Chapter 10: Capture "There is one last one..."
Dugu Xuan was shocked when he heard the voices of the Beidi soldiers. The city gate was open. Why was the city gate open?
"What exactly happened?" Dugu Xuan shouted towards the city wall.
Zhou Tinglan looked at Dugu Xuan's actions in surprise from under the city wall until he saw the city gate not far away.
Xie Zechuan is awesome, she shouldn't be disappointed in him.
This is more than just a talent for spying, it's simply dramatic. Even the empty city plan with the door opened couldn't be played like this.
What's more, this is not the empty city plan yet. There are so many soldiers on the opposite Beidi city wall pointing arrows at them.
She saw Dugu Xuan wave his hand and order a soldier beside him to go down and investigate the situation.
Dugu Xuan looked at the soldiers of Beijiang City below the city.
The soldiers of Beijiang City led by Qin Sinian were still under his nose, so it was impossible for them to open the city gate.
Could it be...
He couldn't help but think of the person who claimed to be Hu Yanlin's subordinate in the study last night. Now he thought about it again, it seemed more and more wrong.
He stared sinisterly at Qin Sinian, who was standing on the far side of the city wall. "Deputy General Qin, may I ask where your General Xie is now?"
When Qin Sinian heard Dugu Xuan asking him about Xie Zechuan again, he laughed out loud while sitting on horseback.
"General Dugu really wants to see our General Xie. Qin has already asked twice in just a short while outside the Beidi Kingdom city."
"Miss Zhou, do you think our General Xie is well-remembered?"
Zhou Tinglan held her forehead with her hand. Qin Sinian was throwing the question to her. Dugu Xuan must be furious after hearing it.
No way, no way, no one would be angered to death by the enemy before the battle even starts.
She glanced at Dugu Xuan's face on the city wall, pretended to be surprised and said loudly: "Our General Xie is well-remembered, isn't he? Look, isn't this General Dugu one of them?"
Qin Sinian tilted his head, secretly gestured towards the city gate, and continued, "General Dugu, please do not worry about where General Xie of our Northern Frontier City is. He is currently doing his job as the commander of Northern Frontier City."
Dugu Xuan was extremely angry when he saw Qin Sinian's contemptuous tone and actions, but the Xie Zechuan he mentioned was just as Dugu Xuan knew, always against them!
The Beidi soldiers who went down to investigate the situation did not return for a long time, and Dugu Xuan became more and more worried.
He asked his guards to keep an eye on the soldiers in the northern border, and to shoot arrows to try to drive them away if they made any unusual movements.
After walking down the city wall, Dugu Xuanyue headed towards the city gate. Along the way, Beidi soldiers were lying all over the place, and it was unknown whether they were dead or alive.
When Dugu Xuan arrived in front of the open city gate, a man with a black veil covering his face was standing leisurely beside the city gate, with a knife at his side.
Dugu Xuan had seen a similar knife before.
On the wall of Beijiang City, the Beijiang soldiers each held a shield and swung it at the Beidi soldiers climbing the wall, causing their shields to be damaged and suffering a crushing defeat in the first battle.
When he saw Dugu Xuan coming, he calmly picked up the knife at his side, crossed it across his chest, and looked down.
"General Dugu, long time no see."
At this time, Hu Yanlin finished dealing with the matters in the bedroom and learned that something had happened at the city gate, so he rushed over with Hu Yanxu.
They saw the city gate wide open from afar, but they didn't know why.
Seeing Xie Zechuan, Hu Yanlin roared: "You idiot, why did you open the city gate!"
Dugu Xuan saw Hu Yanlin coming and was so rude as to let someone come over, so he kicked him.
"Have you lost your mind? You're so proud of letting a wolf into your house. Did you see clearly that this man is your subordinate?"
"Xie Zechuan!" Hu Yanxu also recognized the man's true identity at this moment and exclaimed.
Hu Yanlin was kicked to the ground by Dugu Xuan, and his thinking was half a beat slower.
Xie Zechuan...the Xie Zechuan from Beijiang City!
The situation was tense inside the city walls and outside as well.
The Beidi soldiers on the city wall saw Qin Sinian and his men approaching the city gate step by step. They shot arrows but could not stop them from retreating even a step.
The arrow broke into two pieces the moment it touched the sharp blade, and the fragments flew everywhere, and soon they were destroyed under the horse's hooves.
Seeing that the soldiers of Beijiang City were about to enter the city, the Beidi soldiers threw away the arrows on the city wall and ran towards the city gate with swords in hand.
Qin Sinian and Zhou Tinglan came to Xie Zechuan and felt relieved to see that he was fine.
However, they also knew that this was not the time to talk. Xie Zechuan looked at Zhou Tinglan with a little worry.
Hu Yanlin angrily asked Xie Zechuan, "Did you pour that stinky stuff on me?"
