Chương 117: Hua vs Wen Chou

The enemy army stopped their attack on Boma and focused on the retreating Cao Cao who had his back to them instead of Boma from where the blazing arrow came from. It was too dangerous to attack Boma if more arrows like the one before hit the army again.

Yun looked at the movement of the army and sighed while saying, "I might have overdone it by using the Sun Piercing Arrow."

The others looked at him confused when they hear, "Saddle up, we are going to attack the rear of the enemy."

Lu Bu and Hua were excited to hear that as they grabbed their weapon ready to fight while Dian Wei only sighs knowing that it would be a hard day today as well as they see the enemy army passing Boma trying to attack Cao Cao's rear.

Guan Yu could see a banner with the name Liu written on it in the enemy army and his hope for meeting his brothers lit up while Zhang Liao was keeping a close eye on the east.

At the same time to the east of Boma, Xian and Wei Yan have arrived with five thousand men. They could see the enemy army ignoring the city of Boma and instead they approach the retreating army of Cao Cao.

"Should we help them?" asks Wei Yan a bit nervous since it had been some months since he fought in a war this important.

Xian was looking at the sky seeing the movement Shadow was doing when he sees Shadow fly towards the south of Boma. He pulls his binoculars out and looks through them and sees six riders leave the city with one of them having a banner strapped to his back with the name Zhao on it.

"We are reinforcing the retreating army," says Xian as he turns to the veterans standing behind him.

"You all swore an oath when you entered this army knowing well that the day would come when we would leave our bodies on the ground for a greater cause. The enemy must be outnumbering us by ten men for every man we have," says Xian beginning his speech.

"But your Lord, my son, is fighting said army with only five men beside him. If we stay still we will be the laughingstock of the whole Empire. We, the veterans, that have seen far worse things following him. Let us show the enemy what we are made of and drive them back from where they came!" shouts Xian finishing his speech rallying the army which is made of the strongest soldiers Yun has in his army.

They begin to move to try to catch up to close the distance between the enemy and themselves while an aura manifests out of their sheer willpower showing that they were ready to give their lives today to bring honor and glory to their Lord and Family Name.

Cao Cao was fighting the enemy army that has encircled him. Yu Jin and Xu Chu were by his side making sure that he would make it out alive of this battle.

The enemy generals show themselves as Liu Bei his former ally that betrayed him some months ago and Wen Chou one of Yuan Shao's Greatest Generals. Wen Chou seemed to take out Cao Cao's soldiers easily while Liu Bei seemed to struggle beside him.

"We need to get Cao Cao's head today as revenge for what they did to General Yan Liang!" shouts Wen Chou to his soldiers rallying them up while Cao Cao's morale was plummeting down because of Wen Chou's actions.

"The enemy is approaching our flank!" shouts a person making Liu Bei and Wen Chou look at their flank seeing a small army approaching them.

An aura of strength was covering the army when they hear, "The enemy is approaching our rear!"

"How many?" asks Wen Chou loudly when one of the soldiers which used to be from Yan Liang's army dropped his weapon and ran away creating chaos in Wen Chou's and Liu Bei's ranks.

"Not again!" shouts one of the soldiers in panic as he remembers what happened the last time the six riders attacked them.

"What is going on?" asks Liu Bei nervous not knowing why the soldiers were in a panic when the six riders seemed to just break their formation easily with their charge when he sees familiar faces which made him go pale.

"What is wrong, Liu Bei?" asks Wen Chou calmly trying to not show his nervousness to put his soldiers at ease showing that he was still in control of the situation.

"It can't be," says Liu Bei in disbelief when he almost fell from his horse if it wasn't for Zhang Fei because of what he was seeing.

He was seeing his brother Guan Yu fighting beside his worst Nemesis, the person that antagonized him since they meet, Zhao Yun. Liu Bei felt betrayed seeing Guan Yu fight beside Yun and the others.

"Brother, don't be betrayed by your eyes. Our brother must have joined General Zhao temporarily to save his life after we abandoned him in Xiapi. Don't let your feelings cloud your judgment," whispers Zhang Fei trying to make Liu Bei see reason but a crack appeared in the brotherhood that Liu Bei and Guan Yu have from seeing this scene.

"The six riders are General Zhao and his trusted commanders," says Liu Bei not mentioning Guan Yu as his brother because of what he was seeing.

Wen Chou looked at the riders who were breaking through his ranks easily when he noticed that the army that was flanking them already reached them. The army was holding the same banner as the six riders were riding under when he realized that he ran into an ambush.

"Retreat!" shouts Wen Chou when suddenly a spear came for his head.

Wen Chou evades the attack but his helmet drops to the ground and Wen Chou looked at one of the riders who was riding a white horse when he says, "Are you, General Zhao?"

"You could say so," says Hua with a smile on his face.

It was finally his turn to show his abilities to everyone as he faced Wen Chou to leave a mark in history. His horse rushed at Wen Chou's horse before Wen Chou pulls the on the leash making his horse stand on its hind legs.

