Little Swallow sneered, "Li Chengyun, stop wasting your breath on your grandma!"
"If you don't want any more casualties, you'd better take your men and go back now!"
"Otherwise, all of your men will die here!"
Li Chengyun laughed loudly, "What arrogance! Soldiers, are you afraid?"
"We're not afraid!" the Annamese army responded enthusiastically.
Yongqi snorted coldly, frowning as he looked at Li Chengyun. "Li Chengyun, stop being so stubborn. Your Annamese army is no match for our Great Qing!"
Li Chengyun raised an eyebrow and smiled, "Fifth Prince, this war is not over yet, and it is still uncertain who will emerge victorious!"
At Le Thanh Van’s command, the Annamese army began its attack on the city again.
Yongqi and Xiaoyanzi were fighting against the Annamese army at the foot of the city wall, while Fuheng was directing the soldiers on how to deal with the enemy from above.
The battle lasted for an hour until someone came to report to Li Chengyun, "Reporting, Master, Xiao Jian and Princess Qing have been captured!"
"Hahaha, very good!" Li Chengyun looked triumphantly at Xiao Yanzi and Yongqi, who were still fighting against the Annamese army. "Did you two hear that? Xiao Jian and your Qing Gege have been captured!"
Little Swallow snorted, "You think you can just say they'll be arrested like that? Do you think I'd believe that?"
Li Chengyun smiled and said, "If you don't believe me, go and see if they're on the mountain not far to the east..."
"You don't have much time to think about it. If you're too late, their remains will be gone..."
"You..." Hearing Li Chengyun's words, Xiao Yanzi was still a little flustered. What if something really happened to Xiao Jian and Qing'er?
Just then, someone came to report to Xiao Yanzi and the others, "Princess Qing and the General have gone missing!"
Li Chengyun shouted again, "What? Did you hear me? Fifth Princess, if you hesitate any longer, you won't even see their corpses!"
"By the way, you have to go by yourself, alone. If you take them with you, I guarantee Xiao Jian and Qing'er will die a horrible death! Are you willing to take that bet?"
You have one incense stick's time to consider!
Yongqi saw the struggle on Xiaoyanzi's face. Suppressing his unease, he said, "If you're worried, then go ahead. I'll come find you as soon as I've settled things here..."
"But..." Little Swallow hesitated, "What if it's a trap..."
Yongqi fought back tears, "If it's true, you'll regret it for the rest of your life if you don't go!"
"Little Swallow, believe me, no matter what happens, I will find you!"
"If anyone tries to hurt you, I will never let them get away with it!"
"Hurry up! If you hesitate any longer, I'm afraid I really won't be able to control myself!"
He desperately didn't want Xiao Yanzi to take any risks; he couldn't lose her!
But his reason told him that if Xiao Jian and Qing'er were really captured, and they didn't go to rescue them, he and Xiao Yanzi would suffer for the rest of their lives, even if they survived!
Little Swallow finally made up her mind and headed east up the mountain.
Rough map of the war between the two countries
When she walked down that road, it meant that she and Yongqi would be separated for a while.
On the mountain to the east, there were no Xiao Jian or Qing'er, only hundreds of Annamese soldiers waiting for her.
Little Swallow, clad in red armor, coldly stared at the Annamese soldiers surrounding her. "Your master truly knows no bounds!"
"Go!" Their mission was not to kill Xiao Yanzi, but to exhaust her strength, force her to the edge of a cliff, and make her fall off.
The person who had been arranged at the bottom of the cliff would rescue Xiao Yanzi, and after that, there would be no more Fifth Prince Xiao Yanzi in the world, only the Princess Consort of the Sixth Prince Li Chengyun of Annam!
No matter how skilled Xiao Yanzi was in martial arts or how much medicine powder she carried, she couldn't withstand a relentless attack. Besides, these hundreds of people were already prepared, so Xiao Yanzi's medicine powder was completely ineffective!
Although their mission was to force Xiao Yanzi to retreat, they also had to fight her with real swords and spears, and inflict as many scars on her as possible. So, at this point, Xiao Yanzi was almost at her breaking point. "I never imagined that I, Xiao Yanzi, would end up like this!"
"Yongqi, I'm sorry, I can't hold on much longer!"
When Yongqi and Xiao Jian arrived, what they saw was Xiao Yanzi being kicked off a cliff by Annamese soldiers. Yongqi's eyes widened, "Xiao Yanzi!"
Without a second thought, Yongqi was about to follow Xiaoyanzi downstairs when Xiaojian quickly stopped him, "Yongqi, you can't go!"
"Let me go! I need to find Xiao Yanzi! Xiao Yanzi is still down there! I need to find her!" Yongqi wouldn't listen at all. He struggled, wanting only to go down and chase after Xiao Yanzi.
Left with no other option, Xiao Jian knocked Yongqi unconscious. Fu Erkang and the others had already dealt with the remaining soldiers. Back at camp, everyone was in low spirits. What good was winning the battle?
The radiant woman didn't come back with him. After settling Yongqi in, Xiao Jian asked Fu Erkang to find someone to watch over him. Then, he led his men to the bottom of the cliff to look for Xiao Yanzi.
Unfortunately, nothing was gained.
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Three days later, Li Chengyun flew into a rage in his military tent, shouting, "Where are they? Where are the men I ordered?"
"Your Highness, please calm your anger. All those placed at the bottom of the cliff have been killed, and Little Swallow has also disappeared without a trace..."
"I arranged everything so perfectly, without a single mistake. I was just a hair's breadth away from winning the beauty's heart. Now tell me, the woman I wanted has disappeared?"
"So all this work of mine has just benefited someone else?"
"What's the situation on the other side?"
"Your Highness, it is said that the Fifth Prince is unwilling to accept the fact that Xiao Yanzi fell off the cliff. He insists on seeing her alive or dead, and has been searching for her at the bottom of the cliff..."
"Hmph, if I can't find him, he can't find him either! Send men immediately to search for him, dig three feet into the ground, and find him for me!"
"yes!"
Meanwhile, Yongqi led his men to find Xiaoyanzi again.
Seeing Yongqi's utterly dejected expression, Xiao Jian was also heartbroken. "Yongqi, I know it's hard for you to accept, but you've been searching for three days and three nights. If there really was any trace of Xiaoyanzi, you should have found her by now!"
"No, Little Swallow must still be waiting for me! She's waiting for me to save her. I can't stop; I must find her!"
Xiao Jian angrily said, "Yongqi, are you planning to abandon your and Xiaoyanzi's two children?"
"Don't forget, you still have two children waiting for you in the palace!"
"If you abandon your own child for Xiao Yanzi, would Xiao Yanzi be happy if she knew?"
Upon hearing Xiao Jian's words, Yongqi thought of the two little ones in the palace, and his heart ached even more. "I promised them that I would return safely with Xiao Yanzi, but now..."
"It's my fault for being useless. I knew it was likely a trap, so why didn't I go with them..."
Xiao Jian angrily pounded the ground, "I should be the one blaming myself. If it weren't for my negligence, falling into their trap, how could Xiao Yanzi have been threatened..."
Xia Ziwei wiped away her tears and choked out, "What's the use of blaming yourselves like this? What you should be thinking about now is how to go back and explain to Father Emperor?"
“I don’t believe Xiao Yanzi is dead, so I’ll have the Ziyun Sect members stay behind to continue the search. But now that the war between the two countries is over, it’s about time we went back…”
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