"Yes, His Royal Highness the Second Prince is particularly... interesting at the moment."
"Well, Xie Zechuan, you actually dared to play tricks on this prince!" Hu Yanlin thought of the family imprisoned in his bedroom, and his expression improved.
"I'm sure you've already seen the people imprisoned in my womb. If you want them to survive, leave immediately and surrender to us!"
Xie Zechuan ignored Hu Yanlin. Why didn't he think Hu Yanlin was so stupid in the past?
“No need.”
Hu Yanlin was shocked. Wasn't it said that Xie Zechuan cared about the people in Beijiang City? How could this be?
"Something is wrong, Your Highness the Second Prince." The guard who was knocked unconscious by Xie Zechuan had woken up at this time. When he went back to check on the prisoners, he was shocked to see that there was no one there.
"You rescued them all." Hu Yanlin felt greatly insulted. He drew his sword and slashed directly at Xie Zechuan, but Xie Zechuan dodged it by leaning sideways.
The scene suddenly became chaotic, the sky changed drastically, and only the flash of swords and blood were left in the world, and the sky was filled with blood.
The swords in the hands of the Beidi soldiers were not as good as the ones forged by Zhou Tinglan, and were already showing signs of damage, while the swords in the hands of the soldiers in Beijiang City were still intact.
Zhou Tinglan was in the melee, constantly swinging his sword to protect his own safety from being hit by the Northern Di soldiers.
She said that although she had been slaughtering fish at RT-Mart for many years, she had never seen so many fish being cut with one knife.
Xie Zechuan secretly watched Zhou Tinglan's every move. With a smile on his lips, he blocked Dugu Xuan's knife.
Zhou Tinglan also noticed the gaze from Xie Zechuan. She waved away a Beidi soldier and glared back at him.
What are you looking at? Can you be more serious about fighting?
Xie Zechuan smiled helplessly and concentrated on dealing with Dugu Xuan in front of him.
"Thank you, General. You are really capable."
"Both of them are equally matched. General Dugu is no less capable than them."
The two men were very close to each other, and the knife seemed to touch the tip of their noses but then turned away.
Xu Cheng and Qin Sinian were also engaged in a tough battle, facing Hu Yanxu and Hu Yanlin respectively. Both sides wielded their swords, and every blow was fatal.
At the same time, Hu Yanlie rode his horse from the Beidi King City. He was on horseback and shot into the melee.
The arrow shot from Zhou Tinglan's back. When she noticed it, the arrow seemed to be right in front of her. Xie Zechuan swung a knife at Dugu Xuan to throw him away, then turned and ran towards Zhou Tinglan.
Zhou Tinglan was pushed away by Xie Zechuan, and the arrow passed through Xie Zechuan's waist and penetrated deeply into the ground.
"Xie Zechuan, are you okay?" Zhou Tinglan asked hurriedly.
Dugu Xuan also caught up at this moment. Seeing Xie Zechuan like this, he teased: "I didn't expect that General Xie also loves beautiful women."
After saying this, he raised the long sword in his hand and swung it at the two of them: "Since that's the case, then I will send you to be a pair of desperate mandarin ducks!"
Xie Zechuan was about to hold his knife to block, but unexpectedly a slender figure blocked his way.
Zhou Tinglan was not afraid of the long sword in Dugu Xuan's hand, and he went straight to meet it, and his strength was not inferior to Dugu Xuan's.
Dugu Xuan was very interested. He didn't expect that the frail woman in front of him could actually wave away his knife.
He put away his knife and looked at Zhou Tinglan who had a stern expression in front of him. It was interesting, very interesting!
Hu Yanlie, who was outside the melee, saw this and drew his bow again, shooting towards Zhou Tinglan.
Xie Zechuan swung his knife and cut it off. He and Zhou Tinglan looked at each other and raised their knives together to point at Dugu Xuan.
The two of them cooperated with each other tacitly, and Dugu Xuan couldn't help feeling a little tired. Finally, a faint crack appeared on the knife in his hand.
Dugu Xuan was shocked and dropped the broken sword in his hand. He grabbed the sword of a Beidi soldier but found that his sword was even more damaged.
Hu Yanlie kept shooting arrows at Zhou Tinglan and the other man, but they were all chopped off by them.
A similar scene also occurred on Huyan Xu and Huyan Lin's side. The blade was damaged and it was beyond repair.
Huyan Xu continued to attack Xu Cheng with the broken half of the blade, but the long sword pointed directly at his forehead.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Huyan Lie wanted to ride his horse back to the royal city.
He is the King of Beidi. Didn’t he say last night that it would be easy to flatten Beijiang City? Why is he in such a situation today?
He kicked the horse hard with his legs, and the horse let out a mournful cry and almost died from running.
Zhou Tinglan looked at the direction Hu Yanlie fled and asked, "Should we chase him?"
At this time, Hu Yanlie was like a stray dog, and his death was only a matter of time.
