novelbin Chapter 191 Yuan Shao is the Traitor
Chapter 191 Yuan Shao is the Traitor
Last time, we talked about the Battle of Guandu.
Yuan Shao, clad in golden helmet and armor, sat atop his chariot. With a wave of his hand, he summoned a million arrows to rain down on Cao Cao's army, causing them to fall and suffer heavy losses.
Hearing the screams of agony coming from the opposite side, Yuan Shao opened his mouth wide and exclaimed with great pride, "Arrows are raining down! How wonderful! How wonderful!"
Encouraged by his words, Zhang He, Yan Liang, Chunyu Qiong, and other fierce generals beside him burst into laughter.
This is the confidence that Yuan Shen brings to everyone.
However, that's all.
Although the chaotic attacks were fierce, they exhausted Yuan Shao's fighting spirit. At this moment, his body was completely drained, and he could not fire a second shot.
But just then...
Several more streaks of silvery-white battle aura shone brightly within Yuan Jun's formation.
"If we follow my plan, Xuchang can be taken in a matter of days!"
This is the skill of the strategist Guo Tu.
【Shifei: Restores the status of anyone who uses a skill】
Next came Tian Feng, disheveled and kneeling in the prison cart, who said, "Victory brings unparalleled power!"
The words fell.
Silvery-white light shone down on Yuan Jun.
Chen Feng felt his cultivation level increase by another level; he was only halfway there before he could step into the Exploding Continent.
This is Tian Feng's skill.
[Following the Trend: When an enemy is severely wounded, this ability permanently increases the combat power of allies. In return, when an ally is severely wounded, Tian Feng will also suffer the same damage.]
But this is not the end.
"Let go! Let go! Let go!"
The 700,000-strong army raised their hands and shouted simultaneously, channeling their fighting spirit into Yuan Shao.
This is Yuan Shao's blessing: Bloodline!
With four generations of high-ranking officials and a reputation that resounds throughout the land, the more teammates one has around, the faster one recovers.
Soon, Yuan Shao regained his spirits and shouted, "There are plenty of arrows; take as many as you like!"
Having said that, he was about to unleash a flurry of attacks, condensing a second rain of arrows in the void.
Chen Feng secretly marveled, "The Cao army was already struggling to withstand the first volley of arrows; what will happen when the second volley comes? Won't they become like porcupines?"
Borrowing arrows with straw boats, but without the straw boats, right?
Just when Yuan Jun felt victory was assured, a rain of arrows began to gather above Cao Jun's camp.
Yuan Shao's face was ashen as he said, enunciating each word clearly: "Cao! Meng! De!"
That's right, this is Cao Cao's blessing: a cunning and ruthless hero.
Any skill that damages Cao Cao can be returned to him with the same power.
Chen Feng could tell at a glance that this villain's imitation of the savior's blessing was similar in effect, only a low-end version.
After all, the villain can only imitate skills that cause damage, while the savior can imitate anything and can also amplify it according to his own cultivation level, turning the space slash the size of a sorcerer's knife into the size of a street.
And then Cao Cao declared, "I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me!"
The same number of arrows rained down on Yuan's army.
You attack randomly, I'll attack randomly too!
In an instant, arrows rained down like a storm across the Guandu wilderness.
"It hurts! It hurts so much!"
Generals like Yan Liang and Zhang He frequently trained their bodies, so they were in relatively good condition.
But those civil officials and strategists suffered the consequences.
The most pitiful among them was Xu You, who had no defensive skills: "Don't be cunning! Help me!"
Seeing his fellow villager Xu You with four or five arrows stuck in his body, Chen Feng shook his head and used his shark sword to deflect the arrows in front of him: "Why are you in such a sorry state? Can't you learn from Ju Shou?"
Yes.
Lord Ju Shou remained unmoved amidst the rain of arrows, the only strategist among them who could withstand the arrow barrage head-on.
Blessing: Yakitaka!
Ju Shou is immune to the first instance of damage he receives in battle, but subsequent damage will increase over time.
After a series of firefights, both sides suffered heavy losses.
