Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 731

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 201
67. Hill Tank (1)
Currently, only Persia’s perspective is visible.
The Joseon forces atop the walls couldn’t be seen at all. From Persia’s standpoint, they had no idea where the Joseon army was positioned, yet arrows could still rain down upon them.
-Whoa
-This is what a hill tank looks like
-When will they shoot lol lol
The situation certainly appeared favorable for Joseon, who now controlled the walls.
“Hill! Tank! Hill! Tank!”
Boom boom~ boom boom boom!
Thunderous cheers erupted from the spectator stands.
For something created on the spot, it was quite a catchy chant.
-This is hilarious lol
-The chant is perfect lol
-lololol
-Whoa
-I want the national anthem verse 5 now
“Ah! With such passionate support! Joseon must now begin their serious harassment tactics, wouldn’t you say?!”
“Yes! Simply controlling the walls alone isn’t a significant advantage. You have to capitalize on it to seize victory!”
That was true.
Though they had secured the walls, this alone didn’t constitute devastating damage.
“It’s certainly irritating, but as long as they don’t come out, it’s fine, right? And Persia is a master of not coming out, after all.”
“Exactly. They need to land a few more blows here! Something more!”
That was resource harassment.
Shooting arrows from atop the walls to kill workers.
“When you’re positioned at an extremely high location like walls or defensive towers, your arrow range increases significantly, you see? We need to use this to harass them and prevent resource gathering!”
“That’s exactly what a hill tank is!”
Combined with the geographical advantage of the walls and concentrated faction bonuses.
By Age 2 standards, it could be said they now possessed a range truly befitting a tank.
With this, resource harassment would be possible.
“Persia’s choice at this moment will be crucial.”
Of course, depending on the opponent’s response, this could also end without significant damage.
The board was set for Joseon, but they might not be able to capitalize on it.
“Ah yes! Persia’s workers gathering lumber! They need to evacuate! But where do they go?! Or which side do they evacuate to?! That’s the problem here!?”
The ancient walls encircled Persia’s main base like a massive circular donut.
The Joseon archers could move freely across this donut.
Realistically, the patrol routes were far too extensive to position forces everywhere, making it highly likely they would choose a single location.
“There are two major locations where lumber resources can be gathered! At 6 o’clock and 12 o’clock from the main base! Currently, Persia is harvesting from both!”
The choices were essentially two.
The 6 o’clock and 12 o’clock zones.
This is the area within Persia’s main base where timber resources are concentrated, and it’s well within bow range.
To inflict casualties on the workers, Joseon will choose one of the two locations and strike.
“But Persia’s workers need to evacuate! What is this!? Are they in denial about reality right now!?”
Even though it’s certain that Joseon will strike, Persia is boldly refusing to pull back their workers.
“Why aren’t they moving them!?”
“Is it because they can’t see it on the map!?”
The commentators’ confusion about why Persia isn’t evacuating comes down to this.
“Shouldn’t they just predict it by intuition and pull back? We’re predicting Joseon will strike at the 6 o’clock position!”
Though there are two options, it’s clear that Joseon is coming from the 6 o’clock position.
“I think Persia doesn’t know which area Joseon will target right now! That seems to be their thinking… but looking at where Joseon is positioned! They’ll obviously rush toward 6 o’clock! They should be making predictions based on that!”
While there’s no guarantee Joseon will absolutely come from 6 o’clock, they had almost an 80% preference for that direction.
This was because Joseon’s reinforcement ladder was positioned near the 4 o’clock area, and running to 6 o’clock was a much shorter distance to cover.
“That’s it. Carry timber until you die! Truly, the land of pyramids!”
-King Gul lolololol
-They’re really hyped up lol
-Pyramidslol
-That’s Egypt lololol
-Just throwing anything out there lololol
“Yes. Even if a few workers die, it’s better to evacuate once you know for certain where they’re coming from. That’s the judgment here. It might actually be a good call.”
“That’s right. We might have pulled them back for nothing if they don’t come from 6 o’clock… but why isn’t Joseon coming… Huh!?”
King Gul pointed at something with a startled expression.
“Oh, no! Elifer! Was the judgment correct!?”
Whoosh!
The Joseon archers appeared at the 12 o’clock position.
To be precise, it wasn’t clearly visible from Persia’s perspective, but arrows began striking the workers from the 12 o’clock direction.
“They deliberately twisted their approach and came from 12 o’clock! But Persia’s response was calm as expected! We’re the ones who got worked up, aren’t we?”
“This is why commanders aren’t just anyone.”
“I was wondering why Joseon was taking so long. I thought they’d rush straight there.”
-lololololol
-The mood suddenly got serious lol
-Where’d the hype go?
-Wait, they’re actually going to 12 o’clock?
-Isn’t the ladder a bit dangerous then??
-Why did the energy drop so hard lololol
-They twisted it too much;

