Xu Shu glanced at Yan Guang and slowly drew the sword from his waist.
"If General Yan is afraid, he can stay where he is. I will personally go and cut down the flag."
"You dare!"
The woman's angry voice sounded from behind. Xu Shu paused and heard the sound of wind blowing from behind his ears. He quickly bent down to avoid it, but the sharp blade of the dagger passed in front of him.
Xiao Nan's counterattack failed, so she bent her leg and kicked the side of the opponent's saddle. Jixiang used the force to carry her and turned around nimbly, blocking Xu Shu.
"Which eye of yours saw my adoptive father rebel?! If you keep talking nonsense, I'll cut off your tongue!"
Xu Shu snorted coldly and pointed at the chaotic battlefield a mile away.
"Xiao Nanhui, open your eyes and see clearly. He would rather hold his troops in place than surrender the flag. This is a violation of military orders and he deserves death!"
Xiao Nanhui naturally refused to give in, and every word he spoke seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth.
"It's clearly Zong Hao who wants to kill him. If he doesn't resist, is he just going to sit there and wait for death?!"
The two men were in a stalemate, and then a strange noise came out of nowhere, and a dense and sharp whistling sound rushed out from the dense forest. Dozens of figures flew in a vertical line, heading straight for the position of the Yaqi leader on the cliff.
Dozens of flying line killers rushed straight towards Zong Hao, and the flying silver lines shuttled back and forth, trapping him in them.
Xiao Nanhui was stunned by what was happening before his eyes, but Xu Shu seemed unsurprised, with a mocking smile on his face.
"General Yan, did you see clearly? If Qing Huaihou hadn't colluded with the Bai family, why would those assassins have come to his rescue when his life was on the line?"
Yan Guang remained silent. He glanced at the woman on the horse beside him, and for a moment he hesitated and felt reluctant.
She looked particularly thin because she was not wearing armor. Her eyes were fixed on the Subei flag standing in the wind and rain not far away. As if she had anticipated something, she suddenly clamped her horse's belly and rushed into the formation.
"Xiao Cancheng, don't go over there..."
Yan Guang's shout came from behind her, and in an instant she left him behind.
The sound of the piano broke through the air, and the three notes played together, sweeping away the thousands of troops.
The Shangyin formation moved, and the murderous intent was hard to suppress. Thousands of arrows whistled into the sky and flew towards the Subei army on the cliff.
"Godfather!"
She shouted almost at the top of her lungs, but her voice was instantly drowned out by the huge noise around her.
She held the dagger in her backhand and tried her best to ward off the arrows around her. Every step she took was so difficult.
The dagger's blade was short, and she couldn't block it after all. After a few misses, an arrow landed on her shoulder, instantly causing her heart to churn and her throat to taste fishy and sweet.
But strangely, she did not feel the sharp pain of the arrow piercing her body.
She didn't bother to investigate further and tried her best to drive Jixiang into the mountain path, following the gravel and mud rolling down the hillside towards the direction of the big flag.
Five hundred steps, three hundred steps, one hundred steps.
She finally saw the figure entangled in the flying lines.
Her heart was beating violently due to the continuous attacks and fights, and she felt her vision trembling with everything around her.
A loud rumbling sound came from deep in the earth beneath their feet. The cliff that had been trampled upon several times could no longer hold on and broke apart from the root of the mountain. Hundreds of cavalrymen and their flags fell down the cliff. Xiao Zhun's figure was revealed in the formation. The old man in brown clothes, with his hair and beard all gone and his body stained with blood, suddenly jumped up and pulled out the spears and halberds scattered on both sides with his left and right hands, and threw them out one after another.
No!
Her voice was stuck in the back of her throat, and before she could utter a word, the next moment, she saw the remaining five or six flying line killers flash, one of them stood in front of Xiao Zhun and was pierced through in an instant, and the rest of them quickly wrapped Xiao Zhun up in their arms, and just before the last rock under their feet collapsed, they flew up and fled into the dense forest on the cliff.
The mountain was shaking violently, and Jixiang could hardly stand. Xiao Nanhui had to lift the reins and take a few steps back.
When everything finally calmed down, in the rolling dust and smoke, neither Zong Hao's figure nor Xiao Zhun's whereabouts could be seen.
The flying black-feathered arrow paused for a moment due to the obstruction of vision. She took advantage of this moment to catch her breath and shouted softly. Jixiang understood and jumped into the deep grass on the south slope.
The collapsed mountain turned into a mudslide, nearly uprooting and knocking over trees. Xiao Nanhui struggled to escape to higher ground amidst the devastation, finally finding a relatively flat platform in front of a tree so large it took three people to hug it.
The mountain road not far away was almost collapsed. She looked at the steep rocks on the other side that were overgrown with weeds and had no place to stand, and decisively got off the horse.
Jixiang was hit by an arrow on his butt, and the wound was torn apart due to the continuous attacks. Xiao Nanhui's heart ached when she saw it. After hesitating for a moment, she patted Jixiang's head.
"go."
She often did this in the past, and the spotted, mixed-haired beast would always happily walk away, looking for mushrooms to eat on its own.
However, this time, Jixiang did not move.
"My foster father is missing, I have to go find him."
It still stood there stubbornly, and no matter how Xiao Nanhui pushed or patted it, it would not move. But when she moved, it would use its mouth to pull at her clothes.
Xiao Nanhui paused and forced a smile.
"You beast, you spirit! It's not like I don't want you anymore. Why are you putting on this life-and-death drama for me?"
Jixiang snorted heavily, as if accusing her of inappropriate words, but his four hooves remained standing.
It is true that this horse takes on the temperament of its master. It is as stubborn as a donkey and does not look like a war horse at all.
Time was running out, she thought for a moment, took off the linen bag that had been hanging on the side of the saddle, opened it, and placed it at the root of a tree nearby. She also tied the reins into a knot and placed it on a branch of a tree nearby.
"You stay where you are and wait for me. I'll be back after I finish eating."
Jixiang lowered his head and sniffed the dried mushrooms that Yao Yi "tributed" in the bag, but did not eat them. He raised his head and looked at Xiao Nanhui.
This time, she no longer looked at it, took a deep breath, and jumped into the dense forest.
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