bookandnovel Chapter 55: Other World Version Sniper
Chapter 55: Other World Version Sniper
Chapter 55: Other World Version Sniper
The four beastkins that wore Heavy Infantry Armors and held 2.5 meters long Mo Blades in their hands looked like slaughter machines.
There were a few dozen wooden figures in front of them. Behind the wooden figures were seven archers that were using bows and arrows of this era. After all, it was only a demonstration, so there was no need to use recurve bows.
"Get ready!" Niu Ben yelled.
Clack!
The four beastkins immediately lowered the face armor and held the Mo Blade with both of their hands. The Mo Blade was one of the best weapons from the Tang Dynasty in China. It was a powerful weapon that dealt with cavalrymen and was able to kill both the horse and the soldier with one swing.
"Attack!"
"Ha!" The beastkins shouted as they charged forward with the swords in their hands.
"Fire!" Niu Ben commanded.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
Clang clang clang...
The arrows were all blocked by the armor and only left either white dots or shallow dents in the armor.
"Kill!"
The four beastkins got in front of the wooden figures and swung their blades ferociously, splitting apart the wooden figures. They then slammed into the wooden figures, breaking them into pieces.
After a while, all the wooden figures were on the ground, broken, leaving four panting beastkins.
Mina and Anri were stunned at how much their companions had changed. They had turned from dull and weak-looking to cool and majestic in just a few days.
"Tch!" Fuji pouted with an indifferent expression. His eyes, however, showed the envy he was feeling.
"Very Good! They will be known as the Heavy Armor Tank Squad from now on," Liu Feng said, satisfied. He chose this name because it was pretty much saying that the soldiers in the squad were human tanks.
"Understood!" Niu Da said. He had no idea what was special about the name, but since Liu Feng was the one who had made the name, he just went along with it.
Liu Feng then looked at the four bearskins and turned to Niu Ben. "Give them extra food for their meals and then train them even harder than before. I dont want three second fighters; I want high endurance fighters.
Crack... The bark fell off of one of the trees, revealing Xin Ke's stunned face. He hadn't expected that he would be found so easily.
All eight members of the War Wolves had been found by Liu Feng, and they all looked at him in amazement.
"You are still too young. You need to work with the environment. An example of a good disguise would be this pile of leaves. Just dig a hole underneath the pile and cover it with the leaves," Liu Feng said. He wasn't going to say that he had gotten this good at spotting unusual things in the environment by playing games like the one where you find the difference between two pictures.
This was the Assassination: Wilderness Camouflage Course. If the soldiers were equipped with crossbows, then they would pretty much be the other world version of a sniper.
So I did quite a bit of digging and I realized that I've done something wrong in the previous chapters. Whatever I put as Tang Dao, that's wrong. Those were Heng Dao. I'll go back and fix it. Ok, so there were a total of four types of blades in the Tang Dynasty: Yi Dao, Zhang Dao, Heng Dao, and Mo Dao. Mo Dao was the most famous one and were specifically made to counter cavalrymen.
Here's are some more details if you're curious.
. Yi Dao. Literal translation is Ritual Blade. It was 84.7 cm long and was unsuitable for combat, and only used for etiquette and rituals.
. Zhang Dao. Literal translation is Barrier Blade. There was no actual physical blade found, and the written record could be interpreted in two ways, so people split into two groups about what they think the blade was for. One group of people think it was used to cut obstacles (, is the same from the one ) and so would be about 80 to 100 cm long. Another group of people think it was used for close ranged protection (like a "barrier" around the body) and so would be a short sword about 15 to 40 cm long.
Heng Dao. Literal translation is Horizontal Blade. Also the reason why I didn't want to use literal translation. It was about 60 to 80 cm and about 6 to 8 mm thick. The actual blade used in combat. According to Baidu Baike (CN site similar to Wikipedia), it had the elegance of a sword and the domineering aura of a blade, although I don't know what that means.
Mo Dao. Literal translation is Road(?) Blade. It was the most famous blade in the Tang Dynasty and made specifically to counter cavalrymen because the tribes and families around them specialized in cavalries. The blade part was 90 cm meters long and the hilt part was 120 cm long, so in total, it was 210 cm long. Due to how hard it was to make the blade (the whole thing), there were only 20k soldiers equipped with the blade (according to baike) compared to the total 500k soldiers the Tang Dynasty had (according to wiki, 600k to 800k according to Zhihu, a CN site similar to Quora). People were also forbidden to be buried with the blade because it was hard to make and the actual blade could be leaked to the commoners and people from other groups, families, tribes, etc.
Battle/War cry.
Author wrote that "he could only arm 20 cavalrymen, and he had to give 10 of them to the special forces squads." I assumed that it was a typo.
As if the guy hiding with his feet exposed can see you pointing at him.
Xin Ke has x-ray vision...
Spot the Difference game.
. Literal translation is "Wilderness Assassination Camouflage Training." The author gotta chill with these long af names.
Translator's Note:
Blades are technically swords, but they're separated into two categories in Chinese so...
Generally, blades are the fat ones while swords are the thin and skinny ones.