Chapter 377 Taking the Initiative
In the barracks, the sentry was destroyed and the first row of defense was so drowsy that they were completely unaware of the enemy's arrival.
It's not that they are slack or neglecting their duties, but that the period before dawn is when people are most sleepy.
The sleeping guards were suddenly awakened by a loud noise. Before they could react, they were already flying into the air, their brains splattered and their limbs torn apart.
The second row of defenders suffered the same fate. Before they could react, they all met their demise.
In the dark night, Xuan Yuao was awakened by a loud noise. He went out to the barracks, but before he could figure out what was going on, the barracks was lifted up by a huge wave, almost blowing him away.
Waves of earth-shaking shouts and cries of killing reached him in the blink of an eye. He had just stood firm when a deputy general ran over in panic, "Grand Prince, the Great Zhou army is coming!"
"Come and fight, why are you so flustered?"
"...Grand Prince, the Great Zhou army has thunderbolts in their hands. We can't defeat them!"
"We have to fight even if we can't win. Should we retreat at the last minute and become cowards?"
Although Xuan Yuao has a bad temper, he is not stupid.
In this expedition to the Great Zhou, Mongolia has mobilized most of its troops. It wants to take advantage of the fact that most of the Great Zhou's troops are in a stalemate with the Simon Army and have no time to take care of the country, and plan to take down the Great Zhou in one fell swoop with Laos.
Now that the Great Zhou army is coming out of the city to attack, this is their disaster but also an opportunity. If they can turn defeat into victory and destroy the Great Zhou army, Mo City will fall without a fight.
"Inform the three armies: whoever kills one enemy will be rewarded with five taels of silver, and whoever kills two enemies will be rewarded with ten taels of silver, plus a bushel of grain.
And so on, the limit is ten dou of grain!"
"Yes! The eldest prince."
This year there was a drought and the harvest was poor. The common people were starving and the soldiers in the army never had enough to eat.
Now with the reward silver and food, these supplies have greatly boosted the morale of the army. I believe everyone will fight to the death to kill the enemy, and no matter how fierce the Zhou army is, they will be afraid.
As the saying goes, when two brave men meet in a narrow road, the brave one wins. War is essentially a matter of fighting.
The brave move forward courageously, while the weak retreat thousands of miles.
"Someone come!"
"I will be here!"
"Have you found the witch doctor?"
"To the eldest prince, no."
"Search! Keep searching!"
"But... the Great Zhou army has arrived!"
"Send a few people to break out and continue searching for the witch doctor, otherwise we will follow in Simon's footsteps!"
"yes!"
"Grand Prince, the bombing has stopped!"
Xuan Yuao listened carefully and found that it was true.
"Quick! Take this opportunity to resist and kill him without a single piece of armor left!"
"kill!"
As military orders came one after another, the Mongolian army woke up from their panic and immediately entered combat status.
Unfortunately, they are brave but lack strength.
As soon as they rushed out of the barracks, they were repelled by waves of crossbow arrows. After leaving behind the first few rows of corpses, the remaining people quickly retreated back to the barracks.
"Grand Prince, the enemy's crossbows are powerful, retreat quickly...!"
"ah!"
Before the man could finish his words, he was hit in the neck by an arrow.
His eyes widened, he covered the arrow with his hands, and slowly fell to the ground.
"Deputy General Qi! Deputy General Qi!"
Seeing the soldiers falling in front of him one after another, Xuan Yuao's eyes turned bloodshot, and he wished he could kill all the soldiers of the Great Zhou with his own hands.
But he can't, he doesn't have the ability yet.
There were flames everywhere in the tent. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that the crossbows from the Great Zhou Dynasty had flames on them. They shot into the tent and immediately caught fire. In an instant, the barracks became a sea of fire.
"withdraw!"
Xuan Yuao gritted his teeth and shouted to retreat. He now had to admit that his 150,000-strong army could not defeat the tens of thousands of troops of the Great Zhou and had lost.
He started out by chasing after the Li family army, and now he was being chased and beaten by the enemy, fleeing in a panic like a stray dog.
"Quick! Retreat to the back mountain!"
Several deputy generals brought a team of death warriors to protect Xuan Yuao and ran to the back mountain.
“Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!”
All he could hear was the sound of crossbows and arrows. People around Xuan Yuao kept getting shot and falling down, but he was caught in the middle and was not affected at all.
The soldiers behind him fell to the ground one after another under the relentless pursuit of the Great Zhou Army, and he could not care less!
"Xuan Yuao has fled to the back mountain, chase him!"
Suddenly a female voice sounded in the air, and Xuan Yuao staggered and almost fell.
"It's Bai Li, the Grand Marshal of the Western Expedition of the Great Zhou! Why is she here?"
Someone recognized Bai Li. Xuan Yuao looked up and saw the person smiling arrogantly in the morning light. Who else could it be but the ungrateful girl Bai Li!
"call out!"
As if intentional, an arrow flew past the tip of Xuan Yuao's pen and landed at his toes, blocking his way.
"Bai Li! Don't go too far!"
"So what if I bullied you! Xuan Yu'ao, you led a large army to invade my Great Zhou. It's not too much to destroy you all!"
“…”
Xuan Yuao was speechless, after all, this was the fact.
Bai Li looked down from his perch in mid-air, "Now, if you surrender obediently, I'll spare your lives. Otherwise, you'll die without a burial place!"
"Hmph! Bai Li, don't get too cocky. Let me show you how powerful my assassins are!"
After Xuan Yuao finished speaking, he waved his hand, and the hundreds of numb-looking people protecting him immediately split into several teams. Two teams actually began to stack up like Arhats, and it seemed that they wanted to stack them high enough to pull Bai Li down.
Bai Li frowned slightly. She had clearly blown up all those lifeless zombies. These were clearly living people, so why did they look as numb and insensitive as zombies, with no sense of pain?
Before they finished folding the Arhat, Bai Li drove the eagle away from them.
"Xuan Yu'ao, don't waste your energy. You can't reach me."
Bai Li raised his crossbow and pointed it at him, "As for me, it would be easy for me to take your lives!"
"So I advise you to stop thinking of any tricks and just surrender!"
Xuan Yuao panicked and whispered a few words to the deputy general. Then, more than a hundred assassins surrounded him and rushed forward!
The speed was so fast that no one could react. The people who were stacking people were still stacking people, but their master had already run away!
Bai Li...
So, Xuan Yuao, this coward, is pretending to be mysterious just to slip away?
"Big Eagle, follow them and see where they can escape to!"
The eagle let out a long cry of excitement, flapped its wings and made an S-shaped catwalk. Before Bai Li slapped it, it obediently followed in a straight line.
"Prince, the dense forest is just ahead. Let's go into it quickly!"
Seeing that the forest was just ahead, the deputy general hurriedly cheered everyone up.
"Well, you have done a great job in protecting the master, and you will be rewarded handsomely!"
Xuan Yuao can only paint a rosy picture for everyone now, otherwise he is afraid that he will not be able to survive this disaster.
When they were still a few steps away from the dense forest and everyone's faces showed joy, a man and a sculpture stood in front of them. The beautiful woman with a jade-like face looked like a demon from hell in the eyes of everyone.
"How...how did you get ahead of us?"
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