Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 822

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 292
95. Tanpang Strategy (2)
“Zhang Fei’s unit is breaking through Joseon’s encirclement!?”
“This isn’t so much a breakthrough! Rather, it feels like the path was opened for them!?”
“Guan Yu is shouting something, which means he sensed it—there’s a blender spinning outside!? Ahhhhh─”
Maratang’s cavalry charge unit, recklessly galloping in circles around the encirclement, collides perfectly with the moment Zhang Fei’s unit emerges.
They had focused entirely on barely escaping the encirclement, leaving them no time to respond to the cavalry charge already barreling toward them at maximum speed.
──Crash!
An impact so tremendous that everyone, including Zhang Fei, goes flying into the distance.
-Blender lol
-For real lol
-Guan Yu’s perception is sharp
-Is this like a home run or something?
-Wow
Zhang Fei alone flew through the air intact, but everyone except him had only their heads flying off.
“Ahhhhhhh! Joseon’s cavalry charge! Has movement speed! Damage proportional to charge time!? Just like the Knights! That’s why everyone’s heads just flew off!?”
“Right now only Zhang Fei, the assistant commander! Survives because of extra health!? But what can he possibly do alone here!?”
-Why Guan Yu…
-This is scary…
-This is a horror movie from Zhang Fei’s perspective lol
-Guan Yu’s clone technique is insane;
-So satisfying
Despite being alone, Zhang Fei gripped his spear tightly, stood up, and burned with the determination to fight the entire cavalry unit.
“Zhang Fei!? Standing and facing them!? Is this possible!? Such confident momentum!!”
That momentum truly seemed plausible, but reality was merciless.
“Can it really happen!? If it does, then truly─”
──Thunk!
A single arrow that lightly flew in and lodged in his skull—Zhang Fei collapsed pathetically.
Thud.
The moment he fell, the Chinese audience section stirs.
“Ahhhhh!”
“Pangeo is saying it!? This isn’t the Changban Bridge ahhhhhhh!”
-Lololol
-Lmao
-When did he even get here lol
-Arrow ending lol
-So anticlimactic lol
Clap!
Pangeo and Maratang’s hands meet in a high-five as the mounted archers and cavalry cross paths with each other.
Only then does a roar erupt from the Korean audience section.
“Waaaaaaaaaaaaah!!”

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Youbi squeezed his eyes shut.
Though he rarely let his emotions show on his face, Zhang Fei’s death was something that should never have happened.
‘There was something like that outside.’
I thought they’d set up the encirclement poorly, but they were spinning the cavalry outside like a blender.
The plan was to hold firm when the encirclement came under pressure, then deliberately release the cavalry when they arrived to grind them to pieces.
Not only was my vision obscured, but prediction was nearly impossible.
This was the first time I’d ever seen this type of formation.
This was clearly a new formation. It was obvious they’d prepared it specifically for the China team.
How had the Joseon team managed to prepare something like this?
Had Cookie spent all that time he was absent just researching this?
No, in such a short period, they couldn’t have executed a formation with such digestive power.
Successfully executing a formation doesn’t end with simply having some target shape exist in the commander’s mind.
Which soldiers to control from where to where, what should be the minimum unit, what movements should be implanted in their minds.
Since all formations are ultimately realized through soldiers, there must necessarily be deliberation on how to make them understand this formation.
From the soldiers’ perspective, a formation isn’t something they can see.
From their viewpoint, there’s no way they could picture this circular encirclement and the cavalry circling around it.
They stand with their feet on the ground, and beside them isn’t a circular encirclement, but merely the familiar faces of comrades they know.
The commander must also consider how it will be implemented from their perspective.
For someone, an encirclement might simply be standing between friends A and B that I know and thrusting a spear forward.
So executing a new formation requires considerable accumulated knowledge.
It doesn’t happen overnight.
But how could Joseon suddenly bring out and execute a new formation?
‘Anto….’
There was only one possibility that came to mind.
That unlucky-looking Italian grandfather.
Rome’s Supreme Commander, Anto.
‘Did it have to go this far?’
Rome was the only team in this tournament with an understanding of formations equal to or exceeding China’s.
They could have easily transmitted something like this to Joseon during their practice match.
They didn’t teach them hoping Joseon would win and advance.
Joseon was meant to expose all of China’s cards and then face a China with nothing left.
That’s why Youbi was troubled.
‘Should I…do it here?’
Should I really show all my cards here?
His gaze turned downward again.
The encircled Chinese forces were falling apart miserably.
Following the cavalry charge spinning like a blender, now the cavalry archer unit returned and spun round and round, unleashing arrows relentlessly.
Cookie intended to completely annihilate all two hundred soldiers here.
In the end, Youbi had no choice but to acknowledge it.
This battle was Joseon’s victory.
[Retreat]
He issued the retreat order.
The Central Plains were being ceded to Joseon.