Yuan Shao's smirk vanished: "If I fire an arrow, that traitor Cao will replicate his cunning and ruthless ways. What am I to do?"
Seeing that Yuan Shao was about to halt, Guo Tu quickly advised, "The arrow is already on the bowstring, it must be released! Although our army is under attack from the rain of arrows, so is the enemy. Even at the cost of everything, we must take down that traitor Cao!"
Yuan Shao looked troubled: "But what about our soldiers?"
Guo Tu then advised, "My lord, let's use a chaotic attack against Cao Cao as a means to achieve victory!"
"All right!"
Yuan Shao hardened his heart. "In a firefight, the one with fewer troops will definitely be the first to crumble. With 700,000 against 70,000, the advantage is mine!"
But just then...
Countless streaks of blue light suddenly flashed from Cao Jun's camp.
The other side used their skills too.
Chen Feng quickly activated the Three Kingdoms Mythology System to gather intelligence on the other side.
First was his old friend Jia Xu, whose curtains were immune to any attack that could be considered a sneak attack. So he closed his eyes, and the arrows broke in his path.
It's too yin.
Chen Feng thought to himself that if Jia Xu were blind, he would be invincible.
Next up is a handsome man who keeps coughing. He is Guo Jia, whose protective legacy can enhance the combat power of nearby allies when he is injured.
That's fine.
With the implementation of the plan, the remaining Cao soldiers began to recover from their injuries using their fighting spirit and were able to withstand arrows.
Then there was a one-eyed general, whom Chen Feng knew was Xiahou Dun without needing a system introduction.
He shouted, "Which of you cowards dares to touch me!"
Blessing: Fierce! Anyone who damages Xiahou Dun will suffer reflected damage.
With a soft "pfft".
In Yuan Shao's army, apart from Chen Feng who was just going through the motions, everyone who provided Yuan Shao with fighting spirit and participated in firing arrows suffered rebound damage.
Finally, there is the strategist Xun Yu, who is stationed in the rear. His "Protecting Life" ability can restore the full strength of an allied soldier if the soldier is injured.
"Oops!"
Chen Feng figured it out.
All the buffs on the opposing team are blood-selling skills that are triggered only when they take damage. If left unattended, they are just empty shells and completely useless.
But Yuan Shao's indiscriminate attacks triggered them all.
There's a mole!
Thinking of this, Chen Feng couldn't help but look at Yuan Shao: "My lord, which side are you dealing damage to?"
As the saying goes, good fortune never comes in pairs, but misfortunes never come singly.
After the third wave of arrows, Yuan's army collapsed.
Some might ask, Yuan's army clearly numbered 700,000, ten times more than Cao's army, so why did they succumb to the arrow rain first?
That's because—
Xu You had no defensive skills, and even with Chen Feng protecting him, he was shot down.
Lord Ju Shou wasn't much better off. His arrows could only be immune to the first attack; subsequent attacks would only hurt more and more. Coupled with Xiahou Dun's counterattack, he fainted immediately.
"Dedicated to the North, loyal to the nation!"
After the invincible Ju Shou fell to the ground, Tian Feng's "Follow the Trend" ability was triggered, meaning that Tian Feng would also have to take the damage that his teammates suffered.
Thus, their fates were intertwined, and Tian Feng died on the spot, spitting blood.
Seeing this, Yuan Shao's face turned green: "I have the protection of my bloodline, yet I can unleash a continuous rain of arrows. What makes Cao Mengde think he can do the same?"
At this moment, Guo Tu, who was constantly replenishing Cao Cao's status due to the indiscriminate use of skills, swallowed hard and muttered to himself, "My lord doesn't notice me, doesn't notice me."
Chen Fengqi laughed: "My eyes are the ruler, and your cooperation is shit."
And he watched as his strategists were all wiped out.
Yuan Shao's old habit of being indecisive and prone to making plans resurfaced: "We can't let them go any further, or we'll lose! Yan Liang! Zhang He! You lead the troops in a charge and mingle with the enemy, then they won't be able to fire arrows."
what?
