Super Cultivation System of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 937 The Ultimate Strategy
"System prompt: Deng Yuan activated the special skill 'Competitiveness' - unwilling to admit defeat, especially when his martial arts are belittled and his face is damaged, which stimulates his competitive spirit, increases his martial power by 4 points, and gives him the opportunity to launch a powerful attack, instantly increasing his martial power by another 2 points."

"Affected by the special skill, Deng Yuan's current comprehensive force has become 102 points."

Deng Yuan's eyes turned red and he gritted his teeth. If before he was just full of hatred for these brutal enemy troops, now he had an additional three points of hatred for Hu Meng himself.

The mixture of public hatred and private grudge instantly increased his offensive power. Hu Meng originally looked down on him and did not take Deng Yuan seriously at all. However, in the blink of an eye, the opponent's martial power suddenly increased, and he was caught off guard.

"What's going on? Why has this kid's gun skills become so powerful? Can a person's martial arts skills be improved so much if he really risks his life?"

Hu Meng was greatly surprised. Facing Deng Yuan's continuous attacks, he soon fell into a disadvantage.

Deng Yuan pressed on step by step, not giving him a chance to breathe: "I'll teach you how to underestimate me. I'll stab you to death, stab you to death..."

Li Mang watched the battle situation gradually turn to his disadvantage, and finally began to panic.

"What's wrong with this tiger? How could he lose to that fellow Deng Yuan?"

He looked at the tiger with some dissatisfaction, and then looked at the battle between Zhao Yun and the eagle.

In the archery competition between the two, Zhao Yun had the upper hand, but the advantage was not obvious. Therefore, after shooting dozens of arrows at each other, neither side was able to hurt the other at all.

But for some reason, Zhao Yun's archery speed seemed to slow down gradually.

The old eagle was delighted: "Haha, it seems that although you have the skill of shooting an arrow through a willow leaf from a hundred paces away, you usually use a spear. If you want to keep shooting for a long time, there are many skills. Now you and Liu Chang have a bloody battle of lilies in front, and you have been shooting at me frequently in the back, which has made your arm strength exhausted. Although your archery skills are slightly better than mine, only the one who laughs last laughs best."

The Eagle's confidence and morale increased, and it fired continuously at Zhao Yun, forcing Zhao Yun to dodge but not shoot back.

"Good!" Li Mang was delighted. "After all, Eagle is more skilled. As long as Zhao Yun is killed, the rest of the Han army will no longer be a concern."

Just as he finished speaking, there was a "swish" sound, and a hole was made in Zhao Yun's right leg armor by an eagle's sharp arrow.

Such a situation greatly boosted the prestige of many Goguryeo soldiers.

"The general is mighty!"

"General Ying is invincible!"

Eagle felt very happy listening to the cheers from the soldiers around him.

Unexpectedly, when he was preparing to make a final effort to shoot Zhao Yun, he saw Zhao Yun suddenly become more energetic and shot three arrows at him.

"how……"

The eagle was so shocked and surprised that it was unable to fight back for a moment and could only dodge in a hurry.

"What's going on?" Li Mang, who had just been full of expectations for the Eagle, was immediately displeased when he saw this situation.

"You are all useless. The three generals of Goguryeo cannot defeat Zhao Yun and Deng Yuan. What use are you waiting for? After this battle, let's see what I can do..."

When Li Mang was thinking about how to punish these people, he suddenly heard Zhao Yun shouting: "Thieves, watch out for the arrows!"

Li Mang was startled and instinctively looked in the direction of the sound. He was shocked to see that Zhao Yun first shot three arrows in a row at the eagle, and when the eagle dodged, shot another arrow at him.

"Damn it..." Li Mang hurriedly dodged, but after dodging the first arrow, the second arrow followed.

"What?" he was shocked.

Li Mang's martial arts were far inferior to the four generals present. He was able to easily dodge Zhao Yun's arrows before because he was well prepared. Now he was immersed in thinking and was suddenly aimed at by Zhao Yun. Being able to dodge one arrow was already the limit, how could he dodge the second arrow?

"Be bold!"

The eagle roared angrily, probably because he was very unhappy that Zhao Yun dared to take time off to deal with others while competing with him. He showed an angry look on his face and shot an arrow.

The sharp arrow did not fly towards Zhao Yun, but towards Zhao Yun's arrow. Since the eagle was closer to Li Mang, his arrow arrived first and knocked Zhao Yun's arrow into the air.

"Huh..." Li Mang survived the disaster and let out a long breath.

However, Zhao Yun's expression remained unchanged. Just as the eagle's arrow was shot out, he aimed the sharp arrow in his hand at the eagle.

"Boom..."

Before the eagle could reach out to take an arrow, Zhao Yun's arrow had already flown in front of him.

