nycdaug Chapter 130 Journey to the Northern Desert (Part 5)
Chapter 130 Journey to the Northern Desert (Part 5)
"You keep calling me 'General Luo' so affectionately, huh?!"
Ling Xiao slammed Zhao Ye against the wall, grabbed him by the back of the neck, and began to pant and curse, "Hmph! You're all lackeys of the Crown Prince, so united indeed!!!"
Zhao Ye's face was pressed against the rough wall, his feet were off the ground, and he had already given up struggling in silence.
"~Ha~Hmm~!"
"...Zhao...Ye...call me! Why aren't you calling me now? Didn't you call me Ling Xiao with a smile on your face before? What? Why are you mute now?!"
Ling Xiao's handsome eyebrows furrowed coldly, and the scar on his right cheek appeared even more ferocious as he yanked it with his brute force.
Zhao Ye was nearly breathless from being tormented by this barbarian, and could only plead softly, "Brother Xiao, let's go back to our room, let's go back to our room!"
"Brother Xiao, Aye is cold!!"
“…Xiao, Brother Xiao…”
Ling Xiao, annoyed that Zhao Ye was imitating a woman's coquettishness again, picked him up and carried him back to the deputy general's room in the front garden.
Qianqian stared in disbelief, then crouched into the night, covering her mouth, too ashamed to follow!
Wow, that's really exciting!!!
Qianqian leaned out from under the eaves again, glanced at the commotion inside the deputy general's room, and stood there stunned for a long time!
Upon receiving the secret letter from Flying Eagle at the banquet, Plum Leaf immediately bid farewell to the generals who were still drinking and chatting, and rushed to the back garden to find Qianqianluo!
In the hazy moonlight, the figure standing motionless on the eaves filled Plum Leaf with ecstatic joy!
Mei Ziye leaped onto the roof, carefully walked behind Qianqian, and blindfolded her with her backhand. "General Luo, guess who I am?!"
With that cheeky tone and childish behavior, Qianqianluo knew with her eyes closed that the person behind her was definitely a guard who hadn't opened his eyes yet. "Ziye, yawn~ what is it? Speak quickly, I'm so sleepy right now!"
Mei Ziye handed the secret letter to Qianqianluo with a displeased expression, put her hands in her pockets, snorted a few times, and left the roof. "A secret letter from His Highness the Crown Prince has arrived from the capital. You all should open your eyes and take a good look!"
In the main hall of the rear garden;
Qianqian crossed her legs, leaned against the low couch, and opened the complicated secret letter bound with gold thread with a furrowed brow!
Her hand had barely touched the gleaming gold cord when her fingertips were already bleeding!
Qianqian was puzzled. She threw the golden rope onto the bed before carefully opening the secret letter!
On the finest Xuan paper, several large, sharp, and domineering characters in vermilion ink covered the entire roll of pristine white paper, their strokes flowing freely and dripping with blood!
The person hasn't returned? Has the letter arrived?
Qianqian narrowed her fox-like eyes, then tossed the scroll of secret letters into the blazing stove. Wrapped in the warm quilt on the bed, she kicked out the candles and went to sleep to rest.
The high tower in northern desert is directly facing the wind!
The autumn wind seemed to burst forth from an iceberg that had never melted in millennia, carrying a chilling cold that blew across vast swathes of the northern desert!
Hoo ho ho! ! !
Swish! Swish swish swish!!!
The cold wind failed to extinguish the rocket soaring towards the control tower; instead, it seemed to aid and abet it, allowing the rocket to burn even brighter and travel even further!
At dawn on the 17th day of the 10th month of the third year of the Qingting Moli era, the Hanba tribe launched a surprise attack on the high tower in the northern desert, boasting that they would break through the first line of defense for entering the Central Plains within half a month!
The black cloud was pressing down on the city and the city was about to be destroyed, and Jiaguang opened golden scales to the sun.
The soldiers of the Hanba tribe rode their strong, well-fed horses, braving the cold wind at the windward entrance of the high tower in the northern desert, brandishing their machetes and poisoned crossbows, roaring in unison!
"Hahaha!!!"
