Lu Bu's attacks grew increasingly fierce, and Wu Kui struggled to defend himself, but he was falling further and further behind.
Besides the wound on his face, his right hand was also cut, with a deep gash on the back of his hand that exposed the bone.
There, flesh and blood were torn and ripped apart, and countless drops of blood were shed.
The back of the lone goose was already soaked in blood, but its black fur made the bloodstains less noticeable, though the strong smell of blood could not be masked.
They are everywhere, lingering around us, seemingly foreshadowing our impending doom.
Despite having multiple injuries, Wu Kui doesn't feel much pain at this moment.
Compared to the physical pain, the mental pain was far more intense, almost making it hard for him to breathe.
During the battle with the enemy general, he watched helplessly as his remaining troops were surrounded and slaughtered, their numbers dwindling as too many fell on this unfamiliar land.
In fact, by this point, Wu Kui already knew that the battle taking place in Yanluo Mountain was over.
Both the imperial army and the hundreds of thousands of troops he brought were almost completely wiped out.
The number of deaths in this battle even exceeded that of the battle where my father fought Qin Haotian in Chiyang Valley.
Thinking of the vows he made at his father's grave when he led his troops out of the southern border, Wu Kui felt a pang of sorrow.
The clan elders advised him not to send troops to the southern border, and not to go to Beiliang to fight Qin Ze, but he did not heed their advice and instead cut off their heads.
Driven by that "idea," they marched here with hundreds of thousands of troops, almost half of the barbarian forces, rushing headlong into the perilous Yanluo Mountain.
It cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
These are the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. The barbarians had spent years recuperating and raising these fine young men, only to have them all lost in their own hands.
The promises made to his beloved generals back then now seem like a joke; not only could they not be fulfilled, but they even caused their deaths.
"Bang!"
The halberd swept down fiercely, but Wu Kui could no longer withstand it.
Blood was seeping from his palm, and the straight, gold-inlaid tiger-shaped spear was covered in blood streaks. When the spear swept across, Wu Kui almost lost his grip on it.
"What? Is it no use?" Lu Bu shouted in a deep voice.
Wu Kui pursed his lips and remained silent.
"Then prepare to die!" Lu Bu roared and thrust his halberd forward again!
The halberd arrived quickly, but Wu Kui's gaze passed right through it. What he saw was a battlefield strewn with corpses, and the dead soldiers.
One wrong step and the whole game is lost.
Whether it was deciding to leave the southern border or to step into Yanluo Mountain, it now seems that I was going in the wrong direction.
Perhaps, as Qin Ze said, peace is hard-won and should be cherished.
If we hadn't made that wrong step, so many people wouldn't have died.
Wu Kui raised his Tiger-Slaying Golden Spear, determined to deliver one last blow.
"hiss--"
The cry of the lone goose rang out at this moment, before the halberd had fully pierced through.
In the blink of an eye, it unleashed an indescribable power.
"Da da".
Its four hooves pounded heavily on the muddy ground, leaving several deep hoofprints. Like a swift wind, it carried Wu Kui away in flight.
With a whoosh, the halberd missed its mark. Lü Bu stared wide-eyed, and after a brief moment of stunned silence, he roared:
"Chase!"
In fact, before the sound had even completely faded, Red Hare had already started running.
The black figure ahead moved as fast as lightning, like a shooting star chasing after something that was about to fall to the ground.
Two horses galloped across the battlefield, getting faster and faster!
In the distance, Qin Ze, who stood with his hands behind his back outside the military camp, watched Lü Bu chase after Wu Kui and couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
To be able to fight Lu Bu and Red Hare, which he summoned, to this extent, the Barbarian King Wu Kui and his horse were truly defying the heavens.
Whether it was Cha Yuanzhen, whom they encountered on the grasslands, or Mo Keding of Xijing, in terms of individual combat strength, they were far inferior to the new barbarian king who came from this barbarian land.
Unfortunately, such a person chose to become his own opponent.
Just then, a man rode up on horseback.
"My lord, this man has something to say! He told me to kill him later, so I brought him here."
The newcomer was Xu Chu, and the man behind him was covered in blood. At this moment, he raised his face, which looked as if it had been hacked and chopped by a knife and axe, and looked at Qin Ze.
Qin Ze raised an eyebrow and said in a deep voice, "Hmph, this is the second time we've met."
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"Don't run away, Lone Goose."
"It's a done deal; I've lost."
On horseback, Wu Kui's face was filled with sorrow as he gently pulled on the reins with his left hand.
But the lone goose didn't care at all. It ran faster and faster, and more and more blood flowed from its nose and mouth as the speed increased.
Behind him, there was already a trail of blood, and five or six body lengths away, Red Hare was galloping towards him.
Lu Bu, on his back, had a furious expression on his face, like a god of death!
A few barbarian soldiers were still alive. When they saw Lü Bu chasing Wu Kui, they rushed to stop him, but they could not stop him in the slightest in the face of Lü Bu's rage.
With a single swing of the halberd, countless people lay dead on the spot.
Hearing the screams behind him, Wu Kui, standing in front, felt both ashamed and furious. Finally, he roared:
"Stop! I'm going to fight him to the death!"
He pulled hard on the reins.
But to everyone's surprise, the lone goose turned its head and bit the reins, even pulling hard on them.
"Stop running, Gu Hong! Stop!"
"There's a cliff right in front of us, where else can we run to!"
"I am the king of the barbarians, and I should live and die with them! Dying here is the best place for me!"
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