Chapter 149 - Three Heroes VS Huang Zhong (1) (1/2)
Chapter 149 - Three Heroes VS Huang Zhong (1)
Translated by Bloodfalcon, Edited by Krayto
“JIANG QIN, RETREAT!!!!” Sun Ce shouted his order for who knows many times from the main army.
Jiang Qin was not deaf and heard his lord's shouting, as he also wanted to retreat, but was unable to leave. Before he insulted this veteran, but now his heart is painted with deep fear and wondered if his elder brother had also met him when he died?
“Who are you?!” Jiang Qin no longer able to attack but stay in pa.s.sive defense. But even in defense, his flesh is getting cut off every couple of minutes. Su Fei's punishment was delivered to him by this veteran.
“I will not tell my name to someone who is about to die!!!” Huang Zhong exclaimed in low voice and begin slas.h.i.+ng again.
“Jiang Qin do not worry! Here comes Tais.h.i.+ Ci!!!” A white-armored general using twin halberds was speeding towards Jiang Qin from main army.
Is that Tais.h.i.+ Ci?! Liu Mang looked at that white-armored general who is currently speeding away toward Huang Zhong. This man is a rare talent, a strong general whose leaders.h.i.+p skill is comparable to Zhao Yun and his wushu skill and strength is more or less like Sun Ce.
When he was in Kong Rong's employ, region Beihai was under sieged by 100,000 Yellow Turban forces which was led by Guan Hai. He alone dared to charge those 100,000 troops alone by himself and managed strike fear into the enemy's heart before he returned back to the city.
This person treasured friends.h.i.+p very much and quickly accepted Liu Yao's request to serve him just because he was his childhood friend. Even if he was not trusted with heavy responsibilities and even when he was pushed aside, this Tais.h.i.+ Ci never ever held any resentment toward his buddies and also if Liu Yao paid heed to Tais.h.i.+ Ci's warning and used him effectively, perhaps the master of Jiangdong now would be Liu Yao.
Moreover, the mother of Tais.h.i.+ Ci is very wise. At the end of Han Dynasty, there were quite a lot of wise mothers like Tais.h.i.+ Ci's mom.
For example like Xu Shu's mother and Sun Ce's mother. Xu Shu's mother refused to persuade Xu Shu to defect to Cao Cao, because she believed that Liu Bei is the better person than Cao Cao and Xu Shu only defected to Cao Cao after Cheng Yu (Cao Cao's advisor) faked Xu Shu's mother handwriting and telling him that she has been taken hostage by Cao Cao. But sadly, after Xu Shu go to Xu Du, her mother reprimanded him heavily and the next day, she hung herself out of shame that her child was supporting a villain.
Same also with Madame Wu. After Sun Jian died, she put all of her being to teach Sun Ce courage and persistence and it resulted in today's Sun Ce who is able to pacify Jiangdong at a very young age.
And Tais.h.i.+ Ci's mother taught Tais.h.i.+ Ci the principle of righteousness, loyalty and grat.i.tude to one person.
With those lessons embedded in Tais.h.i.+ Ci's body, it can be said that if Zhao Yun did not exist, maybe the symbol for righteousness, loyalty and grat.i.tude in this Three Kingdoms era will be Tais.h.i.+ Ci
“Ziyi, here?!” Sun Ce was also stunned. “Wasn’t Tais.h.i.+ Ci a.s.signed by me personally to be beside Zhou Yu in Jiangxia? How can he appear here?” Sun Ce thought.
“Milord, Gongjin ordered Ziyi to catch up with us!” Lu Su quickly explained Sun Ce's confusion. Zhou Yu knows that sooner or later, he will duel with Lu Bu. That guy is the G.o.d-of-war and his prowess in Hulao Gate was spread everywhere. Although he is now old, the same age as Sun Jian if Sun Jian managed to live to this day, but his prowess is still the same, if not how can he manage to breakthrough Xiapi and Kaiyang, those hopeless battles. And Zhou Yu's lord Sun Ce is a brash person. If Sun Ce's hot blood challenged Lu Bu by himself, the result will be Sun Ce’s death. So Zhou Yu quickly ordered Tais.h.i.+ Ci to a.s.sist Sun Ce with hopes that they will be able to match Lu Bu's strength.
With Jiang Qin in grave danger and Tais.h.i.+ Ci wanting to try that veteran's skill, Tais.h.i.+ Ci squeezed his horse and rushed toward them.
“Ziyi, you are here!!!” Jiang Qin's face although already destroyed emitted a happy expression. He knows that Tais.h.i.+ Ci's prowess is a bit higher than his elder brother, with Tais.h.i.+ Ci’s help to rescue him, he will have chance to retreat.
“Clang!!!” Twin halberds are crossing with Huang Zhong's golden shadow. His slash being halted made Huang Zhong really stunned. Only then did Huang Zhong know that another general has interrupted his slash and saw Jiang Qin is already moving away from Huang Zhong and the one who intercepted his slash is the white-armored general.
“What is your name, kid?!” Huang Zhong asked.
“I am Tais.h.i.+ Ci from Donglai!” Tais.h.i.+ Ci replied to Huang Zhong while trying to pressure Huang Zhong with his twin halberds. This Tais.h.i.+ Ci is using two ji-halberds with the same design as Lu Bu's original Sky Piercer with the crescent-shaped blade on the middle of the blade and with roughly the same weight around 40 catties and the wielder of this kind of weapon is a person whose strength at least super-cla.s.s general who is able to break-through enemy lines easily.
TL: 1 catty = 0.6 kg
TL: Tais.h.i.+ Ci is using twin mace in Dynasty Warriors. I still unable to imagine him using twin halberd.
Using a ji-halberd will require a certain skill in wushu as ji-halberd's characteristic is to be used by people with overwhelming power.
And the most famous person with overwhelming power currently is only Lu Bu who wield the Sky Piercer and currently was changed into the Poseidon Halberd. And because at that time only Lu Bu is the one who wielded the halberd PROPERLY, so Cao Cao immediately recognized the Sky Piercer when it was thrown down by Song Xian.
In Lu Bu’s army, there is also another person who is adept in using ji-halberd and that is Lu Lingqi.
Now, those twin halberds and Huang Zhong’s gold curved dao met with each other and after clas.h.i.+ng with each other they just silent as if stuck together by glue, each side pus.h.i.+ng trying to pressure the other with arm strength alone. A pinnacle of super-cla.s.s general and a youngster whose strength is in super-cla.s.s is now fighting with each other.
During clas.h.i.+ng and deflecting, they reached a stalemate. But Tais.h.i.+ Ci has two weapons, one on each hand, so his right hand is swinging toward Huang Zhong's face while his left hand is holding Huang Zhong's strike.