Dark Sand: My Players Are All Actors
Chapter 266 - 207: People of Two Eras

Chapter 266: Chapter 207: People of Two Eras

"Charge! Break out!"

Li Hongyun had begun yet another attempt to break out of the enemy camp.

After several previous attempts, he was now able to blend into the camp reliably and meet Ma Anbang. However, to complete this challenge, capturing Ma Anbang was only half the battle.

Rather, the real challenge was how to take Ma Anbang away, which troubled him deeply.

Li Hongyun had tried several times and found that the path to break through was of great importance.

In the camp at this moment, some people were Ma Anbang’s trusted followers, who would desperately try to save him; however, there were also former Rebel Army soldiers who, upon seeing generals like Yu Jiaxuan and Chen Shilong, would slack off and wouldn’t truly exert themselves.

Furthermore, it was clearly difficult to break out through the main gate of the camp because they had entered through the main gate and the guard force there was now on high alert.

On the contrary, breaking out from other gates of the camp had a higher chance of success.

In any case, after several attempts, Li Hongyun had roughly determined the best route. All he needed to do now was a few more tries, coupled with a tiny bit of luck, and he might succeed.

For other players, luck was something that required a lot of time and repeated attempts to attain, but this was precisely where Li Hongyun’s advantage lay.

Finally, after yet another attempt, Li Hongyun had found a weak spot in the camp and led his men to charge out!

"Jin soldiers! The Jin soldiers are catching up!" someone shouted loudly.

Li Hongyun turned around and saw that the ones leading the chase were a few heavily armored cavalry soldiers with elaborate gear, followed by even more light cavalry.

The Jin Army’s heavily armored cavalry was historically notorious, known as the "Iron Pagodas."

These heavy cavalry’s helmets were specially made, which could be lowered in battle, leaving only two eyes exposed.

Before General Han Fuyue had famously destroyed the Iron Pagodas, these heavy cavalry had posed a massive threat to the Qi Dynasty and even seemed unstoppable.

Unfortunately, among the Jin generals who had come to Ma Anbang’s camp this time were those donning heavy armor.

According to the historical timeline, before Yu Jiaxuan performed the demonstration of fifty against fifty thousand, General Han Fuyue had been wrongfully dead for many years, and the player character Yu Jiaxuan had no standard method for neutralizing Iron Pagodas.

They had to rely on their own skills.

Li Hongyun had tried running all-out without regard to anything else, hoping to use the speed advantage of light cavalry to outrun the Iron Pagodas.

But the problem was that the Iron Pagodas’ horse and armor were indeed heavy, yet Li Hongyun’s horse was carrying an extra person at this moment.

So, the speed difference between them wasn’t that great, and with continuous enemy interceptions ahead, Li Hongyun could easily be caught up with and killed.

Therefore, this time, Li Hongyun couldn’t just carelessly run forward; he had to figure out a way to deal with the threat of these Iron Pagodas.

In historical records, this event was simply described with a few words: "The Jin generals could not catch up."

But in the game, it was far from that simple.

Li Hongyun took a deep breath, drew a horse bow, turned around, and nocked an arrow!

"It’s useless! Run fast, I’ll cover for you!" General Chen Shilong hurriedly tried to dissuade him while slowing down his pace.

It was clear that in his view, what Yu Jiaxuan, played by Li Hongyun, was doing was futile.

The enemy was the Iron Pagoda, the heavy cavalry, armored from head to toe except for the horse’s legs and the eyes on the helmet.

Yu Jiaxuan didn’t have a Divine Arm Bow on him at the moment, but rather an ordinary horse bow, which had no power to penetrate heavy armor.

The Divine Arm Bow was a powerful weapon only available to the elite in the Qi Army, and according to historical studies, the Divine Arm Bow was mostly a type of catapult crossbow. As a high-poundage crossbow, it was unlikely to be used as a standard weapon by cavalry.

In short, in General Chen Shilong’s eyes, the arrow shot by Yu Jiaxuan, played by Li Hongyun, would do nothing but bounce off the Jin soldiers’ heavy armor, causing no harm to the enemy while slowing down their own speed.

The only solution at this time was to sacrifice some men to cover the rear, creating a chance for Yu Jiaxuan, who was dragging Ma Anbang, to break through.

However, Li Hongyun ignored his advice and nocked an arrow, following his own intuition, shooting it out!

"Swish!"

The sound of air being sliced echoed as the arrow darted toward the leading Jin soldier.

Of course, this Jin soldier made no evasive movement. As a member of the Iron Pagodas, he had been in many battles, always winning by trampling over with heavy armor.

Dodging an arrow? When clad in full heavy armor, there was neither strength nor need for it.

However, in the next second, something surprising happened.

The Jin soldier saw a black spot fly swiftly toward him, then the black spot began to expand rapidly, even filling his entire right field of vision.

The arrow had precisely entered through the gap in the Iron Pagoda helmet’s eye slit!

The Jin soldier screamed in agony and instantly fell off his horse!

The arrow had pierced straight into his brain, killing him on the spot.

As he fell, his body armored in heavy metal also dragged his warhorse down; his feet tangled in the stirrups, he was dragged a considerable distance by the panicked beast.

With the lead Jin soldier downing, naturally, it also caused great trouble for the Jin cavalry following behind, causing the rapidly charging cavalry unit to involuntarily slow down.

"This..."

Everyone around was stunned.

To hit a moving target at such a distance directly?

And to hit not the body but the eyes, the eyes in the gap of an Iron Pagoda helmet...