Fresh blood dripped from the gash on Dian Wei’s cheek. The bald giant touched his face. He stared at the dark red liquid on his palm. His smile didn’t fade, instead it grew more savage and terrifying. “You’re really asking to be crushed to the bone, you Black Pig!” Dian Wei roared. Without another word, Dian Wei charged forward. His two giant, one-hundred-and-sixty-kilogram halberds spun like deadly propellers. His attacks no longer had a rhythm. It was the pure rage of a wounded devil. Zhang Fei gritted his teeth. His left arm hung limply, useless. He could only rely on his right hand, which was already trembling severely. CLANG! CLANG! CRACK! Clash after clash occurred. Every time the Serpent Spear blocked the double halberds, Zhang Fei’s knees bent slightly. The ground around him was shattered into small craters. On the

The light drizzle that had wet Jo Fan's cheek only lasted for a few breaths. The sky over Xuzhou, which had been dark and heavy, could no longer hold its watery burden. A roar of thunder exploded, splitting the clouds. In the next second, millions of cubic feet of water poured from the sky like a giant curtain being dropped on the earth. The first storm after months of a long drought had finally hit the land that was filled with the smell of death. The heavy rain washed over the stone streets of the Xuzhou east gate courtyard. The thick pools of blood that had covered the ground were slowly washed away, flowing into small, dark red rivulets toward the city's sewers. Outside the shattered gate, the hundred thousand elite Wei troops who had just begun their death march suddenly lost their momentum. The open-field warfare tactic that relied on massive numbers and heavy armor had now backfired. The dusty

“Lieutenant! Take command!” Zhao Yun roared, wheeling his white horse around. “What do you mean, General?! Where are you going?!” the lieutenant shouted in confusion, while parrying an enemy’s attack. “You hold them here! Tie up this entire Tiger troop in close combat! Don’t let a single one of them chase me!” Zhao Yun commanded in a voice that accepted no argument. “I’m going on alone.” “But General, that’s suicide! You won’t be able to break through their rear line by yourself!” “This is an absolute order! Hold them even if you have to die in this mud!” Zhao Yun didn't wait for another reply. The knight released his horse’s reins. He planted both his feet on the saddle, then leaped high into the air, leaving his horse in the middle of the crowd. &ldqu

The dawn light broke very slowly, as if even the sun was reluctant to see the horror that lay below. The storm that had raged all night had finally stopped. The gray clouds slowly parted, allowing the morning light to sweep over the plains in front of the Xuzhou city gate. However, there was no longer a vast plain where a hundred thousand Wei soldiers had stood proud the previous afternoon. The valley in front of Xuzhou had transformed into a giant, dark brown mud lake. The scene on the surface of the mud was a pure manifestation of hell. Tens of thousands of Wei soldiers’ corpses floated stiffly. Warhorses, bloated from drowning, were stuck among the wreckage of the destroyed tents. The giant wooden machines, the Trebuchets and siege towers that had once been an apocalyptic threat to Xuzhou, were now just splinters of rotten wood, drifting helplessly. Nature had swept away human arrogance in just a matter of minut

The sea of men in black armor truly charged into the pool of death. Tens of thousands of heavy Wei infantry, driven by an absolute hunger and desperation, began to descend the hillside. They planted their iron boots into the expanse of the Si River’s floodwaters. By the tenth step, the horror of this natural tactic swallowed them whole. The ground in front of the Xuzhou gate was not ordinary mud. It was a knee-deep swampy sediment created from a mixture of clay, floodwater, and the blood from the previous battle. “My leg! I can’t pull my leg out!” a soldier in the Wei front rank shrieked. His face was pale as he tried to lift his foot, but the suction of the mud pulled him even deeper. “Don’t stop! Keep moving forward!” a Wei captain ordered from behind. But the command was completely useless. The Qingzhou infantry soldiers were wearing e