Vol 1 Chapter 11 (2/2)
Hua Xiong?! He can still stand even after taking such a grievous wound?!
“Stay down! Just lie there, if you do that, you can still live.” I coldly said to him.
I cannot kill an enemy who is unable to resist.
“… Are you humiliating me?!”
“!!”
“I too am a warrior general, how can I not fight to my last drop of blood on the battlefield?!”
… Is that so. So he does have in him the spirit of a warrior huh~~~~ Hai, that was wrong of me.
“Then, please forgive me.” I jumped off my horse and took my stance.
“Good, here I come– Ya~~~~” Hua Xiong charged over unsteadily.
“And thereafter, I sliced him up. Only then did he fall.”
On hearing Yun Chang’s words, several people in the tent were moved to tears by Hua Xiong’s bravery.
“So that is to say, you and uncle Sun Jian killed him then?” Yuan Shao said with irritation in her voice.
“No, actually there is still a continuation.” Yun Chang said and looked at Pan Feng. “Right, Lord Pan Feng?”
“Ah? … Ah, if you say there is, then maybe there is…”
“Stop p.u.s.s.yfooting around!! Say it, quick!”
Yuan Shao really couldn’t take it anymore and roared at Pan Feng.
“Ah, okay okay okay. I’ll say it, I’ll say it.”
“The coalition leader always bullies our Pan Feng~~~ How hateful.” Just before Pan Feng continued, I could hear some words from Han Fu beside me.
—- And so Pan Feng began recollecting what happened.
“Wait General Guan, wait for me!!! I don’t have a horse!! Take me with you!! … Haa… Haa… I can’t! I can’t catch up!”
Finally we could leave this place, but because General Guan was too hasty in leaving, she didn’t hear me at all.
Ahhhh what to do~~~ If at this moment the troops rush out of the city, I’m done for… My lord, looks like it is time for us to part…
“Oi…”
“Un?!!” A voice came from the ground and scared me. I looked over and saw that Hua Xiong was still breathing. “Aiya, just leave me be. Take it that I’m begging you, don’t scare me anymore and just die okay?”
“… No good.”
“Then lend me a hand, give me a horse and I’ll let you live. How about that?”
“I don’t want this life. Lord Dong Zhuo has been very kind to me, and I shall follow him.”
Aiya, why be so hard on yourself huh~~~
“Stop talking nonsense.” I plucked up courage and hoisted Hua Xiong up before shouting to him. “Quick!! Get the people in the city to send a horse! Now!”
Just as I finished, I heard the city gates open.
This time I was truly scared because I thought they were coming to capture me. But who knew that it was just a single soldier who came out and handed me a horse.
“I heard everything from up the walls, and seeing you have no horse, I brought one specially for you. Just look at that fearful look of yours, just leave, we will take care of General Hua Xiong. Don’t worry and go.”
“… Did you know, brother.” Tears streamed down my face as I got up on the horse. “If it weren’t for my lord, I would have switched occupations long ago! Anyway goodbye! — Jia!”
(TL: Jia is what the Chinese say to get horses to gallop.)
As I thought, there is still a lot of good people in this world huh.
“Un… Eh! Eh! Eh! General Hua Xiong?! … Stop!! Stop!! General Hua Xiong’s plate is clipped to the horseshoe!!”
“And just like that, by the time I stopped the horse, that person became a messy lump of flesh.”
Aiya~~~~ I was wondering why those 3 were so hesitant about saying it. It’s actually because it’s simply too tragic and they couldn’t bear to say it.
But speaking of which, it really was the combined efforts of all 3 huh…
“This is… Everyone, isn’t it awful!?”
“Awful!”
Why the h.e.l.l?! Yuan Shao why are you doing a cheer?!
“Anyway now that the Administrator of Sishui Pa.s.s is dead, we can easily conquer the city.” Yuan Shao said as she fiddled with her hair. “Ah, you 3 all deserve merits, and will receive appropriate awards.”
After thanking them, Yuan Shao waved her hand and dismissed everyone.
“How was it big brother? I did it.”
“Un, but this is a really unexpected outcome…”
I really didn’t think that Hua Xiong’s life force would be this resilient.
“Pan Feng, good work you idiot.”
“Maa, it’s nothing much, and it’s all thanks to my lord.”
“Don’t need to be so humble.”
There’s actually nothing to praise right?! … Hai, what an idiotic lord-va.s.sal pair.
“Ah, that’s right. As for the enemy General Hua Xiong, in remembrance of his peerless bravery, we shall give him a proper burial…” Before Yuan Shao could finish…
“Report!!!”… A signalled came running in– Seriously I’m starting to hate signallers. “Hua Xiong, who is now a bloodied mess, has brought his troops to our entrance and is asking for a duel!”
All feudal lords present all uttered an “””””Aiya~~~””
To actually last to this point….
“That fellow, destroy him!!” Yuan Shao’s sorrowful look disappeared instantly and she stood up. “Close off our encampment, and ready our archers!!”
In spite of everyone’s protests, Yuan Shao let loose a rain of arrows and finally Hua Xiong died under the torrent of arrows.
Though Hua Xiong did die to the arrows, I went to think about it deeper later. The moment he chose to speak with Sun Jian and the rest and not send his troops forth, he could be considered a dead man already. Though he did waver on this decision, he succ.u.mbed to Yun Chang’s words, and so dead again. Later, he duelled Sun Jian, dead. Refusing to accept help, dead. Getting trampled by the horse, dead. Gathering all these facts, one can say that Hua Xiong was truly fated to die today… Then in that case, who was the one who killed Hua Xiong?
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