Chapter 381 Mascot (Part 2)
Inside the main tent of the Lion Power Army camp, all the generals sat with their heads bowed.
Everyone was covered in battle wounds, their faces mottled black and yellow by the smoke, and they exuded an air of decadence and fatigue.
Duan Jie's hair was disheveled and his lips were chapped;
Fu Lin, who had just recently led 500 warriors to join the Lion Army, sat on the side with his body tilted back, exhausted like a puddle of mud;
Luo Dongdong sat on the ground with his head in his hands, looking nervous and frowning, as if he had not yet recovered from the last battle;
Rong Yi stared at his hands, which were shaking due to prolonged overexertion, and wondered what he was thinking.
Sitting in the right position, Huo Gannian closed his eyes and took a nap quietly.
His face was gray, with a dark blue tint under his eyes, his beard was untidy, and his armor was covered in thick blood stains.
He opened his eyes and his gaze swept calmly over everyone's faces, taking in their dejected looks one by one, and finally settled on Yun Chen, who was curled up in a chair with her legs crossed and taking a nap.
She slept soundly, her little face rosy and her brows relaxed, as if she had no worries.
When she rushed over from Youzhou, she had just recovered from the wound she sustained in the duel in Wang Ting, and her strength had not yet recovered. She hurriedly reported to him about placing Dong Gongjia in Guangyuan City, and then quickly went to the battlefield.
Over twenty days, there were more than thirty battles of varying sizes.
She always fought in every battle, charging to the front and killing the most enemies.
Unlike others who become more and more frustrated as the battle goes on, she is like a pot of perpetually boiling water, her blood never seems to cool down, and she always maintains the same fierce killing spree as she did at the beginning.
She never looks back at the road she has come, nor does she look forward to a future of victory or defeat.
She just lived in the present moment and killed in the present moment as she did before, and she trusted Huo Gannian wholeheartedly and accepted ten thousand possible outcomes.
This pure willpower that only she possesses is the last bit of confidence for the Lion Army, whose fighting spirit has almost been exhausted.
After fighting together for so long, no one said it explicitly, but Huo Gannian had already discovered that everyone had become accustomed to using "Yun Chen" to reassure themselves.
No matter how bad the battle was or how low the chances of winning were, as long as everyone saw Yun Chen as calm as usual and not at all panicked, they felt that hell was still far away.
Every time before the entire army was dispatched, many people would come to shake hands with Yun Chen and touch shoulders with him, hoping for a safe return. They would say something like a prayer:
"Boss, I'll treat you to a drink after the battle."
Knowing that Yun Chen was a rare and powerful warrior, the more difficult the battle, the harder she fought, but everyone still liked to stay close to her.
The three characters "Cloud Tiger" seem to have become the mascot of the Lion Army.
She was no longer just Huo Gannian's lifeline, but also the source of peace of mind for the entire army.
"There aren't many left, but there are still enough to fight again."
As soon as Huo Gannian opened his mouth, everyone in the tent immediately looked over. Even though they were too tired to speak, they still straightened their backs and listened to him attentively.
Then, after Huo Gannian announced the combat deployment, everyone fell silent.
Fu Lin was the first to get up from his chair and walked to Yun Chen:
"Then I'll be on the same team with General Yun. I'll pay back what I owe General Yun in this lifetime, not the next."
Everyone knew that Fu Lin was talking about how he had fought alongside Lei Ting Yun Wen when he led the rebel army to fight against the enemy, but had failed to protect Yun Zhongjun and Huo Lei Ting.
No matter what others say about the brutality of swords on the battlefield and the uncertainty of life and death, Fu Lin just feels guilty towards Yun Chen.
Since this might be the last battle, he would rather die to protect Yun Chen.
Yun Chen rubbed his sleepy eyes and said, "Okay, then I'll find you a horse first. You're too big, so don't push me off the horse. Later, you all fly ahead on horseback, and I'll be the only one running on the ground."
"Hahaha..." Everyone was amused by these words, and they all remembered how Fu Lin came to surrender with five hundred death warriors.
They were ragged and dirty like savages, without weapons or war horses. I really don't know how they managed to escape on foot from under the enemy's nose after the southeastern defense line was broken.
Even though he knew that the battlefield here of the Lion Army was even more dangerous than before, Fu Lin still came here without hesitation.
Fu Lin is a man.
Everyone had this opinion, and therefore quickly accepted Fu Lin as the new general, and they cooperated well on the battlefield.
But Fu Lin didn’t have a warhorse. He could never find a suitable horse, so he had to borrow other people’s horses every time he went into battle.
I’ll take advantage of Rong Yi’s today and Luo Dongdong’s tomorrow.
Because he was tall, every time they fought, he would squeeze the horse's owner off the horse after a while.
Once, Luo Dongdong was so angry that he chased his horse while fighting and yelling:
"My horse! My horse!!"
Luo Dongdong spoke with a dialect accent, and Fu Lin didn't understand. He thought Luo Dongdong was furious and was cursing, so he killed more fiercely and rode his horse faster.
Luo Dongdong's legs were almost sparking, but he still couldn't catch up with his horse.
Seeing that Fu Lin wanted to join his team, Yun Chen quickly arranged to find a horse for him, which made everyone laugh and the atmosphere became much more lively than at the beginning.
As everyone was talking, they suddenly heard cheers coming from the camp outside.
"Is it Brother Ye Yan who is back?" Yun Chen ran over and lifted the curtain -
I saw Ye Yan leading the archers back to the camp. He was riding on a horse, holding a bloody arrow high in his hand.
Amid the cheers and support of the people around him, Ye Yan laughed out loud, showing a high spirit that had not been seen in a long time since the Lion Army suffered a series of defeats and fought hard.
Ye Yan rushed towards the tent and swung the arrow in his hand vigorously:
"Achen! I went to the front to scout the enemy situation and encountered a squadron of Black Scale Cavalry on the way. Guess who I shot?"
Yun Chen ran over in two quick steps, and the others followed her out of the tent.
Duan Jie laughed and said, "To be able to make our steady and stable Guard Ye so happy, I guess he must be at least a deputy general!"
Rong Yi shouted from the side: "I guess general level!"
"Hahaha—" Ye Yan shouted happily to everyone: "Jiao Zuotai! I shot Jiao Zuotai's ear!"
Ye Yan threw the arrow to Yun Chen who was running towards him, and said with regret but unable to hide his excitement:
"Oh! It was so close! It was so close! If my arrow had missed by an inch, he would have been dead! What a pity! Ah Chen, if you were here, you would have definitely chopped off his head!"
"Brother Ye! Congratulations!"
Yun Chen was happy for Ye Yan from the bottom of his heart, and even more so for the entire Lion Army.
Being able to injure the enemy general's ear at this time and almost take his life was really good news that was extremely encouraging to the Lion Army, which had been defeated for a long time.
The soldiers surrounded Ye Yan in a large crowd, and asked him about the scene when they shot through Jiao Zuotai's ear. They wished they could go to the ambush site in person and shoot Jiao Zuotai again.
Amid the excited cheers of the soldiers, Ye Yan was carried by a few gangsters and thrown high into the sky.
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