Chapter 19: Barbarian Extinction

  Li Yi again picked up the wine jug and walked to the other barbarians and Zhao Wei's personal soldiers, pouring wine for each of them. The soldiers and barbarians drank freely, enjoying themselves in harmony.

  "What's going on?"

  After three rounds of wine, Zhao Wei suddenly felt a severe pain in his lower abdomen, and he rolled on the ground in agony. Yan Wuyi stood up, just wanting to help him, but suddenly also felt a sharp pain in his stomach, and all the soldiers in the cave fell to the ground, wailing incessantly.

  At this time, Li Yi stood up and smiled at Zhao Wei with a sinister smile: "Master, I'm sorry, you're not the material for great things, so we can only take your head to surrender to Ming Zhu."

  "Li Yi, what did you just say?" Zhao Wei covered her stomach with one hand and stared at Li Yi in disbelief.

  Li Yi smiled and said: "To put it simply, since you're already useless, I've added something to the wine you drank, so that you can be at ease."

  "Zhao Wei finally understood, his anger uncontrollable, but his stomach was in severe pain, large beads of sweat falling from his forehead, and with great effort he said to Pang Le: "General Pang, quickly help me kill this traitor."

  Pang Le sat on the grass mat, eating meat mouthful by mouthful, his face changing with the weather. Finally, Pang Le downed a large mouthful of wine, picked up his knife and stood up, saying to Zhao Wei: "My lord, Pang Le doesn't want to be buried with you, I can only apologize."

  Under Zhao Wei's fearful gaze, Pang Le raised his big knife and chopped down at Zhao Wei with one slash. A head rolled out far away. Yan Wu Tie was shocked on the side and shouted loudly: "What are you doing?"

  Li Yi drew his sword and slowly approached Ye Wu Tie: "Your Majesty, don't blame me, if you want to blame someone, blame yourself for being too stupid, actually taking in Zhao Wei." Li Yi said, raising his sword to stab Ye Wu Tie. Suddenly, Ye Wu Tie rolled on the ground, picked up his Flowing Star Mallet and threw it at Li Yi. Li Yi didn't expect that Ye Wu Tie, who was poisoned, could still exert force, and he was hit right on, his scapula shattered, and he fell to the ground with a thud.

  Pang Le, who was just picking up Zhao Yun's head, saw that Ye Wu Tie had injured Li Yi and was shocked. He immediately drew his sword and rushed towards Ye Wu Tie. Ye Wu Tie threw out a second meteor hammer, which Pang Le easily dodged. Then he fiercely chopped at Ye Wu Tie, who parried several blows but was wounded more than ten times. He hastily retreated to the cave entrance.

  Pang Le was shocked and hastily chased after him, another knife chopped on Ye Wu Tie's back. It was Ye Wu Tie who had thick skin and flesh, if it were an ordinary person, he would have been cut open by now. Ye Wu Tie ran out of the cave with his whole body covered in blood to gather his own barbarian soldiers.

  Li Yi was greatly shocked and, without noticing the pain in his shoulders, ran out of the cave and urgently assembled the rebel army.

  Zhao Wei's rebel troops, upon hearing that Zhao Wei was dead, were thrown into a state of panic and confusion. Li Yi promised to lead them in surrendering to Liu Zhang, and these soldiers had no choice but to follow Li Yi and Pang Le.

  The barbarians were too scattered, and most of them had been taken down the mountain by Xiao Furan. There were only over 400 people left in the village. Li Yi and Pang Le took advantage of Ye Wuti not having gathered many barbarian troops yet, and led their army to charge and kill. Ye Wuti could only let a small group of barbarians resist, while he himself was supported by several barbarians as he went down the mountain to find Xiao Furan.

  At midnight, the frogs croaked incessantly. Xiao Furen crouched in the grass and suddenly saw that the sentry at Liu Zhang's camp had withdrawn. After a moment of thought, Xiao Furen was overjoyed and said to the barbarian soldiers beside him: "The Han army has changed shifts, what a great opportunity! Let's sneak past."

  Xiaofeng had her own plan in mind, and she only charged at the side camp. After beheading some Han soldiers, she retreated. This way, even if Liu Zhang suffered a loss, Xiaofeng would still have the upper hand. With a wave of her hand, the barbarian army immediately moved out, charging into the distance about 100 meters from the edge of Liu Zhang's main camp, shouting and killing as they went. Xiaofeng wielded her scarlet spear, using it to open up one military tent after another.

