arrow rain in that arc in the sky. These were not Roman Empire’s short bows but Eastern Wu’s commonly used strong bows, and driven by this unknown Legion Talent, the range almost reached the extreme of the strong bow.

”This range must be one hundred and fifty paces...” Chen Xi felt as if his eyes were about to go blind. Being able to shoot that far was itself evidence of high damage, and under this high damage, amazingly, they could fire a fifth volley before the first arrows landed!

”They can shoot as far as two hundred paces.” Zhou Yu said with a cold smile, then watched the archers in front of him shoot more than twenty arrows in the span of two breaths.

”Retreat!” Seeing half a quiver of arrows go down, Zhou Yu did not dawdle. Even if Chen Xi was wealthy, for this battle, each was only allotted two quivers, and shooting half a quiver in two breaths meant that Zhou Yu’s soldiers could empty two quivers within ten breaths if they were serious.

These were longbows, and stiff bows at that, capable of full draw reaching an extreme range of two hundred paces. Though the accuracy in a lob-shot lost its meaning, the range truly reached an extreme.

The result of shooting half a quiver of arrows in two breaths was, as Hua Xiong chillingly observed, a large patch of Miscellaneous Hun were cleared in front of them. With such density and intensity of arrow rain, unless one was the Military Spirit Legion like the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, who are completely immune to instantaneous ranged attacks, any other legion would suffer casualties, only differing in magnitude.

Even the Northern Huns Guards, possessing infinite experience and tactical skills as a Military Spirit Legion, couldn’t avoid casualties in the face of such a level of arrow rain. In a way, this also belongs to pure power, relying on accumulation to deal tons of damage.

At Zhou Yu’s command, not only did the Han Army react, but the Miscellaneous Hun did too, yet differently from the Han Army whose morale surged and took the opportunity to counter-push fiercely, the Miscellaneous Hun soldiers, seeing that entire area perished with bodies resembling porcupines with all those arrows, nearly lost their fighting spirit, this fearsome arrow rain.

”I didn’t expect you to have such a trick up your sleeve!” Chen Xi also got a fright, but soon realized isn’t this just countered perfectly by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and couldn’t help but laughingly say.

”Just countered perfectly by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, right?” Zhou Yu seemed as though he understood what Chen Xi was thinking, speaking while retreating.

Chen Xi couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow, looking at the somewhat enigmatic Zhou Yu, feeling a bit uncertain about his thoughts, but didn’t say much else.

He glanced at the archers who had been shooting madly, nearly reaching the human limit of shooting speed. His eyes squinted at the swollen wrists and fingers already bleeding, indicating one issue: this wasn’t a tactic that could be used often.