Chapter 1084 Daughter's Fragrance
"Your Highness, be careful!"
Wo Xue's shout immediately turned into a short cry of pain. Shang Ruyi hurriedly turned around and saw an arrow flying towards her, piercing through her shoulder!
"Wuxue!"
Shang Ruyi was shocked and hurriedly reached out to help her, but Wo Xue reacted quickly and immediately shielded her behind her. Blood gushed from the wound, immediately staining a large area of her clothes on her shoulder red. The intense pain spread with the blood and instantly engulfed her body. She staggered two steps and almost fell down.
Green Silk rushed up and, together with Shang Ruyi, helped her up. While tightly holding Wo Xue's trembling body in pain, Shang Ruyi looked up at the back of the valley and discovered that countless figures had appeared on the steep and magnificent mountaintop in the distance. Just as she saw this scene, several points of cold light shot towards them.
"Your Highness, get out of the way!"
Wo Xue was already suffering from severe pain in her shoulder, making her vision blurry. But at this moment, she instinctively turned around and forcefully tackled Shang Ruyi and Lü Xiao to the ground. Several arrows whizzed past their heads.
But at the same time, several soldiers around them were unable to dodge and fell to the ground!
The moment Shang Ruyi fell backward to the ground, everything went black.
At this moment, she disregarded the pain from the impact and the sharp pain in the back of her head. She managed to sit up and saw a tall and graceful figure standing atop the opposite mountain peak. Although they were far apart, Shang Ruyi could still discern that the figure was slender and graceful, clearly a woman, yet without a trace of feminine delicacy. When she slowly raised one hand, and the surrounding soldiers immediately stood at attention, that simple movement seemed to carry the force of a thunderbolt, its momentum overwhelming!
What a valiant and spirited female general!
But the slight feeling of admiration in her heart was immediately overwhelmed by the immense panic and fear, and Shang Ruyi gasped for breath, her face pale.
She realized they had been ambushed.
No wonder she didn't see the female general commanding the battle in the attacking ranks below. It turned out that the enemy had bypassed them and come from behind. If she wasn't mistaken, this person must have made this decision and put it into practice after they blocked the enemy at the entrance of Huyang Valley. Before launching the blocking battle, Shang Ruyi had surveyed the surrounding terrain. The peaks on both sides of Huyang Valley were extremely steep and difficult to climb from the back.
It was precisely because of this advantageous geographical location that she dared to use a force of a few hundred men to block the enemy's tens of thousands of troops.
But now it seems that the other side is also unwilling to give up easily. They must have spent a lot of effort to detour and climb the opposite mountain. This battle was fought to keep them in check and at the same time wear down their numbers. Now, they can no longer hold their rear, and these people climbing the mountain behind them can deliver a fatal blow!
The moment Shang Ruyi saw the slender figure clearly, the woman raised her hand and gently waved it forward.
Although it was a long distance away and a silent action, it sounded like a deafening thunderclap in everyone's hearts.
Immediately, the soldiers surged towards them like a flood, overwhelming them.
"ah!"
Just as the sounds of battle were deafening, a short cry of pain rang in Shang Ruyi's ears. She quickly turned around and saw that Wo Xue had broken the arrow in her shoulder. The wound immediately reopened and bled profusely. She was in so much pain that her eyes turned red and she almost fainted. Shang Ruyi quickly hugged her and asked, "What are you doing?"
Wo Xue was covered in sweat, but after gritting her teeth and enduring the overwhelming pain, she immediately rolled over and said to Shang Ruyi, "Your Highness, we can't hold this place anymore. I'll protect you, let's escape quickly!"
Shang Ruyi also stood up and looked around in a panic.
Their remaining force of less than a hundred men consisted of only a few dozen men each, except for the archers led by Gao Feng in the valley and the few dozen men each led by her and Jiang Kesheng on the two sides of the valley. Faced with the sudden attack of the army, everyone was in chaos.
Originally, everyone had lost confidence by this point in the battle. Moreover, Shang Ruyi was not a valiant general who could stabilize morale. At this moment, she realized that even though she had escaped death many times and had many amazing victories, she was still not enough to turn the tide when it came to life and death. The soldiers who were already exhausted and fighting only with a soldier's instinct were immediately demoralized and scattered when they were attacked by soldiers who came down from the sky.
Wo Xue was so anxious that her eyes were bloodshot. With her uninjured hand, she grabbed Shang Ruyi's wrist with such force that she almost broke her wrist bone.
"Your Highness, let's go!"
Shang Ruyi gritted her teeth and said, "Running now will only lead to our deaths."
"What!?"
Wo Xue's eyes widened suddenly, staring at her in disbelief. Lü Xiao beside her also panicked. Shang Ruyi looked up at the graceful figure standing on the opposite mountain peak. At that moment, she seemed to be giving instructions to the people around her. Immediately, a group of people rushed towards them.
Shang Ruyi took a deep breath and said, "Tell Jiang Kesheng and Gao Feng to quickly lead their men to retreat, as many as they can escape."
"princess!"
"quick!"
Seeing that she still refused to leave, Wo Xue gritted her teeth and could only use her uninjured arm to pick up a flag from the side and wave it a few times at the people and horses that had already retreated far away on the opposite mountain and in the valley.
By then, those people had already rushed up to them.
Several guards refused to flee and immediately blocked Shang Ruyi's path, tightly surrounding the three of them. Enemy soldiers quickly rushed up, chasing after the soldiers who had begun to scatter and flee, while others charged towards them.
Just then, the team that had just been given orders by the woman also stepped forward and shouted sternly, "The general has ordered that they must not be harmed!"
Upon hearing this, the group of soldiers, who were already bloodthirsty, immediately stopped.
Shang Ruyi couldn't help but frown.
She knew very well that once on the battlefield, especially when people were blinded by rage, they might cease to be human. The killers became bloodthirsty beasts, while the killed became pieces of flesh that could only run away, howl, and spurt blood and stench when stabbed by swords. Throughout history, the victory or defeat of more than one battle was due to the soldiers forgetting their humanity and failing to heed military orders in their frenzied killing.
However, this team was highly disciplined; a single word could bring the soldiers to an immediate halt.
This demonstrates the methods employed by those in command.
Thinking of this, footsteps sounded ahead, and amidst the smoke and dust and the stench of blood, a faint scent of a daughter's fragrance wafted through the air.
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