Chapter 175: The Game is Over
Zhang Xing was also one of the first elite players to enter the game. He chose Dong Zhuo as his target. Everything was going smoothly until Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were taken away by other players to help Huangfu Song.
The last time he was trapped in the city with Dong Zhuo, and all his troops were defeated on the way. He couldn't even gain any merit while defending the city, and he wasted so much time in vain.
This time he tricked so many cannon fodders into joining him, and he felt that he was going to make a name for himself this time.
Although he has less than a hundred troops under his command, they are all Xiliang Iron Cavalry with double talents. This is the result of his long time in the industry. Although they cannot be compared with historical generals, they are still far ahead of other players.
Nearly several hundred players gathered together, each providing dozens of soldiers to participate in the battle.
Adding up, there are about five to six thousand people, which is considered a considerable force.
Led by Zhang Xing, the players rushed to the battlefield excitedly, just in time for Yang Lin and his men to approach.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry, Fengshi formation, Fengshi formation." Under Zhang Xing's command, a group of players formed a formation most commonly used by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. This was also the only small military formation that Zhang Xing had learned.
With a player acting as a team leader, it is particularly easy to set up the formation. After all, each player only needs to command a dozen people, which is something basically anyone can do.
Qu Yi had already covered his face in the distance, and he watched Zhang Xing committing suicide helplessly.
The Fengshi Formation is the most suitable formation chosen by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry for charging into battle, and it is not very suitable for other types of troops.
Besides, we are fighting a defensive battle now. It’s useless for you to set up a sharp arrow formation.
"Hurry, hurry, take up your weapons!" Zhang Xing urged other players to take up their weapons.
"Where did you get so many powerful crossbows?" A player asked with a twitching eye while holding the weapons distributed by Zhang Xing.
"I received it from the Quartermaster Department. This is the benefit of working for the imperial court!" Zhang Xing's face was full of emotion.
When he brought his troops to recruit Chen Xi to apply for spare weapons, Chen Xi waved his hand and approved a note for him, telling him to go to the warehouse and get whatever he wanted. He liked players like Zhang Xing who were willing to prepare more weapons, so that his internal affairs ability could be meaningful.
Take it, take whatever you want, there is a pile of it in the warehouse gathering dust anyway .
When Chen Xi was making weapons on a large scale before, he built a set of bows and crossbows for each person according to the number of 300,000 garrison troops at Hulao Pass, and he also built 100,000 more sets just in case.
Unexpectedly, the bows were completely useless. Some soldiers did not use bows and arrows not because they did not have the equipment, but because they simply did not have the strength and skills. Instead of wasting supplies, they might as well just use swords and shields as meat shields.
Zhang Xing directly received a thousand sets of bows and crossbows. Anyway, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry were good at carrying heavy loads, so carrying only ten sets of bows and crossbows was not a big deal at all. Now they came in handy.
Bows and arrows are rare items at all times, and Zhang Xing's distribution of equipment directly changed the composition of the patchwork legion.
It also provides them with three more possibilities to hold on, after all, it is easier for multiple arms to exert their combat effectiveness when they cooperate.
Yang Lin looked at the ragtag army in front of him with disdain. Although they were all elite soldiers with single talents, the auras between them were not connected at all. If it were not for the ridiculous sharp arrow formation, even the clouds would probably not be born.
However, seeing that Zhang Xing and other players had clouds over their heads, he gave up the idea of using the legion to attack. It was not worth it because of the huge consumption. He would rather use other methods to solve these obstacles since the time was about the same anyway.
"Here they come!" Zhang Xing shouted in a deep voice, and then led his troops to charge, attacking Yang Lin's 50,000-strong army with a force of less than a thousand.
He had just discussed countermeasures with other players. They definitely couldn't hold on, so all they could do was delay time.
He and other players split into two groups, one group charged into the interior to create chaos, while the other group stayed where they were and suppressed the situation with crossbow fire.
"Boy, looks like I have to teach you a lesson!" Yang Lin rushed out with his personal guards with a sneer. He wanted to end the battle quickly. Zhang Xing and others were just appetizers to him. The real big guys were yet to come.
"Break the formation!" Yang Lin activated his talent and found more than a dozen flaws in Zhang Xingfeng's arrow formation in less than a second.
And then nothing happened. Zhang Xing was taken away by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry Guards. The other cavalrymen's formation was disrupted as soon as they came into contact. Then the guards under Yang Lin mobilized the cloud energy and killed each of them with a sword. In less than five minutes, all the charging cavalry were killed.
