Volume 1 Chapter 64: Attacking the Mountain Gate
Xiashanhu was so scared that he closed his eyes tightly. He felt the biting chill emanating from the dagger. His body trembled uncontrollably and he was extremely scared, but he couldn't utter a word.
Xiang Yun's expression turned cold. He slowly exerted force with his hands and suddenly scraped Xiashanhu's chest twice. Blood immediately gushed out. Xiashanhu screamed in pain and struggled continuously.
But his body was held down tightly by Xuanyuan Dabing and he couldn't move at all. He wanted to escape but couldn't.
"Of course, you are a man, and you don't even say this. I admire your courage, but you are also challenging my patience!"
Xiang Yun continued to attack, slashing Xia Shanhu twice more, causing more blood to flow. This time he cursed fiercely, "Will you tell me or not? Will you tell me or not?"
Xia Shanhu suddenly endured the pain and shouted with all his strength: "Why don't you ask!"
Everyone in the audience was stunned, and Xia Shanhu continued to shout: "You didn't even ask, but you kept asking me if I would tell you or not! But you asked the question, and if you asked me, I wouldn't tell you!"
Everyone looked at Xiang Yun with confusion and puzzlement in their eyes.
Xiang Yun's face turned red at this moment, and he coughed twice and cursed awkwardly: "Stupid, you have a pig brain, if I don't ask, can't you guess?
If you can't even guess my intentions, what qualifications do you have to live in this world!
Anyone would know without even thinking about it that what I want is the route from Shangqingfeng Mountain to Baihu Hall, as well as the deployment of troops in various places on your mountain!"
As Xiang Yun spoke, his face became less red and his heart less beating. He shouted righteously, "If you don't tell the truth, don't blame me for scraping off your flesh piece by piece!"
"It's just this little thing. If you had asked me earlier, I would have told you!"
Xiashanhu immediately began to talk incessantly, revealing all the information about the White Tiger Hall of Qingfeng Mountain without leaving out a single detail, even describing the locations of the toilets in detail. It was obvious that he was extremely afraid of Xiang Yun.
He talked for an hour straight, in great detail, and listening to his words, no one would believe that he was lying.
But Xiang Yun was silent for a long time before he said, "How can I believe what you said?"
Xuanyuan Dabing said innocently, "Your Majesty, I think he has explained everything in detail and it doesn't seem like he is lying."
Xiang Yun rolled his eyes at him and said seriously, "Da Bing, you are still too innocent and kind. Remember, the more perfect and flawless something is, the more problems it has!"
Then Xiang Yun looked at Xia Shanhu and said, "I must take you up the mountain with me. If there is any mistake in the place you said, your life will be in danger!"
"Okay, okay, okay!" Xiashanhu agreed quickly, and then begged for mercy: "Can you bandage my wound first? If I continue to bleed like this, I'm afraid I won't be able to get up the mountain alive."
Xiang Yun glanced at Xiao Guazi, who immediately ran to ask the accompanying military doctor to come and bandage Xia Shanhu.
Not long after, Linghu Feng came with several generals. They bowed and said, "Your Majesty, we are ready to attack Qingfeng Mountain. As long as the emperor gives the order, we will immediately attack the White Tiger Hall of Qingfeng Mountain!"
Linghu Feng bowed again and said: "Your Majesty, I volunteer to be the vanguard of the army. I will lead the troops to enter first and kill all the soldiers in the White Tiger Hall!"
Xiang Yun frowned upon hearing this and cursed, "General Linghu, what are you doing!
A general of the second rank did not take command of the central army, but went to the front line as a pioneer. What was he thinking? What's wrong with his brain? "
Linghu Feng was completely dumbfounded, at a loss as to what to do, and cried out in his heart: "What's going on? Before, I was in charge of the central army, and you called me incompetent. Now I volunteered to be the vanguard, and you actually called me stupid!
So what do you want me to do? Being an official is hard... Being an official for the new emperor is even harder..."
Although he complained in his heart, Linghu Feng immediately said: "I...know my mistake, I am sorry for your majesty's kindness..."
Xiang Yun scolded angrily: "You are not sorry to me, you look down on me!
There are 700,000 troops here, including hundreds of generals above the fifth rank. All of them are good at fighting and invincible. With so many generals here, do they need you to be the vanguard?
Is it possible for a general of the second rank in the imperial court to serve as a vanguard?
Ridiculous, really ridiculous. If you feel uncomfortable with your current position, I can give you a position as a vanguard!"
Linghu Feng was scolded by Xiang Yun and felt extremely ashamed.
Every word Xiang Yun said made sense. Linghu Feng didn't say a word in rebuttal. He just kept repeating one sentence: "I know my crime. I deserve to die!"
Xiang Yun was so annoyed by Linghu Feng's attitude that he didn't even say a word to refute me when I scolded you like that. Hey, you are a great general, how come you don't have any blood at all? Are you really a hopeless person?
Xiang Yunchang exhaled and sighed: "Don't think too much every day, just do your job well, and step down!"
Linghu Feng retreated in disgrace. Xiang Yun turned around and smiled at Xuanyuan Dabing and said, "Dabing, you will be the vanguard this time!"
"Ah?" Xuanyuan Dabing cried out in sorrow. Originally, there was nothing wrong with being a pioneer and he was quite happy with it. But Xiang Yun's words just now made it sound as if being a pioneer was a job for people in a low-level position and without any status. This made Xuanyuan Dabing very uncomfortable.
Xiang Yun raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "What? If you don't go as a pioneer, then I will go! Why, you are not happy about it?"
