20demayo Chapter 494
Chapter 494
“Ding!”
“There are assassins—catch the assassins—”
“Damn it! Quick, let’s go! It’s a trap!”
“Now you want to leave? Too late, isn’t it?”
Four squads of Jin Kingdom’s finest soldiers were surrounded. Bai Tingting stood at the forefront, waving her hand: “The General’s order: not a single one will be spared! Kill them all.”
The Jin Kingdom’s most elite vanguard, the very best soldiers in the Jin Kingdom, were all here.
So, let them be annihilated here!
In the midst of flashing blades and whirling swords, a few Jin Kingdom soldiers disregarded their own safety, shielding Hei Yun in the center: “At any cost, send Guard Leader Hei Yun back to Jin Kingdom.”
The elite forces indeed lived up to their reputation.
Even on Great Yan’s turf, they managed to put up such a fierce resistance.
“Swoosh—”
Arrows flew in from all directions, and most of the Jin Kingdom guards fell instantly. But Hei Yun herself was skilled in martial arts. She seized a horse and, under the protection of her men, made a desperate escape.
Bai Tingting nocked an arrow: “So many are willing to die just to send you back to Jin Kingdom. Then I absolutely cannot let you leave alive.”
She aimed.
She released the arrow.
“Swoosh!”
The piercing pain of being impaled struck Hei Yun, and she plummeted off her horse. At the moment of her injury, Jiang Xinyue’s hypnosis on her lost its effect.
Time seemed to reverse. Hei Yun felt as though she had returned to the day when the Emperor of Great Yan had held a farewell banquet for her.
The moment the bell was thrown, dozens of small mirrors swayed, causing a wave of dizziness.
The Emperor of Great Yan had not done anything scandalous during the palace banquet.
At the moment of his supposed hypnosis, the Chief Eunuch had discreetly helped him leave the banquet. What she and Empress Su saw afterward was all an illusion created by the reverse hypnosis.
Those mirrors weren’t aimed at hypnotizing her and the Empress but were used to reflect light onto the Jin Kingdom’s envoys while she danced to mesmerize the Emperor.
No wonder... no wonder Jiang Xinyue had demanded over twenty mirrors. They corresponded to the twenty-odd officials in the envoy group.
There existed in Great Yan a hypnotist even more skilled than her own master.
And this person was likely Jiang Xinyue herself.
The border defense map... was fake...
Hei Yun struggled to rise, but a fatal arrow had pierced clear through her chest. The pain left her with no strength, and she collapsed, unable to crawl.
A thirty-man team, killing every single patrol they encountered.
Showing mercy to the enemy is a cruelty to oneself.
The empty tents were piled high with Jin Kingdom soldiers’ bodies. Shi Ruojun donned their armor and lit a firebrand: “Deputy General Hao, I will burn the grain stores; you burn their armory. Remember, to avoid getting hurt, start the fire from the outer perimeter, then run. Don’t wait for me; we’ll rendezvous at the main tent.”
Here, the “main tent” refers not to Jin Kingdom’s Emperor but Great Yan’s military camp, Shi Ruojun’s main tent.
“Understood, sir!”
Deputy General Hao raised his torch along with a few subordinates, disguised as patrolmen, and walked out at a steady pace.
Shi Ruojun, too, led a few soldiers in the opposite direction.
“Ah—”
During the nightly shift change, one Jin Kingdom soldier yawned and stretched.
Suddenly, he spotted something terrifying, his eyes widening in shock.
Outside his tent, there seemed to be... a lot of bloodstains?
The metallic smell was overpowering, drifting from the tent and making him nauseous.
His trembling hand lifted the tent flap, and what he saw inside made him collapse in fright: “There... there... there... Ugh!”
In his moment of extreme shock, he couldn’t form a word. In the blink of an eye, someone slashed his neck artery with a long, deep cut.
Before he could see his assailant, the soldier collapsed into the tent.
The two Great Yan soldiers stationed at the rear exchanged a grin and crouched back into their hiding spots.
The General had said, if Jin Kingdom soldiers come one, kill one; come two, kill a pair. It’s also revenge for our brothers and sisters who died in Great Yan.
“Boom—”
“Ah!”
Deputy General Hao saw flames rising from the grain store direction and shouted loudly, “Oh no! The armory is on fire! Everyone, run!”
He had to draw the Jin Kingdom’s attention to his location so that General Shi could escape swiftly.
“The armory... the armory is burning!”
“What?! There are explosives inside!”
“Run! Hurry and tell His Majesty to flee!”
“Bang!”
“Boom!”
“Bam, bam, bam...”