If the Xiliang Iron Cavalry had not been tough enough, Zhang Xing would have been chopped into pieces with his mediocre kung fu.
The gap is too big, Yang Lin used practical actions to tell all the players what a historical general is.
Yang Lin defeated a force of nearly 6,000 in less than a quarter of an hour.
The players and soldiers who managed to survive scattered like birds and beasts, not daring to continue blocking the road. Their beautiful vision was shattered almost instantly.
"Pah! With this kind of ability, you still want to imitate others to be a hero. How ridiculous!"
Yang Lin spat and didn't even look at the group of players who were running away.
"Such good equipment is wasted!"
No one in all dynasties has been so extravagant as to distribute so many supplies to a group of second-rate troops. Only a hamster monster like Chen Xi would not care about the distribution of supplies. In other dynasties, military supplies were all taken away bit by bit from the cracks in the door.
"Bow and crossbow?" After seeing Zhang Xing's actions, Chen Xi quickly realized that something was wrong. Where is their archer?
What about the huge Changshuiying and Sheshengying?
What about the two archer legions in their family army?
Where is Mr. Huang Zhong?
The three soul-searching questions made Chen Xi aware of the problems in his own condition.
Chen Xi quickly mobilized his mental strength to examine himself and found that the bright moon in his mind seemed to be covered with a layer of dust.
Chen Xi's spirits lifted, and the moon shone brightly again.
"What kind of disgusting talent is this that can make people temporarily forgotten?" Chen Xi was extremely disgusted. Huang Zhong was on standby not far behind them with the Shesheng Battalion and the Changshui Battalion, but they all forgot about the existence of Huang Zhong and his companions.
Xi Zhicai in the coalition army spat out a mouthful of blood. His spiritual talent was actually destroyed by someone!
"Chen Zichuan? So scary!" Xi Zhicai wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, looking a little gloomy.
They originally thought that after joining Guo Hao, they would be able to rely on the strategies of their advisers to help Cao Cao gain a high position.
After all, the image of Guo Hao's men being strong in martial arts but weak in literary talent is deeply rooted in people's hearts, and they are confident that they are an indispensable force for Guo Hao.
I didn't expect that the head of the Chen family branch next to the general is actually a tough guy.
Concealing Huang Zhong's power is Xun You's innate effect, which can reduce a person's presence and even achieve the effect of invisibility.
However, once discovered, it will cause great harm to the gifted person himself.
Xi Zhicai's spiritual talent is copying, and he can use the talents of others by copying them.
Normally he makes use of the spiritual talents of Xun Yu and Xun You, the uncle and nephew.
One can enhance mental strength, and the other can conceal existence. The combination of them is simply too cool.
It is worth mentioning that Xun Yu’s talent effect is to have insight into the situation and coordinate the overall situation, and increasing the amount of spirit is only a trivial subsidiary effect.
Sometimes you have to admit that the gap between people is greater than that between people and dogs. To some extent, Xun Yu is like other spiritually gifted people under Cao Cao. The IQ of both sides is not much different.
However, the spiritual talent alone has already distanced Xun Yu from other counselors. The gap between the two sides seems to be only a slight one, but in fact it is a crushing one.
But Chen Xi is even more different. The gap between him and Xun Yu is also a chasm.
Xi Zhicai previously blocked the existence of Huang Zhong and others in order to create trouble for Yuan Shao and to create favorable conditions for Guo Hao.
As he expected, Yang Lin and others forgot about Huang Zhong, but he didn't expect that Guo Hao and others actually forgot about Huang Zhong's existence. That was the troop right next to them. It was true that Xun You could reduce his presence, but he couldn't directly delete his presence.
Moreover, Chen Xi directly used his mental power to counter the effect of his talent, which caused even greater damage to him.
Because... this was considered Chen Xi's mental attack on him, and what followed was the backlash of his talent.
Sure enough, as Chen Xi reminded Guo Hao, the effect of Xi Zhicai's talent began to backfire.
"Puff~" Xi Zhicai spurted out a mouthful of blood and then fainted. Guo Jia, who was standing beside him, was frightened and at a loss as to what to do. Why did he suddenly become ill?
However, Guo Jia was a wise man after all. His panic only lasted for a moment, and then he understood the cause and effect.
"Puff~" Guo Jia used his mental power to wake up Xi Zhicai.
"Delete it quickly! Delete it quickly!" Guo Jia shouted, covering his head.
