Vol 6 Chapter 6 (2/2)

“The one you’re after is here! Come and get me!” The girls yelled out fervently, hoping to get the attention of the other side. Looks like she intends on using herself as bait so her troops can safely retreat.

“She’s an honourable person too huh.”

“General Guan, not now…” Liao Hua stopped me, afraid that we would get in trouble from being found out. As we were still laying down in the tall gra.s.s, she hasn’t seen us yet.

Charge!!!

The commander on the other side seems to have taken the bait as the sounds seem to be approaching.

“Come get me!” The masked girl swung her reins and galloped away as she said so.

Eh? No! Isn’t that direction where our camp is?

“Oi! Don’t go in that direction!” I hurriedly stood up and yelled out at the masked girl but she was already out of sight.

“General Guan, can you please don’t do silly things at this time…” Liao Hua said as she tapped my shoulder. I looked back at her and she moved to the side, revealing an encirclement of soldiers pointing their weapons ar us.

“Looks like it’s our fate to be embroiled in this mess huh.” Liao Hua sighed.

“Ya!”

In the next instant, the troops acted first and stabbed their long spears at us.

“Liao Hua, jump!” I ordered and then concentrated before leaping up into the air.

My whole body was lifted with the strength in my waist and curled up my legs before kicking out–

*Dong*! *Dong*!

2 dull sounds rang out as 2 soldiers flew out from my kicks.

“…” Liao Hua wordlessly dodged the attacks and squatted down all of a sudden before she extended her hand and caught a soldier’s knee and flipped him to the ground.

I didn’t think that Liao Hua was this good at unarmed combat as well. In comparison to her, my movements are a lot more rough.

I sighed in amazement as I picked up a wooden pole off the ground and did my best to knock them out without killing them or risking injury.

I don’t how many people are headed in this direction but it’s never easy to deal with a numerical disadvantage. So we can only retreat as we fight.

“Liao Hua!” As I thought so, I called out to Liao Hua, who turned and looked at me. She nodded in understanding and grabbed a spear before retreating in my direction.

As we retreated, the troops that were inside the fog began to come for us, in greater numbers than before. There were even crossbowmen in the back who began to fire at us, making our retreat even more difficult.

“Kill those locusts!”

“Who asked them to come steal our grain!”

Gradually, the troops in the front and middle began to yell and curse at us. Looks like they’ve taken us for the ones who were attacking just now.

“A misunderstanding! It’s just a misunderstanding! We were just pa.s.sing by!” I tried to clarify matters but the surrounding voices drowned out mine and my shouts were of no use at all and I only wasted my saliva trying.

“Ha!” Just then, a sonorous roar could be heard from afar that shook my heart. My intuition told me that danger was coming from the front, and I lowered my head instinctively, just as an iron arrow flew out and took a strand of hair of mine.

This is…

“Hmph! So you can dodge my attack huh?!” A mocking voice came from afar, and when I looked at where the source was, I saw a tall official hat sprouting out above the troops.

“Who are you!” I yelled back.

In the next instant, the troops actually stopped their attack and opened up a path for the tall official hat. In the fog, the person had her chest up with her hands at her back, looking like she was on top of the world.

“Who am I? Though I am not obliged to tell you that, I suppose I can share it with you on account of your ability to resist us this much.” She said in a ridiculing tone, and then she continued in a tone filled with arrogance, “I am an official of the Great Han– Chen Gong Chen Gong Tai, why won’t you locusts off yourselves now?!”

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