Chapter Fifteen: War Drums

  It's so comfortable, how long has it been since I heard the sound of gunfire? Qian Buli smiled and shook his head, turning around to walk away: "Dare to confront my Tianwei... Hehe, you guys chop him into minced meat for me!"

  The soldiers of Xueyuan City rushed forward, their spears stabbing at Lemin's corpse wave after wave. Those with long swords couldn't even squeeze in. In the blink of an eye, Lemin's corpse was riddled with countless holes.

  "General!" Ren Shuai respectfully came forward and bowed his head, saying: "We have won a complete victory!"

  If I hadn't used my heavenly authority, you little brat wouldn't be so polite to me, would you? Qian Budan glanced at Ren Shuai with a hint of disdain: "You go patrol the city and discipline the soldiers, I'll go invite Princess Gong to come and comfort the people."

  "Yes, sir!" It wasn't until Qian Buli had walked far away that Ren Shuai finally straightened his waist, but his gaze never left Qian Buli's back.

  Qian's mood improved a lot, he knew that those helpless strategies of showing weakness to the enemy had produced a bad influence on the soldiers, and in order to quickly and effectively eliminate this influence, he could only use his own methods.

  But Qian Buli did not expect that this shot would have far better consequences than he had imagined, because human rumors can change in nature.

  "What are they shouting there? Tianwei?"

  "You don't even know this?! Our commander has a weapon called 'Tianwei'! When he dueled with that chiliarch, he just lightly swung his hand and with a loud crash, the chiliarch's skull was smashed to pieces!"

  "Our leader has a heavenly sword! When he dueled with that guy, he swung his hand once, and with a loud crash, that guy's head was completely blown off!"

  "You know? Our leader can summon heavenly thunder! When he dueled that guy, heavenly thunder descended from the sky and struck him with a loud crash, ripping him apart!"

  "Do you know or don't you know, our leader is no ordinary person, with just a lift of his hand, the whole sky is filled with lightning..."

  "Lightning all over the sky? How come I didn't see it?"

  "My goodness! You didn't know where to hide at that time! At the time of the duel, I was standing right behind his back, and this is all what I saw with my own eyes!!"

  When the rumor came back, Qian Bu Li had only heard half of it and didn't realize that they were talking about him. No matter how he thought about it, he wouldn't think of himself as an 'old man'.

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  "Halt!!" Zhan Heng made a gesture, and the vanguard cavalry corps, which was galloping at full speed, suddenly slowed down. Zhan Heng narrowed his eyes and examined the tracks on the ground.

  The chaotic scratches on the snowy ground suddenly divided into three, one leading directly to the Grand Canyon in front of me, and the other two circling around the edge of the canyon.

  Zhan Han waved his hand and a lean man rushed up from behind: "Sir."

  "Is this Sunset Canyon?" asked Glint, pointing at the canyon in front of him.

  "Yes, sir."

  "What do you think?" Zhang Han pointed to the scratches on the snowy ground again. He knew that his brain was not always bright, so he liked to ask others for advice. He didn't think there was anything shameful about it; being defeated in a muddle was truly shameful!

  "Sir, I think they're trying to lay an ambush and force us to split our troops." The man thought for a moment: "But the Sunset Gorge is very long. If we really want to go around from the side, it will take three more days!"

  "Is it Liancheng Fortress after Luoxiao Gorge?"

  "Yes, sir, maybe the princess has already entered Liancheng Fortress." The man sneered: "Even if the princess didn't come from the canyon, she would still have to pass through Liancheng Fortress, we can just wait there."

  "Little girl, you're not alone, are you? Do you think that Lian Cheng SAI guy would dare to make a move?" If the people of Xueyuan City heard what Zhang Han said, they would definitely be shocked and exclaim: "So, there were also people from Ji Zhou Guo who plotted against the princess!"

  "Adults, he won't make a move! However, he will definitely hold up the princess, and when the time comes, we'll make our move."

  "That makes sense." Zhan Han gazed out at the setting sun in the valley ahead, where some scouts had already run inside and others were dismounting to climb up into the valley.

  "Enter the valley, advance slowly!" Not until the scouts gave an all-clear signal did Jian Han give the order, and the vanguard cavalry marched into the valley in an orderly manner.

  The Grand Canyon was very long, at first he could still carefully observe his surroundings, but after walking halfway, his mind flew to that beautiful 'little girl' and he began to be absent-minded.

  Just then, the scout rushed back: "Sir! There's an ambush!"

  "An ambush?" Zhan Han was startled and looked around, but apart from the snow-capped mountains, there was nothing out of the ordinary.

  "Adults, on the road ahead!"

  "How many people?"

  "More than one hundred."

  "A hundred people are also called ambush? You damn it!" Zhang Han's anger rose, and he gave the scout a whip.

  That timid fellow retreated a step back, didn't dare to argue, and it's useless to reason with this gentleman.

  "How far is it from here?"

  "Wu Li"

  "Slow down, advance!"

  The vanguard light cavalry all drew their weapons and entered a state of alert, a killing aura suddenly rose, startling the eagles in the sky to flap their wings several times and fly away into the distance.

  He looked left and right, and when his eyes were dazzled by the white snow on the snowy mountain, he finally saw what was called an "ambush", which was more than a hundred people, lined up in several rows, quietly blocking the way. Not far from them on the snowy ground lay the bodies of two scouts, who might not have taken these hundred people seriously and tried to sneak closer to take a look, but were killed.

  "This is an ambush?" Sticky laughed: "Third son, take a few people over to play around, hmm... leave a few for me, don't kill them all!"

  That half-breed named San Kui let out a sly smile, urged on his warhorse, and brought several people galloping over. When they were halfway there, purely to show off, San Kui did a flip and hid at the bottom, then flipped back up from the other side. At this moment, a longbow appeared in his hand, he drew the bow and shot an arrow, which whizzed through the air as it flew out.

  Following San Kui's people also shot their own arrows, the first arrow they did not seek to kill the enemy, but to insult the other side, so they used all blunt-headed whistling arrows.

  Wang Rui's eyes revealed a sarcastic smile, he let out a loud shout, raised the drumstick in his hand and struck it on the war drum in front of him. The soldiers behind him also shouted loudly and beat the drums.

  There aren't many people blocking the road, just a hundred men and a hundred war drums, which is enough!