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“China is helpless! Soldiers are dying by the countless right now!!”
“No one could have predicted this! Not us! Not anyone! That Joseon would achieve such an overwhelming victory in a 200-versus-200 engagement!”
“Of course, China is churning out soldiers again right now with monstrous production capacity! But make no mistake—Joseon has completely claimed the Central Plains!?”
King Gul declared that Joseon had taken the Central Plains.
“Ah, is that so!? There’s no further reversal coming!?”
From Caster’s perspective, the battle was still raging, making it difficult to accept such a conclusion.
“From what I can see! China has already received the retreat order!?”
But King Gul’s eyes perceived it clearly.
China’s movements as they prepared to retreat, breaking through however they could.
“Cookie has probably noticed too! He’s wrestling with the choice—whether to somehow kill every last one of them without letting anyone escape, or to let them go quickly and secure the Central Plains!?”
“Shouldn’t he kill them all!?”
“Total annihilation takes time! If you aim for complete annihilation, the enemy will fight to the death!? So usually─”
──Crash!
Guan Yu, leading the vanguard, broke through the rear of the encirclement.
It was in a completely different position from where Zhang Fei had broken through.
“Aaah! We’re getting out!”
This time, the cavalry charge unit couldn’t grind them down as they escaped.
They had broken through with a formation they’d prepared, so they weren’t easily crushed.
[Liao → Jin]
China had even switched factions from the Liao Dynasty to the Jin Dynasty.
The Jin Dynasty’s formation granted special effects.
[All charges touching spears nullified]
[50% reflection damage on successful charge block]
[Movement speed reduced by 30%]
The formation they were using now was a circular formation designed to block charges, and cavalry charging into spearmen using such a formation would suffer severe counterattacks.
Joseon’s cavalry charge unit therefore couldn’t pursue them.
“So it’s just letting the rest go? Joseon doesn’t want to lose more soldiers either! They need to maintain this troop count to take the Central Plains and quickly refill to 200 before launching the next attack at the right moment!?”
Thus, China’s remnant forces were able to return to their base.
That’s what everyone thought.
Clop! Clop!
If only they hadn’t seen a single cavalry unit in the distance behind them, pursuing at a distance.
“Huh!? What is this!?”
A cavalry unit followed the formation that had scattered into disarray.
Pangeo led the vanguard.
That’s right. They were a cavalry archer unit.
“Mounted archers!?”
“Wait, are they planning to harass us the whole way!?”
The remnant soldiers led by Guan Yu employed a circular formation to withstand cavalry charges, but it offered no protection against ranged attacks.
“They’re firing!?”
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
The mounted archers scattered in all directions, unleashing arrows.
The remnant soldiers panicked as arrow barrages rained down from every direction during their retreat.
Moreover, the formation’s special effect reduced their movement speed, making them utterly defenseless against the arrows.
“We’re changing formations again!?”
Thunk.
China switched to a turtle formation, a defensive structure that increased ranged defense.
The arrows that had been striking mercilessly began to bounce off gradually.
Furthermore, the mounted archers also reduced their rate of fire.
“What!?”
But then, from far behind, the cavalry charge unit led by Maratang began pursuing them.
“Now Maratang is chasing us!?”
“What is this!? It seems like they never intended to let us escape in the first place!?”
The common weakness of defensive formations was reduced movement speed.
In other words, even if Maratang’s cavalry charge fell behind for a moment, they could catch up quickly.
“They’re catching up!?”
“China! Switch back to charge formation and run!”
So China switched to charge formations that increased movement speed and ran.
The plan was to switch back to circular formations only when the cavalry charge arrived.
“So then Pangeo’s side again! Arrow barrage!”
The moment they switched to charge formation, they became extremely vulnerable to ranged attacks.
“Ah! China is completely trapped! They can’t even turn around and fight these soldiers right now!?”
“Just take as much damage as possible until you reach your main camp! That’s what’s happening now!”
“Exactly! Pangeo! Maratang! Pang and Tang! Tang and Pang! Alternating back and forth! They’re completely stripping the remnant soldiers bare right now!”
-lmaooo
-Pang and Tang lol
Pat and Matt lol
-Hahahaha
-Is this that Tang-Pang strategy from Emperor Yongzheng or something?
“Charge and run, that’s Pang! Raise shields, that’s Tang! Pick up spears again, that’s Pang! Tang-Pang-Tang-Pang! China is going insane!!”
“Even if Guan Yu suddenly turns around and tries to stop this, the mounted archers just keep running and shooting! Ah, China has no choice! They have to make a decision!”
In the end, China abandoned the soldiers.
Only the cavalry led by Guan Yu began galloping desperately toward China’s main camp.
“No, no, no! This is way too many casualties!”
“If this was going to happen, we should have just fought directly!”
“Even if China has so many people! If they lose all of these! There won’t be many left!? China’s birth rate is catching up to ours these days!!”
-How do you even grab 0.5
That’s weird/strange
-Gasp ㅋㅋㅋ
-South Korea was the one annihilated~
-Don’t shoot! They’re allies!
hahahaha
The remaining soldiers made a final stand, but against a pursuit force mixing mounted archers and cavalry charges evenly, there was little a small contingent of soldiers could do.
“China is nearly annihilated!!”
In the end, China lost all its soldiers, with only its cavalry barely managing to escape.
“No matter how much China’s production capacity improves as the game progresses! If Joseon pushes harder after securing the Central Plains!!”
“Yes! Really! It might actually be possible!! Because the resources in the Central Plains here are so good! That’s why China was struggling to secure them in the first place!?”
A shadow of defeat hung heavily over China’s camp.
Their audience sat in silence, not a single person cheering.
The final pursuit had been such a hollow defeat from their perspective.
But then─
Boom.
“!”
King Gul’s eyes widen in shock.
[Jin → Ming]
At this moment, China had finally achieved the Ming Dynasty.

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