Chapter 266: At the mercy of others
Xiao Jin turned around and saw a soldier from the Southern Kingdom rushing towards him.
Xiao Jin raised his leg and knocked him to the ground. Before the soldier could get up, he stepped on his chest and asked, "Do you know me?"
The soldier's eyes were filled with hatred. "You, you killed my brother. I would recognize you even if you turned into ashes!"
Xiao Jin narrowed his dark eyes. The southerners he killed were all soldiers from the Southern Country.
Xiao Jin lifted him up and said, "You are from the Southern Army."
The man glared at him fiercely without saying a word.
"You, we have discovered your Chu State's conspiracy. You will never succeed! Go to hell, Xiao Jin!" The soldier suddenly struggled to stand up and raised the knife in his hand to stab Xiao Jin.
Xiao Jin blocked with the long knife in his hand and cut off his arm.
"Ah!" The soldier fell to the ground in pain.
"Capture all these Southern soldiers."
"yes."
At Xiao Jin's command, the men in black surrounded and attacked.
Xiao Jin glanced at the soldier with a severed arm who was about to escape quietly, but signaled the men in black not to stop him and let him escape.
After capturing everyone outside, Xiao Jin returned to the city with the gold.
"Your Highness, your identity will soon be exposed." Jiang Yang said with some concern after watching the scene just now.
Before they could fight back, Xiao Jin was exposed to the Southerners. If they came to encircle and suppress him, wouldn't it be terrible?
Xiao Jin's dark eyes were deep, "I have my own plans."
Inside the city, Su Ying asked the men in gray to capture this group of people. She just needed a large number of people to cut wood and chop wood.
"Catch the rest and lock them up first. Let them starve for two days."
"yes."
As soon as Su Ying returned to the palace, Xiao Jin arrived. He put the gold that Master Li brought on the table.
Su Ying frowned as she looked at the gold. "That's all?"
"Do you think he really came to give you gold?"
Su Ying raised her eyebrows. Couldn’t she just assume that he would do the whole act?
"He involved soldiers from the southern border, and they recognized me."
"I said, even if it's the military, I will still fight them."
"City Lord, we've captured someone from the Li family." As the two were talking, Green Protector walked into the hall.
"Bring the man in."
Master Li was tied up and thrown into the hall.
Mr. Li Erye has lived in the South all his life, and his family is influential in the court, so he has never suffered such a crime.
He lay on the ground, gritted his teeth and raised his neck, staring at Su Ying coldly with a pair of venomous snake-like eyes, "You, who are you!"
Su Ying stood up and walked up to him, pointing at the gold on the table, "Did you prepare that gold?"
Master Li glanced at the gold and suddenly laughed, "You want gold? As long as you let me go, I can give you as much as you want!"
"Any amount is fine?"
Seeing that Su Ying had some intentions, Mr. Li Er thought that this matter could be discussed. "Yes, I am the next patriarch of the Southern Li Family. How much gold do I have in my family? As long as you let me go, I will give you gold."
"That's easy."
Su Ying walked to the desk, picked up a pen and wrote down a long list. After she finished, she asked Xiao Jin to take a look to see if there was anything she needed to add. After Xiao Jin added some more things, Su Ying slapped the list on the ground and said, "Look carefully, these are what I want."
Mr. Li Erye's eyes kept rolling downwards. He may be rich, but don't treat him as a sucker!
"Including the round trip, I'll give you fifteen days to have your people prepare. If you get the stuff after fifteen days, I'll spare your life."
Now he was like a fish on the chopping board, at the mercy of others, so Mr. Li had no choice but to agree.
Su Ying asked Green Protector to take the note and find someone to go back and tell them to prepare things.
"Take him away."
"yes."
"City Lord, we captured three hundred people alive." When the Green Protector came back, those who broke into the city had also been dealt with.
"Keep them under guard along with the previous ones."
"yes."
A few days later, the Southern soldiers fled back to the Southern border.
The officers and soldiers guarding the border recognized him at a glance, and seeing that he was seriously injured, they quickly took him to the general's mansion.
"General, something happened."
The mighty general who was looking at the sand table stood up suddenly, and in a moment, the injured soldier was brought in.
"General, Xiao Jin, Xiao Jin is really hiding in the Northern Wasteland. They even built a city. All the people we brought with us were captured by them."
The mighty general narrowed his eyes, "Are you sure it was Xiao Jin you saw?"
"Yes, I can confirm that it is him!"
The mighty general clenched his fist in anger, "How treacherous and cunning the Chu State is! You actually plotted against us! Go, send a message back immediately and tell His Majesty about the ambitions of the Chu State. This war must be fought!"
The urgent report from the mighty general was delivered to the Emperor of the Southern Kingdom as soon as possible.
After reading the military report, the King of the Southern Kingdom turned pale, "This is too much! Pass on my order, have General Weiwu immediately mobilize his army to attack the State of Chu, and send a team of soldiers to encircle Xiao Jin. Don't let him appear on the battlefield."
"yes."
The same night that General Weiwu received the imperial order, he immediately dispatched a team of 5,000 men to the northern wilderness, and then personally led the troops to attack the border of the State of Chu.
When Xiao Jin led his troops to invade the Southern Kingdom, half of the troops were mobilized from his fiefdom Jincheng. After the victory, the other half returned to Jincheng. Now the general guarding the border is a brave general.
The sudden large-scale military action of the Southern Kingdom caught the Chu Kingdom off guard.
General Yongwu immediately organized his troops to counterattack, but because he lost the initiative, the first battle ended in failure. He could only immediately lead his troops back to the pass and defend it.
On the other side, five thousand cavalrymen also quickly entered the northern wilderness.
Su Ying sat at the dining table, watching the spoon vibrating "ding ding ding" in the bowl, and slowly raised her eyes to look at Xiao Jin.
Xiao Jin’s dark pupils were as deep as the underworld.
They both put down their chopsticks at the same time, each picked up the little kid who was still chewing the chicken leg, and handed them to Mother Zhao and the others.
"Mother Zhao, stay in the hall and don't leave until we come back." Su Ying's expression was serious.
Mother Zhao and the others didn't understand why they were enjoying their dinner happily just a moment ago, but it seemed like something big was going to happen the next moment.
Su Ying didn't explain too much, and Mother Zhao was smart enough not to ask any nonsense questions, but just hugged the children tightly.
"Don't worry, City Lord. We will definitely protect the young master and the others."
Su Ying and Xiao Jin turned around and left the hall without saying a word.
The moment the hall door closed, the men in black, the men in green, and the wolf circle surrounded the door of the hall.
"It's the cavalry." Xiao Jin said lightly.
"It's hard for cavalry to cause such a big commotion after walking on the snow. I'm afraid the other side has brought something big."
The two looked at each other, then turned around and disappeared into the darkness.
(End of this chapter)
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