Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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The 600,000 troops led by the Ninth Prince were killed, injured, or fled. How could they have any strength left to fight?
It was not until this time that Le Zhengming, who was hiding in the mountains, led his troops to hunt down.
As long as they guarded both ends of the canyon, the Wei-Jin coalition forces, which had already been scared out of their wits, would automatically fall into their ambush. Then, without wasting a single soldier, they captured the army alive and confiscated all the firearms that were scattered on the ground.
“Damn it, he has such a good thing but he can’t defeat our military advisor alone! What a waste!” Huai Laoer picked up a firearm and fiddled with it over and over again.
He had seen this thing before. The military advisor could also make it. It was extremely powerful and could be called a killer weapon to win on the battlefield.
He took the missile made by the military advisor and tried its range and lethality. He was immediately astonished and cried out to the military advisor to make a large batch of it but was rejected by the military advisor.
“Someone will deliver this thing to us by then.” The military advisor said this with a smile.
Huai Laoer bravely retorted: “If you don’t make it first, we won’t be able to win if someone comes to our door with this thing. They are here to collect our bodies, not to deliver us food!”
The military advisor waved his hand and said no more. The general knocked him hard on the head and told him to just follow the military advisor’s orders, and he stopped talking.
However, now, when Huai Laoer saw the blood and body parts scattered all over the valley, he truly understood the good intentions of the military advisor.
The military advisor was just as he said – before each battle, he would definitely consider how to win the battle with zero casualties. He could defeat the army by himself, so he was reluctant to let everyone risk their lives.
Look, it was just a few dozen wax balls embedded in rocks and soil, but they caused such terrible damage to the 600,000-strong army.
Huai Laoer handed the firearm to the soldier beside him, patted his forehead and murmured: “Master Military Advisor is mighty!”
At this time, Le Zhengming rode on a horse, dragging a corpse with a rope, and walked over slowly, “This is the Ninth Prince, you bury him.”
Huai Laoer took a closer look and couldn’t help but gasp. The Ninth Prince had such bad luck that half of his head was cut off by a flying stone.
At this moment, several soldiers brought a golden nanmu coffin and shouted, “General, we found something good!”
Most people would think it unlucky to see a coffin, but Le Zhengming and his soldiers never thought so.
Once, their army was almost defeated by the State of Chen and they were trapped in a city for a long time. Seeing that food and weapons and equipment were almost exhausted, the general actually ordered the craftsmen to build a coffin for him in a few days, leaving his life to fate.
His bravery and fearlessness inspired everyone’s morale, and everyone fought to the last bit of determination and won a victory.
From then on, whenever the general encountered a life-or-death battle, he would prepare a coffin for himself. Other generals also followed suit. Dying for the country seemed to them to be a matter of course.
Huai Laoer walked around the coffin several times, knocking on the coffin board and checking the bottom of the coffin, praising it repeatedly: “What a nice coffin! What a nice coffin! I didn’t expect that the Ninth Prince still had some courage.”
Le Zhengming also slowly stroked the smooth golden nanmu wood with a little appreciation in his eyes. He originally thought that the Ninth Prince was a cowardly, treacherous and cunning person, but he didn’t expect that this person actually had some good points.
“General, he said he is the military advisor’s brother. What do you think we should do with him?” A soldier’s shout interrupted Le Zhengming’s thoughts.
He turned around and saw a young man being carried over. His legs were covered in blood and he was swaying back and forth. It was clear that his bones were broken into powder. Several of the young man’s servants were also brought over. They staggered and fell, crying for mercy.
“Isn’t this the pretty boy who sent the military advisor to our camp?” Huai Laoer strode over, holding the hilt of the knife with his right hand, and asked aggressively: “Knowing that our entire army is in danger of being destroyed, you still sent the military advisor here. You must have framed our military advisor many times, right?”
Zhuang Xu was thrown to the ground by two soldiers, and his broken legs were in excruciating pain.
Having never experienced such torture before, he was completely dazed and didn’t hear what Huai Laoer said at all.
But his servants couldn’t wait to betray him, “Sir, please let us go. We are not soldiers, we are just servants of Master Zhuang. He likes to frame Master Zhuang the Second the most. Did you see that coffin? That’s what he brought to collect Master Zhuang’s body.”
Zhuang Xu came back to his senses at this moment: “…”
“What? This coffin is prepared by you for the military advisor? Damn it! I will kill you!” Huai Laoer walked forward and kicked Zhuang Xu hard, specifically on his broken legs.
Zhuang Xu had never experienced such torture before. He screamed in pain and shed tears of humiliation.
Le Zhengming stood by and did not take action, but his eyes were flashing with extreme anger. When Huai Laoer was tired of kicking, he walked forward, picked up Zhuang Xu with one hand, opened the coffin lid, and threw him in.
The coffin lid slammed shut with a clang, swallowing up all the light. The darkness and crampedness seemed to turn into an evil ghost, lurking in the deepest part of people’s hearts, setting off a wave of fear.
Zhuang Xu originally thought that the pain of broken legs and the humiliation of being thrown down were the most miserable experiences in his life, but at this moment he was horrified to find that what was more frightening than the real threats was the unknown, darkness and dead silence.
He tried to open his eyes wide but could see nothing; he flared his nostrils desperately but felt more and more suffocated; he pricked up his ears with all his might but could only hear the sound of his own heartbeat in the dead silence.
This dull jump only made the silence even more dead silent.
Zhuang Xu felt like he was going crazy, but just when he was on the verge of collapse he heard a slight click – someone opened the coffin lid.
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