Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 825

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 295
96. The Beginning of the End (2)
Joseon had pushed forward and claimed nearly all the territory.
Rather than carving a straight path, they consumed the land piece by piece—what began as a mistake at first
had now become the decisive turning point.
“Even though it’s the 3rd era, Joseon has greater numbers!? And they’ll keep spending resources on soldier respawns! Essentially! They’ve already secured nearly 80% of this game! All they need to do is keep pressing!?”
“Exactly! They’re continuously reinforced from the main base! Forward barracks are even deployed! Now we just need to drive the final wedge! But the desperation they’re showing is far more intense than expected!”
“But this Civil M game! If the winning side is determined to hold on! They can really drag it out!?”
“That’s right! Buildings have quite formidable defensive capabilities!”
Real warfare had always been the same.
Extracting surrender was far easier than completely annihilating those who fought desperately to defend their own land.
Only the Mongol forces at their peak could accomplish such a feat.
“Even in raid games, you’re almost done when suddenly the desperation pattern wipes you out!? Cookie! We’re almost there! If we keep applying pressure carefully! We’ve got this!”
“China will absolutely never surrender anyway! They never have! The second match is too important—they definitely won’t! They’ll hold out until the very end!”
“Yes! We must be certain! We must cut off their lifeline completely! We can’t afford to be careless!”
At that moment, the broadcast switched.
Not a clash of infantry, but a collision between cavalry units.
“While we were speaking! Now the mounted archers are appearing! Ah~! This is intense here!”
“It’s practically a battle of pride between both sides!?”
“While not quite like Mongolia! China also has the Yuan civilization! So they must believe they can’t afford to lose here!”
“They’re galloping like madmen while shooting like madmen!”
Boom!
In the initial collision, Joseon suffered far greater casualties.
Yuan’s explosive arrows had found their marks quite effectively.
“Ahhhhhhh…!”
“Can they even do this!?”
“There’s a performance gap! After all! This is a 3rd era versus 5th era fight! This!”
-What am I even looking at
-Long-range damage is insane lol
-Wow shit…
-They can’t even escape
-Damn
-Why is the enemy vulture throwing mines?
“In an instant, Joseon’s mounted archers and China’s numbers became equal!? Though more are being reinforced from the main base! For a moment it happened!?”
“Yes! This! Once reinforced and fighting again, it’ll be fine!? So… Uh!?”
“But!? They’re turning around and charging again!? Joseon! Joseon is charging first!?”
3rd era and Ming Dynasty.
A clear performance difference was unmistakable.
Yet Joseon did not retreat.
Instead, they charged forward even more fiercely.
As if they needed no reinforcements whatsoever.
“Is, is this even possible!?”
Countless mounted archers wheeled their horses around in unison and charged forward once more.
Clop-clop! Clop-clop!
Their eyes burned with fierce determination.
It was like watching a pack of wolves continuously hurling themselves at a beast far larger than themselves.
“No! Almond’s at the front! He’s completely possessed by something right now!”
Twang─
The bowstring of Joseon’s bow was drawn taut.
“Almond is! You’re saying!? He’s attacking us with his bow!?”
The commentators shrieked in excitement.
──Whoooosh!
“Guess I forgot my own temperament!?”
The arrow was released.
But from the audience’s perspective, it wasn’t just Joseon’s arrow that flew.
“Huh!?”
“What, what’s happening!?”
“Damn it…!”
“Did we win!?”
China also fired their arrows.
To their eyes, it seemed nearly simultaneous.
But─
China’s front line crumbled.
──Thud!
Countless horses collapsed in unison, and the tremor echoed across the field.
“Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!”
The audience surged to their feet, roaring with cheers.
“We, we won! This time we won!? A perfect first strike!! However! The battle isn’t over yet!!”
In that first breath.
Only then did Joseon hold the advantage.
After that, it became a melee.
When one side fired, the other fell, and when the other fired, this side fell.
Boom!
Kaboom!
Blast!
Occasionally, explosive arrows erupted, sending two or more of Joseon’s mounted archers tumbling down entangled.
Countless horses lay bleeding across the ground, while riderless ones galloped off in every direction.
-This is insane
-Is this war?;
-So damn intense
“Scatter! Now!!”
“I can’t tell who’s shooting whom anymore!?”
“Complete individual combat! Total chaos!!”
