Chapter 16 What about the promised reinforcements?
Zhao Haiping sighed silently. If he hadn't done his homework in advance and guessed through real events in history that there would probably be a third stage, at this time his heart would be extremely broken.
It's like in many action games. After dying countless times, you finally get past the boss. Before you can be happy, a cutscene cuts to a new boss!
But now that things have come to this, we can only hold on.
Zhao Haiping had never entered the third stage before, so he didn't know how to play this stage and could only rely on guessing.
However, after discussing it with Chu Ge, he felt that the third stage should be different from the first and second stages.
The difficulty in the first stage is that you can mix, but you can't. Although you can pass the first stage by mixing, your status is too low when you enter the second stage, and you will suffer later.
Not to mention the second stage, you have to make full preparations in advance to convince the general to dig wells and kill horses, and you have to take the lead.
As for the third stage, there are not many records in history. It just says that reinforcements arrived after a hard battle. In the end, only seventy-four people were left to wait for the reinforcements.
As for how we waited, we didn’t mention it at all.
Chu Ge guessed that the three stages probably corresponded to three different tests.
As a soldier, cold weapon combat skills are important and are the key to clearing levels at each stage, but the focus is different at different stages.
The key to the first stage is the courage to stand up.
As a soldier, the player can stay in the back and pass the level, but he will be sent later. Only by stepping forward and performing well can he be appreciated by the general and improve his initial status in the second stage.
The key to the second stage is accurate judgment and resourcefulness.
Once you have your identity, in the second stage you have to use your identity and status to influence the generals and adopt the correct strategy to deal with the enemy. If you still rely on brute force alone, you will still be defeated by the second wave of Beidi barbarian attacks.
The army was destroyed.
Therefore, Chu Ge guessed that the key to the third stage is perseverance.
When facing a real desperate situation, you can always persist, never back down, and fight until the end.
Zhao Haiping felt that Chu Ge's speculation was reasonable.
If this is the case, then the third stage should be simpler. As long as you are determined and you play it a few times, you should be able to pass it.
As expected, this game did not give much preparation time. When Zhao Haiping had just adapted to the surrounding environment, the Beidi barbarians had already launched an attack!
In the snow and wind, the war drums below the city rumbled, and the Beidi barbarians rushed towards the city again!
The snow under the city was deep, and the march of the Beidi barbarians was also affected, but after all, they were a group of young and strong men, and they could not be compared to the seventy-year-old veterans of Chu at the top of the city.
There are not many words, because these veterans have experienced this scene countless times.
Following General Geng Zhong's roar, all the veterans drew their weapons and rushed forward with shouts!
Zhao Haiping was still the same as before, approaching the general and fighting bravely to protect the safety of General Geng Zhong.
He discovered that although his physical fitness was not as good as before when he got older, his fighting skills seemed to have improved even more. He could subconsciously use many crisp and sharp offensive skills, and combined with his talent of licking blood from the edge of a knife, he was like the god of war descending to earth.
Same, kill everywhere!
Blood was spilled on the city wall, soon dyeing the snow a bright red.
But the barbarians from Beidi are still on the city wall in an endless stream, just like the heavy snow in the sky will never stop.
Zhao Haiping had persisted for a long time, but he watched the Dachu soldiers around him fall one by one. Even with a cursory glance, he found that there were less than seventy of them, but there was still no sign of reinforcements appearing in the distance.
General Geng Zhong was covered in blood and sighed: "You ride on the last army horse and try to break out! I am determined to live or die with this city!"
"You must return to Dachu and tell His Majesty what happened here, so that all the civil and military officials in Dachu know that we old soldiers fought until the last moment!"
Zhao Haiping quickly shook his head: "General, reinforcements will come!"
General Geng Zhong looked bitter: "Forty years! We have sent countless envoys, but no one has returned. Perhaps the entire northwest has been occupied by barbarians.
"move!"
Of course Zhao Haiping would not leave, because he knew that according to historical records, reinforcements were coming soon. Why would he run out now?
So he still shook his head and told the general that he would persist until the last moment.
General Geng Zhong did not persist and had to change his bodyguard to break out. As a result, he was overtaken by the Beidi cavalry before he reached the city gate and died heroically.
The fighting on the city is still continuing, but there are fewer and fewer Chu soldiers on Zhao Haiping's side.
In the end, Beidi barbarians swarmed up and hacked to death the only remaining generals Zhao Haiping and Geng Zhong in the snow.
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Back to the beginning of the third stage again.
Zhao Haiping was a little doubtful about life.
Death is not scary. He has died countless times in this dungeon and has long been used to it.
The point is... I was deceived!
"That's strange, where are the reinforcements we promised?
