Chapter 244 Chasing Zou Jing (1/2)
Chapter 244 – Chasing Zou Jing
Tong returned to his camp with complicated emotion. He was not satisfied with the result of the fight as his bow was broken. He tried to scour for a bow from the dead bodies, but he could not find a replacement. All the dead soldiers were spearmen and shield bearers, which did not carry what Tong needed.
However, killing thousands of enemies leveled up his homing arrow skill, and he reaped several hundred thousand years of lifespans.
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**Status**
Name: Zhang Tong
Age: 18
Lifespan 929,767 Years
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Tong had lost count of how many soldiers he had killed. They were too many as he spammed 25 arrows for every two seconds for over half an hour. One arrow might not kill an enemy right away, but it usually took two or three arrows to finish a soldier as Tong did not have a good visual on the targets. Thus, the lock-on was placed on random parts of their bodies instead of the vital spots.
He had spent 200,000 years to get two of his skill back, yet he still profited from killing Liu Yan's soldiers. The number of years gave Tong a butterfly feeling in his chest as he imagined that he could live for so long.
Calmed his emotion after a few minutes of excitement, Tong sighed.
'The dream of immortality … It would have been nice had the system not existed.'
To Tong, the number in the system menu was just an illusion as the system would oppress him in the future to extort his lifespans and return it to the system pool.
Glancing at the skill status, [Homing Arrow] had reached max level, which increased the range to 600 meters.
'I don't think I'll need all the troops. I can solo Liu Yan Army as long as I have a workable bow.'
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Next morning, Tong secured two wooden bows from the supply convoy in his army. However, they were not up to Tong's quality standard.
The rest of his army projectile weapons were repeating crossbows, which Tong had tried to use his homing arrow skill with it, however …
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The repeating crossbows they were using were not standard crossbows with only a string and a lock, but they were like wooden mechanical tools which each of it had a lever and a handle, which the system did not treat it as a bow or a crossbow.
As his force had changed their range weaponry technology to repeating crossbows as their army standard, they had stopped manufacturing traditional bows. All former bows had been sold to the merchants, while the substandard bows were kept to be used as firewood as they were unsellable.
In addition, Zhen Yi troops also used ancient crossbows, which was not compatible with Tong's homing arrow skill.
He could fire homing arrows with normal crossbows, but it always took him several minutes to draw the bowstring back to its ready position, which was inefficient in a solo combat.
Tong grumbled after he left the supply camp. The bows on his back were defective bows which were destined to be scrapped.
'These bows won't last ten minutes. The bowstrings are too fragile!'
Feeling helpless, Tong had to stop going after Liu Yan or Zou Jing alone at night.
20,000 Yellow Turban troops continued cutting the woods, paving a road toward Ji City in leisure.
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Meanwhile, Zou Jing retreated five kilometers from the previous trap-camp location.
At this place, another camp had been built beforehand two days ago. The retreating troops gathered inside the camp to regroup and reform their platoons.
The number of survivors and the stats of troops depressed every soldier and Zou Jing. Less than 10,000 men from the initial 20,000 soldiers survived from last night.
Zou Jing bit his thumb fingernail. His pale face distorted while sweat drops were rolling down his cheeks.
In his mind, it was impossible for one man to kill over 10,000 soldiers in a night, yet the reality disagreed with him. The nightmare of Tong's existence haunted Zou Jing the second time.
”Put scarecrows around the camp and disguise them as guards! We'll continue to retreat!” Zou Jing ordered.
”Sir? But the strategy was to buy times and lure them to our territory …”
”Nonsense! I say we're going to retreat, then we'll retreat! Do you not understand the human language?”
The lieutenants paled as they also recalled that their loss was massive. Their current troops would not be able to handle Tong's illogical magic and his 20,000 elites.
At late noon, Zou Jing Army departed from the pre-made camp, withdrawing north to another pre-constructed camp 10 kilometers away.
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At night, the Yellow Turban moved their camp five kilometers further north, securing the areas with cautious. They were five kilometers away from the trap-site where Tong had raided yesterday.
Horsemen scouts relayed their discovery back to Tong. They found three camps further away beyond the forest. One was the burnt camp, the second camp was abandoned, and the last camp was 15 kilometers away to the north.
All signs indicated that Zou Jing was running away from them.
Sweat drops appear on Tong's face as he had his worries. The forced mission by Lilim had a short time limit as he had less than 40 days to kill Zou Jing.
Furthermore, a part of Liu Yan troops was missing. There were only 20,000 soldiers last night while the spies from Jia Xu said Liu Yan had more troops than that.
There should be another army or a detached force somewhere!