Watching Yan Liang and his two generals leave to receive their orders, Chen Feng deeply understood what it was like to have a terrible teammate.
In this battle, if Yuan Shao had only unleashed a single flurry of attacks, Ju Shou would have been indiscriminately killing enemies; if Yuan Shao had unleashed a full barrage of attacks, Tian Feng would have been indiscriminately killing enemies; and if Yuan Shao had unleashed attacks continuously, Guo Tu would have been indiscriminately killing enemies.
However, Yuan Shao chose to let them go first, eliminating Tian Feng and Ju Shou, and then stopped letting them go when he was about to win, leaving Guo Tu dumbfounded.
What kind of idiotic move is this?
Just as Chen Feng was complaining.
At this moment on the battlefield, Yan Liang and Zhang He were already engaged in battle with Cao Cao's generals.
To be fair, Chen Feng has indeed changed a bit.
Historically, this should have been Gao Lan fighting. Although Gao Lan was also one of the Four Pillars of Hebei, he was only the fourth-ranked, and couldn't compare to Yan Liang, who was in the top two.
Not to mention that Yan Liang's most annoying trait is that the "Double Heroes" buff allows him to forcibly compare stats with others. In the Three Kingdoms, where there are many strange and quirky characters, without powerful figures like Lu Bu, Zhang Fei, and Guan Yu, no one can really deal with him.
"I am Yan Liang, the General of Hebei!"
"Come and fight us to the death!"
Watching Yan Liang slaughter everyone, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan and other generals were all defeated.
Cao Cao exclaimed in surprise, "What a brave general! Without Guan Yu, how can we possibly fight against Yan Liang?"
Emergency moment.
Zhang Liao stepped forward, launching a surprise attack and snatching the broadsword from Yan Liang's hand: "Hmph, didn't expect that, did you!"
They did make a move after all.
Chen Feng hadn't made a move because he was worried that Zhang Liao would steal his shark sword.
And just as Yan Liang lost his weapon.
Zhang He, the military general second only to Yuan Shao and Ju Shou in the meeting, suddenly shouted: "Military tactics are not constant, just as water has no constant shape!"
Swish.
The broadsword that Zhang Liao had stolen has returned to Yan Liang's hands.
[Zhang He's Blessing: Clever Transformation! It can consume battle qi to move the opponent's weapon into one's own hand or transfer one's negative status effects to the enemy.]
"It's exactly the same as the blessing sold in the Mythical Three Kingdoms system shop in version 2.0."
Chen Feng thought to himself.
Enraged to see the weapons he had just stolen returned, Zhang Liao launched another surprise attack.
Zhang He responded with a clever counterattack.
"Hmph, you didn't expect that, did you!"
"Hmph, take another look, have you thought of that now?"
"I'll take it!"
Well, these two have started playing a game of "landlord snatching".
Just then, Chen Feng suddenly heard a loud noise.
Looking up, he saw hundreds of fiery meteorites, each the size of a millstone, flying towards Yuan Jun.
"what?"
Chen Feng was shocked. Ever since he saw Cao Cao's cunning and ruthless protection, he had no intention of releasing the comet meteorite to prevent it from being copied. How come it was not only copied now?
And the number has increased?
A ding sound.
A notification came from the Mythical Three Kingdoms: [This is Liu Ye's blessing: Breaking Walls, which allows him to unleash his battle aura and summon hundreds of thunder siege engines that unleash a rain of fire meteors.]
With a whoosh!
The fiery meteorite, with a thunderous roar, fell to the ground and exploded instantly, sending flames flying and utterly routing Yuan's army.
"A monster!"
"Run!"
Some soldiers didn't even have time to scream before they were turned into mincemeat, while many others turned and ran.
Watching the fleeing army, Yuan Shao slumped down, muttering, "Impossible! How could my Yuan family lose?"
As the saying goes, even a starved camel is bigger than a horse.
Although Yuan's army suffered a defeat, its 700,000-strong force, with its camps stretching for 90 li, still held a numerical advantage.