"You Central Plains dogs at the high tower, hurry up and open the city gates for us! We might spare your lives, hahaha!!"
The generals of the Hanba tribe laughed wildly, drew their crossbows, and shot down the soldiers guarding the city tower with a single arrow!
The vicious dogs kept by the Hanba tribe swarmed forward and devoured the corpses of the soldiers below the city gate!
As the war drums sounded, the drunken generals donned their armor and rushed to the city walls to fight!
Wanqing, holding a bow and arrow, fired several arrows at once, scattering the wolfhounds below the city wall in all directions!
General Ling Xiao still bore scratch marks on his neck, and having just withdrawn from the embrace of a beautiful woman, his face was even colder. "You treacherous scoundrels, besides resorting to underhanded tactics like surprise attacks, you have nothing else to offer! How dare you be so arrogant in front of your grandfather?!"
General Zhao Da, riding his warhorse and wielding his cold sword, led the Zhao family army out of the city to meet the enemy!
General Ke Shouyu, standing behind Wan Qing, analyzed the situation and revealed the strategic motives of the Hanba tribe in this battle!
Qianqianlu didn't have time to put on her armor. After hearing the war drums, she put on a dark blue outer robe, casually tore off a gold silk rope and wrapped it in her hairband to tie her hair up. Barefoot, she followed Yang Chenqing and Mei Ziye up to the city wall.
Wanqing watched as the young generals, their faces solemn, ascended the city wall in no time, and couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Hahaha~ Young generals, there's no need to be nervous, let's watch the battle first!!"
Mei Ziye bowed and replied, "Yes!!!"
Beneath the city gate, countless torches burned, fading the night and heralding a new dawn!
The soldiers of the Hanba tribe, seeing that they were once again being challenged by the white-haired old dog Zhao Da, roared in uncontrollable rage, "Hey!! Central Plains dogs, why did you send such an old codger to fight again?!"
"I heard that several young generals from the imperial family have arrived at your high tower. Let them come out and fight, so that your grandpa can show off a bit!"
The deputy general of the Hanba tribe, Mudu Nacuo, was even more arrogant. Wielding a huge spiked hammer, he led his hungry tigers into Zhao Da's arrayed troops, yelling, "Kill them all!!!"
Mu Du Na Cuo, under the attack of the hungry tigers and other ferocious beasts behind him, broke through the first line of defense set up by General Zhao Da in no time!
General Ke Shouyu stroked his beard, his face grave, and sighed, "The Hanba tribe has tamed some more powerful beasts. These newly tamed tigers are agile and impervious to swords and fire, making them quite troublesome!"
General Wanqing and others looked solemn as they watched the hungry wolves and tigers charging up the city walls.
Ling Xiao, with a hidden rope tied around his waist, secured it to the city wall. He then brandished his sword and began slaying the beasts attempting to leap up the wall. "What are you afraid of? It's just a bunch of livestock, why are you so nervous?!"
As soon as Qianqianlu saw Lingxiao leap off the city wall, she sensed something was wrong!
Just as she suspected, those large, conspicuous beasts were merely bait; the real attraction was the venomous snakes, ants, and scorpions that infested them!
Just as Ling Xiao was smirking and arrogantly swinging his knife at the head of a vicious wolf, a thin snake living inside the wolf's eye flicked its tongue and silently opened its mouth to bite Ling Xiao's arm!
Before Qianqian could explain, she snatched the torch from Yang Chenqing's hand, flew barefoot to mid-air above the city wall, grabbed Ling Xiao, who was wielding a sword, and pulled him back onto the wall, shouting:
"These beasts are infected with parasites! Quickly! Get General Zhao back into the city and throw torches down from the city walls!!!"
The venomous snake that flew out of the wolf's eye was burned and curled up in the air after encountering the fire!
Mei Ziye seemed to have a feeling that the Hanba tribe's arrival was not friendly. Sure enough, as soon as he looked down, he saw that more than half of the Zhao family's soldiers had been killed or wounded for some unknown reason, lying in a pile of dead and wounded!
~Hiss~ Hiss hiss hiss~
What caught them off guard was that swarms of venomous snakes, ants, and scorpions were gathering on the city wall, eagerly climbing up!