Chapter 192 Gun Slinger VS Legendary Archer (1/2)
Chapter 192 – Gun Slinger VS Legendary Archer
There was a reason why the Chinese battle helmets in ancient era covered the back of the wearer's neck. In polearm martial arts, there was a technique called [Mowing Sickle]. It was a move that could be applied to halberds, bardiche, poleaxes, and pikes with a sharp blade extended to the side.
The martial artist could pretend to thrust the polearm at the opponent's face. If the opponent fell for it and dodged by tilting his head, then he could flip the blade part to the back of the enemy's neck. From this position, the user could use the polearm as a scythe or a sickle to reap the head of his opponent as if he harvests a bundle of rice straws from the farm field by simply pulling back the weapon and letting the shaft sliding the opponent's neck.
This move was often used in a duel on horseback, so the helmet was designed to counter this action. Huang Zhong was a martial artist who mastered this move, and he also wore this type of helmet to protect his neck.
…
Sensing the martial art move, Tong bent his body forward, making his chest touched the neck of his horse.
*WHOOSH*
The scythe pull by Huang Zhong missed Tong's neck.
The Mowing Sickle missed the target, and Huang Zhong lost his attacking momentum. Tong pulled his glaive back, pointing the tips to the sky with a kendo overhead stance. He swung the weapon down, aiming to cleave Huang Zhong from the top of his head.
Huang Zhong regained the momentum in time. He raised his halberd shaft to parry the incoming glaive blade.
*BANG*
Because the impact was buffed by all passive skills, which contained 25 times of ordinary human's strength, Huang Zhong felt the pressure and the force coming from the impact. His halberd shaft bent from the extreme force. The horse under the general also felt it as its legs trembled from the sudden weight.
The horse neighed and fumbled on the ground with Huang Zhong on top of it.
Huang Zu, who was observing them from the side, was shocked. He wanted to rush in to help, but he saw a menacing glare from Xu Huang. Thus, he swallowed his heart pain and continued watching.
The archer general panicked as he fell from the horse which it fell on one of his legs. He took 10 seconds to drag his leg out of the fallen horse body. To his surprise, Tong did not pursue or attack him when he was down.
Huang Zhong glared at Tong while he was standing. He asked, ”Why didn't you attack me? It was clearly a golden opportunity!”
Tong, who still rode on a horse, looked at the general and snorted.
”Normally, I would have killed you a hundred times over. However, this is a gentleman duel where we gamble the fate of both armies using our skills on the equal ground. I won't resort a dishonorable trick to disgrace this sacred duel!”
Tong bit his tongue and spat out such cheesy lines while he felt guilty from his past experience. He managed to capture and kill Pan Feng because he interfered the duel between Zhou Cang and that general. Yet, at this moment, he spoke about the sacred duel etiquette.
'Yup, I'm a hypocrite.' Tong thought.
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'Oh, being stupidly chivalrous works? Neat!'
A new inspiration swelled up in Tong's heart.
Although he could have defeated Huang Zhong with a simple activation of [Time Stop], he chose not to do so as he started to get addicted to the fair contest between martial arts. This feeling was with him since the day he visited Lu Bu's camp, but Tong did not realize it.
If he were to follow the path of an honorable martial art, his troublesome [Pride] could be overcome as well.
This was like killing two birds with one stone.
On the contrary of Tong's thought, Huang Zhong was impressed by this young man's chivalry. Xu Huang and Huang Zu also looked at Tong in awe and respect.
”Well said! Then, instead of fighting on horseback, I want to resume our fight from that day without any interference!”
Huang Zhong wanted to fight like the other day that he and Tong exchanged their projectiles. Horseback fighting was not his main forte. His true skills lied in archery.
Tong knew what this archer general wanted to do. He nodded and jumped down from his horse and walk away from Huang Zhong.
Tong did not try to run away or leave the dueling ground. He wanted to fight Huang Zhong on the open space without horses or any cover. It would be a fair fight between a gunman and an archer on the open field.
Huang Zhong also understood Tong's gesture. He took his great bow and all quivers with him and also walked back to keep a distance away from this young lord. The moment their distance between them was a hundred meters, Tong turned around to look at the other party.
”The last time, I shot at you first. This time, I'll give you the first move!” Huang Zhong shouted.
”Very well.”
Tong checked his remaining bullets in his inventory for the last time. He had three clips remaining. It looked plenty from the first glance, but Tong knew that the fight would be difficult and resource consuming. He had to be efficient with every shot.
'Overclock mode!'
Tong steeled his heart and pointed both his gun at Huang Zhong.
However …
*BANG*
Tong only fired one pistol as the other one in his hand was a decoy.
Instead of dodging, Huang Zhong stepped back his left foot. He faced Tong's incoming bullet in a slant stance.
*GONK*
The bullet ricocheted with his iron armor!
”I see. You fired something from those black objects, but if that's all what you can do then you've lost!”
Huang Zhong pulled five arrows and nocked four of them onto his great bow at once.
*WHOOSH* *WHOOSH*