Chapter 879: Shoot To Kill (2)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
What was a commander-in-chief? He was like a switch for the Wu Kingdom’s army. Once he died, everyone seemed to have paused.
To them, the previous war had gone too smoothly, so much so that it gave them the illusion that they couldn’t have done this.
Song Zhong swung his spear and pierced through a soldier who was in an adrift. He roared angrily, “Attack the city. Continue attacking the city. Whoever dares to stop will be killed without mercy!”
The soldiers of the Wu Kingdom came back to their senses slightly, but when they thought of the bow above their heads that could shoot through people, they no longer had their previous bravery.
Shen Yijia glanced at Song Zhong outside the city wall and narrowed her eyes. “Hubby, let’s kill him.”
Song Jingchen placed his hand on her black iron bow again and saw a dazzling light from the corner of his eye. He thought of something and smiled. He reminded her, “Draw the bow fully.”
Shen Yijia wanted to say that there was no need to draw the bow fully at such a close distance, but since her beautiful husband had specially reminded her, she pulled the bowstring to the limit.
On the saddle slope outside Nanling Pass, Yan Guangmao sat on a horse and looked at the battle below with a cold expression.
“If General Yan doesn’t go down soon, all your men will die,” the man in black beside him reminded him coldly, his tone unchanged.
If Shen Yijia, Song Jingchen, or Ji Luo were here, they would recognize this man as Si Yun, who had escaped from the Valley of Heavenly Secrets.
However, compared to before, Si Yun’s skin was abnormally pale. One could even vaguely see green blood vessels under his skin. It looked especially strange.
“Don’t worry, Imperial Preceptor. My men aren’t as weak as you think. On the other hand, Imperial Preceptor…” Before Yan Guangmao could finish speaking, a whooshing sound quickly approached.
His heart skipped a beat. He pulled the reins of his horse, trying to dodge, but the horse under him had long been frozen in place by the sound.
Yan Guangmao cursed in his heart, “A useless animal like Han Tong.”
At the critical moment, he suddenly pounced to the left. The moment he left the horse’s back, a shiny black arrow pierced into the horse’s body from where he was sitting just now and pierced through its abdomen, stabbing deeply into the ground.
Bang! The horse exploded as expected.
Blood splattered towards Yan Guangmao. His pupils constricted. He had only seen it from afar just now, and this scene was far from being close to him. This arrow almost pierced through his body. He almost ended up like this animal.
However, before he could calm down, another arrow shot over. Yan Guangmao rolled to the side and barely dodged it.
Si Yun was also shocked by the scene in front of him. The dazzling sunlight shone on Yan Guangmao’s body. Something flashed in his eyes. He looked over and said sternly, “Sword, quickly, throw away your sword! ”
When Yan Guangmao heard this, he subconsciously pulled off the sword at his waist and threw it down the saddle slope.
“Hubby, are you going to continue?” Shen Yijia asked curiously when she saw Song Jingchen staring at the distant hill.
There were only twelve black iron arrows, and she had already shot out three. However, she probably wouldn’t be able to take back these three arrows. With her accuracy, she really couldn’t bear to waste them without Song Jingchen around.
“There’s no need. He’s already escaped,” he said as he jumped down from the wall. He wanted to carry Shen Yijia down, but he noticed the bow in her arms and froze in place.
Shen Yijia immediately understood and threw her new favorite, Little Chenchen, onto the city gate tower without hesitation. She opened her hands to Song Jingchen.
The latter smiled and carried her down. “Are you tired?”
“I’m not tired. Let’s kill Song Zhong too.”
She wanted to send him off personally.
Song Jingchen looked at the Wu Kingdom army below and shook his head.
“When the water is full, it overflows. When the moon is full, it will wane.
There’s no hurry to kill him.”
“What do you mean?”
“When things reach an extreme, they will definitely rebel. Han Tong’s death has destroyed the morale of the Wu Kingdom’s army. If we kill Song Zhong now, it might stimulate their fighting spirit,” Song Jingchen explained patiently.
Moreover, with Song Zhong shouting threats at the Wu Kingdom’s soldiers below, it would only make the Wu Kingdom’s soldiers rebel. At this moment, Song Zhong could be considered half an ally.
If they wanted to kill him, they would have to wait.
Shen Yijia nodded in understanding. Neither of them realized that although the soldiers around them did not stop what they were doing, they were all listening attentively.
“They were talking about us, right?” they thought.
Dong!
A crisp knocking sound suddenly sounded from behind the Wu Kingdom’s army.
This was…
The soldiers on the city gate tower looked at each other in disbelief.
Dong! Dong!
Two more sounds sounded. The soldiers of the Wu Kingdom outside the city stopped attacking and quickly retreated.
When they saw their companions’ corpses on the way, they did not forget to bring them along.
The city gate was about to be breached. Retreating at this time?
Song Zhong turned around with scarlet eyes.
Who was the one who gave the order?
When he saw the commander’s flag raised behind him, Song Zhong was shocked. He was no longer dissatisfied and quickly retreated with the main group.
The Wu Kingdom’s army had really retreated!
Cheers of victory erupted from the city gate tower.
They had won. It was a true victory.
All of this happened so suddenly that even Song Jingchen didn’t expect it.
How could he have known that the two arrows that the couple had shot at Yan Guangmao had forced Yan Guangmao and Si Yun to use their internal energy and expend a Herculean effort to pull them out?
Yan Guangmao was more or less frightened by his move. If it hit the soldiers of the Wu Kingdom, wouldn’t they be skewered like candied haws?
And it was the kind that even a shield couldn’t block.
Song Jingchen indeed didn’t know at first, but when he saw the new commander-in-chief flag flying in the middle of the Wu Kingdom’s army, he had a guess.
“Who is the commander of the Wu Kingdom’s army?” he asked Xiao Qirui.
“Yan Guangmao.”
Song Jingchen nodded. “So he’s the one on the saddle slope.”
Shen Yijia pursed her lips. “It’s a pity that I didn’t kill him.”
She even wasted two of her arrows.
Song Jingchen found it funny. A large part of the reason why the black iron arrow could successfully kill Han Tong was because he was too confident..
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