"What is that?" A Xiongnu soldier stared wide-eyed at the dense rain of arrows flying in from the distant sky like locusts.
"Arrow rain is coming!" the Xiongnu shouted, quickly dismounting and taking cover behind his horse. Hearing the shout, the other Xiongnu also noticed the approaching arrows and began to frantically dismount, trying to escape. Faced with such a dense hail of arrows, ordinary small shields were of little use, let alone enough to dodge. They didn't carry large enough shields, so they could only use their horses for cover.
"Puff puff puff puff..."
A dense rain of arrows fell in the blink of an eye. Arrows over a meter long shot down at lightning speed like a dense downpour, and the sound of sharp arrows piercing flesh rang out briefly and frequently.
A second later, the rain of arrows fell. Before the Xiongnu army, the iron arrows were planted like rice seedlings, embedded in the ground and in the corpses of men and horses. Blood splattered everywhere from their wounds, and the mournful neighing of warhorses and the screams of Xiongnu soldiers rose and fell. Hundreds of warhorses and Xiongnu soldiers within range were pinned to the ground. Even those who survived were unable to move and could only groan in agony. Even those who managed to hide under their horses were often wounded. Wang Han's arrows not only had a range several times greater than those of ordinary bows, but their speed, power, and penetrating force were also several times stronger.
Those Xiongnu who were not hit by the arrow rain felt a chill run down their spines upon seeing the tragic state of their companions and quickly retreated some distance.
"The effect is not bad. It's just that the arrowheads are a bit ordinary. Next time, I'll have to bring some arrows with special arrowheads." Wang Han glanced at the spot where the arrow rain had fallen and saw that no one was standing there. He nodded with satisfaction, took out another iron arrow, nocked it on his bow, drew the bow to its full extent, raised it higher, and aimed at a position in the center of the Xiongnu formation. This time, Wang Han planned to expend most of his energy to let the arrow rain cover all the Xiongnu soldiers. He also used a triple-speed booster on the arrows to make their power even more terrifying and their penetration even stronger. Wang Han had experimented before and found that an iron arrow with three times the speed (a speed of over 300 meters per second) was enough to pierce through a tree 20 centimeters thick. Even if it wasn't an armor-piercing arrowhead, even if the Xiongnu were hiding under their horses, it would be enough to shoot through them, horse and rider.
"call out……"
With Wang Han's increased strength, which consumed most of his energy, the number of iron arrows he fired increased rapidly at an astonishing rate, exceeding 100,000 in the blink of an eye, and was still increasing rapidly, to 200,000, 300,000, 500,000, until it exceeded one million before stopping.
The rain of arrows, blotting out the sky, flew rapidly toward the Xiongnu at a speed of over 300 meters per second.
"We've been ambushed! These arrows were fired from at least several hundred meters away using heavy crossbows. Retreat!" The Xiongnu leader analyzed the situation, ordering his troops to retreat after watching hundreds fall to the ground in a hail of arrows. He hadn't expected the arrows to be fired by the very man they feared, Marquis Dingshan, because in his understanding, it was impossible for one person to fire tens of thousands of arrows simultaneously. He assumed it was the army of a Han dynasty vassal lord; tens of thousands of arrows coming at once meant a large army was involved. Even a charge from several hundred meters away would incur significant losses. They were there to plunder; too many casualties would make a victory a losing proposition. If they were bogged down and Marquis Dingshan found them, it would be the end for them. Therefore, he decided to retreat with the looted supplies.
Upon hearing their leader's order, the Xiongnu who had not been hit by the arrows began to turn their horses around and prepare to retreat.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."
Before they could retreat, an even denser rain of arrows, almost obscuring the sunlight, came hurtling towards them.
The Xiongnu soldiers were stunned and dumbfounded by the rain of arrows that blocked out the sunlight. The terror of death enveloped all of them.
"It's over," the Xiongnu leader said in despair, looking at the rain of arrows falling from the sky.
The iron arrows fell like a black rainstorm, striking the Xiongnu soldiers in the blink of an eye. Their speed was so great that the Xiongnu soldiers had no chance to dodge.
"Thud thud thud thud thud..." The sound of sharp arrows piercing flesh rang out and stopped instantly.
After the black arrow rain, only a third of the black arrow tails remained, resembling lush foxtail grass, almost completely covering the land below.
The original Xiongnu soldiers and their horses all fell, with not a single survivor. Every Xiongnu soldier and every warhorse was pierced by dozens of sharp arrows, which penetrated two-thirds of their bodies, leaving only a small portion of the arrow tails.
"The stamina consumed by the Multiplier Hack and the Giant Hack are about the same. It seems that both of these hacks consume stamina based on the increased mass." Looking at the area hundreds of meters away that had been blackened by the rain of arrows, which covered all the Hun soldiers, Wang Han analyzed the situation for a moment, then put away his powerful bow and took out his sickle again as he walked over.
Looking at the Xiongnu soldiers he had slain with his arrows, Wang Han did not deal with the battlefield. Although it would be difficult to explain if someone noticed anything amiss, especially with so many iron arrows, and the fact that all the arrows he used were made of black iron and much longer than ordinary arrows, there were simply too many of them, and there wasn't enough time. So he simply sat down and rested. He would just say that the Xiongnu were already dead when he arrived, and that he hadn't brought any bows and arrows with him. His men wouldn't be so tactless as to pry into the matter.
Not long after, Zhao Liu and Wu Yong arrived on horseback, while Zheng Dian drove a carriage carrying Cai Yan, accompanied by Wang Han's white rhinoceros.
When the group arrived at the battlefield, they were stunned to see the large army of Xiongnu soldiers being shot down like wheat pierced by arrows.
Zhao Liu quickly stepped forward and asked Wang Han, who was resting to the side, "My lord, are you alright?"
"I'm fine," Wang Han said.
Hearing Wang Han say that everything was alright, Zhao Liu observed the situation and, seeing that there were indeed no injuries, breathed a sigh of relief. Unable to contain his curiosity, he asked Wang Han, "My lord, what happened?"
“They were already dead when I arrived. I don’t know who killed them. They were like this when I came,” Wang Han said, shaking his head. “I just checked. Fortunately, I didn’t find any of the women they had abducted among the pile of corpses.”
After saying that, Wang Han said to Zhao Liu, "Let's spend the night nearby. After Zhou Qi arrives with the soldiers from Shangdang City, let them clean up the battlefield before we continue our journey."
"Yes, my lord." Zhao Liu accepted the order and hurried to choose a location to set up the tent. It would take at least until dawn tomorrow to get the troops back from Shangdang City.
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