Chapter 2171 - Sun Archers! (1/2)

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

It took only a short while for the alliance to mobilize its forces, and following Cui Qianyou’s orders and the pounding war drums, the alliance army began to converge.

“Kiiill!”

“Great General has come to the front line to oversee the battle! Those who retreat will be executed!”

“What? How could it be like this?”

“The Majesties are already angry, and they’re using the scarlet gold drums to push us on. We either kill them all or die ourselves!”

“It’s all or nothing! With so many of us, there’s no way we can’t win! Let’s go!”

The urgent pounding of the drums made everyone panic.

Before the war, the alliance members had convened and decided that war drums would be used as signals, in addition establishing the way they would be used.

The war drums were divided into many types, and the scarlet gold drums were one type. The pounding of these drums had a metallic timbre. Once these drums began to thunder, if the walls were not broken through in a certain amount of time, all the soldiers and generals would be executed.

With the cold wave coming, the only chance of survival lay in occupying the Great Tang. In order to reach this goal, the countries were willing to pay any price.

“Kill!”

With a furious roar, the countless red-eyed alliance soldiers charged at the Tang force from all sides.

Forward was death, and retreat was also death!

Compared to being cut down by one’s own people, it was better to fight to the death with the foe. Moreover, everyone could sense that the turning of the Hell Wheel had grown unstable. These heavy infantry were not as powerful as they once were.

It was now more possible to contend against them.

But though these soldiers charged out, they were not the first to attack.

Rumble!

The earth began to tremble as large silhouettes blotted out the sky.

One of the alliance soldiers at the very front looked up and saw an enormous structure overhead, and he shouted in excitement, “Siege towers! It’s the siege towers!”

As if in response to this soldier’s shout, atop the siege tower, soldiers with broad backs and wide shoulders nocked arrows to their bows, pulled the strings back, and took aim at the heavy infantry.

Swish!

One of the master archers released, and the arrow streaked through the air.

As a heavy infantry soldier began to move, an arrow pierced through a chink in his armor right beneath his neck, punching through his neck and out his back.

Not even the heavy infantryman’s thick Stellar Energy had been able to stop it.

“Armor-piercing arrows!”

“Condor Snipers!”

The soldiers gathered on the walls of the steel fortress grimaced.

Those archers atop the siege towers were not using ordinary arrows, but armor-piercing arrows. This was the only way for the arrows to have penetrated through the Stellar Energy barrier and through the helmet and the armor at the back.

Ordinary master archers did not have such strength and accuracy. These could only be the Condor Snipers of Goguryeo.

Goguryeon infantry couldn’t match the Great Tang, and its cavalry couldn’t match the Eastern Turks, let alone Arabia. But if there was one aspect in which Goguryeo surpassed all the other countries, it was in the Condor Snipers.

The most elite master archers were the Condor Snipers!

It was said that Condor Snipers could accurately shoot out the eyes of a gyrfalcon in the air, leaving the plumage untouched. They could accurately strike certain muscles of a gyrfalcon to make them lose balance and ‘fall’ from the sky, allowing the gyrfalcons to be captured.

In the Goguryeo, the saying went ‘three eagles with one arrow’, even ‘four eagles with one arrow’.

The best of the Condor Snipers didn’t just know how to find the right angles. They could lead the target, which led them to be able to take down several eagles with one arrow.

What seemed like fantastical archery truly existed in Goguryeo.

Moreover, Goguryeo had maintained a tradition of selecting astonishingly talented children and training them when they were only four or five years old.

These children had to loose arrows ten thousand times a day, and by the time they were adults, they had to do it one million times.

No ordinary master archers could reach this level.

Thwishthwishthwish!

This one arrow was a sort of signal, and with a piercing whistle, the ten-some Condor Snipers atop the siege tower loosed their arrows in unison, unleashing a volley of death.

Thud! Thud! Thud! Heavy infantry dropped to the ground without making a sound, their bodies nailed to the ground by the armor-piercing arrows.

With a great rumble, even more siege towers arrived on the battlefield.

Wang Chong blinked as he suddenly ordered, “Chen Burang, suppress the Condor Snipers!

“Su Hanshan, assist him!