The centurion said with a wronged expression, "Princess, the road wasn't so difficult when you came... It's one thing for the warhorses to get stuck in the mud, but many crossbow wheels got stuck in the ground."
Su Wan approached and said, "Sister Chu."
The centurion bowed to Su Wan with the salutation of royalty: "Your subordinate pays respects to the goddess."
The King of Xirong has decreed that seeing Su Wan is as if seeing the King himself.
Chu Mingyao turned her head and saw that her previously furrowed brows relaxed. She opened her arms and said with surprise, "Sister, you're up."
The two embraced, and Su Wan said, "Thank you, sister. If you hadn't told everyone the truth, I probably would have died long ago."
Chu Mingyao laughed and said, "I promised you I wouldn't reveal this secret, but I did anyway. However, to save my sister, I'll be a sister who breaks her promise."
Su Wan released Chu Mingyao and asked, "What are you two discussing?"
Chu Mingyao said, "My husband is leading the Western Rong cavalry to provide support. It rained heavily all day the day before yesterday, and the roads were muddy after the rain. The crossbows that fire armor-piercing cones got stuck, which delayed the march."
Su Wan recalled the black spear that Meng Ruliu had thrown like a javelin, which had actually pierced through the giant eagle's wing, and said, "Was that the armor-piercing spike that my sworn sister threw?"
"That's what I brought with me, it's not enough," Chu Mingyao said to the centurion. "Have His Highness leave the crossbow carts, and the cavalry will bring armor-piercing spikes to help."
The centurion said with a bitter face, "Princess, you make it sound so easy. The armor-piercing spikes are so heavy that ordinary soldiers have difficulty even swinging them. Only General Meng has enough strength to throw them. We need a crossbow to fire them."
Su Wan said to Chu Mingyao, "Sister, don't worry. I believe the Crown Prince is also trying his best to get here. Let's rely on what we have to support ourselves for now."
Chu Mingyao was pleased to see Su Wan help her out, so she asked the centurion to contact the Western Rong army and took Su Wan's hand, saying, "Come on, let's go into the tent."
Where is Brother Chu?
"He is currently observing the battle situation outside the camp walls."
As soon as the two entered the main tent, Meng Ruliu, who had overheard their conversation, ran out to greet them.
Su Wan and Meng Ruliu gave each other a big hug.
She didn't need to thank Meng Ruliu. The two were sworn sisters, bound by life and death, to the point where no words of thanks were necessary.
"Sister Yi, how's the battle going? I sensed everyone was very tense on my way here."
Meng Ruliu was still wearing the same blue-scaled chainmail, as if she had never taken it off. The bright red cloak on her back had several holes in it, seemingly burned, which showed how fierce the battle was.
"It's alright, we just repelled the enemy's attack," Meng Ruliu said in a relaxed tone. "His Majesty is far-sighted and deliberately built the stone wall so thick and high that those guys' defensive guns couldn't penetrate it. Many of them were killed or injured by our stones."
"Where did the enemy's army come from?" Su Wan asked. "How many are there?"
Meng Ruliu said, "There were more than 3,000 people in the morning, around the time you were eating. We charged in and killed half of them. The rest circled around the four legs of the giant crab and shot at us with defensive guns. We couldn't fight them, so we had to retreat. By the afternoon, there were more than 20,000 people. They all came from the big disc under the giant crab's belly."
Chu Mingyao interjected, "I don't think that thing can hold 20,000 people. How could there be so many?"
Meng Ruliu insisted, "If people were standing side by side, it would be enough to fit 20,000. But just now, their numbers far exceeded 20,000..."
Su Wan felt increasingly uncomfortable listening to this, so she went inside the tent.
The command tent was brightly lit, and Wei Jingzhuo was discussing something with several Jin and Southern Chu generals. Everyone had a furrowed brow, as if they were having a major headache.
When Wei Jingzhuo saw Su Wan arrive, he smiled and extended his hand to her.
Su Wan had no intention of showing affection in front of everyone, and said to Wei Jingzhuo, "Your Majesty, I heard that the giant crab is constantly being attacked by enemy troops?"
Wei Jingzhuo said, "That's right."
"They just launched an attack and we repelled them, right?"
"yes."
"How many enemy troops are involved in this attack?"
"Nearly 40,000 men. We held them off by relying on the stone walls. We killed more than 3,000 of them, but we also suffered more than 3,000 casualties. However, they took all the wounded with them and didn't manage to capture any alive."
Su Wan's gaze fell on the piece of paper Jiang Li had given her in the apartment. On that paper, she could see that the disc-shaped structure under the Cancer's belly was a cloning pod. And Meng Ruliu had told her that the enemy soldiers had come from the cloning pod.
She was somewhat alarmed. Could these enemies be clones?
Just then, Chu Yi hurriedly walked in from outside the tent, looking nervous.
“Jinzhi, I’ve checked all the dead enemies, and they’re all the same person.”
Everyone inside the tent was stunned. Chu Mingyao said, "Seventh Brother, are you sure you're not mistaken? Are all the dead the same?"
Chu Yi said, "Absolutely certain."
Only Su Wan remained calm and said to everyone, "Brother Chu is right. These 40,000 people are indeed the same person. Zhang Ying created an army using cloning technology. He used one person as a prototype and used futuristic machines to create many people who look exactly like him."
Only after Su Wan confirmed it did everyone believe the truth. They all looked on in disbelief.
I never imagined that future technology would be so amazing.
Meng Ruliu encouraged everyone, saying, "Whatever it is, if we work together, we will definitely defeat them."
Su Wan said, "No, if things continue like this, we will surely be defeated."
She had calculated in her mind that the speed of the Cancer mech clone army was about three thousand people per hour. Fourteen hours had passed since she returned, and the enemy force was also close to forty thousand people, the smaller portion being the total number killed by the Jin army.
There are still six hours until sunrise. By then, the enemy will have grown to over 50,000 men, surpassing the Jin army.
In another day, the enemy will number nearly 130,000, more than three times the total strength of the Jin army.
The 50,000 Jin troops are fighting a monster that generates 70,000 clone warriors every day. Give it three days and three nights, and it can produce an army of 200,000 and sweep across the world.
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