The moment Xi Zhicai regained his senses, he quickly deleted Xun You's talent. It was really too deceptive.
If Xun You had used this thing, he would have definitely died in the camp today. Fortunately, he copied it, otherwise even gods could not have saved him.
But then again, Xun You doesn't have that much energy to buff so many people, and only a stitched-together freak like Xi Zhicai would have such an experience.
Guo Hao and Chen Xi looked at each other, not knowing who was helping them.
The moment they saw Huang Zhong, they realized that someone was helping them, but they both had intermittent mental retardation!
He was so focused on not being able to retreat that he completely forgot that there were two powerful weapons behind him.
Huang Zhong also had a face full of question marks, but he couldn't go and urge since there was no order from the command desk. Who knew if it was some big plan?
Anyway, the situation looked very good, so he could only focus on the battlefield and wait for Guo Hao's order.
When the white horse attacked, he thought that Shesheng was going to show off his skills. Shesheng specializes in restraining flashy things like white horses.
No matter what you are, the sound of shooting can steadily take away a portion of you. This is also the only permanent type of troops that has not changed much among the many types of troops replaced by the Han Dynasty.
The Yue cavalry alone has gone through five or six generations, but the shooting sound is still the same, maintaining the legion attributes when Dang Nian and the Xiongnu were fighting.
When necessary, Shesheng can sacrifice himself in exchange for any non-violating soldier.
The White Horse led by Zhang He falls into the category of troops that do not violate the rules.
When the white horses trample on the camp, Shesheng can also clear the field at the speed of light, but the remaining white horses can take away all the people of Shesheng in one wave, because they only have one chance to show off.
The elite archer with double talents, after shooting an arrow with all his strength, immediately degenerates into a miscellaneous soldier, and anyone can defeat him.
However, on the other hand, Shesheng could defeat most legions of the same level, even the Royal Guards, with one arrow fired with all his strength.
No matter what fancy legion troop effects you have, one arrow shot will either kill or injure the enemy.
Moreover, if Shesheng is protected by someone, it will be a complete waste of your time. After all, you will be exhausted but not dead. After a good rest, you can take down a group of enemies at your maximum limit.
Unfortunately, Shesheng was eclipsed by Xiandeng's extreme burst. Shesheng was unable to launch that kind of attack. A torrent of arrows washing the ground was something Shesheng would never have in his life.
However, Shesheng's shooting range can crush Xiandeng, which is Shesheng's only consolation.
However, one is a military soul and the other is a dual talent, there is no comparison between the two.
Unlike the relaxed Guo Hao and Chen Xi, the allied forces were already starting to feel nervous.
"Retreat!" Yang Lin shouted at the top of his lungs. He didn't understand how he could have forgotten the existence of the two archer legions. He had many ways to restrain the two legions, and also many ways to avoid being hit by the two legions.
But everything had to be based on early knowledge. He had no plan for defending against archers and felt hopeless at this moment.
The hasty orders caused the army to be in chaos. By the time Yang Lin had reorganized his troops, Fei Xiong and Xian Zhen had already appeared on both wings. Xu Huang also led the hastily organized infantry battalion soldiers to intercept Yang Lin's rear.
"Oh~" Yang Lin lowered his head and sighed silently.
He knew that the game was over and the Allied Forces were doomed to lose!
Yang Lin suddenly looked ten years older, and his originally energetic state became that of an old man.
He once again tasted the bitter fruit of failure, and it was a fruit that he was powerless to recover from.
Yang Lin gave up struggling. Since the situation was hopeless, he didn't want to struggle any more.
Even if he struggled to death, it would only result in more deaths of soldiers. It would be completely meaningless.
The war was lost from the moment he ignored the existence of Changshui and Shesheng.
It was not until this moment that Yang Lin realized that something was wrong with him and understood why Zhang He's performance was so terrible.
There is a traitor in the alliance. The talent effect can still have a strange effect of lowering IQ.
How could a person who could become the commander of a large army be stupid? Yang Lin calmed down and understood the whole story in just a few minutes.
"Our army is willing to surrender, and we hope you will have mercy on us and not kill us!"
Yang Lin rode his horse alone to Guo Hao to beg for surrender. To be honest, if he didn't have another life to live, he wouldn't care about the life and death of his soldiers. He was not a good person.
A general's success is achieved at the cost of thousands of lives. His heart had long since grown cold on the battlefield.
However, his rebirth made him realize that people really can have an afterlife, so he begged for surrender so humbly instead of leading his troops to fight to the death.
