"promise……"

Empress Dowager Xiao glanced at the Southern Prince: "I entrust the task of eliminating Jiang Tian to you. I hope you will not disappoint me."

"If Jiang Tian dies, I will not hold the princess accountable for her collusion with him."

"If you fail to complete the mission, not only will that little bitch Yelü Hongyan die, but I will also have your entire family executed by slow slicing."

"Yes..." King Yelü Xian of the Southern Court said tremblingly as he knelt on the ground.

…………

The residence of Yelü Xian, the Southern King.

"Princess, where is she?" Yelü Xian roared as soon as he entered the mansion.

"Your Majesty, the monarch is in the back garden."

"Tell the king to come to my study." Yelü Xian gripped his riding whip and headed straight for the study at the back.

Half an incense stick later.

Dressed in military uniform, Yelü Hongyan walked into Yelü Xian's study with a smile.

"Father, is there something you need?"

"What has your Great Xia Dynasty's Flying Fox City done?"

Upon hearing this, Yelü Hongyan was instantly startled.

"What do you mean by asking this, Father? I came to Flying Fox City of the Great Xia Dynasty to gather intelligence."

With a snap.

The Southern King slammed the leather whip in his hand heavily onto the table.

The writing brush, ink, paper, and inkstone on the table were all smashed on the floor.

"Today someone impeached me before the Empress Dowager, saying that you and that boy named Jiang Tian were flirting and that you two caused the deaths of the Xiao Tianyou and Xiao Tianzuo brothers."

Upon hearing this, Yelü Hongyan smiled slightly: "Father, this is exactly what you want to see, with the Empress Dowager controlling the court."

The two Xiao brothers held considerable military power. Now, if they were to pass away, the Empress Dowager would have lost her right-hand men.

Upon hearing this, Yelü Xian angrily said, "Your actions have caused our Great Liao to lose 100,000 iron cavalry."

“Father, this only proves that the two of them are both wicked and incompetent. Otherwise, how could they have been defeated so easily?”

"Father, even if the brothers Xiao Tianzuo and Xiao Tianyou don't lose this time, they will inevitably suffer a crushing defeat in the future."

"Did you see how Jiang Tian dealt with Xiao Tianzuo and Xiao Tianyou's 100,000-strong army?"

"No, but my daughter saw how Jiang Tian dealt with Xiao Tianzuo."

Yelü Xian immediately became interested: "Tell me about it."

"Xiao Tianzuo boasted that he was the number one warrior of the Liao Dynasty. However, Jiang Tian defeated him in one move."

Yelü Xian: "How is that possible? Xiao Tianzuo has the strength to uproot nine oxen. The fact that he killed an ox with one punch is witnessed by all the civil and military officials."

What skills does Jiang Tian possess to defeat our Liao Dynasty's number one warrior?

"Father, Jiang Tian and Xiao Tianzuo only fought for one round before Jiang Tian was knocked several steps away, fell to the ground foaming at the mouth, and convulsed."

Yelü Xian was shocked upon hearing this.

"Are there really people like this in the world?" Yelü Xian said, "Today the Empress Dowager has given orders to get rid of Jiang Tian. Now that you mention it, Jiang Tian is our Liao Dynasty's number one enemy."

If we don't get rid of him, he will surely become a major threat to us in the future.

“Father, Xiao Tianyou and his brother’s 100,000 cavalry were easily killed. If you accept this mission, you’re just going to your death.” Yelü Hongyan didn’t want Jiang Tian to die at Yelü Xian’s hands.

"Don't just boost others' morale and diminish your own." Yelü Xian knew that this was a trap set by Empress Dowager Xiao. "You and Jiang Tian should have a good relationship. This time, when you kill Jiang Tian, ​​you must do your best to cooperate with your father."

Yelü Hongyan did not want Jiang Tian to die at Yelü Xian's hands: "Father, if we do our best but fail to kill Jiang Tian, ​​the Empress Dowager will surely take her anger out on you, and then we will be doomed."

"Do as I say. We won't attack by force; we'll have to outsmart them."

How to outsmart them?

"Just do as I say."

…………

Flying Fox City.

After Jiang Tian finished explaining everything, he set off in a grand procession with Li Guang, Huo Qubing, and two thousand cavalry.

Pound's troops lagged far behind.

As they approached the formidable Great Wall, Pang De's five thousand cavalrymen had already fallen dozens of miles behind.

Li Guang: "My lord, the young Grand Secretary's troops are too far away from us. Should we go and urge them on?"

“What kind of junior Grand Secretary is he?” Jiang Tian glared at Li Guang. “He’s nothing but a pig, a stupid pig.”

"promise……"

"Li Guang, send someone to tell that bastard Pang De, if he keeps dragging his feet, I'll kill that son of a bitch." Jiang Tian knew that Pang De was up to no good.

This guy shamelessly went along; even a fool could tell he was just trying to trip himself up.

A dozen or so cavalrymen quickly turned their horses around and headed straight for Pound's marching column.

...

Pound's marching troops.

At this moment, Pound was sitting in a four-horse carriage.

Several beautiful women surrounded him.

"Young Grand Secretary, when you leave the pass this time, you must show me around properly."

"Young Grand Secretary, I've heard that the Xiongnu men are incredibly fierce, each one a master of horsemanship and archery." Before a beautiful woman could finish speaking, Pang De slapped her across the face. "You wretch, when it comes to horsemanship and archery, who in the world can compare to me, Young Grand Secretary?"

Tonight I'll show you what real horseback archery is like.

The beautiful woman was slapped, but instead of being angry, she smiled and said, "Young Master, then I will serve you alone tonight."

"Dream on." Pound glanced at the beautiful women around him, each one a peerless beauty, with a face that could make fish sink and geese fall from the sky, and a face that could shame the moon and flowers.

However, ever since he saw Princess Cher, these stunningly beautiful women seemed like nothing more than a bunch of ordinary, unattractive women to Pound. They held absolutely no interest for him.

Pound lay sprawled in the carriage, his eyes closed, his mind filled with the breathtakingly beautiful face of Princess Cheryl.

"If I can't have Princess Xue'er, I'll have no other desires in this life."

Outside the window, a dozen fast horses galloped in: "Young Grand Secretary, Yuwen Tuo from the Yuwen family has arrived."

Upon hearing this, Pound immediately ordered the carriage to stop.

Where is Yuwen Tuo?

Yuwen Tuo was dressed in a golden armor that gleamed in the sunlight.

Yuwen Tuo was over 1.9 meters tall, holding a golden phoenix-winged halberd, and sat majestically on a tall horse.

"Yuwentuo greets the young Grand Secretary," Yuwentuo said, bowing from his horse.

"Yuwen Tuo, seeing you here puts my mind at ease."

When Yuwen Tuo saw that Pang De's face was red and swollen, although it had subsided considerably, it still looked like he had two white steamed buns on his face.

Pound's mouth was cracked and bruised, making him look quite disheveled.

"Young Grand Secretary, what's wrong with you? Who has the audacity to dare to hurt you?"

"Don't even mention it. If you had arrived any later, I might have died here, and we would never have seen each other again."

"Who injured our young Grand Secretary?" Yuwen Tuo asked angrily, looking at the people around him.

"Jiang Tian, ​​the injuries on the young Grand Secretary's body were all inflicted by him."

"When the ruler is distressed, the subject is disgraced; when the ruler is disgraced, the subject dies." Yuwen Tuo looked at everyone, "How did you protect the young Grand Secretary?"