Chapter 178: 177: Unstoppable_1

Chapter 178: Chapter 177: Unstoppable_1

Bai Qingyan’s words had just fallen when Xiao Ruohai immediately threw the Wengshan map from his chest to Shen Liangyu. Shen Liangyu received the map, shook it open with one hand, and at the sight of an incredibly detailed map of Wengshan, his eyes became hot. With this map and Young General Bai, victory was certain. Not daring to hesitate, he shouted: “I accept the order!”

Shen Liangyu accepted the order, led the Huying Camp to depart, and prepared to ascend the mountain from the side to cover the thousand troops led by Bai Qingyan.

“Xiao Ruohai!”

Hearing the call, Xiao Ruohai quickened his pace and stepped forward: “At your service!”

“I order you to lead a team of twenty-five, carrying the Bai family’s army flag, and rush up the eastern canyon as quickly as possible. Unfurl the Bai family army flag in the eastern canyon to intimidate the Xiliang army in the canyon!”

Xiao Ruohai gritted his teeth and nodded: “I accept the order!”

“Bai Jinzhi!”

Hearing the Eldest Young Lady calling her, Bai Jinzhi instantly felt her blood boiling. She immediately urged her horse forward to accept the order: “Bai Jinzhi at your service!”

“This battle, you must not be more than two steps away from me! Violate and be punished by military law!”

Bai Jinzhi was slightly stunned, then immediately asked: “Eldest Young Lady! Why did they all receive military orders, but I have to stay with you?! You’re looking down on me!”

This was truly the first time Little Four had been on the battlefield, and at this moment… she understood her father’s worry for her. No matter how valiant, her father wanted to keep her close, just as she did now for Bai Jinzhi.

“Time is tight. Now I only have the Shoot the Sun Bow. You can protect the Eldest Young Lady in close combat by staying beside me!”

These words were not only to keep Bai Jinzhi close for her own protection but were true…

Time was pressing, and she had only just picked up the Shoot the Sun Bow again. Though she held the red-tasseled silver spear, she couldn’t dominate the battlefield as she once did with it. But she had to carry this red-tasseled silver spear as a symbol. The warhorse, silver spear, and Shoot the Sun Bow—when the Bai family army saw them, they would know she had arrived!

Just like the Bai family army flag standing there, it would boost the morale of all Bai family soldiers.

Upon hearing this, Bai Jinzhi was inspired again: “Yes! Bai Jinzhi, at your command!”

After saying that, Bai Jinzhi touched the military flag she had secretly carried in her chest. Unexpectedly, she also touched the Commander’s Seal. She hurriedly took it out and handed it to Bai Qingyan: “Eldest Young Lady! The Commander’s Seal!”

The map had long been imprinted in Bai Qingyan’s heart. She led the troops to take a shortcut with the speed that the Xiliang army could not imagine, quickly arriving at Wengshan Canyon.

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Above Wengshan Canyon, the hawks that always accompanied Yun Poxing’s expeditions screeched and circled.

In the canyon, the sound of killing was deafening. Blood flowed like rivers, mud splattered, broken spears, shattered shields, and countless corpses and severed limbs were everywhere!

Soldiers stepped on the bodies of enemies or comrades, wielding large knives and long spears, each one fighting with blood-red eyes.

On the west side of the canyon, Zhang Duanrui led crossbowmen to aim and shoot at Xiliang soldiers at the bottom of the canyon, with a thousand close-combat soldiers protecting the crossbowmen from Xiliang fierce soldiers’ sneak attacks.

On the east side of the canyon, a Xiliang fierce commander led archers to aim and shoot at the Jin soldiers at the bottom. Unfortunately, the oil, stones, and wood they sent up the east side of the canyon all ended up on the Xiliang side. With fewer Jin soldiers than Xiliang soldiers on this side, they dared not throw down the stones, wood, and oil.

At the exit of Wengshan Canyon and Jiuqu Peak, Zhen Zeping and Shi Panshan, at great cost, killed part of the Xiliang army with Zhang Duanrui as planned and sealed the exit. Zhen Zeping then led soldiers into the canyon for close combat with the Xiliang army.

