Chapter 110: Critical Hit & First-class Merit (2/2)

”Senior brother Jin, should we go into the city?”

”Yes, of course!” Jin Nanqing waved his hand and said, ”Some defeated disciples of the Sect of Flame must be in the city. Junior Leopard, you have gotten the first-class merit. All of us want to make some contributions. Junior Leopard, will you compete with us?”

Junior Leopard just giggled and nodded. ”Senior brother, I'll follow what you said!”

Hearing this, Jin Nanqing was so satisfied. Then he waved his hand and high-spiritedly led the disciples of the Wu's to Zhonghe City.

Zhonghe City was more dilapidated than before.

It wasn't prosperous anymore. The mansions were burned to ruins except for several big ones. The ground was covered with many corpses. Some corpses had lain on the ground for a long time. The city was full of the smell of carrion, blood and singe. When Junior Leopard, Jin Nanqing and the others went into the city, they couldn't help but covering their noses.

”Damn it! What f*cking smell! How many people were killed?”

”Since the Sect of Flame was cruel and bloodthirsty, the people in the city couldn't survive once the city was conquered!” said one of the disciples of the Wu's named Wang Shouyi while standing beside Jin Nanqing. His cultivation was at Level Two. He accompanied Junior Leopard to investigate the case of robbed goods. Since he often kept a low profile and followed Jin Nanqing's order, he didn't catch others' attention.

However, Wang Shouyi was the angriest when the Sect of Flame attacked the city suddenly. He killed the Sect of Flame's disciples so cruelly and mercilessly. Obviously, he had some disputes with the Sect of Flame.

”Yeah, it was so immoderate for the Sect of Flame to attack Zhonghe City all of a sudden. What on earth were they thinking about?” Zhou Zhengming was touched and said.

”I guess we'll know what they thought about soon!” said Jin Nanqing. At this moment, the Sect of Flame's disciples in the city were being eliminated. In the city, there were several experts of the Sect of Flame, but surprisingly they didn't appear anymore. The cultivation of the others was about Level Three, so once they were surrounded by the Military Camp, they wouldn't escape, let alone the Jin army. They had no room for rebellion.

Although Jin Nanqing and others wanted to render meritorious service, they watched the Jin army surround them all and had no chances to render meritorious service. They had to give up.

Li Yuan led his personal guards into the Guard County Manor in Zhonghe prefecture.

The mayor of Zhonghe prefecture was killed by the Sect of Flame's disciples when the city was conquered, so there was nobody in the Guard County Manor though the city was recaptured. Then Li Yuan lived in the Guard County Manor.

Though Li Yuan won the battle and conquered the city, he wasn't delighted. This was because Prince Xiaoming of the Sect of Flame and the masters who should have been in the city disappeared. What did this suggest?

This suggested that their purpose to attack Zhonghe City had been achieved. Since the purpose was achieved, it was unnecessary for them to occupy such an inland city with no strategic significance. If this was the case, even if they had recaptured Zhonghe City, they had made mistakes rather than contributions. 100,000 soldiers just conquered such a regional city with less than 10,000 defenders after the city was surrounded for almost 20 days. In addition, the chief culprit escaped. This was so ridiculous and couldn't be explained reasonably.

However, he couldn't say that frankly. After all, the city was recaptured through several bloody battles. The soldiers who fought enemies bravely would deserve a reward, while someone would deserve punishment. Unfortunately, General Li wasn't very happy and so the ones who deserved punishment would hit a bad patch.

”Are you Junior Leopard?”

At this moment, Junior Leopard and Jin Nanqing were already led into the Guard County Manor. Today hundreds of thousands of soldiers saw Junior Leopard mounted the city gate and broak through it. If they were awarded according to their contributions, Junior Leopard should be the first to get the reward. While Jin Nanqing and others didn't make such significant contributions, they also fought the enemies on the city wall. All of the soldiers also saw that. Moreover, they and Junior Leopard were brothers, so they would also get some rewards.

”Are you Zhou Bao? The disciple of the Wu Family?”

Sitting on the mayor's big chair, Li Yuan asked him in a deep voice.

”Yes!” Junior Leopard dared not to speak much in such a situation.

”Good! Good! Good!” Li Yuan said with appreciation. ”It turns out that heroes come from youngsters. Today you render meritorious service. What reward would you like?”

Junior Leopard didn't know how to answer his question. ”Just give me the reward directly. Why did you ask me? I don't know what reward I'd like!” He muttered in his mind.

At this moment, a sound came into the room. ”General, you should put off the thing about how to reward them. I have investigated where Prince Xiaoming went and what their purpose for attacking Zhonghe City was. I'm afraid this may be a little troublesome!”