Chapter 169 The Snowman
Xie Mianmian suddenly felt as if the clouds in front of her had been split open by the sunlight. She happily clung to the sun, "Thank you, Your Highness..."
Everything was ready, and the deputy general led the army toward Chai City, where they would meet Xie Huaijin's army along the way.
In the Mian army, the strong soldiers were all very large, each one a burly man with fat covering his muscles, and the beasts beside them were even more majestic.
Clad in full-body scale armor, furry animal ears emerged from the cold, hard helmet, listening to every move nearby.
The two teams, with great fanfare, headed in opposite directions.
The black wolf carried Xie Mianmian, while the seventh prince sat on the back of the snow wolf. The other soldiers who could not ride beasts mounted warhorses.
“There’s a shortcut on the map that can save us half the time.”
After he finished speaking, he observed Xie Mianmian's expression. For some reason, she had become very distant from him as soon as she woke up.
Could it be... that she still remembers what she said last night? Is this a silent rejection?
Xie Mianmian said, "That's very good. Please lead the way, Your Highness."
They traveled in silence, the group and beasts galloping wildly towards Yuan City.
Yuancheng is situated on a mountain with sheer cliffs, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack; it is a place where one man can hold off ten thousand.
There was only one road into the city, and the Mian army hurriedly stepped onto it. Halfway there, a mile behind them, a dark mass of wild beasts appeared.
Xie Mianmian and the Seventh Prince exchanged a glance amidst the jolting—it was the beast army of the Northern Rong!
Sensing something amiss, the city gates remained tightly shut. The Seventh Prince straightened up and pulled a golden token from his robes.
He gathered his strength in his dantian, his voice authoritative and unyielding, and shouted to the guards on the city wall: "I am the seventh prince! Open the city gates immediately! There are enemy troops behind us!"
The concise and powerful words were repeated several times, and every single one reached the city wall.
One of the guards said, "I don't recognize him. Who can say this is really the Seventh Prince? If they are all enemy soldiers, what will happen to the people behind us?"
The guard captain slapped him hard on the head, then turned and shouted down, "Open the city gates!"
Then, with a look of exasperation, he said to the guard, "You may not recognize the Seventh Prince, but you should at least recognize the Princess. Haven't you seen the bronze statue in her shrine? It's exactly the same."
The guard rubbed his head where he had been hit, squinted to look, and sure enough, the princess really did look just like she did when she was a child.
No, the situation below is so dangerous, why did the princess come in person?
With a creaking sound, the heavy city gate was slowly opened a crack.
As the enemy beast army drew closer and closer behind them, fortunately, the Mian army was able to reach the city gate soon.
They stood guard on the city wall, watching as many wild beasts they had never seen before surged in one after another.
The last soldier on horseback in the Mian army glanced back and saw that the enemy's cheetah was only eight feet away from him.
He bent down and whipped his warhorse, urging it to follow with all its might.
Three feet, two feet, one foot away from the city gate...
"Close the city gates!"
As the gap in the door narrowed, the warhorse mustered all its strength and leaped into the air, landing safely in the next instant, scraping along the gap.
With a loud "bang," the city gate was slammed shut.
"Thump, thump, thump."
It was the sound of enemy beasts, unable to stop in time, frantically ramming against the city gate.
Some soldiers stood behind the gate, while others climbed onto the city wall.
Both the Mian army and the original guards in the city fought together in an orderly manner to resist the enemy.
Some were shooting arrows, some were throwing stones, and some were pouring boiling water.
Some enemy beasts are agile and can appear on the city wall in no time with just a simple beast ladder.
No matter how many heads popped up, they were all driven down by the fierce beasts of the Mian army.
Especially the giant python, whose tail tip is extremely powerful, capable of sending a creature flying with a single slap. This is no ordinary tail that can only wag a roasted chicken.
The seventh prince nocked an arrow, squinted one eye, and released it. The arrow shot out sharply, accurately hitting the eye of an enemy beast below.
Xie Mianmian stood beside him, and the figure in front of her gradually overlapped with the dashing young man from more than ten years ago.
He is still the Seventh Prince whom I admire.
She also picked up a bow and arrow, feeling that she was also very talented at archery. Back then, she had shot a two-ring mark on her first try!
She drew her bow to its fullest extent, aimed at a beast, and was about to release it when someone bumped her elbow, causing the arrow to fly out and hit the enemy beast squarely.
Xie Mianmian scratched her head, "This... is fine."
She nocked another arrow, wanting to prove her strength.
As she was aiming, her entire field of vision suddenly began to shake. Xie Mianmian lowered the arrow and noticed that the city wall beneath her feet was trembling slightly.
Could it be... an earthquake?
The enemy beasts below the city stopped their attack and retreated like a tide.
Everyone stopped what they were doing in surprise.
The earthquake is still ongoing and getting closer.
On the road outside the city, on the previously empty horizon, a white head slowly appeared, followed by its broad shoulders, and soon, its entire body appeared before everyone's eyes.
It turned out to be... a huge, snow-white gorilla.
It is as tall as a small building.
A woman was sitting on the gorilla's hand, but it was covering her face so she couldn't see it.
Xie Mianmian gripped the bow tightly in her hand, probably because the huge footprints she saw that night were left by it.
Everyone stared at its every move with suspicion, wondering whether it was friend or foe.
The gorilla stood below the city, placed the woman in his arms behind his back, grabbed a wolf with sharp teeth and dripping saliva, and swung it over his arm and threw it.
The enemy wolf appeared in the crowd in the city the next instant.
It was like a drop of water falling into boiling oil, startling a cacophony of chatter.
"Damn it," muttered a guard on the city wall.
The gorilla's men didn't stop, throwing the beasts into the city one by one.
Yuancheng, which was originally easy to manage, has become several levels more difficult due to its disruption.
Beset by internal and external troubles, the faint smell of blood wafted through the city.
Xie Mianmian pursed her lips and summoned the giant python. "Go and lure that gorilla away, so it doesn't have a chance to throw wild animals into the city, okay?"
She knew that the giant python was intelligent and agile, its scales impervious to swords and spears, and immune to water and fire. Even the other two wolves wore scale armor, but it didn't.
The python wasn't afraid at all; it obediently nodded.
Xie Mianmian stroked its big head, "Go ahead and cause trouble, but stay away and don't get hurt."
The giant python slid down the beast ladder outside the city, and the ruthless iron brain kept pushing and pushing, knocking them all down.
Unbeknownst to it, a streak of snow-white followed behind the tip of its tail, also descending from the city.
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