* * *
Joseon seemed to have rushed toward the twelve o’clock position, anticipating that I would evacuate the six o’clock position.
I had predicted my opponent’s thinking, but as a result, things had twisted in an unexpected direction.
It was because my opponent responded with composure.
‘As expected.’
Elifer couldn’t suppress a smile and evacuated the workers.
Since I had been on high alert, the moment arrows were fired, I evacuated them immediately—resulting in only one or two deaths and minimal casualties overall.
‘I knew it would come to this.’
I had anticipated that Joseon would attempt psychological warfare here.
‘After going through all that effort to capture the wall, they’d want to make certain of it.’
Having painstakingly captured the wall, rushing toward the six o’clock position would be far too predictable a pattern.
My opponent could have already withdrawn all the six o’clock workers and sent them to the twelve o’clock position beforehand.
Even if we couldn’t mine resources during that time, preserving worker lives took priority.
However, I didn’t do that.
Even if some workers died, I chose to respond immediately upon seeing the attack.
If I had sent the six o’clock workers to the twelve o’clock position and Joseon suddenly rushed toward twelve o’clock instead, that would have been truly catastrophic.
‘Phew.’
Having overcome this crisis, Elifer exhaled and felt relief wash over me.
However, on the battlefield, a commander cannot afford to rest for even a moment.
“…What!?”
Six o’clock.
Something was happening there.

* * *
About three minutes earlier.
The moment the Joseon forces completely occupied the fortress wall, a single order fell upon them.
Ding!
[Full Speed Movement]
We had to move quickly before the enemy could respond.
“Come on. Let’s go fast!”
“We need to get there before the workers evacuate!”
The selected personnel were six in total: Almond, Pangeo, Danggeun, and others.
They were essentially the elite of the first-line archers. This showed how crucial this interception was.
The previous battle had been fought for this very interception.
Danggeun spoke as they ran.
“We probably need to arrive before Persia evacuates the workers and kill at least some of them.”
That was why they were heading toward the 6 o’clock lumber camp via the shortest route.
It was a race against time. We had to get there and shoot before Persia evacuated them.
Running that fast, we arrived at 6 o’clock.
But then—
[Wait]
“?”
Contrary to Danggeun’s words, the order that came down when we arrived at 6 o’clock was to wait.
“…What, what is this?”
The Persia workers were shimmering within firing range right now.
Wait?
“What. So Danggeun can be wrong too.”
Ratte spoke as if finding it curious that Danggeun’s prediction had missed.
Instead of responding, Danggeun’s expression hardened rigidly.
“What….”
The moment we arrived at 6 o’clock, she felt a strange sense of discord.
Realizing its nature, chills ran down her spine.
“Why haven’t the workers evacuated?”
“!”
At her words, everyone was startled and looked down again.
Indeed, the workers were still peacefully harvesting wood as if nothing was happening.
“Lumber isn’t only here.”
Soldiers cannot read the map’s situation precisely.
That’s why we overlooked it.
The fact that lumber resources could exist elsewhere.
‘They used the hawk release.’
Especially for Joseon, the hawk release allows us to grasp this terrain instantly.
The commander probably already knows all the locations of the enemy lumber camps by now.
There’s one more location besides this one.
“What? What do you mean? Then shouldn’t we strike faster?”
Ratte asks back, clearly confused.
If there’s another location besides here, the workers could escape at any moment.
So why wait?
‘That’s right. Shouldn’t we strike faster?’
In truth, I also didn’t understand and wanted to ask, but I simply nodded my head to avoid hearing it from Danggeun.
“No, ugh… Where do I even start explaining?”
Danggeun let out a deep sigh and scratched her head.
She could only say it very simply.
“Just wait.”
“?”
Wait.
‘Ah.’
Only then did Danggeun realize.
Why the Commander had cast [Wait].
A principle that had no time to explain and was inconvenient to explain.
Instead, Danggeun added one more thing here. She had more time than the Commander.
“More prey will come soon. We’ll attack then.”
“…?”
The workers aren’t evacuating—more are coming?
Then, after watching the enemy lines for a long while, Pangeo cries out.
“They’re coming! Big catch! No, salmon! Salmon!”
The workers really are coming.
“Really?”
“Wow.”
“Whoa.”
It was real.
Just as Pangeo said, the Persia workers were swimming upstream like salmon.
“What, what!? Is this a zombie outbreak!?”
Regardless of Ratte’s absurd quip, all the archers drew their bowstrings.
Twang!
The [Wait] indicator was still displayed, but gathering focus was fundamental regardless.
Whoooooosh…!
White light began gathering at the tips of everyone’s arrows.
“They come… more… more….”
When the salmon swimming upstream innocently returned to lay their eggs and began their lives.
The yellow letters of ‘Wait’ turn crimson red.
Ting!
[Attack]
The orders change.
“Now!!!”
Whoooosh!
The archers’ arrows flew in unison.

