I rode and slashed unparalleled in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1115 Unstoppable
"do not be afraid!"

Outside the battlefield of the Dog Slave King's castle, Yamamoto Kuma shouted, brandishing his sword:

"The Han army is so small, we could drown them with a single spit from each of us!"

"Fuck me!"

"Sasuke!"

Yamamoto Kumano roared hoarsely, and the samurai from the Dog Slave Kingdom behind him immediately let out beast-like howls.

These men, wielding a variety of weapons—bamboo bows, bone arrows, stone axes, crude iron knives, and a small number of fine ring-pommel swords and crossbows looted from the Han envoys—launched a fierce charge against the seemingly frail Han army formation.

What tactic?
What formation?
The warriors of the Dog Slave Kingdom didn't understand many things; they believed in the principle of charging forward in a swarm, like pigs charging into the river, and that numbers made you invincible.

Their numbers were clearly overwhelming, a dark mass that almost covered the entire plain outside the royal city.

Shouts, footsteps, and the clanging of armor blended together, making the earth tremble slightly. To many of the Gou Nu Kingdom's warriors, the mere two or three thousand Han soldiers opposite them, even with their superior equipment, had absolutely no chance of withstanding the frenzied charge of their fifteen thousand. Victory seemed within their grasp, and the siege of the capital could be lifted in an instant!

Faced with their overwhelming offensive, the Han army was unusually silent, seemingly powerless and having given up the struggle.

"Good good!"

"see it?"

Seeing this, Himiko on the city wall trembled with excitement, clinging to the crenellations and shouting hoarsely, "Kill! Kill them all! General Yamamoto, crush these arrogant Han Chinese!"

He seemed to have already seen victory, to see the Han army torn to pieces by his warriors, and to see himself standing on the heads of Han generals, receiving the worship of the people.

Then, his beautiful dream was completely shattered by a unified shout of "Let go!"

Hundreds of powerful crossbows in front of the Han army simultaneously drew their bows, the arrows gleaming coldly in the sunlight, raining down on the charging Gou Nu Kingdom warriors like a torrential downpour.

There were no extra shouts, only the crisp crack of crossbows and the muffled thud of arrows piercing flesh. The Gou Nu Kingdom warriors, barely protected by animal hides and rattan armor, were like paper before the immense power of the Han crossbows. Arrows easily tore through their defenses, spraying blood everywhere. The front-line warriors fell in droves, and their charging formation was torn open with a bloody gap.

"No!"

"This is impossible!!"

Himiko cried out in alarm, his pupils shrinking sharply. He had certainly witnessed the power of the Han crossbows, but with his limited brain cells, he could not have imagined that those ingenious crossbows could have such terrifying lethality when used intensively.

With just one volley, the Kyushu warriors who made Himiya Yukio and Yamamoto Kumanao proud were left dead and wounded, while the rest were terrified and wanted to flee.

"Hold on!"

"Rush over!"

"Don't give them a second chance to shoot!"

Yamamoto Kuma, being a seasoned veteran, did not panic like Himiya Yumiko when faced with this sudden attack. Instead, he urgently ordered his army to charge.

As a qualified general, he had personally used the Han crossbow and knew that although the weapon was incredibly powerful, it was extremely slow to draw, far inferior to their bows and arrows and catapults.

As long as they can get close to the enemy lines and engage in hand-to-hand combat before the Han army's second volley of arrows, their numerical advantage can be fully utilized.

This is Yamamoto Kumanoka's winning strategy.

It must be said, the dream was very well made, however...
"Release!" Another unified shout rang out from the Han army ranks.

The Han soldiers in the front row knelt down, and the Han soldiers in the back row immediately raised their hands and fired—hundreds of crossbow bolts came down like a rainstorm.

"what?!"

Whoosh whoosh whoosh—whoosh whoosh whoosh—

The second volley of crossbow bolts, like a swarm of deadly bees, relentlessly rained down on the charging Dog Slave warriors once more.

Then came the third and fourth waves!

The Han army's crossbow fire was not chaotic; it was divided into three ranks, taking turns firing and then retreating to reload. This volley fire tactic, tested countless times on the battlefield, ensured an almost continuous rain of arrows, giving the enemy no chance to catch their breath or get close!
This sustained firepower, far exceeding Yamamoto Kumano's expectations, completely shattered his tactical plans. The momentum of the Dog Slave Kingdom's samurai charge was gradually eroded, as if they had crashed into an invisible wall that constantly spewed deadly spikes. In an instant, the path of their charge was littered with corpses and groaning, writhing wounded soldiers; blood flowed into streams, staining the earth red.

"How could...so fast?!" Yamamoto Kuma's sinister smile froze completely, replaced by incredulous horror. He couldn't understand why the Han army's crossbow bolts seemed endless, and why the intervals between shots were so short!

This was nothing like the Han crossbow he remembered, which required strenuous pedaling and slow cocking! This was a harvesting machine from hell!

Himiko, standing atop the city wall, was utterly terrified. Her earlier excitement had turned to icy fear. Her fingers, gripping the crenellations, turned white from the force, and her teeth chattered.

He witnessed his once-proud army being ruthlessly slaughtered and rapidly disintegrated by the Han army.

Before the two armies even made contact, his army had already begun an irreversible collapse.

Indeed, the warriors of the Dog Slave Kingdom simply did not have the morale to charge into the Han army's lines amidst a death-defying hail of arrows.

A volley of crossbow bolts shattered their charge.

"Run!"

"Run for your life!"

"I don't want to die!!!"

Terrified screams erupted like a plague through the Dog Slave Kingdom's army. Warriors in the front ranks watched as their comrades were easily torn apart by crossbow bolts, while those in the rear were trampled and crushed by the retreating crowd. The seemingly unstoppable charge crumbled instantly before the Han army's cold and efficient rain of deadly arrows, turning into a frantic escape.

Yamamoto Kumano's eyes instantly turned bloodshot. He roared hoarsely, even swinging his sword to cut down two fleeing soldiers who were trying to escape from him: "Don't retreat! Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed! Charge! Charge!"

However, could individual bravery and bloody suppression salvage a broken morale? The fear of death outweighed any apprehension towards the general. More people bypassed him, fleeing like a frightened herd of beasts back the way they came, wishing they had more legs.

Himiko, standing atop the city wall, watched helplessly as the black "wave" did not crash against the Han army's lines, but instead shattered like it had struck a reef, before surging back. His face turned from red to white, then from white to blue, until finally he lost all color and began to tremble violently.

“Useless! All useless! More than ten thousand people… more than ten thousand people!” He pounded on the barricade, his voice filled with despair and incomprehensible anger.

Just then, the command flags in the Han army formation changed again.

Taishi Ci coldly watched the rout of the enemy army, not content with mere long-range sniping. He pointed his longsword forward and roared like thunder: "Crossbowmen cease fire! Cavalry, charge! Halberd phalanx, advance!"

At the command, the relentless and terrifying rain of arrows abruptly ceased.

But this silence only intensified the fear of the defeated soldiers of the Dog Slave Kingdom.

Because they saw it—three hundred Han knights, each as tall as two of them, led by Jiang Qin, galloping out from both flanks!

(End of this chapter)