"Luring the tiger away from the mountain..."

The eagle had no time to react at all. He just moved a little when the sharp arrow pierced his right chest. Zhao Yun was using a five-stone strong bow - the Broken Cloud Bow. The force of this arrow was more than a thousand pounds.
The arrow head pierced directly through the right side of the eagle's back, and the huge force contained in the arrow caused the eagle to retreat three steps before it finally stopped.

"Cough cough..." The Eagle endured the severe pain from his chest. Although he had moved his body a few inches just now, the arrow only hit the right chest and not the heart in the left chest, but even so, he was seriously injured.

"What a good Zhao Yun... ahem... He pretended to be exhausted first, making me underestimate the enemy, and then he used his rapid shooting to pin me down while he shot and killed General Li..."

Zhao Yun listened to his words and admitted generously: "Yes, if you don't come to rescue me, I will shoot Li Mang and win this battle. If you come to rescue me, you will die."

While speaking, Zhao Yun shot two arrows at Lao Ying and Li Mang.

Li Mang dodged by rolling over. Although the eagle was seriously injured, it rolled on the ground and barely avoided the arrow despite the severe pain of the wound being torn again.

However, Zhao Yun was not in a hurry. Before the two of them stood up, he put another arrow on the bowstring.

"Bang..." With a crisp sound, the sharp arrow shot out in the direction of the tiger.

"Tiger, be careful..." The eagle exclaimed when he saw this.

Tiger's face changed and he tried to dodge hurriedly, but Deng Yuan and Zhao Yun were in perfect harmony and cooperated well. Now that such a good opportunity was before them, how could he let the other party easily dodge the arrow?
"Hey, stay."

Deng Yuan used the "entanglement" technique, grabbed the opponent's weapon with the tip of his gun, and pressed down with all his strength.

"Huh?" The tiger's plan to escape was thwarted. When he was about to pull back his weapon, the sharp arrow had already shot in front of him.

"puff……"

The arrow went straight through his left arm, leaving only the last section of tail feathers unpenetrated. The force of the arrow also shook his left arm off his weapon.

"Wow..."

The tiger cried out in pain.

"Hey, it's up to me."

Deng Yuan seized the opportunity, pulled back the gun, first scratched the tiger's thigh with one shot, and then stabbed the opponent's lower abdomen.

"Come again!" Deng Yuan was so excited about killing that he pulled out the gun tip from the tiger's belly. He used the gun as a stick and smashed it hard on the tiger's neck, leaving a deep red mark.

"puff……"

The tiger spat out a mouthful of blood and fell off the horse. "Take advantage of his weakness to kill him, Zilong, let's fight together."

Deng Yuan shouted excitedly, picked up his gun and chased after him.

"woo woo woo woo……"

Suddenly, a burst of urgent horn sounds came from the direction of Xiangping City, causing Zhao Yun and Deng Yuan to hurriedly stop what they were doing and turn their heads to look over.

Li Mang was pleasantly surprised: "Finally it succeeded."

At this time, a Han soldier came running over and said, "Generals, something terrible has happened. Among the 2,500 people who were rescued from the city, 1,000 of them turned out to be spies from Goguryeo. They killed the county guards and escaped. The guards at the city gates were unaware of the situation and were deceived by them, so they opened the city gates. Now the two generals are fighting to the death, but the enemy is outnumbered and the situation is very unfavorable."

"What?" The two were shocked.

Zhao Yun looked back at Li Mang and saw that he looked proud and quite complacent. He immediately guessed that this was also part of his plan.

"Great job, Li Mang, your methods are so extraordinary."

He then said to Deng Yuan: "If the city is lost, this battle is lost, and the rest is useless. You and I should quickly withdraw to the city and help defend it."

Deng Yuan refused, "No, we finally managed to beat all the barbarians to a pulp, and only Li Mang is left. He can't do anything. Zilong will go and save the city. I will kill these three men, and the enemy will retreat. The danger of attacking the city will be resolved."

Zhao Yun was a little worried at first, but when he looked at the tiger and eagle that were already seriously injured and almost lost their fighting ability, and thought that Li Mang's martial arts were far inferior to Deng Yuan's, he had to agree.

"Alright. The enemy is strong, and the city must not be lost. Otherwise, even if Li Mang is killed, it will be useless. I will go back to the city first. After you kill these three people, quickly bring their heads to support us. But there are still thousands of Hu dog soldiers here, so you must be careful."

Deng Yuan waved his hands impatiently: "Oh, alright, alright, this isn't my first day on the battlefield, just go ahead. After you win, remember to buy me a drink."

Zhao Yun smiled helplessly, then patted his horse, fought his way out of the encirclement of thousands of Goguryeo soldiers and rushed towards the city.