The twelve thousand elite soldiers ambushing at the Wudan River entrance of Wengshan Canyon, along with General Cheng Yuanzhi’s ten thousand Bai family soldiers, cut off the Xiliang army’s retreat towards Wudan River, resulting in a massacre.

General Cheng Yuanzhi, with mourning cloth on his head, had just decapitated a fierce Xiliang general when a Xiliang arrow came whistling from the east side of the canyon and pierced through Cheng Yuanzhi’s shoulder with such force that it knocked him backwards into the blood water from the corpse mound.

The bloody smell mixed with mudsplashed onto Cheng Yuanzhi’s face, blurring his vision. After some chaos, soldiers yelling “General” helped him up.

He propped himself up with his large knife, wiped the blood off his face, his eyes bloodshot, and broke the arrow’s tail with his teeth. He looked at the Xiliang fierce commander aiming his bow at him from the eastern canyon and roared: “Do not mind me! Bai family soldiers, heed my command! This battle…fight to the death! We must behead Yun Poxing to avenge our generals and brothers of the Bai family!”

“Revenge!”

“Revenge!”

The Bai family soldiers, filled with battle fervor, fought with a mind to fight to the death, killing the Xiliang army into retreat.

Yun Poxing, protected in the center by Xiliang generals under shields, heard Cheng Yuanzhi’s words about taking his head and laughed loudly: “Even Bai Weiting couldn’t do anything to me. And Cheng Yuanzhi, merely a low-ranking general of the Bai family army, dares to boast of taking my head! Xiliang has deployed seven hundred thousand troops nationwide! Although we are besieged in the canyon, our Xiliang army is brave, numerous and beyond the Jin Kingdom’s imagination. As long as I hold out until nightfall, the Xiliang army will come to our rescue. By then, even trampling…can crush you remaining few! Cheng Yuanzhi…if I were you, I would flee for my life immediately!”

As Yun Poxing finished speaking, suddenly the eastern canyon side burst into loud shouts. The Xiliang soldiers, who were previously shooting arrows at the Jin soldiers in the canyon, looked terrified and turned to shoot back. But before the Xiliang archers could draw their bows, arrows rained down from the connection between Jiuqu Peak and Wengshan’s exit.

Huying Camp’s crossbow arrows followed, causing the Xiliang army below to howl in agony. Many Xiliang soldiers fell from the canyon, creating chaos in the Xiliang army.

The Xiliang archers aimed their arrows at the higher position at the connection between Jiuqu Peak and Wengshan but couldn’t hit Huying Camp due to their lower position.

Shen Liangyu gritted his teeth, swiftly running up the mountain using ropes, and took the Bai family army flag from his back. He held the flagpole tightly with both hands and, with a roar, planted the flag at the mountain top!

At the top, where everyone could see it, the black sail and white python flag fluttered in the wind!

“It’s the black sail white python flag! It’s the Bai family army!”

“It’s the Bai family army! The brothers of Huying Camp must be here!”

The Bai family soldiers in the valley were ecstatic, their morale boosted. They fought with redoubled vigor, shouting: “The elite soldiers of the Bai family army, our sword’s edge is unstoppable! Charge!”

Even Zhang Duanrui, who was leading soldiers to occupy the high ground on the west side of the canyon, felt his blood boiling and roared: “Release the arrows!”

Following the map, Bai Qingyan took a shortcut, emerging from the eastern middle section of Wengshan Canyon. Because the overall terrain on the eastern side of Wengshan Canyon was high, the slope was very gentle.

Speed was of the essence. To quickly reach the top and catch the Xiliang army off guard, Bai Qingyan ordered the soldiers to ride their horses up.

By the time the Xiliang army noticed the thousand Jin soldiers, Huying Camp was already covering the Jin army with crossbow arrows as they charged up Wengshan on horseback, engaging in close combat with the Xiliang army.