Vol 9 Chapter 69 (2/2)

“Yaa!”

I felt killing intent from behind me, followed by a yell, and instinctively turned as I raised my spear to block the incoming attack. The spears met with a heavy *Dang* and deflected as both of us took several steps back. When I took a closer look, I saw that it was not Zhao Yun, but her lieutenant.

“Chen Dao Chen Shu Zhi, here to do battle with you!” That person saluted and declared her name. I felt irritated but I still blew my fringe up as I saluted her.

“”Yaa!!””

In the next instant after we saluted each other, we both charged at each other as we yelled.

*Ding*! *Ding*!

2 clear sounds rang out at spearhead met with spearhead and we pa.s.sed each other by. I hurriedly stopped my horse and did a u-turn, only to see that Chen Dao had begun charging at me again, and hurriedly ordered my horse to charge as well.

“Yaa!” “Haa!”

*Ding* *Ding*! *Ding*!

Another 3 blows were exchanged with no clear winner.

“Haa!” This time, I was able to halt my horse first and turned around before stabbing out with 1 hand at Chen Dao!

Chen Dao frantically raised her spear to block my attack as she veered to the side. I saw this and turned my wrist so that my attack would aim for where she was leaning to.

*Chiiiira* *Dang*!! After my spear slid past hers, it went straight for her chest and made a dull clunk. When I looked over, I saw that my spear had landed right smack on her chest protector.

Kuh! I missed it!

“Yaaaa!” Just as I was thinking of pulling back my spear and attacking again, Chen Dao was quicker nd deflected my spear away, forcing me to pull back and abandon my attack.

Wu… I did not think that her lieutenant would be this strong. Yue Jin once told me that having good martial prowess is beneficial but the secret to longevity was having good luck. I only gave her 60 points back then but it seems like that a.s.sessment was mistaken.

“Hmph! You’ve lost!” Just then, Chen Dao declared this with an unnatural smile. She probably only has a serious expression on all the time and is only smiling to provoke me.

Lost? Why?

Naturally I will not be frightened by these baseless words. Though taking the city is probably impossible, our numerical and type advantage means our victory is all but certain.

Kill…

“Listen,” I said as I raised my spear and pointed in the direction where our troops came from, “Our troops are still poring in and there is not even a squeak coming from your city.”

As expected, Chen Dao’s smile disappeared when I said this. But just as I thought that I had rendered her speechless, she gave a natural, bright smile.

“Is that really the case?” She asked softly as she raised her spear and pointed it in the same direction as me, “Look.”

Un?

Kill!!!!!

What?! When I turned back, I saw another wave of troops charging towards us. For an instant, I naively thought that they were reinforcements for our side until I saw the words “关” and “飞” emblazoned on their flags.

— But it has been perfectly calm the entire time. There was no ambush or any resistance whatsoever.

— I would have expected to be ambushed several times now.

Wu! So there was an ambush but they did not expose themselves until now?! d.a.m.n it! We fell for it!

“Kuh!” I groaned as I felt despair from what I realised but did my best to hide it and looked about. What I have to do now is to get Lu Xiang and retreat as soon as possible…

“Where are you looking at? Your opponent is right here!”

*Ding*!

“Kuh…”

Chen Dao came attacking once more. Blocking her attacks was fine but now was not the time to be getting bogged down in a duel here with her.

“Trying to escape? Not so fast!” She yelled as she swung her spear at me once more.

I dodged to the side and held my reins with one hand as I stabbed at Chen Dao with my free hand. Chen Dao frantically dodged and I used the opportunity to swing the reins and gallop away.

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