Chapter 28 - Battle of Kaiyang (1) (2/2)

“Yes, Prime Minister!” Li Dian and Xu Huang glanced at each other. Both of their eyes were blazing with desire. They knew of Lu Bu’s prowess. The more they knew of Lu Bu’s prowess the stronger their desire was to kill him and obtain the merit for killing him. Killing Lu Bu was the same as telling the world they were stronger than the strongest!

The two held their hands toward Cao Cao and immediately proceeded to leave with their troops, advancing toward the city walls.

As opposed to the two’s blazing desire, Cao Cao was instead a bit desolate. In today’s battle, Lu Bu will be defeated at his hands; his soul was about to go toward the Yellow Springs! In this world, how many heroes are left that are worthy for Cao Cao to struggle against?!

[TL: Yellow Springs = hell in chinese mythology]

“Zhongkang! Take my guards and follow after them. Prepare for and await my orders at all times!” He was afraid that Li Dian and Xu Huang weren’t going to be able to kill Lu Bu; so he decided to have Xu Chu as backup for killing Lu Bu.

[TL: Zhongkang = Xu Chu’s courtesy name.]

Actually, Cao Cao had people who were able to fight against Lu Bu. They were the two younger brothers of a certain imperial uncle. They are currently sitting under the tent drinking quietly. In the Battle of Hulao Pass, had big eared Liu not obstructed them then perhaps Zhang Fei and Guan Yu would’ve really been able to keep Lu Bu from escaping. And now, Lu Bu was both weak and weary, if the two brothers were sent to battle him, they’re certainly going to fare well.

However, Cao Cao didn’t send them. He wanted big eared Liu to sit and watch. He wanted to show big eared Liu that he too had a cloudful of valiant generals under him.

Li Dian and Xu Huang led their troops and arrived underneath the city walls. The sky was raining men constantly. There were both Cao soldiers and Lu Bu soldiers amongst those falling down the walls. There were also times when the whole siege ladder was pushed down, raining countless men at once.

“Mancheng, I shall take the left while you take the right. We shall attack both sides!” proposed Xu Huang.

[TL: Mancheng = Li Dian’s courtesy name.]

“Everything shall be decided by Gongming!” Li Dian was a person who never once bothered to argue for meritorious service with others. As long as you use him, he’d absolutely not disappoint you.

[TL: Gongming = Xu Huang’s courtesy name.]

Xu Huang nodded. The two then brought their guards and started climbing two siege ladders.

“Sha!” With a large roar, Xu Huang, with a large shield in hand, started climbing the ladder. Rocks, stones, stakes, hot oil and corpses, like rain, were falling onto the heads of those climbing toward the wall. With a large shield over him and his blade in his mouth, step by step Xu Huang climbed.

“Die!” On Li Dian’s side, there was a bit less people. Thus Li Dian was the first to ascend the wall. Right as Li Dian ascended the wall, a Lu Bu soldier was already slashing his knife while also trying to kick the whole siege ladder away from the wall.

Seeing this, Li Dian immediately threw away his large shield, picked up the blade in his mouth and thrust the blade at the coming foe as if it was a sword.

Li Dian’s speed was mighty fast. He’s a first-rate general; his martial abilities were not weak at all. Thus, against a common soldier, it was so easy that it was almost like stretching out his hand.

Blood splashed all over Li Dian and contrary to expectations, the blood evoked Li Dian’s fierce nature. With a huge step, Li Dian began to brandish his blade upon his foes. Xu Huang, on the other hand, was unlucky. He had set his siege ladder at a place filled with numerous Lu Bu soldiers. Soon, the siege ladder was going to be pushed away from the city walls. If that happened, then Xu Huang would be saying bye bye to the world! To fall from the city wall, you’d be dead even if you were an immortal!

Li Dian was like a god of death. The area within two meters of him was suddenly emptied. He directly charged toward the direction of Xu Huang and saved Xu Huang’s life.

“Many thanks Mancheng!” Xu Huang also ascended the wall. His guards that followed had also brought his giant axe up the wall.

Li Dian didn’t have the time to return the courtesy, he only responded with an ‘en’ sound. That was because Li Dian was already sweating profusely. He knew that he had been targeted by a ferocious beast.

[TL: en = yeah. It’s a grunt that chinese people use all the time to reply. kinda like mmhmm]

This kind of feeling! It’s Lu Bu!! Li Dian considered himself not to be worse than other generals. Even if it was Xu Chu, he hadn’t experienced this kind of feeling. There’s only one person he had felt this from - Dian Wei! Only from Dian Wei had he experienced this kind of cold killing intent without any hint of human emotions!

Who would’ve thought that Lu Bu also had this kind of killing intent. And it’s even more horrible than Dian Wei’s!

“Lu Bu!” Xu Huang also felt it. However, he fared better off than Li Dian as he had experienced the prowess of Lu Bu first hand. Xu Huang couldn’t help but tightly grasp his axe.

“Yesterday, I was unable to keep you here! Today, let this city wall be your grave!” Sure enough, Boss Lu’s voice resounded from the rear.