Chapter 1643: Assault on the City, Crisis Averted

Chapter 1643: Chapter 1643: Assault on the City, Crisis Averted

The slender sword is incredibly powerful, able to cut through Leimuqin’s battle armor.

In the flickering firelight, a blinding brown-red flash passed in front of Peng Tu’s eyes, the fresh blood that splattered as Leimuqin’s head was chopped off.

"Great General!" Peng Tu was almost driven mad, leading the Witch Army towards the royal carriage: "Kill that Silver Tent Company Commander, avenge the Great General!"

But he was injured at Beicang Prefecture and hadn’t recovered yet. The galloping horse aggravated his old wounds, causing him such pain that he almost couldn’t hold onto the reins.

That Silver Tent Company Commander heard the shouts, lifted the Great General’s head, and glanced at him, those eyes illuminated by the firelight full of mockery, mocking him for arriving too late.

After giving him a look, this assassin immediately flipped himself onto a nearby horse, shouting: "Great General Leimuqin has been beheaded by the enemy and his soul has returned to the Witch God’s knee!"

It was in Rong language!

That Silver Tent Company Commander just rode on, continuing to impersonate a Rong soldier, speaking words to disturb the military’s morale.

Sure enough, the Rong soldiers heard this and looked at the head he held, which was still wearing a helmet specially made by the Royal Family, and they were all stunned.

Peng Tu quickly shouted: "Kill him, he’s a Great Chu assassin!"

He shouted several times in succession, and only then did the shocked Rong soldiers react.

But by the time they wanted to kill that Silver Tent Company Commander, the scoundrel had already vanished into the vast army of Rong soldiers with his troops.

He was wearing the armor of Rong soldiers, on a night lit only by firelight, and among tens of thousands of Rong soldiers, how could they find this assassin?

Shooting arrows randomly would only result in accidentally killing other Rong soldiers.

Tuogude heard the commotion over there and felt uneasy. He looked towards the royal carriage... From a distance, he saw Leimuqin leaning on the armrest of the royal carriage, and upon closer inspection, Leimuqin’s head was gone.

Tuogude’s eyes turned blood-red, unable to believe what he was seeing: "Brother-in-law!"

"Sister, your brother-in-law is dead, your sister is going to be a widow, hahaha!" Luo Ying almost fainted with joy.

Howling, howling, howling, Qin Laoyao’s skills learned before were not forgotten, he actually managed to kill Leimuqin... he suddenly felt a proud sense of accomplishment with his nurture growing up mature.

Crack!

Luo Ying suppressed his excitement, and taking advantage of the situation, he slashed at the horse Tuogude was riding, directly chopping off its head.

With a bang, Tuogude fell from the horse, came to his senses, and killed one of his Eagle Food Gang brothers with his blade, then seized a fierce bandit’s horse from the gang, and turned around to throw poison at Luo Ying.

Luo Ying was caught off guard, inhaled it, and immediately spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Lord Ying!" The brothers from the Eagle Food Gang hurried over to save him.

At this moment, Tuogude was like a hellish demon, leading the Witch Army, advancing to kill Luo Ying: "I want your life, today none of you will escape!"

Did they think killing Leimuqin would solve the crisis at Xing’an Prefecture?

Ha, he Tuogude was not dead yet, he wants the Eagle Food Gang, Xing’an Prefecture, all perish together!

However, he underestimated Qin San Lang.

As soon as Qin San Lang succeeded, he fled with You Ping and the others, and once they reunited with Er Ping and his group, they immediately had Er Ping blow the ox horn.

Moo, moo, moo, moo, moo, moo!

The sound of the ox horn in two consecutive bursts, blown three times, is the secret code for the Rong people when the leading General has been killed.

Though the ox horn’s sound is deep, it can travel very far, shocking everyone from Jindu and the attacking Rong soldiers: "It’s the horn signal that the main general has been killed!"

The Great General is dead?

How is this possible?

But such a horn signal was not blown casually, and earlier the Great General’s royal carriage had been attacked by the enemy, so Jindu believed it.

...The main general was killed, and he was a Royal Family main general, leaving all Rong soldiers without a backbone, halting their siege.

"Main forces retreat! Rescue the Great General!" Seeing this, Jindu knew that the city would likely not be breached, and immediately led the main forces in withdrawing... Thinking that perhaps the signal for the main general’s death was blown prematurely, the Great General might just be severely wounded, returning now might still save his life.

Jindu immediately ordered the personal soldiers to blow the ox horn signal for the main forces to retreat. As the sound rang out, all the Rong soldiers in the middle route heard it and immediately turned around, rushing towards Leimuqin’s royal carriage.

Tuogude heard this ox horn signaling the main forces’ retreat and was so furious he spat blood: "Fools, a bunch of fools, do not retreat, continue the siege for me!"

The brother-in-law was already dead, and the dead could not be brought back to life, but if the main forces retreated, tonight’s siege battle would be for nothing!

"Hu Ang, blow the horn, order them to continue the siege, whoever dares to retreat will be exterminated!" Tuogude ordered Hu Ang ferociously.

Hu Ang immediately had the Witch Army blow the siege horn.

But the morale was already disrupted, and many of these Rong soldiers were from Leimuqin’s tribe. Their tribe’s king was dead, how could they have the mood to fight?

After a pause, the Rong soldiers once again heard the horn signal for the main general being killed, they could no longer care about anything else, charging towards the royal carriage.

"King!" When they saw Leimuqin’s headless corpse, the Rong soldiers from Leimuqin’s tribe knelt down, crying out mournfully.

Tuogude rushed over on horseback, revealing his identity, and pointing his blade at Jindu: "Continue the siege, the city must be breached before dawn!"

He had already lost Beicang Prefecture, and his brother-in-law was dead. If he couldn’t take Xing’an Prefecture, what face would he have to return to the Royal Court?

But the Rong soldiers from Leimuqin’s tribe refused, shouting: "Our king is dead, we must first transport the king’s body back to the tribe, otherwise the Witch God will curse us, and our tribe will be swallowed by other tribes!"

Da Rong and Great Chu are different, Great Chu’s royal succession is a matter of rules, but Da Rong’s royal succession is whoever is strong takes the throne.

Whenever a tribe’s king passes away, things always get chaotic for a while. If they don’t want their tribe to be thrown into chaos, they must return to the tribe to safeguard the tribe’s lands, cattle, and women.

Tuogude said: "Your king was my brother-in-law, as his brother-in-law, I will certainly help you protect your tribe’s cattle and women. Your tribe won’t be in chaos, its lands, cattle, and women won’t be robbed. But now you must continue the siege for me, anyone who disobeys will be killed on the spot!"

"What do you mean by that?" The Deputy General was from Leimuqin’s tribe, hearing this he frowned: "Do you intend to annex our tribe, become our tribe’s king?"

"And what if so? What’s wrong with that?" Tuogude was not a benevolent person, and Da Rong was exactly like this. As long as one is capable, as long as the Great Wizard supports them, they can annex other tribes, become the king of other tribes.

He continued: "I Tuogude am also a tribal king, and I command the Witch Army, following me is better than following the kings of other tribes."

Those words were indeed correct, but Leimuqin’s tribe had more land and warriors than Tuogude’s tribe, and with Leimuqin just dead, Tuogude speaking like this displeased the Deputy General.

"In any case, the king is dead, we must first transport the king’s body to the tribe, hold a burial ceremony, inform the Witch God, or else our tribe members will fall into hell forever unredeemed."

Tuogude was furious upon hearing this, cursing inside: A bunch of fools, always talking about the Witch God, but do they know the Witch God is just a lie made up by the ancestors to control them?!