Chapter 191 - Counterattack (4) (1/2)

Chapter 191 Counterattack (4)

Translated by Gamer

“Die! Die!” Under Sun Ce’s crazy a.s.sault, Huang Zhong had no chance to counterattack. It was uncertain if it was intentional but some of Sun Ce’s attacks went towards the unconscious Liu Mang. This distracted Huang Zhong and caused him a few injuries. If it was not because Huang Zhong is extremely experienced, he would have been killed a long time ago.

Even then, Huang Zhong already have no less than 5 holes in his body. The energy loss after shooting 2 iron arrows together with the amount of blood loss caused Huang Zhong’s vision to blur.

“Looks like I will die here!” Huang Zhong smiled wryly. He was someone who has reached the peak of refinement. There were not many people in the world that could kill him. But today, he will die here, in Wan Cheng City.

Fortunately, Huang Zhong would die without regrets. His only concern, that was Huang Xu’s disease has already been cured. He owes a debt of life to Liu Mang, and today he will pay back this debt with his life.

Huang Zhong calmed himself. It is okay to die. However, he must still cut of a piece of Sun Ce’s meat in return.

Huang Zhong stopped defending and his sword flew straight towards Sun Ce’s vitals. His own body received Sun Ce’s attack. Despite that, he managed to injure Sun Ce across his arm.

“Go die!” Sun Ce was angry. Even until now, Huang Zhong refused to die and even dared to do this.

Huang Zhong already has no strength and just watched as Sun Ce’s spear move towards his throat. This will kill me quickly! There should not be any pain! Xu, your father will go first.

Huang Zhong was ready to close his eyes to accept his death when he heard the gong sounding the retreat.

“What!” Sun Ce was surprised for a moment, causing his spear to slow down. Huang Zhong quickly used this opportunity to move his neck and escape death.

“Retreat!?” Sun Ce was angry. What happened? Lu Su, Lu Su, what are you doing? Lu Bu’s Army no longer have the strength to fight back and the citizens have been driven out of the walls. Within a few moments, Wan Cheng would belong to Sun Ce. They were about to win but the signal to retreat was sound.

Sounding the retreat! It was not something to be played with. Withdrawing the troops meant that the whole army would have to leave even if they have the advantage.

*Rumble* The intense quake was felt on the walls.

“This quake is..!” Huang Zhong’s face turned into one of joy. Yes, there is no mistake, this large vibration is… this large quake is…! Looking at horizon from the city walls, a lot of dust can be seen surging. The earth was also shaking heavily.

“Heavy Cavalries!” Sun Ce’s face twisted. This has always happened ever since he attacked Wan Cheng. Every time it has reached a critical moment, his efforts became wasted. That day was because he got injured, today it is because of the heavy cavalries.

Right now, heavy cavalries at such a scale can only belong to two people in Jiangdong. One of those is Lu Bu. Also, Lu Bu’s cavalry is currently the strongest cavalry in the world.

“Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry!” Huang Zhong guessed correctly when he saw the large amount of dust. The huge quake told the people that the heavy cavalry is here. Nightmare of infantries, the Bing Province Wolf Cavalry is here! As long as the Wolf Cavalry is here, the city can be defended. Huang Zhong does not need to worry anymore. Rather, it is a matter of whether Sun Ce’s Army is capable of withstanding the might of the Wolf Cavalry.

Don’t even need to mention Sun Ce’s 30,000 elites. During the battle at Xuzhou, Kaiyang, Cao Cao had 100,000 elites including his Ferocious Cavalry, along with Guo Jia as the commander, was not able to stop Lu Bu’s 3,000 heavy cavalry. Lu Bu even managed to kill Li Dian. To make things worse, Sun Ce’s elites were marines while Cao Cao’s elites were truly elites. If those two forces were to fight, Cao Cao’s Army would win.

Now the nighmare called Wolf Cavalry has appeared. If Sun Ce does not retreat now, he will definitely not escape.

“What are you proud of!” Sun Ce saw that his men are starting to retreat. Sun Ce would not be able to fight alone. In ancient times, there are no modern technology for communications that are able to communicate to all the soldiers. During ancient times, their methods of communications are by using their loud voices and roaring. The people with loud voices are given the job as messengers. Other forms of communications during battles are the drums and the flags. As a result, Sun Ce could not stop his army from retreating even if he is their lord.

“Even if I have to retreat, there is enough time for me to kill you!” Sun Ce could not allow Huang Zhong to stay alive. Even if he needs to retreat, he must kill Huang Zhong. This is because Huang Zhong has already reached the peak of refinement. People like him are a terror on the battlefield. He could become a swift knife that will destroy an entire army’s battle formation. He can also dispatch troops and lower the enemy morale. If Huang Zhong’s injury has recovered, Sun Ce will have to face this nightmare again.

Saying something that Sun Ce would not like to hear, he is currently weaker than Huang Zhong. Besides that, there is someone stronger than Huang Zhong in the Lu Bu’s Army, which is Lu Bu. If these two warriors were to visit you, you would not even dare to dispatch troops to fight them.

This is why Huang Zhong must leave even if Sun Ce is a little late in escaping. He must kill Huang Zhong. He must not allow others to obtain something that he does not able to obtain. Besides that, after killing Huang Zhong, he can kill the Prince of Shu, Liu Mang.

“Accept your death!” Sun Ce’s Overlord spear stabbed towards Huang Zhong. Before the hit could connect, there was a ‘whoosh’ sound, and a few arrows suddenly flew past Sun Ce’s face. Sun Ce blocked the arrows with his Overlord spear but could not kill Huang Zhong. He saw a young man aiming at him with a bow and an arrow.

The young man looks like Huang Zhong. It was Huang Xu. He had disappeared after shooting the ballista crossbow because Liu Mang knows that the city would probably fall. Liu Mang made him disappear to keep him as a contingency plan if the city was captured. Huang Xu would take Lu Bu’s family along with the other families of those who died and escape.

Huang Xu took Lu Bu’s family including Miss Lu, and arranged a place for them in the Wan Cheng prison. He prepared a year’s worth of food for them in prison. This way, the Sun Ce would not be able to reach Lu Bu’s family and would allow Lu Bu to launch a counterattack without worrying about hostages. If Lu Bu is unable to return in a year, then his family will die and the Lu Bu’s Army will disband.