“Reinforcements just arrived! Joseon is almost…!”
From that moment on, both sides became completely entangled, and the audience could no longer discern who was firing at whom.
But one thing was certain—
“──Right now! The red dots keep decreasing!?”
It became unmistakably clear at some point.
Joseon had far more soldiers.
Not because they started with more, but because their numbers kept growing.
In other words, China was losing more soldiers.
Whoooosh!
Whoosh!
Within the dense mesh woven by the relentlessly fired arrows, those who survived were the Joseon soldiers in blue robes.
“Joseon! Joseon has more!? Overwhelmingly more!?”
“Joseon right now! Perfect dispersal recognizing the explosive arrows! And the individual skill displayed in individual combat!!”
“Joseon’s individual skill! I never thought I’d say this! They’re overwhelming China!!!”
Instantaneous targeting while galloping on horseback, concentration, steady breathing.
Joseon was superior in every aspect.
The watching audience couldn’t believe it either.
“They were this good?”
“What is this. Seriously.”
China was one of the world’s best teams.
Holding their own against such a team was already remarkable, but each individual was displaying a level above that.
“Individual combat always flows according to individual skill!? Like man-to-man defense in basketball—the team with better weight class has the advantage! Joseon and China both trusted their skill and went into individual combat!!!”
“In the end! In the end!!”
The remaining Chinese mounted archers fought fiercely to the last, so arrows continued to fly back and forth intensely.
But the only color remaining on the battlefield was blue.
“China! Annihilated!!”
“Joseon! Achieves a decisive victory in the mounted archer battle! They’ve wiped them out! This game! They’re almost! Almost taking it!?”
-Insane
-Crazy
-Wow
-These guys are literally on another level
“Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
The audience rises as one and shouts.
Swinging their arms in ecstasy, some even shed tears.
These must be those who had supported this game from the beginning.
Some buried their faces and couldn’t even stand up.
-Is this really the pathetic Joseon we knew… My heart swells with pride.
What do I do ㅠㅠㅠ I’m so moved ㅠ
-Why are they getting so good, they must be crazy

* * *
The battlefield erupted with countless cheers.
The Mounted Archers who had sounded the victory horn were at the point of raising both hands high and roaring in triumph.
Yet the war was still in full swing.
The duel between the Mounted Archer units had ended, but the Balmun Geumseoljin remained, and Guan Yu’s iron-clad cavalry swept through our soldiers whenever an opening appeared.
“A massive catch!”
Perhaps because of this, only Pangeo, who was in charge of cheering, roared the victory with overflowing fighting spirit.
It felt like he was doing what everyone wanted to do.
But then, a dark shadow fell over him.
“?”
Pangeo looked up, wondering what it was.
‘Ah.’
He recognized its identity the moment he saw it.
But it was already too late.
──Boom!
Pangeo vanished into smoke.
Only a massive, dented cannonball remained in that spot.
“!”
All the Mounted Archers looked toward that place in unison.
“What, what!? The stone cannon was aiming here!?”
They thought the ambushed stone cannon had targeted this location.
But that wasn’t it.
“It’s the castle! The cannon was fired from the castle!”
Danggeun pointed upward.
China’s palace had completed its artillery defense upgrade.
“….”
I was at a loss for words.
It wasn’t because of the upgrade.
‘When did we get this far.’
What surprised me was that we had unknowingly entered within the firing range of the enemy palace.
“It looks like they’ll fire again?”
Fortunately, this time only Pangeo was a casualty thanks to the formation we had dispersed in advance, but if they fired multiple times, it would be different.
“We need to fall back to the main force first….”
“No.”
I shook my head.
The Cavalry Archer Unit still had a role to play in this war.
I recalled the moment when I was under Choi Sun-sin’s control.
She refused to release any unit that had been targeted by the enemy tower, constantly keeping it in motion.
By tying down the tower with that single unit, she freed the rest to fight unimpeded.
Imagine if that palace tower fired upon the infantry clustered in small groups instead.
Dozens of casualties would erupt in an instant.
“Make it shoot here again. The tower operates on automatic fire unless the Commander personally intervenes.”
“!”
Everyone’s faces went pale.
“The cannon fire should be coming at us.”
His wish was granted with remarkable ease.
Click─
Since the Mounted Archers were closest, the tower simply swiveled its dark muzzle toward them once more.