"Hey, I noticed that you didn't take what I said seriously recently. Now you dare to raise objections. Is it because I spoil you too much?"
Xuanyuan Dabing was embarrassed when he heard this, and quickly said, "Your Majesty, I am willing to serve as a pioneer. I will go forward bravely and kill the enemy bravely, and kill the White Tiger Hall bandits and wipe them out completely!"
Half an hour later, under the leadership of Xiashanhu, Xuanyuan Dabing led his army to charge into Qingfeng Mountain and headed towards the location of Baihu Hall!
Xiang Yun and Shangguan Xiuzhu followed the army and advanced slowly behind. They passed many White Tiger Hall strongholds along the way. There were many corpses lying around, most of them were White Tiger Hall bandits.
Looking at these corpses, Xiang Yun suddenly said, "Xiao Zhuzhu, are you free tonight?"
When Shangguan Xiuzhu heard this name, he immediately said vigilantly: "What do you want to do?"
Xiang Yun said without even thinking: "Yes!"
With a "swish" sound, Shangguan Xiuzhu instantly drew out his dagger and made a gesture to chop.
Xiang Yun quickly said, "I was wrong, lady, please spare my life!"
Along the way, Xiang Yun kept teasing Shangguan Xiuzhu with all kinds of dirty jokes. After just a few moves, Shangguan Xiuzhu became very shy and her face turned red. Her shy look made Xiang Yun very excited.
Shangguan Xiuzhu didn't dare to do anything to Xiang Yun. Even if he took out his two swords to threaten him, Xiang Yun just talked nonsense to fool him. This made Shangguan Xiuzhu very angry, but he also felt a little relieved.
After walking for another half an hour, Xiang Yun finally heard the sounds of fighting ahead. After turning the corner, he saw a large number of White Tiger Hall bandits fighting with Xuanyuan Dabing and others.
The battle situation was one-sided, with a large number of bandits killed. It was still because Xuanyuan Dabing was too brave. An ordinary bandit could not withstand a single move from him. Killing these people was like slaughtering chickens.
Secondly, Linghu Feng sent many archers to snipe from the rear, and many bandits from the White Tiger Hall were shot to death before they could rush up.
When Xiang Yun arrived, thousands of bandits had already been slaughtered, but the army stopped there and did not move.
Linghu Feng came to report: "Your Majesty, all the bandit strongholds on Qingfeng Mountain have been cleared out. Now only the White Tiger Hall's camp is left. Should we launch an attack immediately?"
Xiang Yun frowned when he heard that. He roughly calculated along the way and found that he had killed less than 10,000 bandits at most. That meant that there were still more than 90,000 bandits lurking in the White Tiger Hall!
This is a bit too scary. In a siege, even if they can take down the White Tiger Hall, their side will suffer heavy losses.
Xiang Yun thought for a moment and said, "Don't worry, take me there to have a look first."
Xiang Yun soon reunited with Xuanyuan Dabing. Following Xiashanhu's words, Xiang Yun looked into the distance and saw that there was indeed a mountain stronghold 500 meters ahead.
There are three big characters "Baihutang" on the plaque of the mountain stronghold, and the wall of the stronghold is actually formed by natural rocks. It looks like a tiger's open mouth, and in that mouth there are a large number of bandits waiting for battle, all staring at them.
It seems that we have already alerted the enemy, and it is impossible to launch a surprise attack. Now the enemy has made sufficient preparations, so we can only launch a strong attack.
Linghu Feng said at this time: "Your Majesty, although the gate of the White Tiger Hall is small, there is a lot of hidden secrets inside the tiger's mouth. Usually, all these bandits hide inside the tiger's mouth mountain. This situation is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Even if we can successfully attack and kill our way in, it will be difficult for our army to enter as a whole. If we force the attack, the losses will be heavy, and more than half of them will be killed or injured."
Xiang Yun naturally also realized this and fell silent, not saying anything more. This was indeed a bit tricky.
It is definitely not possible to attack by force. Xiang Yun still needs to keep these troops to fight against the Mahayana Kingdom in the western border, so excessive casualties cannot be allowed.
Everyone was at a loss and could only stare at Xiang Yun with wide eyes. The man in front of them was their backbone.
Being looked at with such expectant eyes by everyone, Xiang Yun was extremely angry. If he, the emperor, had to do everything, then what was the use of me having you ministers?
Xiang Yun, feeling unhappy, immediately cursed at Linghu Feng: "Bah, you are a general, a second-rank official, leading an army of 700,000, but you can't even take down a small bandit. What use do I have for you!"
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The whole audience was silent, only Linghu Feng looked confused and wanted to die. Why was I always the one who got hurt?
"A living person can be suffocated to death by urine. People always come up with ways to do it!"
Xiang Yun cursed in his heart, and suddenly a plan came to his mind. A cunning smile gradually appeared on his face: "Humph, let's lure the snake out of its hole and smash your snake head. Let's see how you survive!"
With an idea in mind, Xiang Yun immediately said to Xuanyuan Dabing, "You must go forward and challenge him alone. Remember, no matter what method you use, you must call out the head of the White Tiger Hall, Qiu Baihu, to me!"
Upon hearing this, Xuanyuan Dabing immediately said excitedly: "I understand, Your Majesty wants to capture the thief and the leader. As long as I kill Qiu Baihu alone, the White Tiger Hall will be without a leader, and it will fall apart without any attack!"
Xiang Yun patted his shoulder expressionlessly and said earnestly, "You think too much. He is not stupid. How could he give up his advantage and fight you alone?
You just need to call out Qiu Baihu for me and have him appear on the village wall. Don't worry about what happens next. Leave everything to me!"
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