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chapter-412

Chapter 412: Moving the Capital to Chenzhou (XVIII)

When General Jiu stood up, he was almost eight feet tall. He was so stalwart that he looked like a mountain of meat. The veins on his arms and forehead were bulging.

He snorted. With a somewhat sinister look on his rough face, he grabbed two huge copper hammers.

At that moment, his subordinates woke up one by one. They broke out of their tired trance when they heard the commotion outside. No longer caring about the flesh and fragrance of the beauties surrounding them, they grabbed some clothes and put them on. However, they had drunk too much and run wild for too long. Their legs felt like jelly.

General Jiu pushed the door open with an enormous amount of strength. As soon as he stepped into the hall, a human head rolled towards his feet.

He lowered his head to look at it. A pair of lifeless eyes stared at him, which made the hair on his arms stand on end.

“Why––what a huge discovery!”

General Jiu’s head snapped up at Jiang Pengji’s mockery. His eyes shot daggers towards her.

Jiang Pengji had fought continuously, so she was stained with viscous blood from head to toe. She no longer had the usual grace of a scholar. She wore a ruthless and murderous look on her face. She looked like a ghost that crawled out from the lowest depths of hell.

“Who are you? I won’t kill a worthless person!” General Jiu exuded confidence upon seeing a lack of troops with Jiang Pengji.

Jiang Pengji’s size was confusing. Many people believed the burlier one’s body was, the greater one’s strength and lethality. According to that standard, Jiang Pengji was a paper figure that would drift away when the wind blew. In General Jiu’s mind, she was not a threat, so he did not take her seriously.

He was more concerned about the people around her trying to protect her. They were all aces in fighting and killing.

Jiang Pengji spat a mouthful of bloody saliva and revealed a willful, evil smile. A scarlet hue flashed across her eyes.

She did not speak. Instead, she dashed forward. She was in front of General Jiu in an instant.

They came to grips after an exchange of hot words. Who still cared about scheming on the battlefield? One would either live or die.

General Jiu initially wanted to put up a front, but he did not expect Jiang Pengji to play against the rules. She was too lazy to talk nonsense with him.

He subconsciously raised his hammer to block the sharp blade of her sword.

Clank…

The sound made one’s teeth ache. After the strike, an extremely deep mark was left on the copper hammer.

General Jiu was appalled. The skin between his thumb and index finger on his right hand was cut. The wound oozed bright, scarlet blood, staining his entire palm.

Due to the enormous force, he struggled to grip the handle of his hammer. Even so, his mountain-like body was shaken, and he forcibly took three to four steps backward. If he had not stabilized his center of gravity, he would have fallen to the ground in embarrassment.

General Jiu was extremely shocked. Jiang Pengji held the blade in one hand, then swiftly pulled out a footlong sword from her waist with her left hand. With a poof, the white blade plunged into someone’s neck. The soldier had tried a sneak attack while she was distracted, but Jiang Pengji stopped him.

While General Jiu was stabilizing his center of gravity, Jiang Pengji killed two more people.

“Dash forward and get him!” General Jiu was a bandit––he had killed many people and had a full record of crimes and misdeeds––however, he could not match up to Jiang Pengji.

In the face of her forceful attack, General Jiu grew cowardly.

A few of his subordinates wanted to take Jiang Pengji down. They attempted to use their advantage of numbers to complete the task at hand. After all, she had already broken away from the troops’ protection and entered their encirclement. However, sometimes strength had nothing to do numbers.

Even if there were more people on General Jiu’s side than Jiang Pengji’s, there was no use. She was not scared of fighting 100 people by herself.

It was as if there were eyes in the back of her head. Their sneak attacks were completely in vain. The knife in her hand was like the soul-reaping sickle of the King of Hell. The blade plunged into the enemy’s heart, temple, or neck.

General Jiu was left with no room for retreat. He raised his two huge, heavy hammers and aimed for her head. She suddenly flipped backward, and her legs exerted strength at the same time. She slid backward like a fish. The spade in her right hand hacked General Jiu’s knee with a gigantic amount of force, which broke his legs.

Placing one hand on the ground, she kicked the attacker’s wrist with her legs. Then, she turned around and stood up. She slashed General Jiu’s thick neck with the knife in her left hand. Blood spattered everywhere. She grabbed his bun when his head had yet to fall.

Blood oozed from his wounds and covered the ground. General Jiu’s eyes were still wide open. He looked shocked and appalled.

His knees were intercepted and chopped off. His head was separated from his body. The remaining parts of his body collapsed to the ground with a thud.

Jiang Pengji held General Jiu’s head in her right hand and shouted, “Enemies will be beheaded, but those who surrender won’t be killed!”

She killed those who still wanted to attack her without mercy. The others had no intention of battling her, and their egos were almost crushed. They could only unwillingly surrender their weapons.

At that moment, countless bullet screens broke out in the otherwise quiet streaming room.

When they saw Jiang Pengji fall into the enemy’s encirclement, the audience member’s hearts were in their throats; they almost forgot how to breathe.

Seeing her robust body and how she handled the enemy with skill and ease, they could not help but cheer for her. Some of them got so excited that they flushed.

They had never had such zealous and exciting visual enjoyment, even when they were watching the most thrilling martial arts film. It was because they knew no matter how real the movie was, it was still fake. Everything in the streaming room was real.

It was as if Jiang Pengji was walking on a wire high above the ground. She would fall into the bottomless hell if she was careless. She did not want her head to be chopped off by the enemy, so she could only chop off the enemy’s heads.

Stumps and broken skeletons covered the walkway from the entrance of the district headquarters to the hall. Blood flowed everywhere, and the pungent smell assailed people’s noses. The members of the Tsing Yi Army that were lucky enough to live laid down their arms and surrendered one after another. They did not have the slightest intention of fighting.

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Right before Jiang Pengji took the troops with her to besiege the district headquarters, a battle begun on Meng Hun’s side.

The Tsing Yi Army near the west door rushed over when they heard the news. There were more and more people gathering. The Tsing Yi Army didn’t expect for an ambush to be waiting for them.

Archery was a compulsory course for every troop member. They had to spend at least two hours every day in specialty training for the program.

They trained hard every day. The improved arrows had sights on them that were continuously upgraded to help them improve their aim. Under such conditions, the troops were not considered skilled shooters yet, but they were able to shoot every target. Their accuracy was at least nine out of ten.

Their current target was not the bobbing heads of the Tsing Yi Army, but…

Meng Hun commanded the troops with gestures. The troops laid down their knives and shot their arrows. The torches of the Tsing Yi Army dropped to the ground.

There was only a dim light permeating the area. The places the light reached were limited. Everywhere else was cloaked in darkness.

The Tsing Yi Army was thrown into a panic by the sudden darkness. In the next second, a storm of arrows assailed them.

The horrifying cries of the Tsing Yi Army filled the air. People were continuously shot down by arrows. After a short while, the ground was littered with the dead bodies of the Tsing Yi Army. After several rounds of shooting, the places where the troops waited in ambush were exposed. The screams in those places attracted even more enemies.

The casualties increased inevitably. Upon seeing the situation, Meng Hun gave an order to carry on the fight while they retreated.

“Retreat for now!” A strategic retreat was meant for greater victories and minimal casualties.

Tsing Yi Army, we’ll take our time!