C15 (1/2)

The Phoenix Lake that had been silent for several hundred years had disappeared. The Phoenix City Pass at the foot of the mountain and the wilderness to the north of it had turned into a country of lakes. Bubbles constantly rose from the trenches dug out by the Moqiu Army, exhaled a fishy stench, and then disappeared.

Although everyone was busy, no one said a word. They quietly carried the corpse away, took off their armor, quietly poured the kerosene s on top of it, lit a torch, and then silently watched as the corpse was devoured by the raging flames.

The days of the Phoenix City Pass were not that good either. The outer city wall only had two groups left, one inside the city and the other parts of the walls were broken. Under the repeated attacks of the stone thrower and the flood, the hundreds of years of confinement had lost its original dignity.

Only after two days did the ocean recede. Kong Sheng sat on the city walls of the inner city as he shaved off the mud on his boots and looked in front of him with a frown. The battle had stopped for four days. Both sides were powerless to continue to fight and their losses could not be counted. They had to make an estimate based on the number of troops that had yet to return to the team. At present, this number was definitely not small.

The thing that gave Kong Sheng the most headache was the several people from the Inland Province that came to ask for an explanation. They had either joined hands or they had come over to Kong Sheng repeatedly to ask for an explanation. Kong Sheng now had a splitting headache from being unable to transfer the troops. How could he have the mind to bother with them? However, the few of them were unwilling to let Chen Chu go, acting as if Kong Sheng was not only forced to kneel and beg for forgiveness, but also forced him to surrender. Kong Sheng was so angry that smoke was about to come out of his head, and he immediately said, ”Wait for Chen Chu to come back, I will give all of you a knife.

On the third day, Chen Chu returned.

Compared to Qu Feizhi, Chen Chu did not have the slightest sense of wrongness. He brought the hundred or so Knights under his command and lined up in three rows in an imposing manner, back to the Phoenix City Pass.

Although Chen Chu felt extremely good about himself, ever since he entered the city, he basically had not seen any good expressions. Some rolled their eyes, some glared at him, and some even wanted to rush forward to attack, but in the end, they were pulled aside to console him.

The moment Chen Chu dismounted from his horse outside the Castellan Mansion door, with a command, nearly five hundred Border Army Soldier s rushed out, surrounding the one hundred odd Knights under Chen Chu's command. The leading Chen Chu was even more immediately surrounded by the four big men with handheld crossbow s, unable to move. Fire Phoenix Army Knights were the descendants and origins of nobility, how could they endure this? At that time, they drew their blades, and the tense atmosphere between the two sides became heavy.

”Sir, this is the Castellan Mansion, the place where the and the rest of the guards, Sir Kong Sheng, fought their battle. You brought more than a hundred armed Knights under your command, what are your intentions?” Zhao Handong slowly walked out of the Castellan Mansion, and coldly looked at Chen Chu.

Chen Chu laughed lightly: ”What Zhao Guan said is true, I am being rude.” After saying that, he unsheathed his blade and threw it onto the ground. Then, he turned around and waved his hand towards his back.

Following his order, the hundred or so knights sheathed their swords without any hesitation. Even if Zhao Handong ordered his Border Army to kill now, he would probably be able to do it immediately. Thinking about how he had previously lost half of his Battalion's comrades' lives to protect him from delivering the information, and how his subordinate Knights still trusted him so much even now, Zhao Handong couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. How did such a person manage to lead their troops to such a state? What kind of combat strength would this troop have when they reached the battlefield?

Zhao Handong shook his head lightly, throwing these messy thoughts out of his mind, and said: ”Please bring me into the residence, Lord Kong has just returned, he has been waiting for you for the past few days.”

Chen Chu smiled faintly, tidied up his military uniform and followed Zhao Handong into the Castellan Mansion.

Kong Sheng sat at the main seat, the five provinces and several other people's Border Army respectively sat at his left and right sides. After Zhao Handong brought Chen Chu to the hall, he sat down as well, leaving Chen Chu standing there alone.

Chen Chu did not mind, he walked to the center of the group casually, lifted up his robes and knelt down on one knee, then said loudly: ”Reporting to surrogate commander Kong, I will not disappoint Sir Chen Chu and blow up the Phoenix Lakeside embankment, then the enemy will retreat in flood, I will report this to Sir.”

Kong Sheng slapped the table and bellowed: ”Chen Chu! Do you know your crime? ”

Chen Chu looked up straight at Kong Sheng, and there was even a hint of a smile hanging on his lips: ”This lowly general is terrified, do you know what crime I have committed?”

Kong Sheng clenched his teeth and said, ”I told you to immediately blow up the dike after you left, but what about you? You dragged on for two days! Do you know how many brothers we lost by delaying for two days? Do you know how many of our brothers you drowned and burned to death?! ”

Chen Chu did not answer directly, but asked back, ”This lowly general dares to ask, how much did both sides suffer?”

Zhao Handong saw Kong Sheng nod at him and stood up, then said loudly, ”In the battle two days ago, we had over 6000 casualties, of which over 400 were from Phoenix City Border Army, and over 5000 were from the five provinces. Moqiu Army losses are unknown, but through the reports of the scouts in the past few days, they are expected to not be less than six or seven thousand. ”

Before Zhao Handong could finish his words, Chen Chu had already lowered his head once again and shouted loudly, ”Congratulations Lord Kong for achieving an unparalleled military achievement, destroying seven thousand devil soldiers with five thousand people's militia!”

Kong Sheng's voice trembled in anger, his middle finger pointed straight at Chen Chu, trembling as he said, ”Chen Dui, do you know that out of the six thousand plus people, at least three thousand were drowned by the water you poured out?!”

”So what?” There was a trace of provocation in Chen Chu's tone as his gaze fleetingly swept across the several provincial officials and finally met Kong Sheng's gaze. ”Lord Kong, for your Border Army to be able to fight evenly against Moqiu Army is already considered not bad, what about these people's militia? If you let them slash at you with a blade, will these six thousand people be able to kill seven thousand Moqiu Army? Even if he sent another six thousand, he still wouldn't be able to do it, right? I am using a large wave of water and six thousand lives in exchange for the seven thousand lives of Moqiu Army and a few days of rest.

”Impudent!” Please take note of your attitude when you speak to the adults! ” Zhao Handong suddenly stood up, and looked straight at Chen Chu.