Chapter 23: The Battle of the City Gate

  "This is nothing, I heard that someone in the Overlord's Manor has been reborn as Cao Cao's son, now that's what I call awesome!" Another person said with disdain, revealing a secret they thought was even more valuable, scaring Xiao Ying so much she almost tumbled down the hill. Cao Cao's son? How old is Cao Cao now, and how old is that player? If he remembered correctly, Cao Cao was born in February 155 AD, so he should be around 26 years old now. That player can't be more than 12 or 13 years old even if he dies trying."

  "It's not just that, I heard that someone in the Emperor's Society has been reborn as the eldest son of Han Lingdi, and it's likely that he'll become the emperor in the future!" Another shocking gossip came out, and although Xiaoying was a bit skeptical, she had to admit that the official website had indeed mentioned that players might be reincarnated as descendants of famous Three Kingdoms figures. It was...it was just too damn lucky. Although those famous Three Kingdoms figures wouldn't necessarily listen to them or pass on their positions, their conditions and starting points were already far superior to those of other players.

  "But... I have a friend of a friend of a friend who was reborn as Liu Bei's younger brother!" Another piece of gossip, ignore it!

  "What's the big deal, my classmate has been reborn as Sun Jian's son, Sun Ce's older brother!" Xiao Ying was already numb, even if he were to be reborn as Lü Bu's father, he wouldn't find it strange anymore, if Lü Bu's father were still alive at this age.

  ……

  One after another astonishing gossip spewed out from a pile of outsiders' mouths, most of which were still believable. Those who came to watch the commotion were mostly restless or gossipy people, and many knew some news that others didn't know, not at all surprising.

  "Enough! Let's start fighting!" A loud shout interrupted the bickering or mutual comparison among those players, and everyone hastily looked towards the battlefield, and indeed the fight had already begun.

  A cluster of arrow clouds flew towards the wall head with a cold light, and another cluster of arrowheads tore through the air and flew towards the outside of the city wall. It was indeed a cluster, not a single branch; Ant-like knife-shield soldiers climbed onto the city wall, falling down like dumplings, those who were lucky enough to climb high were chopped down by the mountain bandits on the city wall and fell to their deaths, while those who were lucky enough not to climb up were crushed to death by the stones falling from the top of the city wall. The battering ram, weighing tens of tons, moved forward a few steps like a turtle climbing a mountain, "Boom!" A loud noise, and it was immediately bounced back, knocking down countless warriors stuck to the giant wood, getting up, and then moving forward again; Outside the castle, on the battlefield, row upon row of cavalrymen were densely packed, looking magnificent. The war horses stepped on the ground with a "thud", "thud" sound, and puffed out white breaths, it was unknown whether the war horses were also tense or the scene was too intense.

  The game is too realistic, you see! On the battlefield, many people are already bent over and vomiting violently. The battlefield is crowded with people like ants, lives as worthless as grass. The city walls inside and outside have been completely dyed red, greasy and crimson, making people feel sick to their stomachs. Corpses are scattered all over the place like dried hay, piled up in layers, with all sorts of strange shapes and missing limbs...

  Although NPCs can be recruited with money, there's not much difference between them and players, they're just locals. Looking at the thick red layer at the city gate, I don't know how to rush in later, the system won't refresh immediately. In this scene, many men couldn't bear it and vomited profusely, but surprisingly, some women stood upright and solemnly looked at the city wall, not feeling sick at all, because their leader who felt sick had run off somewhere to vomit, leaving behind only female NPCs...

  "Boom!" A loud crash, the thick and sturdy city gate finally couldn't withstand the heavy blow, and was smashed into several pieces. The Xiaoyao Gang cavalry hadn't even had time to charge up when those who didn't have time to retreat were already solved by the mountain bandit cavalry that rushed out, either beheaded or trampled or crushed. It seems that the leader of the NPC mountain bandits is not a fool either. Without waiting for the Xiaoyao Gang cavalry to charge up, he first used his own cavalry to occupy the narrow space of the city gate. The Xiaoyao Gang army was numerous, so they would fight slowly.

  Unfortunately, things often go against one's wishes. Those cavalrymen who charged out were immediately shot and killed by the strong archers, crossbowmen, and female soldiers behind them. Don't underestimate those female soldiers - with a soft cry, they would throw flying knives left and right, just like Little Li's mother's small knife, one knife for each target, of course, there were so many mountain bandits that even if you closed your eyes and threw randomly, you could still hit a few.

  As the city wall was breached, the long-range attacks of the mountain bandits on the city wall were also suppressed. The knife shield hands of the Wandering Gang swarmed up, and the city wall lost its defense. Next, let's start the internal war (fighting inside the fortress). Tens of thousands of cavalrymen rushed to the city gate like several steel ice streams, directly charging in. Suddenly, intense killing cries were heard again. It is said that tens of millions of mountain bandits died on the city wall, but this was just the beginning of the play.

  "Charge! Let's go get some experience!" The city gate had already been broken, and the enemy was already inside fighting. Seeing that this so-called external army was still standing there in a daze, Xiao Ying suddenly let out a loud roar and led nearly 200 troops to charge out first. The others followed closely behind, shouting loudly as they charged forward with me. Xiao Ying intentionally slowed down her speed and soon blended into the external army's thousands-strong troop. Now that we've exposed ourselves, how are we going to do any bad things later?!

  "Charge! Let's go get some experience!" Over a thousand external troops shouted as they charged forward, some of them actually rushing into the city gate. Some people started fighting over the ownerless items on the battlefield, which made most of the carefree helpers shake their heads in disdain. Although the external troops' behavior was a bit despicable, the carefree helpers didn't stop them. After all, the things outside weren't worth much, and the players' storage space wasn't that big either. They couldn't pick up many things even if they wanted to, so it wasn't necessary to damage the reputation of the carefree helpers for those cheap items. The reputation after the battle still had to be established by the external troops anyway, just consider it as prepaid payback.

  Following the charge of some irregular troops, Xiao Ying quietly and stealthily changed into the cavalry equipment and weapons of the Piaoyou Gang on the battlefield. The valley was a vast space of nearly 100 miles in diameter, with hundreds of thousands of troops fighting together in confusion, and at this time, there was no longer any formation to speak of. This space was very large, but there were also many obstacles, making it impossible to deploy formations smoothly. If the formation was deployed well, it would be chaotic immediately, so they simply charged forward individually, without any particular rules, as long as they could kill more enemies.

  After a chaotic battle that lasted for several hours, the Youxia Guild army, which was several times larger than the mountain bandit army, quickly gained an overwhelming advantage and gradually defeated the mountain bandits. The bandits retreated to their inner camp in disarray. Xiang Ying blended into the Youxia Guild cavalry and entered the inner camp unnoticed. She quietly distanced herself from her troops, silently picked up a bandit's corpse, and swiftly changed into the bandit's clothes in an unguarded spot. She then ran towards what seemed like an important location within the inner camp. Unless Xiang Ying spoke up, no one would know whether she was a player or an NPC, except for those who knew her.