Chapter 122
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Chapter 122: Is That Boasting a Bit Too Much?
In the evening, the slowly setting sun cast a golden cloak over the surrounding rolling hills.
A group of barbarians, returning from a hunt, carried their day’s harvest on their way back to their tribe.
Suddenly, with a soft thud, before anyone could react, one middle-aged barbarian only felt a black shadow flash before his eyes.
By the time he came to his senses, a slender wooden stick had already plunged into the mud behind him!
“Enemies! Enemies!!”
Although they didn’t know what the wooden stick was, they had undoubtedly been attacked.
The barbarians all shouted loudly, alerting their companions.
“Look! They’re over there!!”
After a quick scan, the archer squad, previously hidden behind the distant high ground, immediately revealed their whereabouts.
He Yan, as the squad leader, looked terrible.
The situation was sudden, and he had no time to scold the rookie who had mistakenly fired an arrow.
He quickly shouted.
“Fire arrows!”
“Everyone, fire arrows!!”
Hearing He Yan’s command to fire, the face of the squad member who had made the mistake earlier turned pale, and his mind went blank.
Their captain’s previous command was only to draw the bow, but because he was too nervous, the hand pulling the bow slipped, causing him to accidentally release the arrow.
To make matters worse, it missed completely.
What should have been a perfectly planned ambush was ruined by his single mistake!
It also exposed the position of the entire squad.
At this moment, he didn’t know what to do until He Yan’s voice woke him up!
“How much longer are you going to stand there?”
“Fire!!”
He Yan, also a squad leader for the first time, felt a surge of frustration as he glared at the stunned squad member.
The squad member immediately snapped back to attention, then fumbled to pull arrows from the quiver on his back.
With a clatter, a whole quiver of arrows spilled onto the ground.
His clumsy movements made Guo Jia, hiding behind the high ground, cover his face.
He had expected these new recruits to cause some problems, but he hadn’t anticipated them coming so quickly and being so dreadful.
The performance of the other three rookie archers was no better.
Their arrows were released quite swiftly, but the problem was that not a single one hit the target.
He could see tension and impatience in the eyes of the three new recruits.
The two emotions mixed together, making their drawing and firing actions faster and faster, but their accuracy lower and lower.
He Yan gritted his teeth and simply stopped speaking.
He, who was usually so calm, was almost infuriated to the point of losing his composure by these rookies.
Taking a deep breath, He Yan’s actions of drawing and setting an arrow showed clear experience.
With a ‘whoosh,’ the arrow left the string and immediately embedded itself into the shoulder of one of the barbarians, almost taking his life.
It salvaged some face, but the overall situation was already irreversible…
According to Guo Jia’s original plan, the archer squad, ambushed behind the high ground, would first use a volley to injure or directly kill a few barbarians.
Then, they would continuously fire to restrain the enemy, buying time for the shield-axemen squad that was circling to flank them.
However, due to one mistake, the archer squad was exposed prematurely.
Coupled with the terrible performance of the rookie archers, they provided almost no restraint.
Even with He Yan’s experienced archery skills, one person with one bow couldn’t stop a group of barbarians!
By the time the shield-axemen squad circled to the bottom, the group of barbarians had already fled, and Zhou Yue and his men found nothing.
Guo Jia’s first attempt at devising tactics and commanding a battle was officially declared a failure at this moment…
As night fell, the rookie archer who had made a big mistake stood there with his head bowed, not daring to even breathe loudly.
His terrible performance clearly earned him a scolding from He Yan.
The other three rookies, witnessing this scene, all showed a hint of relief in their eyes.
However, this subtle change in their expressions was clearly seen by He Yan.
The effect, for He Yan, was like adding fuel to the fire.
“What? Are you happy?”
“Do you think you performed well?”
“I can shoot straighter with my eyes closed than you!”
The three individuals who were suddenly targeted by He Yan all shrank their necks but showed a hint of disdain in their eyes, thinking they had just run into their captain’s wrath.
One of them even muttered directly.
“Shooting with eyes closed, isn’t that boasting a bit too much…”
Unexpectedly, before he could finish muttering, He Yan, standing there, closed his eyes, drew his bow, and set an arrow.
As the arrow shot out, with a “thud,” it directly struck the main trunk of a large tree fifty meters away.
Opening his eyes again, He Yan didn’t even turn his head.
He just looked at his dumbfounded squad members, then pointed to the distant tree with a thin trunk.
“At this distance, standing in this position, whoever hits it before dinner eats.”
“If you don’t hit it, you’ll go hungry!”
Seeing the miserable state of the four new archers, the few new recruits under Zhou Yue’s command exchanged glances and simultaneously thought.
“Luckily we’re not in the archer squad…”
However, as soon as this thought arose, the four new recruits noticed their squad leader Zhou Yue looking at them with a smiling expression, which instantly made their hearts pound.
“Squad… Squad Leader?”
“Alright, don’t just sit there. This temporary camp isn’t very big. Anyway, first run fifty laps around the camp.”
“Fifty laps?! Why? We didn’t make a mistake today! What does this have to do with us??”
Hearing this, the four new recruits of the shield-axemen squad looked utterly bewildered.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, Zhou Yue, who had been amiable a moment ago, suddenly darkened his expression.
“On the way to flank them, you four were dragging your feet.”
“Did you think I wouldn’t notice?!”
“Fifty laps and that’s already lenient because you’ve only trained for half a month and are still new recruits.”
“Otherwise, what you did back then would be equivalent to desertion!”
“According to military rules, you should be exiled!”
Upon hearing Zhou Yue utter the words “exiled,” the faces of the four new recruits visibly paled.
Being exiled from the tribe, though not a death sentence, was not far from it.
“Why are you still standing there?”
“Start running!”
“If you don’t finish, you won’t eat either!”
A charge of desertion slammed directly onto their heads.
At this moment, how dare they delay any longer?
They quickly lined up and started running laps around the temporary camp.
Meanwhile, Luo Ji, completely unaware of what was happening in the otherworld, was yawning as he slowly walked into the city library, which had just opened.