──Boom!
The instant that muzzle erupted with flame.
“Charge!!”
I burst forward immediately, barking orders to everyone.
We all scattered in every direction, spreading as far apart as possible.
There was no way to know which of us the cannonball was targeting.
“!”
Everyone realized who the shot was aimed at.
“Phew.”
They exhaled in relief.
In the midst of it all, Danggeun muttered.
“The guy who said let’s play rock-paper-scissors loses.”
The cannonball was relentlessly pounding away at my rear.
Boom!
Bang!
“Keep your distance and follow!”
“Roger!”
The Cavalry Archer units began regrouping at a safe distance, while I sprinted frantically back and forth with the cannonball clinging to my tail.
Keeping their distance from Almond, who was running frantically back and forth with shells stuck to his tail, the mounted archer units began to regroup.

* * *
The broadcast switched back to the infantry battle.
This was the major engagement with the most participants in the entire war.
The Balmun Geumseoljin formation with China’s Ming Dynasty-equipped forces against Joseon’s army, equipped with 3rd-era weapons but vastly outnumbering them and brimming with momentum.
“Ah! Yes, is that really the Balmun Geumseoljin!? It’s so hard to break through!”
“The building bombardment upgrade is just too powerful right now!? No matter how much reinforcements keep! Keep arriving! You can’t just pour them in like this!”
“No, even with artillery support! It’s amazing enough that they’re forming such a formation with so few numbers! But the fact that it’s actually working is even more incredible!?”
The Balmun Geumseoljin is originally a large-scale military formation executed with thousands of soldiers.
Currently, China is executing that formation with approximately a hundred.
Naturally, it couldn’t be exactly the same formation, and it’s fair to say it’s essentially a new formation unique to the current commander Youbi.
That’s why they saved this strategy for the very end.
“It’s blocked again! The numbers keep increasing…!?”
“The fact that the Balmun Geumseoljin responds no matter where it goes! When Cookie was toying with it using cavalry earlier! It was fine!? But now it really feels like a wall!”
“And! China’s ace spearman unit! How many are there per person right now!? This!?”
In infantry-to-infantry combat, China was overwhelmingly dominant.
The formation itself forced opponents to enter in predetermined groups, so having larger numbers only meant reduced stamina.
-Terrifying
-Spearmen are actually insane
-Did they all get possessed by Zhang Fei?
-Still almost won!
“Joseon! I think advancing slowly would be better? Isn’t this pushing too hard!? There are more reinforcements coming from behind!? Siege weapons are coming too!?”
“Ah but! Even the cavalry!”
“Ah! Guan Yu is coming forward as vanguard again! The rear is in trouble!”
“Whoa!? If Guan Yu’s cavalry cuts off the supply route for reinforcements! This could be bad!”
Guan Yu’s cavalry is attempting to cut off the reinforcements coming from behind.
But then, King Gul’s eyes widen in surprise.
“Huh!? But that mounted archer! What is that!?”
Suddenly, a single mounted archer bursts into the entrance of the Balmun Geumseoljin formation, then simply whooshes straight through the middle of the battlefield where Joseon and China’s forces are clashing.
[Retreat]
In response, Joseon’s army instantly pulls back.
As Joseon’s army suddenly retreats, China’s forces tumble forward after them—
“!”
──KABOOOOM!!
A cannonball lands right on that spot.
-LMAO
-That’s genius
-This is Joseon’s Vulture~
You’re crazy lolololol
Almonds without seasoning lolololol
Hahaha, wow
-Haha, no way!
“Your artillery is absolutely insane!?”
King Gul, trembling with excitement, roared at the top of his lungs.
‘This is bad.’
Youbi’s face reflected on the screen contorted more severely than ever before.
‘It’s broken through…!’
Meanwhile, Cookie’s expression was openly graced with a smile.
It was as though he had smiled for the first time since the match began.
His hand reached for the final white stone—the decisive move.
[Advance]
The command was transmitted to Coffee and Bread.
The advance order was marked directly at China’s palace.
Screech!
Bread took the vanguard, drawing the commander’s blade.
Behind her, a dozen mounted cavalry charged in formation.
Every horse’s head turned in unison, instantly forming the shape of a single arrow.
Clatter! Clatter!
This cavalry unit—Joseon’s final arrow—charged toward the objective with all their might.

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