Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

It was precisely for this reason that when Huang Zhong discovered Xiahou Dun, whom he suspected to be a big fish, he didn't make a sound. Instead, he wanted to swallow this big fish alone, lest Zhang Fei or Zhou Tai snatch the credit.

Now, after being ambushed by Xiahou Yuan, who didn't play by the rules, and seeing him trying to rescue his fish, how could Huang Zhong tolerate it?

Immediately, Huang Zhong's old yellow horse burst out with a speed that belied its age, quickly chasing after Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan.

Xiahou Yuan had no intention of continuing to entangle with Huang Zhong, lest he attract more enemy cavalry. Once surrounded, it would not be so easy to escape.

Immediately, Xiahou Yuan drew his bow again, leaning backward until his back was flush with the horse's back. He drew his great bow, aiming at the relentlessly pursuing Huang Zhong.

"Well done!"

Huang Zhong hadn't seen anyone dare to compete with him in archery for a long time. His fighting spirit soared, and he also drew the Qilin Treasure Bow hanging on his horse's back.

At this moment, the distance between Huang Zhong and Xiahou Yuan was only about twenty paces, and they were in a dim environment, which was by no means suitable for an archery contest.

However, Huang Zhong and Xiahou Yuan both had full confidence in their archery skills and had no intention of retreating. Instead, their spirits instantly focused to the extreme.

Competing in archery at a distance of twenty paces was no longer about reaction speed, but more about prediction...

In the next moment, Huang Zhong and Xiahou Yuan released their bowstrings almost simultaneously.

Two streams of light shot towards each other, but collided in mid-air.

However, Huang Zhong and Xiahou Yuan's hands didn't stop for a moment, and they once again nocked an arrow on their bowstrings.

"Bang!"

Again, the sounds of bowstrings rang out almost simultaneously.

However, this time the two arrows didn't completely collide, but brushed past each other, changing the original trajectory of the two arrows.

The arrow released by Xiahou Yuan flew past Huang Zhong's left side, a zhang away.

And the arrow released by Huang Zhong also flew past Xiahou Yuan's left side...

Just as Xiahou Dun heard the sound of Xiahou Yuan firing arrows continuously beside him, he subconsciously looked back, and before he could see what was coming, he felt a pain in his left eye.

"Ah!"

An arrow was completely inserted into Xiahou Dun's left eye.

"Yuan Rang!"

Xiahou Yuan turned his head and his eyes were tearing apart.

Huang Zhong sneered and was about to raise his blade to chase after and finish off Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan when...

Xiahou Dun grabbed the arrow shaft and forcibly pulled the arrow out of his left eye socket, pulling out the entire left eyeball in a clearly visible manner.

This ferocious scene shocked Huang Zhong.

When Xiahou Dun's remaining right eye saw the left eyeball skewered on the arrow, he was stunned for a moment, muttering.

'The essence of father and blood of mother, should not be discarded.'

Immediately, Xiahou Dun, as if eating barbecue, swallowed the eyeball skewered on the arrow in one bite.

This scene made Huang Zhong's pupils shrink, and he vaguely felt pain in his own eyeballs, unconsciously slowing down his horse.

This allowed Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan to take the opportunity to widen the distance, disappearing into the night, making it difficult to find their tracks again.

Huang Zhong said with some regret and admiration.

"A true man."

At the same time that Xiahou Yuan helped Xiahou Dun out of trouble, after confirming that there were no ambushes outside the camp, the main force of Cao's army came out of the camp under Cao Cao's leadership to respond.

However, after delaying for a moment, by the time Cao Cao led the main force to the battlefield, the entire battlefield was almost over.

Looking around, only the Yangzhou cavalry remained on the battlefield.

Of the three thousand Cao army cavalry, very few remained.

In the next moment, a blaze of torches lit up on the opposite side of the battlefield, where the Cao army's faces were particularly ugly.

Under the protection of three thousand White Horse Volunteers and Tiger Guards, Liu Bei and Li Ji slowly appeared on the opposite side of the battlefield. Many cavalry also reorganized their formations and quickly lined up on both sides of Liu Bei and Li Ji.

Noticing Cao Cao's vague figure in the firelight in the distance, Li Ji gestured to Liu Bei, but Liu Bei shook his head slightly, indicating that he had nothing to say to the Cao traitor.

Seeing this, Li Ji simply smiled and said loudly.

"May you all have sweet dreams."

Immediately, the cavalry led by Liu Bei and Li Ji slowly retreated, disappearing into the darkness in the distance again without a trace.

Cao Cao looked at the cavalry corpses lying all over the battlefield, his face extremely ugly and gloomy.

Of the three thousand cavalry, only a handful survived.

They were first scattered, and then surrounded and strangled by Huang Zhong and Zhou Tai from the front and back.

Even in the plains and in a dim environment, few were lucky enough to escape.

Adding insult to injury, Cao Cao watched helplessly as the more than three hundred intact warhorses that were originally on the battlefield were also taken away by the other party as if they were picking up sheep.

Just as Cao Cao looked gloomy, Xiahou Dun, whose left eye had completely turned into a bloody hole, staggered off his horse, rushed to Cao Cao, knelt on the ground, and said.

"This subordinate is incompetent, causing the entire cavalry to be wiped out. Please, Lord, cut off my head..."

Before Xiahou Dun could finish speaking, Cao Cao got off his horse, a comforting and peaceful smile on his face, and helped Xiahou Dun up, saying softly.

"If we were to behead those who fail in their plans, how many people in the world would be left alive? This is not the fault of battle."

"Moreover, Cao still has an army of hundreds of thousands. The loss of a mere three thousand cavalry is nothing more than that. Why worry about it?"

Immediately, under Cao Cao's words, the morale that had been somewhat decadent due to the destruction of the three thousand cavalry was obviously boosted.

Among the people who accompanied him, only Xi Zhicai looked at Cao Cao, who was confidently and calmly stabilizing the morale of the army, with a worried look in his eyes.

The number of three thousand cavalry was indeed insignificant compared to the hundreds of thousands of soldiers Cao Cao had in his hands.

But the biggest problem was that without these three thousand cavalry, Cao Cao would completely lose this crucial type of soldier, and he would inevitably fall into a passive position on the battlefield.

Xi Zhicai understood that Cao Cao must also be aware of this. Cao Cao's pretense of being relaxed was just to stabilize the morale of the army.

Immediately, after Cao Cao arranged for Xiahou Dun to go down to heal his wounds and cleaned up the battlefield, he led the army back to the camp.

By the time everything was done, it was already Chou Shi (1-3 AM).

The Cao army soldiers, including Cao Cao, returned to the camp, and exhausted, almost instantly fell asleep.

However, Cao Cao felt that he had just lain down, and hadn't even warmed the pillow yet.

Suddenly, a short and rapid bugle call suddenly rang out.

Enemy attack!

Cao Cao, whose eyes were already bloodshot, almost instantly jumped up from the couch, grabbed his sword, and rushed out of the tent in a hurry, shouting.

"Where is the enemy attack?"

Not only Cao Cao, but the entire Cao army camp, which had just quieted down, was awakened by the bugle call. One by one, the extremely tired soldiers rushed out of their tents in a hurry.

However, by the time they rushed out... the bugle call stopped.

The result reported to Cao Cao was that the bugle call came from outside the camp.

At this moment, Cao Cao only felt a pain in his head, and the words that Li Ji had said echoed...

【May you all have sweet dreams!】

(End of this chapter)