"It was promised that the seventy-four people would survive in the end?
"I have been fighting with all my life, but I persisted until the end and I didn't see any sign of reinforcements!
"Isn't this game so shameless? Just cancel the historical reinforcement setting?"
Zhao Haiping fell into confusion again.
He had died countless times in the first and second stages before, and he had developed a strong fighting ability, so in the third stage, even if his physical fitness was further reduced, he persisted until the end.
But I persisted until the end and still didn’t pass the level!
Zhao Haiping frowned and looked at the three talent skill cards again.
While scanning a familiar card, Zhao Haiping suddenly had an idea and made a guess.
"Could it be that...the messenger who broke out to ask for help...is also me?
“If I don’t leave the city, there won’t be reinforcements??”
Zhao Haiping made some analysis and found that based on the game's urinary nature, this possibility is actually very high.
No, it should be said that this should be the only possibility.
After all, in the second stage, if you can't think of this solution that you personally proposed to the general, then the entire second stage will probably be stuck for a lifetime and you won't be able to clear it.
The same is true now.
Reinforcements will not come on their own unless they are invited.
But the problem is, calling in reinforcements is not that simple!
It's snowing so hard outside, and there are Beidi barbarians surrounding us.
The bodyguard of General Geng Zhong tried to break through, but was intercepted by Beidi barbarians before he could run far.
If you want to break out of the siege, you still have to find the location of the reinforcements in the wind and snow?
Are you sure this is something a seventy-year-old can do?
That’s outrageous!
But Zhao Haiping thought about it and seemed to have no other solution. He had already tried the result of holding on at the top of the city. Without reinforcements, it would definitely be a dead end.
"So, this 'bow and horse proficiency' is really not a useless talent.
"Equestrian skills come in handy only at this time!
"But if I think about it optimistically, this game is still a little bit benevolent. At least it doesn't force me to use the same talent to pass the three stages. I can change the talent and skills at will before the start of different stages."
Zhao Haiping found that he had indeed been gradually cultivated into a sexy body by this game, and this kind setting made him grateful.
If the game mandated that all three stages must be cleared with the same talent in one life, then Zhao Haiping would probably be stuck for several more days.
In short, once you have a guess, you have to verify it next.
Zhao Haiping chose the talent of "Proficiency in Bow and Horse" and started the third stage of the trial illusion again.
There is still heavy snow falling on the top of the city, and the Beidi barbarians are about to attack.
This time Zhao Haiping didn't waste any time. He took the initiative to ask for help before the general came to him, so he could break out of the encirclement and ask for help.
General Geng Zhong obviously had this intention, so this time Zhao Haiping did not waste as much words as in the second stage, and quickly sneaked out of the city through a gap in the city wall.
The biting cold wind carried snowflakes, covering the sky and the ground.
Zhao Haiping and his horse were shivering from the cold and could not even see the road clearly.
Before leaving the city, the general pointed in a general direction, saying that the defenders of a city in the southeast might still be there, but after leaving the city, Zhao Haiping discovered that how could he tell the difference between southeast and northwest?
I had no choice but to leave based on my feeling.
The snow on the ground was several feet deep, making it difficult to move even on horseback.
As a result, before Zhao Haiping could run very far, he heard the rumble of war drums coming from the city. Beidi barbarians were attacking the city again!
Not only that, but barbarian soldiers also appeared in the wind and snow ahead.
These Beidi cavalry apparently also noticed Zhao Haiping and immediately chased after him!
Zhao Haiping gritted his teeth and tried to turn around and draw the bow while riding his horse.
He held the horse's belly tightly with his legs, trying hard to maintain his balance. As a result, the arrow shot out and disappeared into the wind and snow, and he had no idea where it went.
"Depend on!"
Zhao Haiping was speechless.
This was the result of him taking the talent "Arrow and Horse Skills". What if he hadn't taken it? He probably would have fallen off the horse as soon as he took his hands off the reins.
Fortunately, he was riding a horse at this time, and the effect of the talent of proficiency in horse arching was also quickly taking effect, and Zhao Haiping could feel that his riding skills were also improving rapidly.
After running for a while, the horse's archery skills began to become more proficient. From the first shot, he was able to successfully capture the horse of one of the Beidi barbarians. It can be said that his progress was rapid.
After all, Zhao Haiping's archery skills were already very good before, but now he just needs to combine them with equestrian skills.
But as more and more Beidi barbarians heard the sound and chased him, he was eventually intercepted and shot off his horse with a few arrows.
Return to the starting point of the third stage again.
“Fuck, come again!
"When I become a master of equestrian skills, I will have to impress all of you!"
Zhao Haiping chose to start over without hesitation.
