Chapter 137 - Wounded Cheetah VS Lion King (1/2)
Chapter 137 - Wounded Cheetah VS Lion King
Translated by Bloodfalcon, Edited by Krayto
“Father, you’ve returned!!!” Huang Xu who is already pale from being choked by Zhou Tai, suddenly showed signs of hope.
Huang Zhong, Huang Hansheng, had entered the building with his gold curved dao and long bow at his back.
Huang Zhong's order was to a.s.sault the South Gate. The Urban Army under Huang Zhong's leaders.h.i.+p was invincible. The opposite did not have any teeth to bite back, all of them were dead, even Yu Zheng from the Yu clan who just boasted about his achievements was beheaded instantly by Huang Zhong.
After they finished a.s.saulting the South Gate, originally Huang Zhong was prepared to join up with Liu Mang to fight the Zhou clan's Black Flag. But when he arrived at the appointed place, he only found Liu Kai and Liu Neng with their private soldiers along with the disarmed Black Flag soldiers.
The Black Flag was the Zhou clan's private soldiers. If Liu Mang alone were to subjugate them, it will take very big effort as he is not a n.o.ble. The same thing cannot be said with the Liu clan however. As they are also n.o.bles, then subjugating Black Flag is the same as changing masters, from Zhou to Liu.
Looking at these elite heavy infantries who had just surrendered made Huang Zhong truly stunned. Every single one of those Black Flag soldiers were truly strong because they were able to lift heavy armor with very little difficulties. Huang Zhong could not believe that his little lord is truly this strong.
The Urban Army’s casualties only amounted to 100 troops and he was able to make these 3,000 elite troops surrender. But now Huang Zhong was unable to find Liu Mang anywhere at their appointed place
Liu Neng quickly told Huang Zhong that Liu Mang went to Administration Office, because Sun Ce had sent a.s.sa.s.sins to kill his lord Lu Bu’s family. Liu Kai and Liu Neng stayed here because of Liu Mang’s order to put these newly surrendered Black Flag to prison, so they stayed here now. With the request from Liu Neng to a.s.sist Liu Mang, Huang Zhong quickly galloped toward the Administration Office.
Even without Liu Neng’s request, Huang Zhong would have also quickly went to the Administration Office. Liu Mang had stationed his beloved son to guard Lu Bu’s family. Huang Zhong was now really worried, so worried that he kept whipping his already tired warhorse.
When he arrived at Administration Office, Huang Zhong trembled a little, because of the casualties at the lobby. Huang Zhong asked an Urban Army who managed to survive the initial attack, Liu Mang’s location. After that, Huang Zhong quickly moved to the West Wing. When he arrived there, his eyes almost fell out of its socket because of shock.
Urban Army’s corpses were littered everywhere. Some of them were torn in half, some of them had bones protruding from their bodies, a great s.h.i.+eld split into two and the blue stone for flooring was destroyed.
His little lord was lying on the ground held by his three wives-to-be, his son was choking and can be killed at any time by an armor less young man.
“Father?!” Zhou Tai’s heart was startled. The father of young archer came, this is dangerous. Zhou Tai then thought “It is no use. I don’t care if your father is here, you will die today!!!” Zhou Tai tightening his grip and want to choke slam Huang Xu.
“DIE!!!!” Zhou Tai went crazy again. First he needed to kill this young man and then seize the opportunity to kill the ladies and Liu Mang, ignoring Huang Zhong.
“YOU DIE NOW!!!” Huang Zhong exclaimed loudly. Huang Zhong no longer careded about wealth, no longer cared military authority, no longer cared about his dignity. The only thing that he cared about was his son Huang Xu. Threatening Huang Xu was like inviting Huang Zhong’s wrath. Now there is a man who threatened Huang Xu’s life, Huang Zhong wanted to rip that man open.
However, if he rushed Zhou Tai now, then it will be too late. So Huang Zhong drew his trusty longbow and quickly locked-on Zhou Tai.
In the Three Kingdoms period, the best archer Huang Zhong. Lu Bu’s skill in archery if compared with Huang Zhong’s is slightly inferior.
To explain that, we need to go further to the past, when Lu Bu was still in Xu Province. Two instances show Lu Bu’s archery prowess.
Originally in the Formation Breaker, Gao Shun had a major named Cao Xing who was able to shoot Xiahou Dun’s left eye back in Xiapi from a distance of 150 steps. His archery was taught to him by Lu Bu. After Xiahou Dun ate his eyeball, he quickly charged with all of his might and was able to kill Cao Xing before losing consciousness. Cao Xing’s skill in wushu was actually only a third-cla.s.s general, even lower when compared to Cheng Yu, but he was able to almost kill a first-cla.s.s general because of his archery skill.
The second instance is when Lu Bu shot his Sky Piercer in order to force Liu Bei and Ji Ling into a truce. At that time the distance between his Sky Piercer and him was 150 steps, but Lu Bu was still able to shoot his arrow flew toward the tip of his halberd and managed to hit it, thus we can agree that Lu Bu’s archery is also excellent.
But during Lu Bu and Huang Zhong’s duel, he did not use his archery skill because he knows that he is at his strongest when he is using halberd, same also with Huang Zhong with his archery skill. So they can only have showdown with their strongest point.
Now, Huang Zhong had never been so angry in his life, he quickly s.h.i.+fted powered up state, emitting the super-cla.s.s general aura, similar to when Huang Xu wanted to shoot the Rapid Point-Shot, making people who felt his aura tremble in fear.
“NOT GOOD!!!” Zhou Tai’s instinct as general and beast alerted him. He knows that at the time when this young boy dies, he will also die. Although Zhou Tai came with the determination to die, he had not yet finished his mission. He had indeed killed a lot of Lu Bu’s army but those that he had killed were only soldiers, his mission is to kill Lu Bu’s family in order for his lord Sun Ce’s blood debt to be paid.
So, Zhou Tai has no other choice but put Huang Xu in front of him. If, Huang Zhong shot him, he will kill his son first before he kills him.
“HUMPH!!!” Looking at Zhou Tai put his son as a cover, Huang Zhong became angrier. “This whippersnapper really thinks I do not have any other techniques up my sleeve!!!”
Huang Zhong quickly shot two arrows but not toward Zhou Tai but at a metal s.h.i.+eld that the Urban Army soldiers had dropped.
When those arrows made contact with great s.h.i.+eld, it suddenly turned its direction toward Zhou Tai’s back shoulder. It was the exact same location where he was shot by Huang Xu’s Rapid Point-Shot earlier and at the shoulder where he is holding Huang Xu.
“Ricochet?!” Liu Mang finally knew what is called master in archery and now in disbelief because he had never ever in his life expected to see a ricochet shot done using a bow and arrow.
TL: Huang Zhong just become Revolver Ocelot.
Zhou Tai only realized it at the last moment and was already too late to avoid those arrows.
“AAARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!” Zhou Tai screamed in pain. His wounds are truly hurting now. Those arrows which were shot by Huang Zhong buried deep inside his left heart and his right shoulder where he choke Huang Xu. Blood flowers splas.h.i.+ng from his body causing much pain.
Because of that, Zhou Tai lost his arm strength and dropped Huang Xu. Just as Huang Xu was dropped, Lu Lingqi offered her halberd grip for Huang Xu to hold in order to escape.