* * *
“Wait, what!? Why are there archers at the 6 o’clock position too!? There were so many archers!?”
As if answering the Caster’s question, the full view finally lit up.
-Chills
-It was a drive hunt
-Insane
-Was it psychological warfare?
-Wow
Only two archers had been dispatched to the 12 o’clock position.
Seeing the arrows those two shot, Persia immediately sent all the workers to the 6 o’clock position.
“!?”
“Just… two of them were shooting!?”
From outside the field of view, their arrows didn’t look like they were being shot by just two people at all.
[Shoot as fast and as much as possible, not necessarily accurately]
Under such orders, they fired arrows relentlessly, and whether they hit or not, they nocked three or four arrows on the bowstring at once and released them.
Meanwhile, from Elifer’s perspective, who was tensely waiting without knowing where the attack would come from, this alone was enough to believe that Joseon had chosen to pressure the 12 o’clock position.
Seven or eight arrows flew in all at once, and the speed was incredible.
“We got completely baited! Elifer!!”
So Elifer withdrew the workers to the 6 o’clock position and tried to set up defensive structures there.
Since it would take Joseon quite a while to circle around along the castle wall, he could prepare several defense towers in the meantime.
However, that was a very wrong assumption.
“I thought it was 12 o’clock!! But at 6 o’clock!! Archers who were lying in ambush as if waiting are firing away!!”
“And! The accuracy is insane!!”
“This is the front line! This is the real deal!!!”
-The decibels are exploding!
-Wow
-The tension went crazy again lol
-Lmao
-That was hilarious
Arrows from the 6 o’clock position flew with accuracy that aimed for headshots with every single shot.
Thunk!
Splat!
The workers began falling one by one, and soon after, they collapsed in countless numbers.
“And on top of that! The 12 o’clock lumber camp isn’t operating! Lumber supply rate instantly drops to 0%! 0%!!”
This was what Joseon had aimed for.
The workers who should have been mining steadily at the twelve o’clock position came rushing to the six o’clock position, so even if they flee back to twelve o’clock, the lumber supply rate instantly plummets to zero percent.
“Ah! This is taking too long! There’s nowhere to build a defense tower now…!”
All the workers who had been trying to construct defense towers as a countermeasure were eliminated first.
“The defense tower construction company went bankrupt?! We didn’t finish building it!”
“Defenseeeeee!!!”
-Budo’s panicking lol
-What’s with King Gul’s wyvern sound lol
-Budo lol
-Lmao
-The importance of Budo
-Defenseeee lol
“It’s chaos!! Arrows keep flying! We’re retreating to twelve o’clock again!! But the workers are slow! The damage is too severe!”
“Yes! As the old saying goes, there’s not a word of falsehood! Our elders said it so clearly! Be careful of hill tanks!? This is exactly why they warned us!!”
-Lmao
-This is the wisdom of our ancestors
-Lol when did the elders ever say that
-My father did say that; by the way it was Zerg
-Timeless wisdom
-My mom always said don’t follow tanks you don’t recognize.
-Lololol
-This is precious wisdom our ancestors gained through countless wars. Please cherish it.

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