Hua does the same and his horse does the same before it bites into the neck of Wen Chou's horse. Wen Chou was surprised that Hua's horse would do that but Hua wasn't since his horse had to compete with Thunder almost its whole life.

Hua's horse had to compete against Thunder on the training field and the battlefield. It learned a trick or two from its competitor and now it is using it against its opponent.

Wen Chou was thrown from his horse and Hua jumped from his horse leaving it to kill Wen Chou's horse. Hua was grasping his spear tightly making sure it wouldn't leave his hands by accident from the excitement he was feeling at the moment.

Wen Chou stood up from the ground and pulled his sword out of his sheath before taking it in both hands standing ready to fight Hua who engaged first by spear-rushing at Wen Chou.

Wen Chou covers his sword in Water Qi and deflects Hua's spear before aiming for Hua's chest. Hua sees it and changes the angle of his spear making it pierce the ground before using the flexibility of his spear to catapult himself over Wen Chou.

Wen Chou only pierced the air before he swings his sword while turning around toward Hua who uses the Fire Qi to coat the shaft of his spear to block the attack.

Hua is pushed back by some centimeters before attacking Wen Chou who accidentally created distance between himself and Hua because of his previous attack, giving Hua the advantage again with his reach.

Hua begins a barrage of piercing attacks trying to injure Wen Chou who seemed to see triple because of the feints Hua mixed in his attack. Wen Chou had some trouble dealing with this attack.

He gets cut on his right cheek and left thigh while trying to approach Hua who was stationary using the barrage but before Wen Chou could get too close to Hua, Hua would just uses the shaft to hit Wen Chou's sides and created distance between himself and Wen Chou again.

Hua knows that he needs to have the advantage since he is using Fire Qi which isn't strong against Wen Chou's Water Qi.

Flashback to Yun's and Hua's childhood, Yun was fourteen years old as he was training his younger brother, Hua, in combat.

Hua was using Fire Qi while Yun was using Water Qi countering him before sending his little brother to the ground.

"Hua, you need to learn that your Fire Qi will always be vulnerable against Water Qi. If you meet someone using it you need to do just one thing to defeat him," says Yun to Hua trying to teach his brother.

"And that would be?" asks Hua curious about it since he wanted to use it against Yun.

"You need to overpower by using your brain and Qi. If you fight someone with a sword use your distance. If you fight someone with a polearm use your ferociousness to bring him down," says Yun to Hua knowing that his brother had it inside of him to become a Monster equal to himself if he used his ferociousness.

"Sometimes to win you need to be able to take a calculated hit before killing your opponent," says Yun to Hua who was looking at Yun confused making Yun smile before petting his head and he says, "One day you will understand what I just told you."

Back on the battlefield, Hua took a deep breath and let go of his rationality suddenly becoming bigger in Wen Chou's eyes as his body began to be covered in Fire Qi slowly.

Wen Chou was seeing a Fire Giant standing before him as Hua's eyes turned blood red and his spear seemed to grow to match Hua's stature. Wen Chou began to gather Water Qi trying to match Hua before he desperately swings his sword at Hua.

Hua grabs his spear beneath the tip before taking a step inside standing right before Wen Chou who connected with Hua's ribcage but the hit was too shallow because it was the end over the guard that connected with Hua's ribcage and not the tip of the sword.

Hua then attacks Wen Chou almost point-blank as he rams his spear tip into Wen Chou's throat killing him with this strike before using his spear tip to rip Wen Chou's head from his shoulder and roaring into the air while holding the head of his enemy in his free hand. This ended the battle between Cao Cao's troops and Wen Chou's troops.

At the same time as the battle took place between Hua and Wen Chou, Guan Yu found his brother looking at him in disbelief and mistrust before a smile replaced it.

"Guan Yu, it is nice to see you again, brother," says Liu Bei in a happy tone when Guan Yu jumps from Fang's horse and walks towards his brothers.

"Brother, I did my best to keep my sisters-in-law alive by selling myself to General Zhao. He will keep them safe until we find a place in which we can stay. He will send them afterward," says Guan Yu kneeling on one knee while holding his left fist in his right palm.

"If we retreat right now we could use the chaos to our advantage," says Guan Yu suggesting to leave the battlefield since they wouldn't gain anything if they fought for either side, not like Yun and his men.

Liu Bei didn't know what to do now. He only had two thousand men left from his previous twenty thousand men. Yuan Shao had promised him the Xu Province if Yuan Shao was successful in his Campaign against Cao Cao but looking at how both of Yuan Shao's Strongest Generals were about to seize to exist he needed to rethink his strategy of helping Yuan Shao.

"We are leaving the battlefield," says Liu Bei making Guandu happy when he realized that the horse he was riding had already disappeared.

He borrowed a horse from the soldiers and Liu Bei and his troops fled the battlefield unnoticed or at least that's what he believes while Yun had a watchful eye on Liu Bei.

Yun was ready to kill Liu Bei if he didn't listen to Guan Yu and fled the battlefield today. He already had given Liu Bei more than enough chances in this lifetime. Yun is aspiring the day he can finally behead the weasel and expose his true self.