Chapter 254 - Chapter 254: Chapter 247 Bai Xuezhu 1 (1/2)
Chapter 254: Chapter 247 Bai Xuezhu 1
Along the Tianshui River, the terrain is flat, and the fields are fertile.
Many common folks live here.
Over seventy percent of the Black Tiger Gang’s food supply comes from this region.
On such a crucial piece of territory, no matter how strained their military forces are, the Black Tiger Gang cannot afford not to station troops for defense.
There must be a large army encamped nearby.
Along the way, Qin Niu saw quite a few corpses of the common people.
Some were holding children and trying to flee, likely overtaken by the Termite because they were too slow, bitten down to the ground.
Until their dying breath, they protected the child tightly beneath them.
But it was all in vain.
Both adults and children were killed by the Termite, their bodies now being consumed.
The Termite’s appetite is astonishing, their nature savage; just six Termite could clean out an earthworm as thick as a pinkie finger in thirty minutes.
Qin Niu couldn’t help these refugee commoners.
The insect swarm was too vast, and his force of twenty thousand white ants was akin to pouring a cup of water on a cartload of burning hay.
What he sought was the local defending army, not these fleeing commoners.
He ran about twenty li in one go, when clamorous noise up ahead mixed with the whinnying of horses and the flickering of many torches could be faintly discerned.
Qin Niu speculated that it was likely the army stationed along this battle line.
He immediately rushed toward that location.
“Who goes there?”
The Black Tiger Gang’s military discipline was strict; even in the dead of night upon learning of the insect invasion, they still appeared well-trained.
They were on full alert.
Qin Niu was still a kilometer away from the army camp when he was spotted by a sentry.
“Insect Master Qin Niu, with urgent military intelligence to report, please take me to see your general immediately.”
If it weren’t for Qin Niu’s abilities, it would have been impossible for anyone to realize that the enemy was preparing to launch a night raid on Luoshui Town, striking deep into the Black Tiger Gang’s territory.
“Your waist token!”
A sentry stepped forward to check his waist token, then leaned in to take a closer look at his face.
“Follow me.”
Most of these soldiers were blunt men, and they spoke very directly.
Leading Qin Niu to the camp, many men here were holding torches, lining up and preparing to set out.
“Wait here, I’ll go and report to the general.”
The sentry entered the largest tent in the center.
It wasn’t long before he came out.
“The General invites you!”
Qin Niu directly entered the main army tent, where a man in his forties dressed in white, with a scholarly look, a square face and large ears, clothed in a silver armor and wearing a cape made from tiger skin, sat at the desk.
Inside there were also several deputy generals seated on both sides.
Their expressions were all very grave.
“Insect Master Qin Niu pays his respects to the generals.”
“No need for formalities. What military intelligence does Master Qin bring?”
The man in the silver armor spoke unhurriedly, his tone gentle yet emanating an extreme pressure.
He was much more imposing than Young Master Fang.
His gaze was piercing as if he could see right through a person at a glance.
Qin Niu had many secrets and dared not meet the man’s eyes.
Moreover, when he sensed the man’s cultivation, it was unfathomable.
Not knowing the depths of the opponent indicated that the silver-armored general’s cultivation was truly terrifying.
Even compared to the five old ancestors of the Fang Family, he was not much inferior.