Dynasty Warriors 5:XL - Battle of Ru Xu Kou | Gan Ning

This battle is really fun but it can go south reaaaaaally fast. Xiahou Dun even has a cutscene for when the battle starts to go bad for you. You can turn it around if you're fast enough but on Hard my Gan Ning wasn't strong enough to take down Cao Ren in time to trigger the morale lowering/rising in time to keep your allies alive. Cao Cao even gets a commander cutscene here.

[@Bloodlyshiva]

Good job on turning that mess around.
Damm, Cao Cao sounds so pissed off. Forgive the crudeness, but he isn't angry, he isn't mad, this is SOMEBODY STOP THE FLAMES! levels of rage.

[@Xaldin007]

Thanks. Yeah I love when Cao Cao gets like that in this scene and Escape from Chi Bi. XD

[@Megumi_Bandicoot]

I always hated how the battle of Ruxukou is completely exclusive to the Wu story. We never really saw this battle from Wei’s perspective.

[@Fargusno7930]

DW9 has Ruxukou as Wei

[@Megumi_Bandicoot]

There are two Ruxukou battles in DW9, tho the second one (Gan Ning’s night raid) is only featured in Wu.

[@AlvinAnakMudaGameandfun]

This is why DW5 difficulty is complete hell, the next ones in the series became a kindergartner’s game

[@isaiahpeters9007]

19:11 "Oh shit... I fucked up now! Cao Cao is not pleased one bit..."

[@parapperdarapper]

Gan Ning is best boi, 100% of the time. Even his DW6 incarnation is fun to play as.

[@HSALEEM00]

What do you mean “even”? DW6 is easily one of Gan Ning’s best iterations and arguably even better than his portrayals in DW3 and DW4. It was the last time we saw the true Gan Ning (unless you count Warriors Orochi 2) before they butchered him in DW7 and onward.

[@LewisTheIndispensable]

I love how triggered Cao Cao is at 19:11 then it's just "You dare try that right in front of me" calm af straight after he says it

[@vincentlius1569]

Tai Shi Ci shoul be dead in He Fei

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

1:28 you forgot Ding Feng, KOEI :l

[@TylerG60]

I've had levels go this bad if not worse. It's fun to beat the odds though. Good job.

[@Rosenfla]

you miss big spot
try to takedown Xiahou Dun before ambush Wei main camp

[@eliotwildermann]

Damn that went bad fast

[@SupremeCaptainHWD]

Xu Sheng is MVP.

[@isaiahpeters9007]

1:54 Scrappy Ning