Chapter 58: Shooting the Lanterns Down (1/2)

Chapter 58: Shooting the Lanterns Down

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Not caring about i the lanterns

The night drew on

Stars filled the sky along the gleaain and again

Chen Rong released her hand and watched the lantern rising froht, the man’s face on the paper faintly smiled with a cold, distant expression she was afraid to look at

On the fortress wall

Seeing the general as slowly approaching, the soldiers bowed to hieneral nodded

He looked to the dark wilderness out in front where, even with only dotting starlight, he could see a black stretch ahead This mark had been caused by wildfire

This was the first thing he did after Luo’yang fell

He quietly stood on the fortress and, looking toward the horizon for a while, suddenly said, “Thinking back on that year, hadn’t Sun Zhong also watched the sky like this, quietly waiting for the other side to attack?”

There were satisfaction and ease in his voice

The soldiers behind hiiven time, he could spout a series of sentieneral sighed He looked back to the wooden soldiers and shook his head : “The wise are always alone”

When he finished, he sighed again

Suddenly, he saw solance and shouted: “What is that?”

The soldiers quickly turned and looked, one laughingly answering hiht; I didn’t expect there to be eneral knitted his brow

A gust of wind at this ti lantern to him

He stared at it and suddenly paled, anxiously yelling: “Shoot it down!”

Seeing his soldiers standing there looking at him in puzzlement, he shouted: “There’s a Hu script on it!”

Hu script?

This was no small matter

The soldiers shuddered Al soldiers took their bows and aimed to the sky

Whoosh –

Arrows flew out like meteorites

Within seconds, a sky lantern had been shot to the ground

It had just landed on the ground, however, when the crooked candle began to burn through the paper Not waiting for the soldiers to make their way down the fortress, it soon left only a few charred bas to hamster428wordpresscoeneral barked

“Aye!” orderly answers sounded as a dozen soldiers raised their bows and fired into the sky

The general watched the arrows flying into the e , his bodyguard had brought a gorgeously painted black bow and three arrows to him

He raised the bow and drew an arrow

The lanterns had flown very high by now and the soldiers’ arrows could not reach them They stopped and turned to look at their leader

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh –

Three consecutive arrows flew out like h a lantern