Chapter 99: Shoot His Eye Out

“General, there are many footprints by the stream ahead.”

At the same time, east of the mountain stream outside the forest, two scouts hurried back to a bearded great general riding a black-mane horse and wearing armor. He stood with a loud voice, clasping his fists in greeting:

“About two hundred of them.”

Hearing his subordinate soldier report, the bearded great general cast a cold glance toward the mountain stream: “Did you see the traces of Cao’s army?”

The scout thought for a moment in his heart, then turned and pointed to the mountain nearby: “Reporting to the General, the Cao army seems to be retreating into that forest over there.”

“Two hundred men, and they ran away?”

The bearded great general glanced at the not-so-big forest in the distance, then let out a cold sneer: “I guess these two hundred or so are just a ragtag crowd. All soldiers listen to my orders! Charge in and kill them. Anyone who captures or kills Liu Ye of Huainan will be rewarded.”

With his command, the fifty soldiers around him immediately set off. Even the six players following the soldiers were eager to try.

One player licked his lips and asked respectfully: “Excuse me, General, if we kill Liu Ye, will we also get a reward?”

“Hmph, what this General says goes, I would never go back on my word.” The bearded general looked at the speaking player with disdain. In his eyes, this player was worse than his own soldiers, good for nothing except spreading news.

“Let’s go, let’s move out!”

With a promise from a commanding general, the six of them nodded at each other and immediately followed the elite Jizhou soldiers.

For players, nothing was more tempting than a reward.

Dozens of people moved west along the stream, while the bearded general rode his war horse behind them at a leisurely pace. He didn’t rush to dismount even after all his soldiers had entered the forest.

He waited, waiting for the moment Liu Ye revealed himself.

However, the bearded general did not know that while he was waiting for Liu Ye to expose himself, Mo Xiaobai was also waiting for him to get close. Hiding behind the forest, Mo Xiaobai could vaguely see the bearded general standing outside. A grim look crossed Mo Xiaobai’s mouth:

“Flying General, what are the chances you can shoot that enemy general down?”

“It’s unlikely to kill him with one arrow, but my Lord need not worry.” Li Guang now held the Precious Carved Bow in his hand, hummed a low tune, and pulled out two feathered arrows with his left hand.

He bent the bow and nocked an arrow. When the bowstring was pulled into a full circle, Li Guang’s right index finger let go.

A soft “swoosh” sound resonated through the forest.

The next moment, the flying arrow swiftly pierced over a hundred meters away and drove straight into the joint of the black-mane horse’s front leg.

“Hee-yee~~”

The war horse’s front leg joint was injured, and its front hoof immediately knelt. The bearded general, sitting atop the horse, changed his expression, slapped the horse’s back with his left hand, and flipped down.

Jumping down, the bearded general still instinctively used his hand to protect his throat and chest.

This was an unconscious protective move developed from years of fighting on the battlefield. Facing ordinary archers, one could often escape this fate, but he did not know that this time he was facing Li Guang, known as the “Flying General.”

The most skilled archer of the entire Great Han Dynasty over hundreds of years!

“Swish!”

The second arrow arrived at this moment.

It was not aimed at the bearded general’s throat, nor his chest.

With a sharp “thwack” sound, the bearded general’s left eye was completely pierced through at that moment.

The entire eyeball was shot out.

“Ah~~”

With the left eye pierced by the long arrow, the bearded general’s feet were not yet steady. He stumbled and fell directly to his knees, screaming in pain, soon alarming the Yuan Shao soldiers who had just entered the forest.

While the soldiers were unsure whether to continue advancing or retreat to protect their general, Mo Xiaobai’s mouth already spat out a short command:

“Maogong, charge with me!”

Strike while the enemy is sick, to take their life!

Even on a battlefield of life-and-death struggle, daring to lose focus and look back, the quality of these Yuan Shao elite soldiers was no better than that.

“Follow the Great God, kill!”

“Let’s attack together and cut down these Yuan Shao subordinates!”

“I died four times on the supply route; today I can finally get revenge!”

The two hundred players around were actually not very high level. Except for Mo Xiaobai, the highest was only Level 10, and their combat attribute didn’t even reach 30.

Originally, these kind of “weak warriors” would find it hard to gain an advantage against at least Tier 2 units, the fierce soldiers. But this time, the situation was extremely favorable for Mo Xiaobai and his team.

The bearded general was wounded, causing the army’s morale to waver immediately. Plus, Li Ji led the charge, releasing a strong aura that made the dozens of Yuan army soldiers fear him.

With this double blow, Mo Xiaobai felt safe rushing out. Even Liu Ye was not staying in the rear; he followed closely on Mo Xiaobai’s right, his sharp sword already drawn from its sheath.

“Kill!”

Charging down from the mountain forest heights already provided an advantage. Once Mo Xiaobai found an opponent, he held his sword with both hands and swung hard across. In one strike, he forced the soldier to take several steps back.

Seeing the soldier retreat, Mo Xiaobai quickly closed the distance. With his right hand, he slashed his sword, carving a wound on the soldier’s spear-holding arm. The next moment, he stepped his right foot inward, and the sword tip directly stabbed into the soldier’s chest.

“Beep~ You have killed 1 Yuan Shao Camp Elite Soldier. You gained 10 experience points.”

The Intellect Brain’s prompt rang in Mo Xiaobai’s ear. He pursed his lips, expressing great disdain for this small bite of meat.

After all, I just killed a Tier 2 elite soldier, yet they give no merit? And only 10 player experience points?

Can’t the Intellect Brain be any more stingy?

Although Mo Xiaobai’s experiences from his past life over ten-plus years had already given him a very detailed understanding of the Intellect Brain’s stinginess, he still couldn’t help but complain.

Being a player, trying to level up and earn merit is really too difficult.

“Haha~ Killing one gives experience.”

“Experience is higher than a wild wolf, that’s nice.”

“One person cuts once, whoever lands the final blow is lucky.”

“Only fifty people, there’s not enough to share!”

With Li Ji handling a few squad leaders and platoon leaders first, the remaining elite spear soldiers began to feel like retreating. How could they possibly stand against hundreds of players charging all at once?

At the same time, the six players from the Yuan Shao Camp who had been following behind the soldiers, thinking about how to pick up scraps, were dumbfounded.

This script is wrong!

It was supposed to be that they would take off thanks to this mission. How did the elite soldiers right in front of them die in the blink of an eye?

“It’s a trap, this mission is a trap! Run quickly!”

“So unlucky, how could this happen?”

“Let’s retreat, I don’t want to die here.”

“With these soldiers blocking us, we still have a chance to retreat back.”

The six players, seeing the situation was not good, immediately decided to flee like the wind. However, when the six of them hurriedly turned and ran out of the forest, they ran straight into the bearded general, who had pulled out his left eye arrow and had become a one-eyed dragon.

“You lot actually want to be deserters?”

The bearded general, now sporting a hollow left eye, could not describe his face with anger. These six players from the Yuan Shao Camp trying to run away had landed right in his hand.

“Die for me!”

With a roaring shout, the bearded general’s Heavy Saber chopped down continuously, cutting the six players down right before him.

These six unfortunate players from the Yuan Shao Camp did not die on the front battlefield; instead, they were casually executed by a great general under Yuan Shao’s command as deserters.

Before dying, they didn’t even have time to leave a last word.