Chapter 45 Night Raid (1/2)

Chapter 45 – Night Raid

October 20th, 181 A.D.

Today, Tong took Hua Shi, Bo Cai and 200 light cavalry to sortie out of the camp. It was to harass the Guo Dian army.

Guo Dian had finished his preparation ahead of time and already deployed. They were on their way to Tong's camp which they were expected to arrive in five days.

Meanwhile, 3,000 soldiers of Liu Yan Army were marching from the North. They would make a detour, avoiding the Nan Pi City, and reach Anping County in 8 days.

Han Fu forces of 8,000 men was dispatched from the south. They would arrive at Anping in 5 days.

On the contrary of the activities of their neighbors, Yuan family Army did not make any movement. Feng Ji sent a secret letter to Wen Chou to inform him about the change of plans, which made Wen Chou gritted his teeth in anger. That sinister fox had schemed something nasty again.

Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang also had returned with 3,000 strong men. Alas, they were all bandits. The ordinary civilians refused to take part in this war and evacuated away.

Before Tong left with the cavalry, he put Zhang Bao in charge of the new recruits. He planned to use this group as a cannon fodders for the upcoming battle.

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Tong looked at his HUD map and contemplated. It was about time that he should considered upgrading this feature, so he skimmed through the upgrading cost.

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10km Range – 10,000 Lifespans

100km Range – 100,000 Lifespans

1,000km Range – 1,000,000 Lifespans

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Tong clicked his tongue. It was expensive as expected.

Tong swallowed his heart pain and bought the 10 Kilometers Range one, leaving him only 1,185 lifespans remaining. He consoled himself that his lifespans would increase if he could kill enemy soldiers because he had his new passive skill.

His lifespans continued to reduce because Tong had been making a bullet every day since he had the firearm creation skill. He managed to gather 280 bullets on him right now. He also made a few extra pistols for spare parts and for the extra magazine clips.

With the HUD map radar upgraded, Tong could see a few changes. The map became bigger. A gigantic monitor of 2x2 meters map appeared in front of him, and more white dots and terrain layout appeared in the map.

Tong immediately shared the monitor with Hua Shi and had her keeping watch on the map for any changes.

Hua Shi wanted to complain, but she kept quiet and accepted her task.

Lately, she became more obedient toward Tong.

After the incident which Tong and Hua Shi had dual-cultivated together, Tong threatened her that if she stole kisses from him and made his mouth sore again, he would not let her sleep next time.

She didn't believe him and challenged him again in the next night, causing her to get forced into the dual-cultivation again. After Tong continued doing it till morning, she begged for his forgiveness because her body couldn't take it anymore.

Since that day on, she had never shown any antics or unruly behavior anymore, but her eyes still glittered with happiness. She could call herself his wife proudly now.

Although she dual-cultivated with Tong twice, she couldn't learn any of his skill. The system only limited one transaction a year, which Tong had already copied her [Sword Mastery] skill. So she had to wait for the next year if she wanted to copy a skill from Tong.

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After a day and a half from traveling on horses, Tong and Hua Shi could notice a group of flashing white dots covering a part of the radar map.

Tong immediately highlighted all of them in red color, so he won't be mistaken them in the future. The task was done quicker than expected because Tong could crop the field in the map and highlighted them in batch.

Tong and his cavalry unit rested and hid themselves and the horses for the day. They would raid Guo Dian's camp at night.

็However, before Tong could rest and wait for the night, the obnoxious system gave him a terrible news.

[Heya! Buddy! It seems you are planning to abuse your godly skill again.]

[This is no good. This is immoral. Even lord fifth would never agree on this.]

[This lord system also cannot overlook this.]

[For the sake of fairness, I will temporary disable one of your skill.]

”WTF!! NO! Not that skill!”

[The skill ”Plot Armor” is going to be disabled until the end of the year.]

[However, I'm a fair system, so I'll double your reward in your next main quest.]

[So, good luck! I will pressed ”F” to pay you respect in your upcoming funeral!]

”...”