My Cultivation Starting from Archery

Chapter 105 - 105: Meridian Passage Realm

Two days later.

Outside the Great Wall.

The scattered barbarian soldiers finally regrouped, numbering around a thousand, but no one dared to approach the Great Wall again. They headed straight back to the grasslands dozens of miles away to station themselves. During this period, the two spies they had sent out also vanished without a trace, deterring anyone else from going.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The sound of horse hooves shook the earth.

It was on this day.

The large army forcibly transferred from the main battlefield in Liangzhou finally arrived, with more troops than reported—forty thousand strong!

"Damn it!"

The Main General of the Meridian Passage Realm, Wu LiangHa, lashed his whip onto a soldier: "You were supposed to be besieging the city. Why are you here?"

The whip split the soldier's body right in half!

To those with good eyesight, it was clear.

In fact, the whip hadn't touched the barbarian's body at all. Instead, an invisible force attached to the whip was what tore the soldier apart.

"Mercy, my lord!"

The barbarian soldiers knelt down one after another, recounting the events of two days prior.

"Nonsense!"

"Sun Xiangzong is still at the main Liangzhou battlefield. It would take at least half a month to come to You State! How could he possibly run to Po Yang and kill an insignificant Refining Organ General!"

Wu LiangHa raged: "Army, march with me! Direct assault on Po Yang! I want to see who scared you like this!"

When the army of forty thousand arrived beneath the city walls.

What emerged before them was an empty city.

Not only were there no defending troops, but even the civilians were gone!

"Idiots, idiots!"

Wu LiangHa was hopping mad: "Tens of thousands of people from a city, and you let them escape? If you're not up for taking the city, can't you even encircle it?

However, at least there were two hundred more people at his disposal.

"Uncle Tang!"

"We've seen General Tang!"

"..."

The three Bone Training Realm military officers leading the group saluted Fatty Wang.

"All right, rise,"

Wang Zhi stepped forward and helped each of them up.

"You have so many kinsmen in Hengkang Prefecture?"

Chen Sansi was somewhat curious, guessing, "Old acquaintances of yours?"

"To answer Mr. Chen,"

A young man spoke up before anyone else, "Our fathers were all generals in the Black Tortoise Camp. After the incident, General Tang settled us in Hengkang Prefecture, and all the resources for practising martial arts were provided by General Tang. Without General Tang, our cultivation would have been greatly diminished."

"Don't listen to their nonsense, I'm the one who owes them,"

Wang Zhi admitted guiltily, "Back then, I rashly attacked the city without reporting it to the Heavenly Strategy Camp, which constituted unauthorized troop deployment, causing the total annihilation of our forces. Not only I, but also all the generals above the Bone Forger Realm, were removed from their positions to serve as a warning to others."

Chen Sansi finally understood where all of Fatty Wang's money had gone.

"Report—"

Wu Da, responsible for scouting at the rear, came galloping in on his warhorse, "Sir, this is bad news. Fifty li away, we found three thousand elite barbarian cavalry!"

"Wu Da, you and Zhuang Yi, along with a separate group of men, stay behind. Ten li after we leave, set the mountain on fire!"

Chen Sansi ordered decisively.

The sides of the small road were flanked by forests.

In the dry autumn and winter seasons, the forest caught fire easily, which could greatly slow down the cavalry.

Boom—

A blaze roared into the sky, the flames spreading quickly and soon joining together into a vast sea of fire. Black smoke billowed into the sky, turning a hundred li into scorched earth.

The barbarian cavalry that had come in pursuit had no choice but to take a detour.

"It's only a temporary measure."

Chen Sansi sighed. The road ahead was long and hindered, and he could only hope his worries were unfounded, and that after passing through this small road, they could find a way to Hengkang Prefecture to settle.

Unfortunately, the bad news still came.

"Hengkang Prefecture has fallen!"

"..."

One day later.

Of the two thousand Hengkang Prefecture soldiers they had just seen, only a dozen or so cavalry arrived at the rendezvous point.

"Three days ago, the Vice Commander-in-chief of the vanguard of Hengkang Prefecture committed treason. He launched a surprise attack and killed Commander Ma, then opened the city gates wide. Now inside and out, Hengkang Prefecture is enduring a massacre by the barbarians!

"The brothers who escaped death are scattered and gone, their whereabouts unknown..."

"..."

Traitorous?

"How could this happen?!"

Wang Zhi yanked the man off his horse, "Commander Ma is dead?!"

"Dead, his head is hanging over the city gates..."

"Mr. Wang, Yunzhou is finished!"

"..."

A heavy weight sank in Chen Sansi's heart.

The fall of Hengkang Prefecture, with An Ding Prefecture and the other two closing their gates, meant that the rest of Yunzhou would be trampled under hoof. Tens if not hundreds of thousands of citizens' lives were likely to be used for the so-called blood sacrifice!

What was even more frightening was that their own situation was even less optimistic.

You State was not far from their current location, but it would take at least half a month to reach. That time was definitely enough for the barbarian pursuers to catch up.

"Cuckoo, cuckoo—"

Suddenly, the call of a cuckoo bird echoed in the nearby woods.

Was there news from the Governor Mansion?