  Xiao Furen was stunned, and there wasn't a single person inside. At this moment, countless Shu soldiers suddenly poured in from all directions, drawing their bows and setting fire to the arrowheads. If they were really going to fight, one wave of fire arrows would turn Xiao Furen and her barbarian army into a group of roasted pigs.

  Liu Zhang walked out of the crowd under Zhang Ren's protection, laughing loudly and said: "Xiao Niangniang, we meet again. It seems that after eating my egg pancake, you haven't made any progress. Are you going to lead your barbarian soldiers in a desperate fight to the death and be captured, or surrender now?"

  "You...!" Xiao Fenger was furious, but looking at her own miserable state, she knew she couldn't win and would only end up sacrificing the lives of her clansmen. She could only grit her teeth and say: "Liu, I admit defeat this time, but I still have two more chances."

  Xiao Furong finished speaking and was about to leave with the barbarian army when Zhang Ren suddenly shouted: "Wait!"

  Zhang Ren bowed his fist to Liu Zhang and said, "My lord, I see that all the barbarian troops are on this mountain. As long as we kill these barbarians, and have Xiao Furan and Sha Moke as hostages, even if Ye Hu doesn't hand over Zhao Wei, we can still attack up the mountain and not let them off."

  Xiao Furong heard Zhang Ren's words and was both shocked and angry. She said to Liu Zhang: "Liu, do you want to be shameless?"

  Liu Zhang smiled lightly: "Not bad, I said three times, naturally it's three times, Xiao Gu Niang can go by herself."

  Just as Zhang Ren was about to say something, Liu Zhang raised his hand and stopped him from speaking. He then turned to Xiao Fu Rong and said: "However, Miss Xiao, I must advise you that although you are showing loyalty to Zhao Wei, he is a wolf in sheep's clothing and will never treat you with sincerity. Please be cautious and do not ruin the entire Wu Xi Man for the sake of this despicable person."

  Xiao Furong's face changed, and she immediately said proudly: "The affairs of our camp don't need a Han person like you to intervene." After that, she left with the barbarian army.

  Zhang Ren reluctantly said: "My lord, why didn't you give the order to kill them earlier? Without these barbarian troops, taking the mountain would be as easy as turning over one's hand."

  Liu Zhang gazed at Xiao Furan walking away and said faintly, "We killed these barbarian troops, Zhao Wei can't escape, but we've offended the entire Wuxi Barbarians. The Wuxi Barbarians aren't just the Ye Wu Tie branch, as Xiao Furan said, the southern part of Yizhou will never have a peaceful day again, it's not worth it."

  Zhang Ren thought for a moment and then bowed, saying: "Your Excellency's plans are profound and far-reaching, Zhang Ren is deeply impressed."

  Liu Zhang smiled and said, "As a military general, stop talking nonsense. Let me tell you something else: whether as a general or commander, credibility comes first. If I were to kill Xiao Fu Rong today, then whatever Liu Zhang says in the future, others will think I'm just farting, got it?"

  Liu Zhang finished speaking and returned to the main tent with his personal guards. Zhang Ren was left standing in place, feeling more and more that this lord of his was different from before. Every decision, every word, even every move seemed to have a deeper meaning behind it. This was completely unlike the weak and incompetent lord who had been indulging in sensual pleasures just a few years ago. Zhang Ren couldn't help but wonder: is this really the same person?

  But then he smiled and let it go, thinking to himself, why bother with such thoughts, the general is a brilliant and ambitious man, as a military commander, his talent will bring him success and recognition, besides, even Chu Zhuang Wang remained silent for three years.

  Xiao Furong led the barbarian army back to the mountain, but on the way, they encountered a dozen or so barbarian soldiers supporting Ye Wuti down the mountain. Xiao Furong was startled by Ye Wuti's appearance, her heart tightened, Ye Wuti had become a blood-soaked person, with almost all the blood drained from his body, his broad face deathly pale, his head hanging low, and his mouth constantly oozing dirty blood, unable to speak.

  "Father, what's wrong?" Xiao Furen rushed over, sobbing uncontrollably. A barbarian beside him said, "Young master, after you went down the mountain, those Han people rioted and poisoned our great king. They killed many of our tribesmen and are still burning our village."

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