In the days that followed, the two sides went back and forth, and neither side could gain the upper hand.
During this time, Sun Ce, the Little Conqueror of Jiangdong, attempted to launch a surprise attack on Cao Cao's rear, but was instead killed in a one-for-one exchange for killing a sorcerer named Yu Ji.
Chen Feng also couldn't find many opportunities to make a move. After all, Cao Cao had too many generals and strategists around him on the battlefield, and each of them had several conceptual skills, making assassination extremely difficult.
It seems the only option is to fight to the death at Wuchao.
Inside Yuan Jun's tent.
Xu You was offering advice to Yuan Shao.
However, due to Xu You's disgraceful performance on the battlefield, Yuan Shao simply ignored him.
At this time, another messenger returned from Ye County, saying that when Xu You was in Ji Province, he allowed his sons and nephews to plunder money every day, and that the matter had already been exposed.
Upon hearing this, Yuan Shao was furious.
The fighting is intense at the front, but you're just eating and drinking in the back?
If it weren't for Chen Feng and others pleading for him, Xu You would have been killed.
After Xu You left.
Chen Feng squinted, knowing that tomorrow, Xu You would tell Cao Cao the location of Yuan Shao's granary, Wuchao. Then Cao Cao would select elite troops, pretending to be Yuan Shao's general Jiang Qi, and set fire to Wuchao.
Since they are elite troops, there must not be many of them.
This is the perfect time to strike!
As for why they didn't stop Xu You from defecting.
There are two reasons.
Firstly, historically, Cao Cao's army should have run out of food supplies by this time, but there's been no movement at all. I wonder if some strategist surnamed Cheng provided some special military rations.
Secondly, there is a public chat in this world, and the location of the Black Nest is always visible across the entire screen.
Rather than living in fear, not knowing when Cao Cao will launch a sneak attack, it would be better to let Xu You go and obtain a more accurate time.
Since you'll be coming tomorrow night.
Chen Feng immediately approached Yan Liang and asked him to come with him to Wuchao: "Brother Yan Liang, I have a feeling that someone might burn the grain."
The garrison commander of Wuchao was the fat Chunyu Qiong.
This guy is probably at the level of a powerful explosion, which is stronger than that of an average military general.
"Store up ample grain and provisions, so that you may be prepared for any eventuality."
Upon seeing Yan Liang and Chen Feng come to help, Chunyu Qiong quickly prepared a banquet to entertain them.
Chen Feng also saw his protection:
[Grain Camp: Those who eat with Chunyu Qiong will have their combat power permanently increased (can only be activated once)]
[Defense Lost: With each sip of alcohol, combat effectiveness temporarily decreases by one level]
So, after a meal...
Chen Feng gained another level of cultivation.
"We've reached the sixth level. Even if we don't kill Cao Cao this time, we've still made a profit."
Just as Chen Feng was enjoying the breeze outside the tent.
Yan Liang used a secret letter to summon another expert, Zhang He, and asked, "Brother Chen, will Wuchao really fall? The three of us generals left without permission. If nothing happens, what will we do if you blame us, sir?"
Chen Feng convinced the two with just one sentence: "Look at General Chun's blessed name, do you think he can defend Wuchao?"
The two exchanged a glance: "That makes sense!"
The next day at dusk.
Five thousand cavalrymen carrying firewood set off towards Wuchao.
To avoid making any noise, they all bit down on a chopstick-shaped wooden stick.
"We are General Chiang's men, ordered to reinforce Wuchao!"
During this time, although sentries questioned them, they were all fooled because the other party was flying Yuan's army flag.
The night is getting darker.
Just as this raiding force broke through three checkpoints and was about to reach the Wuchao granary.
A loud bang echoed in the sky.
As Cao Cao, who was leading the group, looked up, he saw a fiery meteorite, many times larger than a millstone, falling toward them with unparalleled speed and power.
Five thousand men vanished in an instant.
Chen Feng, who had been lying in wait, sneered, "You've had your fill of crushing newbies these past few days. How about you have a go at me from Cihang City?"