When Zhao Yun returned to the city, he saw that the place was already in chaos.

The city gates were wide open, and the soldiers of both sides were fighting around the gates and walls. The ground was already a river of blood and accidents were plentiful.

As for his 20,000 Flying Feather Cavalry, except for a part of them who had died in battle, the vast majority of them were in small teams of hundreds to thousands, killing the enemy outside the city.

Tian Yu and Tian Chou, who were fighting hard against the enemies on the city wall, also saw Zhao Yun running towards them and were greatly encouraged.

"General Zilong is back..."

"Everyone cheer up and drive the barbaric dogs out of Youzhou."

Although their martial arts were far inferior to those of Zhao Yun and Deng Yuan, it was still difficult for ordinary soldiers to get close to them. In addition, the defenders in the city were all extremely elite. Therefore, even if the city gates were broken, it would be difficult for the enemy to completely capture Xiangping City for a while.

Zhao Yun looked at the tens of thousands of Goguryeo troops gathered outside the city, and without any fear, he picked up his spear and rushed out to kill.

"It's the Han general named Zhao who has returned..."

"The general said that if you kill this man, you will be rewarded handsomely. Let's go together..."

There were at least thousands of Goguryeo soldiers around, rushing over like crazy.

"Looking for death." Zhao Yun snorted coldly, and the bright silver spear in his hand did not stop at all, and continued to stab forward.

One by one, the enemy soldiers were stabbed in the throat or heart and fell to the ground and died, but even so, the surrounding Goguryeo soldiers continued to rush over.

"Don't be afraid, everyone. He was ambushed by the general. Even if he managed to escape with such a bravery, he must have used up most of his strength. We have more people, so we will wear him down to death."

"That's right, let's go together and share the reward equally."

All the soldiers believed that Zhao Yun was at the end of his strength, and with the temptation of a huge reward, even though they saw their comrades dying under his gun one after another, other soldiers still continued to fight him.

"Whoosh..."

Zhao Yun kept switching between spear and bow, sometimes using the spear to kill the enemy in front of him, and sometimes using the bow and arrow to deal with the enemy general who was giving orders not far away.

Every time a general was shot dead, a small wave of soldiers in the enemy army would fall into chaos.

In this way, the pressure on Zhao Yun to be surrounded and killed was greatly reduced.

"Enemy general, stop being so arrogant. Take my sword..."

A Goguryeo general swung his sword at him, but Zhao Yun didn't even raise his eyelids. He turned his hand and fired a spear, hitting the opponent in the chest.

"Ah... General Lin... enemy general, I want to avenge my brother..."

Another enemy general rushed over, but soon became a dead soul under Zhao Yun's spear.

He rushed all the way like this, from hundreds of steps outside the city, he soon arrived less than a hundred steps away from the city gate. In the process, hundreds of enemy soldiers and dozens of enemy generals died under his gun.

Such a brave performance greatly inspired the Han soldiers in the city, but dealt a heavy blow to the Goguryeo soldiers.

"General Zhao is truly a god!"

"With General Zhao here, what do we have to worry about?"

"Brothers, let these barbarians see that every man in our country is a hero and will not be bullied by outsiders."

The defenders in the city were as energized as if they had been injected with chicken blood. They were enthusiastic and extremely excited. The originally disadvantageous situation was slightly reversed for a while.

Inside the city gate, a man dressed like a Goguryeo general was getting very angry when he saw Zhao Yun charging towards them and no one could stop him.

"You are all useless. These many people can't stop Zhao Yun. What's the point of waiting for you?"

He immediately grabbed the messenger and said, "Pass the order immediately. Order Generals Wang and Zhang to lead 5,000 soldiers each to surround Zhao Yun. Either bring his head back to me, or bring back their own heads."

"Yes." The messenger took the order and ran out immediately.

The battle was in full swing inside and outside the city, but Deng Yuan was much more comfortable.

Thousands of soldiers surrounded him, but they were all shocked by the martial arts that he and Zhao Yun had displayed. Even three top generals in their own army were seriously injured, while the two on the other side were almost intact. How could ordinary soldiers not be afraid?

Although Deng Yuan was the only one left at the moment, among the thousands of soldiers, except for a few dozen who bravely rushed forward and were easily killed by Deng Yuan, no one else dared to fight. They all surrounded Deng Yuan and stared at him closely.

The Eagle and the Tiger, both of them supporting their seriously injured bodies, came to Li Mang's side, with regretful and helpless expressions on their faces.

Deng Yuan looked at the three of them provocatively: "Just now you were all so brave and arrogant, why are you all cowards now?"

He was holding the Nine-Hooked Cloud-Climbing Spear, but he was not in a hurry. Instead, he approached step by step as if he was taking a walk.

(End of this chapter)