Xie Zechuan looked around at the chaos and said, "Let's deal with the current situation first."
Dugu Xuan was looking around for a useful long sword. Seeing two people walking towards him, he got excited and subconsciously hit Zhou Tinglan with his bare fist.
Zhou Tinglan dodged sideways, and Xie Zechuan swung his knife and stabbed it into Dugu Xuan's chest.
After Dugu Xuan's death, the morale of the Northern Di soldiers was low. Huyan Lie and the other two were not in good condition either, and were soon captured by Xu Cheng and the other two.
The remaining Beidi soldiers are not enough to be feared.
After cleaning up the battlefield at the city gate, Xie Zechuan took off the black veil on his face, reached to the intersection of his face and neck, and tore off a human skin mask covered with knife wounds.
After Qin Sinian counted the number of soldiers in Beijiang City, he found that no one was dead, and only a few had superficial knife wounds.
Xie Zechuan looked at the neatly-assembled soldiers of Beijiang City before him and said, "Now that Dugu Xuan is dead and the two princes of Beidi have been captured, our next step is to take Huyan Lie's head."
The soldiers in Beijiang City were excited, as their years of harassment by the Beidi Kingdom could finally come to an end.
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Xie Zechuan led his soldiers into the Beidi Royal City. Huyan Lie was sitting on his throne, and the guards below drew their swords and pointed them at those entering the hall.
Zhou Tinglan saw that there was a huge disparity in strength between the two sides in the hall and that Huyan Lie had no chance of turning the tables, so she stood aside and watched the fun.
The war did not affect her eating melons. She looked at the swords in the hands of the Beidi soldiers, and then looked at the sword she forged. Well, the sword she forged was still better.
When she saw Xie Zechuan had Hu Yanxu and Hu Yanlin brought over, she was curious about what was going on.
"General Xie, what are you doing?" Zhou Tinglan asked, pointing at the two people who were escorted here by soldiers.
"Miss Zhou, you'll know in a moment. Just sit back and watch the show."
Zhou Tinglan is in the mood. What a show?
The two princes of Beidi are really miserable, but which prisoner of a fallen country in ancient times was not miserable? What's more, these were all caused by Beidi themselves.
Dugu Xuan was dead, and they were also captured by the Northern Di soldiers. They didn't know whether they would be the next to die.
"Hu Yanlie, how about I make a deal with you?" Xie Zechuan asked.
Hu Yanlie's voice trembled: "What kind of deal do you want to discuss?"
Xie Zechuan casually took out two small wine glasses from his arms and placed them on the heads of the two Beidi princes.
Hu Yanlie looked at this familiar scene with a pale face.
The last time he did this was to humiliate the captured soldiers in Beijiang City, but today it was his two sons.
Xie Zechuan knew from Hu Yanlie's expression that he remembered what happened in the palace that night.
"I'll give you ten chances. If you can shoot the wine glass above your head, I'll spare the life of one of your sons. How about that?"
As soon as Xie Zechuan said this, Zhou Tinglan wanted to laugh: "General Xie, who came up with this idea? It's really mean!"
If this arrow is shot accidentally, it will not be the cup that will cause the death of the person and the shattering of the cup.
Qin Sinian explained to Zhou Tinglan, "This isn't an idea that anyone came up with. The last person who did this is right in front of you."
He briefly recounted what he had seen when he sneaked into the Northern Di Kingdom at night to rescue people.
Zhou Tinglan: “…”
Hu Yanlie must be regretting his actions to the core at this moment. If he had known that the target of the shooting would be his own son, he would definitely not have done such a thing.
Zhou Tinglan was overjoyed, but human joys and sorrows were not shared. Huyan Xu and Huyan Lin cried out to Huyan Lie for help in pain.
"Father, save me!"
Hu Yanlie wanted to refuse, but Xie Zechuan sneered, "I have the final say on this deal. I'm not allowing you to disobey me when I discuss the deal with you."
Afterwards, Zhou Tinglan watched Hu Yanlie’s hands tremble and he couldn’t even draw the bowstring.
After finally catching the target, he shot an arrow, which grazed Hu Yanxu's cheek.
Huyan Xu felt a burning pain on his face. He covered his face in pain, and blood flowed out from between his fingers.
Hu Yanlie shot several arrows in succession, but failed to hit the wine glass.
Zhou Tinglan watched Hu Yanlie shooting arrows and felt deeply moved.
There was something she didn't know whether she should say or not: Is Hu Yanlie's archery really okay?
Hu Yanxu and Hu Yanlin, who were being held captive, also saw that Hu Yanlie missed his arrows frequently.
Their bodies trembled uncontrollably and their hearts collapsed.
It's over, everything is over. They planned day and night but ended up losing everything.
Xie Zechuan's words, like the King of Hell's urging for death, echoed in the hall.
"There's one last one..."
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